Posts made by Cobalt

...why is that for me? I don't have a "i need to make babies" RP fetish.

I can understand people writing or even seeking out and reading stories about their particular issues (addiction, abuse, etc). Hell, a main storyline in the book I've got to /someday find the time/ to edit is the main character dealing with her drug-addict sister lying, stealing, etc from her. I'm writing it because it's good tension and conflict, and it's something I have experience with, and frankly it's a little therapeutic.

However, I would never want someone in the future to read my book and sit down and have to answer questions like: "What advice would you give the main character in this situation? How would you have helped the sister?"

My problem isn't that they exist. My problem isn't that it's in media in general. My problem is then being expected shift through all of it and find "hidden messages" and, in that particular case, being expected to come up with advice other than "if they want help, help, if they don't want help, drop them from your life".

@Sanguine said:

I keep thinking maaaaybe it would be fun. I like @Cobaltasaurus, and I love her stories... then I remember FATE and how the combat system gives me a headache, and I go back to virtually glaring at @Coin and gnashing teeth.

How does the combat system give you headaches? It might be more streamlined in FAE? I've run a couple of combat scenes they weren't bad. No more complicated or harder than oWoD, I'd imagine.

1. Determine attack approach (flashy, careful, etc).
2. Determine if any stunts/aspects can be added.
3. Roll.
4. Other person rolls for defense.
5. Damage is the difference of those two rolls.

PS.

@Sanguine, @Coin

PLEASE DON'T TURN THIS INTO A ELDRITCH ADVERTISEMENT THREAD.

ETA: Apologies for the caps, but more and more posts were popping up as I was replying and I was like: Stop! Please stop!

I'm going to be playing Dying Light for a while, if anyone has it and wants to Co-Op let me know. Either on skype or steam or here.

@The-Tree-of-Woe said:

who talked about how she wanted to show the "positive side" of alcoholism.

So much twitching. So much, much twitching. We had to read a story about a heroin addict and his family. And one of the questions we had to answer that day was what we might tell to the family member of a drug addict, what advice we might give-- the story was about being understanding, and stuff. And I all but lost my shit in my answer. I grew up around a lot of substance abuse (alcoholism, pot, prescription narcotics, god only knows what else). I drama queened a bit in my answer. The question, and the story, really upset me. Especially since the story was like "how can you help them in this situation" and I was like ... this story doesn't really cover addiction. Not someone who is actively abusing substances at least.

There's no talk of the family member begging, borrowing, lying, stealing, etc from their own family to fix their habit ---

Yeah. Ahem.

Fuck understanding the "messages" and "meanings" from fucking short stories.

@Arkandel, It may have been more than ten below freezing. I don't remember. But the story was depressing. Like everything else I have to read for this damned class.

@surreality, that sort of sums up Nightvale. "Oddly apt".

My Peeve:

My ficton class.

I like to read.

I like to write.

I like fiction.

I like stories.

I fucking hate this class.

We spent four weeks reading stories and then discussing plato's allegory of the cave for them. Four fucking weeks. Yes, there was "setting" or "theme" questions thrown in. Or "symbology" questions. But for four fucking weeks it came back to "explain the character's cave journey from this story". Every. Fucking. Time. For 4-6 short stories a week. I am so fucking sick of answering the same goddamned questions over and over. Yes, different short stories, but it is the same goddamned thing. It takes all the fucking joy out of reading fiction! It destroys the uniqueness! LETS DISCUSS HOW EVERY STORY IS EXACTLY THE SAME!

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@Arkandel said:

What I don't get is how people can ride their bicycles to work in weather this cold. It makes me feel like some kinda lame wimp when I don't just because it's -23C outside and I don't go around pedalin' away at 7:30 in the morning.

But they do. I don't know if I should hate them or be in awe of them. Bastards. Glorious crazy bastards.

That made me think of the story I had to read for Literature: Fiction, about a man who decided against other advice to take a very long walk in the freezing of Alaska. Something about once it is more than 10 below freezing you shouldn't ever walk alone, and the man doing it anywise.

He died.

Don't bike in freezing weather, @Arkandel.

My kingdom if someone could give me a hint on how to get a while to give me a list of numbers.

ETA: NVM. A kindly season helped me figure it out.

@Cirno said:

I could try Cobalt's game, but it probably has, like, 100,000 rules and she'll probably ban me if I don't chargen quickly enough, or play frequently. I'm rather busy these days, you see, which has sadly curtailed my MU*ing activity.

Nope, nope, and nope. I'm a full time college student these days. I disappear for an entire week and expect the players to entertain themselves. If the players disappear for a while ain't no skin off of my nose.

(Note, if you do not come around for a month, I'll prolly close out jobs, but won't other ban/freeze/whatever anyone.)

Oh, for those logging in and looking for me -- I'm Pluckytart in Game.

I'm on for a little bit now, but also going to be running some errands in a while.

Nope. However, if you play a vampire rather than a shapeshifter vampires have this thing where they are "picky" about names. They typically go by a single name, and there aren't supposed to be two vampires with the same name (which can't happen on a mush anywise, because of how @name works).

@Sanguine said:

@Arkandel I don't know whether I hate you or love you.

Hate.

We're at wildcard.mechanipus.com 2883, if you want to come hang out. We've got a few folks online now.

Glad to see you're still alive, dudette.

@silentsophia said:

What drove ME nuts was needing to drain magic to cast spells and junction stuff.

Oh! I see what you mean. I guess that never really bothered me much. Didn't using a tent return your mana?

@Wizz said:

@Cobaltasaurus said:

@silentsophia said:

I'm not a monster. I just got tired of having to farm magic.

I don't remember farming much magic? ...granted that was like fuck at least thirteen years ago now. sobs

FF8 didn't have ether potions, you had to stop like every fifteen feet and "draw" magic from little wellsprings.

??? ??? ??? ??? ???

I'm positive I remember potions. What the hell are you talking about?

@Arkandel said:

SHH is doing this in all but name. With a slight bit of activity XP is near infinite (I'm consistently over the XP I had when I started playing, and I spend pretty liberally). Between +vote/all, irregular PrP participation and if heavens forbid you file for Beats and the such, you'll never be XP starved. You'll almost always be waiting on learning something so you can start on something else, though.

Unless you're like me and tend to RP at the end of the month, and no one has +Votes to give. It isn't actually the same, Arkandel.

You can say that in Elbonia they've done away with currency, and everything is going great for the few people content to live only there. And that in neighboring countries they've all but given up currency in name; so long as you work 80hours a week, had seed money to start with, and occasionally file paperwork with the bank to get more money you'll never have to worry about currency either!

It isn't the same.

I'm completely stealing @Whirlwind's thing. : }

I'm looking for a couple of folks to play some temporary NPCs for Wildcard MUX. The majority of them would only be around for plot, but some of them might be keepable afterward. We'd need to discuss some things. Wildcard is a Fate Accelerated Edition game set in the world of the Anita Blake Novels (Anita Blake, etc don't exist in this world).

Specifically I am looking for:

• RPIT / Executioner types, non-specific.
• Head Of Police, specific (male, older)
• Slimy Politician, specific (male, young)
• Charismatic Witch, specific (male, young)
• Extremely Loyal To Their Factions People, non-specific (human, vampire, shifter, witch, etc).

I'd basically want you to pick a concept and go full-tilt onto the grid, make some conflict, make some noise!

@silentsophia said:

I'm not a monster. I just got tired of having to farm magic.

I don't remember farming much magic? ...granted that was like fuck at least thirteen years ago now. sobs