Thirsty Dog posted:

It wasn't entertaining, just dismissive and a bit sneering.

Sam Sanskrit posted:

This feels like I stepped on snakes nest of weird mad internet people. I promise this is not worth being angry over and is in fact mostly in your guys head.

Sam Sanskrit posted:

I have always read the runners as mostly heroic weather they are anti-authoritarian slackers or like fun Oceans Eleven thief's with like some grime for texture.

Spector29 posted:

Apex is a runner. Wasn't there a runner that was working for the corps as a white-hat, as well?

Slyphic posted:

That's some real narcissist framing. "it didn't happen, but if it did it wasn't that big of a deal"

Sam Sanskrit posted:

Well in your case when you were mocked and ridiculed was it after you said something with the general vibe of: " I'd throw down money I've spent more time on picket lines than everyone employed at NSG combined." Because sometimes when people are talking you notice them say something so ridiculous that you don't really have have to take them seriously anymore.

Sam Sanskrit posted:

Well in your case when you were mocked and ridiculed was it after you said something with the general vibe of: " I'd throw down money I've spent more time on picket lines than everyone employed at NSG combined." Because sometimes when people are talking you notice them say something so ridiculous that you don't really have have to take them seriously anymore.

Sam Sanskrit posted:

This feels like I stepped on snakes nest of weird mad internet people. I promise this is not worth being angry over and is in fact mostly in your guys head. I don't really think there are that many who are that much worse then like Esa ecoterrorist (which I get is a thing we all kind of like in fictional characters. They are basically Cloud!) except that one dude who is racist against bioroids. I have always read the runners as mostly heroic weather they are anti-authoritarian slackers or like fun Oceans Eleven thief's with like some grime for texture.

Sam Sanskrit posted:

Well in your case when you were mocked and ridiculed was it after you said something with the general vibe of: " I'd throw down money I've spent more time on picket lines than everyone employed at NSG combined." Because sometimes when people are talking you notice them say something so ridiculous that you don't really have have to take them seriously anymore.

Chaotic Flame posted:

Frankfurt30 - 30 (or 42 from an expansion) decks that use the full FFG card pool with no duplicates across decks. Based on themes and apparently balanced with each other so you can essentially make it pick-up-and-play and have all decks constructed at once. You can find all the decklists on netrunnerdb.

Carteret posted:

I had never heard of this before now, and will definitely be tackling this project once all of FFG rotates out of the Nisei card pool.

edit : man i completely forgot about Caissa Reina. I loved playing that era of Anarch.

Vidmaster posted:

Whenever you make a successful run on R&D, trash the top card and replace it with a "Pregnant Sonic Fanart" card.

Slyphic posted:

The last was about the Core Damage change and how that was kind of a major loss of theme, a needless disconnect between FFG and NSG cards, and a solution in search of a problem. The response I got was their canned reply to any and all attempts to talk about it. "Eat poo poo" and a temp ban.

Splicer posted:

Do you mean changing the text from brain damage to core damage? Because that was a good change.

blindidiotgod posted:

I'm kinda bored of Slyphic popping up around each release to tell us how NSG didn't, or keeps, not listening to them, the yomiest, most accurate about the theme of core damage and now the most activist person around.

panko posted:

also that this thread has had 20+ posts in it recently and virtually no discussion of worlds 2023 in barcelona does nothing to disabuse the notion that trad games is primarily populated by overly-vocal casuals, scrubs, and curmudgeons

Destrado posted:

mulchmulchmulch?

fatherboxx posted:

It was silly, just as most of NSG overly corporate sensitivity corrections and makes it look like damage to rig instead of lobotomy from talking to bioroids too much.

Splicer posted:

fatherboxx posted:

Well I guess virus counters are next

Splicer posted:

Using statistics from my own country, approximately 0.2% of the population suffer a temporary or permanent brain injury every year. Or that was the case up until 2019. The latest studies indicate approximately 1 in 20 Irish people are living with long covid, over half of whom experience a meaningful reduction in their capacity for memory, mental arithmetic, mental stamina etc.

Many brain injuries are invisible to those who do not have them, because people with brain injuries compensate if they can. Someone may come out of an event "fine" except for increased fatigue, or colour blindness, or chronic, ongoing, incurable pain. They may suffer no effects other than completely losing the ability to recognise faces. Brains are weird.

Several of my friends have issues from both acquired and congenital brain injuries, including long covid, as well as non-brain disabilities. We enjoy playing board games together and compensating can be as simple as card holders to reduce fatigue, playing games with open information if someone has difficulty with reading, or a notepad to keep track of the math and a gentleman's agreement on backsies due to simple arithmetic errors. And everyone I know with long covid is on a knife edge of not knowing of what, if any, of what they have lost is ever going to come back.

Nobody I've described would enjoy being told "lol get brain damaged idiot" at game night and I'd feel like a prick doing it. Blowing the poo poo out of their rig is, however, funny as hell.

Thirsty Dog posted:

Ultimately if people who have suffered brain trauma find references like this to be upsetting, triggering, or even simply depressing then there's little good reason to not replace them appropriately.

I think the long covid reference is a bit of a leap, as someone who has many of those symptoms via the joys of ADHD I can't say the term brain damage even feels remotely relevant but again, if long covid sufferers do then that's something else entirely

Cheen posted:

This is interesting, as I have a pretty large group of gaming folks and I don't think people have ever brought up the need/desire for adjustments for brain injury/long covid. I wonder if this is an American norms thing or not having given people the space to share that information.

Splicer posted:

The brain damage cards feeling super lovely to someone with recent brain damage isn't a hypothetical, it's from actual conversations I've had with real life friends with recent brain damage. When I found out about the change to core damage and the reprints and passed that on they were very, very happy.

I also have (long term but only recently diagnosed and medicated) ADHD but have always been really good at mental math. Suddenly losing that would devastate me.

Cheen posted:

This is interesting, as I have a pretty large group of gaming folks and I don't think people have ever brought up the need/desire for adjustments for brain injury/long covid. I wonder if this is an American norms thing or not having given people the space to share that information. Is there anything in particular you have done to give people the space to share their struggles or are these people who you know well enough that they've shared these with you in private?

Thirsty Dog posted:

Yes, I was acknowledging that if it bothers people with brain damage it absolutely is a good thing to change. My issue is what they changed it to, but it's a minor thing. I'm glad it was received positively!