Posts made by Auspice

@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.

Allow me to introduce: Operation Dead Wizard 2.

(Sometimes, quora is an amazing place.)

@Tinuviel said in RL things I love:

It's my birthday, and my youngest made breakfast in bed for me. Which was lovely.
Unfortunately, it was also served at one in the morning, because apparently morning automatically means breakfast.

What's it like being ancient?

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

I was sad to discover that by the numbers, I am considered a millienial. The fact that I'm kind of disturbed by that probably means I/we bear a responsibility to change what the subtext of 'millenial' is. If I'm one, they're getting a lot of it wrong.

It's why I (driven by a friend of mine, tbh; he got ME to stop using the term to mean 'anyone under the age of 25') try to help encourage people away from it. 'Millennial' doesn't just mean 'young person' (or worse: 'young person I don't understand who is clearly the downfall of everything'). It just means we're the gen after Gen X.

It's that damn iGen that's ruining everything!

@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.

@Jaded said in General Video Game Thread:

@Auspice
I wouldn't be surprised at all. Blizzard, I think, is going to start seeing the monetary pinch in the next few years so they need as many income streams as they can get.

They did just lose Destiny 2 from BattleNET. I bet that was an income stream somewhere (servers and such).

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.

@Jaded said in General Video Game Thread:

release and monetize classic

This is, absolutely, the reason. I wouldn't be surprised if we see a new branch of expansions out of this.

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

I won't say I'm "successful" in the fiction industry but I make enough writing short stories and novels to pay a few bills a month and I'll say this; I treat RP entirely different than I treat fiction writing. Just because you are good at one does not mean you'll be good at the other. MU'ing is cooperative storytelling, creating a shared narrative that is created and enjoyed by multiple people. You have to be fluid and enjoy a give and take with the narrative. When I write fiction I'm 100% in control and if I took that mentality into MUing it'd be a disaster.

I also approach RP much different than my actual writing.

I RP because it makes me think on my feet (I don't know what your PC is going to do!) and lets me try out new things. I might have a character idea bouncing around in my head that doesn't fit any of my personal efforts, but I can let them out on a game.

I'm glad to hear Carnival Row doesn't lean hard into the steampunk stuff. I'm not at all a steampunk fan, but the rest of the concept sounds really cool.

I dunno why anyone engages and doesn't just shrug and move on.

@Roz said in Good TV:

I'm pretty sure I watched Dark Crystal when I was little, but I can't really remember it; it wasn't a staple of my childhood. Would I still enjoy it without the childhood love?

I've never seen Dark Crystal at all! So I'm kind of in a boat of 'this sounds good and looks good visually but I have no reference material'

@Aria

Should've eloped.

@Darren said in What do you call fizzy, non-alcoholic drinks?:

Here in MD we call Pepsi, Coke and similar things "soda". LeCroix, Jarritos Mineragua and similar things, we just call "water".

Can confirm on the soda front, having grown up in MD.

...but I can't speak to the fancy water since I moved away before that fad.

@Groth said in What do you call fizzy, non-alcoholic drinks?:

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