While We Wait: Boredom Strikes Back

[das]

I'd welcome and participate in a SteamNES revival, for what's it's worth, Iggy.

 

[Abaddon]

w00p=w00p
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Bets on how many updates my NES will last?

 

[Kozmos]

I just got a sizeable whiteboard, I reckon it will prove useful for planning orders and like.

Spoiler :

 

[Abaddon]

I use the space between my ears.

 

[Kozmos]

The skull? Kinda hard to come by. I like it visually in front of me so I can touch it....yeah I'm weird, but mostly useful for laying out the basic code for programs.

 

[Abaddon]

A joke, but nevermind

 

[TheLizardKing]

Bets on how many updates my NES will last?

I'll be generous and say 20.

 

[Abaddon]

Wow, thankyou

 

[Eltain]

My god, whiteboards are perfect for DND. Think about it, try it out, whoever.

 

[North King]

So... I can tell that GalaxyNES has a few problems. I love the setting and have a lot of fun updating it, but there is very, very low involvement in it right now. Is there something I should change, or is it just something about the statless nature of the NES, or the setting, or the way that I update that makes it unpalatable or intimidating?

I'm comparing it with what I did in SteamNES, and noting the differences. Both NESes took about the same amount of time to update, but one had a few statistics, humans, and a setting which I think people took more interesting (Steampunk as opposed to Space-based Science Fiction).

Thoughts anyone?

As a random aside, if I keep to my one day=one month rule, today is January of Year 89 by the Spark Calendar.

For me it is mostly due to a tremendous lack of free time. With all due respect, I much prefer the sci-fi alien species setting to that of SteamNES, which I find to be an overworked concept to begin with.

My own embarrassingly low level of participation is due to a dissatisfaction with the characters I created.

Yeah, right now I'm struggling with the alien race I created*, but I'd feel bad retconning too much due to the nature of NESing in general.

*They're way too human-like (even if I'm far from the worst offender in that category), for one thing.

 

[das]

Re: planning stuff. It's mostly in the brain too in my case, but I do keep a special notebook for ideas and schemes and charts and whatnot, so I'd have something to do during lectures.

 

[North King]

Re: planning stuff. It's mostly in the brain too in my case, but I do keep a special notebook for ideas and schemes and charts and whatnot, so I'd have something to do during lectures.

Those usually end up in the margins of my class notebooks... Until I hit on an interesting idea, at which point it usually spills over the margins and onto the main page. Often you can see my (class) notes get shorter and increasingly inattentive until they finally stop altogether and are followed by a series of sketches and analyses for one NES or another.

 

[Kozmos]

I always had a small special notebook for observations and ideas in my jacket's pocket. Indeed, best ideas come during class or a night out. Disturbed the hell out of my exes when I started maniacally scribbling and cackling to myself.

 

[Dachs]

I kind of wish I were involved in a NES so I'd have something to doodle instead of running conversations with the people next to me.

 

[Adrogans]

Then make one.

 

[Kal'thzar]

As a general query. I asked Dis if I could get access to the rule set for Sysnes, so he's given it a rework.

Who's interested?

 

[Abaddon]

I'd prefere you to update your other nes

 

[Kal'thzar]

I'd prefere you to update your other nes

I know you do.

I did come away from the neses I have done with ideas on how to change the rules. Dis's rule set is quite a mature one, its also well thought out. So there are only a few thing I need to look at in more detail (or I so I hope!)

 

[Kentharu]

You know I'm down Kal.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

I've determined that I'll continue on with GalaxyNES... hopefully some people with free time in the holidays will help in the participation dep't.