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I read the title of this in my inner spanish accent. Damn you all.

@JinShei

The only bi married people are swingers. It is known. sagenod

@thebird said:

I hate mayonnaise. Almost as much as I hate pickles (which is a lot).

You're a MONSTER.

@surreality said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

@Goblin That's a lot like 'redneck' jokes in the US, at a glance. Which are also gross.

I blame Foxworthy.

@Auspice said in RL things I love:

https://cleancause.com/

Sparkling Yerba Mate.
I never would have thought to try it, but a coworker shared some with me yesterday (Lemon Lime flavor) and today I bought one after work (Raspberry).

These things are fucking delicious. Y'all can have your LaCroix and shit. I'mma drink this.

I would be down for some blackberry and peach.

Also, I can't remember where I saw this but it still makes me laugh so here it goes again:

@Auspice said in RL things I love:

LaCroix

@Darren said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

grape jam

Monster.

@Rinel said in The Work Thread:

places that literally have their support staff committing the unauthorized practice of law (another unnamed public defense office)

My usual creative end-run around this is to walk into the attorney's office and say, "Ok, so, such-and-such case. I figure that we're looking at blah-blah-blah, and we should let them know about this-and-that, making sure they understand the whoosit about the whatsit, and if they try and drag us off the path, we just tell them that it's outside the scope of our representation. Nod if you authorize me to say all that."

@BroadStreetBully said in Ideas you got from works of fiction:

@Derp I mean to a degree aren't all of the World of Darkness games supposed to be like this? In Vampire you play a blood guzzling cannibal, in Werewolf you play a spirit-addled lunatic with violent anger issues, and in Mage you play someone who took too many red pills and is consequently a psychopathic megalomaniac, yet in all of these you have compelling reasons to be this way and aren't just Pure Evil (tm)

That's the idea but you aren't ever allowed to play that. If you play the lying seductive vampire you're being a sex-pest predator, if you play the rage-filled werewolf you're being a dick bully, and if you play the mage who can bend the world to his literal will then you're being a powergaming jackass. Doesn't matter that it's all baked into theme. This is MU and you have to be nice and cooperative, dammit.

@Ganymede said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

Disturbingly, while I've seen it more often with hetero couples, if the couple is homosexual they will more likely be female.

The female couple is more likely to be accepted and/or encouraged than the male equivalent. Just saying.

@gryphter said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Why in the hell am I battering myself against this joyless, soul-killing job only to not afford my life?

So, I feel this. Here's my situation:

I drive to a job that is forever far away.
I drive a 15 year old truck that gets 15 miles to the gallon.
I spend as much on gas in a month as most people spend in rent.
I applied for a loan on a new car, doing all the math to show that getting a new car, including the freaking car payment and insurance AND GAS, would save me roughly 400 a month. Sweet deal right?
Nope. Bank says I need a cosigner. Nobody I know will co-sign a loan, or if they can their credit sucks.
So I continue spending ridiculous amounts of money, and not being able to move because I cannot save money. so I remain in this situation seemingly forever because I have no money to put into anything that would raise my credit enough to not need a cosigner.

Feeling trapped and not knowing why you're doing what you're doing is awful.

ETA: I literally took charts and graphs and formulas and projections and such to the bank with me like I was trying to start a new business. Still no dice.

ETA2: My relationship with my s/o ensures that I can receive a fucking fabulous discount on Hondas too. I even included that, showing that it would be thousands of dollars cheaper than for everyone else, and that the three smaller loans that I've had through that bank all got paid, on time, without a single missed or late payment. STILL NO DICE. WTF, BANKS? Do you not want to make money or what?

Divinity = stale white marshmallow fluff, sometimes with nuts in it. Despite that it remains strangely tasty.

@Tinuviel said in Dead Celebrities 2019:

It's definitely not mail. Armour, sure, but not mail.

That looks an awful lot like a slightly modified scale mail to me.

@Seamus said in Why no Star Trek games?:

think a lot has to do with the Military style setting more.than anything. I think the game would need to be like DS9 to allow for the most wide range of PC concepts to make it work

How about a game where all of you are playing small Maquis cells struggling against the monolithic Federation? Or hell, maybe the Terran Empire?

No? Just me then?

@Alamias said in The Work Thread:

@Auspice Development I have been doing for 20+ years. I can do the SCSS/HTML/JS/Angular/React..etc with no problem.

Doing the actual design work (Typography, color schemes, UI/UX) I have been doing less than a year, with no training what so ever. I wish I never agreed to it (but if I didn't I wouldn't have a job...so...whee fun.)

So when my ex was big into photography and I suddenly had to learn lots of things about it just so that I could help him out with the business side of it, I looked into a lot of digital design books. I also found most of them pretentious and unhelpful because they were so vague.

But I did find this one:

http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=A6CD0240119364D4298BD9825A48A768

This book was seriously helpful in presenting the hows and whys of certain things like that, what works, what doesn't, WHY (importantly). I really found this one to be pretty invaluable when it came to just getting the basic, fundamental building blocks I would need to expand out from there.

Maybe it'll help you too.

Part of this, I think, is that the various members of the MU communities seem somehow more prone to culture shock than the average person. Ironic, since every game is its own unique world with its own unique population and unique ways of doing things. You would think that we would be better at moving between things.

But even the smallest of changes, like the format of a command or the pacing of a scene, is enough to give some of us serious anxiety. Which is understandable. I'm one of those people, at times.

But I think it's something we'll all have to work through, just as we work through any new thing on any new game/system/whatever. Eventually you'll find your flow within it even if it's not what you're used to.

You think slowing the pace of scenes is bad, let's look back on yon olden days when the OOC Masquerade (or whatever you called it in your individual system) got booted. Some of ya'll still aren't over that, but the rest of us moved on.

Lindell's "Universal Principles of Design." 2e

@Coin said:

This is also an issue. I think the only real way to do it is constantly remind people, and have staff constantly remind people. But that can get preachy/insistent/annoying, so... It's an issue. Something very visible would help, but then it turns into "I have this color on my short desc because I'm special" and I just... ugh.

The other way to deal with this is to do the thing I've been advocating since the new system came out and make the Doors system mechanically meaningful.

Status gives you a bonus to social rolls.

Doors are an excellent way to try and achieve a social outcome.

You might hate that motherfucking detective, but that motherfucking detective can still be a pretty imposing dude. You might have heard a thousand and ten stories about Mr. Smith that makes you inherently treat him as a monster, but somehow he still charms you.

Remind people that their desires are not the final arbiter of what happens to the character, the system is.

Part of this is people just not being willing to do those things and enforce outcomes. There's no one perfect method, of course. Someone will always be unhappy with something. But at least this way, status has some real crunch.

@TheOnceler said in How to pronounce FYI?:

Let's say I recently suffered a traumatic brain injury and decided I needed to pronounce FYI in some way other than the letters.

Why in the hell would I ever pronounce it 'fwee' or 'fwy' instead of 'fyee' or 'fy-eye'? It's not FWI.

Anyway, someone pronouncing FYI as anything other than eff-wy-eye' is almost certainly someone's way of signaling that they've been kidnapped and we're really letting them down right now.

So if I had to make an argument --

...we have Y in our alphabet to stand in for the greek letter upsilon, which historically had a sound like the modern french u or german ü, sort of a rounded 'long e' sound in english. Putting this before the actual long e sound normally represented by the I there forces it into a semivowel/glide function, thus making 'fwee' the most accurate pronunciation for the historical sounds of the letters in the Latin alphabet.

@Pyrephox said:

Like, there should definitely be events tied to and benefits for having a low or negative rep, to make it fun for those players to play that, and give some compensation for not having the bennies of high status and rep. Whether it's having targeted RP where enemy factions try to recruit you, or events where there's a Status ceiling of people allowed to join (the police commissioner should not be investigating the gritty street crime), or high risk/high reward plots that require a bit of "plausible deniability".

You know, I kind of like that 'status ceiling' idea. That ain't bad. There should be some bennies to offset that, too. The commissioner should be able to change the rules, give out perks or hits to things, etc. But that could really be a workable system.

@Miss-Demeanor said:

And the first time someone wants me to sit around for two hours while they figure out if their PC can sway mine? My reaction is this. And since we're on the subject... hostile is a lot more than 'I will punch you if you speak to me'. There's plenty of hostile people in the world that never lift a hand towards a person. So no, I don't think Hostile is JUST meant to cover 'ready to inflict physical violence'.

And that reaction is part of the reason that conversations like this get sparked in the first place. People are unhappy with people ignoring the fact that a mechanical / sheet trait has effectively no impact, largely for examples like the above. Be a part of the solution, not a part of the problem.

@Ganymede said:

The Danse Macabre's social combat system, in my opinion, was a better approach; it's quick, it's dirty, and it's about who looks better in the end, ultimately. It's not about making someone suck your dick as much as it is convincing everyone else around that the eschewing of your penis makes that person looks totes ridic. That's kind of better for PvP conflict.

I agree that it's not a bad system. The problem with it is that it requires an audience. It's a political debate between two people wherein there are spectators involved, which works great for things like Elysium, but not so great when you just need to convince a person to do a thing and there aren't a hundred people around to witness it. Doors, on the other hand, work in both situations, which makes them slightly better, IMO.