Posts made by Arkandel

@emmahsue said in Freelance NPC Offer:

I want to RP.

HAVE YOU LEARNED NOTHING

(But it's a kind offer )

@faraday Please allow me to introduce you to the Greek taxation system.

When the financial crisis began the government came up with a brilliant, innovating way to tax people - based on 'expected future income'. So they'd tax you this year on what you made so far, and what they expect you to make next year... then the idea is they'll pay you for the difference. Of course calculating that difference takes a while - in some cases more than 365 days.

I also call that "taking people's stuff".

@sunny said in Armageddon MUD:

Good show at being an unrepentant asshole.

Please don't resort to personal insults. This isn't the Hog Pit.

@bobotron said in [Original Supernatural/Vampire MUSH] Houses of the Blood MUSH:

Anyone got any questions?

I'll take a few. Apologies if any of these have been covered since it's been a while since we've been at this.

• How important is a Vampire's age either in terms of prestige or actual power? I.e. how equal or not is an Elder to a neonate thematically and systematically?

• Is this a 'real world' MU* that follows real world history? If so how much of it has been shaped by the supernatural, and how well known is its existence among mortals?

• Who or what are the PCs' natural antagonists outside of each other? What do they have to fear?

@packrat said in Book Recommendations:

Also the fucked up solar system resulting would be a pretty great RPG or MUSH setting. Kind of a gritty space opera cyberpunk almost with everything from space-mafia vikings on hoverbikes with cybernetic eyes to Space Knights fighting aerial duels with cool sword/whip things. Also refugee camps, half smashed cities on a terraformed luna, etc.

The issue with games like this translating to a MU* is we'd never be able to get enough people to play the villains in the first place - which is an absolutely critical part of the setting.

Even if those were NPCed instead, that the concept of outsmarting your enemies is a major trope in the series as well, and it's one that traditionally doesn't get done well on MU* politics.

Having said all that, I'd still play the hell out of it if someone did it

Guys, please let's at least try to keep this relevant to the thread If your personal style doesn't use ideas that's great! Feel free to drop in some here for others who might need them though if you can spare them.

I thought it'd be fun to have a thread about concepts of both characters and plots that others could use.

What this thread is not for is tooting our own horn; no humblebragging about our amazing success with a character please, or posting plots which are so niche they could have only been used at that one game by ourselves.

The idea here is to give ideas for other people to use. Feel free to include others' ideas as long as you credit them (which is what I'm about to do).

So, to kick things off! This is a list of plots Eric Kripke - the creator of the TV show [i]Supernatural[/i] - tweeted about not getting a chance to use. Maybe it can be your next PrP!

Let's see your own!

@ganymede Due to your profession you're likely better informed than I am, but it always seems that we're only seeing the worst of what the police have to offer - the incidents in which someone gets hurt - which can obfuscate the majority of cases where things are properly investigated and handled by officers who aren't trigger happy, racist or just morons.

What I do blame the cops for is protecting their own when they're in the wrong. That's my real beef there... instead of isolating and making damn sure their own buddies who're breaking the law get treated to its full extent, there are persistent allegations they are instead doing everything they can to keep them out of trouble.

That's a goddamn no-no.

Let's take it easy here, folks.

@ortallus I really liked season 1, but the holiday special turned me off. One long take in the water for what seemed to be like... 20 minutes straight of just a montage happening was enough for me to lose interest. It felt really self indulgent, and I never got back into it.

@aria Have you read the books, btw?

@thenomain I find it disturbing you ignored the 'stache.

@ganymede said in The Basketball Thread:

@buttercup

I lean towards LeBron.

I concur. Even though MJ overcame incredible odds playing against players like Magic + KAJ +James Worthy, Drexler, Barkley, Ewing and of course John Stockton and Karl Malone, the times were different and so most of them weren't playing for the same team.

LeBron beat the San Antonio Spurs which is a team packed with Hall of Famers, and what he did against the Warriors was just incredible - MJ never faced anything like them.

Having said all that, if you asked me who the GOAT is, I want to strongly consider Kareem as well.

@ganymede said in The Basketball Thread:

Dude, I'm pretty sure that if you can't shoot the ball, you're not going to do well in basketball.

https://www.thesportster.com/basketball/15-nba-legends-who-couldnt-hit-a-three-pointer-if-their-lives-depended-on-it/

@ganymede said in The Basketball Thread:

@arkandel said in The Basketball Thread:

As for the rest, I don't know that I necessarily like where basketball is going at the moment, where shooting threes and length trumps all else. The strategy overvalues role players, but that's not great to watch - when I think of basketball I think of crossover dribbles and dunks, isolation defense and one on ones, not thirty corner threes a game.

This is what happens when college ball dominates and kids only stick in it for a year.

I think the worst thing about it is that it dooms players if they don't fit a very stringent set of physical criteria. I mean you always had super athletic people dominating - that won't and shouldn't change - but there was room in there for strong but slow guys, centers with niche skills like blocking, etc.

These days if you're over 6'8 but can't shoot the ball you're not going to do well. If you don't have a significant wingspan (something you can't do anything about) that's a mark against you - because you'll be unable to spread the floor for your guards, and you won't keep up with opponent bigs who can shoot.

I want the Pat Ewings and the Kareem Abdul-Jabars of the future to have a place, dammit.

For the Hog Pit specifically, please remember that the rules only forbid specific content from being posted - this means racism, misogyny, etc. It doesn't mean "you're an asshole and I hate you". Although personally I don't care for vicious personal attacks but if that's what y'all want to do with your spare time it's no business of mine moderation-wise.

My suggestion if you are offended by this sort of thing is to ask yourselves - what would Clark Kent do?

On top of it you can simply unsubscribe from the Hog Pit. It's always a good option if it gets under your skin.

@buttercup said in The Basketball Thread:

@ganymede Oden was such an elite prospect. But dude was secretly fifty years old.

There's a very good reason Oden was picked before KD. KD killed it in college, but Oden was still the better prospect.

It's a real shame.

As for the rest, I don't know that I necessarily like where basketball is going at the moment, where shooting threes and length trumps all else. The strategy overvalues role players, but that's not great to watch - when I think of basketball I think of crossover dribbles and dunks, isolation defense and one on ones, not thirty corner threes a game.

@lithium said in Internet Attacks? Why?:

But... does that really apply to MU*'s? Our anger and such tends to take a lot longer to build up to the point of ostracism.

It applies to MU* very well. I've encountered many people who were genuinely angry when they lost or even when they were getting close to losing, and treated the opposition - players, not characters - as exactly that.

I don't know any instances (or none comes to mind) of these things escalating all the way to real lift conflicts but I've seen players trying to get the other parties banned from games, who used friendly connections - even second degree ones - with staff to get the upper hand, and all of it in order to win a literally unwinnable game - which all MU* are.

All I can say is that it's easy to demonize people we don't know and assume the very worst for them.

@the_generic_one said in The trappings of posing:

I want to complain, too!

One of us! One of us!

• Breaking pose order. GTFO. This makes people rush out awful poses just so that they can have their say, and you often get one guy or girl who doesn't give a shit about the quality of their RP just spamming the scene so they can 'do all of the things'.

Notice though that doing all the things isn't mutually exclusive with observing pose order. I've seen plenty of people who obey round-robin then when it's their turn they become the Flash, rolling for stuff, talking to NPCs, healing the wounded, etc.

@meg said in Forum Bug?:

Speaking of, why do we even see if someone we ignore posts? i don't give a shit, man.

Ignoring users isn't a core functionality for nodebb. We're using the latest version of https://github.com/exo-do/nodebb-plugin-ignore-users , and that's about all I can do unless I import the repo and get my hands dirty, which iiiisn't gonna happen.

Plus the whole platform is like, fragile. We're due for another update but even with daily rotating backups I'm kinda worried to do it because once I hit that button anything can happen.