I sometimes do public scenes outside PrPs but not always. The reason is simple - I don't always like how they escalate; you start with two or three people and within twenty minutes there are six or seven.
At that point I'm not having as much fun. It can still be when there's structure - such as in a plot - but otherwise it's just not for me.
What I dislike about character replacements in comics is that they sometimes feel - to me - like a writer's pet project. Someone wants to try and create a 'better Spider-man' so Ben Reilly or whoever comes along to pick up the mantle.
If a writer has the chops to make a character interesting enough for me to read about, publish a comic about them. A separate one. Maybe they're right and I will, maybe they're not and I won't, but sticking them in a familiar suit won't do the trick; if I pick up an issue of Spider-man there better be Peter Parker in it.
And I say that accepting the hypocrisy in that I'm quite fond of Ultimate Spider-man, and in that I really liked Tim Drake than any other incarnation of Robin.
Our moluccan cockatoo; a pink engine of flirtatious chaos.
She can be quite a handful, and does her best to take over a household (all half a pound of her) but she's a blast. When she's mad she screams "PRETTY BIRD!" at you aggressively - in her language it means something completely offensive.
She loves Queen, rap and Beyonce. I'm currently teaching her to appreciate Iron Maiden.
@Rook said:
I believe in a meritocracy, where you get where you belong because of your skills and behavior. No more "<X> is better than <Y>" when talking about sexes, races, credos or orientations.
What I dislike is the idea of equality being enforced where it doesn't belong.
For example I've had debates with people insisting women can be just as fast/strong athletes at the top level as men; that is simply not true. While the average female athlete could kick the ass of the average male non-athlete, there's no way say, a female basketball player at the top level could compete with her male counterparts. They would excel at things where weight or balance are more valued.
That doesn't mean anything else. It's got nothing to do with worth or value. It's not supposed to be a slight on anyone; it's just a fact.
Also @HelloRaptor quoted me as posting that, which I didn't, but we're used to him doing that by now. 
What bugs me about events is that they keep rebooting characters and replacing them with newer, temporary versions. I hate that.
@Misadventure said:
Oh I was unclear. This is a RL MMO. You get text messages that give you missions and you check in at places, scan receipts. Send me my monay.
I am fascinated to hear what "O" means in your RL MMO.
</pedantic bastard>
@Misadventure said:
I should make an MMO called "You go out, go to clubs, visit tourist locations, go to bars, get food, go to shops, pay $10/month to be told what to do.."
Worst. Name. Ever.
@HelloRaptor said:
People say that a lot, @Arkandel, but it rarely comes up how much money those fat cat CEOs bring into the company. Through their connections, through their influence, through any number of things that have a vastly wider scope and impact on the bottom line than the blood and sweat of Faceless Workerbots 1-500.
Sometimes they make money. Sometimes they lose money - way more than any single employee could possibly lose it, yet the golden parachute clauses ensure they go away still making a killing. While the random guy who gets laid off for whatever reason (it can be that he got sick and they didn't give a shit or that he's a lazy jerk) gets peanuts.
In other words, CEOs - or highly ranked managers in general - don't necessarily generate revenue for their company.
An old favorite is the CEO making a statement they just can't accord to keep everyone so <X> people need to lose their jobs, when s/he's personally paid a thousand times what they make.
So, in essence, they could have cut the same costs by getting rid of the CEO and kept a thousand people employed - which of course would have been the crazy thing to do.
@Bobotron said:
I started watching Bitten on Netflix. It's not a terrible werewolf show by any means, so far (I'm 3 eps in), for being based on a werewolf set of YA books like the Vampire Diaries. Laura Vandervoort does pretty damn good in this, she has much better direction than the LAST thing I saw her in, Smallville.
I watched season 1 of that and it was fun - but then again I'm a sucker for will-they won't-they. Season 2... meh. I wasn't into it.
@icanbeyourmuse It's not even noon on a Friday. My sarcasm detector isn't ready for this. 
@Rook said:
So, maybe something to think about is removing locations from any OOC commands. +finger, +where, etc. +hangouts and equivalent simply show numbers. Force people to communicate to find or arrange RP. Force people to use the hangouts to wait for happenstance scenes. Force people to be adults.
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I don't see how making RP harder to find is the more adult thing to do.
It occurs to me the adult thing to do is to make people resolve their own interpersonal problems.
I had underestimated Silicon Valley so much. That series is hilarious. The second season is killing it.
@Thenomain said:
@Arkandel said:
Here's the thing... what we are conceivably trying to do here is have code to protect people from stalkers.
We are?
The part I was responding to, @Sunny's initial pitch, was about that. I wasn't referring to the entire thread.
@Sunny said:
<logs on an unknown alt>
<types "WHO", "WHERE", etc>
<profits>The command would, sensibly, be based on an IP or some sort of +alts system. So it would be a little more involved than just logging an alt in.
Here's the thing... what we are conceivably trying to do here is have code to protect people from stalkers. And these are folks who, if nothing else, tend to be extremely capable and spare no effort when it comes to stalking - they'll go through great lengths, reroll alts, create alternative online identities and they will absolutely use proxies to log on the MUSH. Hell, they can simply run to the Starbucks at the corner to log on from its wifi. To people like this that's not at all too much trouble, it's exactly the right amount of trouble.
And as this is supposed to be code specifically protecting players from stalkers, it wouldn't work.
@Coin Pay zero attention to weight. Zero, weight is meaningless most of the time. Pay attention to how you feel, and how your clothes fit you.
It's been a long time since I had implemented this on Tyme but if I remember correctly this is how it went:
Players had a flag to signify if they were IC or OOC. If you were flagged IC you couldn't claim your character wasn't in a room - this was so catching spies was feasible as there were ways to be invisible. If you were flagged OOC you could still explore the grid, go anywhere you liked, etc but you couldn't see other people's poses.
Players had a flag to signify they were looking for RP. It'd revert to off after a period of time and after certain events to help avoid false positives.
The +where command (well, its equivalent) showed you no names. It only showed you how many people flagged IC were in each room. If any of them was flagged as looking for RP you could also teleport there directly without need to go through the +meetme/+agree handshake, otherwise of course you could be summoned over.
It was an easy system so it saw good use.
I never found RP channels to be worth much since they're spammy when you don't want them and pretty serendipitous when you do - since everyone must be looking at the same time to see it.
@Rook said:
I never understood why a simple +IGNORE-like command made you unfindable to people whom you don't want stalking you. Maybe another level could hide you from simple WHO, +WHO, +WHERE, +HANGOUTS when they run them.
<logs on an unknown alt>
<types "WHO", "WHERE", etc>
<profits>
Has anyone watched the new episode of True Detective yet? If so, without too many spoilers, what did you think of it?