Posts made by Rinel

@Tinuviel said in TS - Danger zone:

If you don't need TS to show that two characters did the dirty, don't do it.

I think a pretty persuasive argument can be made that in a game like Changeling there may be some merit to actually roleplaying explicit intimacy. Yes, it can be handwaved, but so could a lot of RP. "They talk all day and become friends" is not as compelling as actual RP. Similarly (assuming the player and staff are down for it, because this gets into heavy squick territory), a FTB might not be as compelling as a scene that an antagonist can draw on in the future.

@TNP said in General Video Game Thread:

@Tempest I think the hate was before they patched it to have a new ending.

There's one new ending, which really sucks. The hate died down a bit after the Citadel DLC let you end the story with some dignity before the game ended.

@Auspice said in TS - Danger zone:

millions of spiders that swarm all over you... WHAT DO YOU DO

...I put on my robe and wizard hat.

@RDC said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

Changeling should be SoonTM

vibrating

@Pandora said in TS - Danger zone:

There is no one-size-fits-all for consent in fiction, what's important is to know your own limits/boundaries and enforce them to your own level of comfort. No one can force anyone to RP anything. I repeat, no one can force anyone to RP anything. They may try, but your keyboard + mouse + mental well-being are in your hands, literally

Well, you did warn us you aren't in the business of holding your tongue...

I don't really agree with what you're saying here. I'm pretty sure I understand where you're coming from, and, yeah, ideally we'd live in a world where people don't have baggage. But what you're saying here is pretty reminiscent of Nancy Reagan's line about how only you can choose to let words hurt you.

RP is frequently a place where people expose vulnerabilities they wouldn't elsewhere. That means that they're more, well, vulnerable. Maybe you think that's unwise, but people are frequently unwise.

And besides, nobody can coerce you to do anything, right? If someone has you at gunpoint, you don't have to do what they want. You can always just get shot. In RP, the potential consequences are much less dire, but I think it's sort of dishonest to pretend that people aren't hugely coerced at times by OOC considerations.

Also I wrote this immediately after waking up and my head is full of spiders

@bored said in TS - Danger zone:

@Rinel Are you playing dudes in public? Can you put a literate paragraph together?

No, and occasionally. Apparently I'm still used to the (largely accurate) stereotypes of non-MUSH online communities.

I caught up with Episode 2 last night. Still gotta watch 3.

Realizing why her children are white is a big fucking oof.

@farfalla said in TS - Danger zone:

what is the negative outcome if my brain isn't conjuring an image of a cane

I mean, it's not a huge deal, but it does mean that there will be context missing when Rinel becomes sad during discussions of hiking and travelling, or when she becomes nervous when people talk about mirrors, or when she gets angry when bandits are brought up. I guess my opinion should just be a shrug and a "your loss."

@bored said in TS - Danger zone:

I get plenty of people approaching me for whatever when I play.

I feel inadequate. :<

@farfalla

RINEL HAS A CANE

@Pandora said in TS - Danger zone:

Not looking at peoples' descs is a good way to wind up whitewashing people's characters of color, to miss character disabilities, to miss someone's MAGA t-shirt, someone's neo-Nazi tattoos, someone's 'I Beat Breast Cancer' pin, and so on

Yeah, as someone who plays a decent number of POCs and tries to put relevant information in my description, that kind of stings to read. Rinel's description is about 150 words long, and 100 of those are devoted to in-game events that have left her face scarred and leg crippled. I mean, I pose with the cane pretty much constantly, but I guess this sort of attitude makes me feel less guilty about talking about it. Her having visible scars is important to her character. Her being crippled is important to her character. Her having brown skin is important to me--and in modern games where race matters more than it does in Arx, my character's race is very important to them. Someone calling Yvette white is gonna get punched in the face by an angry robot lady who takes her creole heritage really fucking seriously.

tl;dr this attitude is makes me more likely to shove my character's description in people's faces, which I would really prefer to avoid doing

altho lol at Zatanna's eyes what is happening there

@Ganymede

Also, the animation style is IMO the single best example of western-style animation in existence.

Also, the voice actors.

Also, the soundtrack.

As a somewhat related aside, I'm continually astonished how DC makes such decent animated movies and shits the bed so terribly when it comes to live action. I mean, yeah, the animation is sort of bleh, but still!

Look at this! Lady got MUSCLES!

And this! JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK!

I recognize that these are all just direct adaptations of existing comics, but I don't really care. They're fun to watch.

@Goblin said in TS - Danger zone:

Got a problem with the perfect model type looking women though. Doesn't do much for me. Quirky, cute, actual human looking... Yeah, definitely.

Unfortunately, they're a lot harder to find if you have a specific look in mind. Models tend to be catalogued according to all sorts of categories.

But your point about this:

@Goblin said in TS - Danger zone:

at no point do I think of my character as a first person extension of myself

has got me thinking. I certainly don't think of Rinel (the character I can RP as relatively effortlessly these days) as an extension of myself. I certainly draw on certain aspects of myself to make her. But she is a lot braver than I am, a lot more innately confrontational, a lot less diplomatic... also, she is a religious librarian in a fantasy quasi-medieval world and I'm a lawyer in this one.

The point is that while we don't have a whole lot in common, I certainly feel what I've recently learned WoD players call "bleed"--feeling my own emotions that mirror my character's, when she's feeling strong ones. It's usually but not exclusively limited to sad scenes, but I do wonder whether my distaste for TS comes from the concern that I get too immersed in the character (and therefore would be at risk of breaking the taboo).

I wonder how many people who are into TS see it as a fully external thing vs how many experience at least in part as a personal thing.

@JinShei

Thanks. Hopefully tomorrow will be better! At least I hit 5k on nanowrimo, so I'm on track.

@Tinuviel said in TS - Danger zone:

@Jennkryst I find religious discussions with you lot even worse than constantly being reminded Mummy exists, so I opted not to include it.

Typical atheist denying the divinity of the Aten.

I went to bed last night really excited for today. It's one of those two or three weeks of wonderful weather that we get in Louisiana per year. I had so many ideas. Maybe I'd even get out of the house and go to a coffee shop to work on nanowrimo!

Enter depression.
Followed by dysphoria.
Followed, of course, by anxiety, because why should I power through the depression by getting out of the house.
Even OCD has made a rare but entirely unwelcome appearance.

I want to take the week off and drink hot chocolate and cry.

@silverfox

Tbh any RP that leads to medical RP with Rukhnis or Reigna is good RP.

@saosmash said in TS - Danger zone:

@Rinel I don't understand this reference.

Allow me to educate you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_FQU4KzN7A

@saosmash said in TS - Danger zone:

@Rinel Is kinkshaming your kink?

Oh, no no no.

My potions are too strong for you, adventurer.

@insomniac7809 said in TS - Danger zone:

@Rinel said in TS - Danger zone:

@insomniac7809 said in TS - Danger zone:

If we're talking, like, magical timeline duplicates... now, that's a question that gets into the teleporter paradox. If I go into a machine, Scotty vaporizes me, and then I come back together on the other side, am I still me? If yes, what if he saves the data and pops out another of me? If no, that implies either I stop existing when my component atoms are replaced--which happens every few years--or when my consciousness stops functioning--which implies I did die during my appendectomy (or, rather, he died, I started existing when the anaesthesia wore off.) Do "I", in a discrete sense, actually exist, or am I just a collection of processes that shuffle around in the same general vicinity for a few decades, and if so, isn't a second identical bundle of processes just "more" of me?

Did you seriously just take a smut thread and turn it into a discourse on the problem of personal identity?

Fucking hell. Go read some Parfit and get out of here, nerd.

If you can answer whether duplicate sex is masturbation or incest without defining the self, then go ahead.

Maybe considering the ethical and philosophical implications of weird sex scenarios is my fetish. Ever think of that?

I'm kinkshaming you right now.