Posts made by Coin

@Arkandel said in Great TV:

@Coin I read about that this morning. I dunno - it will come down to how much money they're willing to spend, I think. The Wheel of Time saga would require a hell of a lot of special effects to be pulled off, plus different sets (there are many locales, different civilizations, cultures etc) would make the production costs skyrocket.

If it's a cheap knockoff of Game of Thrones I'll be a sad panda. On the other hand the series is finished, Robert Jordan is long dead and they can simply have Sanderson write some of their scripts - it's not like he's not a robot who can match any deadline they can possibly set.

I haven't actually read any Sanderson before, but I have listened to the first three or so seasons of Writing Excuses and I've read about his stuff and it basically seems like he is a robot who just churns out product of passable quality consistently.

Usually the former, though it can get to be the latter really easily.

While I wouldn't speculate to it being "great TV", I still though @Arkandel should know.

@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.]

@Vorpal said in RL Anger:

@Coin said in RL Anger:

@Vorpal

Do you bike?

I don't ask this as a "gotcha" question. I ask it because often, these sort of things are a perception issue.

You are much, much, much more likely to notice misbehavior on a bicycle if you are directly affected by it (like, say, while you're driving), much the same way that I am much, much, much more likely to notice misbehavior by a driver because I'm super squishy and hyper aware of my fragility when it comes to cars.

This is the main reason I insist that stupidity transcends vehicle type; saying otherwise is ignoring the other factors and points of view. Conversely, you'll never hear me say, "Cyclists are better behaved!" because we're not. Hell, the one joke I made that got all this started was about how cyclists could misbehave.

I do bike quite a bit, actually- or did until two weeks ago. I have (had) a Schwinn Voyageur, but it got stolen two weeks ago from the bike rack in front of a friend's apartment building. I usually adhere to the rules of the road in an almost anal-retentive way because I don't want to be squished

Then you probably just live in an area full of jerks.

Sorry about your bike. I've had five in the past five years, give or take, because shit keeps happening. Hopefully this last one is the one that sticks.

@Sogan said in Kinds of Mu*s Wanted:

Highlander would benefit from A) not being set during the gathering (look at the show Immortals have friendships, even the headhunter types often have a few friends amongst the immortal crowd) which removes the immediacy of the whole decapitation frenzy and 2) Flash backs are your friend. Most of Fitz's appearances were flashbacks made after his death. Ultimately if you can find a way to play up the duality of 'I'm going to outlast everything around me' with the 'There are lunatics who want to cut off my head to kill me and absorb my lifeforc' angles without killing PC's every few scenes it could be fun.

As an aside has anyone else ever noticed how quickly New Immortals seem to accept the idea of decapitating people?

Not really. Plenty of people go into the armed forces and quickly acept the idea of killing other people who are trying to kill them. Humans are not particularly empathic beings when our own lives are at stake, no matter what children's television wants to make us think.

@Vorpal

Do you bike?

I don't ask this as a "gotcha" question. I ask it because often, these sort of things are a perception issue.

You are much, much, much more likely to notice misbehavior on a bicycle if you are directly affected by it (like, say, while you're driving), much the same way that I am much, much, much more likely to notice misbehavior by a driver because I'm super squishy and hyper aware of my fragility when it comes to cars.

This is the main reason I insist that stupidity transcends vehicle type; saying otherwise is ignoring the other factors and points of view. Conversely, you'll never hear me say, "Cyclists are better behaved!" because we're not. Hell, the one joke I made that got all this started was about how cyclists could misbehave.

@hedgehog said in RL Anger:

@Coin

I concur that people, as a rule, are problematic. I suppose that irresponsible cyclists confuse me most of all because I feel like they should have a bit more sense of how squishy we all are, since they aren't generally encased in two tons of plastic and steel and fiberglass, and therefore don't get that false sense of security.

I hate to be a broken record, but stupidity sort of preempts this sort of logical reasoning.

@hedgehog said in RL Anger:

@Coin

I also can't explain what I see to be as flawed designs for bike paths. Even the ones here where cars park on the outside of the path/lane, so that the bike lane is between the curb and said parked cars? Seem rife with problems, particularly that of oblivious passengers opening car doors right into the lane, or stupid double parkers.

I try to have empathy for cyclists, especially for those who actually obey traffic laws and use hand signals and such, but it gets a little more eroded each time I have one call me a bitch or threaten my kid because he didn't move off of the sidewalk fast enough, or when they ignore stop signs while we're crossing an intersection. I shouldn't have to play chicken with some self-absorbed NU kid biking while using their cell phone.

For every fucking moron on a bike, there's a moron in a car, on a motorcycle, in a truck, etc., was my point. Your classification of bikers being problematic is flawed because, as per usual, the problem is people.

@hedgehog said in RL Anger:

@Coin

Explain this weirdness of biking to me, if you could? We live along a major thoroughfare in our Chicago suburb, one that runs north-south. Bicycle riding is expressly forbidden along this corridor, because some civic planner, in their infinite wisdom, made a two lane street four lanes without actually widening them. Bike riding on the sidewalks parallel to this street is also forbidden for grown-ass adults; also, there are perfectly bike-friendly side streets a block east and west that they can ride on. This does not stop assholes from expecting pedestrians to move the hell out of their way while they barrel down the sidewalk on their fixed-gears. Why do they do this? Why not use the side streets with their four way stopsigns rather than ride illegally on the sidewalks and have to deal with stoplights, skateboarders, toddlers, dogs, strollers and bus stops? What is the logic?

[sigh]

Way to take a joke too seriously.

I don't live in Chicago, so I couldn't say. But where I live, for example, there are some streets (not enough) that have designated bike lanes upon which cars, buses, motorcycles, etc., cannot be.

Why, then, do I have to contend with motorcycles coming at me? Why do buses ride over the plastic divisors, blocking my path? Why do cars cross the street when the light is yellow and end up stuck by traffic in the midle of an intersection, not only blocking me, but everyone else? Why do dumbass pedestrians decide that because no cars are coming on a one -way street with a bike path, they can cross in the middle of the fucking street without looking both ways, almost making me crash into them? Why are some of these mother fucking idiots people with babies in strollers and old people with canes moving at about one mile every year of their overdue fucking life?

I don't know, man.

If I had to make an educated guess, I would say it's maybe because it doesn't matter how you commute, stupid is still fucking stupid.

@ThatGuyThere said in RL Anger:

People using Public Transport.

<cue Nelson: Ha HA.>

I live in a major metropolitan city, and ride my bike everywhere.

Buses, cars, motorcycles, trucks--they're all crippling compared to the awesome versatility of 'fuck this shit, the sidewalk's mostly empty, I can totally just weave around a bit LATER SUCKERS'.

On the other hand, @The_Supremes makes a good point: when a storyteller abandons a plot, or worse, runs something that is completely contradictory to the history and timeline of the game, it's not that storyteller that's held responsible for picking it up, making it make sense, and rectifying it--it's staff.

And it shouldn't be a given that staff need to put up with ill thought-out plots just because one time this one dude had the idea to run a random thing.

That's why I advocate a tiered plot scale. On Eldritch, for example, if you wanted to run spirits, you just needed to keep it at a certain Rank. Beyond that, you needed to consult with us. This also helps you run one-offs and turn them into longer plots: this one low-level antagonist did X, but they did it because this much more powerful antagonist (whom you've now had time to consult with staff about) wanted it done, and the longer plot can take hold. Or you can just leave it at the low-level antagonist having done X sucessfully or not, if you don't feel like consulting.

It doesn't have to be an either-or proposition and I feel like insisting "let everyone do all the thinnnnnnnnnnngs!" is the best way to get the worst result. Not to mention that, in my opinion, any storyteller worth their salt isn't going to run an epic, game-breaking plot in a single night--so anyone wanting to do a one-off fun outing for a night will more than likely be able to easily use whatever is freely available without requiring staff consultation. If they can't, chances are they're not very dedicated storytellers and will flake anyway.

My view may be cynical, but it's honestly the product of my experiences in this community. BITN and Eldritch have had some of the laxest PRP policies I've seen short of games where there are none because everyone can do whatever, honestly.

@Arkandel said in Finding roleplay:

@Coin said in Finding roleplay:

@Arkandel said in Finding roleplay:

@Coin said in Finding roleplay:

monstruous

Hah-hah, you made a typo.

It's just an archaic spelling of monstrous. I didn't typo, I added the u deliberately, because I'm better than you.

Allow me to put the 'u' in 'fuck you' then.

Why would you need to do that? Who spelled it 'fuck yo'? I'm going to guess that was a typo.

@Arkandel said in Finding roleplay:

@Coin said in Finding roleplay:

monstruous

Hah-hah, you made a typo.

It's just an archaic spelling of monstrous. I didn't typo, I added the u deliberately, because I'm better than you.

@Arkandel said in Finding roleplay:

@Coin said in Finding roleplay:

@Ninjakitten said in Finding roleplay:

@Coin
I absolutely agree on that point. (Sorry, @Arkandel!)

Don't apologize to him. He's a monster. Look at what he did to that poor syntax. Just horrible.

Your mom didn't complain.

My mom's English is out of practice; she hasn't actually written/read in the language in over a decade, save for some scattered vacations here and there. So her perception of your monstruous disregard for a simple comma is a negligible defensive argument, you fucking monster.

@silentsophia said in Something similar to WoD, but not quite:

I miss Scion ever so much. RIP Miruan the Introverted Sniper of Ares.

RIP Shou the Hawaiian Flying Surfer Ronin of Susano-O.

@TNP said in Something similar to WoD, but not quite:

@Coin Kyle didn't think Jack was horrible. He did what he thought was best for the family. So did Kyle. Jack couldn't help being a manipulative sadist with no morals.

Fair enough. Still, so judgy.

@Bug-In-A-Jar said in Downvotes:

Only sufficiently karmic posters can downvote. So once your opinion becomes unpopular enough, it no longer matters for the purpose of these up/downvote systems. Basically, it disenfranchises you.

The necessary rep points to be able to vote is something ridiculous, like... 10. And it only disenfranchises you if you care about being able to upvote or downvote people, which you would only care about if you ... cared about upvotes and downvotes.

So. Yeah.

@TNP Why, so your character can judge my character for being horrible?

@Ninjakitten said in Finding roleplay:

@Coin
I absolutely agree on that point. (Sorry, @Arkandel!)

Don't apologize to him. He's a monster. Look at what he did to that poor syntax. Just horrible.