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@Auspice said in X-Cards:

Violence. Smoking (as referenced in one of the prior posts). Murder. Sexual content. These are 'triggering' things as discussed.

And this is so hard to enforce because limits ought to work both ways. For instance my instant thought when I saw smoking was "wait, really? that's too much", simply because I'm not a smoker and/or it doesn't bug me.

But if it bugs someone else why not allow them to point it out? If it's a minor thing in the scene they could just be accommodated without any true loss or need to nitpick, which seems to be the entire point of X Cards in general - that they don't need to be explained.

Because the moment they have to be justified and debated they are that much less likely to be raised in the first place, which leaves a person unhappy with something that might be trivial to remove.

@Selira This was my favorite scene from last night's episode:

@Thenomain said in What to do when your mush is attacked:

@Ghost

How about a link to a HowTo, then? A lot of game runners don’t know where to start and mucking around in iptables could be dangerous.

It is, but I'd arguably say not knowing the basics of networking while messing around blindly with iptables may be worse than whatever attack is happening on your game, since you're risking making it inaccessible even by yourself - say, by blocking ssh connections.

Perhaps what a kind soul could do is create and document examples of very specific things to do for common tasks - such as banning one IP, or one specific /24 range.

For example

sudo iptables -A INPUT -s 110.111.112.0/24 -j DROP

will drop all inbound traffic originating from 110.111.112.* .

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@Thenomain It's also strange because, by going first, you can set your character up a little bit better too.

For example I don't feel comfortable posing as already being in a room if someone else poses that they've been there for a while as well - so if my alcoholic guy is already in his third beer at eleven in the morning it's harder to establish that without resorting to exposition of some sort where three empty glasses and a resigned sigh by the waiter who comes to clean them up would do the trick but... better.

Going first can be very advantageous. Plus you stand a bigger chance of people actually reading your whole pose rather than losing it in the entrance spam.

@bored Oh, one more thing I just responded to a buddy of mine on FB posting (spoilers to anyone who visits the link) this YouTube analysis from a strategic point of view.

My takeaways from it:

1. This is a TV series, not a tactical simulation. Spending 20 minutes to discuss fantasy-military siege strategy is missing the point by... a lot. This isn't an RTS game.

2. Comments like "I still enjoy it but..." just baffle me. But what? What the hell...? What do people want more than enjoyment? Life-long fulfillment?

@Ghost said in Getting Young Blood Into MU*'ing:

But also, let's not gloss over issues the MU community needs to try to solve (to help keep new blood) by generalizing that all online cultures have problems, or by confusing the issue by claiming MUCK, MUD, MOO, MUX, etc all have entirely different cultures.

You're going too far, I think. Just the fact we have all these terms - MUCK, MUD, MOO, MUX - is a barrier to entry.

@Sparks said in Game of Thrones:

And Ned was unquestionably a good person, but I do not think he was actually a good leader when it comes down to it; he was willing to risk everything—his home, his people, his family—because he wouldn't compromise his honor.

I'll tackle this outside of spoiler tags since they're unnecessary for it.

Ned was an excellent liar. In fact he kicked ass with it - he had a secret which he kept from everyone for many years, including his own wife, and in fact he used his immaculate reputation as a way to perpetulate that lie; no one questioned how this honorable man had a bastard with some random chick because why would he lie about it? Duuuh.

And even later in life he made the choice of his people over his honor. It's how he lost his head by admitting to treason specifically so they'd be safe from the Lannisters. Things would have actually worked out pretty well if Joffrey wasn't a complete idiot about it - Eddark Stark in the Night's Watch could have altered the course of several events on the Wall.

Having said that his biggest mistake was made due his honor of course, by warning Cersei about what he knew and giving her a chance to strike first.

I'd love a Hunter and M/M+ only game where you are constantly outmatched and outclassed by everything at all. Maybe include ghouls and WB types as playable, too, but that's it.

That ghoul with Vigor 2? He's the PvP king.

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To me one of the basic parts of building up chemistry while roleplaying fights is to be on the same wave length with the other person(s?) about the style. I don't mean posing style or the verbiage involved, just... the general spirit of it.

For example a fight can be cinematic, full of backflips, walk-walking, heroic poses and such. It can also be more of a conversational piece full of banter, multi-sentence dialogue, taunting and generally stuff that ignores the physical vigor using it as a backdrop for other things. It can be also be hardcore super realistic (or at least what passes for that on MU*) with energy conservation being a primary concern, participants keeping track of how fatigue or minor injuries affect the spar going forward, etc.

Aside from the outcome, using dice or not... aside from all that, I think it's important everyone agrees beforehand how it's going to be, because mixing those things usually won't work well.

@Warma-Sheen Now that you're one of us let's make a coterie on the next nWoD MUSH. I'll roll Chris Hemsworth as a Gangrel.

It'll be glorious for the six weeks the MUSH thrives before everyone stops logging on.

XP is irrelevant if you can't buy anything with it.

If you're a regular mortal then even if you get 3-4 XP a week (which is a lot) you still won't keep up with a single enraged Uratha or Gangrel.

For mortals spreading that shit out is all you can really do. Having influences, maybe multiple hideouts, alternate identities... just trying to desperately stay a step ahead of an opposition which outclasses you in every conceivable way.

@silverfox Wtf, who wishes that on random people?

... It'd be creepier for men though. "Happy Father's Day!" "UHMM WHATNOW?"

@RDC said in The ethics of IC romance, TS, etc:

This whole thread is yet another reason why monogamy -astounds- and -confuses- me. I don't do it IC or IRL, and it kind of solves all these problems.

Understood, but what works for you doesn't necessarily work for everyone. Polyamory is just one such hot topic yet I'd bet there are lines you wouldn't cross but others would.

@Lotherio said in Game of Thrones:

Double ... For what its worth, I'm feeling over the abundance of comic genre and zombie genre and supernatural genre stuff on TV, if this heralds in a few more fantasy series in the end. Then I'm grateful they got in the dragon stuff and some of the magic and the general populace has taken to it in droves, could get a few more things out there I'd like to see in TV series format.

What worries me is this kind of stuff costs a lot of money and sooner or later there will be a bust. Probably sooner.

If you produce the next Vampire Diaries drama and it doesn't go well it's not a big deal because the fake fangs and colored contacts prosthetics aren't a big deal. Sink million dollars per episode into a Wheel of Time adaptation that doesn't work and suddenly the producers' narrative will shift wildly into 'oh, the public is tired of fantasy, let's go back to cop show procedurals'.

Sometimes it's unavoidable that someone is going to get pissed off or disappointed.

When I was much younger and the online RP thing was new I fucked up. I had a character in a WoT MUD who was 'bonded' to a character he had married; that's a pretty tight IC relationship, both on an IC social and mystical level.

At some point my partner's player's RL husband needed someone to play with him and she volunteered. I handled it poorly back then - with the excuse that my only alt was greatly impacted and there was no way out that wouldn't fundamentally change the character.

Well, boo-hoo. I still had no right to protest, and I could have made it work in some other way. In this case the other player did have the excuse of real life obligations trumping IC ones but really... it wasn't needed.

At the end of the day characters are expendable, and if they are not because of the time investment then the problem is investing so much time in the characters in the first place, not the reason that investment didn't pay off. Spoiler alert: Past a certain point it never can.

@surreality said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Ghost More amusingly, a friend of mine from MUing, about... 12 years ago? Got a cruise for two as part of a thank you from the company where she'd done some consulting.

Unless you're getting invited by friends to more vacations than average, I know the one in question and she was pretty awesome. I wonder if she's still MU*ing it out somewhere.

@HelloRaptor said:

Sure, me too. Are you suggesting that if a handful of people started rambling about how they'd love to make a MLP-Transformers Crossover game, like Beast Wars only with magical ponies, and all using the WoD system you wouldn't think it was some silly shit that would never see the light of day? Because I'm about 99% certain that you would point and laugh.

Does no one else get the urge to work together in a massive effort to produce this exact game then have 50+ prople on it just to piss @HelloRaptor on? We can do it, MSB!