Best posts made by Grayson

@macha No, they don't. Why would they? They never see it.

@Tori said in MU Things I Love:

@Quinn said in MU Things I Love:

I tried to ask everyone I put in to the ones I wrote up because I found it pretty jarring to see myself on the list for a brand new roster. And I definitely was trying to think of people that would be nice and helpful with new players!

I don't find it jarring, if only because I readily volunteered both Ida and Gwenna when @Apos posted about as much - currently @bbread news/64. Asking is a nice thing to do and great for giving people a heads-up! It's not something I need, by any means, since I totes threw my hat in for it. It's such an awesome discovery when I see one

Yup, I'm with @Tori - I threw my character's name in the hat, I'm expecting that someone will eventually pick him as a link. Although I will say his character type isn't as easy to link to as @Tori's, so I expect that while I'll be waiting for a bit it'll be a doozy when it does happen.

@horrorhound Which is interesting, because engineering is full of people on the spectrum in one way or another.

We all rage against the architects, though, because what bloody idiot puts that there and this over here and that girder through the chimney and how the hell are we supposed to make any of this actually work?

I think maybe drawing on it as an 'alertnative' universe could be interesting., maybe a world where the Roman Empire never 'fell' a bit. So everything has this Roman-esque vibe?

The Regency included a nod to the Roman era, with all the neo-classical architecture/outfits/etc. They already had that idea themselves!

There's reasons my dad - a mechanical and electrical and design and innovation engineer who's now in his mid-70s - considers the words 'graduate engineer' to be unprintable.

@carma said in Character likeness:

Also, supporting artists feels altruistic.

It's altruistic, absolutely. But it ain't cheap.

@mietze If you continually give all that you have, sooner or later you outdo the regen and end up with nothing left to give.

Taking a bit more time for yourself and your family is, in that circumstance, a very good thing.

A lot more people than anyone realises will be feeling this way after the last couple of years. There's a wave of people saying 'fuck it', and while it'll crest at various times depending on where you are and what you've been doing and how the people around you have reacted, it's coming for us all.

@derp said in Alternative Lords & Ladies Settings:

@ominous said in Alternative Lords & Ladies Settings:

Matrilineal, non-matrimonial society. Political power and titles are passed down solely through mothers to their children. Marriage doesn't exist. No one cares who your father is. A prince could become the king because his mom is the queen. His children won't inherit his political title all. His sister's children would. The prince, as a king, would not have a queen consort.

This is how I structured my nomad society character. Matrilineal, nobody cared who your dad was, sexuality was open and encouraged.

The particular setup there confuses me, though. How would the prince become King if there were female daughters of the queen who could then become queen? And if there are no female daughters, wouldn't it default to his daughter inheriting, not his sister's kids?

Matrilineal societies have existed; it boils down to the mother's bloodline is bleedin' obvious, but the father's not so much.

If you have to have a King, you need a man. But given that you can't guarantee that his kids are his, it's his sister's kids who inherit because you can guarantee that her kids are hers. So the new Queen is the King's wife, but her kids won't inherit because she's not of the bloodline and you don't know if her kids are. Her kids will inherit from her, instead.

It's a neat solution to a lot of problems, but it does mean that the king's own kids aren't - can't ever be - his heirs. For some reason a lot of people dislike that idea.

Marrying your sister also solves the problem, but most of us would consider that an extreme solution. That never stopped the Ancient Egyptians, though, or the Hapsburgs.

The loss of history would mean/does mean that when people like VASpider pop up in other hobbies, I can't say to the victims 'go here and you'll see that you're not alone, that this is a pattern and that you aren't going insane'. If we lost all the history, I wouldn't even be able to drop by and refresh my memory on the patterns that we've observed over the last 20 years.

We don't often need the receipts. But when we do, it's nice if they still exist. Although, a better search function would help massively.

(No, the VASpider example was not a random example pulled out of thin air.)

Some friends and I have the rule that if you come up with something both ICly appropriate and so funny you spend more than 5 seconds giggling at it in RL, you have to do it.

This has led to all sorts of hilarity, to the point where I've taken it with me to other places. It usually brings a whole new energy to the scene, and is the starting point for all sorts of inadvisable decisions, character growth, and connections.

Damn, it's been a while. Good to see you again!

@Pandora Apparently attitudes are changing over time. Says someone Labyrinthe rules said was too short to be an elf and too tall to be a dwarf - and who Fools and Heroes said couldn't belong to any of the Knightly Orders except the Templars, who were the ones the rest looked down on. Can't think why I disliked either system.

@Caggles Looks amazing. Unfortunately I haven't a thing to wear (and a couple of other reasons too, but it does look amazing).

I was either born this way, or adopted it so far back that I can't remember - and I remember being two years old. It wasn't my parents, it wasn't my grandparents, it wasn't other kids. To the best of my knowledge I have no origin story, because I am one of those who simply /are/.

Werewolves following the totem: Donkey. Obviously.

@Ghost I used to play half of a character with a very good friend who played the other half. We came up with the metaphysics and the background to fit the setting, we both had access to the bit, and when we were both online at the same time we'd make creative use of code so the two souls sharing the body could communicate internally and either one of us could communicate externally.

It was an absolute /hoot/, but it takes one hell of a lot of trust to make it work.

Esteban! Fred here.

@Auspice Yeah, but the stock cube just makes it even easier and means I don't need to wash up a pan.

Green skies happen. I've seen one that was green from horizon to horizon, and it was eerie as all hell even without being the biggest thunderstorm I've ever known.