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@Sponge It seems far less useful and doesn't seem what to be what the person is asking for. They're asking to be able to see the last poses in a scene easily. If someone else has to give you their own pose, it's really no different than asking them for it.

The other use is cutting out OOC spam, so you can repeatedly use the command to cut through the OOC chatter. But I would find it infinitely more of use as a catch-up tool for people who disconnected and missed poses (or maybe got to the scene just a few poses after the start).

@coin said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

If you work in an office and don't silence your phone

I probably hate you at least a little.

There's no way to silence my phone entirely. I can only lower it to a certain volume and it's not low enough god dammit.

I just realized you probably meant cell phone. I always have my cell phone on vibrate. What's a ringtone and why would you ever?

@ninjakitten said in Online friends:

@arkandel said in Online friends:

Are online friends real friends?

...this feels like such a weirdly 1990s question to me.

A/S/L(?)

@Arkandel said:

@Misadventure said:

Make it account to you when you enter a room where it is enabled, or when it is enabled, and make sure it can be turned off.

It would probably need a clear command, so you could clear your scene before logging out, and it wouldn't be a terrible idea to have it routinely locked to players who are in the log. Only a big public scene would start with /public going.

To avoid TS-related mishaps I'd say definitely clear the log as soon as a room is vacant, time it out if an hour has passed since the last pose, etc etc.

This has to be automated as well as manual or it would absolutely end up in hilarious threads right here on MSB.

Then again, it would absolutely end up in hilarious threads right here on MSB.

I have moved on to treating comics like shows, but even more so. If I am not engaged with a television show that I probably would like in its entirety, I wait and binge watch it.

Comics I binge almost exclusively. Because waiting a month for a ten minute read (at most) is a hell no. Heh.

@silentsophia said:

Why should someone have to be a beaten up callused survivor to hang out here? Eesh.

I suspect @HelloRaptor agrees with this to an extent, which is why he left, instead of flipping a desk and complaining that no one was being enough of an asshole and how dare they.

@SG said:

Hey gang, I'm getting a new phone in the next few days and my old android 2.2 will be collecting dust. I was wondering if it'd be possible to host a mu on an old cell phone, since they're pretty powerful compared to old 90s era computers when mushes first took off.

Has anyone done this sort of thing?

I suspect the actual space would be an issue, depending on how much hard drive space the phone has. Other than that, you might get a very laggy MU. I don't know.

Some characters come back for reasonable reasons. The first time Jean Grey came back, she came back as The Phoenix, and that made sense (even if Cyclops was a humongous dick). She was The Phoenix. She resurrected. That makes sense. But that was like five resurrections ago. How about we stop?

But, for example, fucking Barry Allen came back for no reason. Then it turned out it was secretly Zoom. AWESOME. NICE FAKE OUT.

... and then he came back for real and Wally got shunted to the side. Fuck you, dude.

@Pyrephox said:

@Arkandel said:

I'll bite.

Doors. How would you use them in everyday RP with other PCs?

I am not @tragedyjones but I'll take a stab at this one, with the caveat that this is only my experience/take on it.

With PCs, Doors, I find, are best used as a framework for OOC conversation about what would have the best chance of getting a PC to sign on to an idea or attempt at manipulation. They're great for a framework, because the initiating player has to develop a /concrete/ end goal. "My PC would like to convince your PC to support her in the upcoming election, and I'd like to work from the Doors system to do so." Assuming the other player is cool with that, you both now have a frame of reference, and can work out the answers to the following questions:

What's the targeted PC's initial disposition? Does My PC know something that might improve it if they accepted it ? (Soft leverage, or a scene/roll made to improve the initial disposition.)

How many Doors does the targeted PC have? Would (action of my PC) be something that has a chance of opening a Door? Would you like to scene this out, or should tickets to the Very Exclusive Event just arrive in your mailbox with a "Hope you like this," note from My PC? If my PC wanted to turn you against the other candidate, would you be comfortable with, perhaps, a contested and extended action while we scene debating the relative merits of the candidates?

Basically, I try to give the Target PC ultimate control over what has a chance of working (and if the desired goal is feasible at all), and then use the dice and the Doors mechanic to decide if it DOES work. Doors make a great framework for discussing social actions so that no one (unless they're just completely opposed to dicing social actions at all) feels railroaded or like the goalposts are being changed on them. Caveat: I haven't ever moved to Hard Leverage or Forcing Doors, so can't speak to that.

This is probably the best answer you're going to get, yeah. and if more people used this, they would have a lot more to RP about. A lot of people who want something from another PC want " a scene" in which they get it, basically. To me, that's boring. A series of things, not all of which have to be scenes, is the best course (as described above).

@Cobaltasaurus said in Roleplay +Prefs:

5 is what you absolutely love. Roughly.

What if I love it gently? Why are you boxing me in, Cobalt? GOD.

@bobotron said in Good TV:

@coin

I don't think this is super spoilery, and I can't find a spoiler syntax for the board.

She referenced Batman Beyond with the slang 'schway' and she referenced the Legion of Super Heroes by name dropping Lightning Lad, and referenced Atom II, Ryan Choi.

OOOOH, that's right, schway is from BB. Honestly I internalized that shit so young I didn't even recognize it. XD

@tragedyjones said:

So Secrets of the Covenants has moved from 2nd Draft to Editing.

FFS, speed it up, OP.

It also helps set a default. You are perfectly within your right to assume a scene is set with the +time/+weather of the game unless informed otherwise--and you should probably ask, if it isn't clear within a set pose.

I only read about it today. It couldn't happen to a nicer part of the internet.

Well, maybe /b/.

@kestrel Yeah, I've ranted about this before too.

@A.-Meowley said in IC Message Code/Alternative to @mail:

Can't help with code, only moral support: I love the idea of a dedicatedly IC message / mail system. Letter writing can add so much flavour. If they can be tracked & archived too? So cool!

Even text messages can be so great for this stuff.

How awesome would it be if you could clone people's phones?

+phone/clone <name>

Some code rolls your Wits+Computer-Diff of the target phone based on factors. If sucessful the code creates a separate folder in your +txt code that houses all the received/sent texts in that person's phone.

Awyiss.

That said, i think this is the wrong thread, @Arkandel.

Maybe move it to the actual movies/tv thread instyead of this very old Mash-Ups thread(?)

Do/did you play in a tabletop game now or in the past? Yes. Since before I even played any of these games online.
What games(s) do/did you play as tabletop? Vampire (both), Werewolf (both), Dungeons and Dragons, Lord of the Rings, RuneQuest, Alternity, Call of Cthulhu, Exalted, Scion.
Are/were you the GM/ST/DM at your tabletop? I have been many, many times, but not exclusively.
Would you tabletop if you had the opportunity? Absolutely.
Do you have the opportunity but choose NOT to tabletop? No. My group's just lazy at the moment and on a downturn in activity.
Misc: Tabletop is a completely different experience from MUing. Ridiculously so.

@Arkandel said in IC Message Code/Alternative to @mail:

@A.-Meowley Sometimes these hard-coded things can either be awesome or great.

I remember on a MUD ages ago there were ways to intercept whispers but it'd only give you part of the string, which is easy, but then they wanted to do the same thing with +places (well, the equivalent of it) which is a whole different beast altogether since then you're spying on more than verbal exchanges.

But if you can get your players to buy in and use IC methods of communication (whisper Coin=your momma as opposed to page Coin=your momma) it can open some interesting doors, and a whole new path of character specializations - you can add ways to delve into saved communications instead of doing it in real time, but also forgery, maybe even more elaborate things like replacing messages en route or using cyphers.

The trick, other than the above buy-in, is probably to provide a decent interface so all this doesn't become super complex for the average player to use.

I loved using +whisper.

I also liked +murmur, which is basically whisper except it feeds you bits of the text at random, like you said.

There is a sort of spectrum of in the shows about the Teen Titans that goes from "absolutely fucking bonkers and ridiculous" all the way to "appropriately realistic, dark and brooding", and that spectrum goes like this:

Teen Titans! Go - Teen Titans - Young Justice - Titans.

[Young Justice because it's essentially originally a rework of the 90s/early 00s Young Justice / Teen Titans (comic book) teams (but with more secrecy and less officialism, which moves neatly into the absolutely unofficial and definitely not-public Titans).]