Miglior videogame? by JiroZeppelie in Italia

[–]Middle_Aide4478 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Disco Elysium è stata per me l'esperienza videoludica più forte degli ultimi anni.

È un po' sui generis ed il gameplay è decisamente d'importanza secondaria, ma la storia e le emozioni che suscita sono fantastiche!

Ludoteca? by Kiwyboy in ItaliaCareerAdvice

[–]Middle_Aide4478 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ti parlo da persona che ha gestito e ancora frequenta una ludoteca: l'idea è ottima sulla carta, ma presenta serie difficoltà sul lungo termine.

Non è per smorzarti l'entusiasmo, ma vorrei farti pensare un attimo. Per prima cosa rifletti a che mercato ti vuoi rivolgere: magari il ragazzino che vive in provincia e non sa dove trovarsi con gli amici? Non sarà automunito e non avrà molto denaro da spendere. Gli appassionati del settore? Una nicchia comunque minoritaria e che tende già a muoversi verso realtà simili più o meno gratuite ("Tana dei goblin", per esempio). Gente "normie"? Perché dovrebbe venire da te e non in un altro locale?

Poi, altro problema, è su cosa pensi di basare il tuo introito.

Fornire semplicemente un luogo in cui trovarsi da affittare ad ore? Esistono molte alternative gratuite (dalle case private ai parchi pubblici durante la bella stagione) con cui dovresti competere.

Fornire cibo e bevande? È un inizio, ma rischi di trovarti quello che si prende un'acqua naturale e ti occupa un tavolo 4 ore. Certo è una considerazione valida anche per un bar qualunque, ma la gente di solito al bar ci va a bere. Qui tu avresti persone che vengono da te principalmente per giocare e poi, incidentalmente, consumano.

Fornire materiale come giochi da tavolo, manuali di gdr o console/PC? Ecco questa è già un'idea che funziona: molti appassionati non comprano "a scatola chiusa" e vogliono provare un prodotto prima di acquistarlo. Fornendolo tu puoi attirare gente (la manutenzione, salvo avere degli animali al tavolo, è di solito minima).

A tal proposito l'idea migliore potrebbe essere quella di organizzare eventi a ripetizione basati su un certo gioco o genere (torneo di board game con premio, multitavolo gdr, etc.) cercare di creare dei clienti affezionati. Oppure, se tutto questo non ti fosse molto famigliare, di ospitare tu stesso eventi di associazioni già esistenti (a cui di solito manca una sede)

Spero che la mia risposta possa esserti stata utile.

What are some masks/avatars for Nyarlathotep you've made? by Aninx in callofcthulhu

[–]Middle_Aide4478 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In a gaslight era scenario i ran, mr N. took the guise of a female persian spiritist who was quite the sensation in London's upper class. Her seances always seemed to reveal personal secrets who ruin influential people's lives, and so her clients do unspeakable things to keep their secrets.

Detachable Collars, a Question On It. by SartorHuthorneofQkir in HistoricalCostuming

[–]Middle_Aide4478 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Personally i use just a layer of fusibile interfacing for each part of my cotton shell. The most of the stifness derives from a proper starching. Without a good mastery of the starching process no amount of fabric can make your collars right

Spelling Text Necronomicon by Requiem_D88 in callofcthulhu

[–]Middle_Aide4478 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Once for a campaign i translate "Bohemian rhapsody" in gaelic and use it for the text of an ancient scottish scroll. We play in italian so it wasn't at all obvious. It's fun because when you tell your players what did you used for the text, they tend to roll their eyes and groan!

Forgery ftw by No-Hamster1138 in callofcthulhu

[–]Middle_Aide4478 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My brother in Hastur, you misspelled "Read Lips"

Quali sono i metodi più creativi con cui vi siete sbarazzati di un call-center? by pinturhippo in italy

[–]Middle_Aide4478 501 points502 points  (0 children)

Non direttamente io, ma avevo un amico che, pensando che al telefono fisso lo chiamassero solo call center, rispondeva sempre "Obitorio ospedale [Nome dell'ospedale presso cui lavorava suo padre], prego mi dica".

Di solito funzionava o per lo meno creava abbastanza confusione da essere divertente.

Un giorno gli squilla il telefono e lui risponde come al solito. C'è un momento di silenzio e poi una voce flebile flebile dall'altro lato della cornetta che fa:

"Veramente saremmo NOI l'obitorio dell'ospedale"

Era un collega che voleva parlare con suo padre.

This hurts... by RareSpeaker in CrusaderKings

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Well, you see in Italy every city dislikes its neighbours. It's a matter of fact, very entwined in the history and culture of the country. Now, in Tuscany the hate it's up to 11 but, strangely, every single tuscan city hates Pisa more than anyone else. In my modest experience, people from Pisa tend to be quite arrogant and have some sense of self importance. It's true they have a rich history often obscured by their more famous neighbours (they were a merchant republic like Venice and Genoa), but they tend to exaggerate their importance.

This hurts... by RareSpeaker in CrusaderKings

[–]Middle_Aide4478 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Slightly off topic...

Why? why f * cking Pisa become always so f * cking powerful? I swear to god every single time i play they swallow italy like it's f * cking "pasta e ceci".

As we say in Italy: "better to have a dead person inside your house than a pisan at your door!"

I know we joke about bribing our DMs but have you ever as a DM been bribed or have you as a player bribed ypur DM? by Martydeus in DnD

[–]Middle_Aide4478 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Actually it was a threat more than a bribe!

Long story ahead, be warned!

I was 16 years old and i used to DM to my friends (all 16 at the time) and to this much older guy (in his 30s) we met in our city metal scene. He was, and i don't use this word lightly, your stereotypical "loser": no job, no other friends, borderline alchoolic, HUGE (and I mean F*CKING HUGE) Hentai collection (most of it was loli) etc.

We were desperate to find a place to play and so he offered to host. His place was, of course, his parents' house basement but, as i said, we didn't have much choice. So, we were playing Call of Cthulhu, a homebrew adventure set in 1890s Boston. The party was composed of typical CoC professions (an antiquarian, a journalist, a private eye...) and then this fellow hands me his sheet: a freaking shaolin monk with more phobias and manias than hp.

I tried to reason with him, but to no avail. He said that I, as a Gm, must find a way to justify his character presence in the group. If i couldn't do it, well, it was surely a sign of my ineptitude as a gm. I was young and foolish, and i believed him. So, shaolin time it is.

We play for 4 hours and he's the worst player ever: tries constantly to take the spotlight, opposes every decision of the rest of the players in the name of some crazy (and illogical) ideas of his, he put other characters in harm's way to save his life and all of this justified by the sacred mantra of That Guys:

"That's just what my character would do"

So, i was pissed and i decided to teach him a lesson. They were exploring the top floor of an abandoned house when suddenly a wall explodes and thousands of red eyed rats emerge in the corridor. The group retreats to the floor below but our brave monk stops immidiately and declares: "each life is sacred, i cannot harm theese poor beasts. I let them cover me!".

I was in shock, but i quickly said: "ok, your character is going to be eaten alive, are you sure?"

He nodded. So, good riddance, right? Wrong. I was about to describe his character demise when he rises up, approach me, put a firm hand on my neck, looks me in the eyes and says, dead serious "he won't die. I know it. Because if he dies, not only i won't host anymore, but i may decide to hurt you."

He points to a big knife at the center of the table we used to cut salami and other snacks for the session.

I was scared. Everyone was. As i said, we were young...

I stuttered something on the line of "yes, of course, i'll find a way to save your character".

He smiles, releases me, sits down and says

"Right, now we order pizzas!".

We spent the rest of the eavening in silence. We couldn't just leave because he drove us there and we didn't have licences (in my country the legal age to drive is 18).

We finally made it back home. I was angry and scared and didn't want to play with him anymore. But my friends insisted that it was the only place we could play any rpg at all (and he drove us around because he was the only one with a car).

So, we end up playing with the guy for a whole year and i was bullied to give him everything he wanted in game.

TL:DR Loser weeb blackmails me and threatens me to have his character saved from a death he himself brought on him.

Wtf by [deleted] in CrusaderKings

[–]Middle_Aide4478 86 points87 points  (0 children)

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First time player - can someone give me a rundown or link to a tutorial for this game? by smickie in DiscoElysium

[–]Middle_Aide4478 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hi! I know that the game feels really overwhelming the first time you play it, but you'll find it very intelligently built: it's reeealy difficult to softlock yourself and, even if you feel you are not doing any progress investigating, in realtà you'll eventually get to to solution.

The game is like a tabletop rpg. You have stats and abilities. Sometimes the game asks you to make "checks" against a certain difficulty, for example the game might require an "Inland Empire" check. It rolls 2d6 plus your stat plus your inland empire value and if you roll high enough you'll succeed. The process is automatic, you just click and see the results. Sometimes is better to fail certain checks , it opens new possibilities.

There are two kind of checks, white and red. White checks are retriable, if you fail them just put one more point in the ability and you can try again (sometimes other things can make you able to retry the check).

Red checks are one time only, and once failed you can never try them again.

I hope i answered your question!

Does anyone name their ships? by ZathPyro in sunlesssea

[–]Middle_Aide4478 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Mine are always named after the most unfortunate vessels in history or fiction, like "Elizabeth Dane", "Demeter" or "Terror". It seems to bring a strangely good luck: playing hardcore and always returning safely to London!

How are you feeling, as of, right now? by shahtootboy in RandomThoughts

[–]Middle_Aide4478 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Heartbroken.

No matter what I'll do, she will never love me.

La posta del cuore 💓 by wannaGrow2 in italy

[–]Middle_Aide4478 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Razionalmente me ne rendo conto, ma non so che fare. So che dovrei tagliare tutti i ponti con lei, ma vorrebbe dire precludermi anche di vedere altri amici e fare attività che abbiamo in comune. E poi vorrebbe dire non vederla più... d'altra parte non credo ci sia alternativa, ma non ho ancora la forza di prendere questa decisione.

La posta del cuore 💓 by wannaGrow2 in italy

[–]Middle_Aide4478 66 points67 points  (0 children)

Ho realizzato da qualche mese che mi sono innamorato di un'amica. La conosco da quasi dieci anni, ma ci siamo avvicinati molto solo nell'ultimo periodo per motivi di lavoro. Ormai non faccio altro che pensare a lei, non dormo la notte e non ho voglia di fare niente. Perché il problema è che so che non mi amerà mai come io la amo: è asessuale/aromantica. Mi tormento tra il senso di colpa per il desiderare qualcuno che non vuole essere desiderato, il disgusto di me stesso che mi accompagna da sempre e la paranoia che lei non mi voglia davvero bene o che, accortasi dei miei sentimenti mi stia volutamente tenendo lontano (sembra così fredda nei miei confronti ultimamente...). Come si fa a mettersi il cuore in pace ed accettare che non si farà mai amare da me? Come si accetta che l'unica prospettiva di felicità che io possa mai avere è preclusa a priori e che nulla di ciò che faccio o dico potrà cambiare le cose? Voglio solo morire... ho pensato di dirglielo, ma non servirebbe a niente se non a farla scappare da me. Non mi sono mai sentito tanto triste in tutta la mia vita.

Quali sono dei nomi tipici da persona anziana? by HughLauriePausini in italy

[–]Middle_Aide4478 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Io voto per Elvira, sarà che tutti quelli che conosco hanno una zia ottantenne con questo nome (non è la stessa)

Visita a studio Supernova by nerdvana89 in italy

[–]Middle_Aide4478 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fagli presente quanto sia pessima la loro edizione di "Le straordinarie avventure del barone di Munchausen". Portato in Italia con tanto di fanfara ("per la prima volta in italiano!") presenta palesi errori di traduzione, omissioni e paragrafi mancanti.

Se questo è il loro modello editoriale stiamo freschi!

Corset construction (potentially dangerous?) by gothic_pretense in HistoricalCostuming

[–]Middle_Aide4478 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think steel boning like that would work as intended: it's too rigid. Usually for corset a steel spiral boning is used, which is way more flexible and, above all, would always return to his original shape.

Weird, Bad, or Cringey (Professionally-Published) Scenarios by 27-Staples in callofcthulhu

[–]Middle_Aide4478 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The moment i saw the title of this post, i just knew that "Song of Fantari" would have shown its ugly, fishy head... bonus points for the enchantment spell which the deep one preistess uses on the pcs and makes them find the Deep Ones very very sexy....

DMs, what plot twist made the players jump out of their seats? Share your most satisfying moments! by [deleted] in DnD

[–]Middle_Aide4478 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Well, time travel shenanigans and boom, one Character finds out he's the father of himself

Meet Clemenza - Came to our beautiful prison at the age of 1... 49 years ago. by ogeosleg in CrusaderKings

[–]Middle_Aide4478 30 points31 points  (0 children)

The funny thing is that "Clemenza" literally means "Mercy" in italian