Posts made by Gingerlily

@Ninjakitten Maybe I'd know it if I saw it again. I'll look one day. Not today! But thanks for potentially solving my mystery. I believe the thesis of the book was that everyone involved was crazypants. I contrasted that with the happy normal people I talked to and came up with some kind of 'different strokes for different folks" conclusion that was totally A worthy. Unlike my next paper which had to compare Dadaist art with the fear of the Cyborg during that period in time. That was a D, but admittedly I kind of gave up after 2 pages and phoned in the other 14.

@Coin said:

@Gingerlily said:

Can I play a character who lives in Montgomery County but drives into College Park for the parties and Takoma for her new age crystals and acupuncture treatments?

God, @Gingerlily, why do you always need to push limits. GAWD.

I could just be /from/ MoCo and attending UMCP I suppose. -I could play myself- but awesome and live out a Mary Sue fantasy, because THIS time I would get an A in physics.

Okay if this game isn't set in the 90's like I SO DESIRED...

Can there be backstory surrounding the Delta Gammas?

http://gawker.com/5994974/the-most-deranged-sorority-girl-email-you-will-ever-read

Like she was possessed by something, or something dark and terrible herself, and had to be destroyed by one of those groups, and the woman currently pretending to be her and writing terrible articles for bad magazines is a double.

Can I play a character who lives in Montgomery County but drives into College Park for the parties and Takoma for her new age crystals and acupuncture treatments?

My reason is totally weird.

I was a freshman in college and my English writing professor decided to make the basic first year writing class have a 'theme' and the 'theme' was like, Man/Cyborg, does our relationship to technology make us one with it? (It's 1997 here for context) There were random lists of choices for the second research paper and one was 'virtual societies' and I picked that, having no idea what it was but it sounded cool. Apparently my professor was in large part referring to MUDs so I made chars on some roleplaying ones and interviewed people with what I'm sure were some weird ass questions, and played just enough to be the most clueless newbie because I was not just 'how do you do X here' but 'what even is this, what is the point?'. The people were super nice, even the head admin of one. Turned in paper, a few months later got dumped by boyfriend, was grouchy and didn't feel like getting drunk at parties where he'd also be. Stayed home and thought "Hey I remember that place you could like hang around and pretend to be a dryad on a quest or something, maybe I will do it for -fun-." Been text gaming since.

Like Jane Goodall, only I became an ape.

Also I swear I read a hard copy library book about MUDs in specific, but it couldn't have been the Richard Bartle because that wasn't out until early 2000s so WHAT DID I READ, I still wonder. It had descriptions of characters, and discussed as a phenomenon men playing females and attempted to analyze the reasons. I have wondered for years what book it could be, but no clue. Paper obviously long gone, it would be a hilarious read now. I did get an A!

I can't teach children anything if they won't sit down for just 8 minutes. It's an 8 minute lesson please just sit in the damn chairs it is already February, help a lady out here.

Okay last post in a row, I'm catching up.

Who is going to watch Vinyl? Am I the only one super excited about this? A show about the seedy 70's rock scene produced by Scorsese and MICK JAGGER? Have you seen the previews? The booze, the guitars, the mustaches, the PANTS.

It's just me isn't it

@lordbelh Vampire Diaries definitely got a little worse each season. Also they had those kind of midseason breaks that would put the seasons into two story arcs and one was always completely inane and one was interesting. It had an extra hold on me because I totally read those books in 8th grade when I should have been studying geometry and those imaginary guys were the first imaginary vampires i fell in love with <3. To be 13 again.

@ThatGuyThere said:

I never watched Vampire Diaries but I do enjoy Originals.
Not sure I would call it good but it is perfectly serviceable television which is my bar for things I don't pay for.

I loved The Vampire Diaries in a campy guilty pleasure way, it was cheesy fun. I wanted to watch The Originals but they kept bouncing around when it was and I never seemed to catch up, so that's a Netflix plan some day.

@Three-Eyed-Crow said:

Oh man, I wish I could watch the early seasons of "Sons" again.

And maybe some day, when I've purged the feelings of deep disappointment from latter season "Sons" from my mind.

I finally finished SoA. That was a long binge. A painful one at the end. I think I might have gotten more out of it in a non-binge, watching it weekly over years. All together like that the last seasons are just a -world of pain- -for everyone- that -goes on and on-. So I am in agreement with you. I think the last two seasons definitely could have been one season and still handled the major things that needed to happen. Also that side non-Hamlet-allegorical characters just SUFFERED ALL THE PAIN for no apparent reason. If there is a moral to this story message received I will not be joining any outlaw motorcycle gangs. It's a bad plan.

I still very much enjoyed the show, but yes, first 2-3 seasons were the best. Aren't they on most shows though? Planning my next binge...I've never actually seen the Wire, though I live smack between Charm City and DC. I'm told it is fantastic television, plus then when people ask me where I am from and I answer and the say "Oh, all I know about MD is from the Wire" I can say "Yeah, it's not all like that" and be more authoritative.

@Coin said:

@Gingerlily has been reading my hype at her about my current binging of Reign and just asked me if I'm "ashamed of [my] love for completely ridiculous costume dramas starring teen girls?"

I just wanted to make sure everyone knew that no. No, I am not.

Just finished the first season.

Quick thoughts:

• amg lola wtf
• holy shit francis
• good riddance to good acting
• adorable unlikely couple is adorable
• fuck you nostradamus
• oh, leith. no. i don't care what color her hair is. no.
• dayum, mary.
• #catherinesnark
• lands! titles! marriage! plagues!

So there.

Psht. Ashamed. Fuck you say to me..?!

I am a huge fan of Reign not just in a 'I love this campy shiz' way but in an actual genuine way for reasons. It is a show centered around young, female characters, yet they do not constantly get naked. It passes the Bechdel test in every single solitary episode. (The girls talk about their guy issues some sure, but also ruling nations and political situations and familial relationships) and I just think that for a show basically geared towards the 14-25 year old chick crowd (sorry @Coin but you still have great taste) it treats that crowd with respect!

It's probably going to be cancelled very soon.

@Three-Eyed-Crow said:

Oh man, I wish I could watch the early seasons of "Sons" again.

And maybe some day, when I've purged the feelings of deep disappointment from latter season "Sons" from my mind.

I'm on seven and it has admittedly gotten a bit much but I know it is based on Hamlet so I am just expecting the tragedy to be ridiculously tragic in the most Shakespearean biker gang way and so I'm doing okay with it, enjoying some parts and watching others just so I can get to the end. Still like the show!

I am currently binge watching Sons of Anarchy on Netflix because I like to watch shows years after they have been popular when I finally am convinced to try them but then have no one to discuss them with when I am all excited about them because everyone else moved on ages ago. Or something.

Also the only times I ever played LARPs were either with a group in College Park that was very cool and very normal and who I am mostly good friends with still today, or more privately set up games by many of these same people over a couple of weekends at peoples houses. The games were all very well done, some of my best gaming fun memories though I was but a wee college lass, and nothing even close to horrible or terrifying ever occurred.

I guess once I saw a super cute guy I kind of liked in highschool at one of the food places when we were on a break for snacks and I was in my super cool late 90's vampire costume, and he gave me an odd look and asked "Are you here with Xperson and Yperson doing that DnD or something game they do?' I shrugged and said "I guess so" and then fled. "I guess so" which was super chill because of the tag I was wearing with my char name and visible stats, and the fact that I was all velvet and leather on a Friday but not leaving campus. So smoooooth.

@Cirno said:

@Gingerlily said:

@Jaded

This is just an advertisement for gun control. Another nope.

I have guns and swords. Maybe I should give it a try.

Edit: I'm kidding. I have little wish to be shot by the police.

Seriously. I do not want to watch some headline explode about an unloaded gun at a LARP and "they never should have shot him/her, he was ONLY PRETENDING TO BE A VAMPIRE" and have to try to make careful faces so people at work and such don't have any way to guess I even know what a vampire larp is. Mercy guys.

@Jaded

This is just an advertisement for gun control. Another nope.

@Ghost

Unlike most of the 'horror stories' posted around MU Soapbox (the kinds about curseword fights with mean staff/obnoxious players/nasty cliques) this is an actual, legit horror story. My reaction upon reading it is horror, terror for that girl, horror for you that you had to even be a witness to that disgusting, terrible, ugh ugh ugh ew situation.

Legit horror right here, it made my stomach twist. If I were that girl's parents that GM would have been in a courtroom so fast. No no no.

Oooh, set it in the late 90's. If I play a character hanging around College Park in the late 90's, yearning for gothy darkness it will be super therapeutic.

I am fairly close with people who run a Pay to Play (actually Pay for Perks, its a much more lucrative model) MUD that they were able to make into their sole means of income and turn into a game development company that eventually created non text games. For profit. They made their business very, very successful, but the 'staff as customer service' model there was really nothing like the discussions of staff as customer service here. When it is legitimate customer service, paying customers, thousands of dollars at stake things get very, very complicated in terms of how and why and in what manner stories can be impacted. I loved my experience there, but I would not put myself in their shoes. Ever. Just running factions in that kind of situation was loaded.

Secondly when I choose the charities I am going to give my money to each year I tend to want to choose them myself. Organizations that are meaningful to me that I have researched. It is possible but not likely that I and a group of 30-50-whatever gamers would have like-minded views on what organizations we feel are the most deserving of our hard earned money...I tend to give to local groups whose benefits are seen in my community, not larger organizations.