Posts made by Grayson

@silverfox I suspect our antics on here lead to plenty of drinking for the cat-lawyer-bot.

@jeshin They really, really do.

After Overheard in Waitrose, this was Overheard in Aldi:

This place is fantastic value for money, I got a shopping trolley that was on display outside for £1!

Some places here don't demand a quid in the trolley, @Packrat - but those places all have little brakes on one wheel of the trolley, IME these days, so if they go outside the range of the little transmitters in the car park they lock up and refuse to trolley (and occasionally lock up and refuse to trolley inside the supermarket too, though they've gotten better about that since the early days).

@reversed Hey, I'm using a Cartoon Supervillain archetype for my Taller than 6'6" character. Completely different cause (but the same effect).

@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.

@runescryer You need an excuse?!

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!

@auspice Most people are right-eye dominant. If you can't tell, look at that one. Every now and again look at the left just in case.

Then stop looking because staring people in the eyes is bad too.

@too-old-for-this said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

I was called a slacker. An underachiever. A quitter. Everyone was forever disappointed in me for not living up to my potential. And they never stopped, once, to think that I was waiting for them to catch up. That experience has shaped a lot of my adult life and its only now as I get into my 40s that I can even really talk about it and not have people roll their eyes or think I'm just making shit up to cover my laziness.

My schools did not allow competition, to the point where sports day got banned at one of them, because they thought that was the cutting edge of pedagogy. There were two people in my year who could have kept up with me and competed, but we were deliberately split into different classes for everything as far as possible, and I didn't share any classes with either of the other two (although they did share with each other for some). And we all three of us got held to the pace of the slowest in the class, and no-one got the chance to be taught more, and self-study was frowned upon (and boring anyway).

It was hell.

Geography was so slow that I practiced holding my breath while the teacher was droning on explaining the bleeding obvious (I did a lot of swimming at that point, with an emphasis on staying underwater for a while).

And no, I didn't bother with homework either. Why would I? I'd learnt it the first time round, then we spent another three quarters of an hour repeating it in class, and now you want me to do it again? Great good gods let me do something interesting, I learned that because you made me, I already know it, I explained it five times over in ten different ways to people who didn't understand it in that class, and I have better things to do with my own time.

But girls couldn't have neurological differences. We had to be polite and kind and ladylike at all times, and where competition was frowned upon the idea of a girl being ludicrously competitive - and especially taking on and beating the boys at anything - was utter anathema. My mother now admits that they should never have left me in that school, but I know there was no choice at the time. It doesn't make me any less angry at the education system of the day, though.

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

I have very long hair for first time ever from not getting it cut all year. Every so often it falls into my peripheral vision and scares the shit out of me.

I hate it when my hair is long.

Once upon a time it was down to my waist. It was such a joy when I got it cut. Now I can tie almost all of it back, and I hate it. It's thick and wavy and tangles in a heartbeat. It gets in my eyes, my mouth, my way, everything. It takes hours to dry and it's just an all-around nuisance. The only thing that's cheering me up about my hair is that as I get older I'm going from dark bronze to an overall auburn, with silver and gold threads and a very few pure copper. That bit I love.

But it's still a bloody nuisance, and I'm seriously considering just shaving it all off, if we're looking at a lockdown into February. I wanted to shave it off in March, but that got veto'd because someone didn't believe my guesstimate of when I'd have to go out of the house to work again, and to be fair they're the one who has to look at it.

@pyrephox A lot of the people I work with have taken to booking themselves a slot of half an hour or an hour in their calendars at lunchtime, and going for a walk before it gets dark.

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.

I have never been so disappointed to crit a roll as I was when rolling Composure, when <redacted> <redacted> <redacted> in front of my character's eyes. Horribly.

Horribly horribly.

The character still has nightmares about what happened, but at the time he totally held it together. I mean, I was at least hoping he'd get to tip the chair over backwards and hide behind his wife.

@L-B-Heuschkel

@JinShei Tom Lehrer. Autocorrect is not your friend.

@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.

@silverfox I can get traction on my brainweasels by pointing out that it's an emergency. Emergencies suspend the normal rules, and you do what you have to to get the job done. It may not feel like one when you're sitting at a desk, months into it - but it is still an emergency, and emergency rules apply. You do what you have to in order to get the job done as best you can.

Good luck.

@Mr-Johnson Okay. That? That sounds a lot more interesting than generic modern-day superheroes. Keep me informed?

I have to second @Wizz. Make the game you want to play. Keep an eye on making it accessible for other people to play in your game too - settings with One Big Badass are fun for the badass but not much fun for anyone else who has to deal with them, for instance - but build what you want to play first and foremost.

I generally don't get involved in Comics games because I like the grim and gritty antiheroes rather than the four-colour deities, and Frank Castle in a world with Superman is... yeah. But a dieselpunk setting with no Superman? That actually sounds interesting.