Posts made by Cobalt

Cam nNoD LARP is what lead to my being sexually assaulted and where the people running it did nothing about it.

@Derp There's a difference between being socially awkward and being a creep.

I know topic drift and all that but ... C'mon. Take it to DMs or something.

@Ganymede said in Why We Don't Make New Friends Anymore (Or Creepers Do Creepy Things):

I make plenty of friends on a regular basis because I just stopped giving a fuck about people.

What a difference a little indifference makes.

@Ghost ...yikes

@Aria What an asshole.

I am having a super rough patch of insomnia. I'm getting about four hours of sleep to every 24-28hrs, no matter how tired I am my brain flat out won't let me sleep. So this morning I decided to play some Warframe. I end up in a group of randos who are two guys, and a one woman. They're all on voice chat talking to each other but I'm too shy for that so just run around ragekitty murdering everything in sight silently (well OOCly silent, ICly Valkyr screams all the time, it's her thing).

After the mission is over I send the chick a message basically saying "Hi, I'm shy, but you guys seem cool so hit me up if you need a warm body for missions." And toss the three of them friend requests. One of the dude's immediately starts sending me whispers, and a PS4 friend request. But the whisper convo goes like this:

Dude: hi
Me: Hi!
Dude: hru
Me: I'm sleepy, you?
Dude: I'm sleepy too hun, but I have insomnia so it's hard to sleep alone.

Me: That sucks.
Him: ikr?
Me: My bf is passed way out, I'm kind of jealous of him.
Him: Wake him up with a blowjob lmao

Me: silently turns off her PS4

(What're your stories of when you tried to make new friends and then someone was creepy?)

@Spitfire Peta-player Here. Glad to hear you're still alive and kicking. I hope things are going good in your life these days.

@RDC Every time I pop on everyone is idle!

@JinShei What is the game addy?

Just a general ... shout in the almost literal dark. I work night shift central time US, UTC-6. I work Tues - Saturday from roughly 4pm to 2am. This means my play times are around 2am to 6am-7am. I want to RP but all of my friends are asleep. I want to be able to get in on plots and PrPs but every single staffer on any game I'm connected to is asleep.

Is there anywhere where there might be people awake to play with? Or should I just give up at this point?

(I could possibly RP on Sundays but wow, RPing one day a week at most seems sad, and most Sundays seem pretty dead. Or I end up playing boardgames with EmmahSue and Thenomain... Mondays are usually spent with my BF.)

@Derp said in Echoes in the Mists - CoD 2e MU:

@Cobaltasaurus

A lot of the players I have talked to found this to be helpful:

http://www.voidstate.com/rpg/mage-spell-helper/

You may or may not find use for it, but sliders and click things that spit you out info at the bottom at least give something visual to work with.

When I am feeling less sick I will poke at it, thank you for the tool!

@Jennkryst said in Echoes in the Mists - CoD 2e MU:

@Auspice said in Echoes in the Mists - CoD 2e MU:

am i the only person who thinks 1e mage is easier than 2e mage?

Probably not, but possibly unfounded? The issue is that 2e came up with a bunch of new terms, but the root of things ended up being mostly the same. Kinda. Ish. With some Ascension flavor of paradigm thrown into the mix that I love, but I'm weird.

Probably just my unwillingness to learn new things, but I found 2E to be unlearnable. Granted, it could be because I learn by doing (I cannot visual things in my head, so I have to do things to get the hang of them), and the person I wanted to help me learn basically made me feel stupid because I couldn't just read and understand the rules.

Would anyone be interested in playing a sire to Nev? I warn that I play sporadically on most games (I haven't even scened yet here yet :[...). But someone who can be disapproving and always oh-so-disappointed with Nev would be fun to play off of.

@RDC said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

@THenomain No, I get it. But this particular conflict could be negated by just not having a stat called Hallow Dance AND a stat called Hallow, right? For games without mage installed would this be a problem (any more than it is right now, which isn't much of one)?

WoD has a notorious issue of naming things similar or the same damned thing. Example: Strength in 1E could be an attribute or it could be a werewolf gift. Likewise Stealth could be a skill or a werewolf gift. Wisdom was a mage morality while it was a werewolf renown.

What Theno is trying to do is get the code working so that no matter what games are installed, no matter when this name-clash issue comes up, it'll sort itself out easier. Without having to change the name of things or go in and change the code for specific games.

So, you are correct, right now in this particular instance if a game doesn't have or want mage, it's not currently an issue for them. But, it could become an issue later on when another name clash pops up. So while we could short-cut the code and either change the name or just ignore it b/c a particular game doesn't want mage. It will become an issue in the future.

I know this from experience with adding things to DW and Reno. I had to rename so many things to stuff like Gift of Strength or Gift of Stealth or Rote Blah or hell every single Thaumaturge ritual on DW had to be Ritual blah because there were name clashes.

@Jennkryst said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

@Cobaltasaurus Yeah. Make me a Centaur and we can be buddies!

No. I ST changeling, I don't play it.

@RDC I. Heard. Changeling.

I heard changeling.

@surreality People don't change. After years of dealing with Spider, this is something that I've learned. If you (general, not specific) are at your core a rotten person. No matter how many times you're confronted, no matter how many times you swear you're gonna change, no matter how many chances you get-- you'll still be a rotten person. There's only so much maturing that a person will go through in their life.

But here's the catch, not everyone who does something bad is rotten. I got caught up with Spider, and I'm certain I was manipulated into doing shitty things. Or hell, I did shitty things because being in Spider's favor felt good, so if it made her happy that made me happy. But I don't think that at my core I'm a shitty person. So I've made and effort to look at who my friends are and how I interact with them. Are my friend constantly talking about how shitty another person is? Or how someone is stealing their spotlight, or doing this, or doing that? Maybe I shouldn't be friends with that person.

Now, I'm not saying that my friends and I don't gossip. Because we do. I think that everyone in this hobby does. But my friends and I also don't focus on gossip. We don't talk about people's personal lives. We don't tell other people about someone's break up. We don't disclose personal information regarding people's health, physical or mental. We don't discuss if someone is having financial troubles. We don't talk about who is TSing who (unless I mean it's like DownWithOPP or whatever). But I have done those or similar things in the past. Like I said, I got hooked into Spider's web. These days, however, I surround myself by people who I know at their core are good eggs. Do they mess up sometimes? Yes. But so do I.

There are going to people who judge me based on how I acted when I was thick as thieves with Spider. There are going to be people who don't. At the end of the day all I can do is surround myself with good eggs and let their good-egginess help keep me on the straight and narrow.

And at your core, Surr, I think you're a good egg.

Find friends who you know at their core are good people. Who you can have light hearted conversations with, mild gossip with, but who at the end of the day aren't going to start nasty whisper campaigns. Anyone who continues to judge you because a shit-head fooled you well... that's their lose. Move on with your life, go have fun with your eggs.

Me to me: Did we take the egg metaphor too far?
Also me to me: MOAR EGG.