Anthony Varrecchia. Hate the stupid button undone on the pants in the 2nd pic, but, I think he would make a great Grizzled Alpha werewolf or other older but still kick your ass male character.
When I am thinking up a character some concepts come across as one gender or the other.
I will read a book, and if it's good, then I will buy it. I will definitely support the people who are putting out content I use and/or enjoy.
I have no qualms with not buying stuff I dislike and/or will not use however.
I am not a fan of pirating per se, but I do enjoy being able to get digital copies of books I physically own (cuz I own to damn many to manage easily).
I would play a game that had a web only interface. The problem isn't the web only interface, it's the disconnect and needing to open multiple things to play /one/ game.
If it were all web access only? Cool. Works for me.
It's when I am trying to use a telnet connection that /also/ requires a web window open that I experience the issues.
In the mid 80's, all there was, was table top, and dial up BBS's. The 'internet' was a 'thing' but not /the/ thing it is now.
I had to wait sometimes days between 'poses' sometimes and you know what?
It sucked.
Bad.
If I had to wait hours between poses I'd fuck right the hell off because that's literally two poses before I have to go to work.
I don't have time to sit and wait 30 minutes between poses anymore, let alone hours.
Then again, the idea of having discord and voice chat necessary for RP on a game with a bunch of strangers? No.
It's weird enough on Roll20, and that is more like a virtual table top.
The problem with critics, is the fuck they know what /I/ like. They are presenting an opinion piece, that's it, their opinion is not any more valid than mine or anyone else's.
Was the <insert artistic piece here> entertaining? Was it powerful? Did it convey a message that resonated?
That's not something that the critic can answer for /anyone else but them/.
People need to go out and make their own fucking decisions.
Some people like Led Zeppelin. Others do not.
There's a lot of reasons why one person may like something and another doesn't, but in the end, it all comes down to individual taste.
My Partner cannot stand most Quentin Tarentino movies.
I typically enjoy them.
Who is right? Who is wrong? Both and neither.
It's when people present critiques as /absolutes/ that drives me fucking crazy, because nothing, especially in the art world, is absolute.
I don't always have the luxury of MU*'ing from a pc or laptop. Sometimes it's my kindle, sometimes it's my phone. I absolutely cannot, and willnot, go outside of a game when I am using those devices.
Let alone the pure disconnect from having to switch windows, which, like many others, pulls my focus from the RP and alters it.
@ganymede A little more folksy than I like usually but still great.
That arm thoough... clip her wings... fuck. Just. Fuck.
@bobotron I know that there is a version of Knights of the Old Republic, the original, that has been converted for tablets. I play it on my Kindle Fire and it is beautiful and works pretty flawlessly.
Has the advantage of also being free on Amazon Underground.
That Last of Us 2 trailer is enough to make me pick up the first one I think.
Also, Soulcalibur 6, cannot, fucking, wait.
@auspice That would be kind of funny, and I wouldn't really care about that.
My problem is when it is ascribing action to what I am doing.
So if you say 'WB' for Welcome Back then it says So-and-so yells, "WB."
If you use an exclamation mark, it automatically makes you 'exclaim' something.
So from now on I am going to have to use emotes instead of 'says' on channels, just so I'm not doing something I don't want to be doing.
When your code forces actions upon my ooc comments, it's to much. Code making me exclaim, yell, etc, on ooc channels... just, blarg. Why are you making me emote of an OOC to say WB so that I'm not /yelling/ it? Come. On.
@emda Thanks, I'll throw that in and maybe give Arx a try if I get more time.
@faraday My ISP needs it to be something 'sent' from my computer to indicate my port is still active, it's junk, but it's been that way forever. Whenever I try to use standard keep alives it doesn't work and I end up getting stealth disconnected. The only thing that has worked, for me, was sending @@ every 5 minutes or so client side.
@faraday yay!
ETA: This is the major reason why I can't play on a place like ARX, cuz apparently @@ doesn't work with Evennia and there is nothing similar.
@faraday please code in something that allows null requests to be sent, something akin to @@ in old school MUX so those of us with craptastic IP's can play without being stealth disconnected.
@Packrat I've been looking at pictures earlier on lately just because it seems if you don't have one, you don't exist for the current medium of supposed RP'ers. It's like people can't read descriptions and get a mental picture anymore.
So now because of the prevalence of wiki's I've started looking for a picture /very/ early on, cuz, nothing sucks in char creation like having an awesome character and then not being able to find a pb that works.
For me it's RP rooms.
I loved the idea, I hate the implementation.
I miss grid RP, when grids meant something, and you could run into people in public.
I miss hangouts that were actively used.
I miss bumping into someone on the grid and bam, random RP.
As for systems systems... not really a fan of Aspirations. They are never used right it seems, and those who know how to game them can get infinite xp from them.
I've wanted to use her forever, but... nothing seems awesome enough.
She was my hero as a little girl.