Best posts made by Aria

@auspice She was my Sera on BSO! Somewhere, I have a gif her making exploding handgestures that was subtitled "Sera Explains Very Technical Things" -- relevant, since Sera was a deckie.

@Auspice -- Well, to be fair, I generally try not to do a lot of the stupid shit that white people do. But the operative word here is, again, try. Part of privilege is blissful ignorance to itself.

@misadventure said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

Well, okay then.

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@Tinuviel -- Ohh, believe me, I know. I come from a family that -- with the exception of one branch that had money many decades before even my parents were born -- consisted almost entirely of generation after generation of white working class that did all the things they were supposed to do to get by in America and somehow never did. They've since descended into being, frankly, what even my parents will admit are evangelical Rust Belt white trash. (See: the dipshit Ohio cousin who named his kid 'Eevee' earlier in the thread.)

Sure, my dad's white and straight and native-born and male, but he's far from well-off. He's broken his whole body down working himself to death by corporations who screwed him for profit from day one. And well-off? That's his only concept of privilege. He doesn't, and will never, consider how much harder it would be to even has what he does if he'd been... I dunno. Black. Or gay. Or even just one of his own sisters. It makes him easy prey for the old "That fucker is trying to take your cookie!" rhetoric tossed about by the guys who grabbed the other nine cookies before everyone else even got to the table.

@apos I'll be honest -- I feel obligated to do tasks because I'm the head of an @org, I have goals for that @org, and one of the only real ways to achieve them is through a massive investment of resources that can only be earned through +tasks or bought with silver.

But the only way to increase the amount of silver my House has is by increasing our weekly income, and the two ways of doing that are... buying domain skills with resources earned by +tasks or by a massive investment of resources earned by +tasks into various aspects of my House. The economic system is a circle that keeps coming back to the same place again and again and again.

I also find them incredibly dull, even with RP attached, because there's only so many times I can write letters/have a scene about "I'll trade you this lumber I have for your fancy sheep." If the +task system allows for skills purchased to affect the sorts of tasks that can be done and the number of resources they generate -- hopefully in quantities a bit like the current +support system -- I might try to hug your face.

@Faceless OMG, you are the RL equivalent of "Girl, get you a man who looks at you like Tormund looks at Brienne."

I approve.

@shincashay said in How did you discover your last three MU* ?:

Anyone else look back on previous games hosted on wikidot to see what previous partners/handles are currently playing in when you've lost communication with them?

That's how I find some games.

I've done that to avoid people....

@Arkandel And irony that gets missed in text.

Like, yeah, man. I'm a white girl that likes fall and pumpkin spice. I know. I know.

PS - It apparently weirds out even Walmart people if you whisper "Pumpkin Spice is people" and then gleefully throw the Cheerios in your cart.

@saosmash said in MU Things I Love:

RPing about nothing doomy

You clearly missed the part where Luca showed up without pants on.

@Lain -- American Gods is fabulous in every possible way and I highly recommend sticking through the entire season. So, so, so good.

As for the "Why country music?" question, the setting of middle-of-nowhere middle-America is incredibly important to the plotline, particularly the end-game that is the entire purpose behind the insane journey that Shadow is on. I can't really explain more without giving away massive spoilers to the (novel) ending, but I strongly suspect that the showrunners did it to establish setting.

@Ghost

A) It was a great PB.
B) We're totally fine, dude. I honestly think it's funny now.
C) If I had beef, I would not be cracking jokes like "That bastard pushed me down a flight of concrete steps solely with the power of his hate."

You should totally go around telling people you're Palpatine IRL, though.

@Faceless said in RL things I love:

I love that quicksand isn't as prevalent a threat to my daily existence as pop culture tried to make me believe, while I was growing up. Pretty thankful for that.

Edit to include: I'm also thankful that having your young child piss on you while changing them is either easily avoided with good reflexes or simply not as common as pop culture in the '80s and '90s would have lead one to believe.

Yeah, if we believe 80s pop culture, apparently it's perfectly normal for teenage bullies to try to permanently cripple you and/or commit vehicular homicide. I'm glad that wasn't a 'thing' when I was in high school.

After having finished "Carnival Row", I'm pretty much just wanting to play a new game myself. With you 100%, Bananerz.

@Ganymede -- You're forgetting that what most of these people mean by oppression is "I'm no longer allowed to force my beliefs onto other people."

@thesuntsar said in Dark Crystal game?:

@WildBaboons said in Dark Crystal game?:

My hypothesis is there is a large group of players that frequent WoD games that really just want a blended fantasy game set in modern/near modern time with a large player base and some guidelines.

^ this here

^ Ding. Though I would personally prefer not modern, really, hence the Carnival Row comment. I prefer my escapist fantasy problems to at least have a thin veneer of not matching current-day sociopolitical problems, thx.

@surreality -- Hey! The left one is where I have my biopsy scar from 'discovering I don't have cancer' that I really super hate for a multitude of reasons. Our left tits can be grizzled old drinking buddies trading war stories.

That... that totally makes it better, right?

So is this actually happening, or is this all theoretical debate?

I'm a bit confused now, but am totally in agreement with Sunny re: themes. I don't mind oppression, darkness, or seeming hopelessness in game themes. I mean, I used to run a Battlestar game, FFS. It's oppression, darkness, and hopelessness I might have to deal with in real life that I get uppity about. No one is ever going to be real-life racist against me for being in some weird apocalyptic satyr fairy cult, sooooooooo....... whatever?

@surreality -- Personally, with the rate of breast cancer in my family, I'm pretty much just waiting for mine to try and kill me. It's like having squishy time-bombs strapped to your chest that everyone else but you thinks are just fucking fabulous. I cannot imagine having something else that is so awful also going wrong with the damned things. This sounds horrible and I am so, so sorry that you're dealing with this.

@Ganymede said in If you work hard, son, maybe someday you'll RP:

West Chester? Cincinnati?

Now y’all talking about my neck of the woods.

Still want to play and staff a game centered around Dayton.

My last PC was raised there.

Pssst. She means West Chester, PA. Not West Chester, OH.

It's a suburb of Philadelphia, where one of our more popular state universities is located. (In fact, @insomniac7809 almost went to school there.) And it's a big part of why I'm super surprised I've never seen a WoD game set in the area. People seem to spend a lot of time making up super weird settings that work for sprawling Werewolf territories but also major populations for Vampire feeding grounds and monstrous skyscrapers for dudes who want to play "The Wolf of Wall Street" and and and.....

And I'm just over here like, "You know that city already exists, right? The Comcast Center is definitely where the Panopticon is headquartered and is also, like, maybe twenty miles from the cows I drive past on my way to work."