LOCKEZ'S PROFILE

Is there any reason not to jump on the mission acceptance bandwagon? I haven't seen anyone suggest a reason why the choice of who to send on a mission tonight matters, unless I missed it.

I haven't read more than the last three pages yet, but the idea that anyone sees the list of roles that essentially says "there may or may not be a Mordred role in the game, it is a secret" and immediately assumes before night 1 that there is or isn't such a role is really stupid. Like, stupid enough to actually be almost unbelievable. My only question is whether they're trying to trick town into thinking something that's not true, or trick scum into responding and revealing something.

I'm thinking that Liberty is a fool for thinking that the RMN logo is a tesseract instead of a crystal.

Her foolish argument seems to be threefold:
1) The six sides are all equal, which is true of tesseracts, and not usually true of RPG crystals
2) The logo's filename is tess.png
3) She thinks that a tesseract looks like that from a specific angle and showed me this pic, claiming that the three lines that aren't in the RMN logo aren't visible in our logo because they would be "in the back":


Refutation:
1) The RMN logo was originally more elongated, and kentona squashed it when he redesigned the site in 2011
2) Kentona renamed the logo to that after WIP had already left RMN, but nobody cares what Kentona thinks it is because WIP created the logo
3) No you idiot, if a tesseract has opaque sides, then the visible part in "front" with that projection would look exactly like a cube. These are all the possible ways to draw a tesseract in 3D with opaque sides instead of just a wireframe:


In summary, I am right and you are wrong, and why would the logo even be a tesseract, that's stupid, crystals are an iconic RPG trope, and tesseracts have nothing to do with RPGs and also are literally impossible to depict.

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Well, the lock-and-key design is an intentionally ultra-simple type of gameplay, where all of the player's skills lack any kind of depth. None of them interact with each other. None of them have drawbacks. No turn affects anything that happens on future turns in any way that isn't 100% predictable, and even the predictable things your abilities change are limited to either preventing enemies from acting for one turn, or simply running out of MP. The game has no buffs or debuffs, no abilities which do multiple things. Tanking is nonexistent and healing involves no actual choices, both because you only have one character who can take damage. The total number of skills in the game is incredibly tiny, leaving a very tiny number of meaningful choices in any combat situation - in fact, the player almost never has more than one option of what they can do.

That last part is the worst problem, really. At no point almost anywhere in almost any battle in the Paper Mario series does the player think, "OK, I have these five or six different attacks, and each of them has a different upside and a different downside. I also have a number of buff spells or control spells which can influence the state of the battlefield. Which do I want to do, based on what I know about this enemy?" In Paper Mario, there's no reason to ever think about what to do because there's always exactly one answer. If your HP is below half then you heal, otherwise you attack the enemy's weakness. That's every turn in the game.

Plenty of other games have damage elements, which are essentially the same thing as the lock-and-key design, except that the skills in good games do more than just elemental damage. They have depth. If you rename the different damage types from hammer/jump/flying to fire/ice/lightning then maybe the problems become more obvious. The only attacks Mario can do in the entire game are essentially Fire 1, Ice 1, Bolt 1, and then once every few battles he gets a non-elemental limit break. The fact that elemental weakness and elemental immunity can do more than just change the amount of damage Mario hits for doesn't really change anything meaningful about how the player plays, since you're still always just going to perform whichever of those three attacks the enemy is weak to. Sometimes they change weakness mid-battle (and explicitly tell you so), and so you use a different one instead that round. That's it.

The areas are way better than most other games though, I'll definitely say that. It's really just the combat I hate. The solutions to interactive parts of the environments are often obvious, but often is not the same as always, and being interactive at all is better than 90% of RPGs. The only types of interaction in your typical RPG's areas are dodging enemies, finding invisible passageways, and one dungeon that has a hellish teleporter maze.