Best posts made by Hella

@Haven said in Fallen World MUX!:

@SunnyJ I love that you only allow one alt. Never change this. Ever. EVER. Thank you.

That's pretty much the best thing I've ever heard.

I bought this one a few weeks back and love it. Comfy while still being good support, and the arm rests go up and down!

Don't know if it ships to the US though.

@Ganymede said in Plotted versus plotless scenes:

@VulgarKitten said in Plotted versus plotless scenes:

As an aside, you are doing an excellent job.

You're very kind, because I don't think I've done shit. I put up a Board post, but no one responded. And I'm not on when everyone else is.

Still, anyone's welcome to get in and join. It's real simple: bring yourself. It's comic-book-ish and clichéd, but it's as fun as anyone wants to make it. Win or fail, make it as brutal and violent as you want; it's all "improv" RP, so it's all good.

Beating up NPCs is better than sitting in shops, right?

The one scene I saw, you were doing an excellent job of getting people involved. It was nice to see. Take the compliment!

@Ganymede said:

@Shebakoby said:

As a result, millions of canadians can no longer find a family doctor, and thus have precisely 0 access to specialists.

Are you one of those millions of Canadians? Because, as a Canadian, I was, and am, not.

Nor was my mother, who was diagnosed (again) with thyroid cancer. She was diagnosed within 2 weeks, and had surgery scheduled 3 weeks later. She could have gotten in earlier, but she was busy traveling.

The funny thing about these stories is that I've never actually met a Canadian that ever had a problem getting a required surgery done. I've also never actually met a Canadian that ever had to wait for a cancer scan longer than 2 weeks. And I've known plenty of them.

I have, however, met and read the records for dozens of Americans who have been the victims of medical malpractice. I've read medical malpractices cases for scores more. And this is only in the State of Ohio.

People like to attribute the Canadian horror stories to OMG Canada's health care system sucks. You should check out the actual number of Americans who have been the victims of their own health care system. I think you'll conclude, as I have, that whether the system is a single-payer public system or a oligopolistic private system is immaterial. You will likely conclude that doctors, nurses, health care professionals, and their patients make mistakes.

I think you will also conclude, as I have, that medical professionals that don't have to worry about coverage issues or costs will be able to spend more time training and researching than balancing monthly budgets.

Okay, first off, I like the Canadian health care system, overall. Yes, it has its flaws. No doubt. However, in support of @Shebakoby, and having worked in the health care system in various capacities for 9+ years, there have been patients who have had to wait because of low priority. And yes, specialists can be very hard to get in to, and wait times do vary, some being upwards of 3-4 months or longer depending on what case your doctor makes for you. This ties in to the fact that there are increasingly few family doctors. Part of this is because the government, in their infinite wisdom, decided to place caps on the seats for medical school awhile back to stem the tide, and partially because it is no longer as profitable nor as safe legally to become a family doctor. When you have a family doctor (if you are lucky enough to find one, either with their own practice or practicing out of a clinic) your case will likely be stronger than the walk-in clinic doctor who sends off a referral that is not nearly as detailed. It's not the best system. That said, privatization is not the best system, either. It's a very exclusive system that reflects inequality in society.
The upshot of all this is that Canada's health care system does not suck. But it is not the best, either.

I'd be up for this, save that I have very little code knowledge. I did try to start a game like this not so long ago, Legends of Amber, where the Princes were long gone, and it was set in the Courts of Chaos. I could do the desc'ing etc, just not the code necessary, and the coder I had was just doing it on his free time, which he didn't have a lot of (totally understandable), so it never got off the ground. I think I still have the site address etc.

Going to bed at 10pm like a (ninety-year-old) BOSS!

@il-volpe said in The ethics of IC romance, TS, etc:

@arkandel said in The ethics of IC romance, TS, etc:

what if the choice that takes a PC mostly off the table is OOC? For instance if you stop being active on my PC's spouse to play an alt with Theno's PC. Do I have the moral high ground to get pissed off?

You stop showing up for our game, but I see you across the room, playing with Theno at another table. I was enjoying our game, you dropped it because you enjoy playing with Theno more than with me. I am going to have feels about that.

@Thenomain is pretty great though. Could anyone really blame you?

More seriously, in the perfect world you'd be able to shrug it off and move on to something else, maybe make some compelling story from it. But in reality, as with most situations, it's usually more complicated than that.

People who chew gum with their mouth open.
Related: How do I politely ask a person to stop chewing gum with their mouth open?

@arkandel said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

I haven't played on a MUSH in years.

And yet, each time I read a book I like my mind goes "hey you know what this would be great for? A MUSH setting!".

Time to pick a book and play again

New tool for relaxation that I love: http://stopbreathethink.org/

I know some people can lose a character and be fine. But I am fucking devastated and looking for others' input. How do you (or do you?) mourn character death, IRL?

A friend suggested writing a small letter or short blurbs (just for your own edification, not to be seen) to all the characters (PCs and NPCs) who influenced and shaped your character, and I thought that was a really great suggestion.

Salt and lard and chorizo... None have a satisfying crunch or that delicious smoky aftertaste that bacon has. Also chorizo is usually spicy. Why not just add spices to create the same flavour? Because you like chorizo, that's why. Like others like bacon for flavouring. The only thing stupid is you telling people they're stupid for liking a certain flavour in their food. WTF, you're smarter than this senseless argument.

I've been exploring the code and features of Ares and have come across some features that I think are really cool, that had me going 'Oh, that's useful! I wish I'd had that in X situations!' Stuff like separate windows for PMs and the web-based platform as a whole, and how everything is integrated really cohesively.

And I'm wondering if anyone else has any epiphany moments with aspects of Ares that they love, that they'd care to share; favourite features, obscure helpful features, etc.

@Luna My ex is a lot like yours, only he was open about wanting to get back together and my response (I didn't laugh outright, props to me!) was "you haven't changed. What would be the point? No thanks, not interested." Being blunt about it is the only way to go in these situations. If you leave even a small sliver of the door open? These advances will never stop.

@ZombieGenesis said in Observation:

@reimesu My group had a blast with City of Mist. We used it to emulate a more straight-up superhero game. We did modify things a bit, used 3 themes instead of 4, and they were customized by the player instead of having strict themes. So a player could have "Alien Physiology" as a theme with related tags within it.

We're starting up some Savage Worlds stuff now. I'm running Rifts and another player is going to start up a Savage Worlds Pathfinder campaign. We're pretty psyched.

This is the campaign I'm in right now with my group and it's engaging AF. I've been told we're doing Runelords? But I'm not allowed to look it up because Spoilers!

@Cobaltasaurus Ditto that. My last class ends in 3 hours!

Maybe instead of a Hog Pit, we could establish a Log Pit, and we just post links to logs from scenes we've really loved being in. I'm only half joking.

Going through my stepdad's stuff in preparation for the move downstairs, come across a replica One Ring from Lord of the Rings, put it on.

Me: Mine now!
Him: Uh no it's not.
Me: ... I don't think you know how this ring works.

This is a two-parter, inspired by my curiosity.

First part is, how did you come up with your username? What's the story behind it? I guess, what's your origin story?

Second question, I've noticed a lot of us repeat character names. Do you? How did you choose it? How do you choose character names, in general? What inspires you?

I think most people know my username used to be vulgarkitten (I've heard some people think that's supposed to be a secret - it's not). I got it from an ex boyfriend IRL when I was trying to come up with something funny. He told me I should just pick two things I liked and smash them together. Thus, swearing and cats.

I changed my username to Hella to reflect moving away from that place in my life and back to what felt better to me. Hella is a spin on my minecraft username and what all my SMP friends call me, and have called me for 10+ years. For me, it's just a happier, better fit.

As for MU character names, I think the one I'm most (in)famous for is Catriona. I used it for years and years on Road to Amber, and then again on The Reach after the previous player gave it up. I chose it because I think it's a pretty name, simple as that. Also, I love that it shortens to 'Cat'. I'm a big fan of names that have convenient short forms (see: Monique 'Mo'). I think, though, that Catriona was the only name I ever reused a bunch across multiple MUs. The others have just been names that I thought were pretty and inspired me to build characters around them.

That's my story. What's yours?

@Macha said in Dead Celebrities 2020:

And Tony Lewis, from the Outfield Your Love - the video is embedded in the article.

Ooof. That one hits right in the feels. Damn.