Best posts made by Lithium

@cupcake I quite enjoyed Wakanda Q in Black Mirror as well. But, she wasn't my favorite character. My favorite in Black Panther was ***=Could potentially be a spoiler but it's from a commercial so...***

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I'd like to learn Python and Ruby, so I could take a look at Evennia and Ares, I am wanting to do something with a bit more automated combat wise and my own system but I really, really, /REALLY/ don't want to use MUCK or MOO.

@tinuviel Is that not the hog pit in a nutshell?

@jennkryst Nobody can tolerate Honey Badger and Whooping Crane anymore really.

Some people do not have the ability to separate the source from the adaptation.

I am usually pretty good at it. Sometimes I'm not.

Depends on how emotionally invested I am in the source material really.

And sometimes a movie is just /bad/. Regardless of how many explosions and how many times you take advantage of Megan Fox's ass. I'm looking at you Michael Bay.

@surreality I hate (not really) to say that the CW format works for me, I loved the Vampire Diaries for like the first 5 seasons, I haven't caught up but... those hips of hers... mmph.

@surreality I do not understand why you would call them your friend after all of that. I also do not understand why you would not absolutely do whatever is necessary to protect yourself from this person. At the very least, you absolutely should cut this person from your life.

Utterly.

Completely.

There is no redemption story here that I can see for them. For years this person has done this and they chose to do it, willingly. I would consider such a person to be pretty downright evil. Because it was willful. It was not that they didn't know, they chose to do what they did at your expense.

Excise them from your life so that their influence is no longer making things worse.

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

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

What I was responding to was @Derp's assertion that in general people would be pissed if you turned up to a game without knowing the system.

Notice, however, two things about my original assertion:

1. There is a difference between theme and game system/mechanics. People don't get pissed as much about theme as they do mechanics.

2. This only tends to fly on WoD or games with an original RPG system in place.

Games using established systems are where this comes into play, and theme / source fiction material is different than mechanics.

Bullshit.

I get tons of pissed more about theme and setting than game mechanics. Game mechanics I can usually help with pretty damned fast, especially if it's a system I am super familiar with. Not a problem, I will help someone learn what they can do.

People who don't learn the setting or theme?

They break the immersion of the game for me and literally /kill/ my desire to play on a game.

@surreality said in The Makeup Thread:

@ixokai We don't have the face-shaving thing to worry about. And that's daily fuss.

PCOS says Hello!

@rook I do know Faraday is working at real time web integration, and BSU has a web portal which is nice.

I'm more likely to use a topic here than anywhere else. I don't do much with Google these days, not since they decided that anything I put on them is not actually private. Last thing I want is for some fictional characters musings to red-flag me for something.

I don't write towards prompts either. I do write linearly, but it's basically: I think this story would be cool, start here, it'll finish when it finishes.

I rarely /rarely/ have an ending in mind when I write. I figure a story will write it's own ending when I am comfortable with where things ended.

@thenomain Sometimes 'Play the Game' means Bad Shit(tm) is going to happen to your character. It may be caused by other PC's, it may not. Play the Game and expect only good shit to happen to you is when you get people playing fanged and furry super heroes on a WoD/CoD game.

The /game/ is dark, the /setting/ is dark, the whole /world/ is dark. It is gritty. It is horrible. Everything good is paid for with the blood of innocents! (Ok maybe an extreme statement but the point stands).

On some games 'Play the Game' means 'Understand that bad shit can and will happen to your character.'

I wish there were more people willing to stand up for what's right like that. The world would be a better place.

@alzie I want /sane/ people to support 2E. There used to be a number of 2E games, but not anymore. I think the problem is that people are trying to put to many sphere's into the game, and it's diluting things to much. Any sphere can work on it's own and all the staff would only have to worry about one sphere, two if you consider mortal/+ a sphere as well.

@wanderer I don't need to know their story. I know that Gamers are from every social strata they are handsome, they are ugly, they are plain, they are homely, they are beautiful, they are horrific.

There are rich gamers.

There are poor gamers.

There are middle class gamers.

Unless someone did not go to school, does not exist as a part of our society, then they should /know/ the difference between right and wrong as our society sees it. They are making a /choice/ to assault people for whatever reason.

The one thing /any/ of us have control of, is how we react to any given situation. We are thinking beings that do not act only upon instinct and there is no excuse for anyone to do these things.

There is nothing to feel 'sad' about because they /chose/ to behave in such a fashion.

This whole thing, like the villains are somehow the victim, makes me feel sick to my stomach.

It's offensive because it paints these individuals who assault us as somehow victims who have no choice, lost any agency or control of themselves.

That is so very... very outrageous...

PS. Take a drink

EDIT: Not even going to /touch/ the idea that the 'hobby' is somehow a place where women shouldn't be safe, shouldn't be able to act normally, or should beware every male we don't know (And some we do). I just have no words for how wrong that whole idea is.

@apos said in Internet Attacks? Why?:

@lithium said in Internet Attacks? Why?:

But... does that really apply to MU*'s? Our anger and such tends to take a lot longer to build up to the point of ostracism. We are a lot more tolerant than most online gamers (see league of legends and dota for extreme examples) probably due to the media in which we use, text is slow, it's patient, it gives us time to think and respond.

Curious as to people's thoughts.

I don't think people are all that different, but MUs need a vastly different level of investment than someone playing LoL or Dota. I mean someone gets into a LoL game, they play with 4 strangers for maybe 20 minutes, they never see them again. For us, someone gets onto a new game, they could be interacting with some of those people for literally years, and even though it's anonymous, anonymity means a hell of a lot less when the reputation attached to a character basically effects how you can play for thousands of hours invested. So we have a lot of mini society pushback, where people though they are anonymous from a RL perspective for one another, care a whole lot about their 'anonymous' personas on here enough to practice a lot better behavior generally.

I know there's a temptation to be like, 'kids these days' about that but I just don't really think that's the case. I think it's just people generally know that even if it's a fake internet name of a character or board handle, they are attached to that, and their investment heavily helps reduce the really egregious examples we see in games with zero investment.

I can get behind this, back when WoW was young, character names meant something, reputation mattered, and the servers while not ideal, were still a /far/ cry better than they are now. You still see this in things like EverQuest on the Timelocked Progression servers, screw up your rep and you're in for a rough ride.

I still think the fact that in general, we spend more time between doing something (writing the response) because the medium isn't instant like voice chat matters too because we have more time to self filter, but maybe that's just me.

@mietze said in Internet Attacks? Why?:

@lithium all of the stuff I listed in the original post happened within the mushing community, and in fact was sometimes disclosed on snark site ideations. Bragged about even. But just like now, I don’t believe it was cool to most people who read it. But it has happened. I would be shocked if sexual assault hasn’t happened. I know there have been allegations of abusers picking up vulnerable partners via mushing.

I mean it happens and it will wherever there is a stronger sense of intimacy due to chatting or whatever or a pinpoint focus that can’t hapoen in daily life.

But! I am long in the tooth enough to remember this being famous in other groups too—SCA, live action LARPing, radio chats, etc.

I know but it seems less a 'thing' amongst this community than some other online communities is all I meant.

I also remember SCA, Live action RP, etc. There has been online predators for as long as there has been an online. I knew a guy back in my BBS days who used to be a massive skeeve but... I dunno... maybe I am just hopeful we as a group are better than the rest of humanity.

I know, wishful thinking.

@Tyche said in RL Anger:

@Sunny said in RL Anger:

Not ALL men, after all. (I recommend doing some reading as to why that objection for this topic is fucking offensive.)

Not all illegal immigrants are rapists.
Not all muslims are terrorists.
If objectively true statements are so offensive to you, then maybe you should check your premises.

You just can't help yourself. I will explain since you are apparently unable to see why @Sunny would say such a thing:

Nobody is saying ALL Men are /anything/ just like nobody is saying all of any <insert subset here> is anything.

The reason it is so fucking offensive is because it is statements like that that are used as a shield against awareness. It's a response that serves no purpose because it deflects from the actual problem at hand, and that is that /some/ of these people /are/.

The real answer needs to be:

How do we make this problem go away?

Not:

I'm not one of those things, so it's not /my/ problem. It's not the problem of those of us who /aren't/ those things. It belittles those being abused by jumping on a self-righteous defensive path instead of a path of education and absolutely needed social change.

Not /ALL/ men get Colon Cancer, yet it is still VERY real problem for /both/ genders.

@ortallus said in Internet Attacks? Why?:

However, there needs to be shown to be severe penalties. If a child commits the act, then on their parents. If an adult, then throw the book at them hard. Make them take awareness classes, do community service, pay steep fines (including restitution to the people they swatted on).

Bolding Mine.

No.

Yes, parenting can do a lot of things. What it cannot do is stop stupid kids from being stupid kids. We all like to talk about the good old days, but when we were young, we did stupid things too.

There is no punishment around that will stop people from making horrible choices, doing horrible things, or otherwise acting in a manner contrary to society.

While yes, I do believe parenting can have a /massive/ impact, punishing the parent is not the solution here. Not even remotely. In fact if it were a thing, then imagine how many angry teenagers would attempt this, just when they got mad at their parents and wanted to 'punish' them.

@Roz I always try to schedule my meetings for fucking, but Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

@zombiegenesis There is no reasoning with certain individuals, who cannot even accept the definition of words, when presented with the /definition/ of the word.

Unfortunately it is all to common these days and is how we get certain 'political' individuals in power.

Back on track: There's a lot of statistics out there, as to why cops are killing people, but in the end I think it comes down to fear. Cops are scared too because they are getting killed also. It doesn't make it right by any stretch of the word, cops are supposed to be /better/ than the average person, that's what makes them capable of serving and protecting.

Not sure if it's something along the lines of public education, back in the day public education used to not be so bad in the United States, now... not so much. Maybe Police Academies are getting hit the same. Or there's a /lot/ more ex-military in the forces, cuz in the army shoot first during hostile situation makes a lot more sense?

I don't know.