@solstice said in Good Anime:

Your Lie in April

Fuck you. Fuck you with a cactus. I just got over that.

If you don't mind podcasts, I have lately been listening to Old Gods of Appalachia. It definitely scratches that dark fantasy itch for me.

Just a warning, the good folks rarely win, but they still manage a victory sometimes

Character idea I have always kind of wanted to do anyway, but don't think it would work well on a MU:

A Silent Strider who is a long haul trucker, all of his background points in fetish go into his truck, which has two gifts: Messenger's fortitude, and Find Trouble.

The truck only needs gas once every three days, however it is invariably drawn to the road that leads to the worst trouble the truck can get to in that period of time, and will break down in towns just before Bad Things happen.

Strider can't get the truck working again until he solves the problem.

I have been listening to Old Gods of Appalachia a lot lately. Horror podcast that takes place in an alternate Appalachian mountain range.

Obviously being here I have an interest in folklore and folk magic, and there is still stuff that pops up now and then in this that I wasn't familiar with.

@silverfox
For what it is worth my job for the last year has been transporting COVID patients from home to hospital, or from hospital to hospital. Having symptoms severe enough to start dropping oxygen isn't that dangerous anymore comparatively.

High Flow nasal canula have been very effective at making sure we don't have to intubate nearly as often anymore as well, making treatment a lot less invasive.

If he's going to go in for this at least he has a solid year of all the things we learned in treatment to make everything less invasive. The big problem now is just that we don't have anything to really speed up recovery, so we still have patients in the room for sometimes weeks. Able to walk and talk and take care of themselves for short bursts, just not safe to go home yet.

Still not a fun experience but not as dangerous as it once was.

I used to work in a group home for teens. Which meant selling axe all day every day.

When asked why they would do this most of the time they would reply "because girls like the smell."

I had to explain to each generation, if girls like the smell you should apply less of it. If they can smell it from across the room they have no reason to come any closer. They already get the scent they want with no need to interact with you. You apply just enough so that they can only smell it once they are in range to talk to you. This is for two reasons. One, they will associate talking with you with a positive stimulus, this will make them look forward to talking with you even if you aren't the best conversationalist, and secondly it makes it a draw to get them close enough to interact with you.

Sadly that worked better than trying to tell them women hate the smell, since that one they just would not believe.

Snub nose .44. The most noir of all guns.

Hey, staying the same size is still pretty decent news! It's not going any where.

Was a MUD instead of a MUSH, but hopefully those still count.

Anyway on Realms of Despair I had run across a lot of other thief characters that were the last surviving member of some town or village, or were just abandoned to the streets and in general were dour, and angsty folks.

So I made a pixie thief, who ran away from home to join the circus. Realized after a year the circus sucks, and went to go live in the city. Lacking any other skills needed to start a business in the city, like carpentry, or mercantile sense... or hell even common sense, she just took to taking things that looked like she could trade them for food and places to sleep.

II had a lot of fun with that character. Super friendly, cheerful and helpful, happily talking with anyone and everyone about anything she could... while disarming traps, or gouging out the eyes of their enemies. I mean you don't survive being only 2 feet tall in the streets without learning something about being terrifyingly vicious.

Always got a kick out of people being unsettled by her gleefully talking about this awesome new place she found that sells candy... while just completely covered head to toe in blood.

It's not that she LIKED killing things, she just didn't see why she should feel bad about killing someone that wanted her dead.

Man, that show blew me away. I was not expecting The Good Place to actually be good. I thought it was more of the fluffy sitcoms that channel shows at best.

That GIF though sums up the show perfectly.

@Voice#3134 If anyone wants it. I am more likely to respond in less than 3 months there.

@ganymede

Man if I couldn't safely feel anger I don't think I would feel anything most of the day.

I get through my day with caffeine, spite and stress.

@carma said in Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff:

The constant need to come up with IC reasons for the unexpected disappearance of characters, because their players stopped showing up. And reasons for why your character isn't checking up on that person.

Brigid: "I think that's everyone safe and accounted for. Thank heavens nobody was killed in that meteor storm."

Abelard: "I haven't seen your husband. Is he alright?"

Brigid: "Oh, I completely forgot about him. I'm sure he's fine."

"I reiterate no one died during the meteor swarm and we will not be discussing this further.

@packrat How did the cat get more adorable when it got bigger?

I am a bit in the mindset of being the sacrificial lamb as well.

Maybe a bit telling about the characters I have played but I have very much done things like have my character walk into an art gallery armed with water balloons and such with every intention of doing it so the owner can beat my ass to protect their stuff. Sometimes the scene needs someone to just make a bone headed move so we all have something to laugh about.

I have also taken on the habit of making characters with high empathy for reading what people like, even if I am making a character to be an antagonist character because it gives me an excuse to try and pick up on what players are interested in that scene by rolling to see what the character is paying the most attention to. The players themselves are also probably the most interested in that topic at the moment as well and I can then make it the topic of interaction at the time. It feels a little manipulating at times, but that's not always bad right?

@ominous
I know it was a while back when I mentioned it, but I can say now that Old Gods of Appalachia has mentions now of Skinned Tom if you have ever heard of that one.

@bluebird Less like a book and more like camp fire stories. Those were always my favorite kind of stories though.

If you don't mind podcasts, I have lately been listening to Old Gods of Appalachia. It definitely scratches that dark fantasy itch for me.

Just a warning, the good folks rarely win, but they still manage a victory sometimes

I was reluctant to try and start that show because people got kind of creepy with it online, but man did that show come out swinging when I started the first episode.

"Oh no! My one weakness! Dying!"

Alright show you have my interest...

@solstice said in Good Anime:

Your Lie in April

Fuck you. Fuck you with a cactus. I just got over that.