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General Chat / My First Rant: A Gamer/Brony story here.

« on: December 11, 2012, 01:10:20 PM »

For those not in the know and outside of the few people I could trust with this info I am leaving the forums. I have been planning this for about 2 years but I wanted to finis hosting the 2 Mafia games I had planned from back then.So this has been a long time coming for me and I have been very emotional writing out this post.

My reasons for leaving are many and mainly have to do with the forums. There is also a few other members who have left from here and I share the same issues and concerns.So lets get to the first.

Bullying is a major one and at times I have seen people on the forums go and rail on a person just because they were posting a certain way here. Tendoboy's posts are a good example of people who did this. I personally think he was just trying to bring up conversation on the forum with his posts. Also there were people who were bullied at times in the past who became the bullies to fit in with the in crowd so they themselves would not get bullied. It can become an endless cycle.

This next one is one of the reasons I left the forum for a month during E3 this year. It just happened each year at E3 and also happened all through out the year from many people and it just got to much and that is Entitlement. This has more to do with being patient with Nintendo but also have to do with your fellow gamers. Nintendo sometimes can't release some info right away because their competitors will steal it. As for our fellow gamers it is usually a good idea to embrace all gamers no matter who they are because once we do that games will be ore accepted then they already are by everyone and not just something gamers keep to themselves while clawing at anyone else that doesn't fit in with the gamers mold whatever that is.

One of the most important things when keeping a good forum is to know how much moderation on the forums is enough and this forum has tons of topics that breaks the rules on the forums. There is a certain amount of tact needed to run a forum as a mod while enforcing the rules while keeping the members happy. I find the mods here are not very good here at doing this. I am a mod at 2 and I guess it comes down to the people there. Mods on the forum here can be condescending at times of the forum members.

This goes with the condescending as well. This isn't a good place to be a fan of Nintendo anymore. You have to temper your posts with qualifiers. In other words you can not be a overly positive Nintendo fan you have to put in some small negative that Nintendo has done and this also goes for Sony and Microsoft. You are singled out and put in SUPERs Fanboy euthanization station topic. I kinda joked in one of the topics here that I hoped that this place doesn't become a hive mind but in a way it has. It has become a place for negativity more then anything little by little until there is hardly any positivity left on the forums.People will be tired of it and then leave like I am and then it will be more pessimistic then anything else.

Final issue/concern I have and then I will get to how I would fix this and then positive stuff.You are a trooper for reading this far.

Final issue is that the site is having like many other big sites is that it is starting to have misleading titles for the talkback threads and or blog posts that have a headline that just is there for clicks and or to cause the reader to get emotional upset and post a comment and keep the discussion going. I know I have seen in the past there have been articles like this in the archive but when I went to go back to look for but they were gone from the site. There was a Rick Powers one that was pretty off base and got lots of comments but I can't find it anywhere on the site. Few others come to mind but that was the most forefront in my mind at this time.
I know some people get their jollys posting in these type of topics to feel like the thoughts are justified but if you need to find a better way of getting hits then posting these type of pieces or click bait.

I would personally do three things that will solve most of these things.

One get rid of the Karma system or modify it so that is just positive points.Maybe have it so that you can plus a post kinda like how it works in Miiverse.  It indirectly causes division and is a passive aggressive way of dealing with people how it is set up currently. Also if the mods come back with that it is dumb for people to complain and the mods and admins came up with it then isn't it just place back on the mods. Just saying that that that it could use some work or be done with altogether.

Get better mods that can enforce the rules of the forums and can stay on the forums most of the time. I'd like to stay to mod but I can't for obvious reasons. 1. I am leaving as per this post. 2. I am a mod on two forums. 3. I have many other things I need to take care of in real life.

Finally if you have read that then congrats you are halfway through. The above is for the mods and admins the rest below is for everyone else.

I will say my most fun time I had here was when I was playing with people on the forums and actually talking about games and what they were doing in real life. In games like Animal Crossing: City Folk, Tri,SSBB, and Mario Kart Wii. I liked just chatting with people in Animal Crossing:City Folk and the generosity as far as sharing my time and items and helping out people and any stories from real life we had. For Tri it was just the loyalty and kindness to all I played with and that I stuck with them and worked with them in the game. Super Smash Brothers Brawl I can honestly say that that it made me a better gamer skillwise because I didn't really care much for competition type stuff but I worked at the game and for the most part I do pretty good at it and many other games since. As for Mario Kart Wii it made me enjoy gaming again and it brought the community aspect to games again.

The Brony part of this story actually started for me on this forum and it wasn't because of that topic that I like to post in a lot these days but from someone from these very forums and he faved a video back in I want to say February 2011 or at least that's when the episode came out for Sonic Rainboom. I didn't really click on the video at the time but I just saw the thumbnail and I thought hmm this person on the NWR forums faved this well that's interesting. I put it out of my head for a while but then I heard about the show through other outlets that I watched like a Monster Hunter podcast and it was near the end of the cast but didn't get it.

After a while at the start of August 2011 the word meme pops in my head for some reason so I look it up and I find the Know your meme channel on YT. So I was interested in memes so I did a marathon and pretty much watched all the videos that night and the newest video they had uploaded was about the show. After I finish watching the videos I go check out Ponychan and Equestria Daily and check out if there was any games and there was one that intersted me and it was a mix of Zelda and MLP and it was being made. I look up the name of the game and then I find this 300 page topic about the show and I lurk through the topic while watching each episode and then watching any fan content that was in the topic till I was caught up after about 2 weeks season 2 was about to start and I have been more happy since. It took many months from when I got into the show from August 2011 to December 2011 to come back on here and post about it because I wasn't to sure how anyone was going to respond to it. Part of the reason I decided to become a Brony was because a I have a niece so we can bond together with it, there was just to much negativity on here and this was just another way of me injecting positivity on here, the other is that it is a darn good show and everyone should at least give it a chance. It has relatable stories anyone can relate to.One of the newer episodes called Too Many Pinkie Pies is pretty much me nowadays to many things I want to do but not enough of me to go around. Also the characters are people that you probably would know in real life if they were actual people.


If for some reason after that wall of text you want to get in touch with me well I am on twitter under two accounts. @NintempleMaxi and @Knuckleshy the former is my personal one and the latter is my brony account so you can talk to me based on who you are.

I will end with this.

Sit back and smile.
Not worth the fight.
So just remember that it's all alright.
Though it seems dark
On this cold black night.
The sun has set, lets bring it back to life.

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia LVII Radio Free Mafia End game thread and MVP voting thread

« on: December 11, 2012, 01:54:19 AM »

This game is my first time cohosting a Mafia game and it felt like I was hosting it by myself for a number of factors. My cohost was sick he told me so I have had to put in more work then I had planned on doing so that is kinda why you have seen me in the threads more then I would have been otherwise. Also this game there was coordination problems with my cohost. I thought we had our plans on what we needed to do for the game planned out before hand but I guess when the Insanolord got sick I had to handle more of the workload then usual.

 So I had to answer players questions when Insanolord would be. I really only planned on doing the night actions and Insanolord was going to do all the threads an answer the questions and would ask me if anything stumped him. I was just there to be a guide for him in his first game.

Anyway first day. Khushrenada comes up with a brilliant use for a role which I really didn't think off at the time. Insanolord came up with the Stogi role.Which was a late addition. Stogi the person with the role messes up the plans and locks the thread down and many votes come in and I am tired and I see it and then lock it down. Fun start to the day. I get Insanolord on and explain what happened and how he needs to try to be more active during the day he tells me he has been sick.

Ohhboy found SUPER the killer on his first search so it really wasn't random vote throwing.He just didn't have the backing of everyone else yet to vote him out yet.

Now that the early lock threader was gone and essentially a normal townie the days went back to normal timewise which was good for my sanity and everyone elses. Day 2 was interesting because this day is the day that you can point to and say that the Mafia played well and didn't. They did the vote for each other thing and also had pretty good participation that day but that was about it. If you were looking on the outside in you could see something was amiss though with the votes this day.

Got a hit from Crimm during the night and the only thing I got from him personally before he died for thatguy. Silenced knew he was going to die the night he did and asked if he could protect himself and I told him he could not because normally the protector role normally didn't work that way. You with a townie role had to keep yourself somewhat hidden or else you put yourself in danger and your role.

SUPER strikes against Crimm and that I think was the first major tipping point for the Mafia offing SUPER. SUPER originally had a target of Oohhboy this night but updated it. He could of killed either of the heads of the teams on the 5th.

After Crimm died Mop it up was suppose to be the Godmother but they changed it it Shyguy because everyone thought you were a townie. It worked out well most of the day till the killer caught on and killed you and died himself in the crossfire. This double kill I think is what cost the Mafia the game. Probably was not wise on our part to let it go through but sometimes we make mistakes too.

The patch if you can call it that was put in place to see if we could stretch out the game a few more days because at this point Mop it up wasn't searched yet and so the townies had to figure out if there was a traitor amongest them or not. I am not sure if the Mafia had any inside track on any alliances the townies had or were in any of them but this may of helped them. Plus the Mafia could kinda hang back a little and send in hits while the townies fight. It was a stretch but the Mafia could have won but it would have taken 4 more days when I put in the rule if both were active. Stratos just wasn't because of work.

Rest of the game went as I thought it would. Mop it up going out first and then Stratos dieing of inactivity.Stratos if he had voted well he would have had a chance do his hit but oohhboy swooped in and broke up the tie before the minutes could go any further and he could save himself. If he did vote he would of had a chance to live 3 more days without voting but I kinda think that it may have lasted only 2 at the most. Maybe Stratos best chance of winning was hitting oohhboy since  oohhboy was searching Stratos tonight and then after that go after Fatty the Hutt because of his Vote changer role then Nickmitch. Then go after a townie or Stogi and hoping for a mess up by the townies or just using his power to lock down to voting and come at the end and vote out Stogi or one of the townies to win. This is all based on if the townies killed each other the previous nights and Stratos was active with his hits each night.



For the Mafia side I kinda wanted all the roles to work as a team  and as a great counter to most of the roles that the townies had in that they pretty much could control the day threads and lock down the votes of the townies but half the team was inactive and that isn't their fault. Can you guys imagine a bomber role in this game? It would make people be even more careful and it would make people play with their wits then just going head on into the game.

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia LVII Radio Free Mafia End game thread and MVP voting thread

« on: December 11, 2012, 01:53:19 AM »

I believe there will not be any prizes this game unless Insanolord has something planned but this is is how the MVP voting goes when I host the games. In the thread  say who on which side was the MVP for each side. If it was the Townie side or the Mafia side.

I personally think these two are it from my perspective. Townie Stogi and Mop it up  for the Mafia but that's just me.

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia LVII Radio Free Mafia End game thread and MVP voting thread

« on: December 11, 2012, 01:52:50 AM »

Shaymin was voted out of the last night and he was a townie
Stratos did not vote in 3 days in a row and died of inactivity. He was James Jones the last Godfather so that is it.

Townies win with these players alive. Nickmitch the Role Hoarder, Oohhboy the Investigator, Stogi the Thread locker, Fatty the Hutt the Vote Changer, and Mr. Phishfood,Oblivion and lolmonade the normal townies.

 

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NWR Mafia Games / Mafia LVII Radio Free Mafia End game thread and MVP voting thread

« on: December 11, 2012, 01:52:12 AM »

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia LVII Radio Free Mafia Day 6

« on: December 10, 2012, 09:26:07 PM »

Well Shaymin is out via vote out and Stratos is out via inactivity.

One of us will have the new thread up by Midnight PST.

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia LVII Radio Free Mafia Day 6

« on: December 10, 2012, 09:02:26 PM »

Tallying votes...

With a grand total of two votes
 One being for Stratos
and the other Shaymin there is a tie.

Unlocking this for another 30 mins and seeing if Stratos wants to come in and vote to save himself from death. If not well he is dead. If it is still tied then both are dead. First vote breaks the tie and is out of the game.

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General Gaming / Re: How can handhelds adapt to compete with mobile devices?

« on: December 10, 2012, 02:39:40 PM »

I am off the opinion that handhelds are not really in that much trouble from smartphones and tablets but for the sake of the topic I will say this.

I think that smart phones can do a lot of things well and that is its niche and handhelds can focus more on games as its focus with a little bit extras on the side. They are yin and yang of each other if you think about it they compliment each other.

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James' Whack-A-Mole Funhouse / Re: Here there be ponies

« on: December 10, 2012, 12:03:27 PM »

Yeah there was some questions left unanswered in the episode but it was nice to see Rainbow Dash bonding with Scootaloo.I thought this episode was a mix of Sisterhooves Social, Sonic Rainboom and a little Lunar Eclipsed in one.  Yeah with Luna if you think about some of the past episodes it explains where she was during the Royal wedding episode. I mean She does have to sleep herself during the day to help out during the night of all the citizens of Equestria. Only real exception was the season 3 opener.

 I will say that this episode is probably my fave now of the season which is a pretty impressive thing considering what has aired in previous episodes. Too Many Pinkie Pies, Magic Dual and The Crystal Empire and this it is pretty solid so far.

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia LVIII Land of the deleted posters dead thread.

« on: December 10, 2012, 09:16:22 AM »

Nice job stevey. Lets see what happens with the day today.Can the Mafia come back?

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James' Whack-A-Mole Funhouse / Re: Here there be ponies

« on: December 10, 2012, 08:40:29 AM »

November Top 10 came out and they were pretty good.

and

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia LVII Radio Free Mafia Day 6

« on: December 09, 2012, 10:09:36 PM »

Stevey was voted out and he was a normal townie
Mop it up was voted out and she was Guillaume Veilette, a Member of the RFN Mafia.


These people need to vote or they are out of the game.

Stratos

Day will end at Midnight p.m. Eastern on Monday the 10th

Night action period will be open for one hour or you can send them while the thread is up.

If there is a tie then the thread will stay open till for 30 mins. If it is still tied then everyone tied will be killed.

You must vote once every 3 days or else you will be gone from the game.

Send your actions to both I and Insanolord so we can double check.

GO!

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NWR Mafia Games / Mafia LVII Radio Free Mafia Day 6

« on: December 09, 2012, 10:09:17 PM »

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia LVIII: Radio Free Mafia Day 5

« on: December 09, 2012, 09:00:29 PM »

Thread locked and tallying votes.

While it may not look it in the thread we have a tie in the thread. 3-3 between stevey and Mop it up. So the thread will be unlocked for 30 more mins and the first vote that is changed will be the deciding vote and if after the 30 mins is up no vote has been made then both die.

Okay I will be putting up the next day shortly both Mop it up and stevey die in the vote how will it turn up?

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia LVIII: Radio Free Mafia Day 5

« on: December 09, 2012, 04:48:54 PM »

Just a small heads up for everyone Insanolord told me earlier today that he may not be back in time to lock the thread so I will most likely locking it for him later tonight and also make sure if you haven't already done so send in your actions to both of us but mainly me because I will be checking night actions if Insanolord isn't around but send it to both of us! That is all.

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James' Whack-A-Mole Funhouse / Re: Here there be ponies

« on: December 08, 2012, 11:45:57 AM »

Yeah there was lots of call back from MA Larsons episodes in this episode which was pretty cool. I also liked the opening before the theme song. Apparently it was a Gremlins reference with the old shop keeper. I also like the part with Zecora and her pretty much being Yoda from Return of the Jedi.

Also I didn't really have an high opinion on Trixie before this episode but this episode did change it for me.

The Beginning was amusing.

Yeah I did like the beginning and the rest of the episode.


Well just finished watching the new episode a few times and it was a Scootaloo episode and it has been a long time coming.


Few things I noticed off the bat.

It was written by someone who hasn't written any episodes in the series. Her name was Corey Powell. I liked how they had all the CMC and sisters back in the episode as well. I did like Scoots portrail through the episode and how she grew through it. I also liked how we found out more about other characters in the series and what they did when they were not doing what they normally do.

I did like all the small callbacks in this episode that they have. Chronological from the start of season 1 to now here is the ones I saw.

The trees from Season 1 episode 2 where the first song comes in, Season 1 episode 16 where Rainbow Dash saves Rarity was mentioned around the campfire by Scootaloo, Rarity's Fainting couch and it is on wheels comes back from Lesson Zero and she is being pushed by sweetie Belle at a point,  Also Harry the bear which was first mentioned by Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy in Season 1 episode 25 and later came back in Lesson Zero and in Season 3 episode 3 Too Many Pinkie Pies. Also Luna came back and she has more of an appearance from her Season 3 episode 1 and 2 then her Season 2 episode 4 appearance in that she is more calm.

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia LVIII: Radio Free Mafia Day 5

« on: December 07, 2012, 05:39:59 PM »

Its been sorted out for several hours.

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia LVIII Land of the deleted posters dead thread.

« on: December 07, 2012, 02:53:34 PM »

You got some right but not others.

At the start of the game Johny Metts can use the hit power,show up as a townie and be the First GF. Once he is dead his hit power transfers to the next person whoever the Mafia decides is the new GF and they will show up as their normal role the exception is Guillaume who will show up as the role they chose. The rest of their powers stay with them and the hit power but they can't show up as a townie like Jonny can.

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James' Whack-A-Mole Funhouse / Re: Here there be ponies

« on: December 07, 2012, 02:47:51 PM »

Yeah there was lots of call back from MA Larsons episodes in this episode which was pretty cool. I also liked the opening before the theme song. Apparently it was a Gremlins reference with the old shop keeper. I also like the part with Zecora and her pretty much being Yoda from Return of the Jedi.

Also I didn't really have an high opinion on Trixie before this episode but this episode did change it for me.

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia LVIII Land of the deleted posters dead thread.

« on: December 07, 2012, 02:31:31 PM »

Just the hit ability moves and the person that it goes to also keeps their main power.

If it went to you Ceric and you were searched you would have come back as Neal. Only people that had a certain immunity from searches was Jonny and Guillaume.

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia LVIII: Radio Free Mafia Day 5

« on: December 07, 2012, 01:55:02 PM »

Okay I am not hearing back from anyone so I am making an judgement call.

Here is what we are changing with the game to make it more balanced for both sides.

The GF when voted out will not get a hit. This is the same as before but the change will come from one of the Mafia's roles in the game. The Mafia Pretender role. Here is what it will be now. When the investigator searches the pretender the pretender will tell me what role they want me to tell them to come back as to the Investigator and I will tell the Investigator that info.

Sorry about the hold up on the game guys. Get to playing!

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James' Whack-A-Mole Funhouse / Re: Here there be ponies

« on: December 07, 2012, 01:46:56 PM »

Speaking of PaleoSteno he did a video review of the Trixie episode and its pretty good. He does shorter reviews that get to the point and are about 5 mins long roughly.

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia LVIII Land of the deleted posters dead thread.

« on: December 07, 2012, 12:35:56 PM »

Thatguy nailed it and we didn't double check things. So we are trying to make amends in a way for that "mistake" based on what side you are on by changing some small things in the game that will make it more balanced on both sides for the rest of the game.

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia LVIII: Radio Free Mafia Day 5

« on: December 07, 2012, 10:32:15 AM »

We have a good idea on what we are going to do with what happened and I think it will make the game fun and balanced again for both sides.Just waiting on a few things.

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia LVIII: Radio Free Mafia Day 5

« on: December 07, 2012, 08:52:29 AM »

I still need to talk to Insanolord but at the moment we can't bring back SUPER into the game because his role is exposed. Something similar happened in a past game and people were not happy when I brought the role back as someone else in the game. However I think I can come up with a solution that will be good for both sides I just need to get my co host to chat about it.