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brb going to play Ghost's He Is at Mass

I want one that says 'I'm silently correcting your grammar' so I can giggle to myself a lot

@Ghost said in GMs: Typical Player/GM Bad Habits:

...it's rude to Google "how to make C4" while connected to the Wi-Fi on someone else's router.

tbh I've Googled far worse.

The plight of being an author.

Anyway, the GM Bad Habit I wanna throw out there. This one def. comes from TT, but I have seen it in MUs (just less often):

The GM who thinks they can design monsters, but they don't have anyone vet/test their work.

It is really super un-fun to go up against some custom Monster-of-the-Week your GM made and is oh-so-proud-of that has every resistance ever, every advantage ever, stats way over anything similar, etc etc etc

'Oh but I based it on a CR5-'
Yeah and then you jacked it up to a CR15. While we're all level 6 and you sent four of them after us.

Similarly to this:
Your custom creature doesn't get to just break the core system rules. 'Oh well this is a custom monster/NPC/etc so they don't adhere to the rules of initiative/social rolls/whathaveyou.' No, those rules apply to everything. There's some GM handwavium that's allowed, but when it's blatantly obvious you made something just to fuck with a single PC, it's kind of frustrating.

Put other roadblocks or challenges in the way, but a rule-breaking monster that basically just says 'ha ha nope I keel you' to a PC. That's upsetting to that PC and the party.

@Derp said in The Work Thread:

@Macha said in The Work Thread:

@Arkandel At first I read Jenkins/Ansible as Jensen Ackles and wondered wtf that was doing in a tech conversation

I read "conversation" as "convention" as was like "shit, I would go to that to see him be all hot and nerdy."

SxSW.
His family's brewery generally gets involved in some fashion and he is usually present.

@Ghost said in Sexuality: IC and OOC:

@Trix hahaaha yes. That is exactly what is going on with the movies. It's like...

The empty movie theater seat in between ABSOLUTELY makes it clear that it's two dudes seeing a movie together but ARE NOT ON A DATE. They don't ever really discuss that they're putting a seat in between for this reason, but then assume that the empty seat between them exists as a COFFEE TABLE for them to put their snacks on.

This is a peeve when I go to screenings.
They over book those things. Meaning every seat is gonna be filled.

But guys invariably sit down, space out, and then you get in with the 1-3 people you came with and there's only singular seats here and there until a crowd of people are standing around with no consecutive seats and the employees have to come in and yell at them to move in closer.....

....and even then some still try to surreptitiously put their jacket or something down to 'hold' a seat until an employee calls them out specifically.

@insomniac7809 said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

People who insist that 2020 isn't the start of a new decade.

Being pedantic and obnoxious is one thing; I generally approve of it. Being pedantic and obnoxious and wrong because you learned a pedantic obnoxious fact twenty years ago and are trying to trot it out where it doesn't apply is inexcusable.

but if they're wrong isn't 2020 the year they should see clearly?

@Rinel said in Cyberrun:

@Tinuviel said in Cyberrun:

"Death has all but been eradicated while bioengineering and cyber-augmentations mean running into an 85 year old in a 12 year old body..."

Um.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FjWe31S_0g

Alternatively:

One of the really sweet things about my job is that people will find food things they think would be good for someone else. Most commonly people with dietary restrictions (we are all conditioned to look for kosher stuff for my one teammate, for example!). You find it, you leave it on that person's desk.

Today's the first time I've come in to find something on mine: honey pops. I assume since I've been sick, but still a super sweet gesture and one I really appreciate.

A couple quick points:

It's not the codebase / system. I can tell you for absolute fact that a ton of teenagers and young adults RP on Tumblr and on forums much like this one. Shit that isn't advanced or full of bells and whistles.

The above said? They don't give a fuck about most of what we're fans of. Our fandoms and theirs are totally different. But I bet if you ran a Homestuck MU they'd come in droves.

@faraday Fara, I love you, but I gotta call you out on the millennial thing.

Millennials are in their thirties now. Anyone born after about 1994 is Gen Z and that's the group we're largely talking about.

@SinCerely said in The Crafting Thread:

@Kanye-Qwest

This is all your fault.

The golden ratio is invading my work.

ETA I don't know why it's giving a subject warning but spirals are quite sexy. Beware.

I find the fibonnaci sequence to be hella sexy.
I actually like including it in my knitting when I can.

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

It's a bit fuzzy, too, exactly what the hobby itself is given that the hobby is shared with automated bot-killing MUDs and heavy code-fixated MOOs.

I always get annoyed by this.

MOO is a codebase. That's all.
Every single MOO I have played on bar one was code-light and RP-heavy. Most had way, way less code than your average WoD game. WNOHGB (Trek game) was the only code-heavy one and it was still RP-focused.

I've encountered MUSH/MUX (the two Crystal Singer games back in the day come to mind) that is just as code heavy as people wanna insist MOO is.

for the crafty types.

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

Pose length and what to put in my poses -- I didn't realize it was expected that I should not only write what my character does, but that everyone (or the majority of folks) in the scene with me generally expects to be acknowledged, usually by name.

I'll be frank: this one has always vexed me.

There is not always a reason for my character to acknowledge yours every single round, but I have absolutely had people throw fits at me for 'ignoring' them...

And honestly? I don't remember it always being that way.

Does it suck if no one acknowledges you? Sure. But I also, personally, don't give a shit if a couple people don't. So long as I have someone/thing to respond to (and that people I specifically address react), I'm good.

But if my PC says to Bob, 'Hey Bob, that's a nice hat you're wearing today,' I don't expect Ken, Sally, and Jenny to also all react to my compliment.

Saw Cats tonight.
You get past the weirdness pretty quickly; in part I think because it is like watching the show and the dancing is distracting from the 'omg they're furry and tails and..'

Anyway.

Whole movie worth it for Jennifer Hudson singing Memories. At least imo.

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

If wanting to make it clear the player was noticed without actually addressing them, I might include them with a simple X doesn't notice Y coming through the door, but keeps doing Z, but I never felt this was expected or dictated by convention on any of the games I've played.

I think it is a very small minority who expect to be acknowledged every round by every person.

...unfortunately, it is a very vocal minority. As I said, I've had people get angry at me for not acknowledging that thing they're doing over there away from my PC.

From a coworker:
'The trick is to get so overwhelmed that it doesn't even matter anymore. That's where I'm at.'

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

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

@Derp

Ares web portal supports YouTube videos.
MediaWiki doesn't

That makes it an auto win in my book.

It's cool! I'm just really brand new to this one and so I'm still trying to wrap my head around what is and is not familiar. I don't mind learning the different stuff. My thing is more 'how much of a learning curve is customization going to be', which also isn't a big deal either way. Just trying to get a handle on expectations.

I think it's a very easy transition. Ares natively provides so much for you. If you know markup, divs,and css? You're good.

And you don't even specifically need the second two.

Fara also provided a link to markup on every input box.

EDIT: if anyone wants to click around an Ares web portal, I can provide a temp pass to my testing character. It exists purely for me to test cg shit.