Posts made by Ominous

@wahoo

A game structured like this needs energy and I suspect any lapse of energy grinds it to a halt, since there is no BaRP to really keep things coasting on momentum between the set pieces.

Can I play Howard Beale? I think I have enough crazy and anger at society to pull it off.

@Derp said in The Fate of MUSHdom:

It's just becoming more exclusive and tribal.

Like everything else in society.

I have played games where web only sheets were the way things were done.

@TheOnceler

Notice me, Sempai!

EDIT: Now we wait for the Yaoi fans to start writing Hamish/Kieran slashfic.

@Selira said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

I'm realizing I'm an extremely project oriented person. Whether that's a tangible goal in RP, telling a specific story, or getting a platinum trophy in a game, once I've decided I'm going to do something I go all out until it's done. It's my ADHD superpower, my hyperfocus going insane until I literally do 16 hour binges and tap myself to exhaustion (hi, final fantasy 7 remake).

How do I apply this to goals that will actually help my life? I want that $$$.

Necro reply!

I am like this as well. Reading some of this stuff has made me wonder if maybe I might be ADHD and just was never diagnosed. Anyways, my favorite job and the one that benefited from this orientation was when I was a newspaper journalist. Every week I would have four or five different things to deep dive into and write up an article on those things. I loved it, but it only paid $10/hr.

The average Northerner on his steed:

@TheOnceler

Yeah, as I said, a lot of the options are feminine looking. Your male character ends up looking androgynous or just plain young. I suspect it is because it is designed for elves, as there is only one set of human ears and like a dozen or more elf ears. So if Ilthir comes back or @Bananerz elf MU* ever gets going, people will have plenty of options.

This might work. He still looks too young to me, though.

@tek

Yes, you can, but a lot of the options are still feminine, which is fine. A tool oriented more towards female characters is great, considering how much focus men get.

@tek

...You made me download Flash. I shall never forgive you.

The options seem much more oriented to female characters. Also, I can't figure out how to save an image.

@Sunny said in Charities / Go fund me's / good places to give:

Minnesota
Kids need a playground because adults are taking pictures of them on the public playground they use for recess:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/Help-protect-children-from-harassment

This is...weird. Like is it one guy in a white, windowless can, breathing heavy as he does it? Is it always different people?

salutes

Good ol' 80s horror. Not my cup of tea, but it is a bunch of people's, and more games is more better.

My preferred ration is .75 in-game day to 1 real life day and an adjusted calendar of 30 days per season. This results in scenes moving at a somewhat more believable pace (The scene started at 10 pm in-game time and ended at 12 pm in-game but took 3 hours real life time, instead of the scene started at 10 pm in-game time and ended at 7 am in-game time for what was essentially a few drinks and a bit of conversation) and you can still get 2 in-game years in 1 real life year, so the server as a whole moves at an accelerated rate.

@A-B said in Tips for not wearing out your welcome:

@Ominous Why this now particularly

For the same reason that @Sunny said in Tips for not wearing out your welcome:

I don't think this conversation is particularly healthy for anyone involved.

However, I try to do it in a humorous manner to lighten the mood/tension a bit.

@A-B said in Tips for not wearing out your welcome:

You seeing something that I'm not? Puzzled.

Yes.

I'm sticking to it, you were making a mess of it! Less of one now, though. Much appreciated you telling me you don't mean any harm.

This comes across as accusative language that directs the responsibility for one's feelings towards another person, rather than oneself.

Therefore, don't go taking anything I say here from now on, including this message, to be true or what I mean. Just think of it as the output of an amusing randomised chatbot.

This come across as an attempt to deflect one's responsibility for one's actions.

Will you look at that - it turns out I was right the first time to be hopping mad at being described as "choosing" to be frustrated and to think it was totally unfair, because the thing you did instead, I have no idea how to do, hence I couldn't really have done it. You're apparently ahead of me there. How can you "acknowledge or express your frustration in a healthy way"? That's what I thought I was doing by saying I was angry, and got monstered for it.

This comes across as a mocking tone used in a reply to someone attempting to help you.

Altogether this conveys the feeling that you are not having a discussion in good faith, and we are just spinning our wheels by continuing it.

I do these things myself when I get irate, and I have trouble knowing that I need to step away, take a deep breath, and approach the conversation at a later time in a better, calmer frame of mind.

Anyways, I am out. I wish you luck, @A-B

I am upgrading my Danger Will Robinson alert to:

@surreality said in If you work hard, son, maybe someday you'll RP:

Me: "I'm more disturbed that y'all are otherwise trying to rent one room attic apartments with a single closet you couldn't fit a towel in for $650 and a hotplate passing for a kitchen, with no air conditioning and a space heater."

Well...it is Westchester. I'm surprised it didn't cost a human kidney every month.

@Auspice

Yep, that's exactly the time frame I was in college there. The bookstore doesn't sound familiar but the coffee shop does, and I too can't quite remember where it was.

@Auspice

We lived in the same city at that same time! What a small world! What part of town was the shop in? It sounds familiar.