Best posts made by HelloRaptor

Lots of people go straight to heavy metal for songs to rage to, but for Forsaken’s focus on the pack and the infectious nature of Kuruth, N.W.A.’s Straight Outta Compton is far more representative.

....ahahaahaha what I don't even...

I would have gone with Party Up for Kuruth, if he really wanted to go with rap.

Y'all gon' make me lose my mind
Up in here, up in here
Y'all gon' make me go all out
Up in here, up in here
Y'all gon' make me act a FOOL
Up in HERE, up in here
Y'all gon' make me lose my cool
Up in here, up in here

Or... really anything by DMX, I guess.

@Cobaltasaurus

Eyeballs are a squick factor for me. I cannot deal with eyeball mutilation.

The Strain is made almost entirely of squick factor, and eyeballs do figure, so... yeah. You do not want. >_>

I it though.

Clearly the answer is for your M+ psychics to make us of Aeon psion powers.

@Coin said:

@HelloRaptor said:

@Cobaltasaurus

Eyeballs are a squick factor for me. I cannot deal with eyeball mutilation.

The Strain is made almost entirely of squick factor, and eyeballs do figure, so... yeah. You do not want. >_>

I it though.

It's so bad, but I keep watching. I even made a Requiem Devotion for vampires who want DAT TUNG.

You shut your mouth, there is nothing bad about The Strain.

@The-Tree-of-Woe

Make them the villains of their personal morality tale, etc. All various things that translated to "pick on them because they're a relatively easy fight."

Er...

I do not like being singled out by people like Leka, Ernst, and Juerg because I'm there.

Errrr....

I like playing vampire. If I do something unapologetically evil, for whatever reason, it stands.

So, it sounds like it's not because you're there, or that you might be easy to fight, but because your character is doing shit that's unapologetically evil and people are taking exception to it.

I hate to tel you this, because I realize it's not going to fit within your pat little view where vampires only get picked on because they're weak, but the sort of folks who are going to go after someone for doing "unapologetically evil' shit are going to go after them regardless of what they're playing. Shit, I played an evil mage who was one of the most powerful characters on a game and people still routinely tried to kill him, even people who stood very little chance of succeeding.

Vampires don't get picked on because they're easy to fight, they get picked on because 1) they have a pretty terrible reputation for being mind raping* sadists, and 2) because more often than not the people playing them seem incapable of treating any non-vampires like anything but shit, despite evidence of just how poor an idea that is.

• There are few things players hate more than losing control of their ability to make choices about their characters actions. While it's true that Mages have the Mind Arcanum, and it can do exactly the same sorts of things, it's more nebulous than Dominate, Presence (or is that called something else now?), or the blood bond Vampires can create. It's not really fair to vampire players, but the very existence of these tools tends to mark a negative on your grade sheet before things even begin. If you actually try to use them against another PC, murder is probably nigh.

But really, this idea that vampires get picked on because they're easy to fight is just really, really dumb. Werewolves have been weaksauce since nwod came out, WAY easier to take down than Vampires. Hell, Changelings are by and large pretty squishy, but there's not a lot of bullying of them that gets done. Vampires don't get singled out because they're weak, they get singled out because they start from a bad position (mind raping, blood stealing, elitest assholes) and then they do 'unapologetically evil' shit on top of it.

All of which is added to by the philosophy of MU* Assholes everywhere that if you're not doing something to a PC, why bother doing it? So the 'unapologetically evil' shit you're doing is probably to another PC, and that PC inevitably has friends, family, and loved ones who are yet other PCs, and suddenly it's got less to do with someone's personal morality play and more that you're a monster preying on the people in their circle of people to be protected. Or sometimes they're only vaguely related to those folks, or just hear about it, and want to indulge their hero complex. And since they're also MU* Assholes and if they're not doing something to a PC it's not worth doing, they target the PC doing the 'unapologetically evil' shit.

I've got very little sympathy for either set of assholes, really.

Aren't we a constitutionally limited representative democratic republic? I mean leaving aside the corporate overlords who run everything for reals.

@Derp

That's because US politicians are owned by corporations. Which is why Trump as a president terrifies me so.

I kind of hope he wins. It would serve the Republican party, as an entity, with a delicious plate full of irony as everything they pretend not to be gets brought directly to the forefront.

Trump isn't doing or saying anything that isn't being done or said by the rest of the rich dudes who buy politics behind the scenes, he's just being crass about not staying behind the scenes.

@Arkandel
Thanks for the link, interesting read that led to other interesting reading.

As long as I don't have to write reports, I'm usually pretty relaxed on roleplay requirements for the rest. I'm willing to assume that the majority of folks who want to play as part of a regimented force are going to be okay with or actively want to play into some of the details that are part and parcel of that. If you're in the military, as in actively in service and routinely dealing with other members of the same service, you're probably going to be expected to learn what the various ranks are relative to one another. So things like learning how badge numbers work, enh, I'd be fine with it.

That said, it absolutely goes too far, and people who play characters (or worse are staff for spheres that involve shit they do RL) tend to get way too fucking detail oriented about that shit and getting on peoples cases when they Aren't Doing Things Right.

I work with computers, I'm pretty intimately familiar with how they and their associated hardware, networking, etc functions. I give exactly no fucks if people playing 'hackers' do not. As @Pyrephox said, if I could see it happening in a movie I'm having fun watching, I don't care. If someone is allowed to break into an air gapped network, that's on the staffer running the scene for letting it happen, and I just assume that offscreen actions were taken to facilitate the remote entry.

But on the subject of having to learn some shit to facilitate playing what you're playing (badge numbers, ranks, etc as a cop), to a point I don't see it as much different than how you'd better have learned the various details of rank, auspice, tribe, forms, etc when you decided to play a Werewolf. It can go too far, but some is fine if it'll help.

@Arkandel said:

@Three-Eyed-Crow said:

Has anyone noticed any appreciable improvement in their gaming from having DirectX 12?

I remain a very happy Windows 7 user, but that in particular is making upgrading tempting.

I had been using Linux before (and will again once I've gone through my queue of non-wine runnable games ) so I can't compare empirically, but you could look at a benchmark comparison chart such as the one here: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/08/gamers-its-safe-to-upgrade-to-windows-10/ .

That's a good article. You're not going to see any real advantages to DX12 because, as it notes, there aren't any DX12 games out yet.

The security article is a bit hyperbolic in some places, but all the technical information is good for people to have. I hadn't really thought about people buying a new machine with the OS who don't immediately wipe it and reinstall.

How is that different from how most folks play most everything else?

(Hint: It's not.)

@Ycevolod & some others:

Full disclosure. Once upon a time, when I was a wee young lad, I habitually played girls in video games to get handouts. I sometimes wonder if my e-bfs from those days ever think about me.

Rambling on the subject:

I used to play mostly female characters on City of Heroes. It started out because I was in on it from the start and the female costume options and details outnumbered the ones for male characters by factors of a whole goddamn lot, and I liked coming up with costumes as much as playing.

I noticed pretty immediately that people were far more helpful and pleasant, and that yes, they gave me stuff (power leveling, currency, enhancements, etc). There were a couple of guys who acted like creeps, but since I almost always formed my own teams I just booted them and moved on. I appreciated the early help so much that later on I went to spend a huge chunk of time helping others in a similar fashion, though I was pretty equal opportunity about it.

Mind, the CoH community was overall a pretty good one, so even when I played a male character people were generally pretty cool. I did notice a pretty marked difference in how much leeway I had to poke fun at people while we played. People tended to start shit with my male character if it got too pointed, and usually as publicly as possible, while with my female characters I'd generally just get a polite private message letting me know they didn't appreciate something.

I never really claimed to be female RL, but I also never corrected people one way or another regardless of the character type, and let folks assume whatever they wanted. I didn't play any romance games with anybody, though.

On the actual subject of flirty chicks and it getting them stuff, it's worth noting that a lot of people will give free stuf to pretty much anybody who's friendly, which flirty usually qualifies as. It's not hard in most MMOs to have ridiculous levels of wealth and resource acquisition, and sharing it with folks who have less (when it costs you nothing to do so really) is something people find fun, so odds are at least decent that the person giving something out to somebody else who's being all flirty at them would do so even if they were just being friendly period.

@TNP

Let's get something straight. Mayo is good. Miracle Whip is good. Miracle Whip is not a substitute for mayo any more than ketchup (whis is good) is a substitute for mustard (which is also good). They are different condiments.

@Templari

This is a fairly simple concept to grasp... yet so many fail.

That's like saying a car is not a substitute for a truck (because despite both being vehicles you can't cart a piano around in a car) any more than a bicycle is not a substitute for a fighter jet (because despite both being conveyances you can't fire missiles from a bicycle). Other than being condiments, mustard and ketchup are completely different beasts, but miracle whip was created specifically as a cheaper alternative to mayonnaise and made using the same key ingredients as mayonnaise, just in different amounts. In particular, the only reason miracle whip wasn't labeled as a type of mayonnaise is because it doesn't meet a minimum vegetable oil content required for labeling purposes.

Sure, they're 'different', but in the way that two very similar but not identical things are 'different'. That is not even remotely the way ketchup and mustard are 'different'.

@Ganymede said:

@HelloRaptor,

I'm always surprised by how stupid you are, given the volume that you've written. Then again, I learned long ago that those who write a lot often have less to say.

That said, I'll define what I mean by "fantasy-escapists." These are the sort of role-players, to me, that create a PC to serve as an avatar into which they can withdraw to escape their own lives. That can be contrasted with a player that creates a PC to play in a game.

I wasn't disagreeing with you, just mocking the idea that most MU*ers aren't more the former than the latter.

@Insomnia said:

Is it 2016 yet? Don't make it green! Or animated!t

Hah, just saw this. I put it under RL Things I Love. ;D

@Cobaltasaurus said:

@HelloRaptor I am talking about this thread and the way people are being all SUPER SERIOUS in it. C'mon, I want funny TV-Mocking.

Yes, that's what I was getting at. ^_^

@VulgarKitten

I'm new to the joy of bacon, having been a vegetarian most of my life.

Congratulations on overcoming your affliction/delusion/cult/whatever.

@Rook
&afinger runs whatever you put in it. Want it to pemit something to you? It will. Want it to pemit something to the person fingering you? It will. Want it to pemit a poke to the code wiz reminding them to disable afinger? Sure. Want it to check your mail? Okay. It is, 99% of the time, used primarily to notify the person being +fingered that someone is doing so, and who exactly has done so.

My query is more why any of this is necessary, or even useful? As others have remarked, if I'm typing +finger to check out some basic IC/OOC information out about you or your character (depending on what's displayed by +finger), why do you need to be notified? You keep talking about facilitating shit, but unless I've actually gone out of my way to page you, all it's facilitating is an awkward situation where my attempt to query basic public information has you trying to engage me.

It'd be like if whenever somebody looked at you you walked up to them and were like "Hi! You were just looking at me. Is there a reason you were looking at me? I know you looked at me. Why were you looking at me?", which would get really weird really fast.

I'm leaving out the fuckers who use it to pemit messages to people who +finger them, because there's a special circle of hell for that shit, shared only with the people who complain that someone is +finger-spamming them by looking at their +finger too much and thus triggering their self-imposed &afinger. Fuck both of those people.

Speaking of people who can fuck right off:

@Luna

As for the unread mail? All it makes me do is delete all my mail, unread. It becomes something that people poke at you about and it's irritating. Lol October has over 100 unread mail! Check your mail! Why you no read your mail?!

Because fuck yall that's why.

I sincerely hope you get a computer virus that not only burns out your computer but clings to your digital footprint and keeps you from ever MU*ing again.

Because fuck people who have hundreds of unread mail and get pissy with people wondering wtf.

@Thenomain
+finger is +finger. Renaming shit almost never ends well. Remember the threads about why more games didn't use MUFF or whatever it was called? People got actively turned off by unfamiliar command names and syntax even when others kept pointing out it'd do the same shit. We had @mail and then +mail, and then everybody just aliased +mail back to @mail.

Many of us type commands by rote by now. If you made it +info, people would just set commands to alias it back to +finger. Which I guess means there's no reason not to, I just don't see much of a point.

@Roz said:

@Maira It was not. Does he have a habit of this? He should really stop if he does. Nobody wants random cock on their subway travels.

I feel like you've got an entirely too optimistic view of humanity. I'm almost positive somebody does.

Yeah, it seems like it'd play right into the sense of persecution complex so prevalent on MU*es. I can't imagine it won't get snapped right up.

Honestly, I'm still shocked Demon made it onto a MU*, especially a multi-sphere one, and this sounds like it's actually being designed to work with other spheres.

@silentsophia said:

Why, it's almost as if people could care about more than one thing at a time...

No, no, you're right. There totally aren't an overwhelming number of people on social media who haven't once commented on #blacklivesmatter or any variations of the same but whose facebook and twitter accounts are on fire with outrage and tears over Cecil the lion's cruel, cruel fate.

My bad. I shouldn't have directed my sarcasm at those people I was pretty obviously not talking about. If only I'd indicated in my comment that it was directed at those people, some way I could have implied that people who care about both were not the source of my scorn.

Or maybe it's still just funny as hell whenever people jump on a #hashtag bandwagon without taking the time to figure out what it actually represents, regardless of any of that shit.

@Glitch said:

@Arkandel Misquoting is @HelloRaptor 's specialty. He likes to keep his crap in notepad. Or word. Or something awful and it confuses him. I believe @Thenomain actually said it.

That said, sorry @Arkandel, my bad. >_>

@Coin said:

Fuck yeah, Constantine on Arrow.

This is the best thing. that guy as Constantine.