Posts made by Ganymede

@chibichibi said in Mage 2E Game - Set in San Francisco:

It's closer to RAW, but it's set in the Bay Area.

... like, Monday Night RAW?

Just kidding. I am interested, but I just don't have the time right now. Will keep in touch, though.

@Kay said in Do people still MU*?:

@chibichibi I would recommend City of Shadows. It's pretty active, staff and playerbase are both really nice. It is Chronicles of Darkness 2e, you can find the list of books they're using here http://cityofshadowsmux.com/wiki/Books

I also recommend. I'd be more active there if it weren't for work and life.

My neighbors are kvetching about our public school bussing.

The busses regularly come and deliver the kids 5 to 30 minutes late. The district is so short on bus drivers that school board members and teachers have been doing it. I feel bad for the kids.

I don’t feel bad for the parents. At all. They complain about the real property taxes, most of which fund our schools, but then bitch about short staffing. As if they aren’t completely linked.

JFC, people.

I have come down with an awful case of people demanding that I fix the shitty situations they created immediately.

It’s exhausting too.

@Runescryer

To add: the largest armada ever created was Chinese, led by Zheng He, a Muslim eunuch.

So, yeah, so much for European naval supremacy.

@Arkandel said in MUers in the news?:

For example: If you run an Anne Rice MUSH and you choose that in your setting, due to supernatural reasons, vampires can't have sex ("it won't go up, Cap'n!") then I can't play my vampire gettin' it up anyway. If I did so it'd go against a hard rule (sorry...) that makes no sense to violate. So staff would be justified in telling me that no, I can't do that in RP - there are physical limitations of the universe involved that my character can't supersede.

While I am sure that the impotent have been derided in history, I think that this is far a-field of what we have been trying to express.

To answer the question posed before about what is wrong about wanting to run a game that is monoethnic, I say that we have a word for people taking steps to create a word that is monoethnic, fantastic or not. That word is "racist." Were someone to want to create a fantasy world where adults engaged in sexual relationships with children under the age of 13, we would have another word for it. While I am sure some will think it unfair to liken a person who invents a fantasy setting that is monoethnic to a person that takes real-life steps towards creating a monoethnic culture, the word itself -- "racist" -- is apt and accurate, just as it is apt and accurate to call a choice "racist" while simultaneously pointing out that the person making such choice may not be so.

So, I'll say my piece: creating and enforcing a monoethnic game are racist choices. To me, it's that simple. If you want to avoid that particular reputation, choose otherwise, but people in the United States have been making these kinds of choices for generations, while trying to hide under the cloth of "I didn't mean to be."

@Ghost said in MUers in the news?:

But if the fry cooks forget to sprinkle Cajun seasoning on your fries and instead sprinkle racism seasoning on your fries, they're not likely to fire themselves if you complain to them. You gotta talk to people that can choose for them.

Those motherfuckers could have chosen to use the fucking Cajun seasoning instead of the racism seasoning on my damn fries.

@Ghost said in MUers in the news?:

Oh no I get that, but clearly yelling at the fry cooks in this case isn't going to yield any sort of result. Best to take it up with the manager whose legacy is on the line.

But if the fry cooks are the reason why my french fries suck, I'm not going to complain to the manager about the potatoes they've provided.

@Ghost said in MUers in the news?:

At the risk of sounding derogatory, the reality is that if you're upset with your Big Mac, you'll get better results talking to the manager than you would screaming at the fry cooks.

Yes, but we're not yelling at fry cooks; we're yelling against racist takes.

@Misadventure said in MUers in the news?:

How does the Legend of the Five Rings setting handle this topic, in its sources, and in online play?

I really don't like playing the "what about?" game in an honest discussion, but the game doesn't really mention anything about racial makeup. That said, William Adams, aka Miura Anjin, and Yasuke effectively eliminate any argument about non-ethnic-East-Asian folks not having a place in a setting like Rokugan.

@Macha said in 2022: A New Year, New Dead Celebrities:

I have another big sad. Bed knobs and Broomsticks, Mrs. Potts, all the tv shows she popped up on.. Angela Lansbury, 96

@Nymeria said in MUers in the news?:

I haven't said that we don't?

I admit I got the wrong impression when you wrote:

"We've said you'd need to find a way of fitting in a character from outside of Westeros."

I took that to mean that the onus is on the player to figure things out for themselves.

My bad.

@faraday said in MUers in the news?:

In the (laughably unlikely) event that someone were to make a show/movie today set in that world, it would be asinine to argue that all the main chars should be white just because that's how the book describes them. We can be better than that.

We probably should, and this is more or less where I come down.

To be fair, GRRM is probably one of the more open authors when it comes to suggestions of improving his creation. I don't mind him one bit. He's far more fair-minded than, oh, Alan Moore (that guy is fucking crazy). That doesn't mean his creation isn't implicitly racist or, said another way, race-blind. It certainly does not mean that he should be free from criticism either, and to his credit I think he has faced that criticism well.

Executing on that world vision is a matter of the moment. I am fine with the way HotD has been portrayed, along with Amazon's Rings of Power. I like injecting more diversity into source material because it makes that material richer and takes nothing away from the value of the material itself. People toss the word "woke" like it's an epithet, I find it incredibly laughable.

@Nymeria said in MUers in the news?:

And we haven't said that. We've said you'd need to find a way of fitting in a character from outside of Westeros.

Or you could offer explanations for potential players that make sense for your world. The choice is yours, but you could help applicants instead of asking them to be mind-readers.

@Derp said in MUers in the news?:

Seriously? Are we going to do this dance again? Can you maybe, I dunno. Just fucking stop with the insistence on people having the "proper" skin color in 2022? Because that is SUCH a big "oof."

You know, it may very well be that the material itself is inherently racist. We had a big discussion about this in the context of Werewolf: The Apocalypse's tribes a while back, along with the ill-conceived Gypsies supplement. If the material used is inherently racist, then I'm not comfortable labeling a person using the material as "racist."

@Bellecourt

Mods are as susceptible as anyone of being wrong, but Derp is wrong whenever I'm arguing with him.

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@Arkandel

@Derp

I haven’t seen any of the Steelmaws, so I am not taking them into consideration.

Get your white hat on.

I play Madison at City of Shadows MUX, which is a CoD / WoD 2E game featuring Vampires, Werewolves, and Changelings. It is located here:

http://cityofshadowsmux.com/wiki/Main_Page

Due to the setting, the in-set hostilities or fears between the supernatural races are minimized in favor of a city-wide mutual-assistance agreement known as the Accord. Due to the system, it is entirely possible to have groups consisting of supers, non-supers, and other-supers; for example, a pack could feasibly consist of vampires, werewolves, changelings, mortal+, and mortals. So, yes, this means the game is ripe for troupe-play, and this is what I'm pitching.

I'd like to put together a Cadre (another word for a 'mixed-group' of PCs) focused on making Chicago a better place, particularly the less-fortunate parts of the city. Madison is a new-ish detective / Ithaeur who's born-and-raised in the Second City. She'd be open to just about anyone that aligns with her principles as a Cadre-member.

As y'all probably know, I play super-casual, but I keep active via @mail and OOC communication (but not Discord). I play often during business hours EST, but I do have some weekday evenings available and Sunday evenings are set in stone as RP_OK (because of sportsball).

If interested in joining, please PM here or @mail me on the game.

@Ghost