Posts made by Meg

Eh. I live in Colorado. Don't worry; there's no legitimate reason that would give me reason to go to Ohio from here.

I'm not even going to answer that question. I'll just slip a 20 quietly under the table, yeah?

Wow so many options and still slim pickings.

That's probably why @Thenomain hasn't responded to any of our offers.

(Also edit to add that if it becomes a competition over me, I offer hand-written congratulations notes to every participant.)

I also code for a living. I do not live in my parents' basement, but I do have to admit I live in a condo that they own, so I save a shitton on the rent that I pay. It's somehow more classy than living in their basement.

I won't date a monkey, because I hate animals. Even my own cats.

Also Theno already said he likes me too much to teach me how to WoD??? I think I am in.

Consider this my formal application, please waive the fees.

@Thenomain

I think it's fairly easy for me to say that art is defined by a mixture of who is perceiving it and who created it. You can't disentangle your art completely from its audience. I could put my poo on a pedestal and tell you that it is about the life cycle, but my audience doesn't have to take that explanation nor should I expect them to.

If I put my poo on a pedestal and explained that it was an experiment on how others perceive it, then yes, me saying that is going to affect how others process it and that's valid.

And I am telling you, when I saw a bull in the financial district (before Fearless Girl, I promise), there is no part of me that didn't think of the male-dominated Wall Street culture.

He can defend it all he likes; he does not get to say that the audience doesn't get to interpret his art in a different way through a different cultural lens based on the lives they've lived.

(And this feels like a necro. Sorry I didn't see it until just now!)

Not only do 3D movies give me migraines, they have the audacity to /not even be in 3D/ for me. Since I have no depth perception because my brain learned to process information while ignoring basically everything coming in from my right eye.

Even the screen for the 3DS was a pain in my ass that wasn't worth it. shake fist, whisper i hate 3d let's go back.

@Coin said in RL things I love:

@Thenomain said in RL things I love:

@Auspice said in RL things I love:

I know Fearless Girl really upsets the artist of the Wall Street Bull, which makes me hate it more. I wish it'd be taken down.

I'm of deep conflict on it. On the positive side, it brings a needed conversation to the fore. (Would've been even better if the girl were hispanic or black.) On the negative side, exactly what you and others have said. Wall Street may have hated the Bull when it was first installed but it was done with love for America and has become a strong symbol for Wall Street and New York; the Fearless Girl demeans that love and has become a strong symbol for the more tolerable (1st and 2nd Wave) Feminism.

On the other hand, Charging Bull is a symbol for the USA and especially Wall Street's "indomitable spirit", which in this case pretty much means (and cannot be more accurately represented) "we will rampage and thrash all over anyone in our way".

And, it is undoubtedly a /male/ symbol of USA and Wall Street. (There are no female bulls, man.) It's always been a male symbol, even before Fearless Girl. I remember seeing it as a teenager and absorbing it that way. The artist might have intended something different, but it's always really meant that for most of us women.

Fearless Girl might have accentuated it, but she didn't change it. That's what people are overlooking here. The artist took the hidden meaning that (some? most?) women saw in the statue and made it a conversation that might be uncomfortable, even if she was paid for it.

You are over-simplifying, surely. It would be great to not use violence, ever; I abhor violence and I abhor death. Even watching Prince Joffrey in a fictional world die made me sad for someone dying.

But. When the other side uses violence, words only go so far.

@Jim-Nanban said in RL Anger:

@HelloProject I refuse to accept what's communicated in your post: That you cannot figure out why someone might be opposed to all forms of discrimination.

If you're going to get your panties in a twist about discrimination, it should at least have an adverse affect. Not being able to watch the movie at all? Yes, be against that discrimination. Not being able to watch a movie with one group of people? C'mon now.

I would agree. Also, those standing accused couldn't defend themselves like they can here, if they choose to.

But. Think of the queries you can run on such a DB! Select * from t_jerks Where Offense like '%dickpic%'.

@Thenomain

(one of us, one of us.)

Edit to add: theno, you're going to teach me how to WoD when this game opens right?

I love my friends, who I never would have made without MU*s.

I love that I can meet someone on a MU* and now I'm gonna have scones with them on Sunday.

I love all you crazy kids.

That is all, carry on. I just really needed to share love.

@Ganymede said in Progression: Time/Resource rather than XP:

@Sparks said in Progression: Time/Resource rather than XP:

Let's take that treaty. I say, "Okay, to write a treaty and make CERTAIN it's translated properly, you're going to need these prerequisites" and create blocks for them. They can RP about those prerequisites, but they also have to put in the time/effort to do the diplomacy and xenolinguistics.

I get that, and I see what you're suggesting, but I'm a cynical cat and believe that people will devote their Time and Blocks, then TS with one another rather than RP through what sounds like really boring RP to me.

Well, yes. I would even go so far as to say they /should/ do this. (Not the TS, maybe.) If something is boring RP, you can mention it in other scenes, refer to it, but you don't have to sit down and RP /exactly/ that thing. You can RP working on a treaty that gets swept aside momentarily for hot, hot TS on a desk, for example, and it should still count. Your time offscreen, you actually went and picked back up the treaty and quibbled over words.

The scene with the aliens would still happen in the system that Pax is suggesting. But there'd be some background of what PCs are doing in their offscreen time (and maybe on-screen time if they /want/ to RP it) about what is leading up to that scene.

@Arkandel

Certainly, there are some benefits to letting players who can play more get more of 'x'. Whatever x is (resources, XP, spotlight, etc etc). But there are also cons too. I know you and I have both been in scenes on Arx where people were chasing votes and newbie XP without a regard for /stories/ and, you know, roleplay.

And there is always that unbalance for people who can't play as much to overcome, or people that will tax themselves trying to do too much to keep up. Keeping things fair across the board is beneficial, too, to other players. It just depends who you want to benefit from the system.

@Arkandel said in Progression: Time/Resource rather than XP:

I like it, @Sparks. One remark only - the people who can play 24/7 shouldn't be dominating, I quite agree on that, but the flipside is not rewarding investment; the person who plays should still be ahead - with diminishing returns, staggered caps, whatever is preferable... but carrots are still important to have. Players do like chasing them.

I disagree, to some extent. It is about the game that you (ambiguous) want to make, whether you want to reward investment or not. I've played on games where there is no XP, no resources, nothing. I was still invested in the game because I was invested in the roleplaying I was doing and the story I was playing.

And that is a perfectly legitimate strategy to have. That you want people invested in the story for the sake of the story, not the rewards that they are getting from a system of code, without bringing in 'how much you RP' as part of the equation.

I know Pax and I and others have talked about this to death. There were a number of other things that could be given for being active. But I also just don't think it is necessary.

@ThatGuyThere

Fair enough. I never lived in dorms (not strictly true: I lived in /military/ dorms, which aren't the same). I didn't go to college until I was in my late 20's. So I don't have that experience that would lead to me understanding what finals are like when you also have to deal with getting out of the dorm.

@SG said in RL things I love:

@Meg said in RL things I love:

@SG

But then why wouldn't they go to like, the nearest pawn or resell shop and just get some quick cash themselves? That seems ridiculous​ to just leave it!

For international students, there is a serious time crunch once they are done finals. Many don't have visas that will span the summer, so they have to gtfo asap if they're not taking classes. Once finals are over, they have so much stuff to take care of that soaking the loss on a few pieces of furniture isn't a big deal.

Even local students are coming to the end of their leases and are scrambling to move. If they live out of town, then losing the money spent on this sort of stuff is still cheaper than uhauling it across the country and putting it in storage while they look for a new place to live.

Plus it takes a lot of time to sell/give away on the second hand market. trying to get rid of a TV through Kijiji is a pain in the ass! and you won't get nearly what it's worth.

But it doesn't take a lot of time to go to a pawn shop, does it? I mean, you have to be prepared and probably do a bit of selling the week before finals, maybe, but I guess I still don't understand it. I mean, obviously it happens. Obviously some people probably don't care about the value of a couple of dollars, but it's hard for me to wrap my head around after spending years and years being super broke.

I mean, now I have enough money that a monitor probably doesn't mean that much to me, but it's still hard to ignore the part of me that wants to shake my fist and yell about kids.

That's probably why I love @Arkandel's story.

@ThatGuyThere

Serious question. In the case of like, that comic that is obvs easy to pack and shit, how do you know it was purposeful? That they didn't leave it on accident? I would worry about accidentally stealing something rather than adopting something abandoned.

@SG

But then why wouldn't they go to like, the nearest pawn or resell shop and just get some quick cash themselves? That seems ridiculous​ to just leave it!

Do college kids actually do this? Just leave stuff like monitors and TV's and shit that are still worth money, not just junk?