Posts made by ixokai

@ganymede said in Mass Effect MU*?:

• Races: Asari, Humans, Krogans, Quarians, Salaria]ns, and Turians. Oh my!

No Drell? You are dead to me.

@rook said in TinyMUX: Info Storage:

@ixokai said in TinyMUX: Info Storage:

@rook said in TinyMUX: Info Storage:

Port to Rhost. <no, seriously>

Use clusters.

MUX doesn't have Clusters. That is why I recommended that @Melpomene port their game to Rhost.

I know? My pestering is partly why Ashen made clusters

@rook said in TinyMUX: Info Storage:

Port to Rhost. <no, seriously>

Use clusters.

@surreality
Like, I'm just rambling at this point, but given: http://www.playbuzz.com/katewalker10/45-people-from-history-who-look-exactly-like-todays-celebrities

1 doesn't look anything alike to me. The shape of the mouth is completely different.
2 Harder to say, blurry pic, but I don't see it. I'd never look at that pic and guess Nicholas Cage.
3 Yeah this could match or not match anyone.
4 Nose differnet, lips both full but wildly different.
5 This is the first one to give me pause; but painting and picture are hard to compare. The lips have a fundamental difference but its hard to specify, its not about the smile, but the shape in general. But this is close.
6 NOTHING about this face is similar. Not lips, not chin, not nose.
7 This one only looks similar because yeah, you cover the face with hair I can't recognize it.
8 That someone could call these two faces even similar shocks me. The chin is different, the nose, the lip width and shapes are so completely different. Its like.. I wouldn't confuse these two if they were shown one after another and only that at me. They don't look anything alike.

9 The only similarity is they have long noses, man....
10 Everything is wrong. The lips are too narrow, the cleft in the chin, the shape of the jaw

Okay I got tired of doing this.

Really: The vast majority of this whole 'looks like' seems to be drawn around... I don't even know. I don't see it. I not only don't see it, its not like they are even vaguely recognizable. Its... nonsense?

I don't know how to turn that into a discussion: when I seem to see people different. I assume thus others see people different. How the hell do you figure that out? and how the hell does any trial happen with witnesses?

<end super long winded ramble>

@ixokai said in Period Piece Face vs Modern Face:

@surreality Okay that part doesn't work on me because I have a very weird facial-recognition system that doesn't seem to match, well, anyone I've ever met. My brain keys in a small series of very specific notes in identification; I never fail an identification, but it just keys off of things that are a little odd.

Like, I visually key identity almost entirely on mouth/lips. I've had friends challenge this and test it, and its not perfect, but I get better ID's then they do full face challenges.

By which I just mean: I'm weird, showing comparison photos between people read to me as X:Y, clearly not the same people. They mostly don't even look similar. But a couple do.

@surreality Okay that part doesn't work on me because I have a very weird facial-recognition system that doesn't seem to match, well, anyone I've ever met. My brain keys in a small series of very specific notes in identification; I never fail an identification, but it just keys off of things that are a little odd.

@surreality said in Random Thoughts:

ETA: This conversation == Infinitely more entertaining than the eternal 'do vampires have sex and why' discussion. (PLEASE NOBODY START THAT ONE HERE.)

Now here for me the big question has always been not do they but can they, and if they can, do they want to, and if they want to, why ...

Holy fuck I've officially thought about vampire sex so much over my staffing history its automatic. I can't stop it. Please wait. Drinking large gulp of bourbon.

@surreality @Kanye-Qwest I just reject this idea there's 'modern faces'. There's modern clothes, modern sets, modern props.

Faces are... faces.

I am to a certain extent aware physical bodies have changed over time, gotten taller, but I'm not aware (outside of inconsistent tendencies in grooming) faces have.

Just not getting where this is coming from.

Also: Jensen Ackles was my first celebrity cursh a thousand years ago. I have a knife, I will cut someone.

I am choosing not to laugh.

I am choosing to judge.

Not, like, you know, a lot.

But its never going away, now, this whole, 'What do centaurs do with their hands during sex?'

You'll talk about medical health care one day, and I'll be all like, thinking: centaur hands during sex.

@surreality Two things:

1. I can not tell you how intensely I want to play Jensen as my actor for a saloon or bar or WHATEVER similar.

2. thank you

I didn't read all this thread.

I read up to the point @Kanye-Qwest said something about not using Jensen Ackles.

I now just want to register myself on the list of people who might knife @Kanye-Qwest in the kidney at any chance I have.

Nothing personal. We're not enemies. Except that you now need to be knifed. No threat intended, please don't notify the FBI, but like, anyone who doesn't want to see Jensen's face anywhere, ever, any-ever at all? Alien invader.

KQ, I respect your right to try to invade us and all that jazz but, self-defense, knifing in whatever passes for a kidney.

You're not human.

(Proof provided: Don't want to see Jensen Ackles face somewhere, anywhere)

@tempest said in Stranger Than Fiction MUX:

@arkandel said in Stranger Than Fiction MUX:

@tempest I am ignoring you, because I don't care. If you think it looks dumb, well, it's the Hog Pit and you can say it.

It sounds a lot like you're realizing this whole 'mod' thing was a disgusting failure, but you refuse to admit it.

There has been a marked decline in activity on the board outside of the "Hey what flavor of cupcakes do you guys like :D" kind of threads, ever since the 'Administration on MSB' thread blew up.

I want to point something out here, just briefly.

I find myself agreeing with @Tempest here.

On a general part of me living my life, I'm not sure I'd be okay with agreeing with @Tempest if she said it was day or night. If she said there were two colors in chess I'd go out of my way to find an example where black was red. I don't know that I've ever played with her on any game, but I disagree pretty hard on almost anything she says. I think she trolls aggressively and tries to spark drama for its own sake.

And yet I find myself agreeing with her here.

The current methods and ways of mods is deeply flawed and counterproductive. Mods are abusing 'mod voice' (that very idea is absurd: that you think you can participate in a board that has something like a hog pit, and moderate something moderately constructive, is astonishingly naive), there's no clarity of what's right or wrong anywhere, and the general atmosphere of the place as a safe-to-bitch-fest and also safe-to-chat-fest, is harmed.

Yes, there was issues in the previous mod rules on Advertisement threads in particular and where they fit, and how they should be treated. But we're not in a better place now.

Advice: Make mod accounts. Completely separate your voice from Mod Voice. Do not allow casual comments to be felt to have the power of mod behind them. Split threads early, clearly declaring why. Resist the urge to be the censor: there should be clear standards of behavior but otherwise, the biggest concern is IMHO your PERSONAL opinion of what is right being what you decide is acceptable discourse.

The problem with personal opinions is I don't like, as I mentioned, @Tempest. Though I'm agreeing with her here. If I were through some magical impossible world made mod, how could Tempest ever trust me and my modding of her?

Thus, at the very least, separate mod and user voices. Not by bolding up Mod Voice in the middle of a post-- especially since we've already seen that used questionably.

Overall: I don't have a "type". I enjoy a variety of characters. I tend to latch onto a detail or two, to start with, then... grow. I enjoy discovering where they grow to more then planning where they will end up.

Oh, I don't know.

Back on CDI? Aramais. Human folk called him that. His people called him A'ra-maa'y-sadis s'mron y-Jasaad'i. Translates all roughly to Ballad of the Twilight Stream, Son of the Mother, of the Hunters. Murder-elf. Kinda grouchy. Looked down on people. Fell in love with a human. Looked at people differently, but often, required his human to translate.

Eternal Nights-- anyone remember Isabella? I played a Verbena woman celt named Danyelle, half her body covered in tattoos. She had an interesting but challenging relationship with the local sidhe court.

On Armageddon. Belial, Baron of Hell, Prince of Lies, Lord of Shadows. He was a builder, for Hell. He made alliances, he plotted. Despite 'prince of lies', he didn't often lie. He spoke well, and kept his word. He was so very dangerous but hard to ignore; a true power in Hell, a master of illusions initially and later of granting power. I also had Rachel, a cherub, an angel of knowledge in the afterworld.

Los Angeles: a House Divided. Oh, many. The balancing act my white gang-banger, Graydon, Gangrel did between Rachael, the wild elder, and Erin, the sociopathic urban elder, was so much fun. Li Wei Lin, a Toreador who had a fragrance-bar and played big politics but held her sword at bay. I had others: some NPC's were notable. Emerson's blandness as a guise that covered his unfathomable power. Emory's rage that he almost couldn't contain and was a Really Big Issue, city-wide (he was technically Emerson's Sheriff, but what good is a Sheriff who casually rips heads off if they say the wrong thing? Emory's almost-lost-control-of-the-beast was a big deal.). PC-wise, my favorite was the Rabbi, Levi Kaufmann. A nosferatu elder, looked like a desicated corpse, went out of his way to be a teacher. Did not take offense lightly, explained why vampire society was the way it was, helped and actively supported neonates. He limped from place to place (dex1/str1). A certain neonate coterie once took him for weak, though. And he pumped a ton of blood and they were all 'oh shit'.

Anytown. Oh, this game hurt me, but. Bradin, gay werewolf (WTF was new still), I had a cool pack, only time that ever happened. It was a fun situation.

Let's see. Just rambling now, timing is totally off.

The Reach. Chance was my main. Asian sociopath party kid. Not to be clear, in almost all ways, he wasn't a sociopath. But he was a Sin-Eater, of the Reaper variety, his particular draw was killing 'abmortals', immortals, which he morally ended up deciding as those who 'corrupted life to serve death', and as ghost-cop, he ended. (He was also big on ending people who made ghosts: molesters, abusers, etc. But he'd try to not be fatal if they weren't fatal, in his 'corrections') But this wasn't absolute. He didn't hate all immortals. Eternals are fine! Blood bathers need to die. Vampires... big, big, big problem. But. What's fun here is there was a major personal arc where Chance and Mira became friends, respected eachother, and it made Chance re-evaluate his thing. He would never be all like, 'vampires are okay', but.. he evolved.

That's also where I met @Sunny.

Let's see. Oathcircle. Godric, unseelie Baron, I had fun until life ended. HE was a dynamic, passionate leader who was as much freedom fighter and politician as fighter, but he had a dark side.

I'm missing so many chars, so many games. So many.

Recently, M1963? Billy. He's irreverent, non-magical in every way, a sci-fi nerd from the future, but he's quirky and makes jokes and is hyper loyal and is learning wisdom. Johnny is cocky and confident but a team-player.

And so on.

Gah, so many.

Conflict of interest exposure: I app'd a char there. I never played it. Before I got past the weird feelings of 'why am I playing a minor' to remember Buffy, other people I knew well had a series of very weird experiences. To which I promptly nope'd away.

@auspice said in Stranger Than Fiction MUX:

Mod Voice
I have gotten report of a supposed "MSB plot" to take down this game. I don't know if there is any truth, whatsoever, to this. I don't know if it was a joke, if it was a few people trolling and when they got found out they decided to point fingers this way to try to cover their own ass, or what.

What I do know is that no one on the moderation staff here condones any sort of behavior in regards to 'taking down' games, trolling games, or otherwise misbehaving on them. And we certainly don't appreciate anyone doing so in MSB's name.

Frankly, not only did it not need to be said, but that you felt a need to say it, is a little problematic.

Here's the thing: Your entire premise is bullshit. You don't know if it was a joke, because you know, it probably doesn't even EXIST. You don't know if it was trolling, because it probably doesn't even EXIST. You have other heavy handed statements about Don't Appreciate and Don't Condone, but you're landing heavy on STUFF THAT DOES NOT EXIST.

Your first thought, "I don't know if there is any truth--" presented with staff showing a rampant tendency towards paranoia and bad behaviors, should be just to stop there.

You didn't need to Mod Voice this. You didn't need to respond to a paranoid game which got some bad reviews being, predictably, paranoid.

It is so far beyond not helpful to say, "no one on the moderation staff here condones any sort of behavior in regards to 'taking down' games, trolling games, or otherwise misbehaving on them. And we certainly don't appreciate anyone doing so in MSB's name." because as far as I can tell, that DID NOT HAPPEN.

People bitched about a game which is weird and has weird policies and weird behavior. Game got all OMG CONSPIRACY OF DOOOM THEY ARE OUT TO GET US. This, since you've seen a thousand times, deserves a response of: ... nada.

Don't feed the trolls. In this case, the trolls are the guys with the wild conspiracy theory.

@surreality said in Looking for an Artist, actually willing to pay...:

@ixokai Condescendingly asserting that somebody lives in a fairy land if they have a different professional experience is pretty insulting, but YMMV.

Kind thought, No. But man, you're reacting like this is rendering your whole being invalid. Its just a bit much. Ya'll are disagreeing on economics, and your perspective experiences in a field. The world here, not ending.

@surreality said in Looking for an Artist, actually willing to pay...:

@nightshade Yeah, this is really not even worth responding to. You can keep insulting me if you want -- y'know, outside the Pit where that shit actually belongs -- but you keep missing the point and clearly refuse to engage in anything even resembling self-examination. That you keep compounding one erroneous assumption on top of the next suggests it's not remotely productive to take time away from show prep to further attempt to engage with you.

Not wanting to jump into this fight because it can only hurt me, but man, @surreality ... of anyone between the two of you and @Nightshade who is making this personal and about insults, its you.

Please pull back and re-examine: you two clearly have different experiences. You're taking the other's as an insult. That's kinda fucked up.

I honestly don't get the level of... crap, in this tread.

This is how economics works. There's nothing unique to it in art.

Person is willing to pay only so much; Other person is willing to accept pay of only so much. Quality will vary as his scale of pay rises.

Its not doing some harm to "starving artists" to pay someone who has a lower quality, less-skill, to produce lesser work.

I'm a coder, and I know what rates my experience and quality of work can expect. Someone offers less, its just not a job for me. But I also know there's whole realms of jobs paying more I'm simply not qualified for.

This is what work is like. The buyer tries to pay as little as possible and their value-judgment is slanted one way. The seller wants to be paid as much as possible, and their value-judgment is slanted another way.

Somewhere in the middle is agreement.

First real event tonight (still ongoing, but I can see the writing on the wall); have done some other RPs.

First: @faraday -- maybe FS3 is meant for more high tech, but they adapted it good. I'm a voodoo priest. Its hella fun. Partially because they smartly know which knobs to twist, but mostly, because @faraday made the most fun combat code for mushes that has ever been.

Second: As always, @Seraphim73 and @GirlCalledBlu are great storytellers. They have interesting, good characters. And its nice to see they have help this time. They are open and engaging to work with.

Third: I was worried about 'three ships', but them all based out of Tortuga, I don't think it splits the RP so bad.