Actually, you can bring your online friends soup. Sort of. I have ordered delivery food online for friends 1.5k miles away.

I may have mentioned this before, but in the interests of realism, at least 30% of found magic items ought to turn out to be sex toys.

Achievement unlocked.

@Jaunt said:

You continue to make assertions without even taking a look around the OR website.

http://optionalrealities.com/partnership-criteria/

Since this is not the part of your website that I (or anyone, so far as I've noticed) is concerned with you changing, it is hardly surprising that when you say you've changed the site based on feedback from here, we don't notice it.

You'd rather just speak on everyone's behalf and try to bully us off your site. Not gonna happen.

I am not Lithium. I have not asked you to leave. I've asked you to conform to certain community standards. I have tried to explain what they are, and why your violations of them are obnoxious. You've refused, essentially stating that there's no rule enforcing those standards, and in spite of being told about them you don't see them as a requirement for being welcomed into this community. Instead, because you're not welcomed, you claim to be bullied.

Allegorical Play:

MSB People: "Ducks. This duck, that duck, I love ducks, that duck over there is diseased, how do you heal a sick duck, fuck that duck."

OR People (wandering in the open door): "Check out our new poultry community!"

MSB People: "Cool, can we have a duck show?"

OR People: "No, we only do chickens."

MSB: "Then call it a chicken community, or include ducks."

OR People: "NO! Yes! Maybe! Next week! Anyway, you shouldn't be bitching, anybody who likes ducks should be totally interested in what we have to say about chickens."

MSB: "Largely, we're not."

OR People: "You're lying! Lots of you are into chickens!"

MSB: "...?"

MSB: "So, ducks. Ducks, ducks, ducks."

OR People: "CHECK OUT OUR POULTRY CLUB."

OR People: "CHECK OUT OUR POULTRY CLUB."

OR People: "CHECK OUT OUR POULTRY CLUB."

MSB: "We heard you the first time. Would you mind not calling your chicken club a poultry club, as it's misleading. Also, would you mind yelling "CHECK OUT OUR CHICKEN CLUB" less often?"

OR People: "I do what I want! You're just bullies! I won't give in to the terrorists!"

I find the irony of this discussion coming up in response to my fearing that bigots will find my gay autistic self unfit to own a pet to be very bitter.

Eugenics is alive. I actually know someone who was force sterilized, and she's young enough that she could still be reproductive today if they hadn't done that.

I was just talking to a non-gamer about MUSHland and mentioned the horrible incident of VASpider as a houseguest doing massive damage to somebody's house and breezing off.

And also mentioned this time I had MUSHers as houseguests. One was on vacation, doing a road-trip tour of the US. They went and picked up the second MUSHer and spirited them away from an abusive relationship, took them along on part of the trip. They stayed at motels and other players' houses, and left the one who had needed a ride out where they wanted to go before the other flew home.

It's like that, too.

Eat your heart out.

Faraday. Super helpful, pleasant and easy to understand. Made stuff possible for me. Built code that's what I've been wishing for since 1993 but masses better than I knew to wish for.

Faraday. You're the bee's knees. The cat's meow. YOU ARE DOCTOR WHO'S SHOES.

These fuckwits who claim superior understanding of economics and yet also insist that certain jobs are designed for high school students.

As Into The Garden Elizabeth Ran
by A. E. Housman

As into the garden Elizabeth ran,
Pursued by the just indignation of Ann,
she trod on an object that lay in her road,
She trod on an object that looked like a toad.

It looked like a toad, and it looked so because
A toad was the actual object it was;
And after supporting Elizabeth's tread
It looked like a toad that was visibly dead.

Elizabeth, leaving her footprint behind,
Continued her flight on the wings of the wind,
And Ann in her anger was heard to arrive
At the toad that was not any longer alive.

She was heard to arrive, for the firmament rang
With the sound of a scream and the noise of a bang,
As her breath on the breezes she broadly bestowed
And fainted away on Elizabeth's toad.

Elizabeth, saved by the soul of her boot,
Escaped her insensible sister's pursuit;
And if ever hereafter she irritates Ann,
She will tread on a toad if she possibly can.

Hmmm, sounds fun.

@chibichibi Fulcrum will have mage. I don't know about CoD games.

I still want to do 'The Magicians' with FS3, which would be like Mage (+imagination +gay +jewish -ascension war -pretention whores) or so.

@chibichibi Yep, it's Sheltering Skies runners' latest. So, Metro 4, new setting. I think it's Minneapolis/St. Paul.

I am guessing that it has all the same Shel flaws, though I had a lot of fun there until they announced the closing/reboot and people started bailing on the game or going off the rails.

@chibichibi Liberation and Fulcrum for your oWoD jam.

@chibichibi

Eh, people still MU.

It appears to have become too risky to talk about it, though, with on-MU repercussions and people leaping to claim personal attack.

What are you looking to play?

Businesses or similar who've got the notion that their logo will do in place of a written name. I cannot Google 'unparsable symbol, a steeply rising curve, slanted and with a couple of little twiddly-doopers on top' and have your organization come up. It's also really hard to pronounce. Further, if I'm looking for, for example 'The Flying J' and see said symbol, there are pretty good odds I'm gonna miss the turn into your place before I realize that's what it's supposed to mean. And that's an easy one, since it actually follows old-timey cattle brand rules.

@faraday I've always found the "we don't allow concept Y because we can't think of a reason such a person would be in our setting" to be, eh, arrogant. As if game-runner being unable to think of a reason for a woman to be at Guadalcanal means that nobody can possibly think of one.

@Nymeria Ehh, I won't stand corrected. It may well be that you have no rule barring characters of colour per se. However, scrutinizing them such that they're nigh impossible to get approved (on a game with a very laborious application process at that) amounts to the same thing.

I doubt lot of people are super keen to play PCs of colour on a game where they are strongly discouraged by a headwiz who's notorious for saying racist things on social media.

@hobos I getcha. I wondered about it myself -- not only is GoT a typical white fantasy setting, the notion of family resemblance, and specifically in terms of hair-colour, is a major plot point. More than once.

I didn't do or say anything about it. Game of Bones had PCs of colour. I even actively encouraged them. But players, all on their own, kept their Lannisters blonde, their Baratheons black-haired, etc. "Not Overtly Forbidden" does not mean "Inevitable".

I did not have problems with PCs of colour having a reason to be in the setting. Because, one, every character needs a reason to be in the specific setting of a game, and players all come up with one. I simply didn't require PoC to have a good and compelling one while white PCs were there for the beer, all characters were allowed to be there for stupid reasons. It's realistic. Also, the Narrow Sea separating Westeros from Essos is narrow. People have been sailing back and forth for somewhere between two and six thousand years. It's just not much of a barrier in the books, so it seems a stretch to be all oh nooooes how could you possibly be there?! on a MU.

@Misadventure Pointless info-dump-esque thing. Ned Stark doesn't understand genetics and it's quite likely that George R. R. Martin doesn't either, but Jon actually works out fine -- some primates on Planetos, Valyrian humans notably, have the equivalent of a "dominant white" mutation. In the real world humans don't have this, but a lot of other creatures do. Horses have lots of different ones. So Rhaegar had one copy of the Valyrian white-hair gene and thus the phenotype. Lyanna Stark didn't have the gene, and Jon happened not to get it from Rhaegar, so Jon's brown or black haired depending on your show/book preferences. Interesting, in real world animals having two copies of a dominant white gene often results in neurological dysfunction. Which would explain why Targaryans are often batshit. Dominant white mutations are also often what coat-colour-genetics people call 'leaky', meaning that whatever colour the creature would be without the white gene covering it shows through -- you want a snowy white chicken, you breed recessive white because dominant white is likely to give you a brassy white or a ticked white. If Valyrian white acts that way with blonde, it would explain how generations of Lannisters could 'carry' it and be 'golden' rather than white blonde.

Probably coincidental, but amusing thoughts to me.

@Ghost Lindaaaaa Antonsson did try to take legal action about being on the 'Tasteless Descs' section of WORA.

I don't think she, or Elio, have actually done anything to shut down other 'A Song of Ice and Fire' MUs, besides say that their having GRRM's explicit permission means that he doesn't want anyone else doing it, and that he cares enough to object.

Lindaaa says racist stuff on twitter and only white characters are allowed on her game. The twitting has been noticed in GRRM fandom and rightly condemned for years.