Posts made by Bad at Lurking

Yeah, people do identity where they live by neighborhood here, but if you ask how to get somewhere, it's always, 'Northwest side' or 'West side' or 'South side', etc.

@ominous Look, if I can't play the Prince of the Mining Museum, I don't see the point in playing *of Darkness.

On day, in the not too distant future, there will be just MU. And it will be WoD. And all coffee shop RP, all the time. (Maybe with a bathroom for the TS.)

It's basically this hobby's version of the entropic heat death of the universe.

@thenomain

If you guys do that, allowing capsule descriptions and such would be a lovely addition.

Just what the title says, I'm wondering if there are any Cinematic Unisystem character generation and task resolution coded bits still floating around out there anywhere?

I have server space paid for for the next couple of years, just finished catching up on the Buffyverse comics from Dark Horse and am thinking of doing a modern take on that universe. Or possibly even a post-apocalyptic/dystopian one like the setting of Frey.

@arkandel

I'm bad at lurking everywhere. And I made the account because of the unbearable silence of lurkiness.

I tried lurking.

I'm bad at it.

I find OWoD more interesting than NWoD in terms of setting and what you can play. I find the NWoD better in terms of system and conflict resolution.

I find both manage to make me run screaming into the night, sooner or later. OOCly. ICly, that would actually be thematic. But I keep trying. One day, I will find the game that clicks.

(But probably not.)

You are the wind beneath my MUSHing wings. Thanks for putting this together.

@sunny I had no idea that we needed quite that level of specificity. Thank you for pointing it out.

In answer, I would like to state that my antipathy for anime/manga is so intense that I find myself loathing anything tainted by it. Marvel Mangaverse? Drips on my nerves like acid. Magical girls? Kill them with fire. Big eyed, pink haired teenagers with Japanese names? If I see them in the Who list, it's time to go.

While there are many things about Japanese media I adore, (they do great gangster movies! And Samurai dramas are surprisingly good. And their movies about people with vocational passion are almost always amazing), anything hinting of anime or manga makes me want to nuke the site from orbit, just to contain the contagion.

@sunny I understand what you are saying, and I am not trying to be rude, but 'what is anime anyway' is a question that seems a bit silly on the face of it.

It isn't that complex for me. If the characters look, act and react like characters from anime, I'm not interested. Wiki write ups with anime style art, anything referencing Final Fantasy, Dragon Ball, Sword Art Online or the rest of it. Twelve year old girls in fetish gear who are tactical geniuses, inappropriate yelling, harem 'comedy', tentacle porn and the rest of it. I loathe it all.

@jennkryst If it's based on an anime or manga or seeks to replicate anime or manga tropes, it isn't for me.

I am looking for game or two to sink my teeth into. But I'm too picky for my own good. (And yes, I know this is self-inflicted damage.)

I am looking for a MU or two that is moderately active (and not just having an online roster padded by idle staff alts to make it look populated) and is NOT* any of the following things:

Anime-based (including multi-themed games where anime/manga tropes happen)
Lords and Ladies
World of Darkness (in any flavor)
Superheros (powers are fine, I'm just not interested in capes and tights right now)

Does anybody know of good games not in the above categories out there?

*And this is not me saying any of the above is bad. I'm just not into them at the moment.

@auspice Hmm. It takes less time to farm for kids than gold.

Deal!

@cupcake

Honestly, in a setting with people who turn into wolves, vampires (other than Peter Thiel, who apparently believes he can become immortal off the blood of twinks), Mages and baristas or coders who all like movie stars and models, Depp the mayor doesn't even put a blip on the radar for me.

Maybe he made a deal with a demon or something.

Actually, that would kind of explain his career in real life, come to think of it.

No, what's going to stretch my belief, if I ever play there, will be apartments or houses where just one person can afford to pay the rent.

@darc said in San Francisco: Paris of the West:

We are, as of today, OFFICIALLY OPEN! We got things off to a bang with a speech from our Mayor, Johnny Depp (I'm not paraphrasing, the actor has gone into politics)

And now I want to make a reporter character covering the political beat just to write a scandal story titled: Depp Charge Blasts City Council

I think respecs are a pretty useful tool, as a player.

Sometimes I build a bad character and that hampers my ability to enjoy the game.

Sometimes the game isn't what I thought it was or my character ends up in a radically different niche than I planned and my initial choices don't work well with the theme of the game and my character's place in it.

Sometimes huge in-character things happen that are dramatically transformative. (In WoD and other fantasy games, this can be literal.)

I think one 'free' respec with little or no justification is reasonable and then after that, you have to have a pretty convincing IC or OOC reason and should be prepared to have staff turn you down.

Backgrounds are always the part, as a player, where I feel like I have to either apply my professional bullshitting skills and write half a page of copy that sounds like it has a lot more content than it does or risk staffers wanting to know why the character isn't more fleshed out.

The problem there is that I really enjoy characters for whom the story is what happens on-grid, not what came before. Going from sheltered suburbanite, unsophisticated farm boy or crude thug to something more is a fun journey and there are only so many ways you can say, 'And then not a lot happened' before even the most disinterested staffer notices.

Places that do bullet points or ask for two or three formative experiences are so much less of a pain in the ass.

I thought Ibiza was just the place that British people go to be excessively British ... but with tans.