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    Best posts made by 2mspris

    • RE: RL peeves! >< @$!#

      Inconsistency in decision making. I HATE it.

      -4 degrees outside with a -20 windchill. School closed, as expected really. My place of employment should be closed as well, when the school closes we're suppose to be closed + the last time that the temp got into the negatives we closed. Nope! We're gonna be open.

      Yeah, that's great. Thanks boss.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Crafts & Things

      I have sons who build models (planes, boats, cars, tanks, spaceships, etc.). I have had to make the OOC comment before pertaining to an unexpectedly long time between poses:

      <OOC> Sorry for that, my hand was superglued to a viking ship.

      It's fair to say the humor of it seemed to make the other person more understanding.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Raising Baby Gamers

      @Woragarten Great video, thank you for that!

      There are a few differences between our set-up for gaming (in the library) and the FNGS mentioned in the video, most of these kids already knew one another so the concept that everyone at the table is on the same side and works together wasn't even actually one that had to be covered moving into D&D. They want to work together, even when they break off into pairs to accomplish something they have yet to even look too closely at "You don't really have the dice for this so you can't help me." that I've seen on occasion with adults.

      Of the kids, two of them had a vague awareness of what RPGs were (One of them is my youngest son, so he knew from being present in our house when gaming was happening what it was, but he had never played.) but for the rest of them this was entirely new for them and their parents. In all of those cases I also had to give the parents a very basic primer for it and have them sign a permission slip acknowledging that "Yes, my kids has permission to play D&D." so that there are no pitchfork waving bible beaters coming into the library.

      I've found that the best tips I've accumulated so far are:

      1. Keep the sessions on the short side. 2 hours at a table "in character" is a pretty long stretch for a kid's attention span outside of school.
      2. Provide snacks! (But not a bunch of sugar, because once they start going wild it's hard to reel them back in.)
      3. With this # of kids, have 2 GMs. The head GM runs the story, but with the kids there are questions that can be answered to keep things running smoothly and the assistant also has a quick review with each kid individually before their turn in initiative that starts with "What do you think you would like to do?" and looks at their sheet with them to see what they can do. It's helped build that notion of planning what you are going to do before your actual turn happens, to keep things happening at a good pace.
      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Raising Baby Gamers

      I put in a request for Smarter Than you Think, too! Hopefully that'll be in soon.

      I was recently referred to the book Dragons in the Stacks: A Teen Librarian's Guide to Tabletop Role-Playing which I've also requested, mostly for curiosity sake. I've had mixed results with librarian reference material like this, usually I do better going with personal experience but it's always good to get more perspectives!

      We don't actually circulate our D&D (and Pathfinder) books, they are kept in the library as reference materials. It hasn't saved a few from being stolen in the last couple of years, but that happens.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Eldritch - A World of Darkness MUX

      @Coin said:

      @Arkandel said:

      @Coin said:

      @Arkandel said:

      Renown.

      You know, when people wanted me to listen to Radiohead, I didn't.

      When people wanted me to read Harry Potter, I didnยดt.

      When people wanted me to watch Lost, I didn't.

      Stop making this end badly for you, my friend. ๐Ÿ˜ž

      What kind of monster hasn't read Harry Potter? ๐Ÿ˜ž

      And now you know what you're dealing with. ๐Ÿ‘ฟ

      I could have warned you about this years ago. He's not right. Not right in the head.

      posted in Adver-tis-ments
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    • RE: The State of the Chronicles of Darkness

      @EmmahSue I joined a betting pool about the release date. (Cause if gamers are going to bet on anything they will bet on the release date of overdue books/games, etc, right?) I put my money on a "GenCon Release" either right before or the week of to cash in on that. For what that's worth.

      Of course GenCon is a month earlier this year than it has been the last few, so I may be fooling myself. ๐Ÿ™‚

      posted in Mildly Constructive
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    • RE: [Ethnicity Thread] Who Do You Think You Are?

      I'm probably a good 75% German in the American Melting Pot. My bio-father's side of the family his parents came to the US from Germany directly as children and the family tree is traced back generation upon generation upon generation there. My mother's family was a little bit more diverse but there was additional German, English, Irish, Scandinavian and Shawnee Indian in there.

      My parents and grandparents were always very into genealogy, which is handy in so far as it means I'm pretty familiar with where I'm from, etc. My mother's even done the "trace your ancestor line through DNA" thing to go beyond that.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Who is Vuk?

      @Darinelle I spent 6 years of my life training in this: http://ninjaselfdefense.com/

      It's really not a very good pick up line. ๐Ÿ˜ž

      posted in A Shout in the Dark
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    • RE: Transparency

      @Coin said:

      @2mspris, @HelloRaptor, and @EmmahSue among others are people I know pretty much log everything, and it's not necessarily out of paranoia for having proof of anything; often it's so as to have a reliable source of information for things that happened and memory fails to recall.

      I can confirm, I do. I'll readily admit it started out as covering my ass because of less than ethical staffers and conflicts with other players that after repeated attempts to resolve on my own kept coming back and I wanted to keep a track record of it. But it has, since then, turned into just the easiest way to keep track of things and have a record of information that either other people expect me to know or that I want to know either for personal history/fun or my own organizational need.

      posted in Mildly Constructive
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    • RE: Good Things

      Today my youngest brother completed his residency today and in the next month he will be taking his boards for his internal medicine specialty.

      It's kind of an awesome thing to be accomplished by my goofball baby brother. ๐Ÿ˜‰

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Who is Vuk?

      @Darinelle said:

      I'm all for training, but "online ninja training" kind of makes me go "wut"?

      I should say when I trained with that stuff, it was a good while before "online training" was a thing. We got in a car and drove an hour there to hang out for 2-4 hours. (And man I feel old thinking about how long ago that was.)

      posted in A Shout in the Dark
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    • RE: Transparency

      I've made a secret of who I was playing exactly twice in my many mu*ing years.

      One occasion I partially did it because @HelloRaptor told me that I have one of the most recognizable "mushing styles" and he would know me anywhere. As it happens, he didn't realize it was me until a year after the mu* closed and he posted looking for that person on WORA and I outed myself.

      The other occasion I had made a character many years ago, on Ashes 2 Ashes, where I found out that a few of my RL friends were also playing. Turns out that one of those friends was playing the character mine was involved with and this player was someone who was very easily embarrassed/extremely shy so I never let it be known that was me.

      posted in Mildly Constructive
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    • RE: RL peeves! >< @$!#

      @ThatOneDude With frequency. There are a few Amish women locally who are using the computers to manage finances or to take college classes. There are a few men who have used them for the purpose of advertising one craft or skill or another they have for work, to deal with government stuff they are request to do and for different financing/budgeting things as well. And then there are a few Amish men who have been caught trying to use it to find themselves mail order brides or attempt to look at porn. (In the library, which we have blocks again, so then begins the awkward "I'm trying to look at family pictures but the computer won't bring them up and I wondered if there was something wrong with it.") They don't have mad computer skills, but it's like phones that they are allowed to use as long as it's not in their house. There are a lot of them that carry disposable cell phones around, and my understanding is that they are suppose to leave them in an outbuilding and not take them in the house when they return home. Though the frequency of how many get to do that may have changed in the last couple of years, given that there was cyber sexting/harassment case not long ago locally where the suspect was a young Amish man. (Txting pictures of his junk to a 12 yr old girl he fancied.) ๐Ÿ˜›

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Who is Vuk?

      At the risk of having things thrown at me (though I would never push it on people), I liked LOST.

      From the stand point of it being a supernatural disaster flix. And I like shows/movies where almost everyone dies.

      posted in A Shout in the Dark
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    • RE: Why did you pick your username?

      I stubbornly embraced a RL nickname I was given by someone who was trying to give me a hard time. I "owned that shit" as it were, it became the online username I use in most arenas.

      On the original SWORA I used Mspris, somewhere between there are WORA it went to 2mspris which is what I've used since then.

      posted in Mildly Constructive
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    • RE: RL peeves! >< @$!#

      @Thenomain said:

      It's snowing here, too, only instead of snow it's white, fluffy plant bits.

      I'd rather have the snow/ice bits. At least it doesn't cause sneezing fits and make my eyes swell shut. ๐Ÿ˜ข

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Part time ST For Hire

      I wish I was ready to the "I need STs!" phase, but I'm not quite there yet. But if I can get all my ducks in a row and my cats wrangled soon....

      posted in A Shout in the Dark
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    • RE: Table-top campaigns online

      @Arkandel
      Fantasy Grounds has most of the book information on the platform available, the PDFs of the books can be loaded into the library and accessible to the players. (The platform is free to use for players, though the GM needs a subscription, whomever is running it - we have a subscription because my husband GMs a lot on there + does some coding work for them.)

      Consistency is about the same, in my experience. Honestly the attention paid is probably higher because we're all "plugged in" to the same thing so it's hard not to be paying attention to it. Attendance might actually be a bit higher, and the amount of time it takes "to play" doesn't actually take the time investment of attending a RL game (which would include travel time + time spent talking about all the other stuff in life).

      The biggest drawback to me is if you get more than 3 other people on a Discord call, then you start getting people talking over one another and it can be frustrating. I play a game with 1 gentleman who cannot seem to allow "dead air" to happen, as he perceives it, which makes it hell trying to get a word in edgewise with him sometimes. It also means you don't have the visual cues you get from face to face, so someone might be acting like a dick (but not intending to be) or the "IC" vs "OOC" might get confusing.

      posted in Mildly Constructive
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    • RE: RL peeves! >< @$!#

      People who use the small town library as their personal (free) babysitting service because school closed for the day due to the weather.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Old game WHO lists

      I'll throw this one on here, too:

      Due Rewards circa 2001

      +-----------(=)---------<+>--(- Due Rewards -)--<+>---------(=)-----------+<<
      Name Sex Idle Name Sex Idle Name Sex Idle

      Ganymede (P) (M) 5s Emily (em) (F) 4s Jamison (padre) (M) 28s
      Karacinda (Kara)(F) 13s Mazi (maz) (M) 32s Ethan (bc) (M) 1m
      Leona (Tiny) (F) 2s Strega (Grr) (F) 14s Douglas (maci) (M) 3m
      Ishobi (ish) (M) 17s Seth (set) (M) 48s Rhia (F) 1m
      Klavdiya (Klava)(F) 2m Amanda (Mandy) (F) 4s Chandler (Chan) (M) 5s
      Xander (Xan) (M) 35s Kattri (peace) (F) 7m Simon Fox (sfox)(M) 33s
      Julian (Jul) (M) 4m Callista (Call) (F) 4m Charity (ct) (F) 4s
      Sterling Wolf (I(M) 3m Garrik (gs) (M) 49m Rebecca (F) 2m
      Kimberly (KM) (F) 50m Felicity (fel) (F) 1m Bryce (ice) (M) 1m
      Kasha (F) 2m Brittany (miaow)(F) 39s Pehu (Pe) (M) 1m
      Arkady (Ark) (M) 3m Jose' (Chi) (M) 39s Foucault (LAFS) (M) 25m
      Andrommada (air)(F) 59s Hannah (han) (F) 0s Betsy (Lysabeth)(F) 8m
      Wolfy (Wolfgang)(F) 23s Alyssa (Aly) (F) 20s Rayne (rcd) (F) 1m
      Russell (Parker)(M) 36s Gretchen (F) 3m Horace (HtF) (M) 18s
      Thorne (TH) (M) 28s Meilei (mn) (F) 5m Elijah (Eli) (M) 7m
      Danforth (u) (M) 43s Jerry (jer) (M) 38s Devyn (DV) (M) 21s
      Rust_Wolf (Agar)(M) 3m Melissa (Missy) (F) 15m Dawson (md) (M) 46s
      Caspar (Cap) (M) 1s Celeste (Cel) (F) 25m Kimiko (Kimi) (F) 4s
      Renovich (M) 5m Jenna (jenn) (F) 48s Francis (Fran) (M) 45s
      Ivy (F) 5m Caelyn (Cae) (F) 2s Jackson (json) (M) 3m
      Kenji (Ow) (M) 50s Misu (Mis) (M) 1m Julietta (Ju) (F) 11m
      Keith (K) (M) 25s Rises-in-Glory ((M) 7m Schneider (Greg)(M) 2m
      Aliyah (Yah) (F) 8m Sundance (Sun) (F) 6s Kitty (Ket) (F) 8m
      Johnny Pidgeon ((M) 5m Charley (Bax) (M) 3s Eric (Cleaner) (M) 20s
      Nathan (Nate) (M) 41s Xavier (Xav) (M) 3s Bret (Bt) (M) 3m
      Tony (god) (M) 1m Blackadder (RAK)(M) 47m Lazaro (canoso) (M) 23m
      Inigo (Ini) (M) 4m Teegan (Tee) (M) 18s Fr. Bryant (mb) (M) 26s
      Lena (LM) (F) 56s Mort (...) (M) 3s Heinrich (he) (M) 3s
      Lianne (ll) (F) 3m
      +-----------(=)----<+>----%-( OOC Characters )-%----<+>----(=)------------+<<

      Darque (Dee) (F) 12m Alexander (lex) (M) 14s Isaac (M) 3m
      Henry (H) (M) 11m Thomas_McIver (T(M) 17m Mia (F) 40s
      Adriel (M) 38m Peren (Q) (M) 2s Kora (F) 14s
      Brock Leavenwort(M) 10m
      ------------(=)----<+>----%-( Online Staff )-%----<+>----(=)-------------+<<

      Le Quack (quack)(M) 57s Monique (mon) (F) 13m Radiskull (radi)(M) 31s
      Archdeacon Froll(M) 29m Buttercup (cup) (F) 4h Pebbles (Peb) (F) 9m
      +---------(=)----<+>----%-( 101 players online )-%----<+>----(=)----------+<<

      posted in A Shout in the Dark
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