Best posts made by Ganymede

@Rinel

“I failed you. I wish there were another way for me to say it. I cannot. I can only beg your forgiveness, and pray you hear me somehow, someplace... someplace where a warm hand waits for mine.” — Mr. Freeze.

“No. No! You broke my concentration. It won't work. Don't you see? It's too hard. It's like tensing a muscle. I can't keep it up for long! MY CAREER, MY LIFE, IT IS GONE! AND I CAN NEVER GET IT BACK! I'M NOT AN ACTOR ANYMORE! I'm not even a... man.” — Clayface

“This is what I listen to now. (flips his coin) Chance, Grace. Chance is everything. Whether you're born or not. Whether you live or die. Whether you're good or bad. It's all arbitrary.” — Two-face.

Goddamn the writing. And this stuff was mostly written wholecloth.

@Coin said:

Especially if when someone like @Ganymede offers to run stuff on channel and you sit there staring and don't say "yes please I would [ALL THIS STUFF]!" Proactivity will get you so much more than passivity.

I probably am not being clear on channel. What I mean to say is:

"I'd like to RP with you, in one way, shape, or form. I'm willing to run scenes to do this, and am willing to run anything that I feel I'm capable of doing. All you really need to do is respond to this message."

What's frustrating is the silence. I may not be the best storyteller out there, but I really cannot do it if no one tells me what stories they would like to be a part of. And what kills me is that many players cannot even tell me that.

Playing on a MUSH is more than just putting a character together.

@Tyche said in The Football Thread:

The Browns waived the racist twerp.

You gotta really be awful to be cut by the Browns.

@faraday said in Tools, and not just Beiber.:

I'm not actually opposed to muting the OOC room and forcing people to chat on channels. It's something I've considered anyway for Ares for other reasons (channel abuse tools, engaging people on the web portal, etc.). But I have zero expectation that it will encourage people to RP more. People will RP or they won't.

This is more or less true.

Frankly, though, I concur with @Lisse24 that the proliferation of OOC rooms, in my experience, coincided with the decrease of what I would call "spontaneous IC activity." To be fair, though, I am an almost-unicorn in that: (1) I usually only go online if I reasonably believe I'm able to RP with some activity and energy; and (2) when I'm online, I am almost always IC so that people can bump into me IC.

I'd rather that people think and play like I do, but I understand that my mentality is neither prevailing nor apparently common. Still, I manage to drum up RP by wandering ICly when I am able to.

Recently, not so much.

@Macha said in The Song Game:

Dire Straits - Fade to Black

Radiohead -- Street Spirit (Fade Out)

@goldfish said in Echoes in the Mists - CoD 2e MU:

I won't speak for the staff in charge of the choice to Soft Open. I can speak for the mild clamoring we were all hearing quietly from folks who wanted to play. So, we were mostly ready, so why not open the playground?

Given how the advertisement above makes it clear that players can request changes to their PCs, I don't see how the availability of a wiki disadvantages anyone. As long as you have the books, this shouldn't be a difficult thing to figure out.

Also, given that this is the only multi-sphere CoD game out there, I can understand the interest.

@Auspice

Perhaps a jealous RL partner? I’ve heard of that kind of bullshittery.

Frankly, any person that asks me to dump a long term friend for sex is probably not worth the trouble or the sex.

@saosmash

This is pretty much what I love about playing on MUSHes. Oh sure, I may have successfully solo’d a mission to save some prisoners, but having killed half a dozen people along the way sure doesn’t help one’s sanity when you hang out with demigods.

@Pandora

Keto win.

(Cheat days are okay; too often is bad, though; but you can do this.)

@paris

I'll vamp staff?

@Auspice said in Why We Don't Make New Friends Anymore (Or Creepers Do Creepy Things):

are you a robot cat or a trash panda make up your mind woman

can't i be both like aubrey plaza

@JaySherman said:

I sometimes wonder if there isn't a psychological disconnect of interest in playing out mundane IC hobknobbing/reporting/manuevering due to the amount of OOC knowledge of what's happened IC.

I attribute this to the movement of games away from rewarding players for just being out and RPing. Most games have opted for a flat-XP increase, with activity-XP increases based on PRP involvement and running.

I also attribute the aging/maturing of the hobby's participants. After a full day of work, my mind would like a little break. With kids, my patience is limited. So, there are fewer people willing to gin up NPCs, PRPs, and other plottage on a nightly basis.

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

I don't care how many gifs you make @Tinuviel, Pepsi and bourbon do not go together..

Adding anything to bourbon?

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

Leave me the fuck alone.

I will.

Once you stop adding cola to bourbon.

So beastly.

@Auspice

@Ninjakitten

I don’t really have a point other than some people with families and friends would rather be at work during the holidays.

Don’t mind me, honestly. I dislike the holiday season immensely. All of this cheer and time off makes my blood boil.

@faraday said in How To Treat Your Players Right:

Just want to be clear: If someone comes to me with an actual complaint that involved them personally I am anything but 'hands-off'.

"Hands-off" was a poor use of language. "Fairness-minded" is probably more accurate. I meant to emphasize that you and I differ in approach, and that I would probably try to locate the victims for the purpose of asking them questions about the accused.