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So here's a sidebar...

...if I were to find someone willing to code it and a decent enough system (I think Misadventure had one)...

...would anyone enjoy a game of randomized PCs? It'd be meant entirely to be tongue-in-cheek, satire, and a TVTropes playground.

I have another one, as a player.

D&D campaign. The DM wanted it to be over-the-top power levels, gear, etc. Freedom to pick whatever races we wanted, etc. I went air genasi. Then we each got one wish. I assume because he wanted to try out his skill at fucking us over vs. ours at terming our wishes properly.

I wished to be able to fly. And the only loophole he found in my writeup was not mentioning the ability to land again. So my character was permanently hovering at least 6" off the ground.

Both of these things turned out to be his downfall. See, he wanted to TPK us. That was the ultimate goal. Let the party become insanely powerful... then try to TPK.

His first failed attempt was because of an airborne poison. Air genasi don't have to breathe. So everyone else is down, out, and me... "Uh. I don't breathe. It doesn't affect me."

Cue DM's sad puppy look as my character goes about and revives everyone.

The next instance was a ground-based attack. "Everyone takes..."
Me: "Uhm. I don't."
DM: "What, why?!"
Me: "Remember? She never touches the ground."

Not just sad puppy look that time, but the creeping realization that he did this to himself with the wish loophole.

So once again, everyone else is down and my character goes around to revive them.

That party eventually got to where they'd make sure I got the best gear. My character got turned into a vampire? They made it their mission to find her gear that'd let her walk in sunlight. She wasn't even the most martially strong or anything, but she always survived, so they made doubly sure of it.

@tinuviel said in Dead Celebrities: 2017 Edition:

@insomnia Not seeing any sources for this, from whence does your information come?

This is the only reference I've found: http://welcometotwinpeaks.com/news/rest-in-peace-brent-briscoe/

@rook said in Backpacks!:

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_3_10?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=swiss+gear+laptop+backpack&sprefix=swiss+gear%2Caps%2C149&crid=15PBU9LE6DMUF

Do you know which model you have? All the ones initially coming up there are sans-chest strap.

@ganymede said in Your Opinions of These Games:

@alzie

The F&L Vampire sphere is inclusive, but it is oriented towards physical violence. Heavily. The players are fun-loving, but be prepared to be a heavy-handed fighter.

I'm not sure I can agree with this, Gany. Maybe it was? But since I've been there, it's been social maneuvering. There's a lot of physical combat... versus NPC enemies, but I haven't seen much between PCs at all.

But I have seen a lot of social maneuvering. Hell, I'm deeply involved using just mundane skills. A Mortal could do what my char has done!

I've worked places that banned the microwaving of fish. I support this decision.

@auspice said in RL Anger:

Fuck jobs with no PTO. I'm so sick I passed out without warning.

But I can't afford to take time off work. So I'll have to go in anyway.

(And before the 'but you'll get other people sick:' someone at the office started this. EVERYONE has been sick.)

Self-quote.

Got messaged by boss and told not to go in because sick. I'll have to go in on Sunday to make up the hours (since, again, no PTO and I desperately need the money), but at least I can now curl up on the sofa with tea and nap to TV.

I've been enjoying the Vampire sphere on F&L. I never thought I could actually enjoy playing Vampire (I actively avoided it for a long long time).

But the players have been very welcoming and helpful for a Vamp-newb like me. I've only been around a a couple weeks and I'm already being involved in plot and feel like part of the group.

I don't know about other spheres on the game, but I can say I am enjoying F&L.

ETA: I tried Fate's Harvest a few times. I could never feel 'involved.' It just did not jive with me at all. The other big issue I had, during my tenure there, is public scenes always exploded to unwieldy sizes. You'd start with 2-3 and end up with 8-10. The only way not to was to RP in private areas / temprooms. Maybe that's changed, but I note it because I know a lot of people (like me) can't handle huge scenes and will bail.

It sucked to constantly have to bail on RP.

Fuck jobs with no PTO. I'm so sick I passed out without warning.

But I can't afford to take time off work. So I'll have to go in anyway.

(And before the 'but you'll get other people sick:' someone at the office started this. EVERYONE has been sick.)

There could be a few reasons.

• People who primarily phoneMU*. Some of those clients don't log, or if they do, do so sloppily.
• Logging not working. There was a year or so, on my Macbook (before Sierra killed it entirely), where Potato wouldn't log. The logs would come up empty. I forget how I finally fixed it, but it wasn't in the help files, no one else could figure it out, and the bug I opened on it went ignored. If I wanted to log, I had to manually copy/paste.
• Similar to the first point... People who use web portals. Arx and Faradays' AresMUSH both have these and some people have begun using them more and more. They don't, AFAIK, export to logs at all.

I'm sure there's more situations where someone wouldn't / can't have auto-logging, but I don't have them off the top of my head.

@sparks said in Backpacks!:

Now, I do not own the Everyday Backpack, but I've heard excellent reviews of it, and based on the durability and comfort of my other Everyday bags, I feel confident recommending it.

I think I looked at those briefly. But at that price range, I'd just shell out for my dream bag: https://www.goruck.com/gr1/

That meets everything I want, but... $300. I can't do that, not even close.

I sometimes miss the laptop backpack I used to have. I finally retired it end of 2015, but I'd had it since 2003. And I only retired it to give it to someone else- it was still in great shape. The issue was it was heavy because it was from a time when they hadn't quite gotten padding for laptop bags without them being heavy af as a result.

@thenomain said in Backpacks!:

@auspice

Timbuktu is insanely heavy. Two miles on your feet would be tough, yes. Gany is right about a backpack, the weight distribution will help a lot.

Yeah, I've had people pick up my bag and just be shocked at the weight of it.
Guys doing that whole 'oh let me be nice and carry your bag' and then regretting it.

I know a backpack will be way better on my shoulders/back (hell, hips too). It'll also be easier to maneuver with. Getting my current bag into position takes so much effort that I get to the bus and am torn between: the effort of removing and re-wearing it... or sitting uncomfortably for 45-60 minutes?

Fingers crossed that my job doesn't fuck up my hours again and I'll be able to afford one mid-November (and that I don't do too much damage to my back in the weeks before then).

In the first week of my new position with my company, I performed well enough that when the PM and client chose someone to have permissions/access to handle billing issues for users (cancelling, refunds, etc.), they chose me.

Any other job and this may be a 'RL Love,' but with my company it's just sort of par for the course. I'll get more work dumped on me and private accolades from my boss, but that's it. No raise. No public acknowledgement.

I'm angry at myself for performing well and that's what sucks. I can't stop thinking 'I should have been lazier.'

@ganymede said in Backpacks!:

https://www.underarmour.com/en-us/ua-storm-contender-backpack/pid1277418-040

This looks like it'd meet my requirements. I'll keep an eye for sales as we get closer to holiday season.

Ugh, I hope I hear back on this job I'm trying for. It'd solve SO MANY PROBLEMS.

Right now I have: https://www.timbuk2.com/command-messenger-bag/174-4-6114.html
(company branded because that's all you get when you've been an employee 5+ years... A branded laptop bag.)

It's a nice bag, but it's been brutal for walking 2 miles a day.

This is what I'm currently eyeballing:
https://www.511tactical.com/rapid-quad-zip-pack.html

I like the MOLLE options. Being able to add things on easily is nice. It only has a waist strap tho.
(Mind, I worry re: chest straps and the relative size of my own chest.)

ETA:
I should mention it needs to be able to carry a 15" Macbook, plus a couple books/notebooks (since I usually take my textbooks/notebooks for class along with me to work on at slow moments at work).

I have to walk roughly 2 miles a day (+ bus) for work. I have one of those bike messenger style laptop bags, so it's not as bad on my back... but it's still bad.

I need a backpack (eventually, once I can afford it ), but there's so damn many out there.

Are there any other folks who walk/haul around a laptop a lot who have a good backpack they can recommend? The one I most want is $300 and ha ha ha ha I can't afford that anytime soon.

So toss me your suggestions (personal experience please; I've been doing plenty of digging around on Amazon, gear sites, etc.)!

If the base system exists, it's probably more data entry to adapt it.

There's a lot of reasons for me not to use WoD.

1. I hate the current CG system out there for it. I hate it with a burning passion. I don't want to touch it. I hate using it to build characters. So if I used WoD? Oh look, back to having to code something from scratch.
2. Again, as much as people try to argue me, I don't think WoD is easy to ST in. If that makes me some sort of dumbass, then so be it.
3. CG is slower, approvals would take longer (esp. if I use something that can be abused wildly like Mage), and I don't want to have to keep a full app staff just to go through them.
4. One of the complaints we hear on the forums are 'yet another WoD game'. That's what it would be. I could slap the veneer of Magicians on it, but it'd be yet another WoD game.

@faraday said in Potential Game / Temperature Read:

@auspice I was contrasting FS3 and WoD, both of which are systems that exist in 'ready-made' MUSH form. And unfortunately, you're going to need to know how to code at least a little bit to expand either of them for a Magicians game. FS3 would probably work out-of-the-box for Expanse though if you wait for Ares. If you use it on Penn, you still need to know at least some code just to get it installed and set up.

I can work with existing code and hobble together stuff, but developing an all-new system (or adapting one) to a game?

There's experienced coders out there who won't go near that.