Posts made by Auspice

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

One of my first and oldest dog clients passed away last night. Old man Murph. It's hit me harder than I thought. Was not expecting that when they pinged me on the service. I got all excited seeing the name, was like YES, the old man's gonna come stay, he's great to walk and the kids just love on him and he lays there smiling. Annnnnnd "He passed away in his sleep. You took care of him more than our family ever did and though you would want to know" . God damnit. Why do dogs gotta die. Seriously. Gonna get a a bunch of chuck it's and drop them off at the dog park in his name.

Awwww. I'm sorry.

Sometimes even when it's not your pet, it hits hard! It's easy to love 'em.

@arkandel said in Favorite music streaming service?:

@admiral said in Favorite music streaming service?:

But you can shape and grow your playlists as you go.

I just hate having to do the work.

Downloading MP3s is definitely the way I'd want to do it, but my Pixel 2 has no SD card slot and 'only' 64 GB... most of which have gone to apps and data as it is. So I can't have my stuff on the go unless I want to listen to the same stuff a lot.

I tend to curate my own music very specifically because I always have (I used to build my MP3 collection not by the album or artist, but by the song). However, Spotify's 'radio' option (right-click on a song, select 'Go to radio') is pretty good. I find it curates really well based on that.

It's not an artist radio, but it plays songs similar to the one selected. If you go to Browse, you can go through Charts, Genres, even Moods. I love the Moods section. Music for relaxation? Studying? Workouts? etc.? I actually find those collections to be awesome and some have been folded into my saved library.

Spotify has also started adding audiobooks, podcasts, etc., to their library.

It works great with both my Google Home and Alexa (yes, I have both; former in my living room, latter in my bedroom). I'm able to move flawlessly on it from my laptop to my phone to both devices. I only wish it had Roku integration since I just got one of those. I know it used to, but I think they have a deal with Amazon right now, unfortunately.

Also, the 'Discover Weekly' (a new list generated every Monday with suggestions based on what you listen to) is a lot of fun. I set aside time every week to listen through mine.

Been using Spotify (if you can get on a family plan with some folks, it's a great deal) for years now. It's been the best service for me.

Galactic Civilizations II Ultimate Edition free on Humble

@ganymede said in Let's talk about TS.:

What people don't understand is that I'm not up for a shag with them.

@arkandel said in Let's talk about TS.:

@peasoupling There's probably an argument for squicks to be a thing even on non-sex based games. I mean... I don't see what they could hurt.

If you never want pregnancy RP just stick it in there. Wait, are we doing phrasing?

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

@auspice That's... There's got to be someone who can make heads roll because of that. That's not acceptable. I'm so sorry. And what shitty timing too.

I've been sick of this guy for a while.

He takes full advantage of being on salary by almost never being in the office. His training for new people is usually just '<handwave> here read some stuff' and the rest of us have to desperately fill in and help.

He still owes me a reimbursement for something from two months ago.

So yeah, I've got an official fucking complaint filed on this and I am making it my goddamn mission now to get his ass fired.

If I could afford to quit, I'd just do that, but I'd be homeless if I did.

breaking my radio silence the past few days for a big ol'

fuck this

fuck it all

I worked fucking overtime the other week during an especially busy fucking week of school (y'know, those final few crazy weeks of your goddamn degree while you scramble the last few pieces of all your shit together?) because I got begged to.

And my fucking piece of shit waste of goddamn space manager never put it in.

So it's not on my check.

That was gonna be my birthday money.

The little money I got to have next week to actually do something nice for myself for fucking once because I haven't been able to for months because it'll be my fucking birthday but no back to the plan of 'sit at home and do nothing'

I contacted payroll and HR and filed a complaint

but my company is a worthless shithole so I doubt it'll go anywhere anytime soon

Who said I blamed the entire player base? I specifically called out two houses that have also been active. I just said there are some that we've been trying to get in touch with and engage with that haven't been responsive or active at all.

Where in that is blaming the entire player base?

You're the one trying to insist it's staff's fault or making up some conspiracy that they've handed people special secret information. I'm telling you that they haven't. As someone who has moved forward on plot and whose house has gotten a fair bit of plot information...not one of us has been handed anything. We've just taken initiative and asked questions. Either of staff or on channels, where staff or other players have been able to answer.

Literally all I have done is read the wiki, ask questions, and put in jobs as above. I didn't know there were that many other houses either until I began asking how the council worked.

Just ask questions. Stop assuming everyone is out to get you or twisting words to craft malicious intent.

I will say, as the Contessa of Gaspari (so not HoH, but working closely with), we've been trying to reach out to a couple other HoH (yes we're being picky; we have our reasons! Political intrigue and all)... But we've been hitting the wall of... lack of communication.

Some people have been awesome. Sabastino is great. We got a couple new players and worked with them and Arbore for a betrothal.

But there's a handful of houses doing...nothing. And that isn't on staff. At all. If PCs are trying to play with and arrange things with PCs and getting no reply....yeah we might think to ask about NPCs.

I do agree maybe a post could have gone up about it. But a lot of what I've learned has just been through reading, asking, etc. None of it has been fed to me. And my plot engagement has just been through tossing in requests like "Garden is going to approach X" or "Garden is going to spend time with the other ladies and..." (Since there's 30 great houses in total; plenty of NPC ones to mill for info...cmon, we've always used NPCs as info mills). Then staff tells me what to roll and usually I fail, but based on degree of failure, I usually get something to work with. They've been awesome about that.

@ganymede said in Valorous Dominion:

@auspice

Hey.

I'm, like, standing right here, man.

I thought you were too busy cooking meals for all your girlfriends.

I posted earlier on the thread, but! Posting this again...

I'm expanding the seamstress idea:

Garden is going to be starting a whole fashionhouse under the Gaspari name. This means designers, sourcers, etc. This means I'm looking for a PC (or PCs!) to run this place. Noble or non- could apply. Specifically I'm looking for someone from Avicorse or the Eastern Empire. Dream goal would be a noble PC to run it for the Gasparis and then a PC or two to help with the designs, creation, etc. for the populace.

Anyway! If this interests you, feel free to PM me here or page/mail me as Garden on the game.

I will say now, this has not just RP hook potential for an Eastern Empire noble PC, but really good plot hook potential. If you want a way to jump right into plot, I've got some plans brewing based around this and I'd love to put the idea wholesale into someone's hands before I make a roster PC.

@taika said in Group Notes:

+factions has a space for leaving notes. +faction/information (faction name)=(Notes). It's a good way to track things like Safe Place for packs and what have you without needing to add new code :3

My only worry for +factions is when it's just a safe place. Would seem silly if a faction is added just for safe place notes.

@derp said in Group Notes:

@auspice

I think the +lairs code has this?

That's something to look into.

May not be the most descriptive title and I apologize.

What I'm looking for is basically a form of +notes or even an add on to +notes for TinyMUX that would allow for a group to have access to the same note. To allow for, say, a note for what a group build has on it, or notes about a pack, coterie, etc.

This way rather than setting +views on a location or individual +notes on each member... You're setting one note that everyone can see.

I mean you already have the attributes needed (everyone in X Covenant for the chapter house, everyone in Y pack, everyone with Z Safe house (Farm) attribute...)...

Does someone already have code like this available? I have to think it's already been done.

I try to go for variety, I really do, but I tend to have a lot of stoic, detached characters.

I also have a lot of characters who feel like they aren't good enough. Their core struggle is that they have to strive to be be better to achieve stability in their world. And I don't mean that douchebag who is clearly the best and acts like they aren't, but someone who can even be as competent as everyone else and feels like they aren't. Maybe they grew up being always beaten down and told they weren't good enough. Maybe they failed their military unit, costing people lives, and it's informed everything else in their life and they just don't feel confident enough about anything anymore...

So a lot of my characters either:

a) Are emotionally distant and/or stoic
b) Lack self-confidence

Sometimes it's both.

I do mix it up sometimes. Garden is a good example of that. She's emotional and she's confident af.

Audrey @ Reno, however, is an example of A. She fronts most of her emotions while drinking away the rest.

There are some people I judge for the characters they play. Usually it's those who play very two-dimensional characters that I end up dreading getting into scenes with, esp. one-on-one because I know it's not going to be an engaging scene, there won't be any effort on their end, etc. Meh.

And I rarely associate the character with the player. I'm an author. I dabble in screenplays, too. I don't think, say, Guillermo del Toro is racist for Django Unchained. I'm going to (and have) write some pretty terrible people into my works (we don't hate Rowling for Umbridge!). I actually rather enjoy playing antagonistic characters, but it is hard because of the OOC lashback you receive sometimes. People do often want games to be very ICly copacetic with sunshine and rainbows (this came up in the MU* Gripes thread, re: people wanting immediate resolutions between wronged PCs so everything is right again) and they have a very hard time with antagonistic PCs. Even mildly so.

I love when there can be strife between my PC and another. When two characters don't get along well. I think it's great! But a lot of people can't handle it because they get so invested into their PCs that they think: 'This person's character doesn't like my character, so the player doesn't like ME.'

This is part of why I ST. I can create all kinds of horrible NPCs to play around with. It doesn't make me a bad person! It just lets me stretch my writing legs a bit (plus while I enjoy writing antagonists, I don't want to play them all day; they're best as part-time alts).

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

I know I'm supposed to be the descriptivist here... but fuck I hate the phrase "going forward."

Go home, you're drunk.

If you were having issues connecting to Reno this morning, try again. DNS was down, but it should be resolved now (or will be shortly, once it populates out).

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

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

Origins Game Fair event registration. How can you screw this up 4 years in a row?

I think you're being considerate if you're only blaming the last four years.

The new low bar for GAMA to do better than is: Will the line for early registration pickup be 2 hours long again?

Or: Will the executive of Origins once again decree that you cannot get your money back for canceled events?

If I didn't live here, there would be absolutely no question if I'd rather go to Origins or GenCon. Origins is absolutely the Uber of the con scene: Bigger than it should be considering the way they treat the workers and also the customers.

The first year I went to GenCon was eye opening by way of Cons and how they should run.

I have no want nor interest to go to most any others nowadays. I did check out ECCC while in Seattle and it was fun to wander for the day, but by and far, GenCon is my bar. I have zero desire to go to DragonCon, for example. I went to Otakon a few times when I lived in MD because it was there (like you and Origins), but GenCon...

Even GenCon's dealer room is laid out amazingly well. It never set off me and my crowd anxiety issues once. I didn't sign up for events and just got the 'general' passes and still was able to attend and enjoy myself because they make registration so easy. It was just a fun experience all around and every year since (because living in Cincinnati made it vastly more affordable to go) I've been sad I can't afford to attend.

If you're a gamer and can afford GC, I totally and completely recommend it. Even if you have anxiety / crowd issues (and I have them pretty intensely), it's a really, really well done con. I GenCon so much.

@arkandel said in Name Change:

Sorry for the wait @Apu (which is still your username ).

This took way longer than it should have, but after bashing my head - and asking @Auspice to do the same - against this on and off for a couple of days since it kept insisting we didn't have permissions to do this. But my power!

So it turns out that's due to a nodebb bug that will get fixed in 1.8.3.

And now you know!

... I should have checked my notifications. I just went through Google and found the same. HA.

Like the man said. nodebb bug.

The thread initially began in a way that was more constructive and lacked personal attacks. People were behaving and trying to explain to VG why her apology may not be accepted.

When it began to slip, I tried asking people hey, please try to keep this on the right side of the fence due to the part of the forum that it's in.

But getting on today I see that's very much not what happened..