Common meatloaf mix is beef, veal, and pork. Meatloaf without doing a mix of meats -- not necessarily that specific mix, but something! -- is so weird to me. I don't just want a loaf of ground beef! One of my favorite mixes I've done is bison, lamb, and pork.
I like to use lean pork, turkey, chicken, and beef chorizo.
Sooo... if you get single, wanna come over?
Oh, I see what you did thar.
@jennkryst said in FFG L5R:
Now I just need someone who knows how code and who wants the responsibility of plotz and hosting and whatever.
I can plotz for a small group.
I have fond memories of L5R. My troupe and I played a roving band of sort-of-ronin who went from village to village selling sake. Our "leader" was a Lion Clan wrestler, and I played a shugenja with Earth magic that was the troupe's tank.
Enemy: Is that your champion?
Leader: No, that's our shugenja; she's the least violent one of us too!
@Ghost said in Mental Health and Grown Up Stuff:
Think of it like tuning an instrument, using a non-addictive means. Any doctor should be able to consult you on your concerns.
Don't confuse my reluctance or reticence to a comment on whether I think drugs are a crutch or not. My partner takes anti-anxiety medication and sleep aids. I understand the stigma; I understand the need.
But I haven't met a doctor yet who can relieve my albeit-fearful concerns of addiction.
I exercise. I eat a healthy diet. I have activities. But, yes: I have a concern that no doctor -- not even my brother -- has been able to adequately reassure me on.
As someone who religiously plays / played vampires, do you really want me to describe how you can quite easily set up legal vehicles in order to maintain a vampire lord's possessions over time without resorting to the use of Disciplines?
I fucking hate cancer.
I'm sorry to hear about your friend. I do not at all mean to belittle her struggle or yours.
Cancer sucks. My partner has had six different kinds (neuroblastoma; melanoma; thyoid; ovarian; kidney; uterine). We sort of joke about it in several ways -- like, whether she's going to have the "Colonel's Cancer Recipe" or "a Baker's Dozen of Bad News."
About the funniest thing we heard was one doctor's prognosis: "you seem to have a very rare genetic mutation that results in the unfortunate 'ability' to manifest cancer anywhere in your body at any time." Worst X-Man ever.
@horrorhound said in Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff:
Yes.
Fine.
First, try to take it. Anyone stupid enough to do that will be met with violence. The justice system revolves around the idea of protecting property, not people. When the first few people show up dead, you’ve made your point.
Second, the power. You set it up. Put your peons who know better in the right places. Prop them up. Protect them and theirs. Then the system is yours.
Finally, banks and trusts. Trust funds can exist in perpetuity, even if title restrictions cannot. Set up a few trusts to do business one another, all to benefit a single actual beneficiary: your whim.
Not tough.
@surreality said in RL Anger:
Fuck. This. Day. I hate this day. I refuse to call it a holiday. It is a helliday,
I love St. Valentine's Day.
I love watching people deck their loved ones with gifts and affection, as if that makes up for the remainder of the year's shallow sullenness and petty squabbles. I love to hear the stories of love-lost and chagrin as lovers realize that love is, in fact, transient and intransigent when it comes to scorn. I love the misery it spawns: the awful, grueling realization that nothing is permanent. That death is upon you. That this day is but a single day of ephemera in a lifetime of loneliness and ostracism.
It is especially appealing to watch younger people wrestle with this truth. When they finally break into tears and sobbing, that is when they become acceptable members of my inner circle.
So, enjoy your falsehoods and frauds!
I will be waiting.
@devrex said in The Desired Experience:
What is your desired experience when you get onto a MU*? What do you do this for? What kind of book or movie are you trying to step into there?
Objection as to form, but I shall answer your "question."
I hope to entertain: These games aren't fun if people aren't having fun and I'm just one player of many. If I get on and do something that people enjoyed watching or participating in, I win. This is why I am having fun with my vampire on Liberation; he's goofy; he's sweet; but he's also funny because chainsaws hurt, yo.
I hope to think: These games are interactive improv at heart. They get really boring when you're doing the same things all the time, whatever they are. So if I get into a situation where I have to think about what's happening and react to it within character then I'm probably having a great time.
I hope to learn something: In order to do either of the above, I need to get into my characters. I have learned so much from playing Piccola that it takes a lot of effort to get into her because writing for and being her takes a lot of mind-power. She somehow became part-samurai, part-assassin, and part-Machiavellian power-broker along the way that I think I need a break.
@Auspice said in Mental Health and Grown Up Stuff:
It's dangerous to the people in the thick of it, tho.
It's like that article even said- that woman had people in a cancer group who were the most optimistic people she'd ever met. Which, props to them for being positive. It's hard in that state.
Sure. People can elect to feel however they feel about a certain topic. I'm okay with that. Shoving platitudes on someone does little to make them feel better, though. And I've learned that it breeds resentment and can even exacerbate the problem.
My partner gets panic attacks about examinations in her program, which she gets every 2 or 3 weeks. I used to try to pep her up and encourage her, but she told me recently that just made it worse. Made her feel like, if she didn't pass, that she'd be letting me down. So my new strategy is just letting her deal with it her own way, and trying not to get frustrated from the fact that I've seen her for only a few hours every couple of weeks, and, by then, I'm so lonely and detached that I've nothing to say to her.
I mean, I can basically feel our partnership falling to bits, but I don't say shit about it. It doesn't help. The only thing I can hope is that, at the end of the road, there's something to cling onto that we can build around.
@devrex said in The Desired Experience:
I don't understand the objection as to form or why you put question in quotes.
Your "question" is actually three questions. It's a compound question!
C'mon, if I can't make a lawyer joke, it's like --
@Auspice said in RL things I love:
A WW boycott would not surprise me, at all.
All of WW's stuff actually bored the shit out of me after I turned 25.
Because my experience tells me that too few people are happy being just the cook to risk the headache of folks who also want to be Steven Seagal.
I cook. This is because my partner does not / cannot. I can bake as well, but not as proficiently.
Mostly, though, my "things" include working out an awful lot. I just like the rush. Oh, and drinking. And Dragonforce.
If I were a GM, I would leave Sandwich Club alone, as they apparently want. They would be eligible for no position which would require them to RP out of their circle.
If I were part of Sandwich Club, I would want the GM to just leave me alone.
I was always fond of Strangers in Paradise.
@tinuviel said in The Desired Experience:
None of those things run counter to what I said. Staff can take mitigating actions, but they can't decide that another player's reason for excluding others is unwarranted.
I guess not, but implicitly what I said does. Regardless, because of who you are and who I am, I will amend.
Regardless of what justification a player may have for not interacting with the game at large, staff can and should take action to protect the game, including, but not limited to, requiring players to either give up positions of IC power or interact with others regularly.
@ixokai said in Mass Effect: Andromeda: The Thread:
Is Default Female Ryder different then Default Twin of Male Ryder?
This may only be a problem for us parents, but I'm never going to get the Paw Patrol theme song out of my head once I start playing this fucking game.
I've said it before, but RfK's system is now my preference. It rewarded people for "doing shit," even coffee/bar RP. What you got from that kind of RP got capped at 7 beats per week, so you needed to go and do other kinds of scenes (thematic, events, etc.) or resolve conditions and aspirations to get more beats.
The most substantial part was being responsible for claiming your own beats. You felt like you had control, and that was important too. I wrote my beat-claims up like they were journal entries, which amused staff more than once. The beat-claims also served as a good way to figure out what the fuck happened last week.
Yeah, it was like report-writing -- except it wasn't. You could do whatever you want, as long as staff had some idea that your claim was legit and that the RP actually happened.
I really miss that part about RfK. I probably miss it the most.