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@Meg said in RL Anger:

@Ganymede said in RL Anger:

@Auspice said in RL Anger:

If it's me I will ruin it in like, 30 seconds. Don't worry.

If it's me, I'll disappoint you in less time than that.

iykwimaityd.

(It's not anyone on this forum. sorry bbs.)

whatever, give it time.

@Swaggot said in Making a MU* of your own:

@Coin I actually agree. They're pretty mild. The point is, if these rather tame ideas are too zany, then it amounts to a ban on anything interesting, since those things are bound to be way zanier.

The thing is, you seem to be convinced they were denied because they were "too zany" but without actual copies of staff saying, "these idea are too out there for us!" or "you're too interesting for this MU!" it really just comes down to not allowing them or restricting them for various reasons, none of which "too zany" is one.

@Meg said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:

@Auspice not gonna lie, i checked my nipples.

ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaa

Maybe they'll fix the absolutely horrible systems for Geist and make it work with the above average theme.

Oh, the "praying for you" bit. Yeah. Fuck that.

@Arkandel said in The State of the Chronicles of Darkness:

I'm pretty sure I liked Geist's system!

Your horrible taste is well documented.

It was a mess. Manifestations were a mess. Keys were a mess. Mementos were a mess. The rules for making Krewes were a mess. But the utter redundancy and discrepancy in functionality of Manifestations/Keys was the worst bit. Just horrible.

Kissing.

Kissing is super neat, you guys.

@Autumn said in Fanbase entitlement:

@Coin said in Fanbase entitlement:

At least get mad at actual idiots, like people who wear Che Guevara t-shirts but can't even revolt against their parents. "Viva la revolución, mom, now can you send me my allowance, my Twinky supply is low". Fuck.

I am reminded of the guy I once saw wearing a t-shirt with a picture of Che and the caption, "I have no idea who this guy is."

That, I could get behind. At least that's fucking funny.

ATTENTION

I was mistaken when I said last week's Blood Drive was the season finale. That's NEXT WEEK.

I repeat THERE IS STILL MORE BLOOD DRIVE TO COME.

[squee]

My only response to that is that two people who can't agree on what method would and wouldn't work are two people who really shouldn't be playing that together, which goes back to my earlier point. Everything I said is just as valid with "method" instead of "outcome".

Anyway, I agree with you. But let's make it more explicit:

I think social combat should take this into account by implicitly giving the person initiating it a broad notion of what may or may not work on their target. Do they like puppies? Is their daughter the most important thing to them? Will buying their daughter a puppy and then saving her from a car accident (engineered, of course) put them in a favorable disposition? Will offering their daughter a full college ride? Will just being friendly to said daughter and having a nice puppy be enough? These are things that should be implicit and somewhat easily acquired by someone with social acumen. You might want to say "only if they have Empathy" (if such a stat exists in the system) and that would be fair. Maybe even add an Empathy or whatever roll to determine what might or might not work on a person (also fine). But this also expects the opposing player to be honest about it. "Oh yes, my character will totally do anything for a hot blonde in a tight dress" can't become "god, you dirty slut, I wouldn't touch you with a ten foot pole" because that's the equivalent of RP entrapment (MUSHtrapment).

Of course, you could do research on your target's daughter and her love of puppies and fail to notice that she was mauled by a dog a while ago, and your research is out of date, or whatever.

But my point is: physical stats get less flak because there's this tacit and implicit agreement in the hobby that you don't need to get along OOC to get into a physical bloody brawl IC, and "oh well, I killed your character, SUCK IT". And it's a shitty position to take as a hobby.

Talk to each other. Figure out what sort of RP you want from your fellow players, play with them.

I am usually put in a weird position. Here, in my home country, I'm privileged; I'm light-skinned, descended from Italians and Spaniards for the most part. I am not a Bolivian, Paraguayan, or Peruvian immigrant or descended from them. To be explicit, they are our version of the racially/ethnically disenfranchised. When someone in my country complains about "them there peoples stealing our jobz", that's who they mean. I'm not that.

But when I lived in the U.S., I lived in San Francisco's Mission District. I hung out with cholos, Mexicans, Venezuelans, Colombians, and the sons and daughters thereof. But you know what else there was tons of in the Mission (a predominantly Hispanic area of S.F. at the time)? African and Asian-American people. Did I get along with all of them? No. But my first crush was this gorgeous Fillipino girl, and for a while I didn't have any white friends, and the people who were my friends saw me as Hispanic, because I was.

I guess what I'm getting at is that context matters so much when you're talking about racve, ethnicity, nationality, and the segregation of class though economic, racial, and ethnic delimitations. I wouldn't understand the reasoning behind the way my own country and city's segregation works if I hadn't lived on both sides. I've been called all the things and am mostly toughened against it on the outside, but it still stings, regardless of which.

Now that my verbal diarrhea is done, I have a perhaps interesting annotation to make to this thread, continuing on my train of thought regarding context:

In my country, especially in my city, like I said, the disenfranchised are Bolivians, Peruvians, and Paraguayans. We have very, very, very little black people. Most black people here are from Brazil, the Carribbean, Colombia, or actually from Africa (the majority, actually). But they are rare. I see perhaps two or three a day if I take a long bike ride through specific streets.

One time, a friend of a friend started a conversation that got me thinking, because they were talking about the Bolivians stealing jobs or whatever (some racist bullshit, he was an asshole) and after some talking I brought up these actual black people who lived among us. (Black is a very common slur here, one over which I have gotten into a lot of fights.) And I wonder why they aren't included in this complaint, in this worry. I didn't have to think about it long.

I just had to look around. There weren't that many of them. When it comes to the privileged class's fears, quantity matters. The privileged class here will never be scared of these people because they are too few, they pose no threat. But the Bolivians? The Peruvians? The Paraguayans? Holy shit, they are the Devil. Because there's enough of them. They might stop being vegetable store owners and start having money-making jobs, and wearing suits, and marrying our women, and aaaaaah, ohnoes, we're doomed.

Anyway, that's my tangent: context is king every single time. In the U.S., black people and other ethnic minorities are seen as the threat (which is also why the atrocities committed against them are so downplayed). Here, it's people of neighboring countries (and the same thing happens with atrocities committed to them here--one headline of a rag down here read: "Building catches fire, deaths include 2 people and 3 Bolivians", and I am not even fucking kidding).

Argh. Okay. Spam over. Sorry!

@Arkandel said in Shadows Over Reno:

What could be done to avoid the dick comparison issue on behalf of the STs?

Give the NPC bad guys the biggest dick.

@Cirno said:

We now return to your regularly scheduled thread. Thank you for reading this; if you didn't, that's okay too, as many regulars here insist that I'm just a troll, and whatnot.

I haven't seen anyone call you a troll since you stopped being one.

@Miss-Demeanor said in Shadows Over Reno:

@Coin said in Shadows Over Reno:

@Ganymede said in Shadows Over Reno:

@Coin said in Shadows Over Reno:

CULLED.

I DON'T REMEMBER ASKING YOU A GODDAMN THING.

I don't remember giving a shit. OOOOOOH.

And yet you responded. Do we need to drink now that you're posting for your own amusement? XD

You should ALWAYS drink because I'm ALWAYS posting for my own amusement.

I don't get the hate for The Inhumans. It's not a great show, but there are much worse things out there. I mean, i really wish they had given one of my favorite comic book groups better treatment, but at this point, I'm over it.

The Gifted's premiere was all right. Digging Jamie Chun as Clarice (Blink), one of my favorite X-Men characters (long live Exiles, bitces).

@Kestrel said in MU Things I Love:

MU* things I love...

Running into an old friend on a different MU*, not realising who they are, and them not realising it's you. Get thrown into a scene together, have amazing chemistry, massively enjoy the RP anonymously, and then get to be surprised when the mask comes off way later. "Wait, that was you?!"

This has happened to me a number of times now, and every time it does I want to scream with joy. Most recently it happened with someone I hadn't RPed or communicated with in over a year. But, turns out, they're just as awesome as they were back then, if not even better. Much <3.

It's weird. I often have way better cvhemistry with my friends when I don't know it's them than when I do. Planning things almost always ends up in some sort of stall or whatever. I dunno.

Lol, anyone else picking out a pattern in the supporting cast?

I can't wait for Jeff Donovan and Gabrielle Anwar to show up as Mutant Bounty Hunters or something. XD

@Arkandel said in MU Things I Love:

@Coin Nice try, as if you have friends.

It's true, your mom is more than a friend.

@Arkandel

My only suggestion is this: decide your price range, then go to two or three bike stores near you and find which bikes there are in your price range. Take pictures, look them up online, whatever.

Then buy a bike. Buy the one you like. Buy a bike that feels comfortable. Don't buy a bike because of the derailleurs, fork suspension, or disc brakes. Especially if what you are going to be using the bike for is street riding and daily commute. For that sort of thing you just need three things:

1. Comfort. You have to be able to sit on the bike and say, "I like this. This is the right shape for my ass not to hurt after a mile and a half."
2. Brakes. Your brakes need to work. Your brakes always need to work.
3. Style. You have to like your bike, bro. You have to look at it and go, "Damn, that is a neat bike."

Everything else will be minimal when it comes to street riding and commuting. At most you might want to make sure your tires are good and sturdy. But if you buy a bike that isn't cheap, even if it isn't expensive, you'll get a decent ride. All this "without/with this you'll waste energy" bullshit is just salesman talk. Why do you care? If it's a little heavier or takes a bit more energy that just means you're getting a slightly better work out. Lordy me, not that! That's horrible!

Double post because:

One thing we'll never get on a MU that we get all the time on television is the will-they-or-won't-they Uresolve Sexual Tension...

... because on a MU, they always do.

That said, all those secondary characters that pair up with main characters whose TRUE LOVE picked someone else are really just alts of the True Love, so they can TS.