Posts made by Auspice

@wretched said in Random links:

@auspice So living with Jane since he was 23 and she was 16.

Yeah, I didn't pick that up the first time I read it, I admit. I was too caught up in the lulz of the whole crying over the IQ test shit.

@darinelle said in RL things I love:

Bath bombs. I don't even care if that makes me the Beckiest Becky who ever Becky'd. DON'T CARE.

Lush bath bombs, specifically.

Don't judge.

Or do. My skin feels great and I am chill and relaxed. So you're just jealous if you judge.

I am actually super sad sometimes that I can't afford more LUSH bath bombs. I had a few last year and loved 'em.

@ganymede

Speaking of Death, have you watched the documentary?
It's good stuff.

@botulism said in Horror MUX:

Currently down, I'm aware. Getting it back up in the next 2 hours.

@sunnyj said in Horror MUX:

Quite honestly, I doubt he is the only one in the game with that sort of sheet. More often than not that sort of player is just the unpopular one that got outed.

My big problem really was that he built his sheet before he even had his role/story. That was the sign of min-maxing / 'gaming' things in my book. The sheet should be built to the character.

But he also was simply playing in an antagonistic way. As people have mentioned in other places in the thread, the game is very 'PvE' with us working together and striving to survive. He was often working against everyone else and throwing wrenches in the works.

Being antagonistic is a valid play style in some regards, but in that particular story it just didn't really fit to that scale. He wasn't just that way in personality. He was practically villainous on a scale that didn't really make sense. I, personally, got dragged out of other scenes I was in to have to deal with him (as IC Head of Security)... which impeded on my own enjoyment of the game, but was done to help other people who were upset and frustrated with what he was doing.

@admiral said in What the fuck happened to Hip-Hop?:

...you guys are missing the point of the thread. Hip hop started as protest music. Now it's basically just disco. That's literally what the video was about. It's not about 'what sounds good'. It's about a form of expression that has lost its way. We now have idiots with rainbow hair and facial tattoos molesting children and rapping about it.

And what we're saying is that hip-hop is still out there.
It's just not what the media companies are pushing or what the kids are buying.

I was friends with a producer / artist in SC and what he and most of the guys he worked with made tracks about was the real shit.

@gingerlily said in What the fuck happened to Hip-Hop?:

There's tons of great hip hop around now what even is this thread?

I love how we are constantly posting about 'how everything was better then' (usually the 90s) and yet also 'why aren't young people doing the thing we do on this forum'.

I'm as ancient as most of ya'll but we could dial the evidence back!

That's a lot of my point.
Like with my whole hate on when people bitch about 'music today is so bad look at <pop song> compared to <random song from other decade>.' You can do that with any pop song from any decade and a song from today if you know where to look.

There's a lot of pop music and dance music I enjoy today. But there's also a lot of more obscure and independent music I enjoy. There's a lot of 'DIY' music I really dig (what they now call what was once punk, as @Coin is talking about).

I just enjoy music and I think it comes down to: do you like how it sounds? Do you have fun with it? Good. There you go.

@deadculture

It's hard to say 'indie' anymore, I admit. There's 'indie' as in the genre ('sound') and indie as in what it was before it became that.

Altrock went through the same thing in the mid-late 90s.

There are/were a lot of indie bands that are what I would truly call indie and then there's a lot of carefully curated mainstream bands that have that same 'sound,' but are very generic and flat. Music, like anything else, is a business. What can ya do?

@goldfish said in Horror MUX:

@bored Someone tried to min-max?

Fucking LOL. Try-hards gotta try I guess.

The original Rebel (Eugene). He wrote his sheet before he even had his role/background for the first story. And it was basically fully written for min-maxing/combat/etc. Few of us were fairly certain it was Custodius.

Anyone who looks at pop music and immediately sneers and goes 'Ugh, music is so lazy now...' is just lazy themselves, IMO.

Pop music has always been that way. Pop music has always been a simple, catchy hook repeated.

You can't take a pop song of today and compare it to some rock ballad from thirty years ago.

I can go back to the fifties and find a pop song that repeats a single line, too! Just like I can find some amazing songs that have full versus, bridges, and hooks that tell a great story.

It's all in where you look, what you know. That's always been one of my biggest peeves. When someone puts up one of those fucking 'THIS IS WHAT'S WRONG WITH MUSIC TODAY!' images with a Nicki Minaj song next to some rock ballad from 30, 40 years ago. And it's like motherfucker I could do that with pop song from the 50s next to a halfway decent indie or b-side track from a good artist today.

(I mean let's take the chorus from Chordette's Lollipop, a song from 1958... that's basically what these people do when they do that shit.)

Ahem.

But yeah, that's basically what it boils down to.

If you want to find the message, it's there.
But what sells is the catchy stuff.
And that's the pop music. That's the dance tracks.
And that is how it has been since the advent of radio. It's nothing new.

@bored said in Horror MUX:

Its funny, because it made the predictable behavior of the probable-Custodius that much more laughable. Who are you even min-maxing to beat with your ridiculous, paper-thin character, brah? What do you think you're gonna win?

Was so glad he left. So, so glad.

Haven't been at work even an hour, so it's too soon to take a break.

So I'm just sitting here doing my damndest not to cry.
I haven't wanted to cry at work in a long time.

shrooms, sadly, don't really do much for me. I've done them a few times. Though, it might be because I made them into a tea because, well. The taste. Most people I knew would put them on pizza to help. I tried twice and had some visual hallucinations, but no more than salvia ever did so it was like, eh. Whatever.

But like with all recreationals: ymmv!

MDMA is the one I really like because it's the perfect 'body high.' Hours of being wonderfully pain-free. >.>

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

Acid flashbacks.

They're not scary anymore, they're not even all that bizarre, they're just really disorienting and kind of annoying to wait out now, all because my ex and I thought doing acid one time was a super great idea, like almost five years ago now.

That sucks. I'm glad they at least aren't frightening.

I did acid once (about seven? Eight? years ago?( and I've not had that happen thankfully. Honestly sometimes I kind of wanna do it again because the whole "orange juice is absolutely insanely amazing" thing is true. >.>

But then I remind myself that a) I'm in my thirties now, b) it could all go wrong a second time.

@mietze

And some people are just natural caretakers!

I admit I am totally grossed out by things, but a need to tend to people I care about/like generally overrides that.

I'm back with another 'DIVE IN THE DEEP END!' recruitment post!

http://horrormu.com/index.php/Archetypes

There's an event scene tomorrow! 8pm EST / 5pm PST. For the Hephaestus (mining ship) and the dock workers in the refinery.

A few Archetypes that are open fall under that!

http://horrormu.com/index.php/Explorer2/Chevalier - Heph XO
http://horrormu.com/index.php/Rebel2/Winterbourne - Heph Science Officer

(There's a bunch of Noc roles open too and they've got something big happening, but I THINK their scene is happening later this week.) However, lemme just say...

http://horrormu.com/index.php/Deviant1/Colby - Noc Fusion Tech
^ VERY IMPORTANT RIGHT NOW ^
.... like vitally so ....

There was a lovely little ST pose in the Weyland-Yutani scene:
Klaxxons sound, red lights kick on. "Containment breach in Tenochtitlan fusion reactor," says the ship's AI. "Docking umbilca damaged. Ship losing pressure." When Thorne closes the door and Thorson triggers decontamination protocols, the room seals and further locks down, a new door opening that leads to the decontamination chamber. For the moment it's the only way any of them can go.

So if you wanna jump right in tomorrow for an ST'd event, check out the Explorer or Rebel. But if you wanna make an entire space station SUPER HAPPY, check out the Deviant. Cause that fusion tech is, y'know, super important y'all.

@surreality said in Horror MUX:

@auspice Not gonna lie, popcorn time in the Observation Deck is joy.

I mean, who doesn't 'no, no, don't split the party!' or 'awwww, damn, they're gonna get it... ' at horror movies?

Cheering on fellow players going through the classic horror tropes is a lot of fun, it really is.

But when you're the one in the scene, it's like:

'Are they cheering me on?' 'Did I do something they groaned at?' 'Did I do something they LIKED?' 'AM I THE ONE BEING TOLD 'NO GURL DON'T DO IT!'???'

THESE ARE THINGS I NEED TO KNOW.

Or did I make y'all laugh at any point?! Really that's the vital query.

There are now EIGHT -- count 'em, 8! -- open Archetypes:

http://horrormu.com/index.php/Archetypes

Last night we had the Weyland-Yutani scene which ended in a timestop (because the other groups get to have their scenes over the next few days) which will begin to lead into the HORROR. And the classic script has already begun.

Missed the scene? Wanna check it out?

http://horrormu.com/index.php/Log:This_is_Life

(The fun of this game is even when you're IN THE SCENE, you almost wish you were on the Obs Deck so you can see what the commentary on the scene by the other players is. >.>)

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

My husband likes to do the whole 'but they're open another half hour!' bullshit, because he does not get this, and it drives me crazy. I've managed to educate him out of most of it, but still have to remind him much more than I'd like. There's a reason I steer him toward the 24 hour diner a lot.

I've known a few people in my life similar. I've never worked in the food service, but I've worked enough customer service (retail, call centers, etc.) that I know.

That last person in the store.
That guy that calls 5 minutes until the end of your shift and you're on the phone for an hour.

Don't do this shit (I know the last one isn't really something in your control, but the others are). It's just rude.

I knew a woman who would purposefully go to CostCo right before they closed because it's their policy not to make people leave. She did it because 'oh it means I have the whole store to myself!'

This is the woman who, when Walmart first began trialing 24/7 hours around Christmas season....... I once went along with her and her kids so I could get some Christmas shopping done (my mom didn't want to go out that day) and found myself stuck in walmart for EIGHT FUCKING HOURS.

So you can imagine what her CostCo trips were like.

Those poor fucking employees.