Embrace the Suck

[MrJJJ]

B-but i am a sore loser...

[TheMaskedMan2]

I remember this one round on ice colony where a hunter pounced on me and cut off my left arm. I had my marine cry, whimper, and scream about his arm for a while, I also RPed him being traumatized, not exactly sure if I did good with the trauma, but it was fun. Also, good job writing this Saul.

That was me! I was the one that delimbed you! I remember that, since I died shortly after I observed you for quite a bit and it was amazing. Things like that really spice up the round. I was so glad you actually survived.

[Karmac]

Muh autism forts. Don't need RP or Combat if I've got plasteel and a sentry gun.

[NGGJamie]

I have a thing.

Whenever my marine drops into a near-dead enough state (passed out in paincrit at least once, or low on blood) I like to get delirious until cured. I start mumbling old war flashbacks and talking to my character's dead mama. Good for setting the mood.

It's also fun to go into shock for a few seconds after a sudden injury like a severed limb or explosion.

This is one part that I love too, I like to say all kinds of weird stuff to the doctors when I play muhreen to give them a laugh IRL and give them a chance to shoot back something witty. It's fun for everyone involved.

I mostly play Doc/CMO so I largely try to talk to people like a real doctor might. As CMO I like to inject just a slight bit of smartass in there like my character knows he's the smartest person on the ship whether he actually is or not. I once corrected a marine when they called the xenos "aliens" because I asked if they were terrestrial to LV264 and if so, that would make them terrestrial and not aliens.

[TeknoKot]

Desolane being robust.

h-ha AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHH

[spicemoron]

This just sounds like a poor excuse for the server's myriad flaws and leads to stuff like the april 2nd engie nerf or the researcher role being more akin to "sweatshop worker", among other things.

Losing can be fun but often it's just boring (especially if you're at the "wait for the aliens to feel they've evolved enough and crash that plane already" phase of the round) and there's plenty of ways one could preserve "muh perfect imbalance" while making the game more enjoyable for both sides.

[Bigchilly]

Muh autism forts. Don't need RP or Combat if I've got plasteel and a sentry gun.

this

your hippie roleplay talk has soothed my inner core salt levels, thank you.

[Simo94]

I am the SUCC and the SUCC is me

I have embraced it

[EXOTICISME]

If everyone embrace the suck how are we suppose to reach daily salt production quotas?! We need to sell the salts to keep the server going!

[Crab_Spider]

Feweh, did you actually sticky this?

[Diggman88]

Embrace the Suck?

Well. I'll give my opinion.

No.

[Feweh]

Embrace the Suck?

Well. I'll give my opinion.

No.

This isnt a choice, not embracing the suck is a perma ban now.

[Diggman88]

This isnt a choice, not embracing the suck is a perma ban now.

It's ironic that while I refuse to "embrace the Suck", I have never powergamed or exploited the game. I always just play my role, which happens to be a member of the U.S. military. A role with the mandate to defend our territory and defeat anyone who poses a threat to the nation and its people.

P.S. I will continue to salt at my own discretion.

[Feweh]

It's ironic that while I refuse to "embrace the Suck", I have never powergamed or exploited the game. I always just play my role, which happens to be a member of the U.S. military. A role with the mandate to defend our territory and defeat anyone who poses a threat to the nation and its people.

P.S. I will continue to salt at my own discretion.

Salting at your own discretion is now a perma ban offense.

[RedOktober12]

This whole post, so many times. The role of the marine is to create a cool story, and be interesting in the process. As an antagonist, you complicate the life of marines. Play the game to see what happens, and to have your badass marine world be complicated by space monstrosities.

The suck is love. The suck is life. The suck is the reason this game stays entertaining despite playing ostensibly the same story every round.

[TheMusician321]

This post made me cry tears of suck.

This is exactly why I play marine, to have Waffle's story unfold, to see the fun loving shenanigan causing waffle be horrifically scarred by what he sees, assuming he even survives the first drop.

[Eenkogneeto]

On CM I'm not playing to win, I'm playing to have fun, Or at the least get a story out of my death.
Winning is fun, sure, but it's not everything.
Going down with a squad of not enough men on the Rasputin against a horde of 20-30 xenos and surviving to make it back out, That is what got me hooked on CM.
http://cm-ss13.com/viewtopic.p ... 934#p92839

[Dogar]

Obviously it's lame to exploit bugs and design oversights, but as far as not trying to win goes, nah, I aint gonna "Embrace the Suck". Thats the kind of shit that Winston Smith would say right after staggering out of room 101.

Games are about having fun, and speaking personally, I had much more fun that time I killed 3 aliens as a survivor than I did the the innumerable times I got taken out by screeches or hugger combat. In Colonial Marines, victory is uncommon for the average marine, therefore it is novel. Defeat, however, happens constantly, therefore it is predictable and tedious. Victory means you live, and get to keep on playing as a marine, which is fun. Dying means being a boring ghost or playing as a xeno, which isn't as enjoyable for most people.(Yeah yeah there's ERTs *if* you get them)

Yes, its a roleplaying game, and most players are playing the role of a carefully sculpted, all American murder machine who's been ordered to do all they can to defeat the enemy and achieve victory and glory. The OP seems to be implying that doing everything to achieve victory(within the rules) and roleplaying are mutually exclusive, but in my opinion, they're virtually the same thing for a marine.

In short, victory is fun, losing sucks, and OP's rant was nothing but a bunch of unpatriotic, treasonous defeatism. Pretty sure he's a communist. Oorah!

[YungCuz]

Mm i've had a good chuckle or two over the stuff that can happen.
Like the time where a Drone got into medbay and i starting beating it to death with a stunbaton before it cut my arm off.

[LordLoko]

Hey you can't spell success without succ

[SagaSword]

If everyone embrace the suck how are we suppose to reach daily salt production quotas?! We need to sell the salts to keep the server going!

There is ONE guy who has the salt of a million men...

...Noah...

[NoahKirchner]

There is ONE guy who has the salt of a million men...

...Noah...

U fockin wot m8.

[Swagile]

Obviously it's lame to exploit bugs and design oversights, but as far as not trying to win goes, nah, I aint gonna "Embrace the Suck". Thats the kind of shit that Winston Smith would say right after staggering out of room 101.

Games are about having fun, and speaking personally, I had much more fun that time I killed 3 aliens as a survivor than I did the the innumerable times I got taken out by screeches or hugger combat. In Colonial Marines, victory is uncommon for the average marine, therefore it is novel. Defeat, however, happens constantly, therefore it is predictable and tedious. Victory means you live, and get to keep on playing as a marine, which is fun. Dying means being a boring ghost or playing as a xeno, which isn't as enjoyable for most people.(Yeah yeah there's ERTs *if* you get them)

Yes, its a roleplaying game, and most players are playing the role of a carefully sculpted, all American murder machine who's been ordered to do all they can to defeat the enemy and achieve victory and glory. The OP seems to be implying that doing everything to achieve victory(within the rules) and roleplaying are mutually exclusive, but in my opinion, they're virtually the same thing for a marine.

In short, victory is fun, losing sucks, and OP's rant was nothing but a bunch of unpatriotic, treasonous defeatism. Pretty sure he's a communist. Oorah!

This.

Outta here with this BS of "embracing the suck", LOL.

[TheMusician321]

This.

Outta here with this BS of "embracing the suck", LOL.

Well you know what I say, different strokes for different folks.

[YungCuz]

Well if you don't wanna atleast have fun then enjoy being salty cause you can't win a losing battle. (Yes i fucking know marines win sometimes dont rant to me about it.)