Posts made by Auspice

@Ghost said in King of Sex Mountain:

Awful. Definitely awful.

Someone suggested me staffing, @Ganymede .

Hold me. I'm skeeered.

I already told you, you cannot be staff. You'd abuse your power and not even in the fun way.

Good Omens.

I've been feeling really bleh and sick this week and barely able to keep anything down. I know once I come out of whatever this is, I'm gonna want to eat everything and top of that list right now is pasta.

So leave your favorite pasta recipes below \/ \/ \/

I will say I've RPed drug use a fair bit but it's always a 'read the room' thing for sure. And I've generally been sure, for characters who have problems with drugs to put it in +finger (if the option is provided) that 'hey this is a thing it might come up let me know if it is an issue'

Only once did that ever present an issue. I recall running into someone who tried demanding that I shouldn't be allowed to RP it, period, (whether around them or not) because they had a family member who had drug issues. Which, I sympathize, but while I'll gladly keep it off screen while playing with you I'm not gonna sanitize my whole char (or be pleased that they kept paging to preach/rant at me and another PC who was similar to mine) because you demanded it.

Anyway. That I guess is my other concern. What would be the reach of such cards on a MU? Just in events? In any RP? Could someone use it against an entire PC concept?

There are many things that work great in tabletop scenarios that just don't extend to MUs (and vice versa). I think this might maybe be one.

I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it.

What if I advertise up front 'This plot will have a lot of horror elements including gore, gun violence,......' (or similar)

And midway through the plot, someone X-cards stuff that was advertised up front and is baked into the plot? That they agreed to?

I mean the few times I've had to say 'hey I didn't realize this was going to trigger something for me, can we scale back how graphic it's being posed please?' (The most recent example I can think of, I had no way of knowing the scene was going to include that particular trigger at the outset) people were happy to oblige and I think by and far most people are.

But I feel like adding on something that says 'the instant you use this everything that was going on noted by the card must stop and/or be negated' is almost like handing people a 'get out of jail free' when we already have, as stated, RP prefs,most STs do state what their plots include, and most people are happy to downplay how things are written.

Because what if someone says 'character death' is their X card? Or 'losing'? Well you've baked in that it is applied no questions asked and we all know people out there who are.....wildly upset by losing in any way.

I can see how this is a great concept for things like D&D Adventures or cons where you're going in blind to a scenario and/or gaming group. But for MUs were looking at a different environment.

Got a call back on interview I had yesterday.

'Just wanted to give you feedback and it was all positive....'

I started to tune out because I was just going into my mode of yup. Prepare yourself for the '....but we are moving ahead with other candidates who fit better...'

Apparently no. They want to bring me in for another interview next week.

This wouldn't be a full-time job. Just a contract that would be like...6-9 months. But. It'd be writing. It'd pay well. And those two things are really all I need. Esp as I'm working on something right now that should have me set not too far down the road. I just need something to carry me through until I get there.

@Ghost said in General Video Game Thread:

@Auspice Hahaha. I authorized the firing of one torpedo and the dude fired two. It turned into a scolding session that "we are on a FIVE YEAR JOURNEY and only have so many torpedos", and that he would be docked replicator rations until the value of the torpedo was repaid in full. Oh, and that if he went to Federation Human Resources over this as retaliation I'd have Operations airlock him.

Operations Guy: "FUCK YEA, BRO."

Me as Captain: '...look there is a FIRE at your STATION. WHY ARE YOU NOT TAKING CARE OF THAT?! What sort of SAFETY STANDARDS DID THEY EVEN TEACH YOU?!'

@Ghost said in General Video Game Thread:

Man, I played Star Trek Bridge Crew once and loved it; probably a little too much. They let me have the "Captain" role. LOL that was such a bad call to give a RPer like me an authority role. It was like Archer meets full-blown employee review threats and inspirational corporate slogans. So much fun.

I might go the VR rig route but game development hasnt exactly caught up with VR yet, so I'm waiting a little longer to see how it pans out.

So my buddies and I play that sometimes on their streaming nights and that shit gets ridiculous.

I am not a good Captain but I AM good as a pilot.

My most memorable moment was the night I began as a pilot and one of them kept giving me a hard time so we finally switch up the roles and I end up on tactical and he takes up the conn.

...and is just struggling.

Me: NOT SO EASY IS IT?!
Him, small voice: ......no

But yeah, lots of Trek jokes, mockery of each other, etc. abound. I love Bridge Crew. It's up there with my fave thing to play with those guys.

@BobGoblin said in The Basketball Thread:

How many series have been over analyzed this year after one or two games?

Celtics are a lock

Philly is a lock

Rockets will get swept
Oops Durant's our warriors will lose

Too much over analyzing and reaction to single games.

isn't that the requirement of sports?

Every single year it seems people proclaim 'this is the year' for the Lions during preseason for the NFL. It's just what fans do.

@Ghost

I got up an hour before my interview and arrived with 15 minutes to spare.

By sword fights I hope you mean sword as a euphemism

@surreality said in The Crafting Thread:

If you're at the point where I think it sounds like... starting to turn the heel? a lot of instructions have you shift from four needles to three, with all the 'not heel' stitches in holding on one needle while you go back and forth to do the heel on two. Then it tends to go back to four.

If you are doing magic loop... that gif totally sums up my reaction to magic loop.

No it's at the gusset. Turning / working the heel was surprisingly easy.

@Sparks said in General Video Game Thread:

@Auspice - Headset comfort in general is a lot better this generation; the PSVR's adjustable headband system was so much more comfortable it wasn't even funny, and everyone else learned from that design.

The one thing I feel like they really need to still improve is the pressure most headsets put on the nose due to their weight. The PSVR wins there by putting very little weight on the nose at all, so remains the leader in comfort of the ones I've tried.

(I really want to try the HP Reverb; from what I hear it has the PSVR beat on comfort—and the Index beat on visual quality. If that's the case, it'll be an amazing one to use.)

See, I didn't really like the psvr. I put it on briefly and had to tear it right back off. The location it put weight on my head was pretty much insta headache. the Vive seemed to distribute better.

@Ghost cannot be Staff.

Staff cannot be King. Only a player can be King.

King is the last person standing after all others fail their Stamina rolls.

This is sexual combat gdi

My new insurance kicks in tomorrow. I have no money. And I am in a land of 'maybe it's a stomach bug maybe it's my appendix demanding freedom from the constraints of my body'

This is fun.

@Arkandel said in twitch:

... A month after I got my Twitch account back someone must have finally ran into an old ticket asking WTF was going on because:

Upon review, it appears that your account has been compromised. I am so sorry for this situation.
I have reset your password with a temporary one that you can use below. Additionally, I have changed the email on your account for your protection, in the event that it was also compromised.

Argh.

I have to use an old Twitch account because the one whose name matches my Twitter and Steam and Discord (thus the one I'd want to use if I ever were to stream), Twitch refuses to acknowledge belongs to me and thus won't let me have it.

I never even used it. Just recycle the name or something you assholes.

@Snackness said in The Crafting Thread:

@Auspice My advice to all new sock knitters is just buckle in, do exactly what the pattern says and it'll happen.

I don't know what it says

Like I know those words but at the same time I'm like

I kinda wanna be interested in the Occulus Quest because I love Beat Saber so much.......but at the same time ever since Facebook bought them I have just backed away away away. I dunno. That's just me.

I do wonder about headset comfort. So far, for me personally, the Vive has also been 'winning' (for if ever comes a day when I can afford one lol) because it is thus far the most comfortable for me to wear.

@surreality said in The Crafting Thread:

@Auspice I sorta cheat. I do all backward-forward while it's all front-facing and do my knit stitches 'backward' instead of doing purl rows with the purl side facing me, and won't let myself do a square more than 8 stitches wide. I do the 'slip (I forget off hand if it's first or last it's so automatic now) stitch on either side' when going back and forth, and then when it's time to double-check, I can count the number of loops down the side and if it's 8 (or whatever), I know I have the right amount, since the edges are going to be the 'half the number of stitches as the body'. Also makes picking them up along the edge super easy by comparison. Next time I do one (they're great for tiny waiting room swatchy projects) I'll try to get some pictures of it, since it's easier to see than explain.

It is difficult to teach me anything knitting for the same reason I cannot teach others.

I learned how to knit out of various books. No one ever taught me. The way I knit is an awkward terrible blend of English and Continental. My knit stitches are wrong in a way that no one has ever been able to suss out....

...because when my knitting goes right, it goes quite right. But when it goes wrong, no one can troubleshoot it because my knit stitches are just wrong.

And I've just never been able to re-train myself to knit 'proper.'

Crochet I'm fantastic with and do 'proper' though!

@surreality

The only reason I don't do entrelac is the ADD. I lose track of how many rows I'm meant to do and suddenly I have a bit that's twice as long because I got in the zone and ooops.