Best posts made by Miss Demeanor

@Silver said:

http://www.tickld.com/x/something-indiana-jones-and-darth-vader-have-kept-secret-this-whole-time

That is the most awesome thing I have seen today!

From what little I understand of hearing you guys talk about coding... yes, yes it is. Code does what IT wants until you bribe it into temporary submission and it WILL get you back for that thing that you did to it five years ago.

@RDC Beast is definitely not for thee faint of heart. But damn is it a great book!

@silentsophia said:

@Derp Yeah, but this is still no excuse for being a dick when you don't need to be.

Agreed. But bluntness is often taken as 'being a dick'. Just because I don't cater to the delicate flowers does not mean I'm being a dick. It means I have bigger things to worry about than if someone can 'handle' their own dumb choices being pointed out to them. Catering to that sort of behavior just encourages more of that sort of behavior.

@surreality The biggest issue I have with what you're saying is that you're taking a few sentences in the start of the WoD/CoD books and waving them about like a Get Out of Jail Free card.

Yes, the book states you can change whatever doesn't work for you... in the context of a small group setting in which everyone can relatively easily agree upon what will be changed and how. Blanket applying that statement to the entire gameline as its being translated to MUSHes is about as ridiculous as expecting there to be no House Rules ever, at all. Its the opposing ends of the spectrum.

No House Rules Ever means the game will have areas where it fails hard and no way to fix it. It will lead to frustration and disgruntlement, and the best you can do is shrug and tell people to deal with it.

Do Whatever I Want Because the Book Says I Can leads to the game becoming so bloated with House Rules that its barely recognizable as a game and expects far more effort from its players to keep up with an ever-expanding body of House Rules.

This is where TR and FC failed (partly, anyways). They both quickly became a 'if I don't like the way this works, I'll just whine til they change it' free-for-all, no matter how much it fucked over the people that were actually playing by the RAW. More than half of the House Rules on both games are utterly unnecessary, add little to nothing to the game, and could easily have been solved simply by telling someone 'this is how it works per the book, follow it'.

tldr; House Rules for the sake of House Rules are confusing at best and actively thumb their noses at players at the worst. The books were written entirely within the context of a small group of dedicated players (including the part that says to change whatever you want).

@Thenomain You're absolutely right in one respect. She did not manage the wholesale takeover that she did on TR. She could have, only she made (as Bond movies love to say) a fatal error. She pissed off Loki and Koi too early. Call it her learning experience. She got better after that.

And my 'hate on' as you call it? Is having watched her across a number of years become the lynchpin that brings a sphere crashing to the ground. She's not a 'game killer' or even necessarily a 'sphere killer'. I can't recall a single time her BS has actually killed anything. Even on TR, the spheres limped along and recovered after she was finally booted. But she is someone who can single-handedly drive away the players you want to keep while simultaneously filling it with her mouth-breathing sycophants (and yes, we were ALL there at some point. Me. You. Bobby Joe. That weird guy down the street who smells like cheese. All of us have taken a whirl on the 'Spider apologist/defender/whatever' train. I could make an utterly terrible town bike analogy, but I'll refrain) and sucking the life and fun out of a sphere until it hits a point where she looks around and realizes there's nobody else watching her be 'awesome'.

HM? That was her test run. So yes, she couldn't pull what she did on TR. But it wasn't any of us that prevented it. You can thank Loki for that one. There was no ingratiating back in at that point. After she'd pissed those two off, she had nowhere else to go because Loki and Koi were the end all/be all in staffing. And even they never actually banned her. They just let her linger on like some malignant tumor until TR opened and she went off to fresh hunting grounds. But.. since you left pretty quickly after the war, I don't expect you to remember any of this. You weren't there for it, after all.

Boob money is better than junk money. As someone who's worked a gas station in Florida (where men can totally come in wearing a goddamn speedo and flipflops)... boob money is SO MUCH BETTER.

@Insomnia That's what I figured. Also, damned hard to find a good 5 blade women's razor that isn't surrounded by 'moisturizing soap strips' or whatever the fuck garbage they're pushing these days.

@Ganymede said in Where's your RP at?:

@Miss-Demeanor said in Where's your RP at?:

Not accepting stupid character death based on your own decisions and dice rolls is very much saying 'no, I choose not to accept the rules as they are, I don't want to be done so I refuse to play the game by the rules'.

So, you'd be okay if, let's say, I played a Vampire Sheriff, and you played a neonate, and I think you looked at me funny, which you didn't, so I went and slaughter-killed you with some staff-granted relic that does +5A damage to vampires.

Right?

Given that none of that resulted from my own decisions and rolls, probably not. But nice try at misinterpretation! You may need to fix your learning curve software, 'bot.

Tangent Peeve:

To the asshole that thought reading a Kindle book was more important than driving...

FUCK YOU. You nearly hit three cars before running a red light and missed slamming into a fourth only by the graces of the other driver's reflexes! PUT YOUR GODDAMN PHONE DOWN.

@faraday But they don't. Not always. Look at interviews with some of the most famous authors of today. They will freely tell you that often, the narrative runs away from them and what they had intended. That characters will do unexpected things. That stories will turn out differently. And a MU* is NOT a book OR a tv show, and trying to equate it to one is a fallacy. Also, even if you were going to equate it to tv... you aren't the writer OR the director. You're either the viewer or the actor, neither of whom will likely know the character is going to bite it until an episode or two before it happens, or the episode itself. The actors have zero say in when or how it happens. And we the viewers complain CONSTANTLY if we have an episode 'spoiled' for us by telling us what happens before we get to watch it.

@Alamias grins I miss Kaleb. He was fun to ruffle.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Dammit, I liked Rowdy Roddy!!

Okay, since this is still continuing.... if people are so against character death... why are people playing on non-consent games, where you can, in fact, lose your character for nothing more than a bad dice roll? So far as I know, none of the active MU*s at this time are consent-based. So... what gives?

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand this is why I work from home.

@Arkandel My initial comment was 'need a game that involves actual risk of character death/dismemberment/getting your shit jacked/etc.'... and it got responded to as if nothing but PC death had been mentioned. So I have stopped giving fucks about being told that I am cherry-picking.

To paraphrase Jim Broadbent...

First Lemmy, now Bowie. sigh We've reached an age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.

I would KILL for a Fallout-themed game. You can be a Wastelander, a Vault person, a Raider, a... <insert many different types here>, and you all have to find ways to co-exist and co-habitate... or you can try to sneakyplots the downfall of your fellow survivors so your group will REIGN SUPREME! Or just whatever.

Ummmmm... in the areas here in Florida that -have- bike lanes? Its a BIG no-no to put your car into the bike lane. Right turn or not. As in, cops will pull you over in a heartbeat for reckless endangerment if you pull your car into the bike lane.

I recommend Dunkin' Donuts. They make a surprisingly good cup of coffee.

@Insomnia And set on fire. In space. Then pelted with meteors. Then captured by aliens and probed until there's nothing left.

I work as a cashier, service desk associate, -and- CSM at Wal-Mart. I wear a nametag every day. All my workers and supervisors, right up to the Store Manager, have to wear nametags. To this day, unless they tell me otherwise, I call them 'Miss/Mrs./Mr. <name>'. Because its polite. No matter who I'm dealing with. If I don't have a name, sir or ma'am/miss. People will call ME by name, but I would much rather have someone do that than tell me one more time 'oh if it doesn't ring up its free, haha' or 'wow, you must be a general with all those buttons'. Because I don't hear that ALL THE TIME.

Also, people who pile up EVERYTHING at the very far end of the belt despite there being yards of open space between you and the person in front of you? FUCK YOU. You're being a douche.

Same goes to the asshole answering a phone call when I'm trying to ask you a question/take payment from you/HELPING YOU FIX YOUR FUCKING PROBLEM THAT WAS YOUR FAULT IN THE FIRST PLACE.

Oh, and if you ask me where the bathrooms are, and we're standing FIVE FEET FROM THE CLEARLY MARKED BATHROOMS, you have lost all right to get huffy when I simply point to said clearly marked door. At that point, I am not speaking because if I do, the snark will not be held back.

Bonus points if you come directly to the service desk in an attempt to pick up your online order, completely missing the GIANT BIOHAZARD ORANGE paint with the five foot tall 'PICK UP HERE' sign on it.

Oh, and if you come into the CLEARLY not a superstore and get pissed that we're not, in fact, a superstore and thus do not have a full grocery section? Eat a bag of dicktits.

I could go on. >.>