Idiot Cube

I think this is a good example of why I don't like Extra Credits. Defining "game" doesn't stifle the medium anymore than defining "movie" or "novel" does. The issue is that not everything that's interactive is a "game." And that's not to say that things that don't fall into the definition of "game" are bad. But by Extra Cedits's definition of "interactive experience" all Blu-Rays count, because I can interact with it. I can make everyone stop, go backwards, go really fast, etc. Sure, at no point can I be considered to have lost, but I can interact with it.
 
To me, the only reason we're even having this discussion is because some developers have these experiments they made. Programs they wrote for story telling that don't fit "visual novel" but aren't "games." And the programs may be good in their own right. But the developers are scared that no one will be interested in them, so they try to lump it in with video games, because they already have an established audience.

They took it for realsies this time!!!!!

I can't decide whether you should live or die,
Oh, you'll probably go to Heaven, so don't hang your head and cry.
No wonder why my heart is dead inside: it's cold and hard and petrified!
Lock the door and close the blinds, we're going for a ride!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYzLjdzVyw4

sorry but not really 
 

Homestuck Adventure Game Mystery Girl is so fucking adorable.

wow
very dry
much snark
 
To elaborate in a less going-to-get-flamed manner, each of the Homestuck protagonists is sort of meant to look general and ordinary. John is basically what most people would think of when they hear the words "geeky kid" and Jade is probably the same, but female. Dave and Rose are also meant to be rather "default" with only Dave deviating from the norm much with sunglasses. This is all to contrast them for effect with the incredibly awesome and/or silly items and clothing they wear as the story progresses. John looks much sillier/cooler in that God Tier hoodie when we associate him with just a t-shirt, don't you think?
 
So yes, it really seems like Default Character #4. Probably because that's who she is going to be, numbskull.
 
 
The power of Hussie is beginning to flow through me. Soon, I will replace that penguin in your signature with an incredibly masculine tastefully-naked centaur
 
Soon.

Great video to end the year.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysg0WZ_XmSU

And just to confuse people after putting a random picture in the Instant and Moment thread, I'm making a text post with no pictures in this one!
 
I AM SUCH AN ANARCHIST
 
...
 
Alright, fine, here's TF2 birds.
 

Real!Skye
[spoiler2]Name: Real!Skye

Aliases: Jack

Abilities/Powers: Being English, scarf-related topics, stealth, stealth games, things related to stealth, things vaguely associated to stealth, immunity to sugar rushes, incredible luck

Personality: Usually quiet and stoic, tends to keep to himself. The quiet demeanor is not to be confused with nervousness or frailty; he is very self-confident and not afraid to stand out in a crowd. Does his best to be polite, although a low emotional intelligence gives mixed results. May be autistic, but has never bothered to find out because "I'd have to sign paperwork n' shit." When attempting to be more humorous (joking with friends, performing a show or a cast, etc.) he can flip his personality to much louder and energetic. 

Bio: Skye is a white English male adult. Skye holds the record for probably being the most generic person here.

Affiliations: None. Politics are dumb. 

Other: Does not actually wear a scarf that much, but running jokes are the best jokes.[/spoiler2]
Nuzlocke!Skye
[spoiler2]Name: Nuzlocke!Skye

Aliases: Skye Poppyson, That Kid from Pallet Town

Abilities/Powers: Pokemon Training, red eyes, surprising maturity for his young age, familiar with a variety of Kanto Pokemon, can speak with Pokemon

Personality: A mild-mannered boy from Pallet Town who is afflicted with red eyes and a strange condition which causes Pokemon to fade away in battle. Despite the obvious dangers of a journey with this condition, his Pokemon are supporting of him and have placed their confidence in him. He is an adept strategist and a great mediator for his team, although this comes from the confidence others have place din him more than his own (of which he has little, due to his lack of experience.) He seeks to find out what caused his condition.

Bio: A young boy with thick hair, who always wears a red hooded coat (even in the middle of a summer in Kanto.)

Affiliations: Anything that opposes Team Rocket.

Other: Eventually moves to Johto for unknown reasons.[/spoiler2]
BFNY!Skye
[spoiler2]Name: BFNY!Skye

Aliases: Insane!Skye

Abilities/Powers: Too insane to predict, otherworldly powers, unparalleled at sneaking and stabbing, crazy prepared

Personality: The "what if?" story of Battle for New York explored what would happen if Skye started to blur the lines between fantasy and reality - which resulted in him going homicidal and aiming to kill anyone the voices told him to. It's unknown if the voices were merely his fractured imagination, the real voices of fictional beings, or perhaps the hauntings and the plans from another unknown assailant. Skye was successful in misdirecting other New York survivors and nearly succeeded in killing one, but was slain by Idiot Cube's BFNY self (who, ironically, was also going insane due to external voices.)

Bio: A young man with dark hair, always wearing a black hooded coat (with the hood always up) and leather gloves and boots. Runes and talismans are worn on his coat, and a black insignia marked one of his hands.

Affiliations: Unknown; the voices were either his own insanity, or they were real and their source is yet to be known.

Other: BFNY!Skye remains as one of the competent New York survivors, managing to survive for a considerable time, avoiding detection from several others, and managing his own base of operations with crude but effective defences. Nonetheless, as a villain, his downfall was inevitable.[/spoiler2]
More will probably be added later. Maybe. pfth

We will be what we always were.
 
Probably the densest collection of nerds on the internet.
 
<3

What does it take to make an octopus laugh?
 
[spoiler2]Ten Tickles![/spoiler2]
 
What's the last thing that a Tickle-Me-Elmo is given in a factory?
 
[spoiler2]Two test-tickles.[/spoiler2]

Hey guys. It's me. Been a while, huh?
 
I've spent a little time away from you and I realized how shitastic of an idea that was.
 
So, I'm back. Still working on the ol' hacker shenanibang, but eh.
 
New stoof to conversate with me about:
 
- Metal Gear Solid (played 3, currently playing Peace Walker and 1 thanks to Legacy Collection)
 
- XCOM: Enemy Unknown (bro hooked me up with a copy, learning slowly about it)
 
- Vinesauce (Quality stream for quality people, also ARRRRRRPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE)
 
- and other shit that nobody would care about
 
If anything earth shaking recently happened, please divulge!
 
So, after that text wall, I'll see you guys around! Bye!
 
Love,
 
Comeau
 
P.S. Bird Hitler strikes again. Soon. Maybe.

Heyo! Sorry for not posting new stuff in a while, but I've been a bit inactive in the art stuff these months (well, except for some stuff for contests which I will show another time). But anyway, here's a little update with some Breaking Bad fanart:



And new Sketchies:


Hope you like it! :D

Short Son Slinger.

http://chipzelmusic.bandcamp.com/track/focus-3

I'm well aware that I am not the most active or the most involved member of this community, in fact I tend to sit on the sidelines in various off-topic threads and post snide remarks because I'm a wannabe cynic, but this particular subject is something I do have a bit of experience with. I'm an administrator of another community which is very similar to subSPUF's current situation, but it wasn't always like this. Rather it used to be large and public, with new members joining every day and went on to become a more closed and secluded community.
 
The thing about large and open communities is that it will attract a lot of different people, especially if it is advertised. Here's a fact: You will not like some of those people. Ultimately it is what made me very wary about forum-users, because I (initially) administrated the other community with as much friendliness as possible and I had a real sense of duty to make sure problems were resolved, be it technical or emotional problems between users. This essentially spun out of control and ended up having the administrators and moderators act like councillors for everyone and their everyday problems, because here's another fact: The vast majority of the internet population are retarded and can't deal with their own problems, nor can they let a grudge go.
 
Eventually it boiled down to so much stress on the administrators and moderators, that 70% of them quit their "job" and the community within the span of a year. The rest of us started getting jaded, stopped giving a damn about the community and its problems (because we were bombarded with trivial issues on a daily basis). Essentially, the lack of administration caused a shift in the community, that ended with 80% of the active users to become inactive, leaving only a tight-knit core that's still there today... Much like subSPUF is right now, a tight-knit core of ~25 regular posters. This entire thing happened over the course of 2 years.
 
That being said, there were quite a few benefits to a public community with no real recruitment policies (Anyone and anything goes).
 
A: Even if 90% of the people who joined turned out to be clueless, there were several good people, who we would have never gotten into contact with, had our community been secluded. Good people who I still talk to on a daily basis today.
 
B: Our "services" were packed to the brim on a daily basis. Game servers, Mumble servers, forums etc. All of these were packed with people with a wide range of interests, not to mention our forums got several hundred posts per day. We were definitely getting a bang for our buck in terms of servers and advertisement. Today we've cut down and now run only a single game server, a single Mumble server and our forums.
 
C: With a large community comes a large range of options. I'm not going to lie, we were actually making a lot of money in monthly donations (We offered donator perks on our game serves in the form of coloured text and other visual goodies, nothing p2w, along with access to hidden donator boards on our forums). Enough to sustain our servers and even do little things outside of it (Weekly events, where we offered games as prizes). It allowed us to try things out and better the community, make it an interesting and fun thing to be a part of. That's not even touching on the many in-houses we held in various team-games, back when we were enough members to actively and regularly square large teams (TF2 Highlander, for example) off against each other.
 
***
 
I have no strong feelings one way or the other regarding this. I am not as involved with this community, as I am with the other one. I just want to make sure that everyone who voted to keep subSPUF secluded read and understood that SupremeCommander would be moving many of the projects, that currently has a home here, to another place where they can better be advertised and gain attendance/viewership/listeners/whatever.
 
There are merits for a larger community and there are merits for a smaller one. An open subSPUF doesn't necessarily have to go down the drain, like my old community did (To be fair, the MAIN reason for my old community "dying" as it did, was because the head honcho kinda left without a word for the better part of six months).

I like this site because of the fact that it is the way it is now. The SPUFServer and other projects are largely irrelevant to most of the members here. Nobody will feel slighted if the day to day workings of that are moved elsewhere.
 
Allowing anyone and everyone to join basically shatters what this has become, a private forum for a large group of friends or near-friends, where we can talk about whatever we please with a minimum of moderation, and I see no reason to do so.
 
If you and others feel the site needs to grow, then fine, but it should really be done as it has been, people invited specifically by members of the forum (and preferably only ones who have been active at least 6 months or more). Anything else will basically ruin this place.
 
As much as we may poke fun at it nowadays, let us not forget the horror and headache of the Pootis Poster Invasion.

If there needs to be more direct interaction with the public for the sake of the SPUFServer, I think making something else would be more appropriate. SubSPUF is basically a whole other community from SPUF, just sharing a name. Having an influx of new and possibly undesirable users would ruin this place, and I like it this way.

SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T HAVE DISHONORED?!
 




nah but srsly its cool mann
 
eeeeeee someone used my title