Posts made by Cirno

Check out the "Games That Died For You" thread to see someone accusing me of being a character I was not in real time!

@Arkandel said:

My thing, which Some People have given me lip about, is storing up interesting-looking PBs when I run into an image I like just in case I decide to use it in the future for a character I haven't even considered yet. But I do the same with character names (obviously the hardest part of character creation).

I do know if I'll decide on the PB before writing the description as trying to do it the other way around is utter madness.

People give others lip about the weirdest shit.

I get lip for using Japanese anime/manga art as my PBs.

@Pondscum said:

@Thenomain bring back the pipe, dammit. I'm used to the pipe. Cute Charlie Brown lookie-likey is throwing me off kilter.

It's supposed to be Thenomain if he were a Charlie Brown character.

Personally, I like it because it's like looking at Thenomain's true face. And when you look into someone's true face, you can see into their heart, and your heart and their heart become as one.

http://gelbooru.com/ I get a lot of my pictures from here.

@Thenomain said:

@VulgarKitten said:

@Thenomain said:

You are not contracted, obligated, or otherwise forced to do so, but if you include people in your character's play-space, you will become more popular and you will enhance that person's experience knowing that they will do the same for you.

This is such a lie. I cannot count how many times I have experienced/heard from others "Well I invite you to all of my stuff, but you don't invite me to yours."

One of the things I'm finding lately is that I am pulling back from my usual hyperbolic ways, only to realize why I was that way to begin with: The number of times people take what I'm saying to some theoretical logical conclusion.

Making space for people is not bending backwards for them. Nobody who asks you to be a doormat has your interests in mind, and you should take no shit from them.

If you are turning yourself into a doormat, you are trying too hard. Relax. Chill. Take no shit from yourself.

MUSHing is an inherently selfish experience, where 9 and 3/4 times out of 10, people will take what they can get while excluding others who give them RP/plot for justifications x, y, and z. Maybe they're even legit justifications. But not usually.

Which is why I think that not doing this should be a requirement. Fuck these selfish people. Fuck them right in the ear. If people cannot share their play-space, they have no right to mine.

But you have no control over them. You have control over you. The only thing you can do to help the game is make the attempt, to give other people a chance to fail on their own actions and not because of your preconceived notions.

If you can't be bothered, even with the smallest amount of effort, to try to include people who are in your scenes, then you're part of the problem. It's these people who need a punch in the cloaca with a dagger and tossed out the airlock.

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This is an extension of a discussion that began long, long ago on Swofa, I believe by TNP or PsyJack that was this: We are the source of many of the problems we complain about.

If this is true, then we need to think differently about what we do, change how we do it. I don't admit to massive failure because I'm trying to score humility brownie points with anyone, I'm doing it because we all need to take a more adult view of the problems.

Having a place to vent is nice, but who is trying to solve the problems? (Yes, several of you are. Cookies to each of you.)

So, basically, you're saying that we can start to solve our problems by taking a good look in the mirror, and saying, "Fuck...you" (to ourselves)?

Your wisdom is nearly Taoist in nature. Have you been reading Laozi's Tao Te Ching?

Edit:

Honestly, I can see where you're coming from because 75% of the time I lash out at people, I'm really lashing out at myself because I am angry at myself.

@Glitch said:

I wasn't planning on suffering alone!

I am actually doing good even though I am thumbtyping.

@Glitch said:

Typing game.

Holy shit this game is fun.

Am I an absolute madman for playing it on a phone?