Posts made by Lisse24

I want to add that I'm fine with people doing whatever if I choose not to do it, and that I don't view myself as one of those people out there to "win" the game.

I am worried about systems being sold as optional, but in the end become a necessity just to keep up with the game. "Keeping up with the game" being defined as finding meaningful RP and being able to interact with plot in some manner or another.

If the way that fashion is implemented allows me to ignore it completely, and doesn't result in me needing to go out and buy some prettyprettything to be included in PlotX, then I'm fine with it.

@sunny Because as far as I know, I can't dump funds into lifestyle and achieve the same ends? If I'm wrong, then let me know, but my protest is solely against turning clothing into a nice thing that some people like to a must-have.

@Sunny I get that. And I would happily dump funds into lifestyle, if it gave me the same bonuses. The issue for me goes back to how I want to spend the 5-8 hours a week I spend on RP. I would much rather spend that time on actual RP then either having to come up with a name and craft something myself or chasing down a crafter to do it for me.

Same thing with a character's wiki page on WoD games. I don't mind doing minor tweaks, but unless I'm feeling really inspired, I'm not going to do a lot of reworking to my wiki, because I want to spend my RP time RPing, not jumping through hoops.

@Apos I have to agree with @dontpanda that the idea of coded clothing affecting stuff - even if it's only coded social interactions is a huge turn-off. I know that I'm not the average Arx player, but I only have 2-3 hours a night, 2-3 nights a week and very little, if any, time on weekends. I want to spend my RP time RPing. I don't want to have to worry about jumping through code-hoops in order to get satisfying RP or to be involved in things.

Maybe someday, I'll be inspired and create some coded clothing for my char, but I don't want to feel pressured that it's something I have to do in order to keep up with the game.

@Aria Pretty sure that you're not supposed to like Josh for all the reasons listed above and as much as the fanbase loves Greg for his vulnerability, it's pretty clear that he and Rebecca would be toxic together.
#teamNathaniel

@tinuviel Oh, like this?
https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/4/16805216/google-chrome-only-sites-internet-explorer-6-web-standards

Curry. I love a good curry.

My great uncle passed during the night. He was a great big bear of a man with a southern accent and the last time I saw him a few months back, he seemed as vigorous as ever.

Right before Christmas, all his kids began posting pics of him on FB - this is never a good sign. I messaged to see what was up and turns out he was feeling a little tired this fall and so went to the doctor. The test results were not good. He had a fast-growing cancer. Nothing to be done. Just a matter of time. etc. etc. etc.

One of his daughters lives in Germany and didn't make it back in the 16 days it's been since diagnosis.

Fuck cancer.

@ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@darinelle said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

So Wednesday I'm getting a fourth cat. Because one of my dear friends got a pig, and the pig has upset this one cat's reality to the point that it is shitting everywhere and miserable.

This makes me so fucking angry, really.

I like cats. A lot. I'd love to have another one, but my current cat, Gay Edward, is deathly afraid of other creatures. I understand why he's frightened of my kids -- they are grabby and loud -- but he's also scared of mice, bugs, and non-moving action figures.

Your cat sounds like mine. I keep a running list of things that freak her out. Most recently, it was the hardware I was using to assemble some shelves last night. Not the shelves, just the little screws and cams and stuff.

@lithium said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I live in Florida.

We are expecting /SNOW/ tonight.

I moved to Florida because I /HATE/ snow.

FML.

I'm also in Florida, presumably on the other side of the state, because we're just expecting our day of cold rain to turn into ice. ICE. I did not move to FL from DC for ICE!! I could've stayed north if I wanted that.

I have a vampire on Fallcoast that I did one scene with and occasionally log in. I just don't get how to find RP on that game.

I also play on Fate's Harvest where I have my little psychic and have found a pretty decent RP circle. Being mortal, she's not really involved in the big plots, but I'm not a fan of big plots anyway, preferring to tell my own character-centric stories, which I've easily been able to do. And like I said, the RP that I've been able to get has been excellent.

Also, despite some of the fear mongering, it's been ridiculously easy to avoid VASpider's player. I've only had a single run in with her, and while she did try to pull the whole, 'I'm the coolest cat around' routine and I did have to get firm with her to get her to actually tell me what she was rolling for, she didn't end up dominating the scene, and I was actually able to ignore her chars presence in the scene fairly well. At this point, I would say to not let her presence drive you away from the game. The more people active and RPing, the easier it is for us all to ignore her.

@bobotron said in World of Darkness -- Alternative Settings:

@faraday
Yes, but those games seem to have a setting that shoves the players together in close quarters. In all honesty, the big thing you would have to do with a Mortals game is create it with a hand-made, mortals only group. Not Hunter stuff. Someting like SCP, or an organization that recruits exceptional people, but never with powers. Make it part of your game's setup and policy that 'everyone has to be part of the Big Group, even if your concept is 'cupcake making housewife there to do MAKE BABBY! RP'. We did this as a 3 year tabletop game, and it was fun. Hell, you could even set it up so that players could look into getting powers and Awakening and shit, but have a rule in place that if those things happen, those PCs are retired.

You hit what I was typing up with the whole 'gotta have an organization,' so I deleted it. But you have to have buy in from players. If you make a mortals only game, you, the staff, HAVE to give it some sort of focus. Allowing people to come into the Organization in their own way is fine, but the game HAS to eventually have that PC drawn into it, otherwise they're outside of the main line of plots and stuff going on.

However, doing something like this also requires something that most WoD games don't want to do: FUCKING FOCUS.

I gotta disagree. You're right if the assumption is that the focus of the game's theme will be on the Supernatural or will be on a Such and Such Org, but I don't think that just because a game is mortal-only it has to have that focus.

A mortal-only game, for example, would be a great political game, since none of the chars would be able to fix the outcome by using some ubernerfed ability. Combine that political game with some big supernatural mystery that keeps complicating the chars lives, or a haunting horror in the background and I think players could have a ton of fun with that.

I'd definitely love a mortal-only game with a gritty feel, preferably urban, whether that game is based on WoD or not.

I gotta agree with others in that one of BiTN's weeknesses (as much as I loved that game) was it's sandboxiness and reliance on plot. It might be cool to combine the underlying theme with a territory code similar to RfK's to keep play happening and things moving.

@lisse24 said in Good TV:

@sockmonkey

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I don't think she went over or lied. I think she told an illustrative story to Kevin to explain what she had been doing. I think she realized that the key to happiness was not chasing what happened. After all, we have to "let the mystery be." Happiness is living in the moment and accepting it for what it is. When she saw the others, for example, they were "happy." The story she told Kevin explains that conclusion. The facts may have been made up, but it was still True.

@sockmonkey
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@sockmonkey said in Good TV:

@Zobi The Good Place is on Hulu but they can only have five episodes on at a time due to streaming rights so you'd have to track down the first two episodes of season 2 somewhere else. But! If you can manage to do that, it's a good place to stay current. You know. Provided you have Hulu.

In other news..

I know I am really late to this party but OMG DID ANYONE ELSE WATCH THE LEFTOVERS?! I just slammed through all three seasons and Carrie Coon is amazing and I love her and she should be in everything. Like, she was great in the third season of Fargo (it's just a pity that the third season of Fargo simply wasn't as good as the first two -- not that that was on her) but she was transcendent as Nora Durst.

Like, seriously you guys.

I gave it a shout out when the last season was airing and got crickets, but you're right - SO GOOD! There are a couple of episodes that I count as one of the best things I've seen. Not one of the best things I've seen on TV, or on Film, but have ever seen.

Bouncing off Gany's post 3 days ago. Last year in October my sister gave birth to my niece 3 months early and weighing only 1 lb 1 oz - the edge of viability. She had two older kids, who I cared for after school and into the evening so that she could be at the hospital with Zoe. Zoe stayed in the NICU for 8 months, well past Easter, and needless to say through Christmas. We all spent Christmas day in the NICU waiting room, taking turns going bedside (only two are allowed at a time). She was still in the isolette, then.

Since she left the NICU, she's been great. Preemies that early and that small are supposed to struggle their first year. "She'll go back in," my sister was told. But she hasn't. She's thrived. Our only struggle with her has been to convince her that food is not the enemy, that eating is good and something she should try.

Most people right now know about NICU babies and infant health issues from Jimmy Fallon, I get that. So, if you saw his recent monologue with his son, you know he talked a lot about this virus called RSV, that looks like a cold, but can kill babies this delicate.

Because of this virus, my niece doesn't go outside, or in public, or to daycare. When people come in, they wash hands with special soap. If you're sick at all, you wear a mask.

Right now, she doesn't have in-home nursing, so we're taking turns helping care for her. I was there this weekend. On Saturday, as I kept trying to coax sweet potato and turkey mush down her throat, she kept coughing and seemed extra whiny. I told my sister. By Sunday, she had a full-fledged cold, it seemed. She was stuffy and miserable. We didn't even try solids with her and just stuck to the feeding tube. Last night, she developed a fever of 101.

It's probably a cold. It's probably nothing. But this could be very serious, too, and we could end up back in the ER or even at the hospital. I'm sitting here all nervous and worried. Can't imagine my sister is getting much done at work today.

I kind of go half-way. I have an emeals subscription. They don't buy and send the food to me, but they do give me a regular stream of fresh, yummy, healthy recipes with an organized grocery list and exact amounts delivered right to my phone via my app each week without me having to think. It's totes worth $5/month not to think about food.

@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

"We're running late."
"Well, that's fine, so long as you can still give me a ride to work."
"We can't, we have to meet people in Plano."

OH I DON'T KNOW MAYBE TELL THEM YOU'LL BE LATE TO SEE THEM BECAUSE YOU'RE SEEING YOUR DAUGHTER FOR THE LAST TIME FOR FUCK KNOWS HOW LONG? Yeah. This cements it. I'm only allowing this because I want the last of their shit out of my apartment, but I am fucking done. They're prioritizing my father's fucking coworkers over me.

(And same as last week, waited until the last minute to tell me so I couldn't find a better workaround.)

And I was coming here to complain about the coworker who calls me 'kiddo.'
Sorry your parents suck :/.

@rook said in Alternative Formats to MU:

I know that a lot of MU Clients have UI widgets for writing mail, as a for-instance. I don't know of anyone that uses it to actually write mail.

Doesn't invalidate it's usefulness, of course, but maybe we could talk more about changing the conversation here.

Let's talk about how clients should change to make things easier? What features would you demand? What helps people get into it? Help files? More widgets? What would you add.

I'm particularly interested in this branch of the conversation, since I'm toying with building a mu client for myself.

I hate to say, but the barrier isn't the client. The barrier is telnet.
Yes, we all love the immediacy that telnet worlds provide, and I believe that immediacy and immersiveness is what makes MU* superior, but it is old, clunky, and outdated. It is a barrier to new people joining games and it is a barrier to current players wanting to create games.

I think instead of asking ourselves how do we make using this old technology better, we should be asking ourselves, what is it that makes this old technology so great and how we can use modern, intuitive tools to accomplish the same ends?