Posts made by Derp

@silverfox said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

One friend replied "Leave early!" to my concern and it took everything in me to go, "My quadraplegic brother is at the mercy of his caretakers with young children and literally ~can't~ leave earlier. He can leave when his caretakers get him up, my father arrives, and he gets packed. A 2+ hour detour means they arrive around midnight, and blocked roads in both directions means not only my brother but possibly my father might miss my sister's wedding."

Is the venue limited to a specific time? If not, could they see about moving the start time back a bit to account for the fact that weather conditions are making the current plans a pain?

It's not necessarily ideal but it might be an option.

@lotherio said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

@ganymede said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

@carma said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

"How do you make social RP enjoyable and unique?"

Be enjoyable to RP with.

An old post, @faraday saved it and has kept it.

https://www.aresmush.com/articles/give-your-rp-sparkle.html

bookmarks this

@solstice said in Good places to Sandbox/Anyone interested in forming a group for Sandbox RP.:

@derp

VR RP sounds both terrifying and fascinating.

I'm totally ready for my Cyberpunk meetsReady Player One virtual world.

@arkandel said in Good places to Sandbox/Anyone interested in forming a group for Sandbox RP.:

@derp The far more relevant problem to solve is how to get more new people involved than are fading away from the hobby, rather than how to get back the bunch of old farts who got too busy to play after adulthood smacked them in the face.

I mean, you might as well ask how to get people back into telegraphs and steam engines. There'll always be a small market for them just based on tradition or the fact that they're rather quaint, but in an age dominated by graphical games that are becoming more and more interactive as VR/AR gets better and cheaper, this is ultimately a losing battle.

Though to be fair, Ares has done a pretty good job of getting things nice and modernized. I haven't explored enough of Evennia to know if it does the same, so cannot comment. But the answer is 'make it feel as close to a modern experience with gaming as you can get', and I just don't know that 'type out literally everything you're doing for five minutes while you craft the perfect pose even though you could have re-enacted it in fifteen seconds, tops' is the way of the future, no matter what.

@carma said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

I feel like this could be branched into its own topic. "How do you make social RP enjoyable and unique?"

I think this is less to do with the setting of the RP and more to do with the character you are RPing with.

I've had lots of RP in a diner. Some of it was excruciating. Some of it was wonderful. It depends on the actual content of the conversation. If we're discussing how work is going and otherwise just being the same kind of drones we're forced to be iRL, I will likely find it excruciating. If I'm building piles of hash browns and gravy to represent the different layers of reality and why Paradox likes to screw with you by throwing in some hot sauce, it's probably gonna go better.

It all depends on the personality of the partner. Not the setting or whatever. A good talk can be more intense than a good fight.

@paperbrilliant said in Good places to Sandbox/Anyone interested in forming a group for Sandbox RP.:

The problem seems to be finding people more than finding something to facilitate gameplay. All the MUSHers grew up got mortgages and kids and have no time for RP.

To be fair -- a good many of those that grew up and got mortgages and had kids are now getting old enough that the kids are moving out of the house and they're staring at retirement soon, so.

Bright side?

@de-villefort said in Good Anime:

@solstice

You really sound like you would love Sword Art Online Abridged.
A lot of people never knew about it because it's a fully voiced and edited version of SAO made by fans. It is freaking hilarious.

Youtube SAO abridged playlist here <---

I liked the first season -- season? Or whatever, of SAO. The guns and stuff in the follow-up messed with me.

@ganymede said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

People: OMG, is being a lawyer like it is on Law and Order?

I'm with you, but also I would like to expand this to:

Uniform requirements in general are kind of bullshit.

@greenflashlight said in RL things I love:

@derp Yeah, I'm honestly a little grumpy she's only being punished for twelve hours when people are going to die from what she says, but whatever.

It's step 1 to permanent suspension.

@greenflashlight said in RL things I love:

Twitter suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene for lying about COVID.

Small victories.

@ominous said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

@ganymede

Holy crap. I just re-read an old thread on EnWorld about the differenced between D&D editions and how they cater to players who prefer Combat as Sport vs. Combat as War. A particular point of contention was that in Combat as War, being pragmatic and fighting dirty wins over being heroic, which didn't jive with players who wanted to play heroic PCs. The Combat as War folks pointed out that, if victory in a fair fight is a sure thing for you, there isn't anything heroic about it to begin with. There's nothing more heroic than challenging the forces of evil to a fair fight in a CaW game. Your character will be wishing for death by the end, but it will be very heroic.

Pretty sure he is talking about this thread and it is a very good read, if very long.

@ominous said in Bad TV:

Too bleak? Why can't you stand a little bleakness in your life after the absolutely sunny and positive year and a half we have had?

I mean, once you see what they deal with the past year and a half will seem absolutely chipper.

@runescryer said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

Part of the responsibility of playing a powerful character in a collaborative medium is making a conscious effort to share the spotlight.

I've always thought that superman should be more restrained than what he usually ends up being. It's like --

If you twitch twelve muscle fibers you're gonna break his jaw but if you twitch fourteen muscle fibers you're gonna take his head off so maybe leave it to the folks with a bigger margin for error yea?

@wizz

F you, buddy, I love Black Summer for all those reasons.

Nobody, and I mean nobody, is safe.

It's glorious.

@De-Villefort said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

Look at Star Trek. They spent hours every week reliving Shakespeare plays, old books and visiting beaches in a holodeck. The only place anything actually interesting happened was deep space far away from the federation.

TBF both Picard and Discovery show that's far from the case. Lots of black market and criminal activity with general civil unrest. It's a refreshing change of pace.

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

@derp

Honestly, this makes me want to recruit for a pack of werewolves who live in some ramshackle duplex on the west side of town, and all work for the alpha's food truck, and the alpha most of the time is just trying to get everyone fed and feeling okay for the next mission because FOR FUCK'S SAKE WHY IS THE CLIATH EATING PASTE?!?

If and only if he has a fanny pack full of cheesy crackers.

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

@greenflashlight hmmm, that got me thinking ... behavior in captivity, meaning less freedom of association with others, generates domineering behavior.

Is human civilization effectively captivity?

Yes. Most political scientists and sociologists start from that premise and work outward. Submitting to power for survival does that.

So for the fans out there:

Avatar: Braving the Elements

A podcast about Avatar and Korra, hosted by Janet Varney (Korra) and Dante Basco (Prince Zuko), where they explore the various episodes and interview some of the minds behind the work.

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

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

"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design." -- Friedrich Hayek

Ah, yes, Hayek: the thinker that Keynes fucked up in a letter so badly that he abandoned the study of economics and took up political philosophy.

That would not surprise me in the slightest.