@Derp said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Not entirely sure where to put this. Not a peeve, but not ... anyway, so this happened to me today.
Me: peruses inbox at work (for a government agency)
INBOX: Top email subject line: INVITATION TO SHANG
Me: chokes on coffee, looks horrified, like WHAT THE ENTIRE FUCK. Tentatively click on e-mail.
EMAIL: INVITATION TO SHANGHAI BALLET
Me: OhthankyouJesus.
Sounds more like Random Funny to me.
@SinCerely said in Gauging Interest in a new Erotic RP MU* (with anonymous survey):
@Coin said in Gauging Interest in a new Erotic RP MU* (with anonymous survey):
It doesn't matter if in both stories the pizza delivery guy gets sacrificed to Cthulhu in the end -- the tone and point of the scene/movie is different.
ಠ_ಠ
What.
@Aria said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I don't know who decided that work should start in the mornings, but that person is shit and I hate them.
I could legit come in to work at 11 AM or so, but I hate hate hate hate hate being at work in the afternoon. Anything past 3PM is just horrible.
So.
@Groth said:
The core of the issue seems to be that many players become emotionally invested in their characters success and treat any failure to succeed on the behalf of their character as a failure of their own, rather then a new avenue of RP to explore.
Ugh, yeah. This is the worst. And I know because I have both seen it and allowed it to affect me. I've gotten upset over stupid stuff like that. I try not to let it happen anymore. I don't have the kind of time it takes to worry about that shit anymore, as a, you know, grown adult. But damn, yeah.
Another related issue is that it's hard to make reputation meaningful on the scene level. It's not uncommon for characters to treat the most respected person in the city like street trash, either because they're not OOCly aware of the status of that person or because they just don't like their own characters reaction being decided by a number, it's similar to how everyone just ignores everyone with Striking Looks.
This is also an issue. I think the only real way to do it is constantly remind people, and have staff constantly remind people. But that can get preachy/insistent/annoying, so... It's an issue. Something very visible would help, but then it turns into "I have this color on my short desc because I'm special" and I just... ugh.
I absolutely go into writing at some point. May have been in grade-school, probably around the time I discovered I liked mythology and legends, right around the time I started reading voraciously. I think I already had the storytelling drive, though, since that's essentially what I did when I played with my action figures before then.
<cries>
One of my coworkers just told me about Deadly Class and it is so fucking good. Why is this cancelled?!?
Because we can't have nice things. 
I still have an idea for a Deadly Class MU rattling in my head.
Albert Uderzo, co-creator of Asterix, 92. Not COVID-19. Heart attack.
@Glitch said:
The Forums went down for a bit. A rogue plugin was at fault. It is entirely @Coin's fault. May be some residual effects with logging in, but should be fine shortly.
Fear my power.
@Auspice Seriously. That 3rd act with American Pie? Goodnight Angel? Ded.
I didn't know I knew all the words to American Pie.
But you did and you sang along to the entire thing while weeping
...or was that just me
I didn't cry, I already told you someone splashed a cup of salty water on my face. >:/
@surreality said in New forum version:
@Coin I hit that same code glitch all the time.
System scan suggests this is not a bug, but a feature.
I'm sort of stuck on season 2 of Korra. It's not bad. I actually like the characters in some ways more than in ATLA; I outright prefer Korra to Aang, and Bolin's general silliness is a relieving replacement to Sokka's near-constant (yet somehow usually endearing) inanity. It just feels... idk, less focused? I know it had a rough development history. ATLA is a solid 10/10, and season 1 of Korra was an 8 or a 9. Season 2 is more of a 7.
I think it's that they aren't giving the characters space to breathe. ATLA was full of characterization, which made it "slow" at times but made you care about the characters! I haven't seen a "Tales of Ba Sing Se" yet in Korra.
Also I binged ATLA in two weeks so maybe I'm just TVd out for now.
OR MAYBE IT'S BECAUSE THEY SHAFTED SUKI WHO IS AMAZING IN ALL THINGS
Korra S2 is also "the bad season", except for the... uh ... two specific episodes that I won't tell you about but that are very cool especially when it comes to worldbuilding.
I say "bad season" because a lot of people hated it but I just thought it was kind of weak in a lot of respects, but not, like, horrible.
I have been informed by the powers that be that if we do that, we have to pay them the prize money.
@Wizz said in Good or New Movies Review:
...I wouldn't say no to a rebooted Highlander series either, tbh.
(As long as they kept Princes of the Universe as the themesong.)
Hard same. An updated Highlander would be fantastic.
I think @HelloProject is basically our communty's version of Shia LeBeaouf.
Project Power on Netflix where folks take a pill and it releases an animalistic power.
I am hoping it turns into a series.
As long as they explain why those two specific people got to break the basic conceit.
@Wizz said in Good or New Movies Review:
@Coin said in Good or New Movies Review:
@Arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:
Should I be yelling at the damn kids to get off my lawn?
Yes.
Let Star Trek be something that doesn't conform to your expectations.
Sheesh.
In other words, "lower your expectations."
Oh, for fuck's sake, give it a rest.
And don't put fucking words in my mouth, you don't know me that fucking well.
Fox by contrast created a number of individually decent movies that had almost nothing to do with each other.
Be fair, they also made X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Wolverine, X-Men: The Last Stand, Apocalypse, and Dark Phoenix.
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