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@Rinel said in Should Rinel become smol birb?:

That Goose is a...

...Squaxe Murderer.

We didnt move a dresser and bed into new house (didn't put it on truck) because SisterInLaw said she wanted them. SiL and her husband make extra money getting furniture for cheap (in this case, free) and then reselling them for 50-100.

The day we arranged for them to bring the truck and pick it up, they were "already out doing garage sales and had stuff in the trailer" and wanted to see a pic of the bed.

They "dont like it" and have changed their minds on picking it up.

Bitch is SoOOoOoo in the penalty box with me right now.

Important detail: We rented a truck. We cant move it easily ourselves without spending money.

@Auspice Does sublime support plugins for programming languages like Shell, Groovy, Pipeline so it can double as an ISE?

VIM and Notepad++

Fite me

@Arkandel said in Tablet keyboard:

To get us back on track (kinda) is there any reason a tablet setup with a physical keyboard wouldn't be a good/great way to MUSH?

And I might be daydreaming here but there wouldn't be any Android clients supporting spawns, would there?

Without a peripheral keyboard your wpm would be affected, not to mention having to type and move the screen at the same time

NEXT TIME, ON "GHOST SCORES NEGATIVE POINTS WITH HIS S.O.

Her: "Today sucks. I went to get coffee and had to leave it at the stop because I left my bankcard at home"

Me: "Oh damn that sucks. Do you know where it is? Is it missing?"

Her: "Not missing. It's in the back pocket of my jeans by the nightstand."

Me: "Yanno, you can avoid that if you keep your jeans in your purse."

<middle finger emoji>

To be completely fair...

I would buy more Apple products, especially their laptops, if they were:

1. Compatible with gaming

But more importantly...

2. Their more expensive products (ex: laptops) weren't built so heavily on a product plan that is basically: "You cant upgrade that machine but you can replace it for $3000+!"

The OS, technology, security, performance, and everything about Apple is fucking solid. They dont make stupid decisions that make Windows leak security like a sieve. Unfortunately, I can buy a gaming PC/laptop for less than 1500, a "check mail and Mu" PC/laptop for less than 600, and since I don't so a lot of video/sound editing from an investment perspective Apple simply doesn't make sense. Most Windows machines all fit into a "timeframe of technology" that allows for upgrading as upgrades arrive until the firmware requires more drastic changes (new kind of ram, new technology not designed for the motherboard or new motherboards not compatible with the casing).

@Alamias Not sure yet. I'm not paying HBO Go directly.

I use PlayStation Vue which includes Epix, Showtime, and HBO including their online services. I'm reading that HBO Now users wont by proxy have Max access. So chances are when it comes out I can totally subscribe separately OR drop the level of my Vue plan (losing Showtime and Epix, too) and then just redirect the cost to HBO Max? But if my vue plan is $15 for those 3, I'd be trading off 3 for 15 for 1?

I dunno. It's stupid.

The whole point behind HBO Max is that HBO is part shareholder in Time-Warner, so HBO Max is basically HBO+TNT+etc. All of those stations are on my PlayStation Vue plan BUT apparently the online network with all of their stuff PLUS their super sekret special HBO Max Only content is not included.

But a Dune miniseries? Dont wanna miss that.

Greed. Yanno? Motherfuckers make pirating seem noble.

Timeline:

• People leave HBO to "cut the cord" and leave cable providers
• HBO starts "HBO Now/Go" online subscription as a 14.99 way to get HBO.
• HBO announces HBO Max that is not the same as HBO Now/Go, but will contain everything on HBO Now, but will also include special content like Dune: Sisterhood that is not available on HBO Now but you can subscribe to both for 14.99 each.

So HBO Go $15, HBO Max (HBO Go+extras) $15.

Fuckin' jackasses.

"Join Ithir, I promith you ithil be a good time. Bitch."
-Ice-T

....conversation about tablet keyboards ever

@teethteethteeth said in The ethics of IC romance, TS, etc:

When is the appropriate time to announce OOCly "I'm masturbating to this!" because I seem to get it wrong every time.

At Thanksgiving Dinner with your grandparents. Trust me.

In a MU sense? With me? Never.

I dont care if people fap to my Bodacious Harlequin Fabio-Covered Prose, but for OOC separation purposes don't want to know that you're fapping to it at all. Thatd be like calling your parents while you're jerking off and saying "Dad, I'm jerking off right now"

Because then your dad would kiiiiiiinda be like: "Uh...did something I do there just aid in an improper breach of family lines?"

Probably not the best explanation.

LordVladMcSexy made you fap. Not Ghost. That's how I like it.

@Roz GotchaGotcha. I don't think he's wrong I'm just digesting it.

So last few minutes here's what I thought:

What do people want:

• Roleplay
• To not be cut out of roleplay
• To maintain relevance

What do people really not want

• Characters who 'cheat' but do so in a way that can't be discovered ICly, resulting in no closure to the jilted IC lover and a cake and eat it, too scenario with no ramifications.
• Players who do the above but then get angry OOCly if their 'harem' doesn't comply

So, rolling it around in my head I asked myself how I'd want it. Like @Auspice said I'd been here ICly before with little to no angst, so how I'd want it?

• Not to be kept waiting. If your PC is off doing shenanigans you dont have to okay it through me, but let me know not to wait up and that their absence will be notable ICly. Its not my job to be held on pause while you have TS adventures
• You be cool, I'll be cool. We aren't married. I dont really care why you want the character to do their thing. It's your character. You dont get to control the IC response to your IC decision. I'll keep it IC, but story is what it is
• So long as everyone is respectful and pages dont become laborious pre-marriage counseling nonsense? Cool. I dont need your personal OOC opinions on my style of roleplay and you don't owe me alimony. Game on.

I know i keep coming back to this, though, but I think the huge reason why so much TS is behind closed doors is because there's a deeply personal aspect to it. It's probably always going to be my opinion as to why so many cheating episodes ICly are reacted to like RL cheating and not sex scenes on True Blood. Still, really what people want is to maintain the flow of RP, positive or negative scene-wise, and to not just get left on the side of the road with nothing to RP.

But, having said that, you cant make THE RELATIONSHIP your lifeline to RP. If someone wants out of the IC relationship, they havent ruined your character. I refuse to believe that the entire viability of the character exists because of THAT particular dick. If someone wants out...you gotta let them go.

@insomniac7809 Not to split hairs, but IC "infidelity", if kept entirely IC, is something dealt with after the fact, not something in a story that characters get to opt out of before it happens. Is it better if it's discussed beforehand oocly? Yes. But if everything is entirely IC then things can happen on the spot and the resulting IC roleplay is the fallout.

I see what you're saying, just...<headwobble>.

@Lotherio said in The ethics of IC romance, TS, etc:

(except that I'm from Omaha, but try to find me out of 800K+ folks in the area)

You're the one with the big, red "N" your bumper.

I know you. lol (omaha humor)

@Lotherio said in The ethics of IC romance, TS, etc:

@Ghost said in The ethics of IC romance, TS, etc:

I would expect more language about story/plot continuation and less about how polyamory is approached in RL.

I think its more that writing is a mutual sport, if we're collaborating on a story and I don't want curve balls, am I in the wrong. I mean with trusted players I know, they can throw any curve ball they want, but as mutual writers making a story together there has to be some trust?

You may be right for some people. I think for others this stuff cuts a little too personal or close to home. That it's all about "good writing partners" is a decent mantra, but when the end result is more akin to posting his text messages to his mother's Facebook and putting up an entry on "Dont Date Him Girl" Dotcom...I'm not so convinced.

I just cant get past how the language and social dynamics of what is supposed to be "writing stories about relationships that are entirely IC" fall in line with people's RL views on dating.

I would expect more language about story/plot continuation and less about how polyamory is approached in RL.

@Auspice said in The ethics of IC romance, TS, etc:

I love Ghost, but his desire to keep OOC/IC separate makes him ignore some big ol' red flags.

(LOLing while I type this)

"I'm just gonna keep it real. Keep it IC. It's cool. Don't worry. I got this. People are just people."

THREE WEEKS LATURRRR

"... I'm getting suicidal pages and being yelled at about how theyre in therapy because their husband pulled the same shit in their relationship. What do I do?"

@Auspice: "Listen to me next time."

ONE MONTH LATURRRR

"Hey, Auspice, this person seems cool. I'm gonna start roleplaying with them. They asked me in pages what my kinks are and redesigned their character to be a carbon copy of stuff they think my PC would be into, but WHATEVVVVS people are people and I'm gonna keep it IC and..."

THREE WEEKS LATURRRR

"So....."
@Auspice: "...not much sympathy, guy."

((This is the last 2-3 years of my MU life in a nutshell))

@Arkandel I get the time commitment/investment. I do. Maybe it's just me but MUs come and go so much that I've always approached MUs and characters are temporary time sinks, anyway. You dont keep a MU, you rent one.

And there are lots of other factors. Once I was RPing IC-relationship stuff with the RL wife of another player on the same game. One night she told me "He's not comfortable with it, can we stop?"

Me:

Edit: LOLOL WRONG GIF BUT FUNNY. THIS GIF BELOW WAS WHAT I MEANT:

But in other cases I've tried to be vague against onslaught of pages about what I feel and what I like and what my promise to them is. My answer was basically "dont know but let's keep role-playing" (because arranging oocly the future of an IC relationship always felt weirdly OOC invasive to me. That and I like surprises. I cant predict where my char will be in 2 weeks). After plenty of clingy and uncomfortable OOC pages I'd be dead-set in RUN AWAAAAAY mode (why? Because I dont want any real estate in other player's well being to the point that feeling like an unrequited proxy relationship always skeeves me out) and politely try to work out through pages an exit from the IC relationship. I'd say after 20 years of MU experience I have a 30% success rate in doing that WITHOUT accusations of being a cheater, a liar, a manwhore, a harem builder, etc etc etc

But, really, what's the better play? Telling a pushy player with a history of OOC accusations that you're making them uncomfortable and need to GTFO of an IC relationship, or just rolling with it ICly.

@Auspice and I have a long history of her going "Dude, I warned you. You gotta stick to people you know" with me replying "I KNOW BUT... I should just be able to RP with whoever comes along but but but..."

My stance is that for a number of people these IC relationships are very real extensions of their OOC insecurities, unfulfilled desires, and personal fantasies. It's risky. It's messy. It's also why the 3-4 people I've connected with over the years with similar stories and "bad reps" because repeat offenders of the "I made it out to be about them being a bad person to get ahead of it being about me being psychotic or clingy" have led me to immediately question the very loud, very vocal, very demanding accusers a bit more. The sudden, knee-jerk "how dare you accuse the victim" has been used as a shield wall more than once, and it's just...so fucking messy.

Writers want plot hooks and story. Online dating uses a whole different set of words, accusations, and tactics.

@RDC

P.s. you got me. Well played.