Posts made by Ominous

@misadventure

Where does one get one of these invites?

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

(Apparently this can be tested for but only with an autopsy, which I object to)

Because the only way to know if prions are creating cavities in your brain matter is to physically check said brain matter.

@tinuviel

I will allow this only if the archive is named The Book of Grudges.

@silverfox

Freezer thin mints are the best.

Except Tagalongs and Samoas, which are the actual best.

@sunny said in RL Sads:

If you see me being a shit, please tell me to go take a nap. I'm TRYING to moderate myself but my brain isn't 100% functional.

Very understandable under the circumstances. You have my sincerest condolences, and please take care of yourself.

@too-old-for-this said in Movie / TV / Streaming Peeves or Whatever:

The point is that they were right. They were booted out for all these crazy theories and wild ideas, that turned out to be absolutely true. Ray even expressed hesitation over going into the 'private sector' because they 'expect results' whereas the university did not. But it turned out that everything they'd theorized was true!

Yeeeeah, for some reason I still feel that the story is about a bunch of blue collar, Real American, anti-intellectualist, regular Joes sticking it to the man, and it's probably not a good message to be putting out there, if we're honest. I can't put my finger on why, though...

******

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/r61d7c/dont_touch_anything/

Isn't a pizzadilla a calzone?

I actually have the same thoughts on the original Ghostbusters as @GreenFlashlight. I never saw Peter and Ray as credible scientists. In fact, I usually forget that they're supposed to be scientists, considering how they are portrayed. Only Egon comes across as an actual, competent scientist. Epic Rap Battles skewered them pretty good.

I recently started thinking about faction design, and I have debated going with a looser faction than what most MU*s have with factions. Instead of noble houses or groups with a defined leader, I am thinking that factions need to be more akin to political parties and interest groups. Biden is the head of the Democratic Party, but the actual sway he holds is minimal and others can stamp out a position contrary to his and win the hearts of minds of members. Unlike a Noble house where the head of the house can disown you and remove you.

With these looser factions you can have some tenets that are immutable for the faction and then a bunch of less firm doctrines. GM staff will have the NPCs react to things based on the tenets and doctrines but the doctrines can be changed over time by the PCs. If a PC is doing something against a tenet or a bunch of doctrines, then they'll lose influence and disregarded. This gives room for jockeying within the faction between PCs and also solves the absent leader problem.

@runescryer said in The Desired Experience:

It's a rule of science: Credit goes to the first one to publish the observation, not necessarily the first observer.

Yeah, but it's also been called out a lot as well. It's such a "known thing" that no one gets credit for coming up with it.

@derp said in The Desired Experience:

@faraday said in The Desired Experience:

Can we maybe just agree that the potluck analogy is imperfect?

This is why I used 'community theater with unlimited stages'.

Maybe large city park? You can hang out with a big group or you can wander off with a small group of friends to do your own thing.

@runescryer said in The Desired Experience:

Hmmm...A thought has occurred to me...

I present to you 'Runescryer's Law of MU's'...

"Given sufficient population and lack of Events, all MU's, regardless of theme, become sex MU's"

I'm not sure this is a new realization. Pretty sure this has been an established fact for a while.

@three-eyed-crow said in The Wheel of Time:

@arkandel
Yeah, all the quotes about it from the cast/crew have that really weird 'we've signed an NDA, stop asking about it', too. It's a bummer, the actor's good in the role. I hope it's nothing too bad, whyever he left/was replaced, and that the new guy isn't too jarring.

I though I read somewhere that it was going to be Cavill, but maybe that was a joke.

Been discussing it in this thread: https://musoapbox.net/topic/319/good-tv/4461

This forum has a lot of boards that are redundant.

@faraday

I would count "logs other people can read" as being an analog to "talking to others at the potluck," so my statement would not include such an example.

@ganymede

If you're consistently only bringing four sandwiches and by that I assume you mean you are giving those four sandwiches to yourself and exactly the same other three people every time and you're not contributing in any other way, such as conversing with a bunch of other attendees, helping set up or clean up after the potluck, etc, then the other 96 people out of 100 at my potluck are either apathetic to your presence or have been getting annoyed at hearing how delicious and awesome your sandwiches are that they don't get to eat, so I'm not seeing much of a negative to the loss of your presence at my potluck and possibly a small positive. If you want to consistently only make four super fantastic sandwiches for you and your three friends and only talk and spend time with them, have a card game/board game night with them instead of going to the potluck. Everyone will have a much better time.

Or to get out of the analogy and apply this more directly to the topic at hand, what @Sunny said.

@ganymede

Bringing four sandwiches to one potluck because you're short on cash is one thing. Consistently bringing four sandwiches to the monthly potluck gathering over and over is another. If the first, it happens and isn't a problem. If the latter, your invitations are going to start getting lost in the mail.

@il-volpe said in The Desired Experience:

Do I think RPing exclusively with four other people is cool? No. I think it's equivalent to showing up at the pot luck with four sandwiches to hand to your friends. If it's a sandboxy game, okay, its maybe more like a park where people are meant to do that, but probably you're using plates and napkins and drinking from the host's margarita pitcher.

Ooooh, I like this analogy.

@warma-sheen said in The Desired Experience:

Those are good board games, I'm sure. I've only played two, and not very often. But the experience of a MU* is vastly different than that of a boardgame. Boardgames discount internal politics completely, as well as cross-factional politics, which provide huge amounts of intrigue and excitement in RP.

I have yet to play a MU* with interesting politics to be frank. Most MU* players overestimate their intrigue chops. Anyone who has played a two-day game of Diplomacy has experienced more politicking and backstabbing than a MU* player does in a decade. Hell, Eve Online has more intrigue and politicking than any MU*. An assassin infiltrated a guild and worked their way up to being the best friend and second-in-command of the targeted head of the guild over the course of ten months.

Those are just some of the many vast differences that make MUs far more interesting than simple boardgames - which is why MUs last for years and board games last minutes. A three year long boardgame of any of those would get boring quickly and turn to torture shortly thereafter.

King's Dilemma and Oath. Oath never ends, as the end of the last game of it that you played sets up the next game with the victors controlling the new empire that overthrew the old empire in the last game. King's Dilemma is the only legacy board game that has gotten me to finally play a legacy board game and takes about a year to play.

What you look for in a MU* and what you look for in a board game are usually very, very different.

Not really. As I stated earlier in this very thread, I'm looking for essentially an online, text-based Mega Game with a bit more fluff and roleplay. I'm about to throw in the towel on MUSHes altogether and focus solely on RPIs, but they go the opposite end and have too much grinding with little roleplay.