• Announcements

    • Robin

      Welcome!   03/05/2016

      Welcome, everyone, to the new 910CMX Community Forums. I'm still working on getting them running, so things may change.  If you're a 910 Comic creator and need your forum recreated, let me know and I'll get on it right away.  I'll do my best to make this new place as fun as the last one!

Drachefly

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Content count

    178

  • Joined

  • Last visited

Posts posted by Drachefly

  2. Posted

    So, revisiting question 1. We need a score for every character for every answer. Here's what I've got so far (characters left blank as I haven't worked them out yet

     

    Q: Star Wars? Star Trek?

    A1 - "Star Trek is cool and fun to watch, but Star Wars is my jam."

    A2 - "Star Wars has it's place, but Star Trek is something very dear to me."

    A3 - "No particular opinion."

    A4 - "What about <insert space anime here>?"

    NAME - A1 score, A2 score, A3, score, A4 score

    ----------------------------------------------

    Ashley  +4, +4, -6, +10 (she would have an opinion, I think)

    Diane +2, -5, +6, -8 (would avoid ST and the question as a whole)

    Ellen +2, 0, +5, -5 (could have picked up some from Nanase?)

    Elliot +1, 0, +6, -10

    Grace +3, +4, +3, -10  (May not know ST, but I think its ethos matches her well)

    Greg

    Justin +10, -5, -4, 0

    Nanase  +3, 0, +2, +5

    Pandora 0, +1, +8, 0 (+1 due to perhaps liking Q?)

    Raven (son)

    Sarah  0, +2,0,0 

    Susan -5, +10, -2, -2

    Tedd

    Tensaided

    Mr. Verres  -4, +8, +1, -3

  3. Posted

    On March 23, 2016 at 4:25 AM, CritterKeeper said:

    Suicide doesn't require courage.  Suicide means leaving everyone else to deal with the aftermath of your actions.  It's chosen by people who just can't deal with their lives any more, whether due to pain, depression, fear, or grinding abuse.  It's a way out, not a way to face and overcome.  It's living that takes courage.

    This is not that kind of suicide. They weren't metaphorically welded into their cockpits, either. They had a (terrible) goal they wanted to achieve, and they did it at the cost of their own lives. If they had ditched their bombs and headed some other way, they would have had a very good chance of making it out. Heck, the third of them had a malfunctioning vest and/or failure of nerve and made it away from within the airport.

    Neither of these objections seems particularly obscure, so I'm puzzled.

  5. Posted

    4 hours ago, ProfessorTomoe said:

    Give me warning points if you want, but I have to say this.

    The attacks in Brussels were carried out by a bunch of cowardly b*st*rds who deserve to rot in whatever afterlife they've gone to.

    That is all.

    I agree with all the names you might call them - thoroughly horrible people - except cowardly. They were suicide attackers, right?

  6. Posted

    Okay, so suppose someone picks Supreme Beauty. How should we adjust the score for, say, Raven (either mom or son), Sarah, or Elliott, or Mr. Verres?

    It seems to me that it would have to be large and negative, but it's hard to say HOW negative. Like, I can't really imagine answering that and ending up in the end as Mr. Verres. But I don't want questions to be knockouts like this answer, because it'll be all too easy to knock everyone out and only be left with unsatisfying fits.

  8. Posted

    Yes, that's why I'm aiming them at distinguishing pairs of people rather than just promoting individuals. The same kind of distinction can also separate other people.

    Hmm. I have a question that isn't particularly aimed at anyone...

    Q: You read a science-fiction book about a inventor, but the inventions don't make sense. How do you react?

    A1: "Silly inventions are the point!" - Kinda neutral. Anyone could take this attitude toward some story. Punting is OK, though, if we have enough.

    A2: "I don't think I'd notice" -Tedd +Elliott +Ellen

    A3: "Eh. I'm used to it." +Susan +Justin -Elliott -Ellen

    A4: "Gaaaah" +Tedd

    Who else?

  12. Posted

    I suppose we could run the numbers for her, but I figured we don't actually know her all that well.

    7 hours ago, ijuin said:

    Star Blazers is a horrible mangling of the Space Battleship Yamato series that it was derived from. They took all of the Japanese-ness out of it (including renaming the Yamato to the Argo) for the sake of making it more "international".

    Sure, but I wanted it to start with 'Star'

  13. Posted

    Q: Star Wars? Star Trek?

    A1 - "Star Trek is cool and fun to watch, but Star Wars is my jam." + Justin +Tensaided?

    A2 - "Star Wars has it's place, but Star Trek is something very dear to me." + Susan +Tensaided?

    A3 - "No particular opinion." + Elliot -Justin -Susan +Grace? +Ellen? -Tensaided +Mr. Verres +Diane +Raven

    A4 - "What about Star Blazers?" + Ashley -Elliot +Nanase +Greg

    Also, we should decide who to include.

    Tier 1 - must include: Tedd, Grace, Sarah, Elliot, Ellen, Nanase, Justin, Susan (Main 8)

    Tier 2 - probably can include: Ashley, Diane, Mr. Verres, Raven, Greg, Tensaided, Mrs. Kitsune.

    Tier 3 - might include: Noah, Charlotte, Sarah's sister, the other large comic book guy who isn't Tensaided. As information comes in, the guys from the card tournament.

  15. Posted

    Once upon a time, there was a personality quiz which identified your best-matching EGS character.

    I think we could do that again. I can program the quiz easily enough - the hard part is the content: questions and scores for each character for each question.

    We can start with the most-main characters and expand.

    - I propose that we look at a pair of characters and propose a question that would distinguish them well. Then, we figure out how other characters would answer (for those we have a definite answer). Narrow the answers down a bit, and then score each answer for each character (if we don't know how the character would answer, score will be near 0; answers they would definitely not make would score negative).

    We then repeat with another pair of characters - preferably two with similar answers so far, or no scores far from 0 - and repeat (toward the end I can guide our choice of characters by doing some statistics to see who looks most similar).

    - Also, we'll need new banners.

    - If it turns out to be reasonable to add lots of people, we can have multiple versions of characters based on which part of their character development you match best. This won't be too bad, since we can mostly reuse scores with a few tweaks. 2016 Nanase is still a lot like 2008 Nanase.

    - But, we will still need to come up with a score for every answer of every question for each character we add, AND the number of questions and answers will need to increase as we add more characters - though, importantly, that increase can be sub-linear, and for more-fun-more-questions sake, we will probably have them sufficiently overspecified that we don't need to add more questions quickly as we add in characters.

    What do you all think?

    HarJIT reacted to this