@ThatGuyThere said:
Sadly it is not an isolated thing i end up setting myself unfindable on between 1/2 and 2/3 or the games I have played on. ddly enough I must not attract the popular type of crazy cause Reach was one of them I never had to.
This is a fallacy; The Reach simply had more people to be crazy at and you got lucky.
There are degrees. It really depends on how long it takes. I can multi-task two scenes and if you don't know, you won't suspect. Or do some jobs on the side. Whatever. But if you're in two huge scenes where attention must be paid, it's not just one scene that'll suffer, it's all of them.
I once RPed with someone who took forever to pose, but her poses weren't huge chapter-length entries, but instead like, a short paragraph. Really? You needed an hour for two sentences?
After the third scene I was like, 'Nope.'
@JaySherman said:
@Roz I have roleplayed with someone who was a professional writer, and this is absolutely true. I'd have to wait upwards of 45-90 minutes per pose, and the poses would break the buffer on the game. They were great to read but often were jammed with what was going on his character's head, or the environment around him, which had almost nothing to do with the actual action of the pose. And oh my word would he powergame. He just expected us to come up with an equally powergamey response to undo his original power gaming.
When I asked him if he could cut his poses shorter for purposes of time management (it took us a week to finish a single scene), he got hyper offended that I would interfere with his art and left.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA--fuck that dude.
@Thenomain said:
@Coin said:
Some day I will make a The Strange MU.
It would be easier to code.
It would be easier to run, too. Player STs could be allowed to make separate realms where they can run stories of the type and style they like with rules altered per in-game specifications (i.e. physics laws and stuff). While staff could concentrate on metaplot and the Strange.
Some day I will make a The Strange MU.
I find it a great way to expose a little something of the character without giving away too much explicitly. I'll often express an opinion IC in dialog and then give a brief (one sentence, usually no more) reasoning behind the opinion. It helps create an in-depth character for others to see. I especially do this for characters who aren't open about their reasoning in general. If my character would tell you why if you asked? I might not. But if they wouldn't, I probably will, because I like to share.
And then there was Shadow. But Shadow was special.
I am a fan of metaposing for when things need to be made obvious or explicit, or for light comedic value.
I mentioned somewhere else that I was at one point known in my group for always metapose-remarking that my characters were jerks.
e.g.
Tony watches as John pats around for his contact lens. Spotting it, he shifts his foot and crushes it quietly. "Gosh, John, I can't seem to see it anywhere!" He's such a dick.
I'll also do things like:
Tony shakes his head. "I swear I didn't know anything about this!" But he can't contend with the fact that he's a horrible liar.
The former is to highlight that I know my character is a dick; authorial awareness is a good thing. The latter is to let people know I'm okay with them calling him on a lie. If I don't do that, I'll generally ask for rolls or contend the calling out (and often his lying skills will find their way into the pose, e.g. *[...] He hods his up genuinely; if he's lying, there's no obvious outside indication."
In either case, if the game is with dice, I'll be more than happy to roll them.
In general, I don't mind it unless it's the above insulting-but-not-outloud thing, or if the useless character information goes on and on and on.
You'll find it in degrees. Some people are compulsory expsitors and will basically give you a frame for their character's entire life in every set, and a page-long reasoning for whatever actions they take in every pose.
Others, like me, are often more "iceberg principled" and will give less in-depth details rather than an entire picture.
There's no real standard.
@Luna said:
Lack of motivation. I'm just not motivated today. Kinda blah feeling. Ugh.
/shakes you into productivity.
@Royal said:
I use MUDMaster. Hasn't steered me wrong before. Especially for light and easy use.
Your face is a MUDMaster.
WhatsApp is pretty minimalist and functional, so that's good.
@Misadventure said:
WhatsApp or any chat app like it that lets me text my loved ones overseas without texting fees.
India, why are you so far away?
WhatsApp is totally a thing in my country. Everyone uses it.
@HelloRaptor said:
@Coin said:
@HelloRaptor said:
I had to take Dual-Kith to get my Elemental Quicksilver/Draconic changeling, once upon a time.
You otaku bastard.
I'm pretty sure real otakus don't watch Bleach, dude. 
@HelloRaptor said:
I had to take Dual-Kith to get my Elemental Quicksilver/Draconic changeling, once upon a time.
You otaku bastard.
@Luna said:
@Coin Good luck with that! I have some friends who like that look. So there's that.
But do you sleep with them, is the thing!
/snicker
I forget to shave, and then my beard grows horribly and not at all well, so I remember, and it's a process. I might eventually splurge for an electric hair clipper that I can just use for that daily five-o-clock shadow that I suspect won't get me as laid as the media purports.
