Best posts made by BigDaddyAmin

Chicken in a Dark Chocolate Mole sauce. Wash that stuff down with a Portuguese wine.

Anomaly and Gamma really tried. It really did. And it had an amazing plot. Scenes went on too long for my taste (7-9 hours. Oops! There goes my Saturday evening...), and some of the admins, I felt, needed a cross so that whenever they felt so damned unappreciated they could nail themselves up there. This could all be ignored if the reports system didn't hamstring roleplay. After doing a mission I kind of got tired having the admin's charbit tell me I forgot to format my report the correct way or whateverthefuck. What was the point of these reports? How did they enhance roleplay? We never used them that much in roleplay I don't think other than paper pushing RP.

Why is my prentendy funtime dominated by fucking reports? Don't I get this from my job already in the meatspace.*

• This is the same reason why I refuse to play EvEOnline aka Spreadsheets in Space.

If it is set in Washington DC, I'd play Potomac by Night.

When your job fucks you over...

Time to start looking for other career options and going back home....

Something that crosses Mad Men with WoD might be interesting. San Francisco during the Summer of Love might be pretty interesting to explore.

As much as I love my Lord and Ladies MUs, I think it would be very difficult to implement in WoD. And then you always get into bitch fights with normal people who allow fluidity of history, mannerisms, and culture and the Nymerias of the MU*ing world who sacrifice fun for canon.

I would be open to roleplaying via Tumblr, Reddit, or most forums as most MU*s, in my opinion, are a time sink. I no longer have the disposable time or patience to sit with a group and roleplay for two to five hours and wait ten minutes for someone to compose a coherent pose. Not to mention that on certain days I just cannot make the schedules of some of the scenes. For example, on MU that I was very active on a few years ago had major scenes every Sunday morning. Well, by the time I'd go to church with my family, go to brunch like I always do on Sundays, and get home, the scenes would be almost over.

The question is: are some of these groups of quality? Some of the best roleplay I had was back in the late 90s on Star Trek PBeMs (Play-by-Emails). It was nice. I could write at my leisure and not be confined to a time schedule.

@Derp

SoS was written in Aramaic, originally, but the bulk of Hebrew scriptures were translated into Greek around the 3rd century B.C with the advent of the LXX. So much was the prevalence of Greek that Hebrew became a liturgical language used in the Temple, and Greek and Aramaic became predominant for business and everyday life (when Jesus is handed the Isaiah scroll in the synagogue in Luke 4:17, he probably is reading from a Greek or Aramaic copy). I am more familiar with Greek. My Hebrew and Aramaic needs work.

Premise (open to criticism and adjustment):

It is the year 491 after Aegon I conquered Westeros. In the War of the Five Kings, Daenerys returned to her rightful place on the Iron Throne. With her Dothraki Army, her Unsullied, and the houses once loyal to the Dragons, she took Westeros. With her dragons and magic from the East, she ended the threat of the White Walkers with the help of the Night's Watch in a massive battle that collapsed the Wall. Daenerys reigned for thirty long and good years, with her nephew Aegon siring progeny on her.

But over two-hundred years later, a crisis erupts. King Lucerys, the first of his name, is a lackwit. He is the last of the Targaryens. Years of Targaryen inbreeding have rendered him sterile, mentally disabled, and physicallyhandicapped. Dying at the age of thirty, Westeros is without a king. And they turn to an unlikely candidate....

Malabhar Qho , the king of the Red Flower Vale in the Summer Islands, is part Targaryen. His grandmother, Rhaenerys, was given to his predecessor in marriage to seal an alliance between the Seven Kingdoms and the Summer Islands to stop piracy along the Narrow Sea. Envoys from King's Landing now go to the Summer Islands to offer Malabhar the crown, and to inform him that with this succession, he not only controls a kingdom, but an empire.

But there are those in Westeros who question this succession. Talk of banners being raised from various families against Qho have been whispered. Qho has even converted to the Faith of the Seven as a gesture to assimilate, but there are those who say he will never be a true Westerosi. And while there was great cheering when Qho's banner - a red phoenix on a field of sky blue - replaced the Targaryen flag at King's Landing, several sneers in the crowd could be made out.

It is a time of change and culture clash in Westeros. I'm open to suggestions. Ideas. Criticisms?

Apparently, if you have vampires and fucking-a-bunch on your MU*, you sure as hell got a blockbuster, hoss.

That is almost as bad as my situation: co-worker in the cubicle next to me will not stop making personal calls, giggling like a forty-five year old woman going on sixteen. Manager is too chicken shit to call her out on it.

Thankfully, this is my last week here. Then I get an office to myself. Booyah.

Never played Shadowrun. Always wanted to though.

Only if they look like this in their wiki:

or

@Miss-Demeanor

Not all of us have that liberty, unfortunately. And while I could do a lot of what I do from home thanks to terminal servers and Remote Desktop, my manager refuses. But not my circus for very long, though....

What is it about lord and lady games that turns admins into dumb, petty ninnies?

So, I have recently moved closer to my homeland - Louisiana, to be precise. When I lived in Godforsaken Wyoming (tm), I belonged to the County Rec Center. It wasn't that bad and thanks to the coal wealth in my area, we had a top notch facility considering that there isn't much for families to do in Northeast Wyoming but pray to White Jesus and take meth.

I recently I noticed that there is a CrossFit box not too far from my home.

So I am looking into maybe giving it a try. Though I have been weighing out the pros and cons.

The pros I think depend a lot the group dynamic. The comradeship seems to be a big thing at these places. I go to gyms and usually when I do I feel like a douche because either I feel like I am doing something with bad form. Turn up the awkward factor thanks to guys who workout wearing way too much cologne (a pet peeve of mine) and idiots grunting like they are having prostate surgery. Maybe it is just a self esteem thing.

Cons are mainly what I have read off the internet. Just about CrossFit not being very healthy, in particular on joints. I'd like to be able to pick my grandkids up when I reach 64. There also seems to be a kind of creepy factor with a lot of these facilities that they remind me of the fitness equivalent of Scientology.

To compound this: local area gym membership costs $59 a month. The gym in my town that offers this is probably some of the best facilities in the South. This includes using saunas, pools, weights, and other equipment.

Local box is about $100 a month. Looks like an industrial warehouse on the outside.

i am not looking to compete in any games. Just want a good workout to feel good and not feel like crap like i did working IT in WY and sitting in front of computers looking at lines of code for 11 hours a day.

So thoughts. Is it worth it? Anyone have experiences good or bad?

Well, leave it to @Sunny for bringing me out of torpor with some regular d'Angeline fuckery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVywrZ0hF5Q

Unfortunately, it won't. This is a clash of cultures, to be honest. The Byzantines faced it and they died out in 1453. At least they took a stand. We won't because we are stupid enough to fight wars for other people who don't have our vested interests at heart but instead keep us supplied with cheap oil to fuel our cars, iPhones, porn, and Fallout 4. Kind of makes Aldous Huxley's "scent organs"and "feelies" look like Family Circus, huh?

@icanbeyourmuse
@icanbeyourmuse

I don't think everything is bad. I think volpe's Game of Thrones game is pretty great and I wish it would get more attention. I just don't care for the time period that it is in, that's all. I'd totally play a Westeros game that isn't set in Oldtown or King's Landing. Maybe one that was focused on local area politics (say a middle-sized house in the Westerlands or something). If you want to collaborate on something of that nature, I can be of some assistance.

@Lithium

Oh, Jeebus. Come on. Surely I don't have that much bully power.

There you go, Cirno.