Best posts made by Derp

@saosmash

Can I also say that it was amazing to get to see Nurse Chapel in a sort of leading lady role? She was amazing. Just every second of her on the screen @Devrex and I were like "yeah girl, get it!"

@kestrel

It's so weird, too, because that's how we would talk if we hadn't been groomed to do it in this weird paragraph style meant to avoid the dreaded short poses.

I can't help but think this is the same as people using passive voice to try to sound smarter, even though it just makes things harder to understand.

We did this to ourselves. Now we have to work to heal the damage.

@arkandel

Well, the fact that we have a thread about this at all would suggest that some kind of balance is necessary. Generally speaking (with yes some obvious and notable historical and philosophical exceptions), players will not choose a position that is objectively inferior in every way to other players with the same level of resources. They will seek to mostly maximize their advantages within the realms of what seems amusing to play, maybe sacrificing mechanical advantage for story coolness.

If you have this Ruling Class of Magical Badasses and this subclass of filthy stick-swinging peasants, why would anyone choose to play the peasant? Why wouldn't everyone want to play the magical badass?

And why would you, as the gamerunner, want to set up a situation where the Magical Badass Ruling Class is only in the hands of a few players while all the rest of them have to play stick-swinging peasants just to conform to the numbers game you set up in your theme document?

Hell, for that matter, if the Uberwizards are so powerful in the first place, how come they haven't just outbred all the plebes and now everyone is an Uberwizard in the same way we ate fucked pressed Neanderthal into relative oblivion outside of a few lines of DNA?

In some way, there has to be a way for those two forces to keep each other in check. The system of tradeoffs has to be the core conceit of any fair game, assuming you care about fairness. Players should be relatively equally effective at the things they choose to give a damn about, if they've put equal resources into it.

@ZombieGenesis said in Good TV:

For me, Strane New Worlds just ruined other sci-fi shows. I thought the first season was a slam dunk. The most I've enjoyed sci-fi since TNG.

Brave New Worlds was absolutely chef’s kiss. The way it handled that long-debated what-if nerd question was brilliant.

@Griatch said:

Evennia's inlinefunc system (which Thenomain refers to in the function-call bits) was never intended to be a full nestable language construct, it was meant as a way to allow coders to offer customizable replacements by safely parsing and calling functions supplied by the developer - this was meant to always be a single call, the return of which replaces the function call within the string. Any code trickery was meant to be done in that function, not in the input - the user's agency is only to choose which function to call, potentially with arguments.

Why? I mean, this is a serious question. Why on earth would you ever have a function call that you could only call with a single function, and not allow for nested function calling? What purpose would this serve? If you're savvy enough with the code to do a function call, you should know that functions could be nestable. So why not provide that functionality from the start?

He also put up a segment on InfoWars alleging that Judge Maya Gamble, his judge, was involved in child trafficking and pedophilia, also showing the judge on fire, which was played in the courtroom in front of the judge.

And that the members of the jury were shills and plants that "don't even know what planet they are on," which in turn prompted the jury to submit a question read by Judge Gamble:

"Are you aware that this jury consists of 16 intelligent and fair-minded citizens who are not being improperly influenced in any way?”

I mean, I know that he's shooting for a mistrial to buy himself some time but damn if this isn't funny to watch anyway.

Making it voluntary is fine. You'd always have a few people willing to pitch in. The rub comes when people start expecting things in return, or when staff wants to make it mandatory.

MU's exist in great numbers. There is always a free version of whatever you are offering. Basic capitalism says that this will go poorly. If you implement a pay-to-win strategy and give people extra perks, you're going to go against some pretty longstanding views about how players and their characters should be positioned.

It's generally not a bad idea to go 'here is a Patreon if you want to kick in a few bucks, and it is not required', making sure to show gratitude without showing favoritism.

But I don't think you're ever gonna get a play-to-play game off the ground. if people are gonna pay for a game they're likely to do it on an MMO or something with better graphics and more immediate returns.

MU's just aren't the model for profit.

@Runescryer

Both of those go to some pretty dark places, though. Not that the show is a stranger to that or anything, but. You know. Heads up.

@Macha

hugs

I do not envy you that decision. Your boy knows he was loved, and you’re keeping him from suffering. This is the kindest thing you can do for him.

@faraday said in The Desired Experience:

Why should you have to though? Just because somebody had no idea what to play and you said "Well we don't have any Raptor ECOs at the moment", that doesn't in any way oblige you to drop special plot points just for New Guy ECO.

Not just this, but -- I mean, honestly. How in the world is staff supposed to know what the hell is going to be fun for you, the probably brand-new player that they've only just met and likely never interacted with? Or who you are going to get along with / disagree with? Or whether or not you would even be good in any role?

Maybe stop expecting staff to make your fun for you? Craft something that you would enjoy playing. Staff are not diviners. They cannot foresee your future. Do the thing you wanna do, try to find a way to make it click, and if it doesn't work -- I mean. You know you best. How are staff supposed to do better than you yourself?

(Proverbial you, naturally. Not you-Faraday. You-Faraday seems to have your shit together.)

Queen Elizabeth II.

@devrex said in The Desired Experience:

It's not always about Cliquey Elitist Snobby Mean People, sometimes it's anxiousness or creative exhaustion or a number of other issues which can arise.

For me, it's just a literal matter of time.

My job is hard. It requires a lot of brainpower. My RL is hectic. I get home, and I have maybe, maybe two hours in which I can reasonably do something with full brain capacity. My weekends are not that much better. And I've had other obligations that just come before storytelling.

I'm not looking to have a huge friend circle. I don't need to be involved with every single other character on the game. I don't want to spoil their fun. But I'm also not responsible for it, either. I just wanna log in, grab the people that I know and trust, and do a thing before utter mental fatigue carries me away, often times while doing something else.

(You and I have played a number of times while I am cooking, or doing laundry, or dishes.)

I don't want to worry about what new people think of me. I don't want to worry about trying to keep it up near the top of Dunbar's Number.

I just wanna do things with the four or five people I trust, and maybe put a few new feelers out every once in awhile if the mood strikes.

And absolutely nobody is going to convince me that I am responsible for including the rest of the game and being responsible for the personal fun-factor of people other than me and the handful of people that I want to deal with on any given day.

@Runescryer

Then again, Netflix has always done incredibly stupid shit. Let's all remember Sense8 got cancelled despite being wildly popular and having incredible numbers, and then under pressure we finally got the meh-alright movie that wrapped it up poorly.

Netflix survives on name recognition and ubiquity in the market, not on actual savvy business practices.

@il-volpe

The problem with your analogies so far is: you're viewing a MUSH as a party where the host expects you to interact with absolutely everyone. And it's just not.

A MUSH is a place where you get together with friends and tell cool stories. It's essentially the world's biggest community theater with an all but unlimited number of stages. Not a party.

And if four of those actors want to take up one stage and put on their own little productions, they are not hurting anything.

In fact, when it comes to rudeness, it's the ones that jump on stage with some weird, hard to follow concept that just decide to insert a part into their play that are actually the ones being pretty damn rude.

And that's been my experience. The ones who insist that everyone has to RP with everyone? The ones that insist that people be in public rooms, on the public grid, in open scenes that they can just divebomb their way into? Those tend to be far more problematic than the little friend circle that sticks to their own little stage in their own little area, not fucking with other people.

Because the dive-bombers and hte ones that insist that everyone should be playing with everyone? Those are often the ones that have annoyed the fuck out of everyone else, and can't get RP any other way than by coming in to what is essentially a captive audience. And that's way more problematic for any game than the little friend circle.

So while people might think it's rude so say, "No, go away until you learn to suck less," it's pretty fucking rude to put them into a position to have to say that to you in the first place.

@reimesu

The Darth Jar-Jar theory is one of my personal favorites.

How often do you engage with royalty?

Why should vampires, or anyone else, expect more access?

There are well established protocols and traditions and chains of command for exactly this kind of thing. Your NPC leaders should be distant and have an unassailable aura and plenty of clout. Knocking over the damn king should be difficult, even if they are bad. It is not a democracy. It is a story boundary, and an important one to keep under staff control.

Knives Out.

I loved this movie so much.

@juniper said in Decriminalise Pretty:

I hear a lot that the more simulationist type MU*s are filled with unpleasant people,

I guess I don't know what this means.

Can you give an example?

Because my experience runs completely counter to this. If your PB isn't hot, you get docked for RP points.