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Lawyer problems: I hate when I draft a nice appellate brief with lots of citations, and then it takes 2+ hours just to fill out the Table of Authorities.

@faraday said in Where's your RP at?:

I love post-apoc, but I wouldn't play on a game where you could lose your character due to fickle dice or staff whim.

In the game I'm planning with TweedBoy, getting taken out in combat doesn't mean death. You can elect this or not, but you just lose the combat encounter. As winning or losing affects whether a mission is successful or not, there is always an incentive to win.

@Derp said in The Work Thread:

Yes, but also what word processors are for. Word can track your citations and drop them into a template you create. And that is what paralegals are for.

Word can only track your citations if they are consistent and accurate.

Doing my own table of authorities helps me catch citation errors too.

Plus, I bill for it.

Don't hate me because I figured out that it's actually better and more efficient to do your own work.

@WTFE said in Where's your RP at?:

If you can sell me on the value add, I'm down for anything. It's just ... a really tough sell given that I've never seen one that added anything I value.

That's sort of the point of asking you to help me conceive of one. You say there's something lacking in every system you've encountered. So, define it, and help me figure out a way to meet that need you perceive.

If you can't define or describe what the "value add" is, it is difficult for any game designer to meet that perceived problem and figure out a solution.

@Arkandel said in Where's your RP at?:

What I think, and I don't mean it as a jab for people who prefer a different gamestyle than I do, is there are players who don't like playing a PC for long. They keep rolling alts, trying different things, that kind of thing - so to them the idea of a high turnout game isn't just something they wouldn't mind, they'd prefer it because it fits their preferences.

I don't particularly like any alts, but I do not shy away from death if it comes. Like @Sunny, it just matters how death comes. I don't mind if it is a consequence to an action, but I sort of get pissed off if it is solely the result of a poor roll or random.

@Derp said in The Work Thread:

I'm personally in Posner's camp when it comes to citations. the BB is overly complicated and doesn't really give you a lot of necessary detail when you can look up cases by case number now and don't have to go directly to the reports and flip through pages.

Over here in Ohio, we have our own book on how to cite things. Here's why I feel lawyers should be doing this:

1. Citing to the Ohio Supreme Court after March 1, 2002:

Ohio Bur. of Workers' Comp. v. McKinley, 130 Ohio St. 3d 156, 2011-Ohio-4432, 956 N.E.2d 814, ¶ 12.

2. Citing to the Ohio Supreme Court before March 1, 2002:

Hambleton v. R.G. Barry Corp., 12 Ohio St. 3d 179, 183, 465 N.E.2d 1298 (1984).

3. Citing to an Ohio Appellate Decision after March 1, 2002:

Zeller v. Farmers Grp., Inc., 2d Dist. No. 28013, 2019-Ohio-3297, ¶ 21,

But if there's a citation to the Northeast Reporter:

Ajibola v. Ohio Medical Career College, Ltd., 2018-Ohio-4449, 122 N.E.3d 660, ¶ 11 (2d Dist.).

Unless there's also a citation to the Ohio Appellate Reporter:

Jackson v. Internatl. Fiber, 169 Ohio App. 3d 395, 2006-Ohio-5799, 863 N.E.2d 189, ¶ 17 (2d Dist.).

Oh, and the Second District is weird in how they number things because other appellate districts be like:

Cuspide Properties v. Earl Mechanical Servs., 2015-Ohio-5019, 53 N.E.3d 818, ¶ 60 (6th Dist.)

...

And so on. There's a lot of rules and formats to consider. And these are just the state published cases. I'm not even going to start on unpublished ones.

@Miss-Demeanor said in Where's your RP at?:

Not accepting stupid character death based on your own decisions and dice rolls is very much saying 'no, I choose not to accept the rules as they are, I don't want to be done so I refuse to play the game by the rules'.

So, you'd be okay if, let's say, I played a Vampire Sheriff, and you played a neonate, and I think you looked at me funny, which you didn't, so I went and slaughter-killed you with some staff-granted relic that does +5A damage to vampires.

Right?

New lawyer peeve:

Judges who do not apply the same standards to pro se litigants as they do to attorneys regarding the rules of procedure.

@Miss-Demeanor said in Where's your RP at?:

Given that none of that resulted from my own decisions and rolls, probably not. But nice try at misinterpretation!

No, it was a statement for clarification using an absurd situation.

So, it is okay for me to be peckish when I haven't done anything -- deciding or rolling -- that would reasonably result in my doom. But it's not okay if I have taken steps -- deciding or rolling -- towards the edge of and, perhaps off of, the cliff of doom.

Is there a line at which one says, "bro, u totes went over the edge"? Or is that sort of a moving target? Because I think that's what people are arguing about.

@Derp said in The Work Thread:

Federal Courts that apply different (stricter) standards to pro se litigants than they do to attorneys regarding the rules of procedure.

@ThatGuyThere said in Politics etc.:

While politics were cutthroat on an IC level, on an OOC level the player base was probably the most welcoming, friendly and outgoing group of folks I have ever run into on a WoD game. They went out of their way to help newbies get involved and feel important, because influences were important I was recruited to help on a plot the first week I was on grid, and even received IC credit for what my char did, as a new player to the game that made me really feel like it mattered that I was around.

That's because a good economy system, which the game had, made it more advantageous to have a lot of friends than to have a lot of enemies. If you wanted to get involved in the politics, you had to be friendly OOC; it was very easy to become a pariah.

At a minimum, you had to be involved politically. The system required it; the game enforced it. And that system generated an awful lot of RP because no one person could run or rule the place. It was literally impossible to do, based on the number of players and how it was set up. If you wanted to get far, you had to have allies; if you wanted allies, you had to get new players into the game.

@Ghost said in The Work Thread:

Please stop badgering me to partake in the office charity drive.

@Auspice

Jonah is the fucking shit. In a good way.

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

Supposably and supposedly are used differently depending on whether something has been supposed or could be supposed, so depending on context they may or may not be using it correctly.

Just like the words Conservative and conservative, right?

(C'mon no one uses the words right.)

@Auspice said in MU Things I Love:

...All I can think of is @Ganymede.

I'm not awkward. I'm just so salacious that I make others awkward.

@Macha

JFC your boss is stupid.

That's actually a functional tool.

I am plagued by something that is sapping me of all my energy.

No fever; no aches; just a bit of coughing from allergies.

But damn if this sucks.

@faraday said in PC antagonism done right:

Let's pretend that there's a totally mature player who won't start OOC drama, needs no encouragement to play antagonism, and is an awesome RPer. I don't want that person playing my character's antagonist, I want them playing my friend. Because 95% of MU scenes are social in nature, and who wants to hang out with their antagonist?

I can think of a number of players that I'd want to be my antagonist, mostly because I can count on them to not trick-fuck me behind the shade.

And I've had some of the best, most salacious RP with enemies. There is no doubt that Galina and Raven on Reno were antagonists, but you'd really never figure that out given all of the wicked, horrific things they did together.

@Arkandel said in RL Sads:

Well, there are reports of patients denying COVID-19 is real, even as they die from it so at this point I'm not sure, short of laws forcing them to obey measures with strict penalties if they don't, that counting on even basic common sense to prevail will work.

You really think that the laws will make them change their mind?

Look, some people deserve to die, all right?

@Ghost said in What do you WANT to play most?:

When I say dark fantasy, I'm saying as grimdark as Bill Nighy and Nick Cave drinking motor oil atop a pile of bones while listening to the audiobook version of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar
I'm thinking more akin to the middle ages scenes from Underworld, where there is the darkest, blackest, foulest magic out there in the night. Where piles of stripped bones line the entrance to the unsurvivable forest. Where the Midnight Queen awakens for the first time in a thousand years and marches with her army of the undead, adding to her ranks with every mortal they kill.

Or some shit like that. I dunno.

So, the Witcher.