Posts made by Miss Demeanor

@tinuviel Exactly. A cup of coffee while I'm getting dressed and I'm good to go.

https://vitals.lifehacker.com/it-doesnt-matter-when-you-eat-1787711505?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=Vitals_facebook

This is like my saving grace. For DECADES I have had to listen to people nag at me for not eating breakfast. 'Its the most important meal of the day!' 'It will kickstart your metabolism!' None of which help when I can only respond with 'I'm sorry but I really am just NOT hungry in the morning AT ALL'. And I don't mean that kind of 'not hungry' where you could actually stand to eat a little... I mean, I wake up feeling full and eating in the morning risks putting me into the 'I'm now tired and slow from having overeaten' category. A cup of coffee and a bottle of water to sip on through the morning is really all I need. Lunch is when I'll start eating.

@thenomain Agent of Chaos is that trope that's like Evil Dickhead. Its SUPER hard to find a player that can do the trope justice. More often it just comes off as some half-assed juvenile bullshit. Which is sad, because when played well, MAN do I loves those tropes.

@aria The last place I worked, I tried doing that. And I was told it was 'unprofessional'. Hence my grr-ness over it. Thankfully, this new job I just accepted? Jeans, hoodies, steeltoes. I get to be COMFORTABLE again! And get paid more.

@ganymede Do you have the big hair and the 50's dress with the bullet bra and everything?

@ashen-shugar Psh, Russian Kazatsky... in here we do the Mamushka upon landing! Get your knives and sashes!

@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.

@ashen-shugar Yeah but... that person actually has a parachute! That wuss. We jump in with big smiles and nothing else.

@thenomain said in Hey you motherfuckers.:

@miss-demeanor

Hi. My name is Thenomain and I’m a tweed robot coding in an outdated, outmoded, word salad of a coding language.

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@peverel This IS the rehab for WORA-ites.

Hello, welcome to the weekly meeting of WORA-A. Why don't you introduce yourself to the group and maybe share a little about yourself for those that are new to our little family?

@auspice I may try to con my man into buying it for me. XD I made some chorizo fundido that I can use for bribery.

@kanye-qwest I'd say more YMMV. I played an absolutely horrible bitch of a vampire on TR. But everyone was aware that it was IC. But part of it may have been that I absolutely let her be wrong, and publicly so. She was a beatstick, a dog on a chain, but man, she'd bark her damn head off if she had an opinion. I still snicker to this day that she ran the only Elysium in town for awhile. Folks either loved or hated how she ran it.

I'm probably late to this party but... The Orville has been surprisingly good! A great mix between drama and comedy with just enough kinda romantic subplot to keep things interesting.

@auspice Maaaaaaaaaaaaan... I want that game so bad. But I be a broke bitch til the 1st. XD

@ganymede If it helps, I absolutely adored Victor Fries from B:TAS. He was one of the few truly relatable villains in the Batman stable.

@auspice I don't have that many items on my wishlist. XD

@thenomain I got an email today. 17 items on your wishlist are on sale.

...shit

Double-post for missing this first time around.

@derp I prefer to treat players I don't know as if they aren't mouthbreathing morons or manipulative fucks regardless of what character they play. If someone isn't capable of separating the player from the character (their own OR someone else's), that's reached an unhealthy level of escapism and they should probably not be on a game in the first place.

But I'm also of the old school that remembers when losing a character happened at least once a week, if not once a session! I always keep a backup concept at the ready. Shit happens, that's what makes these games fun. Deadly stakes are just an occupational hazard.

@three-eyed-crow Actually, I believe my theory still holds up. Joffrey didn't have reasons to interact with others. He forced himself onto others at a constant rate, even when they clearly did not want him around. Much of Ramsay's 'one-note boring' attitude can be put to the fact that he was having to stay in one place that was very far removed from King's Landing (ie. center of Westeros). And even then, he still had normal dealings with people. He had entire scenes where he didn't flip out and scream and lose his shit at people. You even see him being put under the harsh pressure of living up to his father's expectations (until he killed him). That's what makes him such a good villain. He could lay low, play the long game. He wasn't a screaming toddler forcing his way into Every. Fucking. Scene. possible, whether people wanted him there or not. But he was unutterably cruel and evil and it showed in so many small ways.

Ramsay had reason to interact with others, especially once he took over Winterfell, and he did. Joffrey, however, forced everyone around him to make him the center of attention, 100% of the time. Tell me, as a player, how often would you really want to be forced to kowtow to some snivelling little shit that demands you dance to his tune or you will PAY... whether you agree to it or not. How long would your well-planned and thought-out character really stick around for that level of constant heaping abuse that reduces you to little more than an object for his amusement from a spoiled child-king?

I don't have any inherent problem with a weird, obnoxious, or creepy character on a game. They actually tend to be some of the more interesting folk you can interact with, provided you can retain a level of detachment from your own character. Stuff will happen around those characters. It won't always be good things, but it will be interesting and can be fun! I would much rather see a moratorium on 'super social butterflies that host endless inane parties that provide little to no use beyond granting the player extra xp for "running a scene" so they can then buy stats that make no logical sense for the character to have in the first place' than on the Rick Sanchez's and Ramsay Bolton's. But those types of characters tend to be small in number in the first place. You don't get Ramsay Bolton, you get Joffrey Baratheon. You don't get Rick Sanchez, you get Jerry. A Ramsay Bolton character will create drama in a GOOD way, with player consent and understanding of a farther reaching goal (ie. the player knows that in the end he will lose and die horribly, but that he is there to provoke certain outcomes or promote certain types of character growth). A Joffrey Baratheon will fling his shit everywhere and scream at the top of his lungs how unfair everything is. Both characters are monsters and horrifying on multiple levels. One is being portrayed by a player that knows what they are doing, understands what their part is, and while bad things will happen? They will happen off-screen. The other is being portrayed by a whiny brat player that can't understand why the world isn't revolving around them and thinking that the humiliation of others is the height of hilarity. They will publicize their horrors.

And that is really the difference. I don't think there's really any bad character types beyond maybe having too many of a certain type. There's just either good or shitty players behind them.

Also, yes, I put Rick Sanchez in there. He's an objectively terrible human being that is utterly horrifying to his family... and yet people love the shit out of him. Because he plays well. He does things in a manner that appeals to us as players (or viewers).