CURRENT TOPIC OF DISCUSSION: Basic tenants of Plasmaman society
General Plasmaman discussion should go here. I'll be making a new thread that we can sticky/transfer to the wiki with information that is 'finalized'.
Yeah about half of those example names are actually pretty grammatically nightmarish, in regards to the latin ones. I don't mean to get tangental or derail, but aren't Diona names adjective-noun, two words?DemonFiren wrote:So it's either Bay-style Diona naming, or Mass Effect-style turian.
Sounds acceptable to me, although I'll probably cringe at the abundance of incorrect Latin (due to Latin possessing six-and-a-half cases and genus, that is, grammatical gender, as opposed to English, which barely has any grammar left.)
kieth4 wrote: infrequently shitting yourself is fine imo
There is a lot of very bizarre nonsense being talked on this forum. I shall now remain silent and logoff until my points are vindicated.
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Verbs-the-adjective-noun sounds lame and unoriginal. I'd much rather have the longer ones I suggested if we're going with a theme anywhere near that, like Red Cloud Grinning SkullNot-Dorsidarf wrote:Give them lizard-style names but with a 4-word allowance.
No. Not-oxygen breather, sure, but lore-wise they should have nothing similar to Vox.Lumbermancer wrote:Ayy lmao. Is it Vox Raider? Holy shit I feel a warm feeling in belly because I predicted it happening like half a year ago.
Put policy discussion elsewhere, this is about lore stuff. They're an admin race for the time being either way.TechnoAlchemist wrote:Latin name fun times are good but shouldn't be enforced.
I was actually JUST thinking about this. I think it's up to us to decide that - How do they even reproduce? I'm also 100% willing to say ITS A CLOSELY GUARDED PLASMAMAN SECRET AND NOBODY KNOOOOWS.TechnoAlchemist wrote:I know code wise they are gendered but do plasma men have concepts of gender and sexuality?
Boris wrote:Sticky is a jackass who has worms where his brain should be, but he also gets exactly what SS13 should be
FIRE HOLOCAUST AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.Stickymayhem wrote:My headcanon go: Latin names, honourable military race, very punctual
'Plasmamen' is a colloquial term coined by Nanotrasen employees. They'll probably have a name in their own language.TechnoAlchemist wrote:Plasma men is just what humans call them right? Are they going to have an actual race name like lizard people do?
Boris wrote:Sticky is a jackass who has worms where his brain should be, but he also gets exactly what SS13 should be
It makes sense that the plasmamen on SS13 would be academic types. SS13 is a plasma research station, what better way to study plasma based life forms than to employ them? Well, a lot of ways really, but this is the same company that puts clowns and mimes on its "cutting edge" research stations so ya.Stickymayhem wrote:I'm cool with whatever, any of these ideas are interesting.
We should totally keep at least a tiny bit of consistency to avoid a round of military fascists and a round of academics confusing everyone as to how to deal with them appropriately.
Having done an event with the military thing, I think scientist makes more sense. They already have the advanced suits and they are pretty vulnerable in general.
As for weapons there are plenty of incendiary bombs and guns. I went for advanced plasma cutters for utility/self-defence and full on fire everything for proper combat.
Well, mannerisms are a byproduct of culture and culture is fairly heavily influenced by the motives/behavior of it's adherents. A strong military culture may be very different from a strong sciencey culture. While obviously there is something of everything in the broader culture as a whole I think it's perfectly acceptable to make them slightly thematic - It's a lot more interesting, in my eyes, to have them with a distinct background to draw from as opposed to "oh anything goes"Shaps wrote:-snip-
I was ready to acknowledge this coming in, but I guess now would be a good time to revisit and expand upon that. I like lore - I enjoy reading it, I enjoy writing it, and I enjoy shaping the characters I play around it. Conversely, however, I don't think it should be forced upon people. Individuals can and should feel free to write their own adaptations and alterations because at the end of the day, we're light-RP at best and mostly freeform. Hell, some of the most enjoyable RP I've had was with completely serious characters and then time-travelling space Hitler.DemonFiren wrote:I propose that those who like background and complex lore go ahead and write, but do not expect anyone else to buy into it.
Because "dood who happens to be plasma now" isn't as interesting as a whole new race.Steelpoint wrote:However after some further looking into this, why exactly do we want to call these "aliens"? Just label them as some sort of NT experiment gone haywire and call it.
Boris wrote:Sticky is a jackass who has worms where his brain should be, but he also gets exactly what SS13 should be
yfw wiki subject to changeallura wrote:2late, i made a wiki entry for plasmamen using /vg/'s lore for them
i'll change it backScones wrote:yfw wiki subject to changeallura wrote:2late, i made a wiki entry for plasmamen using /vg/'s lore for them
You're entitled to that opinion but trying to comandeer something other people are interested in doing and saying "lol i troll u" is pretty shit.allura wrote:because porting another codebase's feature (one that they specifically wanted to be exclusive to their server) and then giving it our own retarded lore when /vg/'s is very cool is retarded and rude
lol i troll uScones wrote:You're entitled to that opinion but trying to comandeer something other people are interested in doing and saying "lol i troll u" is pretty shit.allura wrote:because porting another codebase's feature (one that they specifically wanted to be exclusive to their server) and then giving it our own retarded lore when /vg/'s is very cool is retarded and rude
we already use a sprite different than /vg/'s. and no, ripping a feature then changing it and calling it YOUR OWN ORIGINAL CHARACTER is bad.Lovecraft wrote:Well I certainly didn't know they wanted it to be exclusive, but wouldn't that mean moving it in a direction as far away from the source as possible would be better than having a literal rip?
Who knows? Down the line the sprite work could change.
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