Posts made by 2mspris

I believe since "God-Machine" came into the WoD at the same time I was trudging (and yes, it was trudging) through all the gods/demons/things you think made things in the world are this specific set of Things That Must Not Be on TR (Spoilers! Yeah, game is ending, whatever.), I honestly rather like the idea of the God-Machine and was happy to go with it. In the broad scope, I get it. As for defining what it is where I would apply it to story, that is spoilers atm cause I'm applying it to an active game.

Is it bad that I watched the trailer and my first thought was "Didn't @HelloRaptor play this as a character somewhere?"

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I prefer smaller scenes, but I can deal with large scenes as long as I have 1 or 2 people that I can depend upon I will interact with and they will interact with me. I usually try to arrange or know that ahead of time. Or if the large scene serves a specific purpose - if it's an info dump scene then I don't mind being background noise - I'm there to gather information rather than do a lot, or give our information vs expect all the other participants to be entertaining.

My preference is for smaller scenes if I want something meaningful and character developing though. Both for what I'm playing and what I'm STing.

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.

1. About the only way that I can think to answer that would be to say that these are key points and "check" the things done from a staff end against those characteristics as guidepoints if those are the ideal.

2. To me, mushing should be a combined goal of all of those things. Even when I am playing, I still want to be entertaining for the people that I am playing with and to help them tell their story. But I tend to want to explore a thorough development of my character from one thing into another thing. I normally have a starting point and "ideal end point" in mind that stems from goals. But if I'm staffing then I want to make sure the opportunities for the same are available for players to take advantage of.

3. I may be reading this list and the discussion intentions wrong, but to me this list is missing: Intention. You made this character, presumably with goals and personality - towards what end? What story are you wanting to pursue, as a player do you expect your character's development to be entirely changed by what an ST puts in front of you or do you have intentions for character development as well?

@Cirno said:

I jest, of course, but you must admit that the hobby is displayed as being Less Than Ideal, here. I credit this place with dampening my enthusiasm about MU*ing, personally.

I think that if you were to look hard enough (especially online - since the internet is full of trolls), every possible hobby or interest is a terrible/horrible thing depending upon who you ask. And I've been on the various incarnations of WORA long enough to be able to weed through most of the vitriol and spewing to recognize what is genuinely enthusiasm dampening and a problem and what is just people blowing off steam/spouting off.

Granted, this recognition doesn't prevent me from stressing about things outside of my control or being upset by certain situations or individuals. Someone not part of this hobby but who is a writer told me that emotional investment is indicative of the value that I put on the hobby/the people interacted with and something that I'm passionate about. (Your mileage on that sage advice may vary, she's a bit of an old hippy who is a great spoken storyteller but is learning to tell stories through writing and she struggles with it.)

I occasionally talk about mu*ing with my co-workers, and with my writing group, none of whom are in this hobby.

Most of them, who understand that this is something that I have volunteered my time for with the interest of entertaining and making fun for other people lump this in with the amount of time that I spend doing volunteer work for our local school. (Weirdly there are parallels to be found there from volunteering as a fundraiser for the school and organizing/managing/planning for a game.) Frequently there are suggestions that I must be a masochist. More often than not there are questions about why I would put so much effort into doing something that won't have a return in appreciation for the effort put in. It tends to take a lengthy explanation about the rewards from Cooperative Storytelling to get anyone to really understand it.

@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.

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.

If he's going in 27 hours... I'll be seeing it before he does.

I'm going tomorrow/Friday afternoon with the family. With my 8 yr old who is going to go dressed as Iron Man, he's been planning this for over a week now.

And then Saturday the library where I work is making a full party out of Free Comic Book Day. We've got 200 comic books to give away, we will have an equal # of cupcakes and show "comic book movies" in the library all day, and we're having a costume contest that anyone who comes in dressed as their favorite comic book character can be entered into the contest to win some limited edition comic cover art and a Kindle.

(I've busted my ass to get all this planned/organized/ready to go - so I'm admittedly bragging just a little.)

I've been waiting for this weekend for both days for months now, so it is a given that the whole thing is going to be awesome. Because I said so.

@EmmahSue Probably the closest to flavor that I need is stuff that falls in as being a modern story. Stuff that can be suggested as an alternative to 50 Shades, or an "if you read this, you might like these". It was suggested to add some Megan Hart, so we've added a few of her titles, but looking for some other ideas.

We do have the Clan of the Cave Bear series. And some Lucia St. Clair Robson (who could get pretty graphic with her historical fiction).

Occupational hazard of a librarian - having someone in the library who has to familiarize/make suggested reading lists & book order lists for genres of books that might otherwise not be something that they read a lot of broadly enough to know "what would entertain a variety of people". My recently assigned genre - Erotica. (Because we have to "offer alternatives to 50 Shades of Grey, particularly if we're of the opinion that the books are crap".) And while I do read erotic fiction, I'm a bit "niche-ed" in my interest of it. So, anyone able to give me some book suggestions for what would fall into this genre? And if you're not inclined to add to the thread directly for Reasons, please just message me.

This said, @Cobaltasaurus you might check out Kelley Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld series. Also, I just read through the Steam & Seduction novels by Delphine Dryden like so much brain candy. (Steampunk Romance rather than specifically paranormal, but it was entertaining. 3 books in 2 days.)

@Sunny said:

Someone else having fun does not subtract from the amount of fun left for you to have.

I'd like to repeat that for emphasis. And add, props to people who don't just expect fun to be handed to them but are willing to make fun happen.

Good Things need to be revived. After almost 3 straight weeks of many things kicking my ass (and stomp kicking me while down for good measure), today has been an awesome day.

Today a 3rd grade boy came into the library where I work and gave me a loaf of chocolate raspberry bread and told me that it was a gift to show appreciation for the work I've done at the library and in other areas of my community. And while the world is full of some pretty jerk-like people (and the internet is particularly populated by them, as we all know), this little boy has devoted himself to being nice and thanking people that he sees as not getting the appreciation he believes that they should. His mother told me that he was spending his Spring Break from school visiting a number of businesses and individuals and passing out certificates for free meals, cookies and baked goods with money that he had raised himself. (He's a farm kid, he has his own chicken coop and sells the eggs and then uses all the money he makes to buy gifts for people.)

There's something to be said for a small gesture of appreciation.

Also, someone brought a new puppy to visit in the library. Tiny, fuzzy black mutt with puppy breath and OMG cute.

@icanbeyourmuse said:

And, eh, I don't care if it is new CG, to join up on chars, or whatever. I've got KEnna on SHH, a Proximus THaum. I don't think she can be in a Cabal? I am still not 100% on how MAgey type stuff work.

Proximus can be in a Cabal. They have always been able to, it was just a question of "if they counted towards required numbers". And given that 2.0 allows Wolfbloods to count towards Pack numbers (and references a pack built of all Wolfbloods), that just further supports that certain "M+" matter more than most people give them credit.

I'm sort of with @lordbelh there. I'm pretty sure that my attributes if statted would all fall in the "2" range, maybe I could pull off a 3 or 4 in Wits because I'm a smart ass with more than my fair share of common sense. But I've had a very broad range of experiences/skills that would likely make creating stats by a Character Gen system pretty hard to pull off with accuracy.

Socialize: Angsting Library Patrons
Socialize: Police Officers
Socialize: Family Drama Situations
Socialize: Elementary School Functions
Socialize: Small Town Gossips
Academics: Social Work
Academics: Library Science
Academics: Gaming
Academics: Child Development
Expression: Pure Romance Consultant
Athletics: Keeping up with children
Athletics: I refuse to make more than one trip from the car to the house and I can carry this all at once.
Crafts: Pinewood Derby Cars
Crafts: Cross Stitch
Computer: Google-Foo

I think I'll stop there, cause I could go on for a while with this.

@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 didn´t.

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

Stop making this end badly for you, my friend.

What kind of monster hasn't read Harry Potter?

And now you know what you're dealing with.

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

RL Peeve Tax Edition:

Working in a public library, we get people in all the time asking for tax forms. For the first year ever, the Federal Government told libraries they wouldn't be sending free tax forms/instruction books out for passing out. So we have "master copies" of the forms and will make 2 free copies to give to people of each type needed, but people have to pay to print off the instruction booklets (which average 70 pages).

This is apparently a money-saving idea by the Federal Government and I've been chewed out half a dozen times because the library won't just eat the costs to provide things printed out to people. Even if we do have computers, and free/available wireless, that people can use to access the instruction books online.