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@Arkandel said in Star vs Ensemble Cast - Why Theme is Vital:

@Auspice said in Star vs Ensemble Cast - Why Theme is Vital:

@Sunny said in Star vs Ensemble Cast - Why Theme is Vital:

ETA: Luna is the best. fite me.

She's actually my favorite, too.

Years ago and not long after I had finished reading the Harry Potter books I realized that online Luna had a strong following. This was a surprise to me because I literally barely remembered the character at all.

She was v. important to girls like me who were often shunned for being 'weird' since she found her niche and people who embraced and appreciated her.

@WTFE said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:

When you hit a new word reading, you need to check it in a dictionary before speaking it.

At the same time- don't make fun of people for mispronouncing a word. Since so, so many of us are like this. Tons of us are readers and introverts. We read and write words vastly more than we ever speak/hear them.

@Seraphim73 said in Consent in Gaming:

aftercare

MUs are BDSM?

So @Jealousy mentioned this and I tried it out for a brief bit right before bed. https://fivem.net/

...it's kind of hilarious. I mean, awkward because it's an environment I am so not used to, but holy shit y'all.

I got run over. Your health is way lower (at least on the server I joined). You can't respawn for 5 minutes. To give PC EMTs time to revive you.

So these two PCs showed up, threw down flares. One walked around and the other like, kneels down beside me and is doing shit like:
<name> checks for pulse.
in chat.

again, I'm sort of like okay. This is a new... whatever to me.
So I just put:
<my name> bleeds.
<Them> looks for source of blood.

At which moment another fucking car runs me over and just blood everywhere from the legs.
<My name> definitely bleeds from the legs. Totally the legs. Yep.

I mean, ten kinds of ridiculous, but whatever. It's GTA, y'know?

I think so long as people get that I will never, ever take myself seriously, I might have fun with this. Just haven't decided if I'm gonna rage hard as a criminal or gonna try to join the cops to fuck with the criminals.

I joined the LARP server since it's fairly (about a month old) new.

... is anyone else gonna try this?

@Wretched said in Carnival Row:

@Auspice What special thing is in the basement?!

Elysium.

And fuck instant grits.

And fuck polenta.

And an extra fuck you to anyone who tries to conflate cream of wheat and grits.

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

If I'm wrong about that, then I'm at a loss to even define any common characteristic of all MUSHes, lol

Unfortunately, I don't think it'll happen either way. It seems to me another of those scenarios of 'without a perfect description that covers even edge cases, we cannot have a consensus and thus must quibble over minutiae.'

@Tinuviel said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:

@Auspice Fuck you, I love polenta. It's great for when you need to mulch a small garden space.

@Arkandel said in Embracing Rejection:

But there is a gray no-man's land in the middle where we're strangers, and 'rejection' can either lead to trust or very rapidly detract from it.

At the same time, if you go into an unknown game and assume the worst of staff: that trust will never occur.

Which is partly what I'm speaking to. When we are players, we need to extend at least a modicum of trust until/unless it is broken. Because when I am Staff and someone comes in right off the bat being aggressive and treating me as if I'm just an obstacle to be overcome... it hurts my trust.

And that's why I brought up the respect component. There needs to be respect of Staff and Staff needs to show respect to players.

@Ghost said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:

@Auspice said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:

And fuck instant grits.

And fuck polenta.

And an extra fuck you to anyone who tries to conflate cream of wheat and grits.

Cream of Wheat is wheatygritz

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

@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.

But it's not.

If you log onto a game like WoW (or another MMO), there is so much slang and weird acronyms and concepts. If it's your first time, the General chat is just a mass of confusing 'W2B BBQ WTF ASAP $$$555 SPM'

Yet new people join those games all the time. The 'lack of a common knowledge glossary' is not remotely a barrier to entry.

But speaking to @Ghost and his post: what most multiplayer games offer is a vacuum. I can log onto SWtoR and play without talking to anyone. I can team up with someone to clear out an area and never say a word.

They make it very easy for those who are anti-social and social to co-exist. And while people can go onto games and shut off all channels, page-lock the game........ by nature of what we do it's harder to be involved.

The worst a potential employer can say is no.

I am the most anxious bundle of anxiety in the world and I can handle interviews and applying for jobs without breaking a sweat because of this tidbit of knowledge. It's so simple, but it was something someone told me when I was about 18 and it just sort of sank in like a '...huh, you're right.'

And every so often, I remind myself and it's this instant sense of calm.

They cannot do anything else. They cannot affect me in any other way. My life will not change in any way, shape, or form.

The worst they can say is no.

@Prototart said in Embracing Rejection:

if you wanna go, like, BnB detail

[flashback intensifies]

@Ghost said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:

@Auspice said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:

@Coin said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:

@Auspice said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:

And fuck instant grits.

And fuck polenta.

And an extra fuck you to anyone who tries to conflate cream of wheat and grits.

Man, I pity your taste buds if you hate polenta because that means no one's made it right for you.

I've tried making it for myself and it was super 'meh' and the name is really close to placenta so it falls solidly into 'NOPE' territory.

Since you ruined polenta for me (because I will now always see placenta instead of polenta), I will ruin something for you.

Imagine The Offspring as always being sung by Weird Al Yankovic, because Dexter Holland's voice isn't so different.

Yeah, that has no effect on me.

Fellas: the color of your lips is (supposedly) the same color as your member!
Ladies: the color of your areola is (supposedly) the best color of lipstick for you! So get to color-matching!

(In my case they already fell into the spectrum of lipstick I already wear most often, so I guess I am fashionista..)

@insomniac7809 said in Consent in Gaming:

@Thenomain said in Consent in Gaming:

What, people sometimes play games to portray special snowflakes? Gasp! It's like people see cool things in media and want to enact those!

Yeah, the thing is, tho...

If Gregory House always makes everything all about him, that's not a problem. House is already about House. It's right in the name.

MU*s are collaborative fiction works where the authors are also kinda actors and also we're the audience. Structures have to be different.

And while everyone should want to be cool... there's that joke about how an RP group playing Firefly would be five Rivers and maybe a Jayne. Follow your RP bliss, but like, if everyone's the quirky outsider nobody is...

Wash. 100%. But I love me a good crack pilot.

A friend came in from out of town yesterday to go to lunch and she also gave me advance-housewarming gifts. Like, insanely generous ones. I have a Google Home now!

...and also a snitch (as in from Harry Potter) fidget spinner. I didn't know they made such things. And if I had, I would have lusted after one. It is amazing and almost as giddy-fun as the Google Home.

@Goblin said in Which device do you play from?:

so I can hook a regular keyboard to it, cause there is no chance in hell I'll ever learn to type fast enough on it to be able to RP efficiently.

This reminds me that I need to dig my little bluetooth keyboard out. The one that came with my iPad's cover has the worst battery life. If I, over the course of lunch, use it intermittently (so intermittent use over the course of an hour).... it dies.

But somewhere I have a bluetooth keyboard with a better life and I can, theoretically, attach magnets to it to take advantage of the case.

Just be in lust with @Coin.

@Testament said in Which device do you play from?:

Duckclient(which I don't think gets enough love)

it gets more love than it deserves. I use it at work and hate it.

How can a client not parse percent signs correctly?!