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@surreality said in Book Recommendations:

@deadculture said in Book Recommendations:

Lions of Al-Rassan's ending made me smile a little.

I was weirdly relieved at the ending! He did such a damnably fine job of cliff-hanging the individual chapters that the book was almost physically impossible to put down until I got to the end, and that there really was an ending that felt whole and complete was, oddly, comforting and extremely satisfying. (It was also the first of his books I read, so I was still fighting with the worry that it might end on the same sort of note, begging the start to a series that might never be realized.)

Yeah, I was tired of the Martin-Rothfuss-et-al habit of postponing the resolution to their stories through cliffhangers instead of decent endings.

William Gibson didn't cliffhanger any of his cyberpunk books, and the final two in the trilogies were still credible sequels.

@bored I know you're talking about me because I played a Lion, a Castille (or will, pretty fucking soon) and a Hazat.

@silentsophia And yeah, Sofia was fun to play with. There was a whole lot of almost getting killed together that made it worth it.

@tempest Is the first picture a cinematic? Or is it from DA:I? Damn, man.

@ganymede Holy shit. 100% for this.

Also, if you haven't watched Alatriste, fucking do it now.

@Deviante Yeah, sometimes I drink to forget about that one.

SC's problem was the utter lack of trust left to be had on staff after the second wave of departures.

@tempest Morrigan always brings me the feels, I have no idea why, to be honest. Must be the Lovely Savage trope or something.

I only like Leliana when she's mean.

@coin said in Celebrities that are Dead To Us:

This is a thread to share those celebrities who fail at being decent human beings. If youa re the type to justify (or even have) idols in any part of the entertainment industry, this is likely not the thread for you. I am going to kick it off with today's latest, but feel free to scroll the fuck back in the world's timeline and add people regardless of when, with at least one link.

This is not a thread to discuss whether it's okay to continue consuming the products made by these people or not; it's probably also not the place to defend them. This is just to inform.

Nobuhiro Watsuki (creator of Rurouni Kenshin).

That motherfucker. That's disgusting. And I fucking loved Rurouni Kenshin.

Suffice to say, @Packrat, if you go through with this idea, or go FS, just heed where your predecessors went wrong: you need to make people cap at the baron level; allows for more 'big time' players and even chances for conflict, rather than polarize everything around 4 PCs.

IN POR YLEM

I'll check it out. Will probably spend hours setting up triggers and macros, though.

@rucket I honestly think Rothfuss is even more overrated than George R. R. Martin. At least people can claim they like Martin for other books than the Ice and Fire series.

Rothfuss... has written one and a half books (Wise Man's Fear is the cliffhanger's cliffhanger, come on) and holds on to the shred of fame that gave him.

Deranged people everywhere. But if they're screwing with your wiki you might want to block usernames as they come, or limit your registration to admin-level created only.

@Packrat No dude. No spreadsheets. Read what @bored said about such fuckery.

@kanye-qwest Is that the crazy magician professor?

@kitteh said in How should IC discrimination be handled?:

@deadculture I'm sure if you had a player saying OMG YOU MUST TS and you went nopenope ftb and they were haranguing you in OOC and you raised a fuss about it... in the moment, staff would side with you and perhaps even discipline the player (assuming it wasn't a staffalt).

That's not the same thing as the expectation not being there, particularly re: 'wasting' Dove slots as I mentioned.

I (blessedly) never got the long term Dove experience, but even in my short time, I had people attempt explicit sexual stuff in public rooms with almost no warning, let alone any kind of check or chance to pause or FTB out of that. That was against policy too, but I didn't get the feeling it was culturally unusual on the game.

Well, no, it wasn't. There have been instances of 'noble privilege' taken inside open, public stores, poker pavillions in Festival (this one by a staff alt), and a number of other atrocious actual noble rape stories that are way too numerous to recount here.

If there was an 'expectation' for Dove TS, it was mostly veiled from people who were not Doves, but I can see where that might have been the case.

@Faceless I wish that gif existed back then.

@auspice You generally can tell real talent from faking it until you make it.

Yeah, I've seen this on some games as +repose or repose. Pretty nifty they have this sort of pose history thing going in servers now!

@auspice Wintergatan is the epitome of 'Do it Yourself', since they make their own instruments

@darinelle I don't think giving people OOC grief is fun or fair in any way; naturally, people will talk about someone else behind their backs and there's nothing that can be done about it, but people should have the sense to at the very least not freak out at the PC two months after the fact unless they were directly affected and aren't given a chance to.

Grumble, talk into your drink, look away when she enters the room, sure, but you don't need to walk up and give her shit over a difficult decision after what's an eternity in MUSH terms.

But yeah, there's a point where 'Oh it's just my character giving hers shit' stops being that and starts being undeserved and unfair.

@darinelle said in RL things I love:

Bath bombs. I don't even care if that makes me the Beckiest Becky who ever Becky'd. DON'T CARE.

Lush bath bombs, specifically.

Don't judge.

Or do. My skin feels great and I am chill and relaxed. So you're just jealous if you judge.

Naw, no judgment. Luxury is luxury.

@darinelle And Portia was a fucking sweetheart, that's just wrong.