Posts made by Coin

@Arkandel said in MU Things I Love:

@Coin Nice try, as if you have friends.

It's true, your mom is more than a friend.

@Faceless said in MU Things I Love:

@Coin said in MU Things I Love:

Planning things almost always ends up in some sort of stall or whatever. I dunno.

Skullcano Island.

Ya lost me, bud. I'm still on my first cuppa.

That place crashed and burned not long after the Moores left en masse. Not because we were particularly special or held up the MU in any discernable way, but we were the most active group in the game.

Putting Tim and Marley in charge was just the catalyst.

I remember I had a plot idea I pitched them in which I said, "I want to run [idea]". And they told me they'd think about it. And about a month later, they ran that same idea. No word to me, no nothing.

I was pretty pissed. Maybe more than I should have been at the time but I was also younger and even more of a hot-head. But that was around when I checked out of the game entirely. I had a big fight about it with someone I considered a friend. We're fine now and have been for years, but damn, that was annoying.

@Kestrel said in MU Things I Love:

MU* things I love...

Running into an old friend on a different MU*, not realising who they are, and them not realising it's you. Get thrown into a scene together, have amazing chemistry, massively enjoy the RP anonymously, and then get to be surprised when the mask comes off way later. "Wait, that was you?!"

This has happened to me a number of times now, and every time it does I want to scream with joy. Most recently it happened with someone I hadn't RPed or communicated with in over a year. But, turns out, they're just as awesome as they were back then, if not even better. Much <3.

It's weird. I often have way better cvhemistry with my friends when I don't know it's them than when I do. Planning things almost always ends up in some sort of stall or whatever. I dunno.

I once played a Sidhe of House Liam that was a kindergarten teacher. He was pretty low key. He even had wings, but if I recall correctly, they were torn. He couldn't use them, so he mostly just ignored them. They never became a plot point; it was just a thing that was occasionally sad, but never really a thing. Nothing special about him, really, other than being Kithain in general. He had a very quiet relationship with an Eshu co-worker. It was neat.

#TeamGingerlily.

@Cupcake said in The Apology Thread:

@Coin: I was thinking of that nasty couple who basically decided they hated me and spread all kinds of nasty about me on WORA back in the day. I genuinely wouldn't piss on either of them if they were on fire. I will quite readily admit between the verbal abuse and the fact that they posted a pic of me on the forum explicitly to make fun of, the fall-out sent me to therapy.

But yeah, Hack had serious problems. I put up with a lot from him, but his groping one of my characters without her consent and then him getting huffy and wounded puppy because I called him on it? I was so done.

Ah, Tim and Marley. Yeah. She went batshit with the pregnancy RP before the place imploded, if I was told correctly. I was gone by then.

@surreality said in The Apology Thread:

@Coin said in The Apology Thread:

@Cupcake said in The Apology Thread:

I can verify what Coin said.

Devilshire had its own brand of cancer.

Hackmaster, Master of Hacks.

Granted, it was his game, but he was just so creepy.

This sounds like a story that needs telling for those of us who weren't around thenabouts, because we were in hiding on Shang. (OK, that's probably just me, but I'm sure other people weren't around to know the tale of woe, too.)

So many stories.

When I apped as a member of the Magical Mafia Crime Family, I did so with a charfacter who was very ambitious IC. He took the time to pull me aside and inform me I would never make it to family head status because he ran that family with his PC.

Fast forward maybe four months and I was basically running the joint with @Quibbler.

He also spent an hour and a half explaining in excrutiatingly boring detail his plans for the game's metaplot (I was becoming plot staff) which was pretty much just a version of Buffy Season 7 but with different dressings, and at the end he informed me I could tell him how brilliant he was. I didn't.

As for the creepy bits... so my character had a secretary who had the hots for him, but they never did anything. But Hack had the hots for her so he made a character with my character's first name and then went out of his way to seduce her. Her player is a total troll so she goes along with it. Anyone, one day I get a page from her where she's like "wtf" because she's been telling him for weeks she can't TS because she plays from work and so his response is to set the scene by describing, in extra detail, how his character fucked hers and stuff. Like, he seemed to think that just because she couldn't play it, didn't mean he couldn't pose it? I guess?

I just noped right out of that. She handled it however she handled it, but just damn.

@Cupcake said in The Apology Thread:

I can verify what Coin said.

Devilshire had its own brand of cancer.

Hackmaster, Master of Hacks.

Granted, it was his game, but he was just so creepy.

@Ganymede said in The Apology Thread:

@Coin said in The Apology Thread:

Well, I mean, not to get nitpicky, but that's the last game I remember her playing on. If you had any specifics I would consider them, but ... on the other hand, i don't care that much. She's been gone for a long time.

Devilshire comes to mind. My recollection of games beyond 2010 is a bit spotty, but I'm pretty sure the Ham-Crew migrated over there after turning Denver's Changeling Sphere into a smoking pit.

@Sunny may have more or better details than I. She had to personally live through the horror.

Seiche never played on Devilshire.

@Ganymede said in The Apology Thread:

@Coin said in The Apology Thread:

IIRC, that was the last public game she played on. If there was another after it was short-lived. She hasn't, to my knowledge, MUed for like the past 8 years, more or less. As for 'et al.', that's a different kettle of fish.

Denver blew the fuck up over ten years ago, so that leaves two years in which the perpetrator could have continued her spree. Also, Denver didn't shut down after Seiche, et al., departed for greener pastures (to rape and pillage).

Well, I mean, not to get nitpicky, but that's the last game I remember her playing on. If you had any specifics I would consider them, but ... on the other hand, i don't care that much. She's been gone for a long time.

@Ganymede said in The Apology Thread:

@Coin said in The Apology Thread:

Which part?

The part about Denver being the last place Seiche, et al. fucked up.

IIRC, that was the last public game she played on. If there was another after it was short-lived. She hasn't, to my knowledge, MUed for like the past 8 years, more or less. As for 'et al.', that's a different kettle of fish.

@Vorpal said in RL things I love:

@Coin Nah. I've lived in both countries, now almost an exact number of years in each. There's a reason I don't live in Ecuador. Concerning what I think of Ecuador, you can take Rita Moreno's song in West Side Story and apply it to that cankerous sore of a country.

Except Rita wore the skirt better.

And yet there's a reason I said 'subjectively', by which i eman 'not objectively'. So sure, you may think that way, while other people don't. Either way, it's immaterial to the actual bulk of my post.

@Vorpal said in RL things I love:

@Coin I'm afraid that an Ecuadorean superhero would probably not be a very good superhero at all. 90% of Ecuador, outside of the landscape and geography, sucks major monkey balls.

Subjectively speaking, one could say the same about the U.S., and yet.

And anyway, they could just be part of the 10%. It's a superhero. They aren't real. If an Amazon warrior can run around using the U.S. flag as a pair of spanky pants and a dude in a Bat-themed suit can instill fear in a city overrun with crime, I'm not gonna be shocked by a good Ecuadorian superhero.

Just call me CONTEXT-MAN.

... Noche buena is what every Spanish-speaking culture calls Christmas Eve. Lulz.

Also I am itching for some Ecuadorian superhero to come out of nowhere and berate Batman and Superman for hurting the Rainbow Monster by charging in when the local heroes all know how to pacify it again if the two assholes would have just given them a chance.

Hey, I can dream.

@Arkandel said in DC Rebirth:

@Tempest Oh, okay. I have near-zero experience with superhero MU*.

In general the roster builds as people request characters and then idle out before apping or drop soon after (or long after). Usually comic book games don't delete charbits, they just blank them.

I would really like a comic book game that didn't blank charsheets and didn't require you to write your entire character's app "in your own words" including powers, abilities, whatnot.

What a fucking waste of time.

P.S. I got super excited when I thought this was going to be a game set in the actual Flashpoint reality, with a warring Atlantis and Themyscira, etc...

Ah well.

@Ganymede said in The Apology Thread:

@Coin said in The Apology Thread:

Seiche hasn't MU*d since Denver, IIRC, which is nearing on the, what, 8-9 year mark?

I'm pretty sure that's incorrect, but there are people here with better, personal knowledge.

Which part?

@surreality said in The Apology Thread:

@Coin No snark intended, that sounds like a happy ending for all involved. Why can't more shit like that happen? Get on with that, universe.

Absolutely.

You should House Rule the things you feel need to be House Ruled.

You should not let people House Rule things on your game willy-nilly.

You should be prepared to explain clearly and concisely why the House Rules exists.

You should be ready for the inevitable avalanche of disagreement.

You should be able to stand steadfast before said avalanche.

If any of these are not applicable, you should not House Rule.

@Ganymede said in The Apology Thread:

There is no way I would knowingly let Seiche play or staff on my game(s). I haven't interacted with her in over a decade, but I have heard of the games she has ruined.

Seiche hasn't MU*d since Denver, IIRC, which is nearing on the, what, 8-9 year mark?

She's too busy having a successful writing career, whether anyone else who knew her likes it or not, apparently.

@Faceless said in The Apology Thread:

@Monogram here is my outlook on it. Do it. If you're sorry, apologetic, or otherwise feel as though you somehow slighted someone and truly feel remorse for it? Show the other party that you recognize your mistake and are attempting to correct it, whether that means moving on from it and trying to return to a sense of normalcy or leaving them alone.

Why do people hold grudges? The answer is likely as varied as the person holding it over the span of months or even years in our hobby and I'm well aware that I can hold grudges for decades. Why do people hold grudges repeatedly? Well, as we've saw with a member or seven of our community and as you indicated in your post "Oh, I can't believe that X and Y are friends again"; sometimes people act like asses. Repeatedly. We see X and Y being friends again after Y told X they hated them, then six months later they're enemies again when it gets out that X said they didn't believe Y over their self-diagnosed Asperger's. People attempt to forgive, forget, move on, and never stop to think maybe their personalities just don't coincide. Which spawns years of back-and-forth loathing-make up-loathing-make up relationships that we see sometimes.

Sometimes? It's miscommunication and the ability of some people to refuse to be adults in the situation, even only some of the time. Other times one or both parties just want to avoid the drama until it blows over, but it never does. Sometimes it's not even clear what the other party was pissed about, people are finicky creatures at the best of times.

Two or three years ago I was acting like a complete and utter dick to @Coin. He may very well have not noticed it, I only say this because he never mentioned it to me directly and I never brought it to his doorstep. I allowed it just quietly fester. At that time he was running his own game, with multiple people inviting me to come check it out. I refused because he was a (head, I think)staffer and I figured that he'd use his position to be an ass toward me. Fast forward a couple of months and I finally gave in to the repeated attempts to get me onto the game.

You know what Coin did? That jerkoff (I say this with love)? He was nothing but friendly, professional, and overall Chillzilla with me. Maybe he didn't know about our quiet beef? Maybe he didn't care? Regardless, if he did have some inkling of it he gave zero indication and took the high road. This, in turn, made me realize that I was being a childish dickhole. It was on me, not him. This made me reassess how I was treating others and as a result made me want to change how I behaved toward others; selfish, right? Well, change has to begin with yourself. Now? I pop onto Skype randomly to share pictures with Coin, check in on him randomly, make small talk briefly while I'm on there(which isn't often), and generally attempt to restore/maintain the sense of camaraderie that he and I shared a long time ago. Know what else? I've never actually apologized in written word, I've only tried to show that I was sorry for my actions by returning to a sense of normalcy.

But, if I'm wrong about showing rather than saying. Then you have my apology @Coin for acting like a fucking idiot by taking something that could have been resolved early with a simple conversation and blowing it out of proportion. I hope that my actions have shown this to be true.

Now that goes against my earlier comments in this thread about making an apology personal, rather than shouting it in the street. Which makes me a hypocrite now, I guess. It seemed appropriate, oh well.

I remember you being a dick, but I don't recall why and, I think, I did what I almost always do: just basically went 'all right then' and moved on.

In general, unless the dickery is repeated and has a malicious core, I don't really hold a grudge. This is not the same as not liking someone.

Holding a Grudge != Not Liking Someone.

For me to hold a grudge I need to interpret some sort of ill deed in my direction. You don't need to do anything to me for me to not like you. I will dislike whoever the fuck I want and for whatever reason I want.

Anyway, your kid's cute, so it's cool.