Posts made by Auspice

@coin said in Good or New Movies Review:

@auspice said in Good or New Movies Review:

@arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:

It goes without saying that anyone who spoils Infinity War here... let's just say we'll unleash @Ganymede completely on them.

God have mercy on your soul after that because no one else will.

I GET TO SEE IT AT ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE THURSDAY EVENING AND YOU MOTHERFUCKERS DON'T

Ahem.
There.
That's out of my system.

I get to see it in a movie theater on Thursday night (at around 8PM EST for your guys).

So we'll be seeing it at the same time since I'll be seeing it at 7pm CST.

@thatonedude said in Shadows Over Reno (Threeboot?):

@tragedyjones said in Shadows Over Reno (Threeboot?):

Guys i still cannot connect from my mobile clients and thus have not, well, connected. I apologize for this tragedy.

From the quick troubleshooting I did when I first connected it looks like some clients have issues resolving the IPv6 address. Try by IPv4:port ...

Interesting. I'll take a further look into this.

Thanks for the heads up!

@ixokai said in Valorous Dominion:

@auspice FYI, they only need manip OR intrigue. I had taken both and they had me redistribute the points. Manipulation is for those of the city-state cultures, intrigue is for everyone else.

...mebbe I should put in a req to adjust my skills. I took both and wasn't told to adjust. Man. I took both as secondaries, too! I'll get hella points to work with!

OKAY. So I need someone with manip (unless they came with me from Avicorse, then it'd be intrigue).

I play Garden. I totally need a maid / lady's spy. So if you don't wanna play a noble, but want to do more than 'just commoner,' I need someone willing to stack skills in Intrigue and Manipulation... maybe Dagger for stabbity if things go awry!

Out on Q7 during the 2pm one today, but.... so were 200k people.
(I'd never heard of the digastric muscle before. >.>)

So at least it wasn't a question that left me hating myself!

Anyone having the issue have a telnet client on their phone to where they can try using TF and/or tracert the server?

@tragedyjones said in Shadows Over Reno (Threeboot?):

Guys i still cannot connect from my mobile clients and thus have not, well, connected. I apologize for this tragedy.

I have as of yet been able to figure out why that happens. For most people, it's cleared up. I have been completely unable to reproduce the issue.

@taika said in Shadows Over Reno (Threeboot?):

3 - Scored a staff plot scene! Woo! However. It's supposed to be some big plot thing... that I have never once heard about from other pcs or anything ic. And the response to the job to try and get more settled into it, really had a feel of 'go way kid, you're bothering me'. Shortest answer, job closed, and rather discouraging because that really gives the impression that while digging into a thing was invited, it was a token invitation.

If it was with Dhaz, I will say there's been a bunch of bbposts that he put up initially about it! He put a custom bbpost in each sphere when the plot first went up for folks.

Nick has been doing media posts every so often for it since. I know the Vampire and Hunter spheres have both been all about it.

Our Werewolf sphere (which is where I guess you're at?) sort of... dropped the ball on it. The one person who was chasing the plot tried really, really hard at first to get people involved and the people he tried to pull in just sort of all went 'shrug.' He (the person who got involved initially) had RL hit him recently, but I'd say page him if you see him on (Kurt) and let him know you wanna RP. He's almost always game if he's free and has been wanting really bad to get WW active and doing stuff.

If you did feel discouraged, I do recommend paging Dhaz about it! I doubt he intended it that way at all. I know I'm speaking from the realm of being staff, but I've found the guy to be super approachable (I've never worked with / known him prior to this staffing team tho!). I think he may have crashed hard or had something come up IRL last night. He disappeared without any warning, which is sort of abnormal for him.

@shincashay said in Purple Prose Desc Challenges:

This is a little harder than I had thought. I'm still working on a desc.

I'm still trying to pick a song.

@sockmonkey

Yay!

That's fucking awesome!

@kanye-qwest said in Good TV:

@arkandel said in Good TV:

@derp I had the misfortune of reading through the comments section on a Troy review when I was curious about the show. A lot of posts were about 'Hollywood rewriting characters for affirmative action, lol, they made Achilles bisexual'.

Motherfuckers, have you read the Illiad?

bisexuals get affirmative action, now?

Only if you're homophobic and haven't been paying attention to anything.

@thenomain said in RL things I love:

Zak Smith. He was openly laughing, in a writing sense, people who were criticizing the pre-alpha’s implication that one of the characters practiced predatory practices against minors.

And Zak Smith has been called out repeatedly (we've discussed him on these very boards) for his sexist, racist, and other disgusting behaviors. We know he's an ass.

@arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:

It goes without saying that anyone who spoils Infinity War here... let's just say we'll unleash @Ganymede completely on them.

God have mercy on your soul after that because no one else will.

I GET TO SEE IT AT ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE THURSDAY EVENING AND YOU MOTHERFUCKERS DON'T

Ahem.
There.
That's out of my system.

@arkandel said in Bad descriptions:

I get the concept of colors, but what are vindictive eyes?

@shincashay said in Bad descriptions:

@arkandel Someone stole his car and his dog.

This gave me the idea for our first 'purple prose desc challenge.' Not all of them will be purple prose. Not all of them, necessarily, will require writing (some might be where you are provided a desc and asked to draw what that person / thing looks like IN YOUR MIND). But this one... this one tickled me.

• Take a song.
• Desc a person using lyrics from that song.
• Embed them into the desc whatever, whichever way you want.
• The more creative you get, the better.

You have a week, ladies and gentlemen. Next Monday, I'll put up a poll so people can vote on their favorites. No cash prize, but the pride of knowing you had the best desc in all of MSB (this week). Just hope @Tinuviel doesn't hit the bottle first or we all lose (he probably will).

@coin said in Good TV:

@derp said in Good TV:

@aria said in Good TV:

I'm two episodes into "Troy: Fall of City" and I can't decide whether it's objectively just not very good or if my recurring sentiment of ".......You cancelled Marco Polo but decided to pay for this?" is just spoiling everything for me.

Same, but with Sense8. Troy is crap so far.

I can understand them canceling Sense8. It had a relatively small audience and cost 9 million dollars an episode.

They had a similar excuse for Marco Polo. 'It didn't have a lot of viewers and was expensive to make.'

I imagine Troy has a similar cost range and, at the reviews it's getting, will have even fewer viewers.

Hence the ire some of us have. Marco Polo at least was a new story (Troy has been rehashed a lot) and it was done well for 'as few' viewers as it had.

I find it hard to classify The Lottery as horror since in my mind it's just pointless drivel.

@derp said in Hello MSBites! Grade your administrators.:

@auspice said in Hello MSBites! Grade your administrators.:

I'm not close friends with @Derp

But... sniffle ...but you said we would be best friends forever.

Moving to the new Game Dev section.

I'm moving this to our new Game Design section, because hey!

@thenomain said in Hello MSBites! Grade your administrators.:

@auspice

Sometimes I will publicly praise my friends but privately admonish them. Others I will praise and admonish publicly. For me the distinction depends upon our relationship.

For instance one of the things I love about the marraige of @emmahsue and @helloraptor is how they are comfortable enough in their lives that they will say the other has messed up, or is wrong, and it’s never in anger. When they praise each other it’s never looking cliquish or suckuppery. They say these things because they believe it, and think it needs said. Thoughtful and respectful. Who doesn’t want this kind of relationship?

But not everyone is this way, and not all mistakes or wrongdoing is created equal. Not all rightdoing is created equal either, but if there is no harm in the praise then we could use more of it.

Precisely.

One of my best friends, we call each other out regularly. Sometimes it is couched in teasing. And sometimes it has been a full sit-down-come-to-jesus talk. But our friendship is solid enough that each and every time? We have been able to move right on into our usual chatting and bullshitting right after.

Because that's who we are. We are both the sort of people where we prefer to just move on after an argument. We both know this about each other. And we both know that to us, a friendship is the value of what has come before. That 'this' (the fight) is fleeting. We talked it out. We sorted it out. Neither of us needs to sit and brood in it. It's done. Let's get back to sharing videos, discussing what matters, etc.

We've gone from arguing right back into stupid videos within moments.

But praise is good, too. We should totally give kudos to people. Maybe not always in the open (since, well, we're obvs. gonna praise our buds more often than anyone else; nature of the beast), but sometimes. Make people feel good, yo.