I want to see a Pooh Bear running around the Hedge wearing Piglet's head as a hat and Tigger's pelt around his shoulders like a cloak... decorated with Owl's feathers and Eeyore's tail. Rabbit's Foot hanging around his neck like a grisly good luck charm. Kanga and Roo with him like a pair of vicious dogs, held back by chains and iron collars.
Winnie the Pooh meets Lord of the Flies. That's the Hedge I've always wanted to see and never got to experience.
@Thenomain said:
Your second concern is pants?!
He should be!! You can define decades by the cut of its jeans! 60's was bell-bottoms, 70's summoned forth polyester disco pants, 80's was high-waisted, acid-washed jeans, 90's was saggy wide-legged (think JNCO) jeans and/or ripped/torn up jeans (black was big, color-wise), 00's saw a huge rise in the 'boyfriend' cut, and the 00/10's ushered in the dreaded skinny jeans.
@aria I would be happy if so-called 'office blouses' didn't have such lowcut necklines that I feel like I should climb a pole. Since when did 'business casual' mean 'conservative stripper'?!?!
Also, fuck all these different sleeve lengths with the crazy cuffs. Regular cuffs or french cuffs, otherwise fuck off with that shit. And don't even get me started on how if I want a blouse that will fit my chest, it apparently means I should also have goddamn monkey arms that stretch out three feet. Apparently I am not allowed to be busty without being crazy tall and long-limbed.
@mietze Have an upvote for truth. You can nemesis it up all day long, both of you having fun and awesome times. But man, if the wrong friends catch wind of it, suddenly you've got a white hat up your ass 24/7 for 'bullying' their poor friend.
I'm gonna flat out call false advertising. 'Make whatever Star Wars character you want from your wildest imaginings! ... except anything that might fall under the label of Jedi or Sith. So, y'know.. the two major factions from the Star Wars universe that everyone wants to be part of. So basically, its Lords & Ladies in Space. Pass.
@saosmash I moved to Michigan from Florida. I haven't lived in a region with snow for more than a decade. And apparently my half-remembered skills learned while a teenager are still superior to people who have ostensibly lived in the state for more than three months.
Dual input isn't enough to make me learn a new client. Also, Potato spawn windows are kinda... stupid. All 
for the SimpleMU spawns!
@Coin See, that would be awesome. I dunno, when I think of a Star Wars MU* that I would -want- to play on, I always look to SWTOR first. I know, I know, MMO's.. but at least that game lets you PICK what you want to play. You want to be a Dark Side loving Rattataki Jedi Consular? Do it. You want to be a Light Side basking Twi'lek Sith Assassin? World's your oyster, make it so! You want to play Han Solo or Finn or quite literally ANY OTHER POSSIBLE TYPE OF HERO/VILLIAN? You can.
Sure, there would be chaos, there would be bickering and in-fighting... but that's how factions actually behave and function. So I don't really see that as a problem so much as how its supposed to be.
Okay, chiming in as a mom!
I have never breastfed my kids in public. I'm just not personally comfortable with whipping out my boobs unless large quantities of alcohol are involved. That said, I have nothing against women that DO breastfeed in public. They should, however, expect that at least occasionally, people are going to glance at them. Its human nature. If you're looking around and your brain suddenly goes 'BOOB!', you're going to go for a second look, if only to verify. So yeah, A++ to that Starbucks barista, I'd have tipped her too.
As far as noisy kids in theaters go? I've been that mom that's had to drag a kid out of a movie because they were being squirmy and loud. Yeah, it sucks cause you paid money to see the movie, but you also took that risk by dragging your kid along. So fuck those parents that let their kids run wild in public, ANY public. Corral your goddamn crotchspawn or stay the fuck home like the other respectable parents do. I've lost count of the number of times I've had to leave a place because my ADHD kid is being... ADHD. Being in public doesn't give him the right to run around screaming anymore than it gives me the right to expect everyone else to just put up with it.
TLDR; Being anywhere in public, even a beach or park, is not license to allow your child(ren) to run hog wild, annoying the shit out of everyone else.
I have something that niggles at me about running a scene for your own character and I'm trying to find a way to put it that doesn't sound accusatory, because I don't think anyone here is actively doing this.
If you are a sphere lead, or headstaff, someone that's a leader even among staff... there's an inherent perception issue with running one's own plots for your character. Namely... if you put in a job to gain approval for a scene that you are running for your character... who is going to tell you no if there's something in that pitched prp that's 'too much'? At that point, you're the one in charge. Who's going to risk angering 'the boss' by telling them they're going too far? Its definitely a bit more sticky of a situation than when 'just a player' is asking for a prp.
(Using the empirical you in this case, again, I don't think anyone here is doing this, but I've found it's a relatively common perception when someone in charge is asking for something for their own character.)
@faraday There's some truth to your statement. But you're also, I feel, ignoring a very important part of what's being said. Its not that there's AN antagonistic character, or even A FEW antagonistic characters. Its that some people are finding (or have found, for those of us no longer/not playing) that EVERY interaction is antagonistic, often unreasonably so. So no, it won't fit EVERY character. But if you have a show that has a good dozen Bellamy's and 3 or 4 Murphy's, and those are who you consistently run into because they happen to be the active people... you're not likely going to watch that show for long since it tends to be a neverending stream of backstabbing, arguing, yelling, terribleness. If you'll notice, the show itself doesn't do that for a reason. They keep a certain, SMALL number of 'main' antagonists around. And when a new one shows up, an old one either goes away or gets killed.
See: Murphy being kidnapped and effectively disappearing during the entire Grounders intro. He shows back up to start causing trouble again right before the last big confrontation with the Grounders (at least in the early portion of the show, I frankly got bored with the neverending idiocy of the characters and stopped watching).
@auspice My direct supervisor even admitted to me the other day that I'm doing a job that would normally be spread out amongst 2-3 people, with a few additional duties tacked on. That every other warehouse in our district? I would be only doing one of the three 'main' things that I'm doing.
I can't speak to the Changeling hybrid since I never played Dreaming... I do like the idea of meshing crunchy rulesets and mechanics from CoD with themes and settings from cWoD. I miss Pentex. I miss having a very prominent Big Bad that united people under a single cause. The Wyld, Wyrm, Weaver triad was interesting, but not nearly so much as the more visceral Good vs Evil struggle of Werewolves vs Pentex. The fact that Pentex was the Umbrella Corp. of its day made it all the better. It was EVERYWHERE, the Taint permeated almost everything to some degree. You had a tangible enemy to struggle against. Whether you won or lost, there was something that needed to be done!
@Kanye-Qwest I think its being brought up because people believe said staff alts seem to be very central, integral characters to everything that happens in the game, rather than say, handing that sort of role off to another PC that might want to do something similar.
Mind, grain of salt. This is what I've cobbled together from reading the thread.
Hovering behind me is my big 'do not do' thing. It legit freaks me out and ramps my anxiety up tenfold if there's someone just... lurking around behind me looking over my shoulder. I had to tell my boss to stop it because it makes me nervous. Not because its him, but just.. A person standing behind me.
WoD/CoD games are definitely the frontrunner for creeptastic happenings. Because yes, its written into the system for said things to happen. What makes it an issue is that despite all the policies and statements and assurances that you as a player can totally choose to FTB and simply work out the aftermath OOCly, or if the harassment is OOC that you can always leave the scene/room/etc., complaints are rarely taken as seriously as they should be. Now, I feel the responsibility for this needs to be shared amongst staff and players. For the staff that do care and want to help... they'll never know something is wrong if people don't say anything. For the players (like myself) that are jaded and cynical and think nothing will come of it? That's been earned through hard experience of exactly that happening. Not just once or twice, but over and over again.
Hunter sphere on FC is suffering this right now. There is a single player that is so obnoxious, annoying, harassing, and otherwise assholish that he has single-handedly managed to largely kill the sphere. Why? Because he's always there. He's the first to jump into an event when it goes up, he's constantly on channel... and nobody wants to have to deal with him anymore. But... so few people are willing to speak up about his behavior that staff response probably seemed non-existent to the players. So there's staff, thinking things must be fine since nobody's complaining... and there's the playerbase thinking that saying something won't matter because staff didn't appear to do anything to him the first time around. It becomes a perpetual cycle that kills the sphere for everyone. Plot quickly dried up since the plot runners never wanted to have to deal with him more than once but nobody felt they were allowed to kick him out of their PRP's. Without plot, RP quickly fell to the BaRP curse as people got tired of socializing and just drifted away to other spheres or even other games. Now the channel is often silent since nobody wants to have to hear X trumpeting about all the time, RP is scarce and is often just '3 people in a private room' type of RP for fear that a public scene will draw him out, and players are getting frustrated and/or leaving more easily/often.
So yeah, the harassment thing is kinda a double-edged sword. Yes, there needs to be staff willing to take action against these types of players. But first there still needs to be players willing to stand up and say something. And not just once, either. We kinda have to accept that most types of general harassment or asshole behavior will be dealt with in the '3 strikes' format. So every time this person acts out, it needs to be documented and spoken out about (in proper format), so staff can take the proper steps. And keep in mind, I am not staff on FC (I was actually turned down when I applied to help out), and I am one of the people that largely drifted away because I removed myself from the situation rather than wait for other people to speak up about it as well.
@lordbelh I wasn't talking about characters in that instance, I was talking about players. If your fun, as a player, is SO dependent on being able to be a dick to anyone, anywhere, anytime... to the point that you can't accept toning down your character's IC attitude just a little so others can enjoy the game too? Then yes, you're an asshole. But that's something you have to answer for yourself.
Counter Peeve: Are people really so sensitive you can't just say 'hey, that outfit doesn't work for what we're doing'? Seriously? We have to find ways to say it that doesn't hurt their feelings? Fuck that. I have little time and less patience to concoct winding, rambly phrases that avoids blaming the person who chose the outfit despite knowing which activity was going to be taking place just because their delicate psyche can't handle it. I do not sugarcoat for adults. Real world, people, get used to being bluntly told you did something stupid/silly/shouldn't have done. Accept it and go change your goddamn outfit so we can get to where we're going or someone else is probably going to bitch that we're late.
@Arkandel I'll call bullshit on that. If you're only ever participating in scenes where everything goes how you want it to go... that's really no different than ignoring the things you don't like just because you don't like them. Accept that bad shit will probably happen to your character and you will not be able to stop it. Stop trying to cater to the 'sensitive' people that can't handle having things beyond their control happen. I don't want to take 4 agg from the nasty Gangrel that I'm in combat against... its not going to be super fun, I'll hate it... but I'll do it because that's how the game works.
@ThatGuyThere Ask staff on TR, or even Reno 2.0 if they have the time to come mediate every social interaction where one side doesn't like what the other side is doing. Go ahead, I'll wait.
@GirlCalledBlu A sandbox, in this case, would mean a game that is meant to cater largely to the people running it, and their friends/RP buddies' preferences.
An open, public game is just that. Its open to -everyone-, and should be run as such (to the best of staff's ability/as much as the theme of the game itself will allow).
If the theme of your game is so strictly enforced to be not just accepting of, but encouraging of IC behavior that is likely to drive people away from the game, or keep them from joining in the first place? Then you're running a sandbox advertising itself as an open game.
Mind, I don't knock either type of game, I've been part of both types... but the sandbox games were very clearly marked as such, with clear warnings that certain types of behavior would be prevalent, or at least common enough that not everyone may be interested in it.
Given that your advertisement says that its okay if you haven't seen the show, I suspect you mean to run an open game. HOWEVER, given how openly antagonistic the show is towards its own characters, you may want to caveat that the game has a higher than usual level of IC PVP/antagonism to be found. It can be shocking to someone new to a theme if they aren't prepared for what that theme entails. Lord knows it was a shock to me, especially since I'd had assurances that PVP was NOT being pushed on anyone, then immediately had every scene with at least one person deriding or maligning my character. Often for little more than offering a dissenting opinion from the popular one that seemed largely derived from OOC excitement to push the plot of the show forward quickly.