Best posts made by Grayson

@clarity Sod passing for normal; it's a one-way trip to stress, hatred, and bullying. Look for a space where you can be yourself, instead, and where people will cope. They're becoming more common.

The main character of the Lord of the Rings is, let's face it, the languages.

The rest of it is just a handy showcase.

@A-B said in Tips for not wearing out your welcome:

There's just too MUCH. Too many possible variables. I mean I see where you're coming from - but are you sure that asking what you did wrong or apologising is always a bad thing? (Faraday didn't seem to think the same. Is that conflicting data?)

Asking what you did wrong is not always a bad thing. Asking what you did wrong when you've just done it invariably irritates. Apologising isn't always a bad thing. Apologising and then doing what you just apologised for again tells people you don't actually give a shit, you're just putting a 'nice' coin in a slot, turning a handle, and hoping more 'nice' falls out.

Humans are complicated.

@SinCerely Oh, yes, sorry. Necromancy, carpentry, robotics, yarncrafts and/or baking.

@lwhiskey There's one game out there that specifically says they're trying to avoid an arms race of who's biggest, so please be ambiguous and 'Taller than 6'6"' is fine. Not that 1.8m is at that level, but there you go.

A MU*, to me, is multi-user, real-time and text-based.

That's it, that's the whole definition.

Anything added on top of that is just gravy.

@derp Matrilineal doesn't matriarchal.

Matrilineal, the bloodline - and inheritance - goes through the women to the children. If the King doesn't have a sister, well, it's his grandmother's line you start looking at (same as with male primogeniture, if there are no sons you start looking back up the generations until you find one).

Matriarchal, the woman rules.

20 years I've been at this hobby. As a result I've been many people and places and forgotten a lot of them, but here goes. WoD-wise I've tended towards oWoD and werewolves (but not always).

Current:
Tenebrous Isles: Grayson, Fred
Sheltering Skies: Grayson
Arx: Raymesin
GarouMUSH: Wintersbite, Snake
Stargate: Green
NOLA: Fred

Staff bits:
Aether: Herne
Aether II
PokeMUSH Evolutions: Shadow
Denver: Dark Destiny: Judge Dredd
Windy City
Road to Amber
Dark Spires: Lincoln

Player bits:
Spheres: Kreeth
Aether: WolfEyes (Apisachi), Roxana, Draco (Mongrel slave/gladiator), Mahmut (masochistic Healer), a mute Lirite Atlantean telepath, and a few more.
Aether II: Ankle-Biter, and the lionfish Atlantean who wore a sari
PokeMUSH Evolutions: Grayson (Rocket)
Truelands: Jaymesin
Haight-Ashbury: Grayson (Garou)
Tempest: Snake (Garou)
Denver: Snake (Vampire), Grayson (Psychic), Saint (Consor and Mage), Ivan, Angharad, Eztli, Liz, Silver, Mack (Garou)
John Wayne's Idaho Garou Game: Grayson (Garou)
Metro: Astrid, Nasir (Garou)
Cajun: Rohan (Garou)
Ephemera: Rohan (Garou)
The WoD Game set on Hawai'i: Valkyrie (Glass Walker Garou)
Windy City: Iain, Amalesh (Vampire), James/Grayson (Mortal and Vampire), Jack (Psychic Wererat US Marshall... from England), Frank (Wereleopard), Hassan (Were-honeybadger, because why not)
The Anitaverse Game in Las Vegas: Grayson (Vampire)
The Anitaverse Game in New Orleans: James (Wereleopard)
Ataru's Star Wars Jedi Game: Karinye
Haunted Memories: Hans (Uratha)
St Petersburg: Vasili (Uratha)
One of the Dark Waters: Snake (Uratha)
Road to Amber: Jaymesin, Cefyn, Jean, Roxana
Dark Spires: Grayson, Snake, Cefyn
From the Ashes (Detroit): Grayson, Fred
Arx: Dycard I
Gray Harbor: Raymond

@Macha Blackwork. And it's easy enough - it's mostly counting. Give it a go!

I made and @desced a character. Then PBs became a thing on games that weren't Aether, and people came unto me and said 'I have the perfect PB for your character!' And lo, I told them to bugger off, no way.

Then lo, wikipages became a thing, and people came unto me and said 'I have the perfect PB for your character!' And lo, I agreed that Rutger Hauer was awesome, that the replicant was close enough, and this was permitted.

Then lo, I fell in with a new crowd, and they came unto me and said 'I have the perfect PB for your character!' And lo, it was Loki, and it was so perfect that I could doubt no more.

@Auspice I've shared a character with a friend. It was entertaining, especially when we were both logged in at once, using 'think' to communicate with each other IC and switching external control back and forth as the situation required. We'd deliberately set it up as two souls in one body, and both gotten approval as a joint app.

It was an absolute hoot.

@Alamias British Fest-style LARPs can be just as entertaining. I too have held a scorecard.

@HelloProject Right, that's you down for necromancy, carpentry, robotics and/or yarncrafts, then?

Next up, a boredom related injury: Astrophysicist gets magnets stuck up his nose while inventing coronavirus device

And archeologists lick rocks to find out if they're bone.

Covid's impact on me has mostly been that I don't have to drag myself onto public transport for three hours (or more) a day. I never went anywhere or did anything anyway. I haven't had the number of trips out that I usually get via work either, but I've still been working - it's just that the commute went from 90 minutes to 9 steps. I got used to this life when I was living in the arse end of nowhere, too, so it's just back to what I already know how to do, with added purpose.

I did get a string of multicoloured Christmas lights, though, and some tinsel. The lights are behind my monitor where they're not directly in my face, lighting up the wall in red and blue and green and yellow, and they keep making me smile. I think those are going to stay.

The moment you get to say 'I have no idea where this ride is going, but welcome to the plot!'

Thing I did love: 8:00am text 'Please book in for your first vaccination' then 'available appointments: today'.

Thing I did not love: Someone who just wanted to get me vaccinated. I feel like a dartboard, pretty sure she stood on the ockey and lobbed the pointy thing at me. Ow.

Thing I do love: I have been stabbed up for the first time. So has the SO (although they got someone who actually tried to make it not hurt and I envy).

@tributary There's a show in the UK called 'Escape to the Country'. Standard fare for that is 'We're both retiring, and our three-storey townhouse in the middle of a city and two minutes' walk from all the shops is just too much for us to handle, so we're looking for an 6-bedroom farmhouse at least two centuries old, set in acres of land, more than a mile away from the next human, where there's no public transport.'

I don't know what planet they're on, but...

@kk said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@tinuviel

I just looked it up and you are right. Apparently in the US this was happening as recent as the 70s. Very depressing and heartbreaking.

If you've heard the reports from the immigration detention centres, it's happening in the US now. Fuck 'as recent as the 70s'. It's still happening.