Best posts made by Ortallus

@tributary said in Crafting Thread Part ?:

Shared this with my wife, who adores sharks and cats (our car is named Mako), and she made ear-shattering squeeing noises.

@runescryer said in Good TV:

@coin The Alex Ross portrait of Barak Obama as Superman was so iconic, DC created a Black Superman in 2009; Kalel, aka Calvin Ellis, Superman of Earth 23. Also, President of the United States.

Saw this on FB earlier and it made me think back to this comment....

and let me just say, I'm so fucking here for it....

I ate buttered noodles with garlic and a little parmesan cheese today. Not because it was all I could afford, but because I sort of had a craving for it.

Probably been a good 10 years since I'd had that.


For those in the back.....

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

patriarchy is toxic and bad for everyone.

@goblin said in Good TV:

Just read this, and feel slight excitement.

https://variety.com/2021/film/news/world-of-darkness-eric-heisserer-christine-boyland-vampire-werewolf-1234961512/?fbclid=IwAR2tn8GeYriuUKnzK11hig_7d3seC-47dDpN5xtdw42eykpyHHcsk0_Haq8

Couldn't be worse than their last attempt at WoD television. Though tbf, I liked it, cheesy though it was. We'll see!

@greenflashlight I'm doing fine after a good night's rest. Sister is worried because she doesn't know what's causing her symptoms, but doc's assurance that it wasn't anything 'imminently life threatening' was somewhat reassuring and she's back home. She's got an appointment with her primary care doc on the 18th, but I'm not sure what they'll be able to do.

My mom passed when I was 17. 3 Brain tumors and lung cancer. I'm 42 now, and it's easier, but this holiday still stings to this day. Losing your mom as a teenager creates a fuck-ton of unfinished business. Didn't help that I was the middle kid, either.

@insomniac7809 said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

"Nobody wants to work anymore," I keep hearing.

Motherfuckers of course nobody wants to work, that's what work is. If they wanted to work you'd be charging them for the privilege. The whole thing is that you need to pay us to come work anyway.

If you won't offer people enough to work that's not a them problem it's a you problem.

AKA Capitalists when they realize capitalism doesn't fucking work.

@derp said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@aria said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

When I was little and I threw a tantrum in public, it didn't matter where we were or what we were doing, my parents would just pack me up and leave. Halfway through dinner at a restaurant? Doggie bags. Middle of the grocery store? Full cart returned to an employee with apologies while they marched screeching toddler-me out of the store. After about half a dozen goes at it, I decided that I liked going out and doing things more than I liked having fits, so I stopped having tantrums in public.
Didn't even matter if you were someone else's kid. Didn't matter where we were or what property you were on. Drop me off at school and find a pack of kids bullying someone? She'd yell at you to knock it off and get your asses inside before she called your mother. Running around the neighborhood acting all crazy-like? She'd scream at you to get out of the damned street before you got hit by a car.

This is precisely the types of things that the people in question are protesting against. If we took any kind of action like that, more punitive than what is already out there, you're just adding jet fuel to the fire.

FREEDOM! is a national religion, and that mostly means that the government can't tell you what to do.

I was once getting kicked by a kid on public transit, and I turned around and said to the kid's mother, "If you don't make them stop, I will." and the mother got all bent out of shape, yelling, "DONT TELL ME HOW TO RAISE MY KID." and I yelled right back, "WELL SOMEONE FUCKING NEEDS TO." and she just shut up.

@aria said in RL things I love:

@mietze said in RL things I love:

I'm fully vaxed. I wear a mask to put other people at ease and because I still do not want to potentially get it even if I've got some protection against the worst illness and also for the comfort of others. I don't really care about wearing one.

^ This. I've been fully vaccinated since the end of March, since health reasons put me in Group 1B. I also still wear a mask for the sake of other people and not freaking them out/encouraging unvaccinated anti-maskers in their bullshit.

It's proven quite effective in chiming in to support employees in public places who ask people to put one on or wear it properly.

Just got back from the grocery and 3 people weren't wearing masks, and every one of them I walked by, I shouted, "KAREN ALERT" at the top of my lungs.

Shunning, shaming, and ostracizing anti-maskers and anti-vaccers is the only way any progress is going to be made.

@Ganymede

@lisse24 said in Social Systems:

@ortallus said in Social Systems:

An interesting idea. Also, I believe in Fate system, if you have something negative proposed, like a shot at one of your weaknesses, you can choose to take a Fate point and roll with it, or effectively burn the Fate point to get out of it. Pretty nice mechanic.

I'm not familiar with Fate, but that system certainly seems neat. I think the way I view it is that you want to give people something so that they don't view it as a loss and to take the sting out of it.

Yeah, totally. I think a general sort of like, "Okay, if you roll with the punches, you get an XP. Or you can burn the XP to resist the effect and get called out of the scene somehow, your choice."

Could make for an interesting house rule in MUSH games. I mean, most of the time in RP systems, they're designed so you can use the social systems against NPCs (or occasionally vice versa) but typically not against other players. There's a definite distinction in how players feel about the two. Letting players RP it out is, imo, generally a better option. However, the MUSH environment often requires another way to resolve things if the player is just being stubborn but it is within reason his or her character would behave a certain way. Especially on RC/FC type places.

Though again, nobody is going to talk old school Batman into killing someone, outside of some serious mojo or chemical manipulation. And thematically probably not even then. I mean, see "The Killing Joke." On the other hand, convincing Sherlock Holmes to take a case that he claims is boring can be done with some subtle manipulation to convince him it's not. If the player isn't that good at that sort of manipulation, but their character might be? Roll away.