Posts made by Auspice

@Seamus said in Ultimate Werewolf:

I hate you.

@Autumn said in Image Attribution & Creative Commons:

@Auspice said in Image Attribution & Creative Commons:

I almost feel like there should/could be two descriptions. The overly fancy (more for your own sense of ego) and the one that gets down to brass tacks so that someone can look at you mid-scene and go 'okay, that's right, she has green eyes.'

Isn't that what shortdescs are for? Or is that too little information?

It's often too little. Whenever I try to fit everything in, I go over the allotted amount of space. People don't always put in the details! You might just get 'Unassuming dude' or 'Colorful young woman' and it's like okay but uh, how tall is he?! or what color are her eyes?!

But whenever I try to cover: race, height, eyes, build..... it doesn't all fit. I super appreciate that Ares (and Arxcode in the bio data above the desc!) provide these.

@surreality

Keurigs also die really easy in general. I like them when I'm traveling, but considering how many my mom has gone through... nope.
I'm happy with my french press and aeropress. Extra effort, but they take up little space, so I'm good.

This is what we have at work: https://www.surlatable.com/jura-a1-automatic-coffee-center/3622339.html

So! I know there's a decent number of Austinites around here.

I'm hosting an Ultimate Werewolf here on Friday (24th). It's primarily for the Lady Geeks group, but it's an 'open' (meaning friends/family are welcome) event since Werewolf is best with a big crowd.

If you're local and would like to join, feel free to PM me and I can send the details.

It was also an example. I picked it because a) I knew where to find it quickly, and b) it doesn't include the character name.

There is absolutely worse out there, but that one is a good example IMO because it is more florid prose than actual description.

I almost feel like there should/could be two descriptions. The overly fancy (more for your own sense of ego) and the one that gets down to brass tacks so that someone can look at you mid-scene and go 'okay, that's right, she has green eyes.'

@surreality Oh, see, with coffee makers I am p sure coworkers think I am magic.

We have a pair of these super fancy coffee machines on every floor at work. They grind the coffee beans and you can choose between 3 sizes and 2 strengths. Well, one stopped working. Which is bad with how busy it can be some mornings.

And SURE. There's the TRADITIONAL giant carafe coffee.
But these make such good delicious coffee you'll even skip the starbucks run.

I found that it was the cover over the coffee beans that was the issue. It wasn't being recognized as closed. So there's been a few instances of me walking over to someone futzing with it, taking a coffee stirrer, wedging it in just-so, and the thing working.

But sewing machines... nope. I just call that a loss.

Yesterday morning I woke up to a text from my sister asking where in Austin I lived. I told her, asked Why.

Hours later, my dad called (about something unrelated) and as I hadn't heard back from her yet... I asked if he knew why she was asking.

Turns out she'd talked to our mother the day before and she's planning a trip to Austin with her best friend and had asked our mother if I would host them.

Like, wtf child.
Why the everloving shit would you ask our mother if I'd host you and not ask me?
You think our mother can dictate that? I am now LESS LIKELY to say yes.

To our mother's credit, she did tell my sister to ask me.
To our mother discredit, she told my sister I'd do it if they offered to pay for food.

I'm leaning towards being willing to do so because while my sister and I had a terrible relationship through her tweens and early teens (holy shit she took bratty teen to a new level and even when I'd try to do big sister stuff like take her shopping, to get her nails done, etc., she'd just be catty and mean to me)... we've had a few text convos over the past year that have been OK.

But man.
I'm peeved she'd ask our mom instead of just being adults and asking me directly.

just gotta remember she's not yet 21 and still p much a child.

@Pandora said in Image Attribution & Creative Commons:

Is it prose-y? Sure. Is it hard to read? No. FFS it's 7 sentences, not 7 paragraphs.

Legibility and length are two different things in my book. This paragraph rates at poor legibility (and that's not just me: throw it in Hemingway Editor).

I don't mind a long, multi-paragraph desc if it's legible and I don't have to spend a couple minutes deciphering it.

If you're outside the US, Studio Ghibli films are coming to Netflix in February.

If you're in the US, ha ha fuck you HBO got the rights instead.

@surreality I can use machines from the 50s and 60s, but I hate them because I'm lazy and the maintenance is garbage.

Anything newer? Naaah.

And people are always like 'oh yeah threading is hard and-'

that's not it! I can figure that out! It's like a puzzle and I like puzzles.

It's just that THINGS HAPPEN while I am using them. One time using my mom's, the needle snapped off all of a sudden and landed across the room in a perfect circle. One time while making skirts with a friend, the machine would jam up every time she stepped out of the room.

I am just not meant to use sewing machines.

I should make some storage for knitting needles and crochet hooks. Right now crochet hooks are just all in a pouch and knitting needles are.........

uhm, they just are.

But I can't sew for shit. I have a curse on me and sewing machines and lack the patience to hand-sew.

So I dug this up. I had a friend share this desc with me a while back from Marsilikos because they had a ??????? when they saw it. This is a good example of 'I have no idea what this person is trying to describe:'

Those famed violet eyes of House L'Envers paired to honey gold skin of House Mereliot place a visible stamp on her heritage. A shade under six feet tall, she blazes with all the energy of the famed lighthouse overlooking Marsilikos' harbour, had it taken on mortal form. Her lithe figure complements her height, bearing neither tattoos or scars to differentiate her youthful complexion. All the seething radiance glittering in her brilliant eyes and animating her lively expression bestows a natural warmth and candor. Her fingers are notably beringed and calloused, indicative of a committed performer. Clear features bear an unquestionable d'Angeline stamp, leaving her a black opal among priceless gems, for the dichotomy of her dark, arching brows and thick lashes against her dusky gold colouration is a stark one. Typically she wears the masses of her dark hair pulled back into an elaborate braid that would vex a spider, threaded by a circlet of small gems on gossamer strands as another trademark.

They never linked me to a wiki page, so I have no idea if there was a PB, but I cannot get an image of this person in my head AT ALL.

ETA: I use this desc as an example since it doesn't include PC name, so there's only name/shame if you ever saw it (I was never given the PC name either)

@Tempest said in Image Attribution & Creative Commons:

@ZombieGenesis said in Image Attribution & Creative Commons:

to link to an image in their @descs as it brings up that image in the client itself

Wait what

Who invented this technology

Pueblo is the first client I remember having images. MUCKs used it a lot early 2000s.

Here's the thing....

(and I doubt I'm alone in this)

Even pre-PBs, I didn't read descs.

So many people wrote meandering, confusing descs that left me

The best I could glean would be, for example: 'ok, female and.......... red? hair?'

So I like PBs. I like PBs because they're a better descriptor of what your character looks like than your words are. Most of you can't write what a person looks like for shit with your 'lithe lean voluptuous curves' and 'limpid verdant pools'

Friday, I had vertigo so bad I spent p much all day in bed.
I was fine all weekend.

About an hour ago, I began feeling ill / light-headed / etc again. Coworker noticed a few minutes ago that I looked a bit peaked. I told him how I felt. He said I should likely go home.

Pointed out I don't feel safe in the going (I could take an Uber, but I don't feel particularly comfortable doing so in my state )... but let me state for the umpteenth time that I appreciate working somewhere that supports self-care.

.......and that I hate that my migraines are back in force (and with atypical symptoms, ugh).

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

I think my student lured the English language down a dark alleyway and beat the crap out of it.

This is not English as we know it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY

@Seamus said in Image Attribution & Creative Commons:

@Ganymede said in Image Attribution & Creative Commons:

@Seamus said in Image Attribution & Creative Commons:

In most states, you can be sued for using someone else's name, likeness, or other personal attributes without permission for an exploitative purpose. Usually, people run into trouble in this area when they use someone's name or photograph in a commercial setting, such as in advertising or other promotional activities. But, some states also prohibit use of another person's identity for the user's own personal benefit, whether or not the purpose is strictly commercial. There are two distinct legal claims that potentially apply to these kinds of unauthorized uses: (1) invasion of privacy through misappropriation of name or likeness ("misappropriation"); and (2) violation of the right of publicity. (The "right of publicity" is the right of a person to control and make money from the commercial use of his or her identity.)

Unless I see evidence to the contrary, a claim for the unauthorized use of one's likeness for a character would probably be barred under the doctrine of absque injuria.

I get that, however, I'm wondering how someone like Emily Blunt would feel if her likeness was used to portray a character that was a rabid serial killer and posted those logs with her image attached. I do understand that there is no real 'damage' but with their 'reputation' might qualify?

Would she portray a rabid serial killer in a film?

I think that may be why I'm OK with actors as PBs more than musicians or models or... Because they DO portray all sorts of people, types, etc., so it's not just 'them' being slotted into different roles.

@surreality

I get free squares off of spoonflower regularly in the 'this could be fun to embroider on' p often. I have a tentacle one now where I'm satin-stitching over the suckers. You can barely see it except at an angle, so it'll be more a textured piece than anything.

And I need to re-buy the Middle Earth map because the fabric they were offering at the time is teeeeeeeeerrible for stitching, but I still wanna do my idea.

So, yeah, I've got tons of fabric for embroidery that's bad for embroidery.

@Ghost said in Image Attribution & Creative Commons:

Not every player does TS, and not every PB is selected with TS in mind, but its prevalent and even if you never intended to TS but find yourself doing so is it okay to do so using that person's likeness without their consent?

@ZombieGenesis said in Image Attribution & Creative Commons:

since most RP takes place in that grand palace that is our imagination where that character could like like anything we want regardless of who the other player has listed as their PB.

The first char I ever RP'd with @Ghost on (and consequently TS'd with :P), the PB never factored into wanting our chars to get together. I thought the chars were compatible. I liked his RP. Voila.

If PB factored in, it never would've happened. I don't find Joel Kinnaman attractive at all.

@surreality said in The Crafting Thread:

Also, omg I need to know where you found the marked tape, because working with white artist tape is a pain in the ass. What I wouldn't give for a serger...

lol people always comment on that tape.
It's just some cheap packing tape with purple stripes that I got on a whim yeeeeears ago to see if I could do anything with it and this is literally all it gets used for.... unless I need packing tape. I THINK I got it at Walmart? Like I literally couldn't tell you now because it was so long ago!

But that's all it is. Decorative packing tape. But since my edges fray so much I was like 'fuck you slapping this on there' and people are like THAT'S SUCH A GOOD IDEA and I flail like uh thanks I just did a thing in a panic.