Posts made by Karmageddon

@Cupcake, I enjoyed it, but I suspect nothing will ever come close to Troops, for me.

@Auspice
Oy. Sending you best wishes.

@surreality I'm nonetheless encouraging you.

@TNP said in The 100: The Mush:

@Karmageddon said in The 100: The Mush:

• There seems to be a lack of friendly, welcoming PCs with whom they can interact.

Except, in my opinion, this is not the case at all. And while there certainly was a lot of IC antagonism in the beginning, it's lessened as 1) players have settled into their characters and figured out the nuances of RPing them and 2) external threats are forcing them to work together.

Which is fine, but it also is your experience. I'm merely trying to determine if I have a correct read on what other people are complaining about. It's not possible to successfully address a problem without understanding what it actually is. And, often, unfortunately, really understanding still doesn't garner any viable solutions.

So, if I'm correctly understanding what I've read so far:

• Players are upset that they are inundated by a bunch of IC unpleasant to varying degree characters. Maybe this wouldn't be bad if it were limited to only a few, relative to the size of the game. That way people can choose to interact or not. It doesn't matter if Jackass Joe was only mean to you once, and that Megabitch Maisie was, and Dickhead David and Diva Danielle and Punch-happy Peter, etc. etc. etc. were only mean to you once or twice because the net result is still being treated like crap every day of the week. At that point, it makes no difference where the antagonism and abuse are coming from.

• No one is complaining that the players of those jerks are necessarily being OOC jerks. Just, at most, obtuse. Except for one player who was threatening to kill other characters while they slept if they didn't fall in line, but that player is no longer on the game.

• There seems to be a lack of friendly, welcoming PCs with whom they can interact.

• No one is saying antagonistic characters are bad per se, but the antagonism needs to be presented in a certain way in order to be engaging and fun for the non-antagonistic characters/players -- which may or may not be a valid description of wrongfun.

• Some players are complaining they don't see the problem. Others players are saying those players are part of the problem, either because they don't realize the extent they are being IC assholes or because they are so happy in their own RP bubbles that they are oblivious to anyone else's lack of a good time.

And if this is not what people are intending/meaning to say, I'm putting it out that this is the impression pages of comments are giving me.

Edited to add bit about one OOC bullying player.

@Ghost said in The 100: The Mush:

If people, due to repetitive assholery, feel they cannot penetrate into the clique, then people will leave.

FTFY.

@Coin
It gets worse. I was clueless about so many of these.
http://www.cnn.com/specials/world/obit-2016

Few things make me feel older than parts of my childhood dying.

@Coin said in Dead Celebrity Thread:

Prince was just announced dead.

Turns out that Vanity died on February 15: http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/16/entertainment/vanity-denise-matthews-dead/index.html

We still have Morris Day... for now.

@Sunny You should totes let @Admiral know when your company is hiring, again.

Just want to say that I'm happy for all of you!

I hope no one murders Bruce McCulloch for all these cancer related deaths.

@Jaded Sadness, but not a surprise. He'd been ailing for a while, even if he was unaware of the cancer. May he rock out with his cock out wherever he is now.

@hedgehog Oooh. That would be lovely. I'm also extra happy that you lucked out. Fibromyalgia sounds so not fun.

@hedgehog Thanks. I hope that's all I'll need, but I had another attack the other night. Not as bad as the one that sent me to the E.R., but it's left me feeling not so optimistic.

What really sucks is that, if I /do/ need surgery, odds are I won't qualify for laparoscopic surgery because I have overall bodily inflammation. So, if that's the case, that means open surgery, which has a "can resume 'normal' activities" recovery rate of 4-6 weeks, as opposed to 7-10 days.

I'm glad that you're recovering well, though!

@hedgehog Oy. I'm wishing you a thorough recovery. I experienced my first attack of gall stones the other night, which boggles me 'cos I've never been one to eat fried or fatty foods. I'm hoping I won't need it removed, but it's standard operating procedure (no pun intended) for it to be removed if there is any sign of infection.

I'm a bit surprised that no one's yet mentioned Mr. Robot. It's pretty damn Fight Club-ish, with traces of American Psycho, but I'm digging it.