/tg/Station 13

What compels you to return to this place routinely?

What is it about TG's community that makes you lurk and post here, and maybe even play sometimes?

Momentum, or inertia. I forget which.

I haven't banned everybody at least once yet.

the people are alright, even if they're shit at times
it's like we're a dysfunctional family, we go through rough times and with fair frequency, but we're still a family, and at the day all that matters is that we're able to get together, sit down, and play a nice fun game of spacemen
i love you guys
no homo
okay maybe a little bit homo

Unlike some longtimers i actually still play the game regularly, but i doubt i would leave even if i stopped. Cool people here with similar interests, and sometimes we do fun stuff and play vidya together

I always wanted to make the vidya and this is as far as I got before realizing how over-saturated the market is. In any case coding and watching players enjoy/bitch about my efforts is a unique feeling that I'm not looking to part with anytime soon.

Shitposting here is more fun and interactive than on Bay.
The community is less of a circlejerk, and almost compels me to occasionally be serious and constructive.

Also, I have no life or alternatives.

Occasional indescribably fun rounds.

I keep coming back, like a fucking addict.

I've nothing better to do, and I like my characters. Some other people actually like SS13, and I'd like to give them a fun time before they realise just how bad it is.

I get turned on by the 'BWOINK" sound.

I like messing with daman and desucake. They're fun to meme with.

I barely even do gameplay anymore tbh fam.

spessmen has consistently proven to be either the most fun i've ever had in vidya or the most hair-tearingly frustrating. i like the community and its just a fun place to be.

our mutual hatred for clowns

Novel gameplay.

Which is why rounds that don't inspire anything new are horrendous to me and why I have a major preference for team antags. Almost every team behaves in a unique and interesting way and they're invariably fun to watch or participate in or against. On the other hand the average traitor round has like a 1% chance of producing an active and novel traitor plan that doesn't get them dunked in 5 minutes or less.

It's a singularity of shit

We're all shit, and are drawn into it, never to escape

Also it's fun and incredibly replayable

I've wanted to leave this game for a long time, but I'm interested in the whole "open source" thing, and it feels nice to contribute. Even though people whine about my gamemodes and features, the people who tell me I did a good job is enough to make me want to come back. I'm also restricted by the fact that I almost always have ongoing projects. If I had no open pull requests on GitHub at many times, I would have up and left without a word.

I'm a dev now, so i'm kinda stuck.

Rp

Programming is fun

I like you guys and I can't understand or explain why. I just do.


I just do.

The lack of direction in my life.

Xhuis wrote:I've wanted to leave this game for a long time, but I'm interested in the whole "open source" thing, and it feels nice to contribute. Even though people whine about my gamemodes and features, the people who tell me I did a good job is enough to make me want to come back. I'm also restricted by the fact that I almost always have ongoing projects. If I had no open pull requests on GitHub at many times, I would have up and left without a word.

for what its worth you're one of my favorite coders

PKPenguin321 wrote:

Xhuis wrote:I've wanted to leave this game for a long time, but I'm interested in the whole "open source" thing, and it feels nice to contribute. Even though people whine about my gamemodes and features, the people who tell me I did a good job is enough to make me want to come back. I'm also restricted by the fact that I almost always have ongoing projects. If I had no open pull requests on GitHub at many times, I would have up and left without a word.

for what its worth you're one of my favorite coders

yea I cant wait for that gulag change it looks good besides the lack of a farm and arcade it would work perfectly as a permabrig

I spent too much money on it and now it's a sunk cost fallacy

also erp

I like to create things but I'm not talented or driven enough to actually make art or games so shitty code for SS13 is the best I can do.

Incoming is right that it's a really good feeling to see people having fun with something you made.

Also what Oranges said but time not money

I enjoy the game.
Both playing it, and developing for it.

That and the community, if I didn't like this community some of the people in it would have pushed me out LONG ago.

Inertia. I don't like where the game is going, I don't like where the game has gone from two+ years ago, I've already mastered every facet of the game, and I can reliably kill the entire station regardless of my starting situation, with or without tools such as my favoured water.

That said, there's nothing that scratches the same itch out there, other servers don't have the same interface improvements, and after so many years here I doubt I'd have the heart to migrate elsewhere.

Amelius wrote: I've already mastered every facet of the game, and I can reliably kill the entire station regardless of my starting situation

And yet, you keep getting dunked in any team-oriented rounds, even when you're the leader.

Anyway, I just stick around for a few friends, and I like writing about some of you people. It's a flawed game and the admins are shit, but the game could be said for any iteration of SS13 unfortunately.

literally no lag is the only thing keeping me here.

Septavius wrote:literally no lag is the only thing keeping me here.

I keep forgetting how good we got it with the lag, then I get curious and try somewhere else.

Mapping for a game this complex is really fun and challenging even if there's a million ideas you'll never get to release to the playerbase.

Henchie, why are you still here, doing the same thing? If anything, you haven't changed a pinch.

Because I haven't become an ascended meme yet

Addiction, and I haven't reached the rank of oldmin yet.

Force of habit. It's become familiar to me and I've warmed up to you guys over the years.
I'm just peripherally a part the community now, though. I haven't been involved with the project itself for a while now.

I guess you could say I've already moved on.

I'm new

1g88a wrote:I'm new

Hello New

Anonmare wrote:

1g88a wrote:I'm new

Hello New

Hi Dad

I'm hungry

Nothing

I'll take Sticky's job, then.

Hail the lizardmin.

The fact that liggers are disabled right now.

That and cooking, bombs or otherwise.

That feeling of barely-controlled chaos when playing AI where a dozen different things are happening at the same time and you have to start firing on all synapses to even hope to manage everything. It's amazing stress relief- you don't have TIME to be stressed.

I used to like being here for the RP but more than half the community are cancerous shitlords so I took my leave

I'm pretty new to the game but the reason I picked and stay with tg is because the other servers I looked at either didn't fit what kind of play I was looking for, had greytiding admins, shitty coders, furfags, miserable player base and admins, or a combination of all of them. Don't get me wrong, tg is shit and so are the players, but it's the best shit out there for me.

The Culture of Tg.

Enough said.

Bay has long-ass rounds and no clowns.

I got started here 4 years ago, and at this point I'm well known here and really only here. I don't feel like starting all over elsewhere. Besides, I rather like the people here. They may be abrasive but at least they're honest with their criticism (even if they're quite often objectively wrong).

Also, I can develop for xenos quite comfortably here in a not-retarded environment (looking at you, CM). There's a very active codebase here and I'm able to work directly with some of the coders, so I can actually get things done in exchange for sprites/mapping or whatever.

Basically momentum, it'd take too long to start my little operation elsewhere, so I stay here.

i like to spite all the people

WJohnston wrote:get things done in exchange for sprites/mapping or whatever.

whatever = hot scythe-caressing action?!?!?!