Posts made by Aria

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

@aria So sayeth the Queen of Endings, Death.

Well, nobody's ever called me that before, but I guess I'll take it....

I just finished Season 2 last night, so I'm admittedly several episodes behind where all of the characters are now....

Josh's lack of intellectual and emotional depth reads, at least to me, as a lack of character depth. Even his sidekick Hector, with his weird relationship with his mom, seems to have more to him as a person than Josh the personality-free sunny California dude-bro does. (Though I suppose him being a blank canvas Rebecca can paint whatever fantasy she wants on is part of the point.)

With that said, I think that the reason Josh bothers me isn't simply because of the character himself -- although that's a big part of it. It's because of the number of times he's been shoved back onto Rebecca's romantic radar as an option after she's supposed to be 'over' him -- to the point that I no longer found any tension in their will they/won't they anymore, and could summon up exactly zero enthusiasm whatsoever for their latest stint together. I much preferred the focus on Rebecca's relationships with her female friends and if they're going to fling yet another man at her, I'd at least want him and their relationship to be interesting -- which I find Greg, as well as the prospect of Nathaniel, even if they're toxic.

My reaction to Josh is "You are boring and your plots are boring and I would like you to go away because every other person on this show is more entertaining than you.

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

@Roz and @Darinelle too: just wrote a journal! (Apparently I accidentally wrote one before, but this one was intentional.) I hope brevity and terrible puns are OK.

FACT: Puns are the highest form of humor.

A few days late to the conversation here, but am I the only person who watches "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" that just does not like Josh at all? The dude's pretty damned dumb, makes horrible life choices, and is motivated primarily by his dick. Bring back Greg. At least Greg was smart and funny.

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

• I'm still not sure how journals work (not white vs black, but the thematic nature of them). I play a PC that probably wouldn't do much writing in journals, and I don't OOCly see the point, to be honest. But, from references made, they seem to be IC as much as OOC. Will I get penalized for not using them?

Journals are, in fact, considered IC material. White journals are IC material that has been publicly published in the Archives. The Great Fire at the Archives and the loss of so many journals is a fair part of why there's so much missing history, IC. If your character is a history nerd or the investigating sort? There's some motivation for journals. If your character is the religious sort? Journal please Vellichor, and there's more motivation for journals! If your character just really loves attention being paid to him and his life/opinions/fancy wordsmithing? Motivation for journals.

On an OOC level, they act as reminders and record of what you've done on the PC -- for yourself, for staff, and since it's a roster game? For future players of your character should you drop the PC and return him to the roster. You also get a nice XP bribe from staff for doing them.

@derp -- Naw. She hasn't annoyed me that much. Yet.

Dear Coworker --

There are 127 people in our department and only two admins responsible for their support. If you're going to send me an email asking me about the logistics and set up of a room for a big meeting you're having and whether or not the room can accommodate that, and if I can make changes for you if it's not set up that way....

Kindly tell me which fucking room on which fucking day for which fucking meeting. I neither keep tabs on the minutiae of ~65 people's work day, nor have yet to develop my psychic powers.

<3,
Aria

@auspice said in Random links:

Lemme just...

leave this...

right here

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/stranger_dongs_of_course_theres_a_stranger_things_dildo

Did.... did you guys somehow miss the baby Jesus butt plug that's been around for, like, almost two decades?

https://www.divine-interventions.com/

Haha! Found it. Some of the terms may be wasted on people who aren't SCAdians or Medieval history nerds in general, but you'll still get the point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb3zqj0c8TY

@thenomain said in Um...What?:

@mietze said in Um...What?:

@thenomain
At least it’s not called “Well, Actually...”

Like there's a difference between "Um, Actually" and "Well, Actually", you great pedantic nerd. Sheesh!

....So I'm in the SCA and one of our Kngdom's lovely, talented bards wrote a song called "Well, Actually." I am now determined to find the YouTube link of her performing this song again because it's amazing and hilarious.

@thenomain

Ohh, I freely acknowledge that I can be a pedantic pain in the ass. But that one annoys me not because "OMG, someone is wrong on the internet!"

That one annoys me because the sheer level of political ignorance, and moreover the pride in political ignorance, is a fair part of why my country is a volcanic explosion of "What the fuck?!?!" right now. So, yeah. Yeah, I'mma point that one out every. single. time. Usually followed by my, "So. Have you ever collected unemployment/do you hope to collect social security when you retire?" thought experiment.

@thenomain said in Um...What?:

So this thread has turned into a "when I met a fascist/socialist" thread.

Um...what?

(I am kidding; this is a fantastic series of um-whats.)

Contrary the number of my moronic countrymen shrieking otherwise, those words are not synonyms.

I really kind of want to get a speed bag. But with my luck and coordination, I'll just end up giving myself a black eye....

Crush my heart, why don't you?!?

Dear Ladies in My Group Chat --

I love you! I want you to know that. I really, really do.

I also want you to know that when you've reached a point that the chickadee you have legit introduced at parties as "your angry feminist inspiration" is on the verge of #notallmen-ing you, it is perhaps time to slow your roll there. Yes, plenty of times, horrible behavior is the direct result of The Notorious Pa-tri-ar-chy. But not always. No, no. Sometimes, a dude's bad behavior isn't evidence of toxic masculinity producing anti-social behavior at all.

Sometimes, it's just evidence that that dude is a shithead. Lots of people are.

Your sister from another mister,
Aria

@faraday said in The Death Of Telnet: Is It Time To Face The Music?:

@aria said in The Death Of Telnet: Is It Time To Face The Music?:

It was quit literally what I started in.

Not really. I mean you said it yourself - it had far less coded capabilities, email groups instead of boards, licensing fees, proprietary system, etc. That is worlds different than a modern web app with everything you currently have in a MUSH reborn in a free, open-source and extensible codebase.

I also said that was how those games were run in the late 90s. The proprietary system that was run has since died and been replaced. Wikis have been integrated, and usually set up with templates that populate very easily with information entered in by the player. The email groups have all been ported over to forums, and on many of them, characters have individual threads viewable by the appropriate GMs/STs, which function as a long-term record for a player of every request that they've ever made, stored and searchable for as long as the game is up and running. (If there's one thing I miss from those games, it's that. It's very much that.) Many games also use the forums to now store sheets, removing the need for a MySQL database.

Their great failing is that they have no coded in combat system, so most anything involving mechanical resolution is done the same way it's done around a gaming table -- just with people arguing rules interpretations via text, instead of verbally.

But all in all? They're much easier for a clueless new RPer to stumble into using than a MUSH, because there's nothing to learn. If you can use a chatroom and type in a forum, you can play on these games. The biggest 'barrier' is editing your wiki page, and that's... pretty much it.

Sooooo, ummm.....

What you guys are discussing MUSHing evolving into? It was quit literally what I started in. Back in the late 90s, White Wolf ran official text-based RPGs on their privately owned servers as a means of marketing their game lines, including World of Darkness, Exalted, and I believe -- though I didn't play it -- Ravenloft. They were run through a program called DigiChat, which was a Java-based chat program you logged into from a web-interface. It had far, far less coded in capabilities. +bboards were usually handled as email groups. +sheets were created using drop-down menus and text boxes, stored in a MySQL database, and spit back onto the website using PHP after they were approved. The diceroller? HTML. But literally everything else was clickable, and accessed through the chat program -- rooms, logins, profiles, private message boxes, etc.

The DigiChat program itself was very expensive to license, meaning new games were extraordinarily rare, unlike how many MUs seem to exist. Eventually, it crapped out and was replaced by AddOn Chat.

I played on those games for a solid ten years before I ever tried a MUSH -- at the invitation of.... I think she goes by Sonder on FC now, actually.

There's several sites still running like this and I can send links to anyone who really wants them, if you want to see how they work. But most of them have many of the same problems as MUSHes do, and a whole host of other problems all their own.

@misadventure Ohhh, I'm well aware. I mean, would this still be a bit of a pain in the butt to do either way? Yes. Would I find it significantly less annoying if they asked me, I don't know.... a week or so advance, and freely acknowledged that yes, I'm doing them a free favor and maybe they can get my back the next time I'm out of town? Yeeeeeeeeeeup.

@cupcake While most Swedish volunteers were SS, not all were. His grandfather wasn't, so I'm not really sure what he could've reported and what may or may not have been done about it without evidence for an obvious charge.

ETA Answers to Questions:
@surreality Serving in the SS in any form, save as a conscript, was an offense that could be tried. After Nuremburg, it was declared a criminal organization because of the acts it committed, so yes, if you were Joe Bob -- or since it was German, Josef Wilhelm -- SS tank mechanic, you could be tried. If you weren't in the SS, not so much. The Wehrmacht as a whole was largely given a pass at Nuremberg; a few specific people were tried, but it was mostly high-ranking officers as you stated.

@Lithium Sweden was officially neutral during WWII, and did a great deal to rescue Denmark's Jews. Not to mention Raoul Wallenberg's actions in Hungary. Which Swedes are all very proud of -- now. What is often not mentioned is how much iron ore they shipped to Nazi Germany, which was something like ten million tons per year, and was crucial to Germany's war efforts. (Like, my dad is a gunsmith by hobby -- and a machinist by trade -- and to this day collects Swedish Mausers over German ones because of the higher quality steel.) There was also a Swedish Nazi party at the time, and membership in it was not always motivated by anti-Semitism, particularly during the 30s. Germany and Russia were the major powers in the Baltic, and the Swedes haaaaaaaaaaaated the Russians and had a tendency to go to war with them for a few hundred years, so anyone giving the finger to the Soviets held some appeal.

@coin said in Um...What?:

@aria said in Um...What?:

@cupcake said in Um...What?:

@aria said in Um...What?:

@coin said in Um...What?:

My brother didn't realize he was fucking a Nazi until he saw the Swastika tatoo on her boob.

I accidentally had dinner at a Nazi's house once.

And I don't mean, like.... a neo-Nazi. I mean a Nazi Nazi. Like, served on the wrong side of WWII Nazi. By choice. It was super awkward when I found out.

Story time!

He, meanwhile, does not seem to understand why I am so shaken by this and I have to explain to him that in the States, not only was pretty much everyone's grandfather was on the other side of the war? Sixty years later, we will still ship your swastika-sporting ass back to Germany* for possible trial if it comes out you were a Nazi, no matter how old and shriveled you might be.

Even without the chronological clarification at the beginning you can just tell this was at least 5+ years in the past, because no one from the States would say the above now-a-days.

Right? This is why I don't really tell this story anymore, even though it's trainwreck-hilarious. Because I expect people to just blink at me and not understand why it was shocking, horrible, and all-around mortifying.