Posts made by Miss Demeanor

@DownWithOPP said in Dead Celebrities: 2017 Edition:

Michael Parks - Character Actor. May never be as popular as some others, but had a damned long and nice career with some of the greats.

Earl McGraw, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Barghest!

Judas

N'Zoth!

Lapis!

JARVIS!

@Ghost Oh FFS... did you READ what was WRITTEN? I agreed with you you jackass. Just not on the count that one would roll a skill attached to coding and software engineering for being able to navigate Google and wikipedia.

Cardiff!

@Ghost This is going to be nitpicky as HELL, so... fair warning.

Computer 0 does not prevent some schlub with a library card and access to a shitty Dell with shitty internet access from Googling 'Anarchists Cookbook' or 'homemade bombs'. The Computer skill deals almost solely with one's ability to code, crack codes, graphic design, etc. It is not a measurement of your ability to surf the Net. Any 10 year old with a tablet can look that stuff up. That's not to say there wouldn't still be a ROLL, but trying to say in modern day that someone is incapable of looking something up through Google without a roll is just as ridiculous as the idiot claiming he can track someone successfully because someone posted a 'how to track someone' on a website. Practical application of any set of directions is rarely as easy as the directions would suggest. Unless you're talking Ikea. That shit is ridiculous in theory AND practice. I would demand an MS in engineering for that.

I have had cats that have taken on Rottweilers and lived to tell the tale (but that cat was just a beast anyways, I miss that furry scrap of awesome)... my current two cats?

......BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Yeahno. These cats don't even GO outside, let alone have interactions with dogs. If someone tells me 'hey, my dog has a prey drive', my response is 'please do not bring them to my house that is my cats' only safe space'.

You don't TRY to pit your 8 pound cat against a 40+ pound hunting machine. That's called animal cruelty and I will report a motherfucker.

Prurient Perfume is a Possessed Vestment. Not a merit.

@Ghost Actually, I would say you have that reversed. The games tend to be upstream of MSB and what is happening in them is what is trickling down into MSB. You see the behavior that is already occurring on the games being brought to MSB, not vice-versa.

@Ghost said in MSB: The meta-discussion:

The defense rests, your honor.

Please do. Haven't you ever wondered why shows and movies with supposedly utopian settings always end with 'and then someone was corrupt and someone else blew it apart and then things got back to being normal'. Utopic societies do not exist. At best you get a dystopia like Star Trek or Firefly or Waterworld or Judge Dredd or Blade Runner or, or, or... I could go on for days with references to this. We as human beings are incapable of being 100% nice all the time. We are not wired for it. And frankly, I would rather see shit getting spewed out here than keeping it bottled up to where it gets spewed out onto someone's rl.

Vitriol on, MSB. Get it out in the format specifically set up to be that pressure release valve.

@Ghost Yeah, that's great. Except that is not how reviews work. Seriously. Go onto Amazon. Pick a product and look at the reviews. Maybe 20% of either the good and bad reviews are about something wrong with the actual product that provides pictures, references, or some form of 'proof' or about something right with the actual product that delves any deeper than 'I like it because it works for me'. The other 80% is just people bitching/raving about the product either because something took too long, something was 'too complicated', the product didn't last for 10 years despite being made of plywood, etc. or because they joined a club that lets them get products super cheap in exchange for leaving a positive review on the site, they get a discount for writing it, there's nothing obviously wrong with it (and they got it two days ago), etc.

That is just how humanity works. Get over it. You aren't going to get your perfect world, and haranguing people to 'be better' is both futile and frankly, self-righteous. You have no pedestal to stand on, your house is just as glassy and fragile as ours. So either do the work and sift through all the bullshit like any good consumer would to find out what is really going on... or go find somewhere that will cater to your need to hear only the good and happy things in some mythical perfect world where nothing ever goes wrong and nobody is ever an asshole. This is not it. It will never be it. And you really just sound like an ass trying to make people behave how you want them to.

@Ghost Have you considered that some of the negative responses offered are because some people simply did not have anything good to say about it? I'm not trying to imply that this is the case here, I know nothing about Electric Soup. But trying to force positive response into a negative experience often just comes off as the person sounding like a self-righteous tool. I had this happen recently, actually, irl.

I was driving to work in the car I had just gotten earlier that week. Roads are clear, its early, there's almost NO traffic because its 7:30am on Good Friday. Suddenly there's a car that comes screaming down the road, in the left lane, that cuts across right in front of me to make a turn down a side street. Being a sensible person that does not want to be in a horrific accident, I hit my brakes and turn the wheel sharply to avoid T-boning this asshole. The result is the sidewall of my rear passenger tire blows out completely. Not just a pop, not a puncture. It BLOWS OUT. So I pull into the nearest lot I can find, call a tow truck, call work, call the auto shop, and call my mother to see if she can give me a ride to work because hey! that car she JUST GAVE ME is going to be in the shop today! I wait for the tow truck, when it shows, this guy has a dog in the cab of his truck that apparently HATES PEOPLE. It is snarling and snapping at me the entire ride to the auto shop. The driver just keeps pulling the dog closer to him and telling me to 'not worry about it'. We get to the shop, my car is unloaded, my mom meets me there. I speak with the mechanic, let him know what needs to be done. Mind, this guy already knows I'm coming, told me he could get me RIGHT IN. The owner of the shop appears while the mechanic is dealing with my car. And HE starts going on about how LUCKY I am and how I should be looking on the 'bright side' because it could have been 'much worse'. I'm about to fork over $600 to get three tires (because hey, apparently two of them were at the end of their lifespan anyways), I am late to a job that is SUPER ANAL about people being on time to work, and the bulk of my savings has just flown out the window. But yeah, sure guy who doesn't know me, tell me all about how LUCKY I am that it isn't worse. How GRATEFUL I should be right now and how I should look on the 'bright side'. Fuck that guy. That savings was supposed to help me get into an apartment this summer so I could finally be independent again, five years after a nasty divorce. That car was my first real sign of independence and that I was getting somewhere. That was NOT a positive experience, and the fact that I SURVIVED it does not make me 'feel better' about its occurring. That's like saying 'Congratulations, you have managed to not die today despite being a healthy adult human! You shouldn't let this terrible experience that has set you back by months interfere with the fact that you can do something 8 billion other people can do, too!' Yeah, sure.. I can say I survived a terrible game. But if that's the best thing I can say about it? Then yes, my opinion of that game is going to be 'it sucked, it was horrible, x, y, and z are why it was a horrible place of suck'. Sometimes there isn't a nice thing TO say about something, and frankly, I want to know about the bad experiences and shitstorms that have occurred on a game. I wouldn't discount bad reviews of an item I'm looking at investing my time, money, and energy into just because 'its negative and unhelpful'... why would I do so with a game that I'm looking at investing my time and energy into?

tldr; Sometimes you need to see the bad along with the good so you can make the most informed decision of what you will choose to do with your time and energy. Hearing nothing but the good will never help anyone anymore than hearing nothing but the bad will. I want something like the Hog Pit so I can see both sides of the game, and use those 'reviews' to decide if that's somewhere that I want to be.

https://moviepilot.com/posts/3867140

Arthur Anderson, aka Eustace Bagg.

I still love Courage the Cowardly Dog.

@EmmahSue said in MSB: The meta-discussion:

Also, HR says he's working on the Stanley Parable achievement for MSB. He's not likely to rejoin anytime soon (I believe someone wondered, up above somewhere).

ES

Presumably the 'Go outside' achievement? I'm fairly certain its not the one that requires him to spend an entire Tuesday on MSB. XD

@surreality YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS. PIRATES!

@Thenomain You know, I have never played a 7th Sea game, but i have had so many friends tell me how amazing it is that I would absolutely try it. Also... pirates. God I would kill for a good pirate game. I WANT TO BE A PIRATE DAMMIT.

Huh... so, okay, I guess being one of the Top 10 posters... most of my MU* experience is from WoD games. At the time I picked up MU*ing, WoD games were the most active and most talked about. But I found after a few years that there were other types of games out there. And I have tried many of them! WoD is easy to reference because it is one of the few systems that damn near everybody will recognize. I think it has nothing to do with WoD being 'better' (it isn't, oh God it so isn't) than any other system and has a lot to do with it just being so widely recognizable.

As @surreality said... if you go 'oh yeah, my system will work like WoD for X and Y' the majority of the people on this board will know what you are talking about. Even people that don't often or haven't played WoD have picked up on it simply because it gets brought up so often. Fate, d20, etc. just aren't as widely known yet. Now, this may change as I believe a number of games are in the works that will use Fate/FS3.. but WoD is still the 'everyone knows this system' go-to for referencing how something works or how it relates in a way that the broadest category of people can understand.