WHAT ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW?

alterego
Edit:Ultracynism is good for everyone (In small doses). (Wait, would that be regular cynism? =P)

I'd argue that it's not cynicism that's helpful, but Bluntness. This is how me and my room mate work in game design (and all other life aspects): we don't sugar coat stuff. If an idea is bad we tell the other guy that it sucks, and why.

Obviously there's a level of comfort involved, since we live together and have been friends for about 4 or 5 years now. When dealing with a forum-goer you don't know too well or a newbie to the site I think it's okay to dial it back a bit so you don't come off as an asshole, but you still shouldn't sugar coat things or omit criticisms.

I don't know, I guess I just feel that cynicism is an inherently negative thing, since it implies that you're not giving what you're criticizing a fair chance. Just my two cents though- what you call it is pretty much apples and oranges in the end.

shmup has become a world class corporation, some of them are getting their games done for release like Octopus City Blues and Radio the Universe which are updated regularly and close to completion.

Mog, the two things you just posted in this thread do not go together.

Feld also goes by Mog, I'm not sure why I always call him Mog instead of Feld.

author=Feldschlacht IV

author=Solitayre
Mog, the two things you just posted in this thread do not go together.

People who play video games and fitness, or people who make video games and fitness?

You posted a quote from Colbert about not being cynical and giving up before you start! Then you were like "Meh I could make a weightlifting thread but why bother?"

The contrast made me chuckle.

Do you have a preference for being called Feldschlacht or Mog? Typing your name out just now made me realize why I always go with Mog.

author=Corfaisus
p. funny.

EDIT: Wow, just looked up Octopus City Blues (the only game with promise to ever come out of shmup) and it's gone the way of Rainfall and Americana Dawn. Sad.

So I'd never heard of this game and went to look it up. The artwork for this is kind of amazing. Who's making this? It doesn't seem to be anyone who ever posted here.

From the look of it it doesn't seem to be dead, seems to have suffered severe schedule slip though with months going by without backers hearing from the dev. I'd usually say that's a bad sign but Darken says it's almost done and he sounds like he knows what's up.

As for Radio the Universe, I don't know anything about that game other than my impression of it was soured when we caught somebody trying to rig the misaos in its favor a couple years back.

I've been thinking for a while now, and I wouldn't mind taking a shot at running a dungeon crawling game over the internet, like D&D or pathfinder. As always, the big issues is finding people who can commit to a semi regular schedule.

edit: dont ask me how that error snuck in there.

Sounds like a fairly smooth way to describe having lost excitement about something.

I'm over the interest.

I've made dice-bots for IRC before, and I highly suspect I wasn't the first to do so.

author=Mirak
Are there virtual dice?

EDIT: Oh you said interest not internet. Nevermind.

EDIT EDIT: What does "over the interest" mean?

I meant internet. sorry. as for how, there are a few options, roll20 being one of them, though I may have other options as well in the works.

author=FlyingJester
Sounds like a fairly smooth way to describe having lost excitement about something.

I'm over the interest.

I've made dice-bots for IRC before, and I highly suspect I wasn't the first to do so.

author=Solitayre

author=Zeigfried_McBacon
I've been thinking for a while now, and I wouldn't mind taking a shot at running a dungeon crawling game over the interest, like D&D or pathfinder. As always, the big issues is finding people who can commit to a semi regular schedule.

I love Pathfinder though I'm not big on dungeon crawling. I'm one of those hippie 'roleplayer' guys.

Which reminds me that hopefully that nWoD game some friends of mine are running should be running soon on IRC, and we got a pretty sweet dicebot thanks in part to perihelion.