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@mr-johnson said in What's missing in MUSHdom?:

Shadowrun that's not 3rd edition. Seriously please can we have a Shadowrun game running something other then 3rd? There's gotta be someone out there willing to make it happen. Shadowrun is a great series but 3rd is just sooo terrible. I'd even settle for someone basically just porting the Shadowrun returns ruleset roughly and haphazardly to a mush. I mainly just want mah shadowrun world fix.

There is Deep Shadows, an Evennia based game using SR 5th ed.

@tnp said in Book Recommendations:

@lithium said in Book Recommendations:

The Thomas Covenant series by Steven R. Donaldson is good too (and one of the many sources that Robert Jordan swiped ideas from)

I happen to like the Thomas Covenant books a lot and read both series (and googling discovers there's a third now). However.

You're either going to like them a lot or absolutely hate them.

You know what's weird, I read the Thomas Covenant books as a teenager and absolutely loved them, but when I tried re-reading them 15 years later as an adult, I couldn't stand them. I hated the writing, the story and I especially hated the titular character. It's funny how your tastes can change over time.

@faraday Hehe. Seems to be coming along nicely and I am definitely looking forward to playing with it once it has been released!

@kanye-qwest said in Game Restarts:

@rnmissionrun It seems like the perfect game to play with your non furry friends who all love and have dogs, though.

Maybe!

Let me know when your Arx-style Pugmire game opens so I can check it out

Welcome to America, indeed.

I'm the GM of a retail shop. I make approx $52k after commissions, bonuses and etc are factored in. My partner is a laborer doing drywall, painting and such. He brings in just around $30k a year.

A quarter of our combined income goes to housing (mortgage, insurance, property taxes).

Another quarter goes to medical insurance, and general health care (no subsidies, we pay for everything out of our own pockets).

A third quarter goes to living expenses, car payments, credit card payments, food, clothes, utilities and such.

Out of what's left, we can put away around $8k per year for retirement and general savings (it would be more, but a big chunk goes to my partner's ex-wife as child support). That's not a lot for two people. We've had to dip into our savings several times over the past few years for unexpected medical emergencies and one car emergency (the SO's car got totaled while he was driving for Lyft, and it was his fault. Driving with no sleep is bad, m'kay, and no, there was no one else in the car at the time).

We're still living a fairly comfortable life but it probably wouldn't take that much to wipe us out financially. We figure one major medical emergency that left one of us unable to work for a few months, would be enough to do it.

@auspice said in Stranger Than Fiction MUX:

If this game is run by who I think it is, be very careful about revealing who you play there after ranting here.

I'm not 100% certain but I believe these may be the same folks that once ran MUSH of the Dead.

@auspice said in Game Restarts:

@rnmissionrun said in Game Restarts:

@kanye-qwest said in Game Restarts:

@rnmissionrun It seems like the perfect game to play with your non furry friends who all love and have dogs, though.

Maybe!

Let me know when your Arx-style Pugmire game opens so I can check it out

I need the cats. Armello makes me wanna play some sort of royal spy cat.

IIRC, Monarchies of Mau is due out in May, so you don't have long to wait!

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

The fun of being cold called by insurance scam idiots 'We have heard that you were in a car accident'.

1. I do not own or drive a car
2. They could not then answer when I asked what my name was. Just how did they supposedly 'hear' this?

I deal with this this type of thing all the time at work.

Last Friday, someone with a heavy accent called me at work, claiming to be from the local electric coop. He demanded that I pay $1500 in past due electric bills (which is approx. 7 months worth of normal usage for us) and threatened to cut off our power if we did not do so immediately. I asked him why he was calling me instead of the corporate office, you know, the place that had been paying all of the bills for as long as we had been a company. He then demanded the number of our corporate office. I told him "Sure, I'll give you the number, as soon as you explain to me how it is that you don't have that information when we've been doing business with you guys for more than twenty years." That led to a bunch of threats of what would happen if I did not pay the bill immediately, so I hung up on him. Naturally I called corporate afterwards just to make sure that there wasn't a genuine problem.

Some of these scammers are real pros. Even when you call them out, they'll continue to try to get your money until you hang up on them. I can truly understand why so many people fall victim to their BS.

Hooray Miami, home of the Golden Girls

If historical accuracy doesn't matter too much, there's at least one and possibly two 7th Sea games in the works. The one I know of for certain is being made by a friend I used to play with on Holotrek and WNO. I've been helping her with the code and it's really starting to shape up (it's Evennia, btw). The other one could be just a rumor. One of the people that logs on to my friend's game has occasionally remarked that she's working on her own game. No one has seen any proof of this yet, so far as I know.

I'm pretty sure you can get CBD stuff pretty much everywhere now, regardless of whether your state has legalized marijuana. I know that's the case here in MD anyway as I'm seeing more and more of it in the local smoke shops.

I havn't bought anything locally though as DC is only a 45 min drive north, and I prefer to get my stuff (by which I mean, the real stuff) from the legal dispensaries there.

@tnp said in Marvel: 1963+:

The game is down. As many of you know, Theorem's been ill so he's not available to bring it back up. It's possible @tangent might be able to but maybe not. So just keep trying to log in every so often and we'll see what happens.

Not to derail the thread, but I wanted to say that some of us that used to hang out with Theorem on the Rhost-Dev MUSH had been wondering what happened to him (he hasn't been seen since September).

I'm sure that I speak for all of us on Rhost-Dev when I say how sorry I am to hear that he's been ill, and wish him a speedy recovery.

I keep my ancient Macbook around specifically to run Atlantis. Truly, it's the best MU* client available today.

@ganymede said in Pineapple on Pizza:

But Papa John's? Fuck Papa John's.

Heresy!

I think that a part of the problem is the lack of a currently running Star Trek series to catch people's interest. Another is the fact that without space combat and such, you're essentially a 'Federation Bureaucracy MU' which a lot of people, myself included, do not like. Then there's the paramilitary structure of Starfleet which leaves only 1-2 people in charge (this is especially a problem on single ship games). I've often been tempted to try making a non-Starfleet centric MU* to see if that might get people interested again, but who has the time?

That's already far more complex than what I was imagining!

I'm not sure that most folks will want that level of detail considering we would be primarily focused on RP. It's been my experience that most RPers hate simulated space travel (judging from the number of complaints I've heard about HSpace and such over the years). I do like the idea of a live, web accessible map though.

Peeve du jour: customers who sing out loud and off-key to whatever I'm playing on the radio at work, who get mad when I turn the radio off >.<

@Auspice You're so right about the 'bi' thing. Some of the reactions that I've gotten from people after telling them I was bi were so disappointing that I now just tell people that I am gay (even though it isn't strictly true).

Honestly, it's the first thing that though about too when I started tinkering with Evennia