@aria said in The Work Thread:
Like, thanks for being the one person who consistently respects my pronouns? That's cool? But it would also be great if you didn't cut me out of things we're supposed to be working on together and then talk down to me about everything from my work skillset to hobbies I've been participating in longer than you've been alive, thanks.
I do love the snotty youth, but it's more tolerable than the snotty elderly.
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In my line of work, the brilliant jerk often becomes a victim of his own brilliance because many of us in practice have been victimized by the same in prior lives.
It’s fun to sit in mediations where everyone, even opposing parties, cracks at the jerk and resolves things in a way that either cut him out or disadvantage his client.
@lotherio said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):
I wanted to RP with others at a bowling alley, and that created the entire personality for my PC on Requiem for Kingsmouth.
Not me.
Two things that help me through depression: (1) work; and (2) cooking.
My partner knows I'm in deep when I'm cooking all the time.
@lotherio said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):
This makes me curious, not about all the dark things and secrets that transpired on RoK, but about this PC and their personality.
He was one of the Fisher Kings. Over his two hundred years, all he wanted was a family to raise; first, as a mortal, then as an immortal. But, as with all Fisher Kings, those loyal to him turned on him. He became depressed, and ended up coming to Kingsmouth to serve a friend of his from the Anglo-Indian Wars.
Along the way, he fed on a wayward orphan. Feeling responsible for her, he "adopted" her and brought her overseas. In his new home, he had no money and no job, so he started to do contracting work at night. During the day, he had a minion make sure his "daughter" went to high school; at night, he worked, he fed, and he kept up with the undead world.
But his "daughter" was as all teenagers: she wanted to go out, meet other teenagers, and do teenager things. She could do that at the local bowling alley, while he watched over her from the lanes. And that's what he was doing there: pretending to play while watching his ward, and making sure that any teenager who tried to "prey" on her did otherwise.
He was a lot of fun. He could go anywhere because "someone" called for a plumber or some other repair dude. He was a handyman, a single dad, just tryin' to make it in a vampire's world.
And then there was "the Great Turtle," but that's another story.
@sunny said in Recipes and Shit:
Food bloggers also like to get paid for the work they do.
I appreciate this.
@groth said in Antagonistic PCs - how to handle them:
I think as a rule of thumb, it's not worth the headache to have militaristically opposed groups (like Camarilla and Sabbat) in the same game.
I'm pretty sure that any NWoD game I can remember with vampires involved militaristically-opposed groups thrown together. Sanctified-Crone-Dragon conflict is inevitable, as is Invictus-Carthian. One may argue that it isn't quite as diametrically-opposed as Camarilla-Sabbat relations, but I disagree.
That aside, yes, policy and staff oversight are important, but they always are so we are talking about truisms.
Think of it this way.
If you had the chance to move out of a bad domestic situation to somewhere safer, would you give your abuser the chance to give you a reason to stay?
Let’s not pretend your situation at your current employer is a good one.
Again, I understand why the choice was made.
You can have shepherds with no title, but you won't (at least, so rarely that, I might as well talk in absolutes from experience). And you don't need to give over the keys to the game to have PCs in recognized positions of leadership who are doing something to keep the game going with or without staff intervention. The concept of friendly competition exists without existential crises, and I've been a part of at least three such scenarios, one of which occurred on Echoes.
It doesn't need to be a crown or even control. I haven't played on a Vampire game in at least a decade where a PC with a title required staff intervention to carry through with IC punishments as needed. Maybe I'm just lucky? Or maybe the games on which I played had the right mix of players.
Anyhow, I see your point, but I disagree with it. Two intelligent people can see the same set of facts and come up with different opnions.
@tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Surprisingly I'm managing quite well, some mild discomfort managed by ibuprofen. But having a small team of dentists (mostly students, because I'm that nice) say "okay, this one's turned surgical, we need the sterilisation team" mid-extraction is haunting.
This is why I always request general anesthesia, if it is permitted.
Encanto was better than I expected it to be. I highly recommend it.
It was also more painful. I know what it is like to grow up with expectations and feeling like you haven't met them. For two of my cousins, it led to suicide.
It's good to hear Lin-Manuel Miranda doing service to this variety of music. I love the fact that they sincerely tried to cast otherwise-unknown Colombian stars.
Do yourself the favor of watching his one, unless memories of not living up to expectations is a trigger.
@rightmeow said in Online friends:
Also @Ganymede we are totally friends. You don't get a say (j/k). We were friends from the first cat pic.
The Witcher Season 2 is being released the same day as Spider-Man: No Way Home.
@kestrel said in Attachment to old-school MU* clients:
As a community, are we emotionally attached to old-school technology?
That would explain why I am a moderator here.
Comfortable and nostalgic?
That would contradict why I am a moderator here.
Or is there something that this experience provides that more modern approaches can't?
Not really.
I will always remember how you quietly saved my sanity and life during a difficult period.
I remember when we discovered you were living in my hometown.
I hope everything goes so very well going forward. Come stop by every now and again to let us know how things are?
@wizz said in Online friends:
What factors make y'all decide to move further? Is it solely just time and trust?
I have never met anyone I MUSHed with in person for over twenty years.
It’s about limits for me.
Mind, I buy people shit all the day, so —
