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Spam Hunger Games [Closed]

Introducing the lovable, handsome tribute from District 2....

Name: Felix

Age: 15

Appearance: Sandy blond, almost brown, hair hangs shaggily down off his head, giving the boy a slightly untamed look. He is well built for his age, not extremely muscular nor gangly for his five and three-quarter foot height, and any form-fitting clothing, something he wears often, shows off his body quite well. His light skin is colored by years of outdoor training for the Hunger Games, giving it a reddish-brown hue that accents his hair. His steel blue eyes often gleam in tandem with his pale, but charming, smile, which pull his cheeks into the smallest of dimples as he grins.

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Personality: A boy of handsome looks, Felix is vain enough to know it. He may not be the strongest or smartest fighter, but when paired in matches Felix usually holds his own. When he does win, especially against a more powerful opponent, it boosts his overly-inflated ego, and he often boasts about accomplishments that aren't quite true. This has a tendency to frustrate his rivals, of which there are many, but also enthralls his friends and sweethearts. Felix has plenty of success with the ladies, something he feels just comes naturally to him, just as most of life does. He doesn't always realize just how lucky he is, but Felix generally makes out successfully in his endeavors. When sheer luck won't do it, Felix is viciously jealous and ruthless, anything in the way to his goal usually gets hurt in the process.

Biography: Felix was rescued from mine duty by the tribute selection process in his early years, and thereafter he attended District 2's training academy for tributes. He was put through a rigorous training regime with the intention that he would eventually volunteer as tribute. As he grew older, he began to win more of his matches, taking down his opponents as quickly as he could. There were still a fair number of other students who could outmatch him, but once or twice Felix was able to outwit them or deal an opportune blow. With these bolstering his confidence, Felix decided to volunteer for the Hunger Games in his fifteenth year, shouting out quickly before any of the oldest academy students could wisk the chance away.

Preferred Weapon of Choice: Short sword

What did you do in the Training Room to receive your Training Score? Near-decapitation (head was hanging by a small strand of tissue) of a training dummy while upside-down in the mid-air of a sumersault routine.

Other: Felix hates dogs. He's not afraid of them per se, he just doesn't like them and won't go near one.

Stats:
STR: 13 (+1)
DEX: 8 (-1)
LUCK: 16 (+3)
END: 8 (-1)
INT: 13 (+1)
WIS: 11 (0)
CHA: 17 (+3)
Training Score: 8

Spam Hunger Games [Closed]

Lady Squee said
I feel like that would undermine the entirety of the stats I rolled for everyone. Maybe I'm looking at it wrong, though.

In D&D, the stats contribute to the roll modifier, which I honestly never liked. If my character has a 13 in some stat, and someone has a 12, my character should be just a little bit better in that stat, instead of exactly the same. I suppose the actual difference might be negligible, but it's still a bit annoying.

Whoops! Bad link in the main page info blurb

The name Mahz in the main page's info blurb (you got a better name to refer to this, Mahz?) is linked to http://localhost:3002/users/1.

What would you expect to happen if you clicked a "Delete" button next to a private convo?

Awson said
Just don't let us edit those posts. But you gotta have a preview button.

LOL. Editing PMs right now feels like dividing by zero. Possible in the right circumstances, but it's just so wrong.

What would you expect to happen if you clicked a "Delete" button next to a private convo?

mbl said
Which is how they are, but it is understandable to confuse them as being their own entity that is simply being shown to both email accounts, which is what I was saying in my post.

Perhaps. I don't know that you'll ever settle on a simple term that can describe the proper situation and the action being taken. I think there can be an expectation of some level of self-education for newcomers.

What would you expect to happen if you clicked a "Delete" button next to a private convo?

mbl said
Seemed like a reasonable confusion to me. When thinking in terms of the conversation being its own entity, not just logs in separate inboxes, it seems possible that one person deleting the conversation would mean the other would be unable to access it. It was just a simple confusion that didn't really merit a post mocking it.

As I said in my post, I approach PMs like email. Each person has their own copy of the conversation, so whatever I do to mine shouldn't affect someone else's.

Everything Wrong With Frozen

Sable said
Very thorough frame-by-frame analysis of the major flaws in Disney's most recent motion picture.

Very nice. I've seen so many people extolling the virtues of Frozen, it's nice to see it come down a notch. I guess I'm sadistic that way.

What would you expect to happen if you clicked a "Delete" button next to a private convo?

I'd say Archive or Leave and Archive as Jorick suggested. I agree users shouldn't be able to be invited back to that convo by the other participants, but the user themselves should be able to request a re-invitation, I think, in case they closed the convo too early.

Delete seems to do what it says. Even on the oldGuild, or any other forum, if I delete a PM, someone else can usually still see their copy. It's not like a post where delete is complete removal, PM deletion is similar to email. I would expect the same behavior here, where whatever I do on my end of the conversation should have no effect on the other participants.

It might be nice if there was a third option, Mute, which simply cut off notifications for the convo. There would be some conversations that I'd like to be part of that are updated constantly, leaving me with six or seven PMs in the span of a few minutes, which will (eventually) generate a lot of emails and annoy me if I keep seeing the new PM indicator at the top. Mute would allow me to stop the notifications but still be able to participate in the convo and see new messages, they just wouldn't annoy me.

Return of the sidebar?

I have a suggestion to bring back the sidebar. I think it would be the ideal way to keep track of subscribed topics simultaneously with the latest posts on the normal boards. Honestly, my method is usually to sit on my subscription page and refresh to see which topics have new replies. This means I'm rarely venturing out to see what new topics are out there, and I feel like I miss a lot. Having the sidebar keep track of new posts from my subscriptions might be a better usage for it than keeping track of all new posts as it was before.

Rabbit Doubt: The Vacation Murders

Beatrix said
What did I miss? Sorry, FFT had me sucked in.

You didn't miss much, Bea.

Lots of supposition surrounding Nex being the killer due to his close relationship with Drakel, but Nex himself professed that we would regret killing him (important role or bluff? you decide).

It is believed that Shy and Foxxie are the lovers couple paired by the matchmaker, who could be you (Bea). Shy has been arduously promoting #shoxxie as a cause to root for. There is some suspicion that either Foxxie or Shy are the killers, as Shy was the first to notice the body (knew where to look?) and Foxxie appears to be in charge (setting a trap?). One suggested plan was to kill either one in order to take down the other, but it appears that the suggestion of Foxxie being the mayor (thus having 2 votes against the killer) is more important right now.

There is minor suspicion of the three businessmen, Awson, Rilla and Alpha, for the manner in which they conferred with each other for a decision. Some suggested that there could be the presence of three killers in this game. Another suggestion was that these three are of the role Mason. The strategy to kill one, the least active of which is Alpha, in order to reap more information was proposed and appears to be growing in favor.

Outlying suspicion lies on Nat, Doivid and Bea (the latter two for the Badass, Adorable angle). This doesn't seem to have much evidence, other than the lack of such.

Uhh, that's about all I remember, but it should be a decent summary to get you going.