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My girlfriend and I have been meaning to watch that movie ever since we first saw it on Netflix.
The biggest issue the Arena has on RPGuild is that it has such a small pool of players. There's probably sixteen active players -- twenty, max, and that's with the newest influx. Teams might be helpful, but I think the somewhat-anemic population would need some bolstering.
The second issue, which dovetails with the first, is that there's no coherency. It's somewhat adrift. There's a vague "setting" in the background, but that's just to explain why and where the fights are happening. There's no connection to any outside roleplaying. The fights are just kind of adrift, free-floating. There's no anchor, nowhere for the characters who fight in the event to really lay their roots. I think there was an attempt at this on oldguild, but I'm not sure how successful it was. There's no roleplay threads - cities, bars, locations of any kind - where character who participate in fights can do something other than fighting.
It doesn't help that RPGuild's organization is based largely around how a person roleplays, rather than what they're roleplaying. It's a bit sixes and sevens - on one hand, you have the casual/free/advanced sections, then you have themed sections like nation/arena/1x1. It's like someone changed their mind halfway through. This also makes it difficult to know where to place a thread like, say, a city that acts as part of a "persistent world" where people play.
I think that's part of why it's so hard to draw people into the Arena. In chatrooms, you always had a persistent world.. even if that world consisted of approximately 100 taverns, bars, inns, and castles. On Gaia, you have something similar: in between fights and tournaments, you character can go dick about in the city of Durem or hang around a bar or.. whatever. There's some kind of continuity to your character's life outside the fights that can be roleplayed, and the fights become part of that character's story.
For once, though, I'm completely fucking knackered for ideas on how to fix that, because it seems like RPGuild's structure isn't going to make it an easy fix.
The second issue, which dovetails with the first, is that there's no coherency. It's somewhat adrift. There's a vague "setting" in the background, but that's just to explain why and where the fights are happening. There's no connection to any outside roleplaying. The fights are just kind of adrift, free-floating. There's no anchor, nowhere for the characters who fight in the event to really lay their roots. I think there was an attempt at this on oldguild, but I'm not sure how successful it was. There's no roleplay threads - cities, bars, locations of any kind - where character who participate in fights can do something other than fighting.
It doesn't help that RPGuild's organization is based largely around how a person roleplays, rather than what they're roleplaying. It's a bit sixes and sevens - on one hand, you have the casual/free/advanced sections, then you have themed sections like nation/arena/1x1. It's like someone changed their mind halfway through. This also makes it difficult to know where to place a thread like, say, a city that acts as part of a "persistent world" where people play.
I think that's part of why it's so hard to draw people into the Arena. In chatrooms, you always had a persistent world.. even if that world consisted of approximately 100 taverns, bars, inns, and castles. On Gaia, you have something similar: in between fights and tournaments, you character can go dick about in the city of Durem or hang around a bar or.. whatever. There's some kind of continuity to your character's life outside the fights that can be roleplayed, and the fights become part of that character's story.
For once, though, I'm completely fucking knackered for ideas on how to fix that, because it seems like RPGuild's structure isn't going to make it an easy fix.
I'd buy it.
My favorite thing to come from the Republican nomination race is the picture of Jeb Bush looking like he's about to drop the hottest album of 2016. You know which one I mean.
When I first saw Carson on stage, I was like "Oh shit, he's a neurosurgeon or something. This'll be interesting."
And then I was conclusively proven wrong. Repeatedly.
And then I was conclusively proven wrong. Repeatedly.
My glutes are indeed of the highest quality.
Also, PMing shit all the stuff for staff testing is a pain in the ass. I should have put it all in a word .doc to make it easier to copy/paste. I hate bbcode.
Also, PMing shit all the stuff for staff testing is a pain in the ass. I should have put it all in a word .doc to make it easier to copy/paste. I hate bbcode.
You are very rude, yes.
I, on the other hand, am the height of gentlemanly behavior and chivalry.
I, on the other hand, am the height of gentlemanly behavior and chivalry.
Hillary being in office would be like Obama being in office: getting her shit pushed in by a GOP-controlled Congress.
I mean, I don't like her. She's also very dishonest in her campaign, and she's basically the same as Rubio (e.g. Establishment to the core).
On the other hand, she doesn't advocate torture or bombing civilians last I checked. She might change her tone if it's Clinton vs Trump at the end of the day.
I don't necessarily agree with Sanders on a lot of things. But I don't have to. Bad politics beats immorality every time. I would rather vote for a leader whose politics I disagree with than someone whom I find morally disgusting. I can abide poor politics. I cannot abide by torture, killing civilians, and stirring up hatred against people based on their religious beliefs. All of these are contrary to my core beliefs of what it means to be American. Shit, it goes against my beliefs of what it means to be a decent human being.
(Murca.)
I mean, I don't like her. She's also very dishonest in her campaign, and she's basically the same as Rubio (e.g. Establishment to the core).
On the other hand, she doesn't advocate torture or bombing civilians last I checked. She might change her tone if it's Clinton vs Trump at the end of the day.
I don't necessarily agree with Sanders on a lot of things. But I don't have to. Bad politics beats immorality every time. I would rather vote for a leader whose politics I disagree with than someone whom I find morally disgusting. I can abide poor politics. I cannot abide by torture, killing civilians, and stirring up hatred against people based on their religious beliefs. All of these are contrary to my core beliefs of what it means to be American. Shit, it goes against my beliefs of what it means to be a decent human being.
(Murca.)
This bit here, it's almost a guarantee.
I wouldn't say it's a guarantee. It's a possibility, but that's not the issue.
The issue is that someone like Trump -- with all the incitement of hate, the calls for shit like torture and murdering civilians, the lies -- can garner so much support. It's immensely troubling to see.
I recently had a discussion with someone about this. He was previously a Trump supporter. Classic low-information conservative (and yes, before anyone complains: there is most certainly a liberal mirror) who believed all the shit you read on Facebook. You know what I had to correct him on? The fact that Nazi is shorthand for the German translation of National Socialist, after he posted an image that claimed Nazis were Democratic Socialists.
That is the kind of ignorance that Trump's campaign is built on. It's dangerous. I don't care if people are liberal or conservative -- I just want them to educate themselves. We have access to the largest archive of human knowledge in the history of civilization, and people can't be assed to know what "Nazi" stands for? Come on.
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