Posts made by Miss Demeanor

@livia I played a few different people! Dita, Alexis, and Odie all had contact with the pack at one time or another! Dita was in it!

Zelda! I remember yooooooou! You were the chill one of the pack and I missed the few times we got to hang out!

@tributary said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@miss-demeanor said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@tributary And now I know you live south of the Mason-Dixon line. XD But yes. Publix always has ham. At least three types. Deli meat (sammiches), steak/boneless (for meals), and sausage/bacon (breakfast!).

They didn't have two of the brands of boneless ham I asked for, and rather than ask if I wanted deli ham instead (FUCKING YES), she just checked out. WITHOUT ANY FUCKING HAM. THE HAM MY HUSBAND WAS GOING TO EAT FOR DINNER TONIGHT, WHICH IS WHY WE GOT GROCERIES DELIVERED, THANKYOUVERYMUCH. AUGH!

I both sympathize and... well. Hehehhe

@tributary And now I know you live south of the Mason-Dixon line. XD But yes. Publix always has ham. At least three types. Deli meat (sammiches), steak/boneless (for meals), and sausage/bacon (breakfast!).

@tinuviel I call it 'old as fuck'... but sure, whatever floats your boat, cupcake.

@ortallus said in Random links:

@arkandel said in Random links:

Good read.

https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-pop-culture-obsessed-with-battles-between-good-and-evil

"pop-culture"? Shit, that story is as old as stories are. Iliad comes immediately to mind.

Still pop culture! Just ancient pop culture.

@jaded said in General Video Game Thread:

@auspice
The Witcher 1has an odd combat control method that at the time they probably thought was innovative. And it is true, once you get out of the prologue of the game it picks up and gets a lot more interesting storywise but all the complaints I ever hear is the combat is not intuitive and is the biggest obstacle of enjoyment to the game.

Quoted for truth. I have been consistently asked by gamer friends why I haven't played the Witcher series, and teased or sometimes derided for my response stating that the first two games turned me so off to the series that I refuse to pick up the 3rd despite its rave reviews. The first one had terrible controls, the second wasn't much better (IMO, YMMV), and I now have zero interest in throwing good money after bad after having invested in the first two that have the rare distinction of not even being installed in my Steam Library. I have Mahjong Roadshow installed on Steam even after having beaten it 5 times. That is my level of 'nope' with the Witcher franchise.

@wildbaboons Maybe the Pathfinder stuff, but Starfinder is brand new. Not sure it still falls under the open licensing.

@bobotron That's fair! They went through DTRPG with Pathfinder and you can find those books everywhere for pirating so it makes sense.

@rnmissionrun Yeah, not sure why DriveThruRPG hasn't picked up Paizo as a publisher yet. Until then, the website can be a bit of a pain, but the product is worth it.

@faraday Agreed, which is why I think Starfinder is the better choice, really. Its not Firefly, but it can give you that same feel of adventure and grouping up with friends to go do a thing. It also allows for things to be done between doing The Things. You can stop on a station or world, talk to folks, have some drinks, resupply. There's a D&D MU that's been running for a few years now that's done pretty well for itself despite D&D being largely considered 'only for tabletop'. I'd hazard its because its a game where the expectation is there will be Things (ie. plots) to do, but also the option for smaller things to do between The Things. Unlike with Firefly, where you are completely split up into only crews and their ships, and its thematic that you don't really do anything outside of them... Starfinder offers you the chance to go do a solo thing too. But, as mentioned previously, I'm biased towards it. So YMMV.

@faraday I will absolutely agree about the Firefly bit. It relies almost entirely on ships and crews to go anywhere/do anything. I think Starfinder has a little more accessibility if only because it is really just D&D in space. So yes, you can have a crew and be on a ship OR you can be a merchant that travels around from planet to planet OR you can be a mercenary gun for hire OR you could be an Envoy of your species, trying to make contact and form alliances with others, etc. You don't HAVE to constantly be on a ship and there are smaller shuttlecraft and the like that you can use if you are part of a crew and they aren't online and you want to do a thing. So you aren't as tied in place.

That said, yes, in general I would agree that they are definitely better for and more aimed at tabletop where you have a single group. Also, I have to admit that I'm biased. I got the Starfinder book recently and its just baller. I'm loving the setting, the races, the classes... but I'm also one of those people that likes a little Shadowrun in my Firefly, and Starfinder gives me that.

My big issue clothing is jeans. I inevitably have to wear guy's jeans because apparently in women's jeans having broad hips also means being fucking 6 feet tall. Thankfully I have been carefully cultivating my collection of JNCO jeans (DON'T YOU JUDGE ME!) and now have a solid three pairs of jeans and two pairs of shorts. I have a pair of guy's Levi's jeans to help round that out for the time being, but I'm hoping eventually to just replace all of them with JNCO jeans. So comfy. So durable. So 90s.

@rnmissionrun Actually, you should take a look at Starfinder if you want a decent Firely-esque game that uses a known system. Its Paizo's new game, uses D&D system but the setting is pretty baller. And it introduces alien races, so its not just humans out there trolling the galaxy. There's everything from the Skittermander (think Stitch) to Vesk (giant lizardfolk) to Shirren (superhot alien psychics) to androids (self-explanatory), there's even insectile races and the Ysoki are rat-like folk. There's a bunch more, but this is what's in the core book. But yeah, you get a crew of people, a spaceship, and you go have adventures! Be smugglers, be heroes, fight against the Pact's oppressive influence (or accept the limits to freedom in return for more safety!). Its a pretty awesome game so far and I'm enjoying making my grenade-lobbing Ysoki mechanic with her doglike stealth drone!

@ganymede said in Vampire Requiem 2nd Edition Bloodlines Question:

Kupua (Maui): What can I say except “you’re welcome”? These Polynesian seafarers are known for playing pranks on others, some of which have had deadly consequences. Animalism, Dominate, Protean, Resilience. (Custom.) (Because Sharkhead, that's why. Also, plays into West Coast surfer culture -- basically, Polynesian Rotgrafen)

AHAHAHA... I see what you did there. Love it!

@arkandel See, and I like Firefly-type sci-fi. People living in ships, on planets, in stations that sit out in the vacuum of space. Being able to visit any or all of them. Just... doing what you do. I find crafting up NPC races/people to be easier, but that's a 'me personally' thing. Its harder for me to make the worlds and places.

And God forbid you do a game where people can either inhabit planets, space stations, or ships. Now you have to flesh out all three. And I cannot stress enough how important fleshing out ships are for a sci-fi game. You can't just go 'here is a basic starship, go RP'. What is 'basic'? How big is it? How many crew does it require? What sort of weaponry does it have equipped, if any? Does it use teleporters or drop ships or shuttles for getting from orbit to planet? Can you safely land it on a planet? Does it have hyperdrive? What about warp? Can it 'space jump'? If so, do any of those parts need regular replacing, like a battery? If yes, where do they come from? This isn't stuff you can just leave for later, and expect players to be cool with it. This is how most folk will potentially live or make their living. They need to know if they'll have to spend time and/or resources on keeping the ship running or if it just runs until damaged from an outside source. They need to know what types of ships are available. Is it a battle ship? A smuggler's ship? Are there freighter ships? This isn't stuff to just handwave.

@auspice I dunno! But it might be worth looking into! I'm not quite that prodigiously gifted, but it has been a godsend to me. I had to retire my previous bras since they were actively chafing me raw at this job.