Eldritch - A World of Darkness MUX

[HelloRaptor]

@Thenomain said:

@HelloRaptor said:

Somehow I feel like switching antivirus is less onerous a task than switching operating systems.

Then you haven't really dealt with McAfee.

(I have no idea if you have or haven't, but it was funny.)

I used to. Now I use third party uninstallers to handle it, because again, fuck McAfee.

[TNP]

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Werewolf and Vampire Slots Mon Jun 22 Sinister

Hello Eldritchites,

So we still have a few vampire and werewolf slots open, for those that want to try their hand at apping in. We'll let you know when we're ready to close the gates again. A few of you have been asking, so figure it's best to just throw that out there.

Happy Immoraling,

Sin

[Thenomain]

So one of the things we have on Eldritch is "Player Experience". This is our nod to people who help the game by running scenes, the award that they get some XP for participating but the extra award is that they get to spend it on any character that they play. It should be a lot easier than watching people transferring XP from PC to PC, and calculating how many, and etc. etc.

So we set up an Alts Registration System. ARS is mostly a way to verify that one alt belongs to another and is entirely optional. In small part it helps staff check alt limits, but it's mostly meant for players to use:

xp/convert, the system that converts Player Experience earned from running scenes to Normal Experience, which is the raw pool each character uses to buy nearly everything.

I can't say it was easier to set up than a way to regulate converting XP from one alt to another, but it's our way. I hope that it gets good use.

[Coin]

Looks like whichever bit of Mechanipus @Chime has Eldritch's wiki on is down, folks. Just FYI, so you know. I'm sure it'll pop back up soon! Same with Reno.

[Chime]

Back up. Sorry for the trouble.

MPM-ITK (the thing that lets me host php inside a mod_php but with different sites owned by different users rather than that horrid common wwwdata heresy) still has some odd glitches now and then. The nightly apache2ctl graceful (for log rotation) apparently got stuck. Fixed now!

[Coin]

@Chime said:

Back up. Sorry for the trouble.

MPM-ITK (the thing that lets me host php inside a mod_php but with different sites owned by different users rather than that horrid common wwwdata heresy) still has some odd glitches now and then. The nightly apache2ctl graceful (for log rotation) apparently got stuck. Fixed now!

All good! Thank you!

[Thenomain]

Current Staffer "Cards Against Humanity" win count:

@Coin: 4
@Eerie: 2
@EmmahSue: 1
@Thenomain: 1

[Coin]

@Thenomain said:

Current Staffer "Cards Against Humanity" win count:

@Coin: 4
@Eerie: 2
@EmmahSue: 1
@Thenomain: 1

Well, @EmmahSue isn't a staffer per se, but ... I feel like she could just log on a staff bit and we'd all be okay with it. Also, you won a game the other day.

[Thenomain]

@Coin

Fixed.

Emmah is not a staffer everywhere she goes in the same way that I'm not a coder on every WoD Mux.

[Coin]

@Thenomain said:

@Coin

Fixed.

Emmah is not a staffer everywhere she goes in the same way that I'm not a coder on every WoD Mux.

Trufax.

[Miss Demeanor]

You know, I have to say I like Eldritch more for the fact that you guys will play CAH. XD

[Thenomain]

@Miss-Demeanor said:

You know, I have to say I like Eldritch more for the fact that you guys will play CAH. XD

So far as a cool-down from Don't Starve Together.

Lumberjacks are kickass.

[Coin]

@Miss-Demeanor said:

You know, I have to say I like Eldritch more for the fact that you guys will play CAH. XD

It's good to know just how horrible the people you're running a game with are.

Also plot ideas.

Yeah. Plot ideas.

Ohshhiiiiiit.

[The Tree of Woe]

"Tenties?" Really?

Too Reach-y.

[Coin]

@The-Tree-of-Woe said:

"Tenties?" Really?

Too Reach-y.

Don't criticize something because you've allowed The Reach's use of Lovecraftiana to sour Lovecraftiana in general for you.

[The Tree of Woe]

@Coin

I'll debate Buffy-style absurdism and how it's actually quite poisonous with you sometime, but not now--I gotta go to my soulless day job.

[Coin]

@The-Tree-of-Woe said:

@Coin

I'll debate Buffy-style absurdism and how it's actually quite poisonous with you sometime, but not now--I gotta go to my soulless day job.

I'll probably agree with you to a certain degree but also contest that it's still great to have absurdism in life. I also built both serious horror and absurdism into the themes of the game.

But to exemplify: I often groan at people when they bring up Cthulhu, because I quickly realize they know him more from his absurdist interpretations as a popular and trendy plushie than anything, and that that sort of mainstream attention takes away from the effect of Lovecraft's horror when people read it after the fact. It makes me grumpy, because I would like for people to also be able to take that sort of theme seriously, but often they don't.

... and then someone goes and does something that makes me cackle. Degrees.

[Misadventure]

Lovecraft is about the violation of the expectations of order and meaning being so jarring that it would break your civilized mind. This is, as is often the case, about what frightened the author more than a universal.

We inflict horrors that break our own biological psychology on one another as part of our social interaction tools.

Yep, we purposefully stress and terrorize one another socially, and physically, as a tool. It's part of the competition.

[The Tree of Woe]

To paraphrase the late, great Leslie Nielsen, absurdism is only entertaining if the people experiencing the absurd completely buy the experience as genuine, whether that involves a deliberate suspension of disbelief or the absurd simply being your reality.

The reason it was entertaining when Joss Whedon did it is because he knew when to stop hanging lampshades and cracking jokes.

The reason everyone who's tried to imitate him, ever, in any media, is not? They don't know to do that.

[Ganymede]

@Misadventure said:

Yep, we purposefully stress and terrorize one another socially, and physically, as a tool. It's part of the competition.

At some point, the absurdity erodes the polemic. Mirbeau's The Torture Garden was a far better and more meaningful read.