Posts made by Ghost

@Cupcake Actually, I don't know. Did someone put something about you or someone you care about in there?

I didn't make the wora wiki, but I knew a few who did.

@FiranSurvivor I'm amazed there isn't a new one. Wikidot has got to know who we are. We create and abandon wikis more frequently than Kardashians get married.

@Seraphim73 said in What RPG SYSTEM do you want to play on a Mu*?:

@Ghost said in What RPG SYSTEM do you want to play on a Mu*?:

• Green Ronin's Song of Fire and Ice: because if one must Lord&Lady, then a proper system for social dueling with winners and loses will help.

Yes. This. Any game that focuses on politics should have concrete rules for political "combat."

Yeah, that social/political combat system answered a hard problem I was having with my gaming group, and could potentially answer a problem in MU: My players treat every NPC as a potential villain, and thus, everyone who isn't them gets the mushroom treatment

A social/political 'combat' puts the scene back in the character's hands and cuts out the quasi-metagamey OOC-INFORMATION-COMPARTMENTALIZATION factor.

• Eclipse Phase
• Cthulhu Tech
• Cortex (Firefly/MARVEL via Margaret Weis)
• Green Ronin's Song of Fire and Ice: because if one must Lord&Lady, then a proper system for social dueling with winners and loses will help.

I'll still find a way, damn it.

@Cupcake said in MSB: The meta-discussion:

OMG @GHOST ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT ME?!?!?!?!?!?!

@Thenomain said in MSB: The meta-discussion:

Incidentally, "still around" is a shitty metric of success.

The Cleveland Browns

@Paris I'll have to look from home. No way in hell am I gonna risk getting caught googling "prurient perfume" for the purposes of making a character who secretes lube, from my phone, from work.

Fuck it'd be less embarrassing if I got caught looking at porn.

Just ask @auspice. I only eat her tube steak.

#goldcardstr8

Seriously, what book/resource is this in, because I just googled and saw you can make vestments with prurient perfume, and I'm not above making making a Spring Changeling named: Johnny Lancome

Okay I made it okay on Random Bitching. We good.

@surreality shit. Okay. Fixing something.

@Paris said in Faceless' Playlist:

@Ghost Presence 5 darkling or tunnelgrub or something, prurient perfume or whatever merit that was.

Mark my words, the rest of the MU community will rue the day you told me this, Paris.

Damn it. I could have made an amazingly popular character if he could secrete baby oil, lube, or pumpkin scented hand lotion on queue.

NEW ANGER: @Auspice TRIGGERING ME WITH PICTURES OF PASTEL MEAT SCALES.

I will gladly pay 400 @pennies for her eyes in a jar by sundown.
No disintegrations

@Paris hahaha glisten? Like with baby oil?

...WhichPagePlease?
...becauseResearch

People trying to make me take about meat, pastels, and Easter here instead of Random Bitching.

Overcome with rage.

There is only 1 ogre.

@Thenomain NO, YOU CAN KEEP YOUR +1.

As far as that other thread goes, I don't have an actual complaint per se, but was more tying in that experience into the greater topic at hand. I read back through it a few days ago because someone +1'd a post of mine after 5+ months, and at some point every now and then someone posts something like: Well, I'm not going to post an apology for something NOW, seeing how people are dogpiling on people trying to follow the spirit of the thread"

I think some of the more constructive threads follow this format:

• Constructive topic! Let's be constructive.
• Someone posts in spirit of topic
• Someone corrects poster
• Poster retorts
• Dogpile begins
• Ten posts arguing semantics
• People shy away from posting about constructive topic
• Personal attacks
• What were we talking about again?
• Attempt to re-rail topic happens
• Someone corrects poster
• Poster retorts
• Dogpile begins
• Ten posts arguing semantics
• People shy away from posting about constructive topic
• Personal attacks
• What were we talking about again?
• Attempt to re-rail topic happens
• Repeat...

@surreality Agreed. Non-personal griping can really open a good discussion on conduct, how to write policies, etc. God knows you and I have talked at length about all of your awesome policy write-up ideas. I love the way you focus on the bigger picture when thinking about these things, and the ability to bring up behaviors and other issues, without personal attacks, is really just problem identification and a solid part of the improvements process.

Having said that, I think a lot of people on the boards are always on the lookout for being someone's vague-post topic. The assumption is, if it's being made vague on MSB, it's being far less vague via pages, and people want to know if they're being complained/shit talked in a way where they can neither address the problem, nor defend their actions, purposeful or not.

So I think with many of these vague posts about behaviors there's always a quick round of OMG ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT ME? that happens, which determines whether or not it needs to be a fight, ugly, etc.

LOL I think we've messaged each other a few times with: "heyyyyy that wasn't about me was it? Are we okay?"

Yeah, because shit goes from okay to NOT OKAY in the blink of an eye around here sometimes.

Who the fuck can relax, rp, and have fun while having to watch out for that shit?

@Miss-Demeanor said in MSB: The meta-discussion:

Vitriol on, MSB. Get it out in the format specifically set up to be that pressure release valve.

People love being negative as a pressure release, but they typically hate being responsible for the collateral damage in the wake of their negativity.

MSB is upstream from almost every current MU playspace, and pissing into it, pressure release valve or not, runs a high risk of polluting everyone's drinking water, all across the hobby.