I once jumped off the roof of our house after opening up the patio table umbrella because I thought it would be a parachute like in cartoons.
It wasn't.
Luckily this was shitty ass base housing so it wasn't a huge fall. For awhile I was certain it would have worked from a higher elevation.
@arkandel said in Historical settings:
But it's not for everyone. And for those potential staff teams giving their villains fangs or orcish faces makes it more palatable - similar themes with a smaller impact but easier to compartmentalize.
Yes. But by doing that, I think you are firmly planted in a supernatural horror/fantasy game rather than "historical game". Maybe there should be a differentiation between "historical game" and "<X time period> SETTING game." I think there can be a huge difference, in framing and intent. And also how issues are addressed.
I would be interested in seeing how a game like ominous describes works over the long term tbh. I don't think I could get into it myself since a log in every 24 hours or yoink policy would be too hard for me personally to manage. And I can't flip flop into characters super easily, which is why it's hard for me to juggle alts.
But. I do know people who are major altaholics who almost never stayed longer than a week or two engaged with a character, or who could only do so if they could step out of that PC frequently (via rp rooms or using player-npc/retainers/ect) to engage in many stories. If they gave something like that a try, maybe they'd get a really good dynamic for them, and if it attracted similar players, I bet they'd have a lot of fun without worrying about annoying other people or getting into trouble as occurs on more traditional places.
I would think that would require a very dynamic staff who were also jumping in to provide scenes/plot/ect on a more frequent basis...but that is just my brain thinking, perhaps the type of person who would be attracted to jump and play and jump and play again actually would be just fine even without that.
One of the reasons that the governor of Oregon might not have ever experienced a health care wait is because he is of significant wealth/employment class to have never been without good health insurance accepted by all the doctors of his choice/in his area, so it was never an issue with him. The people with no insurance/shitty insurance experienced something very different.
Until about 3 years before Obamacare, my family was paying $1000/mo for shitty ass $5000 deductable catastrophic care only "health insurance". Then we joined an extremely expensive HMO but at least preventative stuff was covered. So I spent the first decade of my children's lives being given That Look in the doctor's office that would have denied us care until I said the magic words of "how much is your cash discount if I pay you in full today?" The vast majority of people who are not on good insurance plans do not have the means to do that. And doctors were not required to accept medicaid (the indigent person medical plan).
Wonder what the wait time was for a family who did not qualify for medicaid/find a provider for it who didn't have $300 to drop per visit for a pediatric visit + immunizations + medication? Would they have bothered to try to get in at all? That is why there wasn't really a wait there, as say there was when I was growing up in the military (socialized medicine that all could access, so yes, more demand, and there was indeed triage in a way that regular care visits elsewhere didn't need) because you'd already cleared a bunch of hurdles even being able to know you could call to make an appointment in the first place.
In any place perfect, no. But it is pretty icky that the reason why there was so little of that in some tiers of the medical system the US is because so many people were /denied any kind of access/ period. Look at public health/indigent clinics though and the story is way different.
And I would say that if you are NOT willing to be that blunt, and able to live with the discomfort of actually setting real guidelines down , then frankly you deserve what you get in frustration about people not reading your mind when it comes to what is acceptable/ok to RP in that setting. You're not going to be able to guess everywhere people are going to go, and you are going to have to amend, but...I mean jesus. You cannot be so fuzzy especially with a not-modern-sensibilities place. That's just not fair to the players.
Yeah I don't think this is about "better" at all. Just different. It might be better for some people because it suits their personal taste?
I truly wanted to have to spend probably a couple of hours picking chunks of purple pastel out of my cream colored carpet fibers, before I can pre treat the demon summoning circle that my 4 year old drew on the living room floor. (I'll be renting a carpet cleaner tomorrow).
No really. Totally that's what I wanted to do with my time tonight. 
@paris said in Unlikeable, incompetent, and inactive: Can these characters work in an MU?:
@wretched said in Unlikeable, incompetent, and inactive: Can these characters work in an MU?:
There's a lot of pathos that can be mined from nonverbal reactions that offset, undercut, or inform people's villainy; Rufus Sewell is a master of that, but we RPers can do so as well, yep.
Can, yes. Unfortunately fewer can than think they are, and fewer still will find people who can/are willing to respond to it in kind. Which is why I think without other anchors in ones play, or to interact with the game in a meaningful and interesting way beyond it, it is setting yourself up for frustration/burnout.
I agree that in super large especially purposeful scenes, they do tend to be focused on one or two people at a time (for court scene, Prince and each speaker in turn, for example).
However there are a lot of tone deaf people who use wordiness or escalation to make /every/ scene all about them, and don't seem capable of paying attention or helping others share in it at all. It's something that's easy to avoid on large games but it's really frustrating and demotivating of small ones. Or, frankly, even in large games where you are then (as i mentioned before) turned into a captive audience, because you need to be there for plot purposes or information sharing purposes, and some jackass has to make sure that everyone in the room knows how much of a special asshat they are). There does always seem to be at least one in every group.
@cupcake It's all right. I think it's better for casual/casual office stuff. It takes a little while of you sending back a lot of shit before they have enough on your likes/dislikes to click. If you try it def. be sure to not just send stuff back and rate it (IIRC with this and the one other subscription program that another good friend has tried, you MUST rate before they'll send you another box even after you return everything) but also to put in the comments any specifics other than what they ask about (was the fabric itchy/you don't like the cut because of how it looks x way, ect) The prices aren't terrible, but you could get things for a lot cheaper if you like to go shopping (which is the whole appeal of this thing that you don't have to). Returning stuff is super easy, you just put it back in the provided envelope (which will fit everything) and send put it in the mail. I tried it a long long time ago, though so it may be that prices have changed/procedures have changed. I did use it to build up more of a wardrobe than tshirts and jeans that I'd been wearing forever, when I was doing a lot of public speaking. It is not great for short people though. I could never buy any of their pants, even the ones that were super cute, because I knew I'd never bother to go get the altered. Someone less lazy (or taller ;>) than me wouldn't have that problem. 
Def be prepared for the first couple of boxes to be an absolute bust. I have crazy weird sensitivities though and I had been used to wearing jeans and tees and leggings/yoga pants equivalent since the 90s, with occasional dressups, so some of that was just me getting used to wearing other things. It definitely helped me push the comfort zone because I tried on everything and made myself keep it on for like 15 minutes. I was surprised at a lot of the stuff I liked!
Once I did a respec for someone (this involved wiping of the old +sheet. Then handstatting EVERYTHING back on to them based on the new attributes/merits/skills/powers they selected. It was a spend of about 900 xp (I remember it was less than 1000).
It was the wrong PC. Their names were off by one or two letters. 
Luckily I has done an xp spend for this poor guy an hour or so previously so I had a copy of his old sheet.
I like any single sphere game pretty much. I don't care what the sphere is. 
FFS Seattle. I have about 2 feet of snow in parts of my backyard. And still more is coming down.
They didn't even mention beefdarts or turgid manhood. Or effluvia. There was pulsing though at least.
Honestly, when I look at tastes less gamey, while I know that it means mu* my mind leaps to anything not pertaining to gaming (generalized) discussion. So I can see the hardiness on consolidating discussion about non-mu games. Especially for newish or casual users
@Quinn I made my ob actually screech when I wiggled my toes at her right before she was going to start the surgery. (I had to think about doing it, but didnt feel anything at all otherwise.) I've never seen an anesthesiologist jump so fast off that little barstool thing they sit on so fast. It was 5 am, I was finally free of pain and feeling after 20 hours of unmedicated back labor, a girl's gotta have some fun right?
@too-old-for-this I think this may be a key thing that could be missed by people who dont use it regularly. I know you know this but for those that have never used it and might be envisioning a more straightforward item to money in the pocket:
It is not like the broker where you can sell/buy as many as you want in one go.
Sometimes you might get lucky and be able to sell all you want to sell in a large block but many times you will have to break it into 2-3 chunks. Rolling to see if you can find a buyer and if so how much costs 5 AP even if you never go further or if you fail your roll, which can indeed happen even if you have high stats.
Once you find out if you have found a seller/buyer and how many items they are willing to sell/buy (which may not be the full amount you asked for especially at higher quantities), you spend 5 more AP to roll to find out the cost of your deal. Even when you have high stats and especially when you are seeking to haggle high tier stuff, you may not find much of a deal. You can choose at that point to take the deal or walk away out 10 AP.
This happens every time.
Eh, might just be a culture thing. Perhaps I am showing my age, but it used to be that doubleposting on a forum was seen as rude or something you're not supposed to do. Like the board equivalent of someone who were to keep posing without waiting for anyone else to and/or who had to after every single pose by someone else. It's weird.
I do agree that editing a post once there have been other published comments behind it, when it occurs, is weird to me without a ETA: comment. Though sometimes it's hard to see if/when other comments have been added, especially when folks are on their phone or whatever. If this is a peeve of yours it does explain your fussing at me earlier though. Good to know!
Nice. Went to a college financial planning/funding seminar with eldest (who is a junior in HS) and there was literally almost a brawl between two parents at it.
Yes. My experience in mushing is that of constant meeting/weaving new people in. That is part of the appeal. I don't rp regularly with any of the mushers who are now RL family to me.
And I have had many instances of starting over/making new contacts.