Posts made by Bad at Lurking

@Tinuviel

Eh, you can always find a perfectly good reason to anything. But the trick is know that you COULD go skinny dipping in the swimming pool reactor of a nuclear power plant, but deciding that you like your life better without doing so.

I'm not sure I'd ever want to look at user pages.

Other people's TS is a lot like other people's vacation vids. Theoretically you know it exists, but nobody else wants to see that stuff.

Chicago is probably the most neighborhood focused big city I've lived in. I mean, you have your South Side, your West side, Your North Side, and Northwest side, but people are more likely to talk about living in Rogers Park, or Back of the Yards or Lakeview (or Wrigleyville, depending on how old you are). And those neighborhood identities are hugely important in terms of rent prices and such. The cachet of living in Lincoln Park, for example, comes with an insane price tag.

As for 'must see' places, I'm up north, so I tend to think of Chinatown, the Loop, Wrigley Field (most extraordinary, especially the rooftop seats) and the Field Museum (and the other attractions in that area).

I don't think I can overstate how important the L is to the character of the city and the distribution of population/tourism. The various lines each have their own character and sights and tend to run from super sketchy to delightful. And that doesn't even include the rich people's version, which is the Metra, serving the suburbs, which is a far more Eurorail experience than American mass transit.

@hedgehog said in City of Shadows:

I am far too virginal and pure to have ever heard of these dens of sleaze and depravity.

@Pandora said in City of Shadows:

@Taika WoD so I wouldn't touch it with someone else's finger, but kudos for setting it in Chicago instead of some backwater New England village, so when there are inevitably 4334645 strip clubs, biker bars, and B&Bs, it at least makes sense.

Hey! We don't have that many strip clubs. Mostly because cellulite is a lifestyle here.

It's like what would happen if somebody had asked Jack Kirby to design a gaming PC. Right down to the weirdly elaborate bends on the piping.

Nothing like some ball-battered shrimp, if you know what I mean.

And I'm not entirely sure I do.

@surreality said in Sexuality: IC and OOC:

"mangoo"

Well, I'm never going to look a fruit smoothie the same way. Thanks for that.

@mietze There was one. You might say it suffered a Fatality.

At the risk of being tossed into the epistolary wood chipper here, I'm not sure 'bias against' women playing men is entirely fair.

I will straight up admit to being pretty skeptical of women playing gay men because (and this is the part where I'm likely to get roasted), most of the examples I have personally seen have been, ah, problematic. I think that's the most diplomatic way to put it.

Subjectively, women playing straight men seem to do a little better, but I'm not sure if that's just because I miss things that a straight dude would find questionable or if more women playing straight dudes are likely to be doing so for less fetishistic reasons.

I don't have a bias against anyone playing any character. I have a bias against people playing characters that are insulting stereotypes without having made a conscious decision that the character is, in fact, going to be a stereotype and that there is a sane reason behind it based on RP and not TS.

I just notice the bad RP more with gay male characters, for obvious reasons.

I'm a gay dude who plays dudes who are gay. Mainly because I don't want to be the kind of player who puts up bad stereotypes as characterization. I have tried playing straight characters, like 99 percent of FCs I like on comic book games, but within a few hours of making those characters, they get hit on hard, OOCly and ICly, by folks with female characters, usually with enough persistence and a creepy enough vibe that I just slide right out of there and find excuses not to log back in.

On the topic, yeah bi-erasure is kind of a thing, in this hobby. But I feel like we're a long, long way further down the road than we were when people were writing public screeds about how gay werewolves ruined their games. (That's right, there was butt stuff on your MU*, lady. I hope it still keeps you up at night.)

Guys have so many options for being 'special' in the Wheel of Time that not being able to make a Channeler character isn't a hardship at all. Everything from Gleeman to Illuminator to Dreamer to Wolfbrother to Warder or Thieftaker, nobles, scholars, rogues and such.

Hey, don't knock the hollow earth. One of the best RPG campaigns I've ever run was in Hollow Earth Expeditions, with danger archeologists beating up Nazi dinosaur wranglers at the center the earth.

Flat Earthers, on the other hand, are willfully ignorant, which is worse than being just stupid.

@shincashay said in Spirit Lake: An Original Modern Fantasy Game:

I am considering a town sheriff concept. Not sure why I gravitate towered those concepts but should be useful to have some local patrol about.

Oooh, a character to make the concept I'm thinking of nervous.

I'm thinking of making a reformed (more by circumstance than inclination) petty con artist and fraudster who has been pulled to the town by those dreams and sees it as a chance to try to start over and walk the straight and narrow, because his niche of the criminal underworld is rapidly disappearing to technical security improvements and Russian mobsters who don't like freelancers.

There looks to be a heck of a lot of depth and long-term potential here. I can't wait.

The concept sounds interesting. Most supers games, like most comics universes, are heavily invested in being static environments. One where supers are actively working to reshape the world is exciting!

I just want to play a morally agnostic tailor who is thrilled at having undead clients because he can do truly exquisite tailoring for people who don't need to breathe.

FASERIP (with the Karma mods that split XP from Karma).

Ok, now that I have that out of my system, anything but Palladium.