Posts made by Coin

Mother fucking Windows Update restarting my computer in the middle of the night and thus killing my alarm clock, so I overslept for almost two hours. FML.

@Cobaltasaurus

Yep. It just ... it's boring. That's really what it is. It's just boring.

@Olsson

Person of Interest is insanely good. Like, I think it's probably the best thing on television lately.

Grimm is okay. It gets better the further along you go and the more you notice the writers have realized what sort of show they wanted to write, but it still has very wild ups and downs in quality, especially of plot.

@HelloRaptor

The Lucifer pilot was pretty good, but I wish they wouldn't hammer the "every woman [except for her] is compelled to want to fuck him" so much. We get it, yikes.

I finally pinpointed what bugs me about Teen Wolf, which is a really good show, but something was really bugging me. It's that it feels, if using a MU comparison, like the things we see on-screen are just the "PRP logs", while all the other tons of roleplay going on isn't there. You see bits and pieces, but only because maybe a normal log turned into a "surprise! prp!" log in the middle. It's all-action, all-the-time, and while that should usually work, on a show with teens that has a lot of parallels to what it is to grow up, to take responsibility, i.e. coming of age, etc., it feels like it's missing something. There's no downtime.

Fuck yeah, Constantine on Arrow.

@VulgarKitten said:

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@Coin You're a dirty lie!

Your face is a dirty lie.

Your mom`s face is a dirty lie which you told!

You face is your mom's dirty lie!

*Your

No.

@VulgarKitten said:

@Coin said:

@VulgarKitten said:

@Coin You're a dirty lie!

Your face is a dirty lie.

Your mom`s face is a dirty lie which you told!

You face is your mom's dirty lie!

@VulgarKitten said:

@Coin You're a dirty lie!

Your face is a dirty lie.

@VulgarKitten said:

@Arkandel Because joy exists everywhere, all the time! It is bigger than you!

This is a dirty lie.

@tragedyjones said:

@Jennkryst said:

@tragedyjones We have a Theno!

Pretty sure @Thenomain is too busy to. code a brand new system.

He also gets grumpy if you volunteer him for stuff. . .

@BigDaddyAmin

Ouch.

@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.

@tragedyjones said:

Update: Their vague 'he put a ring on it' fb post is a PROMISE ring.

Oh FFS.

@tragedyjones said:

Apparently a friend of mine just got engaged to his girlfriend. And I want to be happy for him but their combined age is under 40 and he isn't even 21. I don't know wtf to say.

You could have a talk with him and ask him why he wants to get married so young. But in the end, he's probably going to do it. People do dumb stuff.

@Tempest said:

@Arkandel said:

What the problem is is when people only play up, not down. So for instance they can't fake physical dots (sooner or later they'd need to roll brawl+strength) but they'll avoid portraying low social dots.

From a meta-point of view, it's challenging to roleplay someone being bad at some things without making a caricature out of them.

I am pretty guilty of this with one of my current PCs. She has Presence 1, Manipulation 2, and a spread of 4 dots in social skills. (Socialize 2, Empathy 1, Subterfuge 1). I didn't really -mean- to do it, going in. I just made the mistake of going 'hey, I want to play a not very social, easy to overlook character, whose limited social interactions are going to be heavily influenced by cues from her high Auspex-----oh wait, I'm a fucking idiot and 99% of the RP I'm going to be doing is social. Hm. Yeah, I need to get around to raising that stuff.....eventually.'

A lot of people have "low social stats" in real life and do just fine. When you roll, though, you're putting your character's abilities to the test. It's typically fine to roleplay someone social who is affable and or kind of scary or whatever in a passive sense; but if you have to roll and your stats don't back it up, that just means that under pressure, in that particular type of situation, your character's confidence and abilities crumble.

At least, that's one feasible way of doing it, in my opinion. Being social doesn't mean you're good at it. I like to cook, but the times I've been able to cook anything beyond the most basic stuff and have it come out well have been rare (and sometimes you get that 10 on a chance die).

Then you have the people who play UP their social stuff that they don't have, at which point I want to strangle a mother fucker.

@Ganymede said:

@Sunny said:

Why would I take your lunch money? I would much prefer you just spend it on me!

That's still taking it.

No, it's receiving something that was purchased with it. Fine distinction.

@Tempest

It's not, but people will grumble because, "my character is a career criminal, it's not fair that I have to BUY LARCENY". No, really.

Like, I had a character who had been in jail for a long time, and I made him without Larceny. As soon as I had any XP to spare, I took a dot. Even if he's just the bruiser, a dot of Larceny makes sure you at least don't take a PENALTY.

@Tempest said:

I flip-flop on liking GMC's style of dots/costs and not.

Mostly, I only dislike it when I get around to going 'hmm, my character should really have XYZ skill at 1-2 even if it's never going to come up' and the immediately following thought of 'fuck that, I could get my fifth dot of XYZ for the same cost and actually use it'.

And then you get a storyteller who looks at your character concept and says, "this character concept should have X, I'll make X a part of the scene" and when you go to roll it, lo and behold, untrained penalty. I'm not saying it's your case, but the amount of annoying bitching this sort of thing has caused in the past is amazing.

@Arkandel Well, we were talking about movies.

In any case, if you're counting TV, I don't recall getting "krypton exploding" in Smallville or Lois and Clark, other than maybe in the intro for the latter, which doesn't even count, actually, and many of the Spider-Man and Batman scenes in which Uncle Ben or the Waynes die are flashbacks much further into the show, rather than "origins stories".

@Arkandel

Gotham is little screen. I said big screen.

Because otherwise, ugh, TV series, cartoons, etc., etc.

@Arkandel said:

@Ganymede said:

Maybe not. I've been a proponent of diminishing returns, and did not like GMC's elimination of it.
Admittedly, this may be a bias.

Oh, I agree with you there. I didn't like that part of GMC; not only does it not make sense (you should find it harder to continue improving at something) but it also doesn't follow the theme's own paradigms (Renown requirements are IC increasingly higher, so why not the cost?).

I just don't agree with this particular implementation, I find it worse than both 1.0 and GMC's.

Typically because the actual benefit of an extra dot is not representative of the effort. There's no difference between the jump from 1-2 and 3-4; it's a single die. Same benefit, same cost.

@Arkandel said:

@Roz said:

They've at least explicitly stated that they are NOT telling the origin story again. Probably because too many fans would flip out about this exact thing.

Then again how many times have we seen the Waynes die? Those pearls!

On the big screen? Twice. The same amount of times we've seen Uncle Ben die.

Except the Waynes took like thirty years to die again, whereas Uncle Ben died twice in the span of like, 10?