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This is how I make my sticky black rice with mango. fistbump tek, was just about to say that is my favorite!

Bring to boil 3 cups of water, a pinch of salt and 1 cup black rice in a saucepan, and then immediately cover, switch heat to low and cook for 45 mins. Some fancy rice cookers like mine do an okay job but I like stovetop better for this. Stir in 1/2 cup sugar, 1 1/2 cups coconut milk (it wont be the whole can, reserve it for later) and another pinch of salt. Bring to boil on high and then reduce that to low and cook uncovered for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally (you want it to thicken and the rice to get to your preferred level of chewiness). Remove from heat, serve warm or room temp with fresh mango sliced on top and the remaining coconut milk drizzled on top.

There are more solid preps but my family likes this softer pudding one best.

I think lying IC is always okay OOC, so long as the player is willing to have their PC get the consequences if they're caught and if consequences can be enacted.

I think lying OOC is pretty much almost always problematic. Unfortunately some people cross the two. They can't accept that a nasty or swindling PC could be played by an above board/non-cheating player. Or that someone who plays a PC who is one of their buddies has in fact been pretty nasty and destructive OOC, and may have kind of been using them to that end.

I think most people in the hobby do get sucked in to either side at one time or the other (passing on gossip that turns out to be full of shit, avoiding people on someone's say so who later turn out to be folks that are actually fine and our someone was full of shit, taking an IC annoyance/defeat and applying an OOC dislike to the player for a time), but most people don't make that a way of life, thank god.

I guess, after so many years staffing and playing, my point is that I'm so tired of legislating to the lowest common denominator. Because some idiot used X in some way, no nobody can have X and outlaw that type of PC. Because someone might lie about Y when they shouldn't/don't have the IC capability to, we need to do away with any possibility for lying (IC or otherwise). Most folks are not going to be abusive, or cheaters. They're just not. And for the people who are truly compelled to be that way, no amount of very stringent rules is going to make them not, and there are some that are very good and can succeed at that anywhere until they're caught or overstep and wear out their OOC welcome finally. And most of the time, that does happen eventually.

I am run down as fuck, and can feel my system fighting something off. Thus far I'm winning, but I still feel like crap on a cracker.

I think that's why there was a Rumors account for RfK wiki, that everyone knew the password to. That way it wasn't obvious to wikistalkers, but the players who posted the rumors had to claim them via beat reporting so that staff knew, or else they would be removed.

Spent much of the night last night at the ER with the 5 year old (most severe asthma attack he has ever had, but luckily we were able to avoid hospitalization, since he responded so well) first time he has had to go on oxygen rather than just the nebulizer. But he was still up at 5 as per usual on christmas morning!

As a GM, it's just as easy to have exit hatches for people in your scene, if not easier, than trying to label every possible trigger or undesirable content that might come up. That way if something does come up, you can extricate that person immediately with little fanfare. The non-disruptive players I've dealt with always appreciate that, they don't want to become the focus of everything when they need to go. The people who get off on disrupting things don't get what they want (and usually don't come no another plot of mine or ask me to run things for them ever again, which is fine with me.)

I think honestly, if you are running an intense-content scene for randos or open invite, as a GM you're a bit crazy if you don't give yourself some breathing room to deal with people who wander away from the keyboard/have emergencies/become disruptive/need to unexpectedly GTFO. I can't say that I've needed it /frequently/ but when those situations have come up it's been the best gift I gave myself as a storyteller.

I lucked out too, in that all four of my kids are extremely mellow in personality. No one was particularly difficult. No one has been a picky eater. I wish I could take credit for this, but I am like the biggest fucking slacker parent ever. Meanwhile, friends of mine who pretty much were so hard core healthy eater types who only pull slightly short of the "and I grew the organic free range wheat myself and ground it on my fair trade humanely harvested rocks to make my own flour to make this from scratch sugar free local-sourced cracker that my kid just ate" type of people have the pickiest kid I've ever met. It's not his fault, he's been exposed to a lot but he will actually gag and hurl at most textures. Life sucks sometimes.

Though the type of folks that I just mentioned above also can't handle the fact that I just fed my kid a goldfish cracker and contaminated the playground with it then too bad for you, bitches!

@faraday will there be detailed depictions of the wound/violence, sounds, smells, npc background reactions?

There is a difference between "Private Jass takes a bullet to the head and falls, obviously dead" and describing who gets splattered, flailing, gore, ect. I know when I ask about graphic preferences, it is fleshed out detail that I am referencing, not the basic stuff with the rest left up to the player's imagination.

Just like some people are deeply bothered by visuals, some folks have a hard time with written details of certain subject matter. Petsonally I love reading horror fiction including detailed content but do not watch graphic visual films (still images don't bother me). I know for others and their brain wiring they are quite the opposite.

I have been sick since Christmas day. It means I had to cancel one of my favorite gatherings (new years eve game night with roast beast) along with a few other things, which means I feel pretty sad actually.

I was able to stay out of bed or the couch for 6 consecutive hours yesterday (longest stretch since monday), but I am paying for it today. Reactive airways suck. I am so down that even the cat who prefers my husband has been my fluffy purring cuddle buddy today. (Wanting to lay her huge ass fluffy heavy self ON my chest, of course).

@roz the imagery makes me super happy!

With respect, food is going to be an "emotive" topic almost always, for a wide variety of reasons.

@chibichibi are they ignoring you when you ask them or are you trying to set up a situation where you do not have to ask because you want people in public readily accessible when you want to play?

Also, the idea that people will choose to live on subsistence/most inexpensive staples if they don't have to is not really a correct one. That has been proven time and again. While I appreciate veganism, lean towards plant based diets myself quite happily, I really wish that line of preaching would go away because jfc that edges really close to a "noble savage" type of thing that is just gross. And unnecessary.

@three-eyed-crow NOPE NOPE NOPE

Congee is cheap and comfortable and is my first go to. If I want crunchies I can put crunchies in it. Or some veggies, or meat or an egg or fresh herbs or a squirt of sriracha or whatever sauce I want or furikake, whatever. In addition to feeling sick I keep on getting punched in the face with this depression so I put some crunchies and some sliced ginger in it the last time I had it this weekend.

However, I have an issue and a major one with eating anxiety and sadness so if I am not able to cook I know I'm going to fall face first into bags of takis and I just have to deal with the pain later. I wouldnt call that a meal or nutritionally supportive at all though.

I've seen that done well and seen it done terribly.

Ultimately I actually do not think it matters very much, though its something a minority of a playerbase will get fixated on.

If staff are actively managing a game, and they have adequate spread to cover the size/scope of their game, as well as the ability to handle ooc problems that come up, chances are whatever the power structure is for the game will work well too.

If not, then it won't.

I'd like this stupid illness to end. Spent Christmas day until January 2nd in bed. Since then for every amount of time I spend outside it I have to spend more recovering shivering under blankets totally wasted. It is irritating because I'm well enough to be bored and to have things I want to do but sick enough still that I suck at almost everything I try, from writing to paying attention, ect. If I can take a 2-3 hour nap I can be okayish for a little while.

It makes me feel very down, about my RP, my work performance, even just my notes for some write ups I'm doing. I have an appt tomorrow to rule out pneumonia or something but I doubt that since I do not have a fever--but at least working for The Man means I have awesome insurance so I don't need to worry about paying $200 for someone to tell me I probably have a virus and should drink lots of fluids.

@faraday if people are serious about leaving something behind, yeah seriously at some point there will need to be games that go client free. If that's important to the person running them.

Otherwise, I think wasting energy wondering why other people won't give up a thing is a waste.

I actually think ares will be a huge stepping stone to getting some people interested in a no-client game. I know many people who never would ever have utilized browser stuff before and would have scoffed until they tried ares and now while it may or may not be their preference to have no client option, they would be fine doing that on something like ares because they've had a chance to use it and see that it is actually ok and not catastrophic to their experience.

I think probably at some point someone will make a web only thing. Had you asked me 15 years ago if I'd like something like ares I would have said no way. Said the same thing later on for real for any kind of trying to mush on mobile. But now I prefer ares specifically for the web interface that also allows me to comfortably mobile game.

While the leading up to no contact (or very specific contact only) can be stressful sometimes, and there's some stress during the testing period, honestly it feels so much better to have that person out of your life.

@arkandel no, as long as the text is there as the prime focus that would still ping as mu to me. If the interactions between characters and in story requires me to view pictures then that's where it falls off for me.

Its like the difference between a book and a movie, both are stories but one relies primary on visual, the other on text. Even though books can incorporate pictures, and movies can utilize text in their storytelling. There's even hybrids, like graphic novels, or what I've seen from many rpg video games as an observer (hubby and friends), where you do get to choose some of the direction of the text and that may be how the story is communicated if the studio didn't have a big voice actor budget, but the primary immersion is in the graphics.

Mushing for as long as I can remember has incorporated visuals sometimes, long before wiki people would make websites for characters or groups. So its not the fact that there are viewable images as the focus of the interaction.