@misadventure TBH, games come and go with enough frequency that I would consider anything on the second or third page to be questionable. Really what would be most convenient is locking ad threads to the person who made it, but then again sometimes it's helpful to have your staff update when something's happened to you.
So I'm against locking ad threads to one post. As both from a staffer and from a player perspective, and just to my own preference, I find that too strict a solution.
@tnp Nobody's questioning that, though there is understandable anger that women pay more for public transport, have to be aware of every exit, watch where they go at night AND the day, worry about the guy telling her to smile, watch their drinks, go to the bathroom in packs, etc, and guys don't have to do any of that and yet say, 'Oh, but YOU need to because rapists can't be bothered not to rape and that's just being responsible.'
Edit: further, the implication that 'oops I had a lil too much to drink!' is a tee hee moment for a guy but a rape scenario for a girl is pretty fucked up.
@tinuviel said in criticism not allowed in ad threads is only enforcing a false positive, prove me wrong:
@paris "owner locked" means the advertiser can add to it, if I'm understanding correctly.
I'd feel better about that if that's possible, but I'd be sad at losing the opportunity to Q&A.
@Ganymede reminded me of this so blame her.
I hate, hate, hate, hate the mindset that says "There is only good, or bad."
Sometimes, things are just 'fine' and that's perfectly okay! Great is the enemy of good, and all that.
The last few years have seen a really strong polarization of everything, I feel. Is this good or bad, do you love or hate this, right or wrong, like, I'm sorry that life isn't a listicle.
@thenomain You have my shoulder if you need it, and my goodwill even if you don't. I've never taken your needling personally. 
@tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@auspice I'm good at lots of things.
Ohoho~
@ganymede Accepting that life is often super shitty for the dumbest reasons imaginable actually kind of helped me mentally, since it completely voids the usual self-recrimination that accompanies being ill. xD
@arkandel You should eventually regain the motion. I used to tear up my knee's tendons pretty frequently (I have a congenital tissue disorder), and have had to have it wrapped and immobilized for weeks at a time. When the bandages came off, the damn thing wouldn't bend more than a few degrees. Working the joint carefully should loosen it back up over time.
@surreality <3333
Ok, I am off to get some groceries. BBL.
I've explored some of these options, yeah. The basic issue is that I am diabetic and Bot and I are both in our 40s, so we need to really watch what we eat; and we're both disabled and winter's the lean time of year money-wise, so I can buy one rotisserie chicken or a week's worth of meat at 99 ranch market. I buy fresh veggies but what I usually end up doing is one-pot meals, so it all gets cooked in the same time anyway.
This does mean no pre-prepared lasagnas or the usual default stuff. I do pick up potato au gratin or hamburger helper or instant-nuke rice and some kind of sauce, though.
What I need to get is some kind of crockpot as my old one went missing in our move. Just throwing meat + sauce + veggies in a pot and leaving it to cook overnight so we can have it for lunch and dinner would be super duper helpful.
I've also been making a point of stocking good bread, lunchmeat, and green leafies for sandwiches. A lot of our budget goes to whole foods (the actual food, not the chain) and so far that has paid off I think in that our heart health, cholesterol, etc, has been very good despite she and I being very sedentary because we're quadri- and paraplegic.
The diabetes is from the chemo, that's just now starting to improve after two years of high numbers that wouldn't budge; before the chemo I had it completely controlled with diet and the occasional shot of insulin. My weight is starting to drop as well, though, so the diet changes we've been making have helped. Trying to take shortcuts resulted in numbers in the 400 range, so instant potatoes/too much salt/prepared pasta/etc is just too much.
My suggestion to you is that when you have more time and energy to cook, look for a 99 ranch market in your area. Their produce and meat is usually much cheaper than buying from the usual chains, as they work directly with american farms. xD
@Clarity said in Why do you play? (Or not.):
Good news on being in remission! Curiously, that is how I got into the whole RP mud thing too. I couldn't do much and I was stuck inside a lot, after having been diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma. So, I started doing this, and then I started teaching myself how to code. It changed my life, and not in a bad way, in a good way, in that it made me think about all the shitty things I was doing with my life and put more focus on things I enjoy. I'm in remission and been there for over 10 years now.
Yeah, it deeply altered my perspective on what I should give my time to!
I had quit MUSHing for a few years, but cancer was what ended bringing me back. I'm so glad you're in remission, and I hope I get as long.
I am a reverend, and I do minister to people on the street, sometimes simply by offering food and water and/or someone to talk to. I have found over the years that people in need will often approach me without any effort on my part, and have never been in danger despite folks often being considered 'sketchy'. Randos in general, however, also frequently approach or accost me, and sometimes grab me. It happened before I became a wheelchair user, and I don't look exceptionally unusual, so I can't really explain why it happens so often. I have never experienced the invisibility that people get as they age.
I am intersex, courtesy of a hormonal disorder. I have always been infertile, and have at various times passed for male or female. Hormone disorders run in my family, and may have contributed to my late-stage cancer, from which I experienced a spontaneous remission after a chemo regimen that was designed just to make me more comfortable before I passed.
I am a street artist, along with my SO. We make enough to live in a nice condo apartment in a gated community and to live independently as two quadriplegics, which is pretty unheard of for two quadriplegic artists; despite this, we are often thought to be homeless by cops and tourists because street = homeless in many people's minds, whereas locals know better. We are usually treated very well by locals. I am also a published creator, but being a street artist pays more-- and more consistently.
I was homeless in my mid-teens to my early adulthood, however. This has given me serious impostor syndrome.
I live in Las Vegas and very close to the Strip, so my daily commutes are often very odd, and my tolerance for weirdness is very high. I like it more than any city I've lived in, as I am often not the weirdest person in the room here. (However, see point #1.) Surreal shit happens every day here, I love it.
I was homebound for 16 years or so, and completely bedbound for 6, before I relearned to walk again. This has resulted in a few quirks: I look about that much younger as I have no wrinkles or gray hair at all, due to getting no sunlight during that time. (Thanks, lupus!) I also had the interesting experience of missing the proliferation of mobile tech, so emerged into a society full of smartphones and covered in flatscreens. When I became homebound, most folks only had pagers, laptops and cellphones and TVs were unwieldy bricks, and most folks' experience with the internet was AOL. The music in restaurants, however, is still the same.
I have been MUSHing since 1993. I don't claim any seniority or anything about anything, but I feel a kind of responsibility to help keep perspective in the hobby and help where I can if I can, which is part of why I'm still on MSB. Roleplaying is my favorite hobby, even though post-chemo I rarely have enough energy to devote to it as I'd like.
I love gardening, even though it's physically taxing. I especially love tropical plants and fruits. My microclimate is subtropical even though my zone is technically high desert; the good thing is that I can grow bananas and birds of paradise, but the bad thing is that all the bulbs I planted are refusing to flower two years in a row. -.-
I read about everything online. I find new things fascinating, but I also love history. I used to read more fantasy and sci-fi, but find it harder to find books as most bookstores are gone.
I love korean bbq. Unlike a number of posters here, if I eat the same thing more than twice in a couple days, I develop allergic reactions (thanks, lupus!), so a monotonous diet is impossible. The exception to this is meat (but not fish or seafood)!
@Clarity I've been getting a lot of abdominal pain the last week, but I'm hoping it's stress from the work problems and not the cancer coming back, as it's right where the scarring is. Had to put off my check this month because of that and am worried. T_T So I hear you on the worrying.
Yeah, I had to get a light brown service dog while most of my clothes are black. 
@surreality said in Strange Game Dev Inquiries from surreality (condensed):
I don't really expect to see a lot of takers on those for PCs, mind... but 'stupendously creepy more or less vampire monster fishperson' is neat enough that even if there are only NPCs of them ever made to smite in sheer horror, they'll be fun for that purpose!
I love playing that type of character. I haven't recently, and I miss it. They're kind of hard to take out for casual rp, but that's what alts or, er, fish out of water scenes are for.
@wretched If it's your first dislocation, you probably won't need surgery, but you may need PT.
@quinn Yeah, when I showed my docs how I pop my kneecaps back in, they were like, 'that's USUALLY impossible' and quite horrified.
@Ganymede said in Course Corrections:
@Cupcake said in Course Corrections:
... but when people continue to pose in past tense around a bunch of people using present tense, is it just sloppy? Is it a passive aggressive fuck you?
It is probably because they are terrible writers with a lack of self-awareness.
They are usually transplants from forum or LJ type games, and are getting used to MUSH, in my experience. Eventuslly some folks get the hang of it, though it's tough to switch if you are still rping in both formats.
@auspice Yeah, I've been thinking of getting an air fryer sometime, maybe this summer.
I'm gonna be trying some sort of pork kofta rice deal tonight. Hopefully I don't burn the house down.
In a statless game, it might be about a promotion, or at least a job/status that my character wants. In RP, scenes that challenge the character, or at least lead to more insights (about themselves, others, etc). Becoming useful to their group/court/weyr/liege/etc, and making personal connections.
On a statted game, all this plus getting to increase/acquire abilities and their effectiveness.
Edit: even if everyone is an xp monster, you can differentiate yourself via rp, cooperativeness, writing style, etc.
@arkandel said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
I love these little (or big) steps forward.
https://www.popsci.com/impossible-burger-2-taste-test-ces-2018#page-3
I'm not a vegetarian but knowing how animals are treated to produce the meat I love so much makes it hard to not
feelbe a hypocrite about it. The more choices we have toward 'ethical' foods the better, whether they're made in a lab or put together from soy and such.
I'd love to eat this, but they went from wheat to soy. Which knocks out gluten sensitivities and I get wanting to fix that, but one bite of soy protein and I get agonising abdominal pain and bleeding. So they really are impossible for me (and quite a few others, which is why a lot of formely soy-protein using companies have switched to pea protein).