While We Wait: Boredom Strikes Back

[Starlife]

I am really hoping that some new faces (and old ones) will join my new NES, which I am still in the process of fine-tuning and crafting (the goal being to make a ruleset that can withstand many turns without bogging down players and mod alike - and I am borrowing heavily from more traditional NES around here). However, sign-ups are on which include the important aspect of creating a culture and, well, an entire people.

Here is the link. No title yet for the NES, but it is a fantasy fresh start beginning in the bronze era and on a fictional world not dissimilar to Europe in climate (with a few exceptions, of course). The fantasy aspect of this fresh start is considerably subtle and played down. There are fantasy creatures. These are not any "thing" though, and they are not too bizarre. Either they are simply flora and fauna (i.e. giant eages, giant spiders, and the like - again, nothing too insane), or they act as barbarians (though even less civilized than human ones). The barbaric-type fantasy creatures would be goblins and gnolls and the like. They do not make cities. They do not engage in trading or the arts. They are just purely animals. Nothing civilized or even playable, and very minimal and again stressing the word subtle.

Then, of course, real barbarians exist (humans who have not settled into any larger body and who plunder resources and so on). These are probably more of a real threat to players than anything else.

The only playable race is humanity. The focus of this NES is not to see how crazy a fantasy universe can be with Elves, Dark Elves, undead, Orcs, and so on. It doesn't make sense to have the same model of rules for all of those races. Instead, the focus of this NES is to create a lasting culture and later a realm or governing kingdom in a fictional Europe-esque world with some fantasy undertones.

I invite you to join and attempt to create a lasting realm in this world.

 

[Terrance888]

 

[Thlayli]

"Whai r thingz so bad??!?" is a fairly juvenile question to ask.

As a human population, things have never been better than at this moment. HDI's are constantly going up globally. Literacy rates, access to potable water, electricity, diversity of food sources...

Things have never been better. But we're predisposed to think that things are on the brink of collapse because humans are survivalist at heart.

 

[Terrance888]

I agree. Like Andy Rooney said before he retired, "It's just amazing how long this country has been going to hell without ever having got there." I just found it funny enough to be worth sharing.

Esp because we are NESers.
We want to have enough power in whatever NES we play to gain whatever we happen to want.
So what does that make us?


EDIT: As for Human Survivalism, that is the reason we are all so enamored of the Apocalypse, despite (because of) the fact that most of us won't survive it.

 

[Daftpanzer]

Pure malice, while daring to claim the authority of God.

 

[Tee Kay]

"Whai r thingz so bad??!?" is a fairly juvenile question to ask.

As a human population, things have never been better than at this moment. HDI's are constantly going up globally. Literacy rates, access to potable water, electricity, diversity of food sources...

Things have never been better. But we're predisposed to think that things are on the brink of collapse because humans are survivalist at heart.

Just because things have been worse in the past is not a reason to deny or ignore problems and legitimate grievances in the present.

 

[skeptikalz!]

Every society in every age has it's positive and negatives. That heading is just a hyperbole directed towards the moments when people ponder on the negative. Don't take it too literally, either.

 

[Terrance888]

Yeah.

The electric SUV of society is waterproof.

 

[Lord of Elves]

I really wish people would stop linking those comics. Trite, angsty potshots at "society" do not art make.

 

[Luckymoose]

I really wish people would stop linking those comics. Trite, angsty potshots at "society" do not art make.

That is exactly what art is.

 

[Lord of Elves]

I reserve the right to be at least moderately disdainful of something that has devolved into shoving poorly-worded isms down my throat. Those comics regurgitate more politics than they provide anything like new perspective, or original thought.

 

[Luckymoose]

I reserve the right to be at least moderately disdainful of something that has devolved into shoving poorly-worded isms down my throat. Those comics regurgitate more politics than they provide anything like new perspective, or original thought.

This is my opinion on most of your posts. :3

 

[Lord of Elves]

This is my opinion on most of your posts. :3

Don't worry, on a general level I find you equally unpleasant.

 

[SKILORD]

My philosophy is: If you don't like it, do it better.

Not that I like agreeing with Lucky, I hold lucky in as much contempt as lucky holds me in, and for the same reasons.

 

[nutranurse]

My philosophy is: If you don't like it, try some LSD then do it again then if you still don't like it then it is probably because it turned into a fire-spewing catbear.

 

[Symphony D.]

You don't need to be a chef to tell someone their cooking is crap.

 

[SKILORD]

But if you think everyone's cooking is crap, maybe you should try doing it yourself you pompous jerk.

 

[Luckymoose]

You don't need to be a chef to tell someone their cooking is crap.

You do need to be a chef to tell them why it is crap.

 

[Symphony D.]

Not necessarily. You can have a defined palette and articulate your points without being part of the profession. That's why there are things like food critics. Or critics of any stripe, for that matter.

The slogans "If you don't like it, do it better" and "If you don't like it, don't read/see/do it" are the last resort of fanboys and defenders of suck, because they have no valid points left to articulate.

 

[nutranurse]

All you guys need to do more drugs and listen to more Brian Eno :~I