Posts made by peasoupling

These are so good!

@HelloProject said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

(I've literally never seen someone play a butch lesbian in MUSHing in my entire life, which is a perfectly valid concern)

I mean, I only have so much free time on my hands, and PBs are a headache, but I think I'd need both hands to count them on my fingers.

I prefer 1:1 (though 1:2 or 2:3 or whatever is fine too, for some games). However, I can kinda see the appeal of a slower game for very specific settings and premises, too! I don't think I've ever played on a game like it, but I can see it being doable.

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

@Alamias Yes, Gray Harbor is my game which I made specifically because of the lack of those kinds of games My point still stands, and the popularity that both Spirit Lake and my game have seen are a result of a lack of games in those categories.

I will say, and this is not meant as a dig at Gray Harbor, at all, which I had a lot of fun on, is that one reason I fizzled out and couldn't get back into it (besides being a horrible flake) was that things got a bit Dream-centered and heavy on the magical realism for me. I loved reading about it but I couldn't relate to playing on it, in a way, precisely because I was hoping for something more lowkey there. There's a lot of room for different ways of approaching a modern or modern-ish setting, so it's not like the niche is full at all.

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

@peasoupling I will confess. I didn't know you could peel beans. But I don't make a lot of soup, etc. I know you have to soak dried beans, and that's about it.

You can. But it's insane, which is why no one's made that soup since my grandma died.

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

But honestly, who peels beans???

My grandma would agree with you, in that she was not given to innovating when it came to food. Or most things.

On the other hand, she might ask what kind of gritty garbage is this if presented with bean soup (with mashed or pureed beans) made with unpeeled beans.

Having only played ME3 after they (apparently?) fixed the ending, it was fine. It was dumb, but fine.

So, that's my advice for games! Aggressively ignore it, don't get spoiled, play it years later when it's better.

For some reason, I want to play a post-apocalyptic setting, so I can pretend I am actually competent and not dead after the collapse of civilization. Any system's good!

I've seen people make a distinction between items that merely replace or mimic ordinary human function and stuff that specifically augments it or replaces it with something unusual, which seems marginally less ableist except for having to define a normal baseline, I guess?

It's a lovely time of year to be on immunosuppressants!

@Apos Well, there is a map of Arvum front and center on the Arx site. Sometimes room descriptions are like that, just to help everyone kinda be on the same page. Every now and then, when the stars are right, it's even relevant to RP. Usually it isn't, but sometimes!

@Roz said in Arx's Elevation Situation:

@peasoupling said in Arx's Elevation Situation:

@Groth said in Arx's Elevation Situation:

That doesn't need to be the cost at all. Even if baronies no longer exist as organisations, you're still perfectly capable of playing a poor member of a noble family and you could still be appointed the Baron of three pig herders and a horse if you want to without that needing to be an org.

Wait, can you play a Baron without there being an actual baron-level org? Is that an actual thing? I don't know, I'm asking.

It's not an actual thing in the current structure. Groth is suggesting the structure could be changed.

Oh! That should reduce staff workload, at least. Since you're typically already in the higher-ranking orgs as well, I'm not sure what the overall effect would be besides that.

@Groth said in Arx's Elevation Situation:

That doesn't need to be the cost at all. Even if baronies no longer exist as organisations, you're still perfectly capable of playing a poor member of a noble family and you could still be appointed the Baron of three pig herders and a horse if you want to without that needing to be an org.

Wait, can you play a Baron without there being an actual baron-level org? Is that an actual thing? I don't know, I'm asking.

I will say that, when considering making a new character, I would much rather play something at the barony level rather than anything fancier. Sadly, the baronies tend to be pretty much devoid of players.

The problem is that if you eliminate baronies and the like, you avoid player dispersion, but at the cost of wiping out an entire sort of character background. Then again, no one actually stays poor, but for a few glorious weeks you could RP being concerned about pig herders and your one good horse looking a little under the weather.

In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, I found a canister, killed a bunch of cannibal raiders aided by drunks with grenades and proposed to a girl, who didn't want to get married until after we killed all the cannibals. Then I asked her about adopting dogs.

She laughs again and says "Yes, yes we are! We're going to adopt all the puppies!" You both laugh and embrace.

The next day you find yourself in front of a large group of people who have come to watch you adopt a puppy.

I feel like this cannot be improved upon, so I am going to call it "the good ending" and start a new game.

@Jennkryst said in PB 'realism':

AS FOR PBS AFFECTING MY RP... also yes. If there are two players/characters using the same person, I will go out of my way to mistake one for the other, as punishment for them not combing the wiki to make sure their CHOSEN PB was not already in circulation (something else I'll do, like a creeper).

With some actors, you can have different people use the same PB, but if you pick the right role they look very different, have very different styles and vibes and everything. That works!

Also, to be fair, delicate waifs with Strength 5 happens even in descriptions, without PBs.

Crop the face really tight, assume the actress bulked up for the role! Like Christian Bale. Solved.

@Apos said in Image Attribution & Creative Commons:

Reminds me of how I was talking with @Tehom earlier today about using cloudinary's transformations to automatically change a character's PB to be grayscale when they died

Characters who already have B&W pictures are undead is now canon, probably.

I notice, and spend hours (days) fretting over, not only the overall PB, but whether the specific pictures used accurately reflect the character's style and mood. This makes PBs a lot less fun whenever I want to deviate from the norm and have a very specific look in my mind. Non modern day settings make this so much worse.

I think PBs are fine, even convenient and fun, most times. Other times, I hate them with a burning passion for a few days until I settle for something not quite right but whatever.