Posts made by Coin

Every time I see the swastika next to an inverted one I get The Bangles's Walk Like An Egyptian stuck in my head.

@Thisnameistaken said:

Living alone.

Do what I want, when I want. Clean up only my own messes. No one eats my food or drinks my last beer. No arguments over what TV to watch or what music to listen to. No worry about being quiet while someone else is sleeping or being woken up by someone else moving around.

It's really quite nice.

This is going to be my situation again come November, thankfully.

Like @EmmahSue, I am willing to consult for any new game. My time is really limited though, due to running my own! But yeah, poke.

It doesn't really matter how clear you make the help file, most of the time people will learn by asking their friends or asking on channels.

@Misadventure

Someone did. It's in the code forum.

Use a weekly phone alarm to remind you to fill the pill box.

@Rook said:

World of Darkness is a very complex system, that is even MORE complex the more that is included/allowed as races on the game. It is one of those systems that you cannot begin to play without some sort of reference material, be it a book, a wiki or so.

This, sadly, does not prevent people from trying.

@Jeshin said:

MUSHes appear to have a fairly high amount of player sharing. However the chargen is a little rough (at least for a MUD guy coming in). Have tutorial/newbie friendly chargens ever been explored as a means to increase new player retention? You know the people who find your game, never played any text-based games, try it out and might be overwhelmed immediately if not handheld?

Yes. That's why Eldritch has a chargen guide for pretty much every type of character you can play.

@Gingerlily said:

@Coin

Bah! Heavy fingers late at night in my commenting frenzy. Also I never criticized his grammar! I just recall in high school instances of having to count back to remember who was saying what. Love Hemmmmmingway with all of your heart. I don't judge. Not to your face I mean, that would be so rude.

Also does anyone remember a MU* that had something to do with characters being reincarnations of famous writers? There was a plot but I forget it. I only remember a friend pulling me along and somehow convincing me to play the Anais Nin. I enjoyed it especially because I dislike Anais Nin, so all of my scenes were me acting pretentious and 'deep'. But I never did figure out what to do besides that. Or maybe it was just too much fun being mock Anais Nin to bother. There was a Heminngway too, and he suggested we have a backstory as exes. I went with it ONLY if he promised to dump my character in Paris, in the rain, using short sentences.

Uhm.

<.<

Hi. It's been a while.

That was a super fun scene. Epic dumping!

Dark Matter is very trope-y and kind of predictable, but nevertheless a good time. Killjoys is a little better, so far, and looks like it'll be fun.

My dad gushed something fierce about Ripper Street last night.

I used to stay up late on Tuesdays and Thursdays to watch "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" which aired at 11 PM on Nick-at-Nite.

My mother had the hardest time waking me up on Wednesdays and Fridays because not only did I go to bed late, I was often fucking terrified.

@Gingerlily
I refuse to acknowledge criticism about a man from a person who can't spell his name!º

Also, what are you talking about? Hemingway tagged his dialogue all the time. There are a few instances of stories in which he didn't, but they are by far less than otherwise. His grammar, in fact, actually tended towards the correct a large percentage of the time.

And it wasn't always raining, god dammit.

Sometimes it was snowing.

ºThis struck me, minutes later, as a rather Hemingway-ish phrase.

The other day, someone came to me and asked me if something another staffer had told them was accurate or not. I answered them, after conferring with said staffer, but I also informed them that I didn't really appreciate the Mommy/Daddy attitude.

If you have a doubt about something a staffer tells you, tell that staffer to please get a second opinion, or to bring in a second opinion, and do it politely. Because your, "quick question" is not a quick question when it involves second-guessing my staffers. It doesn't matter if you're right or wrong; put the ability to rectify their mistake in their hands. Especially since this is a game we all play to have fun, not an academic environment where you can take your paper to another professor to stick it to yours because "see? someone else says I'm right!"

And this was a really mild case. It's been worse in the past.

In the end, while I don't begrudge people the use of unfindable that way, I feel that it only really helps to further the harrassing attitude that made them set the flag on themselves in the first place.

As staff, I would rather know that a player has been doing this to someone, than have the "fix" be another player setting themselves unfindable. This is because being unfindable, at best, fixes your problem, but not the problem. They're just going to find someone else, who's going to do the same thing, and so on and so forth.

I'd rather sit the offending player down and be like, 'Look, this attitude is not cool.'

@Arkandel said:

@Coin Pay zero attention to weight. Zero, weight is meaningless most of the time. Pay attention to how you feel, and how your clothes fit you.

Well, I meant 'weight' in the 'size' sense. I know that as I develop more muscles instead of fat, I'll probably not go down in actual weight as much.

I don't know if I have actually lost weight since I started cycling semi-regularly (not that much, yet) and went back to martial arts training, but you know what? I feel so much better most of the time. I can get up in the morning and not feel like half my body is dead weight. I go to sleep at night and actually sleep within twenty minutes, instead of being up for an hour trying to fall asleep. It's pretty neat.

And once I have to start cycling 5+ km to and another 5+ km from work every day after the end of July, I'll probably be one svelt mother fucker come my birthday in November. And all my neat pants will fit me again.

@Derp said:

I was going to edit, but meh, I can doublepost because it's short:

Most games I've been on have +hangouts code that show public spaces and how many people are there, regardless if any of the individuals involved are Unfindable or not.

I'm not sure that coding a second system to show where people are because people have bypassed the first system to show where people are is a legitimate solution to this. Most game have enough code and commands as it is, and as has been mentioned before, +hangouts tends to be very niche and usually inaccurate.

To be fair, I think the solution here is to conflate systems and see where it leads, which is partly what we're doing on Eldritch. The +dir and +hangouts code is essentially the same code.

@Arkandel

Eh. It's not the first season and this time around I think the phrase "trying too hard" applies.

@Misadventure said:

How often do people RP out "bad relationships" that aren't rape, and are exposed to other players? How often do people RP through breakups and reunions, affairs and so on, ON PURPOSE for the point of RPing stuff. I've only ever seen IC relationships be great until the OOC relationship changed, then it just ends. Sometimes with OOC recriminations, rarely (but not never) with IC recriminations.

I've tried in the past to varying degrees of failure and success. It's hit or miss but one thing is clear: you have to be EXPLICIT with your RP partners that this is what you are going for.

Don't spring it on someone. It ends badly every time.

@ThatOneDude said:

@Silver I want to just start paging people now and saying, "I noticed you are unfindable... Who you TSing and do you need a third?" >.>

"Hey. I notice you're set Unfindable. So... who're you TSing and do you think there's room for some more meat in that love sandwich? ... No? How about a pickle? Cucumber? ... tomato?"