Writers' Workshop General Chat Thread

[CrystaI]

A TV talk show having a discussion about some political issues. But, the hosts talk like gossips between friends, often laugh and giggle during the talk, and often insert some nonsense comments such as the fashion sense of that politician which has completely nothing to do with the discussion topic and not even remotely political to fit the atmosphere of the topic, and often insert some if-questions of "if the situation was like that..." "if it was me in that situation....", 99.99% were the hosts' subjective opinions about the topic but rarely any mention of already established objective facts, the hosts even exchanging banters and word puns and jokes between one another occasionally.

As an audience watching this talk show (to verify, I didn't chose to watch it, the TV in the lounge was on when I'm taking my lunch break), I can't take them seriously no matter what.

 

[Nitro Indigo]

Idea: a game with a reputation system. When you do certain things, some characters will hate you, while others will love you. There are some actions which will cause your reputation to drop really low, causing everyone to hate you, so you'll have to work hard to be liked again.

 

[Beth Pavell]

Aren't there a lot of games like that? Medieval II: Total War has the Chivalry system, for one thing

 

[Misfit Angel]

That's a feature that's going into my slowly-progressing RPG, though I don't have any plans for reputation to drop based on your actions at the moment. But yeah, there's plenty of those out there.

 

[diamondpearl876]

Dragon Age has that too if you're interested! The higher your team's approval rating, the more skills and help they'll offer you.

 

[canisaries]

i thought that one old republic star wars game had that. though i'm not sure if it actually influenced NPC behavior or something.

anyway, computer science sure is a trip. you learn that every computer's basically just a really big bunch of tiny switches

 

[Beth Pavell]

I always found it amusing that having a chivalrous prince was usually more useful in Medieval II than a terrifying maniac. I was playing as England once, and Prince Henry Plantagenet went a bit funny in the head after one too many summer campaigns in Anjou. I ended up having to send him away on crusade - too bloodthirsty to be trusted with a duchy

 

[UselessBytes]

Idea: a game with a reputation system. When you do certain things, some characters will hate you, while others will love you. There are some actions which will cause your reputation to drop really low, causing everyone to hate you, so you'll have to work hard to be liked again.

Chrono Trigger sort of has a mini version of this

 

[Misfit Angel]

anyway, computer science sure is a trip. you learn that every computer's basically just a really big bunch of tiny switches

It's even better when you simplify it further: computers are just rocks that we tricked into thinking by electrocuting them.

 

[canisaries]

that wont let you make em sweet sweet truth tables tho

 

[AetherX]

One of my favorite reputation systems was in Fallout: New Vegas. There was a part where you could negotiate a truce between two rival factions (the NCR and the Brotherhood of Steel), but only if you had really high reputation with both of them. If you did it then they would fight alongside each other in the final battle against a greater threat, but despite the fact that this is clearly the morally right thing to do, successfully negotiating the truce actually made you lose reputation with both sides because of the bad blood between them.

 

[Nitro Indigo]

It's not quite the same as a morality system, since it's not always black and white, but your heart always knows what's right.

Similar idea: a friend once told me that in a Mass Effect game, there's a choice which results in one of two characters hating you either way.

 

[canisaries]

i have a... unique problem.

it's called "not being able to give your banner art a proper tagline because you keep shitposting over and over"

Spoiler: exhibits a through d

maybe i should just put in "by canisaries" before i descend deeper into hell

 

[Nitro Indigo]

So you finally wrote that Yamask story? I'm not into horror, and the only fanfic-related thing I've done recently is repeatedly check Fanfiction.net to see if Amici Improbabile has updated. It hasn't.

 

[canisaries]

>wrote
welllll

i do have the story thought out but ive only published the prologue and i'm like a third through writing the first chapter. i just know it Will Contain A Mask so the banner ain't gonna change and i want it to look fancy to trap lure in more readers

 

[Misfit Angel]

Aside from the shitposting taglines, I really, really love that design.

 

[canisaries]

thanks! mask took a million years to paint, but at least i learned a lot about asian facial features and gold in the process

 

[Nitro Indigo]

I was reading the Game-Breaking Bug page on TV Tropes, and...

The 3DS e-shop version of the first Shantae has a nasty bug where touching a Warp Squid would occasionally make the game crash and delete the player's save files. The good news is that it happens so rarely that most people won't encounter it. The bad news is that no one knows what triggers it so there are currently no known ways to prevent it.

Theory: the Virtual Console emulator sets off anti-piracy.

 

[Beth Pavell]

One small virtue to the nights getting longer and colder - they do make for a better atmosphere for whiskey

 

[canisaries]

group projects are the worst. our group really has to decide on what direction we're taking our assignment in since our programming shift is tomorrow, but no one's replied at all to my questions in the whatsapp group SPECIFICALLY made for communication. on top of this, we're supposed to be working on a report of the project, for which purpose i've made a gdoc, but it's been two weeks and no one other than me has even touched it.

it really baffles me, as this course is very necessary to pass, and it's literally an introduction course. it's going to be pretty shameful to fail that. one could say that the others must be busy, but i've been busy too yet i've still had time to do my own part, and i'd do way more but i can't before the rest approve of it. and really, is texting a reply so much to ask for? human trash.

/overreaction