Posts made by Gingerlily

@Thenomain

Gen X forever.

@Three-Eyed-Crow said in Where's your RP at?:

@Ghost said in Where's your RP at?:

@Misadventure A question I have not answered because I think my input is moot. I gave an example in relation to AllFleshMustBeEaten further back, and would rather hear from other people since I have no issues with risk.

I find zombie and zombie apocalypse boring as fuck, generally.

I know zombies are super trendy these days, but I too dislike them. Not out of boredom but because the idea of zombies is one of the few things that gives me the total willies. Never watched Walking Dead. Ready for a new trend to take off...like sentient robots a la Westworld.

@Auspice

I was born inn 1979 and refuse to be anything but Gen X.

@Auspice

Yep, pretty much.

They vanished entirely when I was pregnant which was awesome but then they just came back. That's really the only thing that has worked well at preventing them but I don't want 17 children so it's not terribly useful. I'm kind of zen with it now, it just is what it is, when they happen I handle them and when they don't it's great. Stressing about something inevitable didn't do much for me except make me uncomfortable AND stressed out, so I try to keep things in perspective.

Pretty excited about the CGRP antagonist trials though.

@Auspice

I sympathize with a lot of your posts, I'm in the same boat. Have been since I was a teenager pretty much, though I go through periods where its not that bad and periods where it is horrible. So sorry for your suffering and pain-free thoughts your way.

@Auspice said in RL Anger:

A side-effect of the migraines is I keep losing words. It's worse if I talk out loud, but it def. happens in text, too.

I pretty much constantly am in a state of 'it's on the tip of my tongue.' As a writer, it fucking blows.

I'm a migraineur too and this totally happens to me. I wasn't sure if it was the medication or the prodrome/postdrome themselves doing it. If it's the headaches themselves I think I feel better about it.

I was introducing the school psychologist in a meeting and I forgot the word psychologist it was the worst.

@lordbelh Yeah that's a good point, about trying to keep it more chill and being able to deescalate. RfK clearly had systems for that but they are very grounded in vampire. What do you think would work for something that wasn't WoD?

@lordbelh

Agreed. Healthy competition makes things fun, and gives people something to do that isn't waiting around for a staff person to ST a plot or a player to run a PrP, players can do it themselves. Having rivals or enemies or whatever engages me, I can get bored easily if I don't. I'm not an aggressive player, I just enjoy having something to work towards in that way.

Thanks guys.

I agree about learning curve etc. I was never on RfK but have been trying to get into Arx and I'm just still pretty clueless about how anything works. Figuring out all the system stuff AND an original theme is a lot, and with my ability to get on sporadic, I just still haven't managed to wrap my head around all of it.

It seems cool, and people are clearly enjoying themselves. It is just gonna take me a bit to know enough to be able to play comfortably.

So that's worth considering certainly.

@Arkandel I follow. I can glean nothing from your particular story to use but some of my favorite experiences have also come from just having people that I gelled with to play alongside and against, without the staff having done anything to make that happen.

@Arkandel Yeah, proactive players can make a lot happen. So it was just having stumbled across a really good core group that made it satisfying? Good players to both team up with and work against?

@lordbelh said in Politics etc.:

@Gingerlily The most fun I've had was playing as the underdogs in RfK. Steele, a Ventrue Invictus who dabbled with the Sanctified, had replaced council power with ye ol' Princely autocracy. It really invigorated the Carthians during his rule. He greatly favored his Invictus fellows (naturally) so they got perks, and that gave us something to rail and plot against. Then Steele burned out and let his character die, and in the political vacuum that followed where territory, positions, power, etc, was up for grabs was delightful chaos.

A lot of posturing, and scheming, and betraying, and in the end nobody even ended up dead. Boons nobody'd thought about before became suddenly used to secure the reluctant support of character who hated you. One of the greatest joys I had was calling in a Major Boon (itself a bit of effort of collecting smaller boons to build up his debt) on the Big Nasty Nosferatu former Seneschal, and force him to support the Carthians even if he really didn't like my character or the Carthian Experiment at all. (And he was delightfully cool about it.)

A lot of people have mentioned how cool the politics rp was on that game, I never played there. What was in place to make it work so well for so many people? Could it be adapted to something that wasn't WoD? Tell me more about these boons.

Tell me about the time you had the most fun playing the social/political aspects of a game and what made them fun. Details!

In small scenes, especially one on ones, I am in the school of @Arkandel. I enjoy writing long multiparagraph poses and making them all kind of purple and flowery, with similes and metaphors and allegory and whatever else. I don't consider it 'good rp' necessarily, in fact some of it probably bogs down some parts of rp. But it is fun/soothing/relaxing to just play around with pretty words. I do tend to keep the long fancy poses contained to rp partners I know also enjoy that style so I'm not driving someone (or several someones) crazy.

That said, I can do the quick back and forth dialogue with people who prefer that style, so long as the short poses I am getting give me something to respond to. I just need to know that is the plan, because it also requires me to focus more and multitask less. A scene where it is my turn to respond every 3-5 minutes is something I will set aside time to do with no distractions, whereas the ones where I get a 15 minute break between turns allows me to put a set of dishes in the washer or check over homework or whatever.

Poses that have a bit of 'narrator' voice I find fun, so long as its not narrator voice that seems like it is just taunting me because I can't react to it.

@surreality said in Good TV:

@Gingerlily I adore the hell out of the show and love the clothes for being just straight up gorgeous -- I just giggle a whole lot over things at the same time. It's like three kinds of fun in one.

Yessss, me too!

@surreality I actually legit love Reign. I'm a history dork but not the kind that gets annoyed when everything is wrong. Reign is super fun, its like a vaguely period soap opera. (I don't actually watch soap operas, but still!)

@Cupcake said in Good TV:

@Gingerlily Did you forget me? I am Offended.

I did not know you loved Reign also. Will you watch with me if @Coin doesn't get on it and catch up? I like live fashion analysis, it's important to my enjoyment of the show.

@Coin said in Good TV:

@Cupcake said in Good TV:

@Coin said in Good TV:

Reign had Lorde's Royals done on cellos, after all.

Speaking of, I love this trashy show, but with pretty much nobody left who's originally part of Mary's crew (I don't count Anne of Green Gables) I'm not sure if there's anything left in it for me. They are dangerously close to the shark. They may have already jumped it.

I stopped watching mid season 2-ish, I think. But I was told my favorite of the girls was just sort of faded out of the show without even an exit arc, so fuck that shit.

Dude @Coin hurry and catch up. The last season starts in like a month, I am going to need you.

@Cupcake

DC was crazysauce. When I see my friends pics I still wish I'd gone, but friends have also shared tales of being so pressed in the crowd that they just had to wait around to even move in any direction. There were also riots the day before, and so even though I was well aware the march planners were emphasizing peaceful statement in every way, there's always the concern that that can change...mobs of people are hard to predict.

That said, it turns out that it was peaceful, just verrrrry crowded. I half regret that we didn't give it a go and half think that we should have tried, but I have a feeling there will be ample opportunities in my locale to express my opinion in such a way should I choose.