Posts made by HorrorHound

If you turn your high beams on behind me for XYZ reasons - it is only fair that I turn on my rear-facing bar light.

Man, I am at once intrigued and in need of a drink.

@ganymede

Niiice. Short and sweet, I like it.

It's called 'splash damage's for a reason, you ninnies. Go cry to the healer.

@ganymede said in Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff:

@arkandel

As someone who religiously plays / played vampires, do you really want me to describe how you can quite easily set up legal vehicles in order to maintain a vampire lord's possessions over time without resorting to the use of Disciplines?

Yes.

@kk said in Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff:

And I do find the sexualization/weakening of female nurses/healers/etc on games(also in TV, movies, books) to be somewhat offensive, but this is the first time I said anything loudly about it. I generally just quietly roll my eyes. I am sure that some people find my characters not to be fully realistic.

If anyone cares and wants to play a better nurse type of character. I would suggest practical clothing while providing medical care and not emphasizing how weak/girly they are while they are engaging in medicine. None of this means the healer cannot be sexy/adorable/king hearted. Just when the gloves go on, they are going to be more no bs.

Reigna, Eirene and Sophie are great examples of healers on games. Actually Arx has several who do it well.

Or if your nurse buys her nursing outfit on Leg Avenue, they are not realistically played.

And not related to mushing as mushing doesn't tend to do this, but in tv/movies there is a good deal of Nurse erasure. They will show doctors doing things, that I never seen a doctor do and only seen nurses do in real life, like dressing changes, starting IVs and etc.

Eirene reminds me of every RN I have ever met. All that salt balanced by professionalism.

@silverfox I'm with @Ganymede here. If he's gonna be a cockmonster to your Ma, maybe he needs a reminder he's not some cosmic gift to the world. Because of the Pandemic we let my jobless little brother stay with us for awhile (clarity: my wife did. I said he should sleep in the car he does not have. She wanted to be a good person or something.) So he stayed. Mind you, he'd already been staying with us for a year previous - then get gets bitchy with my wife one day and it comes down to: 'Move out, or I'mma drown you in a mud puddle.'

Some people just need a good kick in the taint as a reminder not to be cockgoblin.

@chibichibi

It would be best to include in your CharGen a little slot: 'What sort of story are you looking for?' Then list like twelve general options, and one spot for custom answer. Some people see Mage as basically Desrin, or Constantine. Others think it's uh, whatever Cumberbatch played. Lord Fate? Supreme Wizard? I can't remember. Anyways. Mechanically they're mortal until they're not. Some peeps want to have Proxy Wars and be vampires, others wanna be monsters.

As for sharing the same world, I mean, sure. Yes. They all share the same space, except like in The Witcher, that space can change due to perspective, blood-type, day of the week, or just cosmic meddling.

I personally always refer back to the vampire books mentioning 'weird people' who are better just dead. Maybe they sparkle gold or something. Also mages referring to vampires in: 'lol, they're real and they will eat or enslave you, avoid them when possible.'

I've been a Pizza Angel, so.

@testament said in RL Sads:

I can no longer tell if I'm being distant from my online friends or if my online friends are being distant from me.

I just have ADHD, homes. Time is an ocean, and I am flying upside down, staring at that floating eyeball speck.

I will clarify: Cross-sphere is whatever. I mean, I have no problem playing Sabbat who bangs with Black Spirals or weird assholes who sometimes talk to Cthulhu. I just don't like it when the game becomes pockets of The Legion of Doom or uh, you know, the Superfriends.

@juniper said in Antagonistic PCs - how to handle them:

@horrorhound said in Antagonistic PCs - how to handle them:

@Juniper

I, personally, loathe the Super Friend routine and often distance myself from it when I see it as I recognize my first instinct is to piss all over it and then set it on fire. Hooooweverrrr, using that example and your own, you inevitably come back to Staff being the arbiters between players and at each crossroads because, you know, drama.

Swinging back around this game a couple of years later, the main form of plot development seems to be constant charity drives and I just want to burn the whole thing to the ground.

I'll hand you the matches. I won't tell you what to do but, you know, here's some matches.

@tinuviel said in Antagonistic PCs - how to handle them:

@horrorhound said in Antagonistic PCs - how to handle them:

@ganymede said in Antagonistic PCs - how to handle them:

@derp

Well, I mean, I can’t eat a whole baby these days, I’m old, wtf.

You don't eat them whole, Jesus Christ who raised you? Chew your food, dammit.

A whole baby and a baby whole are different sentences. Who taught you to read?

The American Education System.

@Juniper

I, personally, loathe the Super Friend routine and often distance myself from it when I see it as I recognize my first instinct is to piss all over it and then set it on fire. Hooooweverrrr, using that example and your own, you inevitably come back to Staff being the arbiters between players and at each crossroads because, you know, drama.

@ganymede said in Antagonistic PCs - how to handle them:

@derp

Well, I mean, I can’t eat a whole baby these days, I’m old, wtf.

You don't eat them whole, Jesus Christ who raised you? Chew your food, dammit.

I'm not sad, per say...I'm...not sure what the word is.

I work high up, sometimes very high up. Not as high as I used to (such as outside of skyscrapers) but high enough (yet low enough) that I can still see and interact with the world. Hear it, see it, smell it - you get it. (By the way, none of you look up enough.)

I'm...not sure what I am. But I am a Thing, possibly negative.

I'm trying to hold on to things that matter, to put value in day-to-day routines and goals like every other sane person, except...I have a problem: I work high up. From my perspective, I can see things that make a lot of things just...not matter. Material ownership becomes almost pointless when you can see the city is literally falling apart from the rooftops in front of you, day in, day out.

Or that the area you're in is running out of horizontal space. That one is good. You can see the homes getting smaller because the space is running out.

Ohhhh, or the scramble of shoppers into the building that has a sinking roof, and vertical cracks in the foundation that no one knows about except you, the other inspectors, and the owner of the building.

I dunno what I am. But what I am, has made it very hard to give a fuck lately about a lot. From the top of a chimney I can see good things too, amazing things; beautiful views no one else gets because no one else bothers to climb as high as I do. I got to watch a proposal once, two streets over - that was cool.

But man, lately? My views have only made me question the value of things.

Rant fin.

@alzie Thanks!

So, I was sitting here, bored. Not really wanting to engage in long writing and -- I started looking for what got me into MUSH in the first place. MUDs. I found one: tgmud.net 9010 but I was wondering, are there more? I vaguely remember this cool hack and slash place, Toril, but that was awhile back. Are they still enjoyable for you folk or - ?

@tinuviel my bad.

@tinuviel

Clarification: By abandoned I mean like, you've been gone a year. Fwoof.