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someone in the universe sensed my love of absurd golf games

What's depressing in life is all I truly want out of the NFL this year is a Super Bowl without the Patriots and that's probably the hardest ask of all.

@Arkandel said in PC vs Player Assumptions:

I fondly remember @Coin's reaction when I misread his set at one point and thought combat was about to start, leading to me shifting out of the blue into full Garou murderform in the middle of the street at some random time while people were still just getting out of their cars and shit.

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

@Auspice Santa Porg > whatever else is out there.

cannot deny.

this is plain ol' #firstworldproblem irk

I can't decide between the Harry Potter or Star Wars LEGO Advent Calendar

I guess it's their reply to the KFC Dating Sim.

...I still think KFC wins.

The reason we ask these on SGM is that we use them. We take them into consideration.

You're also welcome to update them later on.

If your character just really really love fishing, cool.
If they have a deep, abiding hatred for Chevy and everything related to the brand because it was a Chevy that done killed their father late that Winter night in '88 when a driver came down the mountain road and the brakes went out due to an unreported fault in the system....well.

@mietze

Yeah, I never base someone on that first interaction. But I absolutely feel nerves going into that first interaction (not the scene itself: having to discuss something).

It definitely comes from a few interactions. How do they respond? How do they follow up?

After a handful of times, there's enough rapport that I know. I learn if they're someone I can page on the spot or if it's better to @mail (so they can chew it over and respond on their own time). If they're someone who feels more at-ease if I include emoticons or if they'd rather it just be blunt and straightforward. If I need to couch it in soothing verbiage (the 'hey this is nothing bad, we just need to talk about some plot stuff') or if I can just jump right in.

There are a lot of factors.

I consider this all part of ethical staffing.

@Arkandel said in PC vs Player Assumptions:

@Auspice said in PC vs Player Assumptions:

I've encountered people who rail so hard at 'being wrong' that they get incredibly upset about it. You can approach it as being helpful, wanting to make sure no wires got crossed, and it becomes the end of the world.

Once egos get in the way RP goes out the window. The moment your character's success or failure at anything begins to reflect emotionally to you as a person there's no coming back from it.

This is far, far from a rare condition. In fact all but a handful of players I've ever met in MU* were truly immune to it; most are simply able to handle it. Some fail, often in spectacular ways. But it's really not a given in any way.

Many (most) of us want to think we're immune to it and unfortunately that only compounds the issue. I know it's something that I am steadily improving in myself. Like anything in life, I am always a work in progress.

But as I said: if I know someone, I know how they will respond if I approach them. If I don't know them, I have no way of knowing if they'll go 'awesome! I totally missed that, thanks for letting me know.' or if they'll go 'omg I never get anything wrong this must be because Jack and Heather were chatting OOC and you didn't tell them to stop. I've been MUing and Staffing for twenty-five years and I've never had anyone miss info ICly that their character would know.'

@silverfox With so many personalities... It's so hard to balance.

I've encountered people who rail so hard at 'being wrong' that they get incredibly upset about it. You can approach it as being helpful, wanting to make sure no wires got crossed, and it becomes the end of the world.

That's an extreme case, but I wanted to present the opposite end of the spectrum. There's everything in between. From your being super grateful to the guy who thinks everyone is out to get him and it was all a big plot just to make him look bad.

Me? I'm often grateful but I'll fight the anxiety over fucking up and wring my hands and worry and and....

So yeah. It's a really really hard thing as an ST / staffer. When I know the player well enough to know how they'd react, I'd know how to approach them. If I don't know them at all? I don't know where on the reaction line they'd land.

@Jennkryst said in General Video Game Thread:

@Derp said in General Video Game Thread:

@Jennkryst said in General Video Game Thread:

I spent monies on the flight stick with an extremely LEWD name. And then bought another one.

Wait, what is this? Link me!

THRUSTMASTER - it's... uh... the company name, so not quite as LEWD. But there's TWO of them, so whee?

I forgot to say yesterday 'cause I was reading from phone.

I'm a thrustmaster.

@Ganymede said in RL things I love:

@surreality said in RL things I love:

It really is pretty good. (And he is neat to listen to.) I don't know if I'd call it $$$/bottle good, which it seems to run these days, but the bottles are probably not cheap to make, and it is admittedly good.

Meanwhile, I drink my Johnnie Walker Blue Label, and scoff.

@Jaded said in General Video Game Thread:

@Jennkryst Elite Dangerous is tons of fun with a dual-stick setup. There's some interesting voice command mods that go beyond the base game's functionality too. Although I'm not sure where they stand now I've not played that game in months.

I love ASTRA my AI.

@Lotherio said in Spooktober GIFs:

@WildBaboons said in Spooktober GIFs:

https://i.imgur.com/Ew0B0Ma.gif

What is this turn of the century nonsense, I have to actually click it.

I ain't no peasant. I don't CLICK on gifs.

@RightMeow said in MU Things I Love:

Please do. I need weird in my life.

doot.

@RightMeow said in MU Things I Love:

I mean they are safe because I don't know their alts, but I'm friendly DAMNIT.

I don't mind some OOC chatter/pages. However, maybe I'm weird, but you start chattering too much or are TOO friendly and I'm like why? Then I start to pull back a bit. Then there are other times that I just CLICK with someone and want to talk about things like the .. like um... well like... damnit.. I use to have hobbies. Stupid work.

He's right tho.
I'll probably send you some really weird YouTube videos.

@surreality said in RL things I love:

@Auspice I need to check Target. I am almost afraid to.

This was Michael's. They have some cute labeled bottles that have sculpted caps; I picked up a bat one and a crow one. They have a really cute bat tray (I think for dip?) I am eyeballing for a key dish.

The one bit of kitchenery that doesn't have to match rainbow these days is 'halloween things'.

I picked around Michaels a bit the other day, but only sort of skimmed the Halloween stuff. I didn't see much that caught my eye at the time. BUT I was mostly looking for a project bag for a new knitting project.

Why in the hell doesn't Michaels sell project bags?!