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TGDMB is boring, needs more conflict.

Post by infected slut princess »

Go back several years and look at old discussions. THis forum used to be way more interesting. Especially when 4e was around, that was great. 4e never got such devastating criticism anywhere else.

Now it is fucking boring as hell.

Surely part of the problem is that the biggest game is Pathfucker, but that's really (essentially) a 15 year old game that has been done to death and there is only so much that can be talked about.

Another problem is that 5e is shitty, but it's shitty in such a boring way and no one here argues in favor of it, so no one cares. It's basically a non-issue that is only there to be laughed at.

There are almost no raging arguments anymore, and when there is a debate, it's about something boring and no one cares.

There are not enough factions who disagree and can argue about stuff. Everyone pretty much faps to the same shit, and there are no big issues over which people yell at each other.

What are you guys doing to fix this problem? The answer is not more OSSR threads for games that like 4 people in the history of mankind ever played.
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Post by fectin »

Cute.
Vebyast wrote:Here's a fun target for Major Creation: hydrazine. One casting every six seconds at CL9 gives you a bit more than 40 liters per second, which is comparable to the flow rates of some small, but serious, rocket engines. Six items running at full blast through a well-engineered engine will put you, and something like 50 tons of cargo, into space. Alternatively, if you thrust sideways, you will briefly be a fireball screaming across the sky at mach 14 before you melt from atmospheric friction.
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Post by ACOS »

I think you already answered your own question.
Also, traffic is down to but a trickle of what it was in the past.
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Post by erik »

Yep. You answered your own questions and I think the OSSR's are very nice material to fill the void until something new comes about beyond the various yearly projects.

I reckon Pathfinder will do a reboot at some point and we can rage at either a pathetic failure of ambition to create an honest to god improved new edition, or a glorious failure of incompetence when they are not up to the task of creating an improved new edition.

And Earthdawn 4e may be out in people's hands soon and be an exciting development.
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What do you want?
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Hitchens entitled his book about Clinton, 'No one left to lie to'. The current age is, 'WotC: no one left to disappoint'.

So, in the absence of things worth fighting for, people have nothing left to fight over.
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Windjammer wrote:Hitchens entitled his book about Clinton, 'No one left to lie to'. .
Was that by Hitchens?!
I read some of it once and was amused, but it never clicked that he was the author. Neat.
Vebyast wrote:Here's a fun target for Major Creation: hydrazine. One casting every six seconds at CL9 gives you a bit more than 40 liters per second, which is comparable to the flow rates of some small, but serious, rocket engines. Six items running at full blast through a well-engineered engine will put you, and something like 50 tons of cargo, into space. Alternatively, if you thrust sideways, you will briefly be a fireball screaming across the sky at mach 14 before you melt from atmospheric friction.
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Post by infected slut princess »

I think Pathfucker 2 needs to come out, or TGDMB needs more enemies. I got a kick out of people like the 4rries, Shadzar, or Shadow Balls. Needs fewer people like fectin.
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Currently the biggest source for idiots joining the board are the Ars Magica fans who show up every time Frank points out the glaring problems with it. They tend to be good for a laugh or two.
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infected slut princess wrote: What are you guys doing to fix this problem? The answer is not more OSSR threads for games that like 4 people in the history of mankind ever played.
If you don't like it then you get off your fucking ass and do something and quit bitching already.
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Post by Sakuya Izayoi »

I'd like to get the attention of someone as vain as Shitmuffin, but not as exhausting to engage with. I know there are plenty of assholes on the Internet who could use a good verbal flogging. Too many know this place by reputation, sadly, like the guys on Something Awful who accuse you of worshiping Frank Trollman because you don't get a boner from the 4e Fighter.
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Post by Mistborn »

I could go back to my old ways and start another LM thread, those were always full of conflict.
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Sakuya: That Shitmuffin guy is easily one of the most annoying posters I have ever seen and reading the threads with him participating makes me want to die. He isn't even a useful foil for good ideas because he is so damn annoying. Anyone remember that Random Casualty guy? I disagreed with most of what he said but he seemed like a reasonable guy. I wish there were more people liek that. I think K and Phonelobster have a lot of interesting ideas that are different and interesting and get people riled up, but they don't post very much sadly. Some new posters pop up once in awhile but it seems like they get hit with such hostility they disappear quickly.

Mistfuck: You should make more controversial threads, I enjoyed some of your old ones. Not a Fighter thread, because that's been done to death and as evidenced by the latest Fighter thread, it doesn't even get people riled up anymore.
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Post by Count Arioch the 28th »

I can't help you with the conflict, bro. A combination of a great job with benefits, great friends (also with benefits), and doctor-prescribed drugs has kept me more mellow than I have been... well ever.
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infected slut princess wrote:Sakuya: That Shitmuffin guy is easily one of the most annoying posters I have ever seen and reading the threads with him participating makes me want to die. He isn't even a useful foil for good ideas because he is so damn annoying.
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I was about to make the mistake of posting on a spam thread, so I'll do this here instead-

Slutty, spam is for eating or throwing away, not feeding.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
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Can't you burn it as a candle in a power outage?
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I wouldn't doubt it.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
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I like spam... it's great on toast with an over-easy egg. Cut a slice, fry it up... good eatin'.
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Post by tussock »

I could do a glowing review of the 5e DMG. Except that I've sort of read it, so, I mean, it would enhance my reputation for being wrong all the time. Or am I wrong? Hmm.
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