Posts made by Derp

@Bellecourt said in Movie / TV / Streaming Peeves or Whatever:

When this comes out can someone else who is a big Anne Rice fan let me know how it goes because the journalists covering it are not giving me much hope for what interest I'm going to find there.

@Bellecourt

Granted, it's been some time since I read the series, but I don't remember this actually being the case? Lestat spends pretty much the entire series banging it out with various people. Louis, Nicolas, Akasha. From what I remember of TotBT, it's not that they can't fuck. They do. It just isn't as pleasurable to them as drawing blood. But I distinctly remember Akasha having some ways to seduce our boy L, and both sexuality and sensuality are presented in big bold letters throughout the whole thing.

So I'm not sure how that's a significant deviation from the source material. We seem to be remembering it two very different ways.

I don't even necessarily see the bits about Claudia being problematic, as Claudia makes it pretty clear that Louis has never really looked at her as anything other than a child and it pisses her off because she's like a hundred years old and wants to get down.

So I guess I'm unclear on why this would be a dealbreaker for you? Is it because you don't see yourself represented in the story if these changes are made?

@Selira

The receipts weren't bad. You just didn't like who they were talking about. Given that some of the people past-and-present on this board have gone into full-on fury-mode about exactly that kind of womanizing behavior invited or not, I still feel justified in calling it hypocrisy.

You're just going to have to accept that. -- Selira, MSB, 2022.

@Selira

And yet you keep bringing it up, despite saying that you're not doing it again, and throwing shade at a dude for doing exactly what we tell people they should do just because the person in question is currently in the good graces of the people that normally call down exactly the kind of behavior. Which is kind of a hypocrisy.

Which was my point.

Runescryer did exactly what he should have done, raising a warning flag. Names were named when the person in question showed up to try to defend themselves of not being DWOPP but still made an ass of themselves.

@Selira said in The All-New Down With OPP Thread:

Also, you're really not one to talk about bans, anymore. Just saying.

I sure can. I didn't ban anyone.

@Selira said in The All-New Down With OPP Thread:

Also, you realize no one flamed you because you were an MSB admin, right? They went on you because of explicitly what you were saying, why you were saying it, and how you were saying it.

Dunno. Given that the same people coming down on him for putting up a warning flag are the same ones on team 'ban anyone that even shows an ounce of problematic behavior to protect the rest of the community', I find this statement pretty sus, personally.

@ZombieGenesis said in The All-New Down With OPP Thread:

For what it's worth, it's on my game that some folk think he's popped up on. I managed to get DWOPP's IP from another game he's been banned on, they don't match.

Not definitive, obviously, but a strike against falling skies and impending doom.

@Lithium said in The All-New Down With OPP Thread:

But honestly, having my IP supposedly 'linked' to DWOPP? I don't care how it looks, I'm /not/ that person, and to suggest it is insulting. Especially along with all the other baseless accusations.

One of these things is not like the other.

You'd think that they would either get bored or like -- learn to be less creepy. But no. Neither of those things. It's truly baffling.

@Macha

hug

@Macha

He's what, a year old pit mix? They're giant balls of nervous energy. Those behavioral issues are pretty common for those kinds of dogs living in confined spaces where they don't have room to run. They need LOTS of exercise.

This is just how they are, until they're about 3. When he starts to chew on something that he isn't supposed to, use your markers (no, wrong, uh-uh, whatever), take it away, and replace it with something you do want him to chew on. If he's being overly vocal, there are other things you can do to work on that.

It might be challenging, but that's just their nature, and it's part of raising them. They're essentially toddlers with sharp teeth. They aren't going to be super chill. That's just how they do. THe best you can do is direct them to something productive with that energy, and it's even worse since you live in a small space. Not a bad place for dogs, but definitely going to lead to some behaviors that require a lot of supervision.

Queen Elizabeth II.

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

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

So I got called and blamed because the guy who was not named in any of my paperwork, or invites, called me on a crappy connection, and I didn't take him at his word.

... this is probably not a good sign.

Word.

Lookitdat sweet boy!

@Macha

Logan would not want you to be sad. He would want you to be happy and remember him fondly, and to use what you taught each other to live better lives. If helping a baby that needs a new home does that, I think he would be happy for you. Show the baby as much love as he knew.

@Ganymede said in The Great PC Death Dilemma:

Apparently, the Stranger Things series.

Has everyone forgotten Game of Thrones already?!

@Ghost said in The Great PC Death Dilemma:

...you get to play again after passing the fucking bar exam

Actual money says that @Ganymede will tell you the bar exam ain't got shit on trying to remember various RPG systems.

Here's my take on it:

PC Death doesn't make the game better. If anything, you're going to end up driving off players who won't take any action because they're risk-averse. This is one of the things that I vehemently disagreed with the gamerunner on at the last place I staffed. It doesn't make it better. It just makes it so that players feel like their time and investments are going to be wasted, and "chargen is easy" is not an offset for the story and investment that you've put into that character being gone and needing to start from scratch.

Having people who have stuck around on the game be more powerful / have more xp than new people is not a bad thing, and I'll die on that hill. People should be rewarded for investment and loyalty. Period. If new players want to catch up to the older players they can either wait until the natural cycle of attrition takes them there or be more active to get more incentives.

Positions aren't tied to xp or longevity. Positions, like most political things, ebb and flow as characters lose interest in those positions and new people cycle through them, or the older people are forced out by a sheer lack of support for whatever vision they have. Catchup xp is completely and utterly unrelated to who holds what position. Having a position doesn't guarantee competence, just popularity (or lack of opposition).

TL;DR -- Insisting that PCs gotta die sometime is dumb and doesn't have any actual practical benefit. It's just a way to demoralize your players.

@Macha

He's not suffering anymore. That's the part to keep in mind. This was the best thing that you could have done for him, and you made the right decision.

@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.

@Ghost

Damon is my snarky spirit guide.

@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.

Poor guy.