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@Macha said in RL things I love:

Jon Stewart = upvote.

Upvote =

@devrex said in The Desired Experience:

You can make a lawyer joke, that doesn't mean it's not going to go over my head sometimes!

That's okay. My humor be like:

@SilentHills said in It's where you putcher weed ...:

I had to ask my hipper, younger friends about smoking weed after this and they definitely said the worst thing they've ever done is strong bong hits. They both advised against it and said they threw up. I can see why you wouldn't recommend it.

Bongs don't hold enough water. Jerry cans can help.

Take one of these:

And one of these:

Get some of this:

And one of these:

And do the following:

1. Drill a hole in the back of the can large enough for the tubing.
2. Stick the stainless steel tubing down the back of the can, wide-end up. It should be long enough to coil a little at the bottom.
3. Affix the tubing with the glue gun, and make sure the seal is airtight.
4. Remove the washer from the gasket and put a small piece of netting there.
5. Drill a small hole in the handle, where your thumb might go.

Fill the can with water up at least halfway, and add aromatic liquids in there if you want -- wine, beer, something alcoholic and not acidic. Put your bud on the screen, light, and pull with your thumb on the small handle hole. Remove thumb to shotgun the smoke.

This is my college jerry bong. You're welcome.

@il-volpe said in The Desired Experience:

Players want agency, and to give them that you must give them opportunities to do stuff.

What if some players' active hours differ from the core group?

What if some players are less comfortable with the kind of RP that the core group want to do?

There's a lot here. It's nice to say GIVE THEM AGENCY without answering the tougher questions about how to do it with a given player base. Because every player base is different.

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

That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works. Legit stahp. Why do people not understand the concept of criticising systems while being forced to operate within them or starve.

"If you believe in defunding the police, why do you follow the law?"

Yeah, I hear you.

@derp said in The Desired Experience:

So, no. This is not on staff, even if they point you toward that role. They cannot make RP for you, they cannot predict whether you will play the role in a compelling way, and they cannot force people to play together who don't want to play together.

I concur.

I recently applied for a character role that was needed. I love the character. I have a point to exist, and I know that staff has been encouraging interaction with my PC and other players' PCs. But it simply has not worked out, schedule-wise, and I have not met everyone I probably need to in order to kick-off the plot that staff has planned.

But that's not staff's fault.

If you haven't seen it yet, Hannah Gadbsy's Nanette on Netflix is a powerful, heart-breaking event to watch.

She's an Australian comic, but there's nothing comedic about it, and I don't know how to feel about it except to want to watch it again and again.

@faraday said in The Desired Experience:

Is it nice to help Jane have fun? Sure. Is it good for the game when people do it? Sure. But that's a very different argument than saying I'm "responsible" for it.

That's how I read it too.

I think, Tinuviel, that when you said "responsible for everyone else's fun" you meant "don't shit on other people who are trying to have fun." I took it to mean that, so both you and Derp's positions reconciled. That's where I fit.

I don't have much time. I like to play with friends. I'll try to accommodate where I can. Ultimately, as long as I'm not shitting on other people's fun, I think I'm okay.

@Wretched

Locate your local legal aid or pro bono society. That may mean calling the local bar association. Chances are if the landlord files on August 1, there won’t be a hearing until August 30 or so. But check with your local bar association to confirm that suspicion and plan accordingly.

@ominous

But again you are presuming that I can bring more than four sandwiches at any time.

I mean, if you had a weekly potluck at which I brought only four sandwiches each time, and you elect to take me off the invite list regardless of how good those sandwiches are or how much people enjoy them, then that’s fine. I will stop coming around probably before I’m disinvited.

As long as you are up front about excluding people who can only regularly bring four sandwiches and accept that reputation, I have no objection.

@Aria

“Mojo not hideous! He is at least a solid 8!”

Dead.

@il-volpe said in The Desired Experience:

I think when you have the non-available prince and their supposedly available PC proxy, the proxy gets bored of having all the bother while being too pawn-like, and PCs still wish they could worm their way closer and closer to the Prince's ear without getting stopped by the OOC consideration of the prince not really being an 'on-screen' character.

I think the above scenario is an example of (1) how stupid Vampire players' expectations often are; and (2) how infrequently staff actually instill the spirit of the game into the MUSH.

FFS, you're supposed to spend a lot of time not getting crushed.

@mietze

As someone studying the new Title IX regulations, I can only watch in horror.

@SuperiorHuron said in The Work Thread:

Who should be getting it, who shouldn't. Do we get it, does the billing staff? Do we get it at all? Then there's the fighting. Well you don't DESERVE IT! I don't even want to enter the building. I don't even care if it get it. I've been happy with the fact my insurance is being taken care of. And my mortgage. And all the smaller things. Once that check comes from the back pay, it'll be taxed anyway. I'm just over all of it.

@reimesu said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

Although, the book covers 5 different eras: Kyoshi, Roku, the Hundred Years War, the Aang era (post show,) and Korra era.

I really only want to play in the Korra era because, c'mon.

"Do you have a five-year plan?"

The only reasonable answer would be "no."

I don't want to hire an attorney with any certainty as to where they will be in five years career-wise.

You don't know what's going to happen.

If you think you do, you're too arrogant to work with me.

For the sake of brevity, I will be blunt.

@sunny said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

“Everyone needs to just step up and run plots” is an unreasonable expectation, full stop.

I concur because some people really suck at running scenes, for a plethora of reasons.

@derp said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

... in the idea that not everyone can GM, I find it incredibly unlikely that those who can't are somehow a substantial majority of players.

No, really, a substantial majority of players suck at running scenes, for a plethora of reasons.

Seriously, putting together a gaming troupe of people who all can comfortably run scenes is nigh impossible. We have all had to deal with that GM who thought they were spectacular when they were patently awful. The crew in Critical Role is an exception to the general rule that, among gamers, there's commonly a small handful of folks who have the time, energy, and talent to run a campaign. And for those of us who have lived through this, it is self-serving to hold otherwise.

I mean, there's a reason why this topic exists. There are few people with the time, energy, and talent to make a game; there are also few people with the time, energy, and talent to run scenes on that game; so people with both skillsets, which are necessary to pull off games with any sense of longevity, are exceedingly rare. In my 20+ years in this damned hobby, I can count on one hand the people who I've known to be able to do this, and I ain't on that list despite my glorious career as a staffer.

My opinion, constructively, is that those of the first talents need to pair with those with the second and ensure that there are as few boundaries as possible for those of the second to thrive. Meanwhile, those of the first need to carefully watch those of the second because folks like Spider and other miscreants often fit into the second variety of players. Having been on a few games that have been, in my opinion, universally considered successful, that success has less to do with numbers, policies, and code than with having someone of the first talents enabling those of the second to run scenes to generate activity on their game.

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

You are allowed to be human! Cut your brain some slack! This pandemic shit is traumatic.

I concur.

I, however, am not so allowed.

@seraphim73 said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

I have a lot of fun following behind the poses of GMs and setting FS3 NPCs to do what the GM just said they did. It takes some of the burden off GMs who aren't comfortable with the combat system, and I enjoy playing with it.

Let's just say that, in my years of playing, FS3 is by far the best system for handling combat scenes with more than a dozen NPCs and PCs. If I wasn't so fucking code-illiterate we would have a Mass Effect game by now.