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@skew said in Cobalt's Playlist:

@cobaltasaurus Think it's more than two

your mom is more than two

@cobaltasaurus said in Hugo 2018:

What I find really interesting that Seiche (Sieche?), made that list. She was nominated for a best series. I know that she's looked at by a lot of really veteran MUer with some cringing and hatred. But I think it's pretty awesome to see someone who was once an active MU*er getting nominated for a Hugo.

And, hell. Her writing career is probably keeping her out of the MU*ing hobby?

Yeah, same.

Her writing career took off around the same time that her MU life blew up and she stopped playing entirely. Lots of people wish her the worst but eh. I haven't actually read any of her books but I don't suspect they're bad at all. The things that made her persona non grata in the MU community were all to do with her interpersonal skills and inability to not hog the spotlight and be both actively and passively detrimental to other people's enjoyment of the hobby. That, in no way, represents or indicates anything about her ability to write compelling fiction.

@thenomain said in RL Anger:

@coin said in RL Anger:

Tina knows me.

YOUR MOM knows you!

... And loves you very much no matter who you choose to be.

I dunno, man, sometimes I can feel the disappointment. ;________;

@gingerlily said in What the fuck happened to Hip-Hop?:

There's tons of great hip hop around now what even is this thread?

I love how we are constantly posting about 'how everything was better then' (usually the 90s) and yet also 'why aren't young people doing the thing we do on this forum'.

I'm as ancient as most of ya'll but we could dial the evidence back!

For reals. People sounding like crusty old farts around here.

@auspice said in What the fuck happened to Hip-Hop?:

@deadculture

It's hard to say 'indie' anymore, I admit. There's 'indie' as in the genre ('sound') and indie as in what it was before it became that.

Altrock went through the same thing in the mid-late 90s.

There are/were a lot of indie bands that are what I would truly call indie and then there's a lot of carefully curated mainstream bands that have that same 'sound,' but are very generic and flat. Music, like anything else, is a business. What can ya do?

Punk went through the same thing. Punk was never about the sound--it was about the attitude and the message. And then "punk rock" came around and it became a music genre.

Best way to play Mage is to give the players a time-limit to decide what to do.

A mage doesn't have an eternity to figure out which spell to cast, they're gonna cast the first useful-ish thing to come to mind. Giving a player ten minutes to pore through their list and figure it out is silly.

And if they have a spell that lets them think super fast to justify it, make them prep ahead of time with lists of spells for each occasion, not waste everyone else's time.

@ganymede said in RL Anger:

@coin said in RL Anger:

I'm not sure what love has to do with what I said. U.u

Tina knows me.

A similar thing's happened to punk (and I hold as much respect for hip-hop and rap as I do for punk; I grew up with both, one in each hand).

You can see the way punk changes into punk-pop in the mainstream if you follow, for example, The Offspring or Green Day's discography and evolution. Offspring starts with a self-titled that is harsh, political, songs about war in the Middle-East ("Tehran"), the absolute apathy, cruelty, and dismissal with which society treats women, especially women who are victims of assault ("Jennifer Lost the War"); they moved on to Ignition, one of my favorite albums, which has songs that dig deep into problematic relationships ("Dirty Magic", "Sessions") and police brutality ("L.A.P.D.") and bullying ("Kick Him When He's Down"); and then Smash, with themes like gang violence ("Come Out and Play") and the mentality behind road rage ("Bad Habit"), revisiting toxic relationships ("Self Esteem"), and drug abuse ("What Happened to You?") and isolation ("Alone"), along with more world-spanning political tracks.

I mean, with a start like that,y ou think: damn, they're gonna be like this forever. But then Ixnay on the Hombre was a little more poppy, Americana had "Pretty Fly for a White Guy", and Conspiracy of One was their last album to have any sort of real political message.

Same thing happened with Green Day and basically all mainstream 90s punk in general, you basically see it almost across the board, and everything that followed it. Once Blink-182 and Sum-41 took the stage it was over. Some bands hold on tight: NoFX, Bad Religion--but others fall to the wayside: Pennywise, Rancid.

You still have that underlying stream of the original message of that music in there, if you dig deep--but it gets constantly smothered by the mainstream stuff producers of the music industry that, like @Warma-Sheen said, push their agenda for sales.

I mean, the music industry made Johnny "Rotten" Lydon and Jello "Can't Shut The Fuck Up Between Songs" Biafra basically give up. If you can kick the rebellion out of those two dudes, then yeah...

@carex said in RL Anger:

@coin

Relationships aren't built on love, they are built on the capacity to look past the other person's bullshit and control your own enough to be tolerable. Love is what you give each other as a reward for doing this.

I'm not sure what love has to do with what I said. U.u

@testament said in RL Anger:

Pro: Going out on a date for the first time in almost a year with a super cute nerdy woman who's around my age, who has her shit together, and plays DnD. Thicc an nerdy, that's how I like'em.

Con: Getting a call from her the next day to say she's come down with something nasty, and then proceed to be laid up in bed because you caught the viral laryngitis that she gave me. Also, spent four hours in the ER, and then another hour or so getting fluid pumped into me via IV because I was too dehydrated since I couldn't swallow anything because my throat hurt so much.

Side Pro: Found out what morphine feels like. Holy shit.

NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICE.

Look man. LOOK.

Just offer to hang out while you both have this wildly contagious thing that you can't give to each other anymore while you both have it.

<.<

Unless you think it's too soon to see each other's mucus-dripping nostrils and stuffy noses and red eyes and shit, that's understandable... I guess.

@songtress said in Development Thread: Sacred Seed:

@pyrephox wait there was an Angel game? (that sounds awesome)

So far I am loving this.
@Cobaltasaurus keep up the excellent work.

I have a question in this world, with you magic set up the way it is does the magic planylt/vine/seed.. Has it ever in the history of the world been mismanaged?

Has anyone tried to do something weird and crazy like force a another magical template into existance? (Fire, Water, Earth and Air) but what of something else.... I know you said no living material maybe manipulated... But someone must have tried?

Who said it's being managed well now? DUN DUN DUNNNNNN.

The Seedless Companions of Nobles can they offered up in marriage to other Seedless to form a weird sub heirarchy of Seedless? (they're not common persay, but not noble)?

I think the closest thing to a "not a noble but not a commoner" would be specific things like "Seedless head of a guild", "Seedless masterchef", or "Seedless ingredient hunter" concepts: they aren't nobles, but they have a special place in society and some status above just your everyday Seedless. But no, I don't think there's a middle-class born out of Seedless relatives of Seeded, lol. Of course, @Cobaltasaurus can decide she wants that, but nothing I've worked on or seen has indicated that.

@kay said in Player buy-in:

As someone who has English as their second language, what does player buy-in mean, please?

Buy-In is how much effort you're willing to put into something. In this case, into a game's theme and respecting it, making characters that fit within it and function well to help it thrive, and how much your roleplay molds itself to that.

@arkandel said in Player buy-in:

1. Do you agree with that premise?

Yes.

2. How do you get that buy-in from players to treat your game unlike others that may kind of look similar at a glance? What can you do to induce the kind of culture you want, from all kinds of perspectives; game mechanics, policies, roster or rank systems, etc.

In every way you can. But it usually fails.

Seriously, @magee101, just stop.

@thenomain said in RL things I love:

@surreality @tinuviel

I think you're both right, a subset of Cyberpunk, or a kind of what I've also found being called "Tech Noir".

Cool.

Neon Noir is good too.

@haven said in Dead Celebrities 2018:

@tnp said in Dead Celebrities 2018:

She hasn't died yet but from the tone and word choice of the reports, it sounds like Aretha Franklin doesn't have long left.

That is not how this thread works.

Seriously, what is wrong with everyone around here? I am concerned.

Long live the queen.

@maira said in Development Thread: Sacred Seed:

@magee101 said in Development Thread: Sacred Seed:

No offense Cobalt, but I am thinking it might be time for you to kind of hang up your hat on creating games. You didn't have enough time for the last one, so you shut it down, and now you're creating another within a year? Not to mention the half dozen or so staff positions on other games you've phased out of.

Hey @magee101 , are you and @Cobaltasaurus friends? I'm guessing no, since you'd likely have put this personal, 'caring' advice into a private message.

So really, what was the point then? Why not just NOT POST? And not play and not volunteer? How does it hurt you that she is creating a new game?

If you have to preface your post with 'No offense', you know you're being an asshole.

No offense, but really, fuck off.

This.

@arkandel said in Good TV:

I started watching The Handmaid's Tale. Holy shit this is grim.

The girlfriend and I stopped watching because we couldn't really watch more than one episode at a time. Too intense. And then the whole pro-choice v. pro-life legistative clusterfuck happened here and it just... it was too much. Between the media, the actual marching, manifesting, and... yeah. I'll watch it eventually.

It doesn't help that a lot of the tactics that they use in the show/book to appropriate children are lifted directly (as per Margaret Atwood's own words) from tactics used by the military dictatorship here in Argentina in the 70s.

@demiurge said in Dreamwalk MUSH:

Pro-LGBT space marines are, dare I say it, a retarded idea.

The fact that you put "dare I say it" there kind of entirely turns me off this entire thing, because it implies that you are indeed aware of the offensiveness and chose to "dare" to offend anyway.

Best of luck, though!

Doublepost:

Flawed, but interesting solution: have people be able to vote people off the Collective Unconscious. Just, you know, if the current majority doesn't want to continue being exposed to your sexual drivel, they nudge you right the fuck out for a while.

It's flawed becasuse: 1) at the moment everyone is someone and there's no way to distinguish (see post above); 2) it doesn't address the very real problmes @Sunny and @Wizz are talking about; 3) it does open the door to horrible people all swarming the game so they can just counter-vote and make sure their horrible buddies aren't banned.

So I guess it's too flawed to work, for the same reasons democracy is the worst type of government, except for all the others.