@Bobotron said:
So, I have a general question for you guys.
How do you come up with inspiration for mapping on a MUSH? I mean, specifically, coming up with city layout for a modern city? Do you reference real cities and steal them? Do you combine aspects of real cities or do you spitball things?
I'd like to know the techniques and tricks you guys use beyond 'using a real map for the map'.
We're referencing a real city, using google maps and my memory of the place.
Dear bastard fitbit. How is 6 hours of heavy gardening involving chainsaws NOT very active minutes? 1 very active minute? Fuck you, fitbit, fuck you.
@Apollonius said:
I have a friend who's an ectomorph. He can eat 5k Calories a day and still have a difficulty gaining weight. I'd love to exchange 20% of his ectomorphness with 20% of my endomorphness.
My patients burn around 7k a day. I spend my life getting them to eat more of anything! Talking about cake and extra food does not help the dieting 
@Cobaltasaurus said:
Okay, @Thenomain is evil, and has issued me a challenge. This challenge will result in an overhaul of some of the fiddlybits in my events code.
One will be a definition of available genres (don't panic staff will be able to add new ones).
To make things easier I would like to have a couple of lists people can plug in without doing the commands one by one. (Instead on install they just grab the attribute and set it).
So some thoughts.
GENERIC/GENERAL LIST:
- social
- mystery
- action
- open
- suspense
- drama
WoD:
- changeling
- mage
- werewolf
- vampire
- mortal
- mortal+
- changing breed
- immortal
- sineater
- demon
- promethean
- mummy
- cross sphere
ANITAVERSE
- Kiss
- pack
- pard
- rodere
- coven
- police
- preter
- human
- animator
DRESDEN:
@ThatOneDude said:
Does it count if I say I was in the military... Injured... I WAS IN PHENOMINAL SHAPE ONCE DAMNIT! Don't judge me and my chocolate ice cream ... q.q
I have previously prescribed icecream for patients It is a totally valid thing ...
Love my fitbit! Slightly stalky but...
Happy to share name by PM
Running and body balance/yoga! I totally can do this
@Ganymede said:
@JinShei said:
Heatstroke from running last week
Plan is to just use their air con so I can survive getting fit.
It's winter over here, so that doesn't make much sense to me. Also, running until you pass out. (Also, @Luna, running on your toes is arguably the right way to run.)
It averages 30C here at the moment.. It was 7am 
Not doing that again!
There's no one method to get into shape. It's a mix of everything said so far: from motivation to doing new shit so you're not bored, to being at a gym where there's eye-candy or excellent trainers.
Plan is... C25K in air con, and yoga / body balance x 3 a week. Not too much, not too little for me right now. Get that set in routine and see how we go
@Luna said:
My current training goals are lose weight and gain strength so that I feel confident enough for a pole class. I'm such a classy bitch.
Done one before. They are fun and hard work!
Dieting woes are... so woe. Have lost 4kg the last two weeks though so I'm happy
@Usekh said:
The whole her characters have lots of sex because THEY HAVE TO OR THEY DIE. Makes me cringe.
But I love the universe/worldbuilding though.
I commend this lady's sporks to your attention.
@Luna said:
@JinShei OMG!! I kept staring at your name thinking...that's so familiar. SO FAMILIAR. OMG YAY! And of course I say hi back! But not hi...more like OMGHIIIIIII
I'm still trying to persuade himself to play. The man insists that he will only play if he can play a weretapeworm... sigh
HIII 
@Ganymede said:
As long as you understand that it may take between 1-2 months to see results, and even longer to be able to maintain a weekly regimen without damaging yourself, I think you'll be fine.
Ditch the gym. Do it all at home. Seriously.
Heatstroke from running last week Plan is to just use their air con so I can survive getting fit.
@Bristled-Thistle said:
@JinShei said:
Really? mantra I do not need another mush, I do not need...
If you have that many, what's one more in the big scheme of things? Maybe it's something you'd really enjoy...
Evil. Evil.
Cobalt and Chime already tempted me back to Anita Blake this week.
@Bennie said:
Time Zones wouldn't be a problem if there was a way to recruit more people. I feel like MUSH has the people. The people are out there. They are just not logged into the same spaces. There's more than enough people in any given timezone. They just need congregation.
What we need is like the Online Database Of Gaming Times for people to add themselves to and for you to be able to PM one another to come on over and join such-and-such game, where a growing community of YYY-1 is coming together.
Absolutely - tastes are another dividing factor. I tried nWoD, and WoD and I fled
I get that it is your job to upsell the gym stuff and you love working out.
I'm fat. I want to dip into this at my pace, and I pretty much want to do C25K on your running machines where I won't get heatstroke. Adding in weights, more exercise, another class... that means I likely will crash.
Also. When you are talking bout MY program, it isn't WE. It is ME.
@Bristled-Thistle said:
Yeah, as a first shift EST-player, I have all kinds of problems finding rp. I've been enjoying Kingsmouth lately because it's mostly GMTers and Ozzies, so their times sync better with mine.
Really? mantra I do not need another mush, I do not need...
I think we've been lucky on Darkspires too - we have a mix, although to get them all for a plot I need to get up early on a day off <whine>
@Chime said:
And in all that I forgot to mention why we do enjoy reading and playing in the anitaverse:
- Worldbuilding.
She makes a very good, interesting setting. Lots of quirks, but very interesting with lots of gnarly edges to hold on to.
She does. If you remove her Mary Sue characters and Self Insert characters, and just look at the world, I stopped reading anything but sporks in truth.
I like the world...
Timezones are a bugger - the European and Australian players suffer from the whole "There is only one other person in my time zone on this game" and so many games have only US Staffers as well. I end up quitting games because - although the desire is there - the rest of the game runs in US time, and I am either at work or asleep. A "nobody's fault but it blows" situation.
@Usekh said:
The other thing that tends to polarize people is that it really encourages cooperative storytelling. And some ST's don't like letting go I have found.
What I love about this is that I can run scenes where I never have to type a ST pose. I add aspects to people, and they just run with it. It entirely changes the dynamic of the scene. I love my players though - they just have great ideas.
