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I wholeheartedly oppose recycling of the same character between games that are not connected to each other.

By that I mean if MushA ran for a long time, closed, then opens as MUSH-A-PART2 where former players can continue their stories? I'm alright with that. To me it's no different than Firefly getting canceled and then the PCs are rebuilt for Serenity, the movie.

However, I tend to see a lot of weirdness and shenanigans in the wake of players who rebuild the same characters over and over again. Once someone tried to dupe me into remaking an IC romantic interest from 2 games ago. The players who do this tend to regurgitate story and attempt to get players to recreate the story elements that they want. There's also often little room for flexibility because the players who do this have something very specific in mind. In the end, there's very little surprise with recycled characters, and it's exhausting to me. Come on, be like the rest of the kids. Make something new. Have new experiences and put effort into it rather than replaying the same routine with the same character over and over again.

I make jokes about WoD players asking if they can bring "Their ________" (i.e. "My Tremere" or "My Get of Fenris") because it's a WARNING SIGN that you may also get slapped with an ubercharactercheese concept.

I have a RL friend that won't play Vampire: The Masquerade unless he gets to play His Gangrel, who is a 6th generation Gangrel with maxxed out stats, somewhere around 8 different maxxed out Disciplines (Wuuuut? A Gangrel with Fortitude, Auspex, Animalism, Potence, Celerity, Presence, Vicissitude, and Obfuscate? Ya don't say...).

So, in some cases recycled characters have less to do with a concept and more to do with recreating a character sheet of stuff some other staffer approved.

I just couldn't do it. For me? Fresh game equals fresh content.

@Wretched said in Good or New Movies Review:

@Ghost

Yes. And they play movies in the basement.:)

@Auspice said in Gray Harbor Discussion:

@Ghost said in Gray Harbor Discussion:

@Auspice I'm team Cersei. Well, team Lena.

Yes, but only one of them lost a limb. Follow the bouncing ball, Ghost. Gawd.

Derp. Right. Jaime is an amputee.

On the other hand...

(EYYYYYyyyyyyseewhatIdidthere)

Lena played MaMa and MaMa amputated a guy's dick off with her teeth.

#AlwaysPayYourDebts

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

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

Ho-lee piss does spironolactone make you have to pee. All the time.

I was on furosemide for 10 days. I lost 38 pounds of water weight. I was in the bathroom almost every hour.

Could you repeat the name of the medication and if it's over the counter or mail-order from either Canada or Mexico?

Asking for a friend.

V5 did a great job in handling this.

(Wut, Ghost is gonna V5 fanboy again? Yes.)

One of the big problems with WoD (especially oWoD) is the smorgasbord of mental, physical, and social flaws. When you pick a flaw, you get extra xp to build your character with. One really bad WoD player habit (and by really bad I mean it's damn near endemic) is taking a flaw for the extra XP, and then either choosing one that they can either get the extra points for with relatively low risk of it coming into play OR roleplaying around it (like it doesn't exist, that the negatives are mitigated, or simply not pointing out when they have a -2 dice penalty unless the ST remembers it).

Stuff like:

• HATRED: INUIT in a game that takes place in Brazil.
• MISSING LIMB but then has Blade Runner leg that they claim doesnt impede them at all.
• MPD triggered by being in the presence of a 56 (not 55, not 57) year old dwarf holding a Chihuahua in one hand and a bottle of Strawberry Fanta in the other. Otherwise they're normal. Thanks for the extra XP!

V5 addressed this in ways by simply referring to these things as an existing condition that will always add difficulty/dice penalty to a scene. You see this really well in the Malkavian clan flaw section, where a player cannot detail the exact terms and conditions of how and when they're affected, but their mental state will often manifest as a base difficulty at nearly all times to perception.

I'm getting off topic with mechanics, though. This thread was more about the spirit of whether or not it's okay to role play disabilities, to which I still say that everyone should feel welcome to RP whatever the fuck they want so long as they're being respectful and not using said disability to cheeseball the rules for xp bonuses.

Vegetarianism is simple. Veganism is less simple.

I've had a decent sampling of "Vegan substitute foods" (cheese, meat, and other products), and my assessment is that I think vegan food producers should spend less time trying to create vegan versions of non-vegan foods, but focus on making openly vegan foods better.

I love veggie burgers, but vegan cheese (without milk) is not tasty, nor is it actually cheese. So what I'm saying is, I think instead of "Impossible Food" substitutes, I don't care if it's a burger patty made of bean curd and soy, or a mass of legumes broiled into a puck like falafel. I get excited about new recipes and flavors, but if I hear "Vegan Cheese", I think in my head what cheese tastes like, and every...fucking...time the taste hits my tongue I have that weird sensation where you're expecting one flavor, get another, and then immediately your brain questions whether or not that odd flavor means food poisoning.

To be honest, there's a lot of stuff in those categories that I'd go vegetarian for, but not because I want to trick myself out of wanting sirloin, but because I love falafel.

@Lotherio said in Gray Harbor Discussion:

rhetoric

Key word.

I agree with you, for the record. I see a lot of ramping up, speculation, and the building of an accusation with very little question or input from the policy-maker's point of view.

@Auspice

That'll kickstart your diet.

Your VAN DIETTE

@Lotherio said in Disabilities and Mental Illness as Character Traits:

@Ghost said in Disabilities and Mental Illness as Character Traits:

holding a Chihuahua in one hand and a bottle of Strawberry Fanta in the other.

Gonna be honest. A Chihuahua holder drinking strawberry fanta drops my drawbridge everytime, being 56 is just insult to injury.

Yeah, definitely could be a Bond villain concept.

@Wretched

A worthy set of morals to live by, if I do say so, myself.

Sidebar? My mental television is playing this scenario where one player makes a peddler of German amputee/proesthetic porn, and then suddenly 10+ characters app in as being amputees. Then, staff goes "HOLY FUCK, PEOPLE, STOP. ENOUGH." and then people are like "Y U HAET AMPUTEES???"

Like, would that be kink shaming, protecting a minority, or bigotry against amputees? SOMEONE CALL KENNY LOGGINS, CUZ WE'RE IN THE DANGER ZONE.

(I agree with your brainmeats and the thought process by the way. I think it all comes down to philosophy and honest intent. The sell is often based in the packaging and the salesman. Ban on amputees is far more socially dangerous than a temporary restriction on former pro wrestlers given the current social climate of both mushing and the world alone.)

@Misadventure said in What do you eat?:

I am sure we will get there.

If Star Trek communicators turned into cell phones (it became real!), then I hope the same thing happens with replicators.

A device that can use existing matter to create (3d print) an actual aged, cooked, and seasoned ribeye steak without having to kill anything seems like a win all around.

@Auspice

Picard teaser trailer is on YouTube.

@Kanye-Qwest said in Well, this sums up why I RP:

@Ghost lol oh no kids these days don't write out their descs, they look at pictures! you and mercedes lackey can have fun yelling at clouds together and it will never change the march of progress, or the evolution of art and creation.

lol oh no someone had a difference of opinion and the only way of responding to it is by acting as if they're john lithgow from footloose all angry and ornery because them darn kids be dancin.

@Ganymede Uhhhh no it's not for a trivia night team or anything. It's for a team name/logo on a web portal that only we have access to. Nothing client or executive facing.

A little background.

My IT job is 50% project manager, 50% IT Operations Scripting/changes to environments. (So, 100% kitten herder). A lot of what we do is identifying the proper order of operations for IT stuff, and the end result is like surgery or auto repair.

(If you asked someone to make you a plan for washing the dog, you'd be amazed how many people don't include a find a dog to wash step and instead go straight to "fill the tub with water".)

So our current team logo is a logo with a cartoon dog, duck, and a sack of corn. She hates it. So she's asking us all have fun working on a new team logo/private name idea, but I dont think she was expecting stuff like los vaqueros satánicos (The Satanic Cowboys, baaaaybeee).

Oh, the dog, duck, corn is in reference to that non-linear thinking exercise where you have to get all three to the other side of a river, but only have room in the boat for 1 at a time. It's a euphemism for what we do.

@Alamias Hah. I do like my team. Oddly enough, there are definite drawbacks to being in IT and having a non-technical manager, but I love the difference in perspective she has. She's a great presence to offset all of this nerdiness, alcoholism, and testosterone.

And, if you do get a job here (not saying), it would be immediately clear by this description that I'm your coworker. Or...it would be the moment the tattoo guy wheels over and says something like: "You know, when you think about it, Aliens was a story about a mother just tryna feed her damn kids and keep them safe."

@Auspice NOBODY LOOK. NOBODY LOOK.

@Wretched Me, too. Though I'd have to separate my SO and I because the moment they send us down into a creepy basement together we're gonna violate rule 1-3 of surviving a horror movie.

AND I WAS KIND OF LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT.

@Kanye-Qwest said in Well, this sums up why I RP:

@Ghost well if the shoe fits your loose foot you better start jiving

curse you for foiling mercedes and myself's plan to single handedly hold back the tide of creative evolution using msb as ground zero for our john lithgow based plan of oppressive anti-creativity secularism

@Ganymede Well...yeah...erm.

Uno mas!

Calling a layoff a synergy is like calling a divorce a re-allocation of tax deductions

Or...

Synergies should be a category on Pornhub, because it apparently means getting fucked by someone who gets paid more than you.