Posts made by Ghost

MU isn't the same as RPG via Discord, Roll20, etc. MU isn't what they do on Critical Role, Harmon Quest, Geek and Sundry, or other gaming podcasts, shows, etc. If they want to do the thing that Terry Crews, Patton Oswalt, Deborah Ann Woll, and the people at the store that sells D&D products are doing...then you're probably doing them a disservice by suggesting MU.

IMO the only people who should have MU suggested to are people who are (ex.) "looking to primarily do writing online".

I think it's pretty honest to say that Mushing is not a place where youre going to get the tabletop RPG experience. MU originally started as an attempt to do exactly what Roll20 is doing right now in a much more user friendly format. It has since become predominantly focused on creative writing, but uses antiquated programming methods that turn getting involved into what could result in days to get involved (long application processes), learning curve on commands (shell-script style command functions), and requires you to log in to hunt and find writing partners. A lot of these things mentioned have been rendered obsolete by other modern services, which is why it's simply not attractive to younger generations.

• Advertise as a writing hobby and not a gaming hobby
• evolve to web-based formats that are more user friendly
• wikis are great

So, in summary if you're looking for new blood in mushing, I suggest you look into people involved in online writing groups like slashfic and fanfic writers. Those people might love it and stay, but when people want TT RPGs they're going to eventually find that this hobby isnt what they're looking for.

Also, if the community wants to be more attractive to new incoming players, the snobbish, paranoid, salacious, and cliqueish habits need to come down quite a bit(1). I've known plenty of players who have left the hobby altogether (or shortly after trying) that quit the people, not the format.

(1) There are plenty of nice people, if not a quiet majority. However, the existence of people harassing others for TS, snobs thumbing their nose at people with cliqueish behavior/culture of judgment, and getting paranoid and avoiding new people because they might be that one guy or OMG their IP comes from the same state definitely can drive good, sane, and normal people away from the hobby.

@Darren said in MSB Peeves:

Alas I lack the necessary descriptive powers to relate just how much better it is than the American-made stuff.

Lol I'll try.

"Imagine what Coca-Cola tastes like in other countries, or pre-1970s, without high frustose corn syrup. It tastes LESS like a sugary bath in chemicals humans were not meant to consume, and tastes more like a soda fountain soda pop."

If you're near the border you can get Mexican Coke, and not (just) the El Chapo kind.

Lots of Mexican restaurants carry Coca-Cola (a SODA) from Mexico that uses cane sugar instead of wtfchemical.

Best. Stuff. Ever.

@Lotherio said in MSB Peeves:

@Ghost said in MSB Peeves:

Sadly, the amount of time I lived in Nebraska is now less than the amount of time I have lived in <REDACTED BOILY AS FUCK SW AMERICAN STATE>. This leads me to question if I still qualify as a Midwesterner.

It's over after this, we in Nebraska are gonna sign the separation papers after you questioned it.

I'm sobbing uncontrollably knowing that I will no longer be allowed into Hy-Vee, Runza, or Big Fred's.

Good stuff. So good. I miss the last 2 so, so much.

@Auspice Right. This is one of the things that sucks about corporate work.

If an employee is legitimately having stress issues due to company-executive drama AND is just as productive working from home, then working from home for a bit should be no issue so long as they come in for meetings that cannot be remote (clients, audits). 99% of IT employees are not customer-facing.

However, my company has this imablanced view on working from home. Even though plenty of work is done from home and people are getting shit done, we have managers who are forced to be on-site so they bitch about WFH people as if they're being slackers.

If a company has telecommuting available as an option, then this should be a viable approach for IT employees.

So in this case, this 100% due to drama guy is partaking in something the company supports but will suffer reputational consequences for it. For all I know he has heart problems and the stress is putting him at risk.

Meh.

I just overheard 2 managers talking.

My company is currently going through some stressful times, and they were talking about how an IT employee got OK'd for working from home 100% until the tension dies down.

Hrmmmmmmmmmmmm.

HRRRRRRMMMMMMMMMM.

Not gonna lie. This place fuckin sucks right now. Everyone is in either "omg fear" mode or constantly throwing people under busses to talk up their own personal usefulness just in case. It's probably a lot of "much ado about nothing" but the tension is palpable to the point that I'm kinda dreading every day I am not working from home, too.

Dont blame the guy, but the managers were being sarcastic about it.

I read that Englund is down for another Freddy appearance.

@Auspice Sadly, the amount of time I lived in Nebraska is now less than the amount of time I have lived in <REDACTED BOILY AS FUCK SW AMERICAN STATE>. This leads me to question if I still qualify as a Midwesterner.

I grew up calling it 'pop' and have successfully rehabilitated myself out of that silly habit.

I suppose like most people I'll be a local guy or a Midwesterner based on which sport I'm supporting at that moment. Kind of like how everyone is 1/55th Australian during the World Cup.

@Thenomain @Auspice

Fun facts:

POP is an onomatopoeia, but is also what people in the American Midwestern states incorrectly call soda.

Will Arnett believes that he has "made a huge mistake".

Ganymede and Alamias have posted a gif of two street pimps, one portrayed by Dave Chappelle and the other from a movie named "I'm Gonna Git U Sucka", respectively.

Ganymede's gif has Dave Chappelle's character (from the Player Hater's Ball episode) repeating that he hates people, where Alamias' has their 70s style street pimp wearing all yellow and placing what appears to be a Blaxploitation sombrero on his head.

(Disclaimer: I'm totally not doing this to cheekily note that anti-gif filters don't block text. I am, obviously, doing this to cater to MSB viewers with eyesight problems who need text descriptions of gifs)

^^^^

Scrapped from your view due to plugins is an animated GIF taken from "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia". Rob McElhenney is wearing a cream-colored sleeveless tee shirt with what appears to be blood on it. He's playing a tiger-striped electric guitar and is doing air kicks. Glenn Howerton, who plays Dennis, is gyrating and singing in front of a microphone wearing a David-Bowie themed silver bodysuit and a wine-colored jockstrap. Behind them, Danny Devito is playing drums while wearing a white shirt, black tie, and a blue blazer.

You're missing everything by blocking these gifs.

I liked him in Dune, and I really like that "It's Probably Me" song.

New funny: People who write real estate descriptions are the same breed of people who write band descriptions or movie descriptions on the back of the DVD/VHS case.

A long while ago I did some writing/editing for DVD case backsides and/or slicker sheets for B-movie "boobs and blood" horror titles. It all started one day with the film producer coming to me and saying: "* We need help, we have used HOT in the last 6 or 7 descriptions and need to come up with new stuff...*"

"Jenny is a HOT college senior on a road trip..."
"Four HOT coeds lost in the woods..."
"...they summoned a HOT, deadly demon from the depths of Hell..."

And then you have when bands write their own descriptions. It's always the same shit for metal/punk bands:

"Led by the AIR RAID vocals of Jimmy Spank, the THUNDERING drum lines of Chaz McChaz, the SYMPHONIC guitar solos of brand new guitars Squeegy Jackson..."

So I'm reading these descriptions of houses on the MLS sheets my realtor is showing me and I just crack the fuck up:

"Boasts a QUAINT backyard with lots of potential..."

"Wake up in the morning directly to FRENCH DOORS and MAJESTIC VIEWS..."

So then I think, what if you put them all together?

"CERBERUS LANE is a movie about a haunted house with a bar-top kitchen and GREAT POTENTIAL FOR GUESTS. Guests such as the HEART POUNDING bass-lines by Kevin McDarkness and the SHRIEKING EAR BLEEDING VENOM of HOT vocalist Brittany Roxx. Schedule your tour today! This movie is HOT."

@Auspice Yanno what holiday I like? Boxing Day.

The holiday where everyone who fucking worked on Christmas gets a day because we needed them on Xmas.

America should have a "Labor Day Two" for those people.

Irony.

Having to work on a holiday dedicated to recognizing the hard labor people do by giving them a day off of work.

Rick Loomis was a local here in the game scene. Probably going to be some board game bar gatherings in honor of him.

Sad news.