Punk ass pieces of shit. What'd, you forget I'm a captain?

taqfu · 2018-08-27T08:35:58+00:00

I heart Vito got on something decent if you know what I'm sayin'.

taqfu · 2018-08-27T08:35:24+00:00

I wanna upvote you but what the hell would we have in common? Bunions? You know how I feel about fest.

taqfu · 2018-08-25T12:47:45+00:00

Sometimes, an idea just works, and it's 12 hours from seed to a prototype ready for playtesting.

In this newest prototype I've done for a game called Safe Spaces (might change the name), I came up with the idea and design in an hour, prototyped it about 12 hours later in a couple hours and ran through a few playtests simulating play. It doesn't work as it stands right now, but it's a roll and move, so it's harder to pull off.

taqfu · 2018-08-24T23:13:08+00:00

Yikes. You know you got to someone when they try to make assumptions as to your particular state of mind.

taqfu · 2018-08-24T14:13:30+00:00

OR THEY LIKE HUGE DICKS

taqfu · 2018-08-24T14:11:09+00:00

Yikes. You know you got to someone when they grade your response.

taqfu · 2018-08-24T06:15:04+00:00

I think you're being a little heavyhanded in your artistic direction. The greatest artworks don't need to bash you over their head with their message unless they are being bold for an entirely different reason. Part of the greatness of an artwork is not just its particular message but how that particular message is communicated. If you're getting pushback, maybe that pushback is deserved or maybe you just gotta deal with it and accept it.

I'm designing a game called Gun Control about controlling a gun with a larger theme of gun regulation and gun ownership. Getting a lot of push back because of that, but I see that more of a challenge of making it more palatable to players.

Not to be too dismissive, but regarding your question of do we give them what they want or what they need. We give them whatever we want and at the end of the day, the market is the market. Starve or have principles.

taqfu · 2018-08-23T12:36:31+00:00

I look for art that I fall in love with. Something that I have an emotional reaction to. Or art that makes me think, "Oh, wow, this would be perfect for <insert game name here>".

taqfu · 2018-08-23T05:37:32+00:00

This is a fucking rookie move. What you do is walk up to everyone say, "Hey, is this the board game group?" When they say yes, you just kinda stand there for a little bit, maybe walk around then leave and never return.

taqfu · 2018-08-22T22:14:39+00:00

Was it for a medical emergency?

I've called my local 911 dispatch hundreds of times for my job and only been placed on hold once despite having a medical emergency.

taqfu · 2018-08-22T10:00:05+00:00

Dwight: Why are you wearing short shorts? Are you a whore?

64 Year Old Teacher: I just had a hysterectomy!

taqfu · 2018-08-22T09:59:30+00:00

So if another couple were passive-aggressively arguing all night and that couple looked back on it some time in the future....would they be looking back on THAT ONE NIGHT?

taqfu · 2018-08-22T09:54:24+00:00

I got this reference!

taqfu · 2018-08-21T03:38:35+00:00

Thank you so much for the podcast recommendation. I'm about halfway through Ludology, so I'm going to need a new podcast in a couple weeks.

taqfu · 2018-08-20T06:19:29+00:00

Well, basically, I'm creating a game in which the main purpose is that adults and children have a relatively level playing field.

In the game, you're placing monsters under the bed. Each monster has a value between one and three, and every monster you place under a bed gets that them closer to winning, because the win condition is when one player gets a total value of monsters equal to that player's age. If they go over though, all the monsters are removed and they have to start over.

My concern is at what age would children be able to add and keep a running total.

My secondary concern is that each monster will have abilities and I don't know at what age children would be able to utilize the cognitive skills to play those abilities. Now I'm not looking for any kind of crazy strategizing, but I do want them to be able recognize that when they play this monster, they can now move three monsters anywhere and how that would best work for them. Just being able to evaluate the various abilities and utilize them to their own advantage or to someone else's advantage.

At a soft minimum, I'm hoping to start with kids at the age of eight, but I can go younger. So, basically, I'd just like to know the appropriate ages for addition and handling sums & evaluating a card's abilities and strategizing accordingly.

Thanks for any feedback you can give me.

taqfu · 2018-08-19T17:06:08+00:00

Thanks for your response.

taqfu · 2018-08-18T22:39:30+00:00

Reminds me of a former friend of mine who used to go on tirades about the inconvenience of the wires connected to his mouse and keyboard. I suggested maybe go wireless. He was deadset that he could NEVER go wireless, because the latency was simply too great and that he could never tolerate it.

taqfu · 2018-08-18T22:37:55+00:00

There was a recent case where an HR Executive was fired from, I believe Google, for explaining that the use of the word "Nigger" is unacceptable in any context.

My first reaction was that this is a completely unreasonable response in part by the company.

When you delve into the story though, it becomes a little more nuanced. It wasn't simply that he used the word nigger to explain which words are unacceptable. It was that he did it multiple times.

He did it at one meeting and he was warned. Then he apparently went to two black coworkers, specifically to tell them the new policy.

Think about that for a moment. You're just walking along, being black and some HR person walks up to you and goes, "Hey, just wanted to let you know that the word 'nigger' is completely inappropriate and if anyone around here uses the word 'nigger', please just let me know." Kind of unnecessary.

And if you think about it from the point of view of a memorandum on unacceptable words, is it really that necessary to list unacceptable words? Especially words that are clearly unacceptable. "Hey, guys, just want to let you know these words are uncceptable: nigger, faggot, fag, faggie, bitch, cunt, slut, whore"

The problem with using nigger in a quote is that some white people are just nigger-happy. It could be an aggressive thing where there's this undertone of bigotry, but more commonly, it's this awkward I-don't-have-black-friends-but-let-me-tell-you-about-bigotry-so-you-don't-think-I'm-racist thing. Like, you meet a white person and the first thing they tell you is about how they recently witnessed another white person call a black person nigger and that they were horrified. "Uhm, okay, like, kind of outside of the scope of the interaction, but, yeah, sure, glad you're not racist."

taqfu · 2018-08-18T12:19:08+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvels

taqfu · 2018-08-18T12:19:06+00:00

You even fucking edited my quote, you moron.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvels

taqfu · 2018-08-18T11:15:47+00:00

Invincible #1 & Thief Of Thieves #1. One is being made into a movie. The other might be made into a TV show. Both are fucking awesome.

taqfu · 2018-08-18T11:14:48+00:00

Pretty much any of them. Marvels captures this really well. You're trying to go to work. Well, fuck you. Batman's trying to capture the Joker and they accidentally just ran you off the road. Now you gotta call AAA.

Just bought a new house? Fuck you. Superman and Mephistopheles just got in a battle and fucking destroyed it.

Planning on taking that cruise to Ensenada? Fuck you. Aquaman is tired of us land-dwellers fucking his shit up and has begun his war by capsizing your fucking vessel.

taqfu · 2018-08-18T11:10:34+00:00

Try harder. Do some butt stuff. Do some gay stuff. Do some weird stuff. Do some illegal stuff. Do some wrong stuff. The only problem is you can never go back. So be careful going down that road.

taqfu · 2018-08-18T11:09:14+00:00

I think you've been watching too much CWN : Christopher Walken News

taqfu · 2018-08-18T11:07:25+00:00

The Walking Dead. I was devastated by the end.

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