@Coin said:
@Thenomain said:
@Derp said:
@Eerie is pretty much pure awesome. Anyone who disagrees is just, you know. A commie or something.
He's talking about you, @Coin.
Bunch of imperialists. The whole lot of you.
Well, yeah. It wouldn't be much of an Empire if words like 'bunch' and 'whole lot' didn't apply.
How long ago was it, @Thenomain? That you played there, I mean.
It's ... not really an assumption when the staff says that's the reason for it?
I suspect that's just an issue of miscommunication, and she was using ST in a way to mean staffing in general. Non-storytelling workload is still workload.
I'm not sure that I agree with your sentiment there. Anyone can create as much work as anyone else. Simply believing that the full-on supernatural characters are going to be the most active and involved is reaching.
You're free to disagree as you like, but it's always been true, and it's unlikely the recent changes will make it any less true. The things Mortals and Mortal+ types require staff support for are very rarely as involved, rules intensive, or contentious as full template supernaturals. The simplest way to put it is that the more moving parts something has, the more options that exist, the more ways it's going to be a pain in your ass. Werewolves have whole suites of stuff they can do, how they interact with the world, that are unavailable to Wolfblooded. Same with Ghouls and Vampires, etc.
A Vampire has all the same stats as a Ghoul and Disciplines and specific stat-linked social groups, all of which adds up to the average Vampire player generating more work over time than the average Ghoul player. Werewolves even moreso since they have an entire subset of shit that inevitably requires staff adjudication in the form of spirits, Fetishes, the effects of Rites, etc.
That's not to say any given non-major template person can't create the same volume of work for staff without any of that, but that's by far an exception, not the rule.
Everything else is secondary. What 2.0 does more is a better job of providing ways in which the minor templates can participate (such as by making them more competent) in major template stories.
But a mortal is still going to, by and large, generate far less work for staff than a Proximus or Wolfblooded or Ghoul or whatever, who in turn will tend to generate far less work for staff than a Mage, or Werewolf, or Vampire.
@Ganymede
Shit, sorry. I'm on so little sleep right now. Not sure how I did that.
@Cobaltasaurus said:
It's possible @HelloRaptor, that the child had some sort of special need that might have made it difficult for the parent to contain that sort of behavior. If so I'm not really going to stand behind a "don't bring them to the movie theatre" attitude. Parents of special-needs children often get stuck at home, isolated, and very little help because their "problem children" receive responses like "you need to get your child in line" or "that child just needs to be whooped".
Of course we want to be considerate of everyone, so if that were the case she probably should have found a spot to sit where they wouldn't have bothered anyone else (too much). Such as in the last row, or at one of the outside rows, etc.
Yeah, this was third row back, just off center. On the opening weekend. And there sure as fuck were seats open towards the back. And it's a theater where you pick your seats out when you buy tickets, so it was about as deliberate a positioning as you can get. All of which adds up to me being okay with being the monster who tells the prents with the special needs kid to gtfo, I guess.
That's assuming that's even what it was, and given how many parents I've seen just let their kids do whatever they want (up to and including just running around in the aisles between the seats all across the theater) it's just as likely that they're just assholes.
if the kid was kicking somebody in the head,
To clarify, I didn't mean kicking people IN the head, just that the way they were slumped down (head low, hips forward) they were kicking their feet around at head level, which put them right in line of sight or peripheral vision. The rows are far enough apart in this particular theater that nobody's head was really in danger, except maybe their parents. But a lot of thrashing motion in front of you (or out of the corner of your eye) while you're trying to watch a movie is just aggravating as fuck and not at all cool to just let go on for nearly half an hour, on and off.
Once again, motherfucking kids and motherfucking parents who can't or won't keep them in check. Letting your kid flail about in his seat at the movie theater, kicking his legs around while sitting hunched back in his chair so they're flailing about at head level, is goddamn retarded. If you can't stop something like that, get the fuck out. And if you're not going to get the fuck out, die in a goddamn fire if you give me or anybody else attitude when we point it out to the ushers and they ask you to get the fuck out themselves.
Jesus. If I'd done some shit like that my mother would have dragged me out and not let me back into a theater till I was old enough to drive myself home. >_<
@TNP said:
Since it seems a fair number of people playing on Eldritch read these boards, it's simplest to put here that I decided to drop Joseph as he's simply not working after several scenes. I've done this long enough to know when to go back to the drawing board and make a new alt.
@Olsson said:
@Insomnia said:
That sucks. If you can wait a couple of months to have sex on a unicorn, I would suggest waiting for school to start. At least here anyway things go on sale then.
So I tried running it, I mean who knows maybe it'll work. It runs just fine on medium graphics currently with being 10 hours in. So yay, no need to spend money there yet.
Start saving up for your next rig. ^_^
@Coin said:
@Templari said:
@ThatOneDude When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail."
"Eh. Jack's okay." -- Snake P.
"Those guys need a haircut more than you do." -Col. O'Neill
It's the only way to be sure. Aside from orbital strikes.
I feel like you should hold some kind of RL Mortal Kombat style event, where players will slug it out.
I can only imagine it would be amazing to behold.
You don't have to map SPACE, at least. I think. Do you? ...is something wrong with SPACE? I didn't think to look up and out. Oh god. >_>
@2mspris said:
@HelloRaptor said:
And while it's intended to use for a MU
whistles innocently
chooses to disbelieve
Yes, this is your fault. I hope you're pleased with yourself! <j/k... mostly.>
@Fortune, didn't Masq used to have mages? I could have sworn there were Mages when I was there last, though that was soooo long ago.
Unfortunately, as much as oWoD spheres and general setting expectations are vastly superior to nWoD in pretty much every fucking way ever, I haven't really missed oWoD mechanics. I like that you guys aren't charging for Humanity, and while it's not mentioned I'd assume that by now the game is handling botches correctly (no rolled successes and one or more 1s vs just more 1s than successes), but you still use Lore apparently, so aieeee. 
@The-Tree-of-Woe said:
I am surprised I have not heard more bitching about the plot introduced in the book.
Which plot? I haven't read much but a few blurbs yet. Spoil away!
My favorite characters have always been flukes.
Much the same here, though not always. But a number of the characters I've had the most fun with started out as either joke concepts (lol somebody should make a blah blah blah) or one-offs who were intended to get killed off or written out within a few months while I waited to play what I really wanted to play. Maybe not exactly what you meant, but still, flukes.
