Posts made by Arkandel

@Aria said in RL things I love:

that I have 19 butts".

Don't worry though, we don't kink shame here.

@lordbelh Yeah. I think Lawrence has legitimately become my favorite fantasy author even though he's (probably?) not as well known as the usual big names in the field.

Plus the Red Queen trilogy had a much easier character to like than Broken Empire. His own personality uh, issues and redemption arc were handled in a completely different way yet such a satisfying one.

***=What I quite love in both series were the depth of ideas, some of which I had never seen tackled before. For example in Broken Empire Jorg is dealing with an enemy who's ***

@Derp said in Books...Books...Books....:

Currently reading the Broken Empire trilogy. About 75% of the way through Prince of Thorns. I absolutely love it.

Just wait until the follow-up trilogy. It's set in the same world, and it fucking rocks.

@Seamus I'm really sorry.

@silverfox Enjoy!

@silverfox The Readers category should now be visible to all registered users (i.e. it's opt-out, not opt-in). Please let me know if that's not the case.

@reimesu said in Books...Books...Books....:

@silverfox I'm in the same boat: I had no idea that the book forum existed or how to access it.

Fair enough. Let's change that.

@silverfox said in Books...Books...Books....:

I was guided step by step how to find the hog pit after almost a year of knowing it existed

I hope you found it in your heart to forgive the person who did this to you.

@silverfox You know there's a whole forum category for books. https://musoapbox.net/category/14/readers

@RDC said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

@Admiral as long as I'm not the other one. XD

/r/AITA, MSB edition.

@RightMeow said in Post-Covid 19 world:

People now can purchase surround sound that is as good (or better) than theaters. They can order big screen tvs. They have their own snacks. --- My family and I were talking about this the other day. - What kind of (if any) impact you think this is going to hit in that industry?

Assuming production companies don't want to just sit on their finished big budget films indefinitely they will probably release it to home viewers.

This creates a cat out of the bag kind of scenario. People will get used to it and will expect it going forward, the effect of which is hard to predict. We might actually have seen cinemas' heyday, and they might become a bit of a curiosity for old diehards.

Re: My Landlord Did A Bad.

A couple of weeks ago our landlord mentioned they're selling the house we're leasing. Fine, whatever - there was a (small) chance the new owner might move in, in which case we'd need to find a new place, but that was months away.

Then their real estate agent started mentioning showing the house. To people. In the middle of a freakin' pandemic, having strangers walk in and poke around. The guy even 'asked' us if we could kindly not be at home when people came, and to take our dogs with us.

Yeah, that did not end up happening, especially after displeasure was expressed in many forms, including reaching out to legal resources.

I think this might be a good discussion (if we keep it constructive ).

How do you think - if you think - our societies will change as a result of Covid-19 once this crisis is over? Please let's assume a more or less predictable progression for it since there's no good way to speculate otherwise; a few more months of fighting to flatten the curve, then the combined efforts of medical professionals and social isolation finally stopping it with the occasional localized outbreak.

But assuming that's the case what happens next? How will things shape out? For example:

• Do you think western societies will adopt Universal Basic Income models?
• Do you think industries which attract large crowds (sports, entertainment, etc) will stay the same?
• Will traveling in general be affected? Not just in the political sense but for example how might tourism change after this?
• What about films, do you think there might be a shift away from major releases going exclusively to cinemas first?
• The service industry in general took a major hit. What happens down the line, do things get back to normal?

And so on. It could be a fun (or scary) thought exercise while we're all socially isolated anyway.

@Apollonius I'll leave this in the Constructive section of the forum for now although... I don't see it.

@hamstersonPcP said in Testing the Waters for Battletech Interest:

So it's no secret that the active MU* community is always hungry for new Superhero and World of Darkness games that step past the sins of their fathers, even if keeping that momentum can be a bit of a hat trick

I think a lot of us are waiting for the Next Big Thing; an ambitious, well executed project whose creators won't abandon it to its fate by calling it a sandbox after it opens.

If it's Battletech or anything else I'm not sure it will matter too much. Make it obvious it's something you're invested in, and people will come.

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

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

I've been making the same argument over here, reminding folks that as a matter of international law they are different. Seems nobody cares.

It's not about the law. It never was. If it was, then people would care what the law actually says. It's about white supremacists wanting to be white supremacists while pretending they're not white supremacists, that's all.

Note that in Europe racism is (slightly) different. It's not about skin color per se, there is plenty of racism against people who look paler than the local populace but come from the 'wrong' country. All it takes is to sound different, follow another religion, even to speak a variation of your language - not even a different one!

The other factor there is poverty. The southern countries are not in good shape, and that's very fertile ground for racism to take hold because there can be legitimate arguments about how viable it is to host seemingly endless waves of refugees. International treaties (EU ones, in this case) are actually to blame.

For instance once someone hits Greece's shores they cannot be allowed to move onto northern Europe which, let's face it, is what they actually want. They need to go through legal procedures and be accepted by the wealthier countries, which takes lengthy procedures and oversight. Nor can they be sent back, for the most part, not because of humanitarian reasons (I wish...) but because in many cases they purposefully don't have any papers - those get destroyed before the journey back.

So while things are somehow figured out the refugee camps just swell in size and numbers, the host country can't afford to improve their conditions, and they can't leave. That's a pretty explosive combination in the long term.

I am just so disappointed in people. It brings the worst in me. I was watching a video (one of many) from Greece where refugees on a boat were being 'welcomed' by the local racist brigade.

I get it. It's hard when you are already facing financial hardships to see illegal immigrants arrive by any and all means to put even more stress on the country it's easy to react badly. And on the other hand it's easy for me as a (legal...) immigrant to sympathize with one group while not having to face the music of that massive financial collapse taking place in southern Europe.

But god fucking dammit it's women and children on a fishing boat. Like twenty of them, that whole thing seemed about to topple over. They just crossed a pretty stormy sea (this was in February after all) to get there; they are wet, tired, and as vulnerable as someone can be - they have no legal status, don't speak the language of the country they're in, and have no certainty about their future in the long or short term and probably scared as hell.

So guy who's standing there glaring at them from the safety of the shore when they're just rocking away on that tiny boat, when someone points out there are children involved maybe your immediate reaction should not be to yell "well we didn't get those sluts pregnant, just get them the fuck away from here", if for no other reason than that I really don't like deeply hating anyone, yet I really fucking hate you.

@Admiral said in Bad TV:

The characters do stupid stuff for sake of plot instead of organic reactions to situations.

Although overall I enjoyed the show, this bugged me so much.

Sometimes the good guys would win a fight but do something really fucking stupid just to promote the plot.

@Dillinger Seconded.

Also what are the coded features? For example is there such a thing as persistent character sheets? Or is it closer to a virtual gaming table relying on externally stored sheets, manual bot-based dice rollers, etc?

Would you folks who're still having issues getting e-mails from MSB please try again? We're now using an external mailer instead which should (hopefully permanently) take care of it.