Best posts made by Miss Demeanor

I'm biking back and forth to work (inclement weather excepting) and cutting down my snacking to help keep the calorie count lower. If my knees hold up, I may look at joining a gym.

This is why I dislike allowing people to play in the sphere they staff. Whether TL or Admin, that person has authority in the sphere. They are more likely to be taken seriously by another staffer than a random player that other staffer may or may not have any interaction with. Responsible people can handle it well, but lets be honest and recognize that the responsible people aren't the ones policies are made for. They're made for the people that will otherwise cheat or try to skirt around or take advantage. Yes, sometimes rules will adversely affect the good people. But that's the downside to having rules. Not just staff rules, rules. And frankly, I have seen far, far more instances of staff abusing their position for their own ends while utterly ignoring the rest of the sphere, than I have of conscientious staffers that will still put the sphere first.

@Luna Right??

Ehhhhhhhh.. there's slow and there's needlessly slow. If I'm not mistaken, Lithium made his/her character around the same time I made my alt wolf. My alt wolf has been approved and playing for... a week. Seven days as of today. So the same day my alt got approved, Lithium's only character added the one note fix that was asked of him/her... and then has gotten zero response.

I would say that's gripe-worthy, when the people you went through cgen with are out and RPing for a week while you're still waiting for a +approve because of a note. Jobs were told they would be slow... I've been hearing that since apping my first wolf. None of them have been that slow. I would hazard to say that Lithium's app fell through the cracks and they are now justifiably upset over it.

Edit to avoid double post:

@Cobaltasaurus I would absolutely agree that the game was rushed. I kinda feel bad for Wendigo because it seems like she bent to peer pressure to open the doors before the game was actually ready, and then pressured again to open alts before she could get a handle on the initial apps. So just... compounded mistakes on top of half-finished code on top of RL crazy. Its like Reno is cursed.

@Ghost Maximum Overdrive. Best soundtrack. Ever.

I'm firmly in the camp that believes House Rules should be kept minimal and aimed to fix only issues of clarity of RAW or transferal of medium. Yes, there are times where House Rules are necessary, but the bloat of unnecessary House Rules tends to cause as many or more problems than they were meant to fix.

@Thenomain As one of my friends continues to tell me... every time I actually stumble across a bit of the 'find Shaun' quest, my instinctive response is 'Who is this Shaun they want me to find?'.

@Sunny Insisting that things need to be House Ruled 'because they don't work', when in reality they do work (just not the way the staffer/player wants them to) is also downright stupid. Which I believe is what @Warma-Sheen is trying to express.

Yes, some House Rules are necessary for conversion from tabletop to MU*. If you try to tell me that every House Rule that was made for Haunted Memories, The Reach, and Fallcoast was absolutely necessary? I will laugh at you for forever.

Nobody has even once said that House Rules should never happen. Not once. Can we please stop trying to force that into anyone's post as though it can be used to refute everything they're saying? Actually... let me just...

There.

@Ganymede He was the only BRITISH part of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.

@Auspice said in MU Things I Love:

@TNP

I'm not your buddy, pal.

I'm not your 'pal', friend.

@tragedyjones I made my children sit down and watch a video of someone trying to connect, and stay connected, to the Internet through dial-up. Then I told them that if their chores didn't get completed in a timely fashion, I would put them on dial-up and change the cable/wifi password.

You know... this makes me want to go back and watch the original Buffy, The Vampire Slayer movie (and possibly the series) with that mindset. XD

As he should, @Jaded, as he should. Though I'll always remember him as The Tick. SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!

Give villains setups. And this will sound strange but... anyone that's seen the old 60's Adam West Batman movie? THAT is how you villain. Four big bads got together, concocted a plan, and that plan had multiple levels to it. Sure, lure Batman out to sea, try to get your trained sharks to eat him... but even as he escapes, you're pulling off the part of the plan that he doesn't even know about yet! Sit around a table bickering about who did what wrong.

"Well if YOU didn't have to leave your cursed riddles everywhere, he wouldn't have figured out where to go!"
"Well if your sharks had done their job, he wouldn't be a problem anymore!"

Etc. That sort of thing made me LOVE the villains. Not because they won, but because they made losing hilarious and fun! So yeah, 'Miss Kitka' turns out to be Catwoman and the plan falls to pieces and you're all thrown in jail... time to start plotting that awesome 'break out of jail' prp that will be sure to cause tons of lulz and have the heroes scratching their heads about how you managed to escape for the fiftieth time!

Not everything in superhero land needs, or even should, be super serious and gritty. Its based on comicbook world, you know, the place where primary colors and 'BIFF' and 'POW' ruled the day!

I had a cellphone at 15. One of the original Nokia's. I felt so cool, with my interchangeable face plates. >.>

Edit: Of course, by 17 I had run up a $300 bill and then I lost the cellphone.. but it was cool for a time!

@Arkandel Oh my God, no! I want to see all the small time shit that flies under superhero radar that villains MUST be doing in order to set up their more elaborate evil plans! Three tons of TNT isn't going to just appear... where did Joker get it? Was that robbery at the hardware store last week small time crooks or was Penguin stocking up on supplies for his next dastardly deed? I would LOVE to see 'day in the life' of a supervillain. The planning stages ALONE have to be hilarious, not to mention the henchmen meetings, the supplies gathering, the putting people into place and maneuvering that would need to be done before you can tip over that first domino and set off the chain reaction... that would be AMAZING.

FInding out that the AM in charge of scheduling is doing everything BUT the schedule, including micromanaging all the front end people and driving the CSM's insane with it.

@TwoGunBob You're running on the presumption that there's no oversight on any of this. It couldn't happen without some kind of oversight. Staff would want a heads up on any major plots going on, and individual scenes would still likely have a GM of some kind guiding it.

Upvotes for all the cat people! I like dogs, but they're basically signing on to take care of a toddler for 15-20 years. I have actual children, and I can verify that it is the best feeling in the world when you realize your kids no longer need you to chase after them everywhere they go, constantly picking up after them. Cats make the most sense. They clean themselves, they make less noise AND mess, they require only that I refill their food/water dishes on occasion and that I clean out their box once a week. When they want attention, they'll let me know, otherwise they leave me to do my thing.

@Auspice In part, you can also blame the asshole GM's of yesteryear for part of that. A lot of people that I know of, have learned to NOT chase down every little thing that seems 'out of place' or 'unusual', simply because of those sadistic fucks from the days of tabletop (and even earlier years of MUSHing) that would punish players for searching every nook and cranny for hidden clues/doorways/catches/etc. You learned quickly that if you 'wasted' the GM's time by investigating every little thing, you would suddenly incur the Wrath of Deus Ex Machina and find yourself facing some crazy shit like a Lich King in a dungeon full of kobolds and spiders.