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@Seamus
Metallica - Enter Sandman

That was a gimme.

@pog said in The trappings of posing:

I like short paragraphs for poses, sprinkling in sometimes very brief commentary and quips as a pose.

If I'm going to throw out a multiple paragraph wall of spam at someone, you know there's a damn good reason for it.

Another thing that is lost in translation that I've found very few close friends are comfortable with us doing is adding into our poses the assumption that the other person is going to cut us off. In real life we talk over each other all the time. It's not something that translates well into the turn-based text format but when reading a log of where it happens, it gives it a more natural feel.

I'll interrupt you all you want, Pogeleh. >.>

@Arkandel said:

@Groth I'll help run it, but I won't head it.

You have a bad habit of getting people to hypothesize and get into an idea and then going, "but I'm not gonna be in charge!"

@somasatori said in Downvotes:

@Arkandel Like an MSB hitman.

You guys are the worst conspirators ever.

@Ganymede said:

@HelloRaptor said:

I'm up for jury duty in Federal court in a couple of weeks. I'm mostly just wary of my ability to stay awake the whole time. My sleep schedule is pretty fucking erratic for a number of reasons, so having to be awake and alert during the day every day if I get called will be problematic. I imagine falling asleep during a trial would probably get me in trouble.

You'd be surprised how difficult it is to fall asleep when people are yelling at each other.

You may be surprised how easy it is for some of us to fall asleep while people yell at each other.

@sunny

Damn. I guess I should maybe figure out what Eclipse Phase is even about? Lulz.

I think it was something like The Science and Technology Development Group, or something. The STD Group. Club would be more hilarious. The STD Club.

@Vorpal said in Downvotes:

@Coin they had better not catch you rolling 20s, that's all I'm sayin'.

[rolls a d6, rolls a d6.]

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

@Cobaltasaurus

Sometimes, my sense of humor completely misses the mark.

I have a theory that a lot of people who do or say creepy things are actually trying to be friendly. Their problem is that what passes as "friendly" between actual friends is a lot different than what another person might find to be "friendly." In your example, the dude who be like 'wake SO with blowjob ha ha' might actually think that he's trying to be "casual" in a very "bro-tastic" way. In several other examples presented, I just don't have any excuse for them.

Let's take a more concrete example: are we friends? On many levels, I'm not entirely sure. We've chatted via PM, we've yik-yaked on games, and I'm pretty sure you know more about me than many people here. I can say with some certainty that if we ever had the pleasure of actually meeting (and thus violate my Prime Directive) we would probably have drinks and you'd find me to be a borderline narcissist alcoholic. (As opposed to lawyer, which may be synonymous.)

But, let's suppose we're friends, yeah? We met through games. I'm guessing at first you didn't care who I was or what I was about, and the feeling was mutual. Over the years of casual acquaintance and occasional argument, I've built a healthy respect for you and what you do and what you have to say. And when you've needed a hand or something, I think I was respectful with how I stepped in to do something. So we started with indifference and, over time, built it into what it is now.

Going back to your example, the fellow that suggested you give your SO a fellatio alarm clock just rushed into "bro-tastic mode" rather than, as I said, starting with indifference and building from there.

I've found in my (now years of) karaoking experience that the friends I've found (and now care deeply about) started off as singers. You appreciate them, they appreciate you. But did we give a fuck about each other (really) immediately? I don't think so: I had no agenda, no plans, nothing, so shit built up over time. I started with indifference.

I also have enough self-respect to hide my lack of human decency by treating other people politely. Much like a Spina, though, being polite does not always mean being nice.

Yeah, I agree with this.

A lot of what comes off as lackluster social skills is basically just not wanting to put in the work (or thinking you can skip over the work) of getting to the point where your normal social behavior is acceptable by the person you're interacting with. Translates to RP, too, and what you're willing to play with some people and not with others.

Does not, under any circumstances, excuse it, though.

I like Dead Wolves, personally. I just think they need an extra little work to make them stand out as more than just "vampire wolf-blooded".

@Miss-Demeanor said:

@skew YAY! Although, I was kinda looking forward to the STD thing. I was even gonna go all Hudson Hawk with it and have her code name be an STD... sigh Oh well, at least there's science!!!

And thanks. I've often thought that about a lot of games and the differing factions. There always seems to be one or two along the way that just don't draw interest for one reason or another. Seems prudent in those cases to NPC the faction so the others can still deal with them when necessary without making staff have to figure out how to make it work in a PC-less faction.

"Hey, anyone know where the hell Gonorrhea is?"
"Saw her downstairs with Crabs at the buffet."
"Fuck. I need those samples for HIV, he's breathing down my neck..."
"Ask Chlamydia."

The metaphor in your title doesn't fit the gripe...

In any case, probably because policing this stuff is way more effort than it's worth.

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

People with good intentions will respond decently to "That's not cool" and not do it again. It's pretty simple.

Zactly.

The thing about Dead Wolves is that everyone gets hung up on what they were originally without allowing for a new interpretation.

A Dead Wolf Bloodline (I actually hate that name, but I digress) could simply have to do with Gangrels who've learned to tap into the power of spirits/moon/werewolf nature through Protean and Animalism. There is room for this. The Dead Wolves bloodline I wrote for Reno worked because of the House Rules Reno had--but if there had been other rules I could have easily changed some stuf to make them work anyway.

@tragedyjones said:

@Coin said:

@tragedyjones said:

@Pyrephox Unlike a standard CofD game like Vampire or Mage, it shouldn't really matter if a group is entirely absent. The PC cooperatives are at best mildly antagonistic

You mean at worst, right?

At most. That is the more accurate phrase.

Mhm.

Man, if you are looking at this and you haven't seen Infinity War, it's your own damn fault.

Let's open this up with: which death rocked you the most?

I know a lot of them will be reversed, but for me, the one that most got me that I somehow doubt will be reversed is Loki.

I mean that shit was cold and established the hell out of what the movie was gonna be like.

Gamora's was powerful, too.

Also, did anyone else feel like the Black Order got cleaned way too casually? Like, I understand time constraints, etc., but Proxima Midnight and Ebony Maw especially got basically punted rather unceremoniously.

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

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

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

are you a robot cat or a trash panda make up your mind woman

can't i be both like aubrey plaza

no
no one can be her
I only have room in my heart for one of her

She's never gonna take up residency in there so you're gonna have to make do.

@Arkandel

I'm fine with it in the way that you are describing it. There are other definitions I'm less okay with. I also find that I'm more okay with it and prone to doing it in a culture where everyone does it, and much more willing to spend experience on fluff stuff in a culture where it's not so.

GMC has at least gotten rid of tiered spending costs, so that's a plus.

One of the things we did was keep the whole Kinfolk-as-breeding-stock thing from oWoD--except we dragged both sides of it out into the light. The Camazotz are nearly extinct, so they really do come off as pretty much just wanting to have lots of Camazotz babies with as many Kinfolk as possible, damned the consequences. But the Kinfolk get a voice, too--there's one particular bit of fiction we wrote that was really poignant from the Kinfolk point of view.

There was an inhumanity to the Camazotz that came from dealing with death constantly that I found really interesting to write around. I was also, uh... twenty? At the time.

@sg said in Infinity War [SPOILERS]:

@coin said in Infinity War [SPOILERS]:

if they hadn't gone with the (much better, imo) motivations for Thanos that they did.

I have to disagree with his motivations in the movie being better. I was watching the movie and was like, huh? In two or three generations, things will be back to where they were, why not use the IG to affect fertility rates or just like, you know, make more food?

.

Because Thanos motivation isn't actually altruistic, it's prideful. He wants to prove he was right, and that not listening to him on Titan was wrong.

There's no actual benevolence or mercy to what he's doing, it's all egotism.

In any case, it's a better motivation for a movie aimed at a much larger audience (than the comic books) because it's not so (pardon my redundance) "comic book-y". It's more grounded and less abstract and gimmicky. "Oh, I'm in love with death, let me kill truillions and trillions of people for Her". Ennnhhhh. Comic book readers are used to and like the hammy shit on occasion, but these are major blockbuster films aimed at several orders of magnitude above, in audience numbers. A more grounded motivation is much better.