Come Back With A Warrant

he has a cheat client on so he can have infinite money and 100% every check

because of this, he only wears the most serious cop clothes he can find

he was immediately assigned sorry cop, which he turned down

when i found him he was in the middle of accepting the moralist vision quest

he keeps telling me he wants to be a "respectable moralist authority." he does not know what moralist means.

he likes kim and thinks he's a great example of a respectable moralist authority

he thinks harry's backstory and previous case record is appalling and wants to be as reassuringly Normal & Good as he can to everyone

he changed out of the starter outfit as soon as possible and avoided superstar dialogue options like the plague because he doesn't want to look "disco"

he used every option to get to the docks.

all of them. he snuck over the roof and grabbed the coat, beat up measurehead, and then internalized the racism thought anyway for the love of the game??

when i asked him about this he said it seemed useful to manipulate people later

his signature skill is encyclopedia, which he regrets because it won't shut up

his build has a 1 in psyche, ostensibly

he was able to name every tool except the tare bag, which he has never used as he has infinite money

he found the mega rich light bending guy but has not yet spoken to evrart claire

he is mortified that he has not yet found his badge and gun and asked me to make absolutely sure it would be possible for him to do so

If you read the link the company does of course say they’re replacing the existing forums with new ones, and I’m sure no one would say the old ones didn’t perhaps need a lil bit of a glow up, some tech debt fixing… but there’s a few key notes in there:

They are NOT carrying over any history, data messages etc. from the old forums

They are NOT archiving, retaining or in any way saving the existing forums in any way

They have NOT provided any reasoning past ‘as part of continued efforts to support developers’

As an offhand, moderate read, this sounds to me like a desire for some change in the forums but deciding nuking everything is less expensive than rebuilding and carrying over info.

If I’m cynical, and likely realistic? Probably to increase sales of their latest GameMaker software by making it inherently more difficult for someone getting the older software for cheap pushing it to its limits. The amount of institutional knowledge on those forums is absurd.

And even if it is a benign reason, it’s still terrible because what do you mean you’re doing this with no recourse or potential for change? You sell software that runs on community goodwill? In an era where people are pulling away to open source software?? Crazy.

There are yeeeaaars of answers, plugins, suggestion, community built up on those forums - I’ve used the em to learn and grow my own skillet!!! And soon it won’t exist.

At the very least, they gave a ‘heads up’ - the deletion occurs mid December, so archiving by the community is possible from now. It’s just absurd that it needs to happen in the first place.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260000000000*/https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/

https://rpgmakerchat.com/

https://github.com/imraf/rpgmakerweb-archive/

friend whos always available: i can do whenever

friend whos constantly busy: im sorry i have work and then school and then the labyrinth and then more work :( i can do tuesday at 3:00 am for five minutes tho

friend with the randomly generated sleep schedule: (no response)

friend who went missing in the woods behind their house 12 years ago and hasn't been heard from since: (no response)

>recognize it as part of my divine punishment

the under tale.