Posts made by Derp

@Ganymede said in MU*, Youth, and LGBT+ Identity:

For the record, I wear either their skins or ride their wives.

So you're actually less Ganymede, more Conan.

Hot.

@Apos said in Getting Young Blood Into MU*'ing:

But most people honestly don't.

Bull.. Shit.

Most people see this kind of behavior all the time. They've just never worked in the environments you mentioned before, which teach you to actively recognize and respond to it. They're happy to go on ignoring it like they never noticed, but I don't believe for a second that they've never seen it, or that those maladaptive behaviors are not the norm.

Pick up pretty much any kind of psychology book and you'll see why this statement doesn't hold an ounce of water.

@Waller said in MU*, Youth, and LGBT+ Identity:

I played a character one time with the shtick of "law professor woman who wears men's suits 24/7." The Played By was an actress who is known for her forays into men's clothing. In retrospect, this is pretty cringy, so yeah. I'm very sorry about possibly harming LGBTQIA people thinking I was being oh so clever...when I wasn't being clever at all.

There is nothing wrong with this concept. It's not even that cringey. This is very much something that one would have seen in the LGBT community in, say, the 90's or before, and only really started to go out of vogue with the more mainstream acceptance of the lifestyle. You even saw this on pretty much any show on LOGO (remember LOGO, ya'll?).

I know. I was there. I lived it.

People might say "that's not me and my friends," but it sure as hell is somebody, and so long as you're not trying to make a mockery of the character for wearing those suits, it's perfectly respectable.

All characters (every single one of them) are in some fashion a trope. No character perfectly matches the everyday real life experience because a) that would be fucking boring, and b) it's hard to tell stories in that vein.

There is a certain degree of "unrealisticness" that you have to accept in any sort of fiction endeavor. The intention is the more important part, and whether the character is being played as some sort of cringey gag or is legitimately being played to hilite a certain topic. The line there is sometimes blurry, but I assure you, there is a line.

@Auspice said in First Through the Gate Syndrome:

@bear_necessities said in First Through the Gate Syndrome:

I want to wait for someone else to "dictate" the response to the GM set, etc.

I hadn't considered it this way before.

So I think what we're (I'm) finding is this:

The GM set is somewhere between a description and a scene set, but the first person to pose 'completes' the set for everyone.

This is my finding as well. The fear of setting yourself up for the cries of 'but I wouldn't doooo that' and such because you added in something to your pose someone disagrees with.

Which is why I ALWAYS try to pose first. Because screw that. I can be a leader!

@Sunny said in MU*, Youth, and LGBT+ Identity:

roars in dinosaur

28, here.

hands you your coded, gilded cane of curmudgeonry +10

@Admiral said in Getting Young Blood Into MU*'ing:

This community has been talking about 'the new code hotness' for as long as I've been a part of it. And the new code toys never solve the problems.

Remember Pueblo support?

@Bad-at-Lurking said in MU*, Youth, and LGBT+ Identity:

Mushing, like RPG gaming in general, seems to be about a decade or two behind the rest of society when it comes to social issues.

Not... really?

I mean, this has been a frequent assertion by a few, but I've really yet to see any evidence of this. I started in 200...4-ish? (Jesus, we are old.) I've always played openly gay characters. Never once have I had an issue with that. I've always felt supported. Nor have I seen the flagrant sorts of misogyny that people claim to have seen either.

I don't want to discount their experience, by any means, but I think that saying this is a problem 'with the community' and not 'just a few random assholes' is vastly overstating how widespread this is.

The only times when I have seen any sort of pushback on LGBT or female characters is when they're played up as a trope turned up to 11, to the point where it's clearly, eye-rollingly ridiculous. Which is not because they're LGBT, but because they're about as deep as a raindrop crater.

This one is relatively easy:

RP is hard to find sometimes. Everywhere. People can have a lot of biases.

But in my experience very few of them revolve around gender identity and orientation.

You are more likely to miss out on opportunities for bad spelling or poor grammar or times not matching or people being wary of strangers pr people losing interest in a particular game than for a non-cishet character.

So if it gets to that point, and you find yourself lacking? It's almost assuredly not because the char is trans. That is very, very low on the list of common issues.

@Ganymede said in RL Anger:

Only the emergency that makes it immediately dangerous to leave the correction of evil counsels to time warrants making any exception to the sweeping command, "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech

Just picking this part out, lest people think that he was calling for a free-for-all. I've seen this sentence get overlooked countless times.

ETA: But of course now we have the Brandenburg and Hess nonsense so that would be pretty moot anyway. You gotta get real specific before they step in. Sadly.

@ZombieGenesis

People want all of the benefits for none of the work. And then still lay into staff like they're owed something. It's ludicrous.

I reward people that are willing to make the game a better place. Staffers, PrP runners. Hell, even just people who make neatly defined groups with a clear theme.

If you can't be bothered to take even that preliminary step, then I won't actively punish you, but I'm certainly not going to reward you.

@Griatch said in Getting Young Blood Into MU*'ing:

with an explicit notice that donations are completely optional and won't give the donor anything in return except the knowledge that they are supporting something they like.

Why?

This isn't even a model that's supported by most systems that we use today. Amazon has Prime. Duolingo has its premium service. Hell, even Pornhub does.

All of them have free options. All of them have some sort of measurable bonus for a subscription. There is really no reason that MU via Patreon couldn't be the same. Free to play/use, but if you want to donate to the upkeep and such, you get some kind of shiny that other people may or may not care about.

You probably wouldn't get a lot of people on pay-to-play. But you'd get a hell of a lot more donations on a free-to-play with benefits for donation tiers.

@Thenomain said in Getting Young Blood Into MU*'ing:

@Auspice said in Getting Young Blood Into MU*'ing:

@Derp

Ares web portal supports YouTube videos.
MediaWiki doesn't

That makes it an auto win in my book.

Because people referencing ten million images wasn't enough bloat.

Fan.

Tastic.

Mu admins not wanting ten full four hour videos hosted on their stuff.

This community will single-handedly revive the Vine.

@Auspice said in Getting Young Blood Into MU*'ing:

@Derp

Ares web portal supports YouTube videos.
MediaWiki doesn't

That makes it an auto win in my book.

It's cool! I'm just really brand new to this one and so I'm still trying to wrap my head around what is and is not familiar. I don't mind learning the different stuff. My thing is more 'how much of a learning curve is customization going to be', which also isn't a big deal either way. Just trying to get a handle on expectations.

So wait.

If this uses its own internal form of wiki, and isn't compatible with mediawiki, does this mean that I have to learn a whole new form of wiki?

And create all the extensions that are commonly used for it?

@Auspice said in MSB Peeves:

In majority of cases, the color of a man's lips match that of the head of his dick.
When I shared this on the game in question, there was a fair bit of 'omg I had to check and it's true' a couple moments later.

This actually tends to not be true. I think you got a flawed sample.

@tek said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

Can anyone recommend a protein shake that doesn't taste like ass and is preferably $1 or less per serving? Does such a thing exist?

Yes!

Muscle Milk 100% Whey, in the vanilla.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0106ZJ4R8/ref=twister_B01C6QBDE2?_encoding=UTF8&th=1

5 lb bag. About 70 services for about 40 dollars. It doesn't taste like chalk at all, and is very smooth if you use just one of those little bullet blenders.

@dvoraen said in MSB Peeves:

I've always been curious about what tonic water is like, myself, but Dad says he has a definite allergy to quinine, so that's nothing I want to experiment with, as to whether I inherited that allergy.

So you buy one and drink it at the hospital. Problem solved.

@Lotherio said in MSB Peeves:

It's over after this, we in Nebraska are gonna sign the separation papers after you questioned it.

It's probably better for both of you this way.

One thing that tends to happen a lot --

People start working out and quit smoking at the same time. It's a commendable approach to overall health, but really? You probably shouldn't do this.

Studies have shown that cessation of smoking can cause weight gain even in those that don't consume any extra calories and get regular exercise. Which, in turn, gives them the impression that the exercise and such isn't working. Which increases stress. Which leads to taking up smoking again.

So now they're even heavier and jaded because they gave it a go and it didn't work, despite their best efforts. Many exhaust themselves to the point of injury.

TL;DR -- Exercise, or quit smoking. One or the other. Don't do both until you're comfortable with the one you chose first. It can be super counterproductive.

@Roz

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