Posts made by Auspice

@magee101 said in Name Change:

My question is, would the forum change all his posts to the new name or would it be like a snake shedding its skin?

Since it's the same account, it should change all of the posts.

Illegal Aryan. Not gonna sit around on this one.

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

So, I work for DCS's legal department. We have over 300 kids in our system right now, and there are two of us handling cases.

And today, I get a file. Mom and dad are in the system because... they smoke some pot on the weekends. And an anonymous tipster turns this in. And we are legally obligated to act on this information.

Fucking seriously? THIS is what you think DCS should be using its resources for? Shaming something that is quickly gaining traction on legalization?

Let me assure you, we have better things to do. Like help kids who get the crap beat out of them, or molested, or who haven't eaten this week.

Offenses to you delicate sensibilities are the next office over.

Ugh.
Yeah, that's like.... crazy low on the list.
Esp. because... how often does smoking pot on the weekends lead to child abuse?

Alcohol is legal and leads to way more child abuse instances.

@tinuviel said in How to type `quit` and quit PennMUSH?:

@skew I believe it would work if you put the @boot X on an object rather than doing it yourself.
ETA: Though on the only PennMUSH game I've got on my client, 'quit' works.

They may be using some FS3 plugins. I know FS3 has aliased 'quit' to work, which I often appreciated (so if fara pops up, she could prob. explain how she made it work! Likely isn't doable player-side, but you never know).

(I'm also one of those dirty people who often just d/c's the world 'cause I'm lazy... tho I've stopped just closing my laptop because some worlds would just reconnect every few hours >.>)

@aria said in RL Anger:

My doggie is in pain and there's nothing we can do except give him drugs, minimize his movement for several weeks (yeah, right, there's no way to get out of our house without stairs), and hope his body heals with rest.

Poor pup

Damn, I just signed up with Digital Ocean about a week ago.

@krmbm said in What is your turning point?:

"I just met you, but now I am going to pour out my entire back-story in our first conversation together. Now your turn to do the same!"

Those same people when they get mad that you won't do the same.

"YOUR CHARACTER WON'T SHARE ANYTHING."
...yeah they've known each other like, a week. We've RP'd maybe twice.

Did you miss the part where she's kind of a shy, withdrawn person? Patience. :<

I don't mind long- or short-posers, but I have a very specific requirement for both:

Make it interesting.

If 90% of your 10-sentence-each 3-paragraph pose intro into the room is just reposing the room's description, I am probably going to very quickly find a way to leave.

No one gives a shit if you can rewrite what the room looks like in florid prose in your pose. We want to know what your character is doing. No one, no one is judging you on whether you have the bulkiest poses in all the land.

I have played with some people who pack a fantastic punch into short, single paragraph poses because they pick precise, impactful words. And it's great. I love it. I know exactly what they mean, what they intend, and I never find myself wondering what's going on.

After all my screenwriting classes, my own poses have become shorter (word economy is huge in the screenplay world; it's what I'd lose grade points on the most, my scene descriptions and actions being too long). But have I lost any RP? Newp.

But seriously. Just tell us what your character is doing and saying. Don't retell us what other people are doing and saying or repose room descriptions. I have seen this over the years as pose padding and it drives me fucking insane.

And on the short-pose side of the coin: if you don't give me anything to play off of, you are no better than set dressing and I will run away if we are in a one-on-one scene.

I RP with someone more when it feels collaborative.

I'm a natural storyteller. I'll craft plot on a small scale with someone, telling stories between us.

"OH NO THUGS ATTACK!" sort of story. I just... create story. It's not just 'sitting around chatting' scenes with me, generally. Story/plot happens because I cannot help but craft story.

I will return to you again and again if you play off of this. If you collaborate.

If you just take and take and bleed me dry, I am unlikely to come back as often.

But the people who are give-and-take. Who will run with the story, themselves? Who will improv? Who will build off of the story I create? Oh, I love them. I will play with them again and again.

As someone told me recently: I get most of his RP (and vice versa) because I 'always have an idea.' He gets a lot of people who 'just want to RP.' And they don't have anything in mind. They 'just want to RP.' Because he's like I am. He'll have story, plot, etc. Those people want to be entertained.

But he knows if I ask him to RP, I have something in mind. Be it new story or part of ongoing plot, etc. There is a purpose to the scene. And vice versa: if he asks me to RP, I know the same.

Those are the people I RP with most (so hi, if you're reading this and want more RP with me... that's the secret. Bring ideas! Engage me! I am not an endless idea fountain I wanna be entertained, too!).

@roz said in Valorous Dominion:

@nyctophiliac said in Valorous Dominion:

Bringing us to skills, other things did bother me a little about this, as there is a whole swath of 'em that overlap and man do I hate me some skill overlap. I will overlook the shit out of this for good RP and intrigue though.

Some of the overlap is actually for "people from this culture take skill X, people from this other culture take skill Y." Most of those are listed on the game wiki's skills page, so make sure to double-check. Or even if you don't, it's not a big deal, they'll let you fix it after the fact if they don't catch it in approval. (This is totally what I did.)

And there's some subtle differences in them, too! Like intrigue/manipulation are cultural skills, can get you the same outcome, but through very different means.

@nyctophiliac said in Valorous Dominion:

Then, I read through the PDF and saw they addressed the whole "No Intelligence?" sidebar, had a chuckle and could understand the reasoning behind it. Actually, I love it - if you are an idiot, you have to play an idiot. There's no escaping it. Don't know you're an idiot? Great!

I was actually in a scene yesterday where someone with a Read of only 3 failed their roll so thoroughly they became Disheartened over it. My character ended up later being like 'Well, why don't we work on deciphering this coded document together?' to try to cheer him up a bit, despite his state of 'Well, I can't actually READ my brother's books on the topics, but I at least know they're books!'

(I, on the other hand, with a read of 10, rolled 20 and botched the roll... so played that my character was too distracted in the moment to try reading the parchment and tried to play it off cool as 'haha guess I can't read it either')

Personally, I am all for that high CON.

But that's just me! I am also not playing a combat character. I just wanna survive any possible illness rolls. >.>

So I have been trying various wing recipes for a while. And one I keep coming back to is garlic parmesan. Most recipes are just.... lackluster. They aren't right.

I've finally found the right one.

Next step: finding out which (dry) peppers pair well with it to make it proper spicy.

@thenomain said in How did you discover your last three MU* ?:

@auspice said in How did you discover your last three MU* ?:

MSB - Gods & Monsters

MSB has a Mu? Called Gods & Monsters?! I seriously would play the shit out of this. (Well, at least I'd take the piss out of it.)

I learned of the one named Gods & Monsters on MSB. It's a DC Comics game.

And you take the piss out of everything.

Helped the game move/get setup on new server - Reno 2.0 (so that'd be an Other Vote? I mean I had been there in the past... it was a return to play? I dunno.)

Invite from a friend (Word of Mouth) - Valorous Dominion

MSB - Gods & Monsters

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

@auspice

That person is a non-lawyer, and it shows.

As Derp mentioned, the person is referring to what lawyers call an "adhesion contract." A contract of adhesion is one where there has been no meaningful negotiation or opportunity to refuse the terms. The problem with raising it as a defense is that the terms at issue must be considered "unconscionable," and there has to be some evidence that the party challenging the terms did not have a meaningful opportunity to negotiate.

Convincing a court to not enforce a term in an adhesion contract is an uphill climb. If you executed the contract, the presumption is that you agreed to all of its terms. The party challenging the terms bears the burden of proving that the terms are objectively "unconscionable."

Good luck with that.

No sane, practicing lawyer dives in with that defense at the fore. Those that do will get blown out of the water. In the context of lending, that kind of defense hardly ever works, and a bank has a legal team that will take a claimant to the mat every damn day.

This is largely what I felt.

Mostly I just wanted to see if I was right in thinking it.

I get these sorts of emails all the time. Just not usually to this extent. Usually it's either a threat to get a lawyer, or a (badly written) threat that they are a lawyer. "I never agreed to these terms!"

Yes. You did. By signing up. Like any other website. You ticky the box, you agree. We list the prices three times on the second to last page. I gladly provide screenshots upon request!

The worst part is? This is generally over $45. Because the site is a $19.99 for the first month offer, so people ignore that (despite it being on the front page, on the page detailing the package, and then again on that page where it's displayed three times)... and then they get that first monthly charge of $45, they flip out and accuse us of being a scam.

Then out comes the 'I never agreed to the terms!' 'I'm getting a lawyer!'

Over $45.

We've also had people threaten to get the cops involved.

My favorite however, my favorite is when they threaten to contact the Attorney General.

For those I always want to ask if they actually understand what the Attorney General is.

This is it. Last class until I graduate.

Also, HA HA SUCK IT PROF.

We can refine our stupid garbage gross marketing project .......... or our game from a couple months ago.

I'M GONNA PICK THE GAME. YOU KNOW I AM.

JUST FOUR MORE WEEKS.

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

@arkandel I went to get in the shower the other day and had forgotten to take my glasses off. Queue confusion as to why I suddenly had water spots everywhere in my vision.

I do this all too often.

I have also tried to put my other pair of glasses on atop the pair I am already wearing (instead of bifocals I have two separate pairs of glasses).

Any board lawyers wanna take a crack at this one?

(this is why my job gives me a headache btw. and this is one of the more polite 'I'm gonna pretend I'm a lawyer in my spare time' customers)

This hurt.

I sort of petered out towards the end because...ow.

This woman is like a lanky, lithesome feline in the darkness, but she is become the darkness itself; wrapped in its ebony embrace like a promise from heaven itself. Her hair shines like the evening dew, reflective of the care put into the gently draping and twisting locks that tumble and fall along her curving, voluptuous curves: a woman taken as much by the earth as the wind that shapes each individual ringlet that frames her distant expression. The mass is dark as night like when the sky itself is starless. She has the fey features of the ruler of a distant, long-lost land, taken flight like a fine skylark. One could get lost in the cerulean pools of her twin eyes: each glinting like a bell through the night beneath high-arched brows over aquiline nose and the cupid's bow of full lips that tease a dream unwinding. It begs, through perfection of form: wouldn't you love to love her?

Song.