@Derp said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@Macha said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Having some stupid quirk that makes cilantro taste like soap, and everyone around me talks about how good it is. And then finding it is in my peanut sauce enough to ruin it. Blech.
It does taste like soap, and I will fight anyone that says differently.
and you'll fucking lose, too
Oh, the fomble fongers in the joble cell.
@Arkandel said:
Well, I can certainly see why you'd be frustrated by having to create characters using a system you're unfamiliar with, but there's no way around it. I've had the same experience say, rolling a character on a comic book MUSH a while ago... but I can't blame the game for it unless they make it unnecessarily complex or they don't give a hand with it etc.
I'm not trying to place blame on any game, not at all! I am just kvetching, fully aware that what is keeping me out of the WoD setting/games is all on me. I'm lazy, and I've never been a min/maxer, especially in RP. I care about stats/skills/perks insofar as A. they back up my character concept or B. they give me ideas for fun things to do IC. So now I feel bad because you guys are being helpful and I'm just bitching.
I am not holding any games or staffers/designers responsible for the way I feel when I'm contemplating the 3 core book PDFs I have to consult to spend my dots. I do like the use of that word, so 10 points for WoD. DOTS.
In other words, if you can go to a room and have the game code advertise the fact you're available and looking for scenes, does that help? Because if you do it enough maybe other people will do the same... and it might not be completely organic, but it seems close enough to me.
I admit that I haven't given this a fair try, and I'm sure it would work to a degree. It usually does. It's just, in my limited experience, there doesn't seem (from the outside) to be a lot going on in these games, so it sort of..fails to dig its hooks in?
@Ganymede said:
I play James, so feel free to come by wherever I am or page me if you want to RP something.
Thank you!
@Derp said:
So, I mean, to me (and granted, my opinion is just that), it sounds like you might be looking for something that really isn't -there-, or even easy to support.
This is the feeling I'm getting, too.
I wasn't really asking for advice. It is a bit onbnoxious in that it's not my BANK bank but my credit card bank ( I don't usually pay with my debit card). So while i would prefer that capital one would move me to a rule group that doesn't flag high gratuity, that'd be great, but i'm not gonna start carrying cash over it.
@tempest Ok but brucilla is actually a pretty interesting name.
@surreality
Darn. Well, sort of darn. I can't re-use the character template I made the last time I struggled my simple ass through WoD cg.
So it sounds like BITN kind of IS going for the horror element, in that people aren't playing the monsters so there's no urge to befriend/have sex with/become them. That seems like a fresh take, I hope it flourishes.
@Tinuviel yes, because CC tips are easier to audit. If you tip in cash, servers can under report their earnings for their income tax. Which yes, fine, illegal, but our entire economy should be illegal.
I'm just not at a point in my life where I can reliably carry cash. I'm busy, ok?
@Arkandel Supernatural is just Paranormal Bromance Soap Opera. I mean yeah, you could have fun in a setting where you take that out, but it'd just feel like a WoD game, maybe.
The whole point of supernatural is that the FATE OF THE UNIVERSE hinges on bromance, and manly feelings.
@Ninjakitten said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):
@Sparks said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):
after about a minute I had devised a mental trick to let me remember the color/shape combinations so as to not miss many
Is this an ADD thing? I wasn't diagnosed until grad school, but I've always done this for all sorts of things and it never occurred to me until this moment that it might not just be 'normal'. >_>
Yes. You develop an array of coping skills because...you have to. When I was diagnosed, the doctor talkeda bout it, and she bet if I'd been tested as a kid my scores would have been much more extreme. There's a test where they attach an eye tracker/head tracker and make you do a tedious attention game and I was looking away and back with a shake of my head every couple of seconds - that's something I do to refocus on what is in front of me.
Innistrad! VAMPIRES. Wait, no, MUers ruin vampires. But Sorin is my waifu.
@Sparks i had nearly the exact same experience. ritalin gave me a RAGING headache as soon as the effect started slipping. The 2nd dose didn't make a dent in it. The adderall is a night and day difference. I occasionally get a little bit of headache as the 2nd wears off, but if I make sure to drink enough water it rarely happens - and even then a little advil knocks it out easily.
It is life changing. It hasn't really stopped me from having my executive function problems, but that has to be done with CBT, and I know this. What it DOES is give me the ability to focus, and to feel like I am awake and present in my life. You wouldn't usually think "constant sleepiness" is a symptom of ADHD, but man.
I set out my first dose and set an alarm for an hour before I have to be up. I take it, and go back to sleep until an hour later when my second alarm goes off and it's at peak effect in my bloodstream. I can just hop out of bed and start my day, and I don't even NEED coffee, really. It's amazing.
@Roz Yes. Of course it's too much to keep up with if you are trying to be on top of all the plot. It's a game with well over 100 players, and any and every one of them is able to open investigations and generate clues and plot threads.
The best Arx advice is to focus on what is interesting to both you and your character, and don't feel slighted when other people are digging into the things that interest THEM and their characters.
Anything can "go bad", and by go bad I mean if it has moving parts entropy will eventually kill it, and if it doesn't, errors can be introduced digitally/corrupted.
Bad RAM is not at all uncommon, whether in personal computers, servers, or big SAN data storage systems!
find a podcast, seriously. "Sleep with me" is a good one, it's a guy reading very bland news stories in a very bland voice. No lights, just enough distraction to keep your mind from racing off.
Squirrel Girl is a joke, herself. She's a low powered character that somehow is always unbeatable. Off screen.
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@Sparks Ugh, and in Endgame, you never even see Carol ASK about Marie, or mention her, or see her face as one of the missing. I get it, she had a fun weekend kicking around with her pal Fury, but I don't really think that he's the reason she rushed back to Earth after the snap.
@prototart said in FCs on Comic MUs:
but I also think people tend to forget how many periods in the books
See this right here? this right here is the reason you don't run a hero game with FC. I cannot even imagine the sheer amount of time taken up by people correcting/telling/complaining/opining about how things were at some point in the books.