@skew said in Choosing a MU Server:
Not sure if this is the point of this thread, but... Do you have an example of AresMUSH's web portal/web site/whatever? I seem to recall the one game I saw with it (7th sea? pirates something something) was still using mediawiki.
8th Sea chose to use it for aesthetic purposes primarily. They did also have some things on their web portal.
BSGU's is still active: http://bsgu.aresmush.com/
@saosmash said in RL things I love:
RL things of today I love:
Cats that love pets so much they stand up or jump to get to the hand.
In a similar vein: when they want attention so they climb up in your lap and facerub.
@tempest said in Genosha (Interest Poll):
Disagreements are, of course, to be expected, but they should be kept to a professional capacity: disagree with the idea, not the person. Attack the idea, not the person. Posts containing personal attacks will be deleted.
It's looking like people can take disagreements and criticism of their ideas as personal attacks and just yell how they feel insulted and shut down dissenting voices.
You directly attacked Faraday, which is in violation of what you quoted above.
Additionally, I had specifically requested people take the argument out of this thread as it is not a place for it.
You have a thread where you can say whatever you wish now, please take it there.
I'm gonna be that guy and say that this might be best for the Game Dev board and I will gladly move it there (then an official announcement once you're open can be put here).
But hey, I'm excited! I've wanted to open an Expanse game myself and have a lot of ideas, but I am HELLA BUSY.
It's hard to have 'things I love' right now because being off my meds has been hitting me really, really hard the past few days.
But I managed another perfect 100 in my last class. It was a Sci-fi/Fantasy workshop, in fact. I still need to put the sci-fi story up on my portfolio site (I know at least one person was interested in reading it). The fantasy one is being held back; it's a three-part that will work as a prologues to a trilogy I've been working on for some time.
@faraday said in Midnight MUSH:
@wizz What is Waffle? (in this context, I mean)
I am trying to think of a way to summarize what it is, but it's sort of like a... to-do list / issue tracker that ties directly into GitHub. Very handy for development processes if you're working on a project that has a Git repo.
(And I am assuming that is what they are using, but considering it's a dev project...)
@faraday said in The OOC Masquerade ?:
@Jaded said in The OOC Masquerade ?:
I had more fun on that character than on my other Reach characters precisely because people could not be 100% certain whom or what they were dealing with. I think in this case the whole keeping up with wikis and adding PBs was more harmful to creating RP than facilitating it.
That's totally legit, and I'm not trying to downplay your fun in that instance. Everybody's playstyle is different.
But just to offer the counter-example... on BSG:U I had a character whose backstory included being from a moon with an ongoing insurrection, and being a part of this dramatic siege/evacuation incident earlier in the war. While I'm sure I could have milked some drama doling this out as a surprise, I had at least a half-dozen deep character relationships sparked because other players had read that info in my character wiki and hooked into it somehow. Both in terms of "Oh we should have these guys butt heads - it'll be awesome" and in terms of "Let's make up a shared backstory since we were both part of The Incident/both from Insurrection Moon." That was awesome, and couldn't have happened on a closed-OOC-info game.
It also enables people to run plot.
"Ooh, I really like what you have going there and it gives me ideas. Mind if I use it as a hook for some plot?"
I went to the NaNoWriMo kick-off here in Austin last night. It was a huge event. I was an ML for the city I lived in in SC for 6 years and I think we got like, 30? people at most for events. This was at least 100 people at its peak.
Other than the two people who pulled the 'I have you cornered now let me tell you, person I just met, intimate details about my life,' I had a great time. Ended up mostly talking with two ladies at my table (one from New Zealand; oh the accent) at length.
One of them was saying how she loves writing the slice of life moments in the course of her novel. We discussed how the day-to-day life of Tony Soprano is what made him lovable as a character, for example.
Her favorite, apparently, is how people do their laundry. To her, it says a lot about a person and a lot can happen in the course of doing laundry (the laundry room on BSU proves this >.>).
It got me thinking how fun a collection of short stories about people doing laundry could be to write.
The hungover college student in the dorm laundry room...
The new mother...
Military members after a battle...
The business woman trying to get coffee out of her blouse...
It'd be silly and I doubt anyone would want to read it, but it'd be fun to write.
In theory I'd love a zombie survival game.
In practice, from the ones I've played, they turn into Homemaker Simulator 3000 where people just wanna RP settling a town and shacking up together.
I feel like zombie games fall into the same category as, say, an Alien game*: they're best as a O/TT with a small group.
*With the new TT coming out, I've been trying to figure out how one would work and still evoke the same imagery and such as the movies.
HOLY SHIT.
Another classmate got back to me re: my 'Hey, how did your feedback / call with our instructor go?'
(Edited to remove personal info:)
I'd love to discuss this at length should you find the time. I'd greatly prefer we have this conversation either by telephone or through an alternate email address.
The best email address for me is [redacted].
My phone number is [redacted].
A text or email from you prior to a call with your initials and the area code means I'd pick-up if I were able.
If you wish to dialogue further, I'd like your de facto "NDA" anything we discuss remain confidential.
I can say this isn't the first such request I've received in this class; the others have been from students with self-esteem and a strong sense of right and wrong.
@Derp said in To OOC Room or Not to OOC Room (and Other Artifacts):
As someone who started their staff life as a builder, I can't tell you the amount of times that I've had someone request 10+ room builds because clearly the bedroom needs a master bathroom, that's gonna see a lot of RP,
I've been build staff on a few WoD games now and I limit people by Resources.
'Oh you have Resources 1 but you want a 10 bedroom mansion? HA HA NO'
I dislike huge grids. I know some people love them, but when a city is broken down STREET BY STREET what I see a lot of is each street having 0 or maybe 1 point of interest on average and then most of those that exist being defunct.
Grid a city by district. It's SO much easier to navigate and you can then cluster together the points of interest.
But I can count on my hand the number of times I've had a 'street room' scene and have fingers left over.
I had an interview this morning (just with a recruiting firm, so it likely won't lead anywhere). I wore my favorite dress (gray w/black polkadots, midi-length, sleeveless, a-line) because it was easier than hemming and hawing over matching skirt/top combos.
I didn't put makeup on this morning because I was feeling a bit rundown and ran out of time. I also just didn't fucking feel like it.
So while I was in 'yay cute dress,' I also wasn't feeling 100% about myself. Esp. 'cause I also forgot: 'oh sleeveless dress means my tattoo is visible.' ahem.
But post-interview, while outside waiting for Lyft, a woman walking by said I was 'super cute.' It really made my day.
I just wanna play a cyberpunk game is the game gonna be a real deal >.>
a) My boss messaged me with 'Have a few minutes to chat? (it's good stuff)'
THANK YOU for the qualifier. Yes.
b) Finally secured the promotion they tossed at me a few weeks back. It's only a 50c an hour raise and requires I work Sat/Sun and until 8 (vs 7) during the week since I'm being transitioned into an office lead role... but I'll take it.
... I will def. need a car soon tho since I'll still be starting work at 9am.
(I work 9a-12p from home, then come into the office... And that schedule will stay the same, so I'll technically be working 6 days a week... But Tues it'll be just 3 hours and Sun it'll be just 5)
I haven't been in an ST'd action-y scene in a while. Been in some that are more sort of casual, 'get into the plot' or info dump-y, but not one that's got ze action. So tonight's scene on Notion was awesome. 
(As someone put it: all it was missing was a wizard to be D&D-esque)
Especially considering my Caitian was the one that opened the crate of catnip the away team discovered. I'm almost sad that we had to wrap the scene for time on that pose because I'm still giggly imagining the cadets dealing with a stoned El-Tee who just got a face full of DRUGS.
@Tempest said in SerenityMUSH - Discussion:
@Tinuviel said in SerenityMUSH - Discussion:
@Thenomain Yeah, all the others are the werewolves trying to bang her. Obviously.
In my experience, it's usually the other way around. Ten 5'0" or shorter wolfblooded with 'hourglass figures' and 'long legs' trying to bang the same two (very poorly played) werewolf guys with PBs from Sons of Anarchy.
Or Jensen Ackles.
That PB has become such a huge red flag I swear to god. Too many games of seeing him and wanting to very promptly RUN AWAY.
(I've seen this one like, 3 times this week and I still crack up every.single.time.)
