My peeve: older ladies who feel the need to bathe in their perfume. I work retail, and had two customers tonight who nearly gagged me out because of how powerful their perfume was.

Well, since I've pretty much outed most of my recent alts, let me just go ahead and list them so people can see. (Edit: And since it's been something like 2+ years since I originally wrote this, I suppose I should update it too).

Haunted Memories -- Athena (Acanthus Guardian of the Veil), Billie (Ithaeur Blood Talon), Kazerabet (Moros Mysterium), Lilith (VampStaff Admin/aTL/TL at various points), Luna (Khaibit Mekhet OD Mysterysworn), Neve (Autumn Darkling Razorhand/Snowskin dual-kith), Viveca (Dead Wolf Gangrel OD Unsworn)

St. Petersburg -- Elexis (Spina Daeva Lancea Sanctum Inquisitor/Primogen), had another one that was based on Therese/Jeanette Voerman from VTM: Bloodlines for the OD, but can't remember their names for the life of me)

The Reach -- Alyssa Grennich (Bastet Heart-Ripper -- mountain lion), Callista Kross (Gorgon Ventrue Acolyte), Cassandra Gordon (Lynx Mekhet Invictus), Dulcinea Sangiovanni (Sangiovanni Mekhet Sanctified Inquisitor -- only lasted about 6 weeks and never played her), Ginger (Zelani Daeva Carthian Prefect/Primogen), Raven Roth (Winter Darkling Palewraith/Chirurgeon dual-kith), Shyla Roth (Amara Havana Daeva OD Mysterysworn), Viveca Roth (Amara Havana Daeva OD Mysterysworn)

Reno -- Charley (Dead Wolf Gangrel Acolyte), Poker (Vampire admin)

Fear and Loathing -- formerly Kala (Amara Havana Daeva Carthian); currently Charley (Dead Wolf Gangrel OD Mysterysworn-in-the-making)

Fallcoast -- formerly Billie (Dead Wolf Gangrel OD Unsworn/Gangrel Priscus); currently Anastassia (Yagnatia Nosferatu OD Mysterysworn-in-the-making, among other things currently in the works), Corinne (Silent Celebrant Sin-Eater -- yes, I'm finally branching out again)

There are craploads of superhero/superheroine characters from before that, as well as a fair bit of Transformers and some Star Wars as well, but this is certainly long enough. If people are really interested in knowing, those places include:

Superhero: formerly Project Infinity (though I typically try to forget I played there), MetaMUX, Heroes and Villains MUX (both the original and the reboot attempt), SuperMUX/Millennium Heroes MUX, Brave and the Bold

Star Wars: formerly A New Threat (another place I try to forget), Unsung Heroes; currently Rebirth

Transformers: formerly TF2 (Legends of the Transformers), Beast Wars: Transmetals, Beast Wars: Shadow World (yet another place I try to forget, more often than not); currently Transformers Universe (TFU), Transformers 2005 (was a former, but they're giving the place one last shot before deciding to close it down, and I'm tinkering with a couple of prospects there)

Got a call from work today, where I've been cashiering for the last 8+ months. Tomorrow, I fill out paperwork to get started on moving to the customer service desk (which nets me a 50-cent raise); in addition, I'll also be placed in a secondary job category to work in the Electronics department. Good times.

@Huzuruth Betcha @tragedyjones leaps at the chance to be one of those two players.

@Bobotron Holy crap... we've got some history. I had several characters on BW Transmetals, including Electra (a Transmythic blue dragon), Nightshade/Whitewind (a "Doublespy" Fuzor in the basic vein of Punch/Counterpunch), and I was even Optimus Primal at one point (though I can't remember when). Had several different characters at H&V, was at Millennium Heroes (the second Beyond Superman, Jonny Kent, and was effectively headstaff there for nearly a year as Tal Rasha), and several characters at 2k5 (up through my Galvatron stint in 2007, after which I hadn't really bothered with the place).

It's a shame your Transformers: Generations MUSH never got to take off -- I had a fun Headmaster concept that I was gonna play with, using the Machination as the means behind how the character became a Headmaster. It's good to see you around again, though.

@Sundown Brick is an excellent film -- first indie film I ever purchased. Loved it from the moment I saw the first trailer for it.

@ThatOneDude Such a travesty, amirite? Jack Burton cannot possibly be amused.

For my part... I cannot pass without bringing up The Usual Suspects.

I really want to watch Crimson Peak as well when it comes out -- del Toro is an interesting director, and Hiddleston looks pretty good in it. Interesting, given that I don't usually go for such movies, but I'm beginning to expand that way, with movies like Shutter Island and Stonehenge Asylum, or the ABC mini-series of Stephen King's Rose Red.

I'd try to come up with my own list, but most of mine are more well-known movies; nothing so artsy, if you will. As it is, too many for me to try and list.

@Corruption Dude, belated as it is, that is kickass. Congrats.

@Cobaltasaurus We frequently do, though, don't we?

I would be remiss if I didn't suggest David and Leigh Eddings: I've only read the Belgariad and Mallorean cycles, as well as Belgarath the Sorceror, Polgara the Sorceress, the Rivan Codex (which is actually a fair bit of Eddings' preliminary notes for the Belgariad and Mallorean, so might be interesting if you're a writer), The Redemption of Althalus (completely separate, but interesting in it's own right). I don't think Regina's Song (also by Eddings) qualifies as fantasy, per se, but it's also a fun read -- at least, I thought so.

Of course, Papa Tolkien is also good for the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings trilogy, too.

Ahh, fitness. God knows, I do plenty of walking -- work is about 25 minutes away on foot, so I spend upwards of an hour getting in exercise that way.

Aww, I remember Vera! I tried to recruit her into the Ordo Dracul on TR with Viveca.

So yeah, I admit it: I started puttering around with Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines again, in part to deal with waiting for Bloodlines 2 to come out later this year. I've played through several times with just the official patch, but haven't really tried modding it aside from light tinkering (but never actually playing, to my recollection) of the Unofficial Patch.

I did an uninstall of the game because I had a (much) older version of the Unofficial Patch, and was considering tinkering with it. But I also confess, I'm sorta pondering some other mods: namely, stuff like Clan Quest, Antitribu (because there is a part of me that seriously wants to play a Lasombra) and the like.

So, I was wondering: has anyone here played any of the mods for VTM Bloodlines? And if so, what mod and what was your experience with it?

Shame, in some ways. The premise for PI was actually pretty intriguing: the villains finally wised up, worked together and dealt with the heroes... and then nearly succeeded when Project Infinity was about to go live and make new superheroes... only to instead open up rifts through space-time around the city setting and bring in heroes and villains alike. I think the place might have worked if the original incarnation of staff hadn't burned out -- once the turnover began and the second generation of staff moved in and added to staff ranks with their friends, though, it went downhill fast.

I missed the Eldritch boat, alas -- I actually went and hunted up Demon PDFs so that I could potentially take a look at it, but like I said -- missed out.

F&L: I've had problems getting into it as well. My first character, I wound up freezing inside of two weeks after approval because my one covenant-mate got kidnapped and held captive for a week and a half or thereabouts, then summarily PKed (all under the auspices of the person who PK'ed my covenant-mate supposedly trying to ransom him off, except he never actually did attempt to ransom him off and the physical violence-heavy atmosphere was so strong at the beginning that I couldn't even begin to investigate before deciding to freeze. Took me several months to finally put together a new concept, but everything moves so fast (and the physical violence is still aplenty there) that I couldn't attempt to keep up. I log in still, but I only rarely chat OOC on the Vampire channel, and I think I've had all of one person in the month+ I've been there express any interest in RP. As it is, I'm probably gonna hang it up before long and just not bother -- I like Luxor well enough, but as fast as things move, I can't keep up with that, especially not with me being much busier at a couple of other places.

I am sorry you played on Project Infinity. I tried to play there (it was my first MUSH) because it seemed like an interesting theme, way back in... 1998, I think it was. The problem was when the first generation of staffers stepped down shortly after I joined and the second generation took over (the Zodiac Conspiracy clique). Trying to play any sort of hero was grounds for that itineration of staff to curbstomp you and railroad you into a corner from which you could never, ever escape. Pretty much the moment I found MetaMUX and then a couple of other games, I left and never looked back.

@Admiral Whoa, for serious? Is it related in any way to the RTS Dawn of War series, or a completely new property?

@Arkandel I occasionally watch YouTube for build ideas, and Rhykker's apparently updated the "Captain America" build with Blessed Shield -- as if I didn't already have enough grinding to do. And I still need to get a Demon Hunter into play, because they're just the shit -- best parts of Amazon and Assassin rolled into one, IMO.

@Arkandel I'm not fond of hardcore either -- and I've been incredibly lazy about leveling up my necro in Diablo 3, mostly because it's my first Diablo 3 character after switching over to PS4. Doesn't help that Fallout 4 sucked a good month of my life away back at the start of the summer, either.

Right now, I'm playing Neverwinter on PS4 and marking time for Wednesday... because I know some people may love it, and others may hate it, but I'm planning to be up at midnight for the rolling open of Destiny 2 (I even have Wednesday through the following Sunday off from work for it, geek with no life that I am).

Thread necromancy, yo.

I updated things a little in my playlist.

@Roz A-fuckin-men. Fuck 2016, indeed.

Part of me has entertained the seeming insanity of seeing how much support a LSH-based MU* might have. I never really got into the Legion until Brave and the Bold MUSH, which used the Zero Hour reboot of Legion continuity -- the Threeboot stuff with Final Crisis and Legion of Three Worlds didn't hold all that much appeal to me, though (probably because Kinetix was one of my favorite female characters in the Zero Hour continuity, and they went and killed her off there).

My idea, though, was to blend Zero Hour reboot with certain other elements -- the introduction of Rokk, Imra and Garth in Smallville and their plans for Brainiac Five, for instance. But then, I've also understood that the Legion is gonna play a decent role in the last half of Supergirl Season Two, so I'm interested to see where that goes.