Posts made by Auspice

I feel like this could be half-anger and half-love thread, but I'll remain optimistic and put it here.

My parents voted on the Trump ticket because they like Pence.

I've been slowly educating my mother on the exact kind of things Pence wants and has tried to make happen in the past. She's resistant, but she's slowly starting to come 'round and understand that no, he is not for 'Christian values' (at least not legitimate ones as Jesus taught). I can only hope that the work I've done over the past week doesn't go up in smoke after I leave on Wednesday.

I worked today, but I have tomorrow off!

Ultimately, I'm glad I never had kids with my emotionally abusive ex.

...but there are still times I wish I could be in a stable relationship and have kids. I'd give up social life. I don't really have one as it is; between work full-time and school full-time and very few local friends, I can go a couple weeks sometimes without interacting with another person.

@tek I wish I could be more physically active. My body just loves to work against me. I think that's why I don't get hassled as much anymore. They know I'm doing what I can. But my teenage self? Yeeeeeah. I had knee surgery at 14 because I had a fucked up ligament in my knee that was being made worse from soccer... and I kept getting told - until my chiropractor stepped up to advocate for me - I was lying about being physically active and just needed to lose weight. And I hurt for any teenage girls ever being told the same.

@Lisse24 said in RL Anger:

@tek I have PCOS, which literally makes it near impossible to lose weight. The average calorie deficit needed to lose weight on this disease is 800 cals/day (yes there have been studies). Despite that, while I'm pudgy, I've managed to stay under 150 and maintain good blood pressure by working my tail off. At 4'11, this makes me a bit pudgy - pudgy, but not terribly obese. Yet, what do I hear every time I get sick and go to the doctor? Well, if I'd just lose weight...

I have PCOS and hypothyroid. The struggle is freakin' real. Thankfully, the doctors I've found more recently know I'm -working- on losing weight and that my body is working against me. But I've heard that so many times over the years.

About a week ago, had a bruise show up on my knee. Whatev. Went about my business. In the last few days, bruise has worsened, knee has swollen, and last night it began to hurt. In the 'can't sleep and can't function' sort of way. Went to urgent care today.

Doctor there sent me on to the ER because he wanted to make sure I didn't have a blood clot. However... after xrays, ultrasound, etc... knee is clear. Diagnosis is just a bad muscle strain. So rest, ice, tylenol, etc. Sucks, but it could be a helluva lot worse.

I swear the timezone thing is a no-win scenario sometimes.

You either start early enough for the EST folks and no PST can make it (since they're all still at work), or you start late enough for PST and the EST peeps have to leave early. I work from home and I've tried a broad spectrum. 5:30p PST / 8:30p EST seems to be the sweet spot, but you've gotta be able to jump right into the action in 1 or 2 rounds.

The way I've been trying to juggle it is:

a) to mostly run on weekends (1p PST start on a Saturday is 4p EST and generally manageable for more folks than weeknight scenes).
b) I skip ALL the setup. I skip the 'You all gather here,' the 'figure out who is riding in what vehicle,' etc. We spend a few minutes OOC (or in advance of the scene time if possible) figuring out who has what and is doing which in advance... and then I start with the 'As you roll up to the abandoned Radio Shack, you see...'

Because I swear, for every person that's awesome in the 'setup' by including everything in one pose, there's a couple people who take 2-3 rounds of posing and that alone can add an hour or so.

Oh right...

My parents are climate change deniers too. I had managed to forget.

And what's this garbage about mixing of the breads?

RYE AND PUMPERNICKEL SHOULD NOT BECOME ONE.

@GirlCalledBlu said in iPad Client?:

@Auspice Do you know how to remove the start-up MUD from your connection list?

In Settings, under Worlds, swipe left on it and you'll get the "Delete" option.

Mudrammer might be the only iOS client. Only one I've found. I've liked it pretty well on my iPhone.

I appreciate that I can be logged in to up to 4 games at once and that its activity notification is obvious, but not intrusive.

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

Who the hell is talking about punishing anyone (let alone everyone) or slavish dedication to a pose order?

I think asking that everyone keep a pose order, even in a larger scene, because someone 'might' jump order is considered punishing everyone else. It's going 'I'm going to limit all of you because of something one person may or may not do.'

I've also seen people pitch fits when someone poses 'out of order' because the proper order was someone who went AFK for a long period of time without warning. I consider that punishing also because, depending on the person having a fit, it can be problematic.

You know the answer to those who can type fast enough to railroad everyone?

'Don't be a dick.'

I like 3pr because there always seems to be that one person taking 20-30 minutes to pose that you just wait and wait and wait and people have to leave and...

3pr. Don't be a dick.

It's not that hard. And if someone's being a dick? Call them out on it. Don't turn around and punish everyone else.

@Arkandel

Honestly, I'm in a similar boat. I had something happen the other day that led me to understanding someone. I'd previously brushed off an issue they'd had and it wasn't done out of cruelty or anything, but because I honestly couldn't understand where they were coming from. Now I do and I'm... not sure how to apologize, though I wish I could.

I think using NPCs or other creatures from a splat should be Ok for Hunter. It'd be easy enough as saying 'Don't use someone else's NPC or an NPC that would be connected to a PC' (aka don't say they're from someone's coterie).

I think any Vampire or WW that'd look at a Hunter PRP going after NPCs and get pissed off are probably problematic in some other ways... and why should we cater to problem players?

@Miss-Demeanor said in Shadows Over Reno:

@Auspice Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees. So much this! Drove me batty, to the point I finally gave up on playing a Hunter because I am sick unto death of nothing but social/bar/hangout scenes.

I get around it (as have others) by making up my own 'baddies' or by fiddling with the rules a bit. Human who has some spirit working for/with him? Eh, it's a one-off antagonist, I don't need to fully justify his sheet. I just need to know what he may roll.

I try to focus on the storytelling and make the ruleset adapt to me (another reason I don't run much for games at large: rules lawyers). I do wish Hunter could actually have more of an effect on the game setting itself, though. Or be able to go after those people kidnapping and killing NPCs throughout the city.

A part of me wants a Hunter-only game someday, but so many people need their Mage/Vampire/Wolf that I don't think it'd work out.

@Miss-Demeanor

Oh, I wholly agree. Law gets the same issue. PCs can blatantly murder people in broad daylight and Law sphere is told 'oh just find a way to work around it' or to ignore it completely.

I get why Staff may sometimes be leery of PVP type situations, but you are entirely right. Supers can fux with Hunters, but not vice versa. Worse than that... on many games, Hunters aren't even allowed to use NPCs of the other spheres. So you can't, say, have Hunters deal with a pack of WW moving in on the area.

@Arkandel

When my character is involved, it's usually in a more understated way. The thing I'm doing with Salvatore on Reno at the moment... Finley is almost useless against what they're dealing with due to how it's affecting her. So she's more a not-entirely-useless sidekick.

The other reason I don't run stuff game-wide is because... half the time I do plots on the fly.

I'll be RPing with X or Y person and just in the process of it... start throwing in some sort of mystery or a crime (if Law/Hunter types). It's off the cuff. I can't really... schedule that.

@Miss-Demeanor said in The Apology Thread:

@Auspice said in The Apology Thread:

There must be a post I can't see.

Because I don't see 'I'm sorry you' anywhere in his posts.

I see ones about how he's apologizing to people for how he handled things.

Can someone find the post where he says 'I'm sorry you' that Sunny and Miss-Demeanor are referencing, please? Because I can't.

Go ahead and find me the apology in his second 'apology' post. I see alot of 'I recognize' and 'I acknowledge' but no 'I'm sorry I did these things'.

'I apologize to a few players back in the day, whom I won't name specifically for their anonymity.'

'I know better now than I did years ago how personally invested some people get, and I regret that my character choosing X or Y set another living human being into that kind of headspace.'

Is it because he didn't specifically use 'I'm sorry' and instead used 'I apologize to...' and that he regrets how his actions affected others and how he's only realizing now that it did so?

Have you never days/weeks/months after the fact gone 'Shit. I didn't realize how that affected the other person. I wish I had sooner, so I didn't hurt them.'?

There must be a post I can't see.

Because I don't see 'I'm sorry you' anywhere in his posts.

I see ones about how he's apologizing to people for how he handled things.

Can someone find the post where he says 'I'm sorry you' that Sunny and Miss-Demeanor are referencing, please? Because I can't.