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@cobaltasaurus ALL OF THE PYENVS!

Oh that's a really interesting question!

So for me, people who want all of my time turn me off RP, or the second I log on they're paging asking for a scene (every time, that is. I don't mind the odd page, especially if it's in relation to on-going stuff!). Or get my OOC contact details so they can message me to ask me when I'm playing next. I hate it, I want to RP with other people as well! Or worse when they start chasing me around the grid to be in every scene I am, and/or paging me about how I'm scening with other people. All of that and nah, I'm out.

Also I don't personally enjoy RPing with characters whose main concept is 'a dick to everyone'. I love antagonism and have played some pretty antagonistic characters in my time, but if it's literally every scene, I just don't find it fun.

What makes me want to RP more with people? I guess when we bounce off each other well. Where we give each other space to learn about each other's (and our own!) characters. Are we good at picking up each other's style of RP and pick up on the little things, fantastic, MOAR OF THAT!

It's hard to verbalise though, there's just things that work for me and things that don't.

@Wretched said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

@Ninjakitten it does indeed!

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

Yeah, I think this is pure business. "People aren't gonna wanna watch a movie about a pandemic during the midst of COVID-19, so let's do something else, because what we are doing is making a movie to sell and make money."

This is actually one of my biggest problems with this idea of 'cancel culture'. Really, as far as I can tell, it's just capitalism in operation. If I don't like an author, I don't buy their books. If enough people do that, they become unprofitable. If a movie's themes don't interest me, or I have moral issues with some part of it, I don't go and see it. If a studio thinks that a certain theme won't make enough money, they just won't make the film.

No one's getting cancelled, they're just not making money.

Olympia Dukakis

@quinn Truth. I live in Cardiff and it's like 'oh I recognise that "alien street"'.

@cobaltasaurus Have you done a sudo apt-get update before running the apt-get install? I often don't do it and then find out half the packages are missing.

I align closely with Tehom's thoughts here. For me it would be a bit weird if I got a 'x brushes past you' say in the middle of a bar that the players have already set as being completely empty except for them or something.

That said I guess if you have the ability to turn them off, all is good!

I do like the 'something else is happening on grid' type emits though - like the emit that Obi-Wan got when Alderaan exploded.

@cupcake Ugh that's awful. I would respond: "No I haven't yet, have you?" and then when queried point out "Well, you said we, so I assumed you were asking about both of us."

And then I'd get fired.

There is someone I work with who signs all of their emails "Your regards". Like, no, I'm not giving my own regards to myself here.

@seraphim73 said in Spirit Lake: An Original Modern Fantasy Game:

I've been thinking big-city cop who transfers to Grand Lake to get away from the stress. Because that will totally be stress-free. No, his name will not be Nicholas Angel.

So he wasn't transferred because he was making all of the other cops look bad?

So I have been considering building a new MU for a long time, but I've been struggling on theme. This morning, while driving to work, a half-formed idea came to me, and I thought I'd record it here to gauge interest. If I do ever decide to build this it probably won't be for a long time - for many reasons such as 'time', 'effort' and 'far too many other non-MU projects on the go', but hey, I'm curious to see if it's even interesting to people other than me.

Fifty years (or so) ago, humanity finally reached the stars and made contact with other civilisations. In the course of doing so they landed slap-bang into the middle of a galactic conflict that has been going on for centuries. As one of the most junior civilisations, humanity has nothing to defend itself with, so instead pushed its way into a peacemaking role. For the last few decades humans have been working tirelessly to bring an end to the wars, using the powers of diplomacy, mediation and empathy.

They succeeded, and peace has (mostly) fallen across the galaxy. In recognition of this exceptional feat, and to further the new role humanity has found itself in, they have been gifted a space station, renamed as the Arbiter. Neutral ground where species from all over the galaxy can come to resolve their conflicts under the watchful gaze of human mediators. The station is perfect for it too, with many rooms that can accommodate the variety of requirements for species across the galaxy.

No one's quite sure who originally built the Arbiter, and large sections of it are off-limits and locked down by the eccentric AI that runs the station, but a lot of records have been lost in the wars, and AI-run stations are pretty common, so it's not that surprising. Some species refuse to set foot on the station, swearing it's haunted, but that's just superstition. The AI seems happy enough with permanent residents, occasionally opening up new spaces as needed, and the station grows to the point where it might as well be called a city. There are shops, hotels, homes, everything you could want.

Conflict is still only a wrong syllable away, and the mediators will need to work hard to stop the galaxy falling into chaos once more. Beyond the bounds of the Arbiter, raiders denied the rich pickings of war wait, picking off easy targets. The more shrewd pirates hope to sabotage negotiations, to tilt the galaxy into war once more.

I have some serious thoughts about metaplot, which obviously I'm not going to spoil, just in case I do build it. I'm trying not to make it -too- Mass Effect-y, but that's obviously an influence. My hope would be to make aliens fairly different to humans, some communicating only by light flashes, pheromones, etc.. with communication achieved by freely available translation drones (until someone turns the power off I mean, what?)

There we go, my 8am driving to work half-baked MU idea.

When I went I loved the Rockefeller Tour because they took us through some really interesting art.

A bit more of a 'your budget and interest may vary' thing, but if you like theatre, I would highly highly recommend Sleep No More if walking around a converted warehouse with hundreds of things to discover while film noir Macbeth happens around you is your thing (no description I can give will do it justice)

@Coin said in MU Things I Love:

@thesuntsar said in MU Things I Love:

@Coin said in MU Things I Love:

@thesuntsar said in MU Things I Love:

@SinCerely said in MU Things I Love:

Made the horrible mistake of starting the new Netflix series 'Haunting of Bly Manor', 

I THINK YOU MEAN GREAT MISTAKE

I mean if it's a mistake 'great' just intensifies the mistake-ness of it.

I'm just saying.

Don't run me over with a car @thesuntsar .

<.<

I'm getting the car

@Ifrit come be my shield

accidentally steers car towards you

@Arkandel I would LOVE an Eberron setting MUSH. I don't care about what system runs underneath it all. But give me my magic-punk!

@goblin bawls

@SinCerely said in RL things I love:

10/10 would recommend.

Do we all need to call @Herja or are we allowed to speak to other people?

@groth said in Attachment to old-school MU* clients:

It should probably be possible to convert any given Web infer face into an electron app for the benefit of both though.

While this is true, Electron comes with its own tradeoffs, one of the big ones being bloat. From memory an Electron app is around 120MB in size. You've also got the problem that every game will have its own customisations so you'd probably have to have one app per game rather than a single client that could connect to multiple games.

I guess you could do something with a web view such that a client is just a really thin wrapper around the website itself, but that probably comes with its own tradeoffs.

All of that said I still want to play with the project, certainly some of these would be surmountable issues with the right combination of technology.

@wizz said in Good TV:

Speaking of time travel, Loki is pretty fun so far.

The latest episode gave me real Doctor Who vibes.

***=Spoiler for plot related things***

It feels a little like someone looked at Doctor Who and went 'what if with a budget?'