Posts made by Cobalt

Is Project Redshift your Evennia thing? Because really 'Project Redshift' is what grabbed my attention on this thread.

@Arkandel said:

@Roz There's a flipside to that though. It's when people make characters and as @Cobaltasaurus brought up nothing is happening in an accessible way for them yet when they bring it up someone else goes "well, I always have scenes!" like it's necessarily the first person's fault there's no RP outside closed cliques or PrPs they weren't invited to.

Dude, I'm not sure I said that at all. Sure that could be one of the circumstances that caused me to drop a PC.

But what I said was: "I usually drop a PC if there's nothing going on but Boring Social RP". Like what TR turned into in multiple spheres, or any spring sphere anywhere. I wasn't talking at all about introverted or extroverted characters or cliques etc.

@Derp said:

@Ganymede said:

@Derp

I used to think that way until I got kids on my own. It's not always that simple.

Ah. Yes. I do happen to be childless (to my knowledge), so I suppose that I can't directly relate to these circumstances.

Finding someone to watch your kids when they're "normal" isn't simple, but finding them when they're special needs is even more rough.

It's possible @HelloRaptor, that the child had some sort of special need that might have made it difficult for the parent to contain that sort of behavior. If so I'm not really going to stand behind a "don't bring them to the movie theatre" attitude. Parents of special-needs children often get stuck at home, isolated, and very little help because their "problem children" receive responses like "you need to get your child in line" or "that child just needs to be whooped".

Of course we want to be considerate of everyone, so if that were the case she probably should have found a spot to sit where they wouldn't have bothered anyone else (too much). Such as in the last row, or at one of the outside rows, etc.

For me it's rarely about personality type, skillset, or anything like that and more if I can find people interested in doing things. If I log in day after day and the only thing going on is Meeting, Coffee, or some variation of "Social scene where nothing happens" RP, then I'll get bored and drop the character.

Or frankly I'll just up and decide I want to try something different. I have the attention span of a gnat.

Awesome! I'm studying tonight with my lab partners for our AstroPhys course, but maybe tomorrow or later?

Do you have autosay on in MUSHclient?

I have trouble installing it if I try and do it through TinyFugue, but haven't ever had trouble doing it with simplemu and just c/p the entire thing in, and hitting enter.

@Jaded @The-Tree-of-Woe, I'm 'Princess Jellyfish' on Steam right now. If you want to add me, I can prod you about Talisman sometime!

Anyone have it and want to play Talisman?

SHH closed it's changeling sphere.

@Coin said:

Hollywood has really ruined our perceptions of what age really looks like and what we expect it to, too, in my experience.

Goodness, yes. I pretty much have three loose age categories for people based on looks:

Child, Teenager(??), and Adult. I pretty much have no idea how old people are based on their appearance.

@Wizz said:

I've been thinking about this all day and actually I don't know, my friends and I are creeping into our thirties and looking at us... maybe this really is noteworthy????

I am 28, and therefore creeping into my thirties, and I am not at all wrinkled. Granted, I also avoid the sun like the plague, and don't tend to do the sort of things that would cause weather and wear on your skin.

Also: Re-promotions and age of crew on Star Trek games, the ones I've been on it always became some thematic hard rule about age and time in services, and etc. etc. So what ended up happening was if you wanted to app in as a high rank Lt, LCDR, or heaven forbid the rare CMDR, you had to app in at an older age.

...and then when the game started to thin out on players, and positions needed to be field, and promotion-time game around the younger crew PCS whose players stuck around were promoted up and what about your precious theme now, asshole?!

Now you have someone who went from ENS to full LT. Or LTJG to LCDR.

/me rants.

@Templari said:

so I dont end up bankrupt and foodless.

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What is or was Videoland?

I think that Dread is really neat, but I probably wouldn't put the effort out to acquire it AND the jenga blocks to be able to own it. It'd be neat to play at a party or on weekend where a few friends want to do something, but I can't say it's one I want to play over and over.

Also if I ever did play it, I'd probably want a house rule of 3-strikes and then dead. Rather than just one pull and your character is dead.

I am not messing with this but it may find itself on future To Purchase list.

It was a nice balmy 50F when I got up this morning. I find this startling since this time last year I was beginning to want to peel my skin off to get some relief from the heat.

@Ganymede Giosetta

Saying: "Oh this place is dead" doesn't really help when people are trying to promote activity. Sure Reno doesn't have TR level activity (when TR was active), but it isn't really dead.

As I just mentioned, there's stuff I've been trying to get folks into just there aren't many vamps to get into it.

@Coin I imagine he was addressing it at all of us. But I'm sure @Thenomain can clear it up.