Posts made by Lisse24

So glad she's OK!

So, how're we feeling about Watchmen? We've got two episodes left. Is Lindelof gonna safely land this plane?

It's been touch and go the past few months, and I've gotten to the point where I need someplace to play again.

I have one requirement for a game:
When I type +where, there needs to be people in public rooms on grid actively involved in RP more times than not.
Sitting in the OOC room doesn't count.
RPing in a RP room doesn't count.
Closed scenes on Ares games don't count.
I just need to know that there's RP out there to be had, and that I can get involved in it.

Got suggestions for games? Got a character you want played? Hit me up.

@Caggles said in Caggles Playlist:

If by 'best' you mean dotty old bag who smelt of wee and lavender... you'd be right!

Like they said, the best!

@Narson Aw! Good to know your still out there!

Another day, another WTF moment...

Just had a meeting paused so that I could show the organizers how to upload a file to Google Drive and share it with everyone, because even though we've had Google Apps accounts for five years, they haven't learned this one little essential bit of it yet.

Labeled a tab in a shared spreadsheet in capital letters: DO NOT EDIT. Labeled the other tab, EDIT HERE.

Guess which one people made their changes in. Go ahead. Guess.

We're hiring a new position at work and so we decided to list out all our responsibilities so we could figure out what we wanted to shift around.

What I got out of this? Holy crap, I have a lot of hats. No wonder I'm always feeling as if I have no bandwidth.

I would also help with this project, but again, not a coder.

Happy Departure Day, y'all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzakrA2NUpg

@Auspice Mwahahahaha! I love that we were all cute little newbies once.

Whenever anyone mentions Harpers Tale, I'm reminded that I've likely been playing with some of you FOREVER, but that game is so far back in the reaches of my mind I remember nothing other than a) I was there and b) I was kinda twinky in that new-to-mushing way.

I've been working on an online course for months. This is the course that our members are going to have to take before they become building reps, so it's a fairly important course and one that our president will absolutely want to look at.

So, after I finished my outline, I was like, "Do you want to have a look at this?" Silence.

Started putting up activities and wording, again asked if he wanted a walk through. Silence.

Offered another walk through during alpha testing. Silence

Beta testing. Silence.

On our team call Monday, I said, "Okay, we're ready to push this live this week, unless anyone can think of something I've forgotten." Nothing from him.

Now on one hand, I'm a bit flabbergasted at the trust this indicates, but I really do want his feedback. I'm also a bit relieved because our president is known for holding back projects and breezing through deadlines in his desire for perfectionism (which we're never going to get).

Last night, I told the director-level staff that I was going to notify staff today that we were live. An hour ago I got an email from our president asking how he logs in again and if the course was ready for review.

FML.

@silverfox said in The Work Thread:

Also.

I'm not allowed to RP again until I grade the damn pile of essays on my plate.

I hate essays guys. I hate them. Even if they're only one paragraph long. I. hate. them.

Never did ELA, but did you ever try this method?
https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/rubric-codes/

@Tinuviel said in The Work Thread:

@Ganymede said in The Work Thread:

@Sunny said in The Work Thread:

I love Smartsheet so much.

What is this Smartsheet?

An engine of human achievement, apparently.

See, this would require my workplace to want to plan ahead and be organized. But nope, we're just going to continuing flying by the seat of our pants and miss deadlines and such.

@Auspice Seconding this.

Whatever is going around put my niece in the hospital and took me forever and a day to recover from. Don't mess around this year, yo. Get flu shots, use antibacterial solution. Take care of yourselves.

stares at her last post

Again, aaaannnyyyone who wants to actually do something can contact me.

(No, this offer does not include people who just want to put in two cents, but don't want to do work of STing/coding/building wiki/etc.)

For the record, I've been working on and off at a political game for a while. It mostly sits dormant with me getting bursts of inspiration and working on it once a month or so. As others have noted, working on a game by yourself sucks motivation wise.

While some aspects of it are set in stone, there's plenty of stuff that's still up in the air, and even more that I'd be willing to change if someone came on board who was very passionate about something. If anyone would like to help get this project get off the ground, they can hit me up.

@Arkandel said in L&L Options?:

What should be mechanized is tracking the resources available to players because that's something political games in general have often been very unsuccessful at. PCs throw money around like it's inexhaustible, access to troops - or their quality - is up in the air, influence over NPCs and regions tends to be a kind of... fuzzy matters altogether, yet those are absolutely things MU* can be better at tracking down automatically for players.

If that happens then characters can actually be forced to make interesting choices which to me is the heart of what drives politics as well as good gameplay.

Completely agree, which was why my first point was that the game needs to have systems to support political RP. I have opinions on what some of these systems should be, but we may be wandering away from L&L at this point.

@WildBaboons said in L&L Options?:

I ran the Daes dae'mar (great game, political stuff) for a WoT game for a few years and mostly what I found was that people are just terrible at political maneuvering but think they're awesome. hamfisted maneuvers are thought to be great sweeps of intrigues and people get really upset when people point out that what they did was actually really dumb with negative consequences.

For me that I don't see the connection between L&L and high adventure. In my concept for L&L those tend to be opposite, unless you're looking for the idle rich who can use their copious downtime to adventure.

This is actually a peeve of mine on political games. You sometimes see where someone puts in a political action, and the ST goes, 'well, that's stupid politically' and the person gets dinged for it (or the converse, where the ST thinks it was a good move and it works out well for the person).

The thing is, we don't run combat by fiat. The ST doesn't get to say, "Yes, throwing a punch here is better than a kick, so you win," and I'm of the opinion that political RP should be the same way.

There should 1) be systems that players can manipulate and then 2) How well they manipulate it should come down to their sheet and their rolls and 3) When a player is way off base, but is playing a character that is supposed to be savvy, then the ST might want to step in and let them know that they're not going to succeed at Task A until they've done some more ground work to prep for it.