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When I first started Mushing the norm was very short one to two line poses, or at least it was in the groups I was in. As time passed and block posing became the norm, I started having anxiety about the length and quality of my posing, so I started really paying attention to the poses of people I thought were really good. Over time I started figuring out what it was about their poses that I liked and started incorporating it into my own. I think @Apos nailed it when he says it helps to have a defined archetype to develop unique characteristics for your characters. I usually try to fixate on an aspect of my character that makes her distinct from my others. A singular quality that I can turn into their dominant tone.

All that being said I still worry that all my characters are exactly the same. I know I've had drastically different characters in the past, but there is a certain core element that ties them all together. And I don't think that is necessarily a bad thing, it is what makes it possible for me to relate to them.

I am sending all the good vibes I can. My three kitties are my world, so I totally get it. Fingers crossed for you.

@secretfire There's nothing stopping you from building one set anywhere you like! I don't think setting it in a US city means that someone is OCD. I think it means that it there is something about that city that makes it viable. And as @Ganymede mentioned before, placing it somewhere real makes it a LOT easier than creating something out of nothing.

There are two I can think of that still cause me to die laughing years and years later. One, I was in a scene in which both of us were playing nWoD Changelings, and my rp partner at the time was working nights, so even on their nights off, had to stick to the nocturnal schedule. I was staying up super late one night and in the middle of a pose, I started to doze and began typing out something about Star Trek shuttle craft and away missions. My friend was dyyyyying and was just like 'Go to bed!' It was a somewhat common occurrence for me to pass out mid pose and end things like:
Tzalene looks over to him with pain in her eyes and she parts her lips on a choked breathhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhsasooo...
And yet somehow I always managed to hit enter. -.-

The other thing was actually a really insane phone autocorrect, talking to the same person. I was talking about a sailor-type roster on Arx and how I had had my eye on her for an alt to play with my friend's character at the time who was kind of pirate-ish, but someone else scooped her up.

It could have been cool, I really think the pirate cock was awesome.

And there was this loooong pause before she texted back '!!!!!!!!!!' and I reread the text and burst out laughing as I tried to correct 'CHICK! PIRATE CHICK!'

@abyss-walker said in Breaking the Silence: Issac/Thrace:

@selira said in Breaking the Silence: Issac/Thrace:

Incidentally, this is this fucking guy.

Well then let @apos post ALL the actual data that lead them to that. Nuzzling. Yeah. Sexual harrasment. Totally. Last one. I'm not wasting my time.

(Arx can never ban me even if they tried.

So... does this mean you ARE a super elite special hacker?? Inquiring minds and all that.

@cobaltasaurus I miss you-Ainsley too! You are awesome! But I need to hang out with Clover again.

This is such a good topic. Man.

I have to echo a lot of the things already stated, that people who are drawn to Mushing or RP in general are folks who have a desire for social connections that can be kept at arm's length. There is a safety to it. A sense that things cannot hurt you because of distance (Utter and completely false, but I think it is an easy lie to tell ourselves and hang onto despite multiple hurts happening) and that most alluring thing of all: The ability to be anything you want. In a table top setting I know I can have hesitancy, at first, from really sinking into character, because I am not a nine foot tall furry tornado of claws, teeth and rage and everyone there CAN SEE ME. Behind the screen, I can be anyone I want to be. And that is incredibly freeing. There is that wonderful ability to have intimacy without the risk of actual (again, this is typically untrue, but damn if I don't convince myself it is) vulnerability.

As for forgiveness... my own unique cocktail of social dysfunctions include a typically passive (and secretly competitive) personality, happy to follow a more dominant personality and generally do my best to absolutely please everyone as much as possible for as long as possible until I burn the fuck out or snap. I am also a wound collector. If someone hurts my feelings or treats me in a way I find objectionable, I will hold onto that and I will remember. I won't treat them any differently, but my eye is on them. And then one day, without warning, I will have had enough. And the Nice Me that is supportive and caring and energized and helpful turns into Raging Bitch and I usually go way too far. And I hold onto all that resentment that has been bubbling and brewing and I just see them as having victimized me for TOO LONG. 99% of the time, now I am self aware enough to stop this cycle before it gets too far. I try talking to people and being calm, or if I am going through a phase of being utterly out of touch with my emotions and am surprised into Rage, I generally pull myself out of the situation and quietly talk to someone to do a sanity check before I start projectile peasouping someone. The problem going forward is that even if I don't hulk out on someone, I tend to never forget the hurts. I will forgive them, I'll be nice and kind and supportive, but I will likely never trust them past that point. No one knows that but me. But it is there. And I wish it wasn't.

There is one particular grudge I really, really wish I could get over. This person was so toxic, so manipulative and just... gragh.. entitled. It still bugs the hell out of me. This person got me so mad that I literally just... I didn't recognize myself in the hateful spew of shit I went on. If someone brought her up on WORA or SWOFA, I would be there, screaming my hate like a freaking harpy. Saying the worst stuff because how DARE she be so evil!!! Said person is now an insanely successful, best-selling author who is working on all sorts of projects that I really want to read or check out, but I can't. Because while I am embarrassed by my behavior in the past, I still think she is the worst. Hearing her name still makes me twitch.

I really wish I could get over that. Because she has no idea, and my grudge is only hurting me.

@arkandel I cannot overstate how much like Star Trek this is. Like, it's like Star Trek, but with real people, rather than idealized versions of people. I am continually amazed at how good the episodes are and how they can make a show about coming to terms with stuff through absurd things. Like.. the whole thing with Bortus' kid being born female in an all male species, the forced gender transition to male and how by watching Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer dude learned a valuable lesson -- like it SOUNDS ridiculous but it was so smart and heartfelt in execution. And how that thread was carried over into the last episode about porn addiction -- again, a ridiculous thing, but it is treated with such respect and understanding. I dunno. I can't say enough good stuff about it.

Oh no! Poor Daemon.

@Goldfish That is where I live and die. I love big epic combats, but I also love the small lived in moments. The love and anguish of loss. I try to make what I do personal when I can.

@surreality
My husband and I are totally watching Doom Patrol. It is... the far superior version of Legends of Tomorrow in terms of general WTF goofiness. But unlike Legends I don't typically want to claw my brains out. I don't know what made them decide to make all of the characters either one-dimensional or stupid (Often both. Nate. UGH. Nate can FOAD already, and I despise his "bromance" with Ray ((Who lost at least 100 IQ points between Arrow and LoT)).) Plus it has Alan Tudyk. That's an automatic +20 points.

Actually, I think goofiness is the wrong word. It's actually, well. Surreal.

Edited because I apparently think arrow is spelled like Aaron.

@Herja That was seriously the most epic thing ever! Start to finish I had an absolute blast and am so so so glad I got to participate! I am also really excited to see how the outcomes play out. I am still full of immense squee.

@thenomain said in General Video Game Thread:

@aerianyx said in General Video Game Thread:

So. Are you suuuuuure you want him back in charge?

If he's responsible for the amazing writing teams like DA:O, DA:A, ME, ME2, ME2:Lair of the Shadow Broker, ME3, ME3:Fuckin' The Citadel Fuckin' best DLC of any game ever, then I don't care how big of a douchnozzle he is.

He so wasn't. Not at all. He was an Artist who got an awesome idea that became Mass Effect. He was Executive Producer of the franchise, but he wasn't involved in building the writing teams.
Old BioWare had different teams on different properties, so there was a big difference between the DA and ME teams. Each had their own programmers, QA, Dev and production teams. There was very very little cross pollination between them. My husband started as an Editor on Jade Empire, moved over to writer on Dragon Age: Origins (He wrote Oghren and parts of the Deep Roads, and all the light content quests) then was moved to the Small Games Group, wrote Sonic Chronicles, the Dark Brotherhood, from there went to ME 2 where he wrote pretty much all of Omega and the DLCs for Kasumi and Zaeed.

The ending of ME3 was dismissive and trite, but it was fine. The rest of ME3 was not as fantastic as its predecessors but it was good.

addendum: I think Indoctrination Theory is terrible. To me, Mass Effect is a Space Opera, grande and personal. It's about the same level to me as finding out it was all a dream.

We shall agree to disagree!

Ho.Lee.Shitballs!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt9L1jCKGnE&feature=youtu.be

I cannot wait for the new Spider-Man movie.

@Roz That article read as though it was lifted wholecloth out of my husband's exit interview when he left BioWare for Visceral in 2011. I had to keep stopping to rant every few paragraphs. It makes me so incredibly sad to see what it was to what it became. EA is the WORST. The absolute /worst/. Granted said husband left EA-lite to work for EA for another 2 years in a worse situation and on a shittier game, but... bleh. Just... it makes me sad.

In other news I am freaking obsessed with Fire Emblem. Finished my first run in 113 hours, Golden Deer FOREVER. My second run through I'm going Blue Lions, but I've already recruited Hilda and Raphael. And probably Marianne because omfg Mercedes voice bugs the ever-long fuck out of me.

@Ghost YEEEEEEES. Deadwood was where I fell in love with Ian McShane. There are some seriously hilarious cussing compilations from Deadwood. AND, my all time favorite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f31PLcCXD0U Deadwood Pancakes.

I should note: NSFW language. Deadwood.

@Ghost And most of the dialog is written in iambic pentameter.

I went to go see Brightburn yesterday, though man it was kinda hard to find a theater running it. From the trailer my initial thought was 'Oh, so it's a Superman movie set in a realistic setting, rather than in a comic-book type world'. And it was... and it wasn't.

The Good:
The premise itself is fantastically interesting. I am shocked that we haven't really had a superhero/horror crossover before. The effects were very sparingly used so it felt real in a way a lot of the CGI heavy movies don't. It had pretty decent acting. By that I mean, the actors themselves did a good job with what they had. Which takes me to...

The Bad:
When my husband, who is a writer comes out of the theater and says "I really hate using this word to describe writing a creative endeavor, but god damn was that some lazy writing." then there is definitely something off. There were so many narrative shortcuts taken, and it relied really heavily on the score (Complete with the ubiquitous BWAAAAAAHN) to try to influence the scariness, or provoke emotion. There are some incredibly heavy handed foreshadowing bits early on, and if there is a setup to a cliched horror shot (person looks forward, sees villain, looks away, looks forward, sees villain, looks away VILLAIN IS IN FRONT OF YOU) they pretty much took it. The Meg did a really good job of subverting cliched expectations. And if I'm using The Meg as an example of a better writing... Yikes?

I don't think this movie is going to do well enough to spawn a sequel, which given the credits sequence is a damned shame, because holy crap would I love to see those threads followed. All in all I think it is a super fascinating premise that would have been far better served with taking their time and really digging into it more, rather than floating on the surface of stereotypical horror.

@Jaded Yeah they did. O.O Holy CRAP there were some... just.. wow.