Best posts made by Ghost

@ThatGuyThere Do you remember Secondary Skills? I liked those. oWoD had all kinds of secondary skills and super-type specific knowledge/lore skills to buy up, which I think was a better way to go than ACADEMICS, which makes you just as good at understanding ANCIENT ROME as you are at understanding THE HISTORY OF NEPAL.

The way it appears to me, NWoD wanted to streamline XP use so that there weren't so many skills to buy (which, newer RPGs really are minimizing the # of skills to buy in play. Rolemaster had HUNDREDS of skills. Newer RPGs are skills-lite).

But what if I validate myself through being really great at something, and draw self esteem from pointing out to other people how I'm better than them???? So I study and research ways to do things the right way and, over time, begin to believe that anything less than what I believe is technically kind of cruel?? Kind of like how these kitchen counters are FILTHY AS FUCK and if you don't go over them with a fresh new store bought sponge (counter clockwise scrubbing every time) and the right version of 409, you're infecting your house and everyone you love and its NOT FUCKING CLEAN GOD DAMNIT ITS NOT FUCKING CLEAN. So I think to myself, if I love my dog, then my dog should have standards. You have standards, don't you? If you eat filet mignon then doesn't your four legged baby deserve just as much? Would you shit in a box? NO, which is why when it comes to cats the only acceptable answer is this custom litter box I sell on etsy for 125.99 and don't you tell me that I'm off base because I NEED THIS GOD DAMNIT.

Or they're just yet another American asshole who thinks they have the right to shame random strangers for not doing everything their way.

@Cupcake don't let these birches sorority bully you. Just be like "I have another arrangement. Have a nice day." and bail. You owe them nothing.

@Paris said in A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like:

Ghost, you're advocating for a player (edit: AND STAFFER) who, for over a decade, has done to others the kind of bullshit that was done to you. In some cases, she did worse.

Oh I'm not advocating for HER, Paris. I'm not trying to stop this discussion at all. I'm about to politely bow out of it.

I'm more or less advocating at this point for other people who might not be so deserving of ugly, open displays of he-said-she-said that may follow.

I'm not accusing ANYONE of shit talking or whatever, I'm just being this philosophical little toad in the corner going "...but what are we if not evolved creatures and this method of Socratic turns into mob justice?" LOL. I can totally get it that you guys are like "Okay, fuckoff Ghost, VASpider's earned this".

The floor is yours, folks. I'll stop it with the DVD commentary.

Taylor Dayne's Tell it to My Heart

WTF

My personal favorite is the one of us might be a Cylon paranoia. Far too many people(for comfort) I've met on these games would often go into stalker mode themselves trying to determine who is who.

• That person typed a pose like VASpider does! Might be spider!
• Your character name is vaguely similar to an old character name who stalked me...are you <blah>?
• A creepy guy used that PB once on another game and I can't trust you arent him, so please don't take offense

It'd be interesting to see the results as to whether or not the damage done out of paranoia is > the damage done by the actual bad guys.

@Catsmeow That song is my couples skate jam.

@Arkandel See?!?!? It's everywhere

Once I had a player I didnt even know start texting me really weird questions about where I'd played. Turned out she was screening me on behalf of someone else I was actively rping with at the time.

DUDE, I got blackOps'd screened.

@Meg said in RL Anger:

@Ghost Obviously it is up to each person whether they feel bad about it or not. No one can /make/ someone feel something.

But, I can say that in my philosophical approach to life, that I think someone who doesn't feel remorse or guilt about doing something bad is a bad person. I.e. if you do something immoral and you don't feel remorse, you are an immoral person. Or a sociopath.

I totally respect that. I'm kind of in the same ballpark mentality-wise, though differing opinions on morality really, really make it hard to balance sometimes. Which is why I think there is so much strife going on socially these days. Aside from a very specific list of things being considered pretty much immoral across the board (yet even cannibalism is forgiven in a survival context so long as the cannibalize isn't murdered to make it possible), there are a number of terms/actions where the goal post keeps moving.

Does rude mean the same as wrong? Is rude strong enough to be considered immoral? What if it's rude for a good cause? Who determines if the cause is justified? What is forgivable to one person but not the next? (rhetorical questions)

There's a lot of subjectivity at play, which makes it difficult.

@Collective I think having a game plan for this, even if it's just a loose one to start, really helps.

Honestly, I think some people seeing others as people and not some assumed persona-trope would do wonders.

I know the list of people that don't like me, or that I've had spats with, and truly believe that the inability to sit down across a table and hash shit out like normal people makes things difficult. I'd totally be down to do jello shots with people that I've had beefs with.

I'd love to better see their perspectives and get off the laptop and be around some of you as people.

Just not @Ganymede . I hope she rolls around in the wrong patch of dirt and ends up needing a 2 hour botfly extraction at someplace really shitty, like an Urgent Care in Hoboken, New Jersey.

@mietze said in RL Anger:

Gany doesn't meet gamer people though so she'll just have to come in by drone.

Then I'm totally going to tell people I'm @Ganymede and she can deal with the awkward pages later.

@selira You should know that it appears that you care more about me than I do your opinion about me. How about you stop carrying this around and move on with your life? Alas, clapping back at bullies is different from preying on innocent people with self-esteem issues who weren't looking for a fight, and you're clearly looking for conflict.

Be nice to me and others and I'll be cool with you. It's that simple. Let it go and gabble for updates with your make-believe assumptions about who I am with people who will pat you on the back for it elsewhere.

@Three-Eyed-Crow Nah, that wasn't a vaglueblog at you. You said how you felt.

I could type for hours about who I think I am vs. who you think I am, but at the end of the day, I don't think either of us know each other truly well enough to make any accurate judgments.

But being someone who was sick of someone else's shit at the time, I can't really cry foul when someone got sick of my shit, can I?

Nah, no hate/beef here on my end. I recently make a move to give some people who are at odds with me a little extra space. Is what it is.

@misterboring Shrug. and? You're taking a response that I took to someone who came to Reddit to bully me as a sign that I'm not believing in what I say about an entirely different forum. A little prestidigitation, there.

Good effort to stir up shit, though.

The context of that response (which has been cleverly omitted in lieu of trying to make some sort of super important argument about me being a hypocrite) was about the "clique" and their bullying and how I felt about their toxic behaviors, bullying, and how unironic it was that 20 of them showed up to a thread I was in on a completely different service to dogpile me. Others who were familiar with the Hog Pit had brought it up, too.

There's nothing wrong with me being happy to see this place take a more respectful approach on an individual basis, and that I feel that way about that group of people (as stated on another completely different service) has no relevance towards my hopes of how things go here.

These people try so hard.

New Topic: I hatelove Castlevania on Netflix.

I love it because it's a lot of fun.

I hate it because there are only 4 episodes.

Good for you, this is a cool project.

Being the v5 storyteller that I am, I've always found v5 to probably be the best version (mechanically) of WoD to apply to MUing.

1. The disciplines are less about combat and having a massive dice pool. Even the more combat-used powers like Potence and Celerity have more "cinematic" options
2. If needed, Chronicle tenets can be set
3. Player-defined morality in convictions and touchstones
4. The combat system flows much better than oWoD 3-v20 and nWoD
5. Hunger as a mechanic is way better than blood points

There's simply just a lot more "story" in v5/w5 baked into the system that should lend really well to the MU hobby. That, and the Masquerade/Apocalypse setting is so much better than the Requiem/Forsaken setting.

@Thenomain

...please tell me we're doing this again.

@ZombieGenesis said in Unmakeable Games:

@Ghost I ran a M&M game a very long time ago. It might have even been first edition. Maybe 2nd. It did okay but did run out of steam.

I do agree that ease into entry is very much a big thing. It's why I've ultimately given up on trying to use any sort of RPG system on a game unless it's FS3 or a basic traits system. If there was a fleshed out CoD/WoD plugin for Ares maybe that would be included.

RE: GI Joe, I actually do think you could do that fairly well with FS3.

GI Joe, I can't remember, is that modiphius or free league? Those systems aren't terribly complicated. Heck, I would totally play the TTRPG.

Marrr'lyeh