...with GoT done and a short wait until the Deadwood movie, I'm actually watching Deadwood for the first time starting now.
On Ssn1Ep1 right now on my TV. I don't normally go for westerns, but I like it. McShane and Olyphant are wonderful in this so far. McShane is actually so good in this it's mesmerizing.
Zoltan!
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AND FUCK ME, RIGHT?!?! BECAUSE THERE IS THIS AWESOME PART OF ME THAT WANTS TO GO BACK AND GUIDE THIS INTO BEING SOMETHING EPIC. PART OF ME WOULD LOVE TO SEE IF I COULD PULL OFF SOME EXPERT LEVEL SHIT LIKE...
"Guys, I got a message in my meditation session that they really love the band Journey and would love to hear some while we communicate to them."
And then mentally high-five myself while performing telepathy across the cosmos to "Faithfully".
But I'm a good person; so I can't and I won't. But I want to. Wanting to is normal.
Actually, I'm worried for them and my friend. Last night was somewhat agonizing because I don't think this is in any fucking way healthy and my stomach hurt. I desperately do not want to see these nice people obsess over this. These are very sweet people, but the trick about cult behavior is that some people have no idea when they're drifting into it because it's exciting and makes you feel special. They wanna feel special. I get that. But... 
So, just to be clear, I make fun to let off the steam, but ultimately what happened last night was kind of depressing.
Graham Norton is such a lovely interviewer.
I'm in the States, so I DVR his shows. I build this backlog that I might not touch for weeks, and then suddenly get the wild hair to watch an episode. Every single time I'm floored with just how conversationally wonderful his programs are.
USA needs more "shared couch conversation" interview shows, or better yet, Graham needs to enter the US nighttime talk show competition.
UFO STUFF UPDATE
Talked to friend who didn't make it to the dinner party. He thought it was going to be about being GHOSTFACERS at B&Bs, too; not about psychic communication whatsomathingers.
He's not into it, either, and he's gonna nope out, too.
Big sigh of relief, there.
@Ghost Theres all sorts of moaning coming from the basement!
DONT COME IN HERE!
knowing what I do of Ghost's SO...
...those would be moans of pain as someone was separated from their genitalia.
She gives it back when she's done with it.
I love my tattooed barbarianess
I slept with your mom.
I wish I could take my comeback.
It's so stupid but I am near to tears; as it is I have trouble communicating and when I ask for clarification someone implying that I'm stupid or being sarcastic about it isn't helpful and makes me feel like shit.
No, being mocked for any miscommunication—misunderstanding, mishearing, misreading, misspeaking, etc.—never does. Sympathies.
Can we bronze/pin this response?
@Apos said:
@Ghost said:
I perceive this to be a huge part of the problem.
I would say half of the people I've mushed with, or at least a third, ask me something like: "Hey, did you play <insert name> on <inset game>, because your poses seem familiar." And then when I explain I'm not that person, its: "Okay good, because I swore I'd never RP with that person ever again, he did this and this and this and this and he's horrible."
Holy shit, really? I have literally never had that happen to me in all my years online. At least not in a roleplaying context. I would have been shocked that happened at all, let alone something that comes up often.
I had a female player I wasn't roleplaying with reach out to me on behalf of a female roleplayer I was currently roleplaying with, just to make sure I hadn't lied to the current girl when I told her I wasn't this horrible demon rper she was trying to avoid. I really should have seen the red flag then. Both girls turned out to be kind of batshit.
I also know a girl who thoroughly tries to research who is OOCly who on a mush (including wiki stalking) before playing. Even if she is not able to prove X is EvilBobRPer, she will still make a character, but then avoid X just in case...and then when she starts to feel ignored, partially believes it is because people have carried a dislike of her to every game. So she only tries to RP with a core group of people to avoid all of this, but has to try to integrate into game communities.
Shit, fifteen+ years, I've seen and been in the center of a lot of weird shit.
EDIT: And yes, after currentGirl and anonymousGirl vetted that I wasn't lying about not being EvilBobRPer, they both paged me in unison to apologize for the deception, but that everything was great now and they really liked me!
Today would have been Wade Boggs' 61st Birthday. He once drank 70 beers during a single flight across the USA.
RIP Boss Hogg.
@Sovereign @Cirno hahahaha I love this forum sometimes.
When you get a drinking horn for your birthday, fill it up with rum & coke, and...your SO and her girlfriends run off with it to giggle and make lewd jokes with it.
The trouble with LordsAndLadies mushes is this: If things happen, then they're bad, bad things that affect everyone.
Sure, there's beheading/punishing criminals and the occasional raider/highwayman to ride down, but those will be NPCs. What about the PCs? You've got a bunch of lords, ladies, men-at-arms, soldiers, shitbags, handmaidens, etc, and they're ALL from different houses. So the logical idea is to have marriages, stack them against each other, cause some drama, poison some wine, have a few rapes, set a few fires, run down some smallfolk with horses, right? Because that's what the nobles in GoT do. They troll each other at the expense of their people. They meddle. They cause problems. They marry male and female members of household to people who very well may end up abusing them for politics.
It's like Pro Wrestling with swords, lances, and seduction.
But the general RPer doesn't want to have their sexy little relationships or noble lives fucked with, so the drama tends to be like a 6th grade dance where most of the boys and girls are on opposite sides of the gymnasium daring each other to ask this girl or this boy to dance, but nothing really happens, and they leave it to staff to create drama for them to all participate with each other in as a team. The players that try to start shit mostly get avoided and viewed as dangerous to RP with, and most of the players either won't cause drama unless they're sure they will get away with it OR don't do it to avoid OOCSplosion.
So tourneys. And Banquets. And scenes in the yard. And sex.
The noble houses circle each other like two teenaged boys in a fight, too afraid to commit to throwing a punch, until the teacher across the hall yells WHATS GOING ON OUT THERE and everyone scatters to rumor-douchebag about how one or the other kid was being a pussy.
When I heard that Danny Devito is in the next Jumanji, I got excited.
When I saw the trailer and it was revealed that the "Rock" will be channling Danny Devito for the whole movie, I got really, really, really excited.
@VulgarKitten Yeah, I dug what Webb was up to. Always thought it was a fucking shame so many players were trying to game the game on an OOC level. I should have forwarded the pages to staff.
@Luna said:
I've often felt unwanted. The worst thing though is 'I love RPing with you, but so and so hates you and will get super dramatic about it so I can't' Ph cool. Bad behavior rewarded. Awesome.
Ohfuck I sympathize so much. I've been there. So you're in a slightly or very abusive RP friendship/weird thing and thus I need to take the bullet?
Fuck that.
