Posts made by Coin

@Auspice said in RL Anger:

Some people don't realize how the small lies stack up. Maybe they're not meant as lies, but after a while...

You know the ones. Like, "I'll talk to you tonight." and then you never hear from them and they never even have an excuse.

People love to berate each other to "pay attention to what you say" when it comes to words being taken the wrong way and coming across as hurtful... But a refusal to even put enough forethought into your planning, to an extent that I'm left hanging on a regular basis?

That hurts, too.

Oh, man, I do this. I'm horrible about it, but for the most part, it's me falling asleep, usually. Like, if it's been a long day but I told someone "we'll talk tonight" and when i got home I lay down... man, I am gone.

I also just forget? I'm pretty absent minded, which doesn't mean I don't get my feelings hurt when people are absent minded right back at me. But it is not something I can find myself getting angry over long-term.

Once people fade away, I kind of do too. And sometimes I am the worst and disappear for days, weeks at a time from a person and then I come back talking to them like whatever. I don't know why and I can absolutely see why someone would find that anger-inducing...

... I just... I don't know. My brain, man. It's weird.

I am also a person who is preoccupied a lot--not in the mood, angry, tired, depressed (all the time)--and sometimes I just don't want to talk to people. So it doesn't matter if they message me one time or fifty, I will not answer. It's typically not against that particular person--I just don't want to right now.

The realization that this is okay--that I get to be able to do that because it's my life--has also led me to be much more accepting of people not answering my messages. I used to get super annoyed and moody when people ignored me (whether it was actually ignoring me or just not being there for long periods of time when I wanted attention). Now, I just understand. I still get annoyed--god dammit why won't you pay attention to me right this second when I am in need of conversation!--but when the person shows up I'm not going to be like "fucker, where the fuck have you fucking been I wanted attention fuck you now I don't care fuuuuuuck" unless it's @tragedyjones and I'm trolling him.

All this to say, sometimes they are not lies--they are just things we say that we believe and that are changed by the minutes that follow them.

Some of us aren't awesome at being cool with other people--I try very, very hard, and I fail spectacularly a lot. I try not to apologize unless I mean it, but having realized that my attitude divests me of the capacity to feel self-righteous about the same sort of stuff being done to me have made it so that I can mean it more often, more sincerely.

Oh man, I totally went on a feelzRant.

#ShitYouDidn'tNeedToKnow
#EmotionalCurrency
#Gasp!
#CoinIsAPerson!
#WhoFuckingKnew?
#InBeforeYourMom
#That'sWhatSheSaid

@DnvnQuinn said in Let's talk about what makes a Mush succesful or a failure in your eyes.:

You people are super hard to get answers out of.

Maybe success wasn't a right word, maybe I should have said what keeps you coming back and then listed my questions, cause so far, no answers except to discuss the definition of success or failure. Which is my bad.

It's almost like you should have considered your target first. Lots of people need to define a concept before they can answer a question that hinges on it. This is like, the cornerstone of College Subject 101. "Hi, class, we're going to talk about [concept]. But first, let's take a look at what we mean when we say [concept]..."

@Pondscum said in Kushiel's Debut:

I think all we really need is to close ALL GAMES and make one giant melting pot game so we lords and ladies lovers can go smack the fuck out of those WoD and Westeros bitches.

It's all fun and games until people from Shang show up.

@Nausicaa said in Dragon Age: Smoke & Shadows:

@Lithium Don't get me wrong, I'd love a Buffyverse game without FCs after Sunnydale. The game that got me back into MU*dom after years away was a very small Buffyverse game set in the American South that had absolutely no FCs. It remains one of my favorite settings and contained one of my favorite characters I've ever RPed. Find me an active game set in the Buffyverse in a city I'm interested in? Hold me back.

However, I came to the general conclusion a long time ago that if someone was going to make a Buffy game, they would want to include FCs because that's what they would like to play. I get the appeal. I have a Buffyverse FC that I would play on any game that would allow it just because she is one of my favorite fictional characters. I don't fault anyone for FC love as long as they don't try and play it as 'best because canon character' or hinder my own RP because of it.

There's been several Buffyverse games sans FCs. Mystik Krewe and Devilshire, to name just two.

@Ganymede said in Kushiel's Debut:

Like if you suddenly realized that your presidential nominee is a racist, misogynist blow-hard that'd sooner put you in jail or deport you than to actually listen to any of the meaningful advice you have to offer.

This is pretty close to Godwin's Law. Might wanna curb that analogy a little bit. Or not. Whatever.

@Songtress said in [Interest Check] Original vampire-based supernatural MU*:

Thought:
The Abandonded: A 'Caste' of Vampires sired, but never fully brought into 'proper' society, they can be elevated to the ranks of the Houses, by being adopted, and their blood 'changed' over, but prior to that they're a low caste of being. Somewhere after the chosen humans, but above... 'regular humans'.

So, Caitiff-esque.

@SunnyJ said in Fallen World MUX!:

@Thenomain @Coin We decided to ditch Arcane XP because we are using a XP ceiling in Fallen World. We felt since players have a limited amount of XP to toy with that we could allow them to craft their characters as they wished within those boundaries! We are indeed using other forms of advancement for characters other than Experiences, but those are not Arcane Beats!

I don't really agree with XP ceilings in general, so this doesn't really strike me as a reasonable compromise, especially given my reasoning above. But hey, your playground, your rules.

@Tennyson said in The Shame Game:

@Ghost said in The Shame Game:

@Tennyson said in The Shame Game:

@Lithium said in The Shame Game:

@Tennyson Only thing downvote worthy in that, is the assumption that all countries have the same rights as others.

Oi. Tooootally separate discussion. But yet another reason why Americans behave like overpriveleged children. They don't understand just how good they have it when compared to a large portion of the world.

I think it's sad that Canadians and the English and the Germans and the French and the Swiss and the Swedish and the Australians and the Luxembourgish don't have freedom.

They, like, must be reallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreally jealous of America having it written on a piece of paper that we're allowed to talk, because those dudes are clearly not allowed to speak.

Edit: Found and shared a gif, because in Wales, they get put in jail if they gif and I wanted to show off how great it is to be free.

Wow. That. Was an incredibly obtuse and derailing reply. It took a cited example of 1st world privelege and turned it into an exposition of ignorance.

It's also a perfect example why shaming is a failed methodology.

Yeah, that was a horrible derail.

There are an immense amount of countries that are underprivileged and whose do not have the same policies and rights as others. The U.S. is one of the ones that are the loudest about their freedoms (to the point where "this is a Free Country" is the motto of every asshole who wants to do whatever the fuck they want without any repercussions) which is why people, like @Tennyson here, singled it out. But saying "oh, there's a bunch of other countries that aren't oppressed" doesn't meant that there aren't a shitload of other countries that are.

It's kind of like saying "white men are overprivileged with regards to equal gender rights" and being told "oh, sure, but so are black men and muslim men and latino men and chinese men"--yeah, no fucking shit. Doesn't mean the original statement isn't accurate.

@DnvnQuinn

Well, Arcane XP is a separate line of Beats you can accrue that you gain from solving Mysteries (and fulfilling Obsession, which are basically "Mage Aspirations"). They're also used to buy supernatural stuff (Rotes, Arcana, Praxes, supernatural Merits, etc.).

Part of the way Mage's system is designed is to take advantage of this sort of stuff. You can't really use Arcane XP to buy up, say, your Skills or your Attributes.

I mean, you can take it away, but IMO it shows a lack of acceptance of a cornerstone of what makes Mage 2e actually second edition. (Yes, Arcane Xp was part of 1e, but not as integrally as it is part of 2e, IMO.)

I could actually understand getting rid of Arcane XP if the game was mixed spheres (it could create a problem if Mages had an extra track of XP while other spheres didn't), but this is a Mage-only game, so it seems short-sighted. It might be a code limitation--but I would look into surpassing it, if it were me, before I just removed it entirely.

@Arkandel said in Kushiel's Debut:

@Kanye-Qwest said in Kushiel's Debut:

@Arkandel You fool. L & L is never drama free! They are high school relationship drama + titles.

(Also, what is L&L now?)

Lords & Ladies.

@Thenomain said in Fallen World MUX!:

I want to know how they're doing Proximi, because my system doesn't handle their needs elegantly at all.

And if it's true that they're going to put all the spells into the stat system, I suspect we'll see the limitations my old system can handle.

I've already been told that they're not doing Arcane XP, the other thing that would make a command-line-based system weep, so I don't really blame them.

And yet, Arcane XP is one of the cornerstones of how Mages advance; not having it takes away something pretty key, IMO.

How To Aim For The Sky And Blast The Moon Out of Orbit or Recovering After Creating and then Tanking a Game, by @Coin.

@VulgarKitten said in MU Things I Love:

Typos.

You paged Somebody with 'Sure, sounds good Feel like hitting the dicks?'.
You paged Somebody with 'DOCKS. OMG DOCKS'.

"Typos."

This question is essentially the same as:

Is improv theater art?
Is fanfiction art?

And the answer is: probably to someone.

@tragedyjones said in Can RP be art?:

@Coin said in Can RP be art?:

@tragedyjones said in Can RP be art?:

@Coin said in Can RP be art?:

@tragedyjones said in Can RP be art?:

@DnvnQuinn - Since there is literally a blog devoted to the artistic quality of the dick pic, I concede your point.

The art is in the photography of the shit and/or dick, not the shit and/or dick itself. Just sayin'.

Counterpoint: My dick is a work of art.

And I've seen photographs of the Mona Lisa that look like shit.

But have you seen dickpic.png?

Your mom has.

@tragedyjones said in Can RP be art?:

@Coin said in Can RP be art?:

@tragedyjones said in Can RP be art?:

@DnvnQuinn - Since there is literally a blog devoted to the artistic quality of the dick pic, I concede your point.

The art is in the photography of the shit and/or dick, not the shit and/or dick itself. Just sayin'.

Counterpoint: My dick is a work of art.

And I've seen photographs of the Mona Lisa that look like shit.

@tragedyjones said in Can RP be art?:

@DnvnQuinn - Since there is literally a blog devoted to the artistic quality of the dick pic, I concede your point.

The art is in the photography of the shit and/or dick, not the shit and/or dick itself. Just sayin'.

@Ganymede said in Attributes or No?:

@Coin said in Attributes or No?:

This is one of the reasons the system I am working on works the way it does.

Based on what you wrote, why don't you just adopt Earthdawn's Step system?

a) because I've never read it;
b) because I want as much of it as possible to be my own idea before I start actively mining other systems.

@Kanye-Qwest said in Dragon Age: Smoke & Shadows:

@Coin said in Dragon Age: Smoke & Shadows:

This would all be moot if the game were PvP, of course.

You can all just get together, gank the FCs, and move on.

<.<

Shut your whore mouth, I would never hurt Varric. Even an imposter.

I've never played Dragon Age so your psychotic love for a fictional character means nothing to me.

[picture of Varric getting shivved a la Robb in The Red Wedding, which I don't have, but which you will now imagine because that's how brains work. Aren't they awesome?]

This would all be moot if the game were PvP, of course.

You can all just get together, gank the FCs, and move on.

<.<