@evilcabbage I think it's fine for newbies to be treated like oldbies and to learn by kind of doing, honestly. I'm just more boggled that anyone would think throwing someone in jail for not bowing randomly = good rp.
What, like, you roll through a room and if not everyone in it types bow you punish them? Scintillating.
@thenomain True, in some cases! Though there are probably lots of workaday-type jobs in writing, too. Copy writing, freelance journalism...buzzfeed articles.
Ahhh, @Thenomain, swanning into the thread riding a vapor wave of superiority, shitting on things. Much like a real swan, I guess.
@ortallus said in Armageddon MUD:
And if people can't separate IC from OOC as far as punishing someone for being in the wrong place, then they need to separate IC from OOC as far as teaching people
This seems pretty key. If you're ok with punishing a character IC for a failing of OOC knowledge, you need to also be ok with helping a player OOC in the actual game. I mean, if they don't realize something as simple as 'commoners can't read', are they actually going to know about your discord?
I'm a pretty big proponent of not talking to people OOC in rp games. I think the more of it done, the more it hurts the immersion. I think people decide "oh me and X are friends because we've had a few pleasant chats when everything was going great between our characters" and then when they realize that isn't a friendship that's going to stand the test of any sort of conflict, they get extra upset as if they've been betrayed. I think it leads to drama.
However, you can't really say 'oh all ooc communication is discouraged, and it's for the FUN, and that's why no one will give you a heads up you're about to get facerolled for doing something your character would absolutely know not to do' and ALSO say 'but just pop into our ooc discord and you can get the help you need!'
I mean you can, obviously. It just kind of seems to defeat the stated purpose. And since it defeats the stated purpose, one wonders why people don't just say it quickly in the game. Feels kind of like a half measure, like trying to hold on to an older style of full immersion dickery while sort of kind of almost making an effort to actually retain new players.
@darinelle said in RL things I love:
Love? Love. LOVE! My new Scanpan. @Kanye-Qwest was so right. SO RIGHT.
Isn't it great?? I don't regret mine, either. It cleans so easy, and not having to drown things in oil is so nice
And way to edit out what you originally said! I mean, truly, way to go. It was pretty shitty.
@shaleah said in Armageddon MUD:
I'm not surprised there are so many intense feelings surrounding this game. It does that. Gets to you.
I won't sit and justify anyone else's actions. During my tenure I have been fucked over IC'ly by staff and players alike. I doubt a single one of them would admit it. I doubt that players who's characters always hate mine no matter what would admit it's an OOC thing either, heh, but the point of all these accusations and claims is that all sides have HELLA FEELINGS for this place, its staff and players.
Armageddon isn't for everyone. It's not. It's for intensity and fear, adrenaline and hatred. It's for racism and superiority, for dominance and a very oppressive social structure. Armageddon is for murder, for corruption, for betrayal. If you wanna be a princess, you gotta earn that shit. She's still gonna die though and it's probably gonna be fly as fuck.
If you're into roleplay, if you read things and feel shit, if you loath the way that guy talks, walks, breathes Armageddon is for you.
Things change, people mature. The staff now communicates in a way that is emphatically NOT like the game.
I wish players who were burned would open up dialogue with staff IF THEY LOVED THE GAME. If they don't then, meh, let them stay butthurt and bristling with righteous indignation at the unfairness of it all.
Read all this and if you're feeling intrigued at all, come give us a try. The worst that could happen you're witnessing right here. But remember you're also witnessing the best.
Make up your own damn mind.
Cool story.
However, I seriously doubt a game that is all about early 90s era edgelordian ooc politics offers 'the best' of either rp, or storytelling.
There's been mentioned player base is down, right? You're all here talking up this mud because you need new players to come, because murdering the same people you have a grudge against is getting old.
If you want new players, you have to do something to make your game appeal to new people. This isn't rocket science. But aside from @Thugheaven, no one in this thread talking up this mud is making it appealing at all.
I am sick. Still. Again and still.
Bodies are the literal worst.
Have you tried KALE?
something something sheer thongs and egad you can buy things on a marketplace. This is not the grit you were looking for.
i think my battery is dying. I have a pushbutton starter that just kind of lags or doesn't turn on when I'm trying to start the car.
I have money to get a new battery. I don't have TIME. I work until 7pm and can't really take time off right now through the end of the year. So. That's fun.
our vague idea for big battles is very much to split things up into teams..or rooms..something. So that the battle is narrated and decided by a combined roll or something, but people get 'moments' and 'challenges' where they can use their skills to try and win a glorious moment. Something like that.
@thatonedude said in Shadows of Paradise: help wanted!:
the Begotten believe all supernatural beings (except Demons) are related to them, and as such treat them as kin.
Awww, poor demons 
I have tried all KINDS of mascara. Drugstore. High end. Essence, cover girl, tarte, dior, ARMANI. I have tried it all, because I have watery eyes and stuff smudges like a mfer on me.
This stuff? This stuff is my favorite I have ever tried, I think. It has displaced 'lights, camera, lashes'. It has displaced essence's lash princess (which is GHORGEOUS but does smudge):
https://www.ulta.com/total-temptation-mascara?productId=xlsImpprod17161553
Maybelline. Total Temptation. The best.
It's ok for a character to plot and want to destroy another character politically, but yeah, I'd definitely not allow it for the sole purpose of screwing a player over. (Note, I was certain that was a pithy comment on Custodius and not an actual game plan)
Look, it has a population of 130k ish, that could support 20 supernatural maneaters for a couple years!
flower beauty has some nice ones, and they are CF...dunno if they've discontinued the cream shadows, though.
She plays Apostate, obviously.
@cupcake said in San Francisco: Paris of the West:
I feel super lame because my automatic response to the notion of Johnny Depp as mayor was "who would vote for him, considering his history of domestic violence?"
In America? Lots of people. But I agree, I thought 'ew'.
Oh, the tricksy swatches. They do look gorgeous, though. I love this palette, even if I think I HAVE all these colors. I have to stop buying eyeshadow.