Hank

In Defense Of The Genre [Part II]

Seeing as how Nyt didn't allude to any totalitarian imagery, no one should have had any problems giving him a proper response in the 24 hours since he uploaded this post.

@pugbutter

I don't tell you how to manage your time.

Seriously though, you're right, and that's why Nyt deserves a proper response (as do several others), which I want to write when I'm feeling well and have ordered my thoughts. Currently not the case. Hopefully tomorrow.

In Defense Of The Genre [Part II]

It's just blatant irresponsibility. He wants to reap the laurels of being the creator and director of this site, of having his work praised, but doesn't want to be open and discuss stuff with us when it matters? When we bring valid and important questions to him? That's just not how a leader behaves, simple as that.

@RWBY Spectre

He's a hobbyist website admin, not the despot of a banana republic. He doesn't "lead" anybody. He gives you a space to fulfill your roleplaying needs, and we (the rest of the staff) help him take care of spambots, misplaced posts and trolls. That's it. That's all this place is. And frankly, your assumptions about his motives for creating, hosting and maintaining the site are disingenuous, and comparing a -- let me remind you again -- hobbyist forum to a democratic nation is at least melodramatic, if not outright ridiculous.

And by the way, websites are never democratic. The internet is an exercise in benevolent dictatorship to begin with.

If you thought my earlier post was vitriolic I implore you to reconsider your knowledge of the meaning of that word, but fear not -- I'll educate you on its meaning right now. Many of the points raised in this thread are valid. Yours are not. I don't appreciate your sensationalism and I'd prefer if you just keep out of the conversation entirely if you can't manage a reasonable level of discourse. Several people have complained in this very thread that users are blowing the issues out of proportion and your post is a textbook example of that very same thing. Overthrow Mahz? What the fuck are you talking about? Do you have the slightest idea how the internet works? And are you seriously implying that he go read a book written about war to learn how to administrate a hobbyist internet forum?

You need to get some perspective.

In Defense Of The Genre [Part II]

I was about to ignore my guests for a long time to write a post to address everything in this thread and then I realized that's very inappropriate, so you'll have to wait until next week. Apologies.

Introducing me

Welcome to the Guild and nice avatar, @Saquira. You dare fight a Dunmer? Is that your own character?

In the wild west

Underrated and Overrated Video Games

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and its expansions are underrated. Now you might say, "The fuck are you talking about, Hank? Morrowind is highly regarded, received massive critical acclaim upon release and is constantly brought up as people's favorite game!" Yeah, I know all that -- but it's not enough.

Seriously, Morrowind was groundbreaking on so many levels and most of those are acknowledged, but it doesn't receive nearly enough attention for the esoteric mysticism, mythology, Dunmeri culture, deliberately self-contradicting narrative and sheer originality and creativity that it contains. Vvardenfell is the most engrossing and interesting fantasy world ever put to screen in any medium in the history of mankind and the conflict between the Sharmat, the Tribunal, and the Hortator (past and present) is unparalleled in RPG storytelling to this day. Even Bethesda themselves never lived up to this masterpiece of writing and gravitas.

Credit for most of that goes to Michael Kirkbridge, by the way, a completely insane but utterly riveting and brilliant writer who contributed heavily to the Morrowind project but left Bethesda after that.

It's been far too long...

Ah, you quoted yourself in your signature? You must be a true scholar and a gentleman.

Just kidding, welcome to the Guild. Your avatar's great. What did you think of the Rob Zombie Halloween movies?

Mahz's Dev Journal

I agree with all of the above.

In spam we only got one rule:

It's ain't a madness place when all in here are mad

@Scarescrow

good computers

The processor wouldn't be the only bottleneck, @Vlad P. Onboard graphics cards are notoriously bad. It isn't until this generation of laptop chips, like the onboard version of the Geforce 1050/60/etc, that they've become usable for videogames without spending a fortune.