From medical records.
"Child was restrained in forward facing car seat. Mother, who was not involved in the accident, was sitting in the car with Child at the time EMS arrived. Mother explained that Child was just adopted from Beijing. Mother stated that Child's culture in Beijing had taught them not to cry or they would be abused."
Fuck you, you racist piece of shit.
@seraphim73 said in Wheel of Time mechanics:
But man, I've been totally spoiled by automated systems, because while a 4 on 4 fight in WoD or Saga might take 6-8 hours, it takes 2 most of the time in FS3, maybe 3 if one or more players is slow.
Lotherio had scenes on Fifth Kingdom where there were 7 v. 7 battles, and they still only took 2 hours. You simply tell folks to hold poses until 3 rounds of combat were done, and then gave them 2 minutes after each round to change their action, if necessary.
Seriously, automated systems are awesome.
@saosmash said in Accounting for gender imbalances:
She sounds like a badass.
I would hire former prosecutors and criminal defense people in a second. You have to train them closely, yes, but they take on huge (for civil attorneys) caseloads, work themselves to the bone, and have the sort of idgaf i put away/defended rapists before attitude that makes every office hour go by faster.
It's always amusing at the office when you hear:
"This dickwad wants $250,000 for his client because of a rear-ender that caused minor bruising to her boob? I've had to put an asshole away for raping his sister while hitting her with a hammer, and she barely got her medical bills paid. Fuck her, fuck her lawyer, and fucking bring it."
An absolute joy to work with.
@bobgoblin said in The best I've ever...:
The best policy I've ever experienced was: Requiem for Kingsmouth's policy of only allowing 1 alt.
The best game system I've ever experienced was: BSG: Unification's use of FS3; it blew my fucking mind how well-tailored it was to the game's needs and code (which is a bit of quid pro quo).
The best setting I've ever experienced was: Requiem for Kingsmouth's vampire-based setting, with elements of Lovecraftian horror lingering.
The best code I've ever experienced was: Faraday's, but I'm slowly discovering how deep the code is at Fate's Harvest, so props to their team over there (there are a number of coders who've touched that game, so I give love to all of them. Any game that has every stat described and referenced in detail and available through the game's code is a good one, and this is especially true for the WoD (props also to Ashen-Shugar's (I think?) code for Star Wars SAGA games).
Letterkenny is surprisingly pleasing.
Pitter patter, folks.
This flowchart and Mage's magick system are substantially less complicated than the strategies to victory in Magic: The Gathering.
Frankly, while I appreciate the complexity of the system, I think that folks who find it so very complicated are the ones trying to optimize their PCs. This is a noble pursuit, but not for me.
I don't play high Gnosis PCs for a reason. I don't care to debate the complexities of the magick system. I know how what I do works, and that's enough for me.
@silverfox said in RL things I love:
I saw Hamilton tonight. Nothing could have prepared me fore the emotional rollercoaster. It was so good I cannot describe my feelings fully.
In my opinion, multi-sphere games represent the unnecessary complication of a system which, despite its appearances, appears clearly designed not to be run with groups of PCs from different source material.
@Prequell said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
This is weirdly interesting
It is vexing.
I work really fucking hard, in my opinion. Work's been so busy that I haven't RPed in, like, a week and a half. I'm too busy to put up with bullshit gamesmanship.
This is why people hate lawyers, including other lawyers.
@sunnyj said in nWorld of Darkness 1E v 2E:
All I hear about this TS Harmony stuff.
The entire prohibition or stigma of werewolves fucking was so stupid to begin with that its removal in 2E was like the dawn of the third day at Helm's Deep.
@Ghost said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
If we ever did an MSB Fantasy Football League, here are some prospective team names:
- Jill
- Social Rolls are my Forte
- FORTEtude Check
- I Butkus Staffers
- Demarcus +Warn
- The Faradelphia Eagles
- My MLB plays BSG
- Bill Belliclique
- Surrty Yard Penalty
- Into Tight End TS
- The Shangri LA Rams
- FS3 Point Conversion
- Page Interference
Sorry, but I'd have my own team:
My couch pulls out, but I don't, so now I have twincest babies.
@vulgarkitten said in MU Things I Love:
@thatonedude said in MU Things I Love:
@shincashay said in MU Things I Love:
RPing with someone for 6 hours and no romance, no ts, just developing story.
Yup, I'm stalking them now. #letmebeyourrppartner4life
THIS COULD HAVE BEEN US! >.>;
It should've been us
Shoulda been a fire, shoulda been the perfect storm
It should've been us
Coulda been the real thing
Now we'll never know for sure, ooh
We were crazy, but amazing, baby we both know
It should've been us, us
It, it, it should've been us
Good paralegals are worth their weight in gold for so many reasons, JFC.
@Ghost said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Yeah, I 100% do not partake in company charity events, save for the occasional "company talent show" where ticket sales go to charity or "popcorn and watch movie at work".
Our charity is a combination of Office Cat and local animal shelters.
I always give, of course, but I wuv all da kitties.
@friendlybee said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:
Yeah, people are very upset that I disagreed with them online about disagreements online so they're reaching as hard as they can.
See, Tempest, if you'd refer to Paragraph 4(g) of the memo, titled "Quod Erat Demonstravit" --
The collectible female Autobots for my little Transformers loving daughter.
I just ordered Elita-1, Chromia, Moonracer, and Greenlight because Arcee is getting lonely.
I've been gaming as long as TNP.
I never understood why people wanted the Unfindable flag unless they wanted to hide from a player that was harassing them. And if that's the case, the proper method to address this is to go staff. And if they don't do shit, you're playing on the wrong game.
He reprised his role as the Trickster for the Arrowverse Flash as well. There are all sorts of shoutouts to the 1990s show.
Proof that the DC Animated Universe remains superior to its live-action shit.
You gotta appreciate how well he plays with himself.
@bored said in Do we need staff?:
WoD is kind of the perfect storm of being shitty for this, though. It's high conflict but generally can't be automated because it's a fundamentally exception-based rules system with tons of separate moving parts. It risks a lot of thematic drift because while it has source material, the abundance of crazy power shit perfectly well lets someone play out their RapeOtter fantasies as if it was FurryMUCK.
As I've pointed out before, and as RDC has done, that doesn't mean a World of Darkness game cannot run just fine without a massive staff population.
The great thing about World of Darkness games is that they are based on books. The great thing about those books is that they are pretty easy to get through (with some exceptions, like Mage). And the system, for the most part, is easy to figure out: (1) gather dice; (2) roll dice; and (3) see what happens.
The big problem is the player base the games attract, and how the handful of foul, power-gaming, goal-oriented, fun-sucking, must-be-dominating players really take the piss out of the fun that others have.
