Posts made by Auspice

I'm not sure this is so much a 'thing I love,' but it's not anger so much.

I play in an RL TT (well, semi-RL, as we play via Google Hangouts, since we live around the country)... Our ST runs a podcast and he edits the gameplay into a podcast (we only play once a month anyway). So you can listen to our sessions.

...I didn't realize he also shares them to various WoD groups on FB until today. Which means I have no idea how many people have been listening to our Vampire and... now Changeling sessions.

Like oh god I am even more glad I talked him out of his desire to make it a video recording.

@Sparks

Would people like to see me return to Lou? Because I could give it a go. See if I could ease in. Esp. with adventuring happening (as that was her schtick).

@Roz said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

@Auspice Yeah, that's really fair. They've taken specific measures to try and control the speed of things, but it's still a dense game and there's no changing that, really.

(I can tell you that there's a really great Mason player right now!)

Yeah, but right now I can only do very small (3 or fewer people, total) scenes except in very rare cases and maybe two, three scenes a week at most. Lou was awesome. I loved playing Lou, I really did, but I just... don't want to put myself in a place again of having people fussing at me for not doing more.

I sort of miss Arx, but my big issue with it wasn't issues like Custodius being around, sadly...

My issue was everything moved way, way too fast for me. And with my migraines now compounding my availability even more, I just... sadly still don't see it being a good fit for me.

It's crude af, but the term 'cyber-slit' is amusing the hell out of me right now.

Like I'm just imagining a sexbot with a credit card slot between her legs that becomes a fleshlight.

@Cupcake said in A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like:

How has she behaved thus far? Someone's indicated she has the uber-enthusiasm thing going and for them it's an irritant. Has she exhibited the known toxic warning signs, and if not, is it still within the time frame that she usually would by now?

It wasn't just uber enthusiasm... it was a sort of fake enthusiasm/friendliness. To give a specific example: our mutual friend, Byron. He tried to engage her in conversation in the OOC Lounge and she just flat ignored him, to the point that he logged off for the evening.

It was the steamroll effect. The 'I am HERE I am LOUD I am SUPER FRIENDLY... but I will ignore those I don't like while being super loud and active enough that hopefully no one will notice.'

And to me that was v. toxic, but I didn't see it affecting anyone beyond myself and the one friend, so I didn't voice anything at the time and then the migraines ramped up and school got super busy, so I was inactive (thus unable to see if it was a one-off incident) until it cropped up in the thread.

@A.-Meowley

What you described is really about on point.

Wait a round or two. See what's going on. Pose into it. Is there a party going on? Join the party. Is there a quiet conversation? Walk into that.

Imagine what it would be like walking into that setting IRL and pose accordingly. It's not as difficult as people make it out to be and I think you're already very much on the right track. You may be overthinking it because you see other people flubbing it up so majorly and you're worrying too much that you might be, too. And I'm gonna say... I doubt you are, since you see the problematic people, too.

Because, yeah, you've seen those people and they're a peeve. The person who is not seeing the eldritch horror and reacting accordingly. You're trying to pose your character and wondering why the ever-living-fuck Jane over there is giggling and flirting while everyone else is wigged the fuck out by the thing with twenty-eight eyes and forty tentacles.

They're not visualizing.

That's the key: visualize. (Yes even if it means imagining the many-tentacled-beast.)

Visualize. 'Okay, my buddies are standing around the kitchen looking somber... Even if my character is running in in a great mood... these are her bffs, she's probably going to scale it down and realize something is up.'

Another tip:
Even if I have very good reason to derail a scene (something happened in another scene and I have BIG PLOT NEWS to share), I will ask OOCly if it's OK before doing so.

I imagine those people are unable to grasp the difference between providing hooks and atmosphere. Atmosphere gives a sense of what's going on around 'you' and things to latch into if you want.

But when Sir Priss is having a meltdown for the thousandth time in the middle of the room, that's not atmosphere. That's not something engaging.

It's draining. And it brings what the rest of you were doing to a grinding halt.

When the Class Clown has run in and fallen on her ass on a huge mess that wasn't there because she ignored the set pose that said that the place is freshly cleaned (and went 'HEE HEE JUST ROLL WITH IT!' when you tried to correct her OOC), it's not fun! and different!, it's negating what the rest of you had been doing and partaking in as a proverbial team.

I don't care how well-written it was. It's bad team and coop-writing. I'll take an engaging two-line pose that acknowledges that we're all in this together over a well-crafted eight-line pose that gives no fucks about me as a person and my enjoyment of the game. Because that's what those people are truly saying: I don't care about you or your enjoyment of this game. I only care about the attention you give me.

@Lisse24 said in Good writin'.:

In my mind, a good pose should:

e) Does not overwhelm or dominate the scene.

This this this this this this.

I know so many people who 'get' the rest of your points, but not this one. They will come into a scene and pretty much ignore the cooperative writing of everyone else and just steamroll the scene into being all about them. And then brag about how they entertain! They make things interesting! They're great to RP with because they mix things up!

Not realizing how much people cringe when they walk into a public scene because everyone knows they're going derail the entire scene to be about them.

@Ghost

@Ghost said in Fate's Harvest BETA Live (Full Open Soon):

Personally I think it's sad that this person isn't being given the opportunity to attempt roleplay with updated behavior.

I'm not a friend of hers, nor do I role play with her, but all patterns aside, there are people in this hobby far more deserving of scarlet letters on the loose who don't suffer the same degree of scrutiny.

I, for one, refuse to partake in this witch hunt behavior.

I played with her a few times. I just found she sort of set my teeth on edge and I had little interest in playing with her beyond social scenes and was avoiding the OOC Room if she was present (which was no skin off my back; OOC Room can be spammy).

Finding out she's Spider was sort of an 'Ah, well, that explains that.'

@Ganymede said in Fate's Harvest BETA Live (Full Open Soon):

@Auspice said in Fate's Harvest BETA Live (Full Open Soon):

I knew something rubbed me the wrong way about her. I sort of chalked it up to my being jaded and cranky, but there was just a bit too much of the 'this person is putting on way too much of a show of I AM EVERYONE'S BFF while also seeming ultra fake' from her.

She has a persecution complex that's easy for many gamers to initially relate to, until they realize that it is a product of her own repeated patterns of behavior.

I never knew her before Fallcoast (largely due to it being my first major nWoD game), but I've also always just sort of sat over there in my own little quiet bubble to begin with. I'll be polite, I'll chat, but the 'OMG YAY CONFETTI BFFS 5EVER' stuff just sets my teeth on edge.

@Thenomain said in Identifying Major Issues:

I asked my Millenial co-worker how many people he knew would know how to make a secondary email for junk and things and things and junk, to separate their important stuff from other stuff, and he said about one third.

We here are generally very technical people. I expected him to say, "why would anyone have only one email address", but he didn't. I'm not using this as proof that two thirds of "kids these days" are not technically savvy, but as evidence that "not that hard" is a matter of great perspective.

I'm sort of at the leading edge of the Millennial crowd. I don't have a secondary email for junk, but I think I take it a step further on the tech side. I use GMail's functionality wherein you have a plethora of 'email addresses' under your own (depending upon where you place a - or . within your email address) and have a specific structure I use within mine that dumps to a specific spam folder. That way I can control where things go and if I ever do have a need to locate or track something, I can do so.

'Oh, hey, I gave e.m-ail@gmail.com out to XSite and it ended up here, so they clearly sold it to...'

However, I had a class that went in depth on studying the whole 'Digital Immigrant' vs 'Digital Native' and there's a sort of 'Bridge' Generation between the two as well, which is where I think I fall. Most true Millennials just sort of accept a lot more (like spam mail) than the rest of us. And then you get the even younger kids (think the toddlers) who just expect every 'screen' to be a touch screen now. It's wild shit.

@Thenomain said in Fate's Harvest BETA Live (Full Open Soon):

@Tux said in Fate's Harvest BETA Live (Full Open Soon):

VASpider is playing Gisa.

Thank you for the update. The More We Know(tm).

I knew something rubbed me the wrong way about her. I sort of chalked it up to my being jaded and cranky, but there was just a bit too much of the 'this person is putting on way too much of a show of I AM EVERYONE'S BFF while also seeming ultra fake' from her.

There is a version of Injustice 2 for iOS (maybe Android has one? I dunno). I've been tooling around with it for something to do (usually before sleep when the insomnia is still kicking around).

It's actually pretty good. And I say this as someone who is not really a DC fan.

@Catsmeow said in RL things I love:

@Auspice

I don't even know how to buy LLR. Like where and how do I do it and.. ugh.

Yeah.

If we were FB friends, I could help you join a group or two and help you out. But that's really it: you find consultants on FB and buy through them.

@Cupcake said in RL things I love:

Lularoe and Disney are partnering for a Disney clothing line!

I am full of squee.

The only thing about it that makes me angry is I don't need to spend more money on LLR.

Couple months ago, a coworker and I built out a sort of 'database' of replies for the CS/Tier 1 team to use. I say 'database' because it was just a notebook in OneNote they could reference for these macros. Responses for standard/common tickets they could copy and paste and edit rather than type up from scratch every single time.

We did this as a volunteer thing, in between our own tickets. We never got thanks. We never expected it. We mostly did it because we got sick of being asked the same things over and over by people ("What do I tell people who want to change their username?" "What do we tell people who want spoilers on upcoming card releases?") .

Today, management drops the bomb on us: "We don't like that you used OneNote, so we need you to rebuild it in a GoogleDoc using this layout we designed. ASAP."

Thanks, guys. Really. Just great. Super awesome. Thanks for the reminder why I never, ever do anything nice for a job anymore.

@Arkandel said in Random links:

@Auspice Ron Perlman?

Nope.
Trejo or bust.

@Ganymede said in Random links:

@SG said in Random links:

Wonder Woman is pretty much DC's last chance. Especially with the major fumble of having Jason Momoa playing fucking Aquaman instead of Lobo.

You could always get Danny Trejo to play Lobo.

...well now this must happen and I will accept no other actor as Lobo ever.