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@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.

I play characters that as far as other folks would consider run the range from psychotocally dominating to very submissive.

I haven't had any complain about me doing it wrong because I don't structure their thoughts on "I am the submissive one" or "I am dominant in this." Normal thoughts in normal people don't usually work that way. For me if a character has a dominating personality is entirely based on how hard they are willing to fight to get what they want.

Highly driven characters might be very dominating, dragging their poor submissive partner along on something they are woefully unready for just because they want the other around. They may even make themselves feel better by belittling the other sometimes, but that doesn't mean they won't want to be held, or maybe even let the other partner tie them up during sexy times. They are just formost focused on either their needs or a goal that is bigger than the other person is in their life. Conversly others may seem submissive just because their priority is making the other happy.

If you set out from the start only thinking about how to make one person or the other dominant or submissive you're going to run into a lot of situations that just aren't going to make sense anymore and get stressed from having to act in ways that are non-intuitive.

@Coin

Man did that get screwed up in my family then!

My sister broke 4 different noses (a couple of them twice) in High School and is general the most aggressive out of all of us.

Meanwhile I was the one checking in on everyone when they were sick, cooking soup for them and treating injuries.

It's almost like... gasp people are different!

Also fuck that guy for talking bad about Sarah Conner.

I was a pixie thief instead. Liked being the most adorable and terrifyingly savage character.

Had to say it somewhere. Just so proud of my little brother.

He's at prom tonight. Took out a girl he's known for a while now that we've been pushing him to go out with (and have been leaving him alone in his room with when she comes over) because she's awesome. Two of her friends are dating each other as well, so they all split a limo.

He's now showing up to prom with three girls. So proud.

@somasatori

As a long time player of Space Station 13, I honestly can't think of many things more entertaining then playing good old Scruffy just trying to keep the damn hallways clean while everyone keeps getting shot.

@somasatori

That is a tough recovery. I'm very impressed that both of you made it through that. There's fewer things more painful than the withdrawals caused by the substances methadone is used to treat. It took a lot to get through there.

Having new priorities is definitely the most important thing. I used to work with teens that often had drug problems, the only way to actually kick the habit was to replace said habit with something new. The more consuming the addiction was, the more things you need to become interested in and the more intense those interests need to be. Glad to see she's focused on building a new life rather than just weaning off parts of the old.

Your post reminds me of the philosophy of a D&D buddy of mine.

"All adventures should start and end the same way. Passed out drunk in a bowl of soup you bought with your last coin, surrounded by whores as the city guard pounds on the door."

Can I just comment, I don't know whether I should laugh or cry that we literally couldn't even go one election cycle since the Voter Rights Act was deemed "unecessary" before almost every single place that it applied to reminded us how badly we needed it?

Even if this is simple incompetence rather than voter suppression a federal over watch committee would have at least made sure there enough fucking ballots.

Most of my characters tend to run form neutral to evil for kind of explicitly the reasons you mention about characters continuing to grow and expand not being handled on MU*'s.

The reason for this is because if I play a good character they can't just let an injustice go. The can't just sit by and let terrible things happen to people. They have to get involved... and then you have a freaking 18th level Mage nuking a small street gang.

If I play a neutral character than as my scope expands, I can start letting things go. When I'm busy dealing with an entire corrupt police department and a systemic failure of society... I really don't have time to deal with someone stealing your purse. Deal with your own shit.

Basically what I'm getting at is that the only way I can really think of to address the super exp dinosaur terror is on the player end. They need to either make a kind of character that can just let things go and can't be bothered with everyone else's problems because they have a mafia to run, or else need to work on expanding the scope of their challenges as they gain more power to avoid being the overbearing god smiting everyone for petty crimes. You need to make bigger goals as your power grows so that you're too busy doing those things instead of ruining the game for low level guys.

Yeah i get distracted and wander off for long stretches of time but still here. Seeing if I recognize anyone.

Realms of Despair Sahael (vampire, unrelated entirely to the later characters with this name.) Misa (Pixie Thief, National Minister of Intelligence), Warik (Human Fathomer), Dweezl the deadly gnome cleric, Rozencrants (human, deadly Fathomer), Ashandra (Druid Sea-Elf. Nations Leader.)
And yes Misa, Ashandra and Sahael were all members of one adventuring party. I thought it was fun to play as a group for people. Even if in the end Ash sacrificed Sahael to an elder god.

Shadowrun Denver Karl. Ork street sami... man this was like in 2004 I can't remember.

City of Hope (and other branches) Misa Wong/Misa Tsao/Meilin Wong/Connie Cheng (Lots of alternate identities never really got used) Sahael Al-Atrash, Christina Hynes/Anne Alexandrov.

Realm of DreamsAshandra (I'm lazy when it comes to names okay?) Titless Sidhe skating on the edge of undoing.

City of Nexus Hector Hsu (cowardly Cultist of Ecstacy tricked into being a council member) Micheal Hunt (Euthanatos)