Posts made by Roz

@Ganymede said:

@Roz said:

Or, you know, it's J. Willow Wilson, writer of the new (and acclaimed) Ms. Marvel and -- a woman.

People considered Dan Brown an "acclaimed" writer too.

I don't have much to add to that, but I think the explanation sounds trite and unnecessary.

Well, I consider Brown to be a popular writer more than anything else. I don't really know how he does with critics.

I guess it could sound trite and unnecessary, I was moreso trying to point out that Wilson has a pretty high amount of cred going into this, both in comics and journalism and other non-fiction writing. Her background is more academic than your average comic writer. However, a way easier way to rankle me would be remembering that writers like Bendis and Remender have a bunch of cred that drives me absolutely crazy, so there's that.

@Arkandel
A-Force....what? Hadn't heard of this, so wikipedia'd it.

The series takes place following Marvel's 2015 "Secret Wars" crossover event, which finds the entire Marvel Universe, including the Avengers, disbanded. What is left is a patchwork of different environments and on one such environment called Arcadia, which Wilson describes as a "feminist paradise", a familiar threat arises that forces A-Force to come together.

Any time a guy says he's going to describe a "feminist paradise", I foresee incoming lulz.

Or, you know, it's J. Willow Wilson, writer of the new (and acclaimed) Ms. Marvel and -- a woman.

@Thisnameistaken said:

Zork.

I got in a conversation with a friend today and they had never heard of Zork before. I grew up with it and, looking back, I realize it's not only the grandfather of RPGs, but also of MUDs, which later led to MUXs/MUSHs.

I am glad I was eaten by a grue. Repeatedly.

Oh man. I have such distinct childhood memories of playing Enchanter with my dad. I loved those games.

I'm just going to take Marvel's events away from them for several years. HEAR THAT, MARVEL. SEVERAL YEARS. STOP HAVING CONSTANT EVENTS.

Finally finished Sense8 tonight. There was something so heart-wrenching about -- I don't know how to say it, the optimism of it? Not naivite, but the overwhelming sense of all these different, disparate people, all broken in their own places, reaching out to help each other. I AM VERY OVERWHELMED WITH FEELINGS.

As someone who lived in Charleston for about six years during her childhood, it's a very particular world in regards to its relationship with the Civil War. My father, a native Virginian, always considered himself proudly Southern without question until he got down there and found himself considered half a Yank. He actually thought a lot on what it was that had the Deep Southern states' identities so strongly linked to the Civil War, as opposed to states like Virginia, which was obviously a leader in the Confederacy. He never quite figured it out, although he thinks it has something to do with Virginia having many other points of historical significance (plenty of presidents from there, a strong historical presence in the Revolutionay War, etc.). All speculation, of course, but there's a very particular identity there. Hell, a state senator who went to our church also owned what I can only call a Confederate memorabilia store in the local mall. They've just never quite moved past it. I remember my parents struggling to make good friends in the area and constantly getting that feeling, albeit terribly polite, of being outsiders. Really, in Charleston, you're an outsider even if you're from just a different part of the state ("off the peninsula," as I remember them calling it). Just incredibly insular communities that will be gracious as hell in hosting you, but will be terribly sad to never really let you in.

Today, I love SCOTUS.

Man, you gotta just let people feel that anger for a while so they can process and get through it. It's no use telling people not to feel their feelings.

I'm honestly sorry it's not something that all of my fellow women can enjoy. I'm, uh -- medium-sized, I guess? But i just wear camis or bralettes or just freaking go braless because I can't give any more fucks, and I don't have support issues.

I haven't worn a real bra (with underwire and everything) in at least six months. It's amazing.

It wasn't actually victim-blaming rape victims, it was using the common practice of victim-blaming rape victims as a comparison for someone saying that maybe if you're completely uninterested in helping games reduce their problems, you are part of the problem.

Which is also really inappropriate.

@TNP said:

I've been on lots of game with RP channels. Some of them also had +RP codes that set flags, let you see who wants RP, etc. I've never seen them used. I also don't think anyone can 'make' something part of a culture. It's either adopted or its not. More, if asking on a sphere channel for RP and on public for RP and in the OOC Room for RP gets no response? More code isn't going to do anything.

Edited to add: Not that having the code hurts anything. Sure, have it.

Eh, I disagree that there aren't steps you can take to at least GREATLY ENCOURAGE certain items into being adopted as game culture.

@Thisnameistaken said:

@Thenomain said:

I have long resisted the idea that 'where' or 'hangouts' code completely hides people who are unfindable. Instead, these should list how many unfindable people are there, so if you're looking for scenes you can still see them.

Perhaps "looking for rp" should also override personal unfindable flags, but not location unfindable flags. I don't find things like "lfg channels" to be at all useful, though, and "lfg" flags not much more. It's cool that people like the idea, but the utility seems pretty niche.

The problem is that people don't use it. A LFG channel doesn't do much good on a mush where cliques heavily established, mushes small enough where everyone is on public channel already, etc. If no one uses the code, the code becomes obsolete.

I've run games for a long while now that explicitly focus on finding RP via a RolePlay channel, but you do have to make it game culture. (These were also games without an open grid where anyone on the grid was considered IC and fair game to join for RP, so we distinctly needed specific channels for finding RP.) It's really something that has to go top down with the people in charge utilizing it regularly and publicly.

The Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye comic. This is probably obvious, since I staff on a game based on it, but MAN every time a new issue comes out I get angry at how good it is.

@mietze said:

Though I don't know. I have run into players who definitely see themselves less as collaborators in the joint story (the scene) and more as primary authors who are giving you the privilege of interacting with their story in the scene.

I call that protagonist syndrome. It's one of the reasons I say that skilled writers (as in fiction writers) don't necessarily translate to skilled RPers, because they're used to having control over the narrative. (RP, on the other hand, is more like text-based, long-form improv.)

@Arkandel said:

A coded way to flag seeking RP and finding others who have flagged themselves. Then providing easy ways to join them (+meetme/+summon code is pretty common these days but it wasn't always).

Code doesn't usually help too much with finding roleplay but it absolutely can.

Faraday's system has this, doesn't it? You can set a RP flag (either Y as a general "open to RP" or Y! as a more active "plz RP with me!!") that shows up on where. (Or N, of course, for people who aren't looking at all.)

@mietze said:

Is it common amongst metaposers that they assume that any info they share with you in their ooc metapose (like reason why they're acting a certain way) should be acted upon with full weight by your PC ICly?

In my previous experience, metaposing used in a not-fun way was a way for someone to be a real shit to someone else while risking no consequences because they didn't give the other PC anything really to react to IC. But fairly recently I had a player become absolutely furious with me and a few others because we reacted to the PC's actions rather than the (metaposed) thoughts and backstory that ICly we had no way of knowing, that this was some kind of clue that we were very wrong to not pick up on and therefore react in a way that was satisfactory to the metaposer.

I hate bitchy/snarky metaposing with a passion anyway (I do think humorous or open ended stuff can be great fun and I often enjoy OOCly getting a window into a PC's thoughts) but this was the first time I'd ever had someone get angry that despite the fact that they both posed being totally non-reactive/rude/distant/ect as well as OOC details about the character's reasons behind it that my PC had no way of knowing (or frankly that were...not the interpretation I personally would have taken, OOCly), that my PC didn't suddenly know about their inner workings and thus treat them as if they hadn't been rude/distant/ect.

No that sounds like just a bad RPer. I've never come across that, but I'd certainly be baffled.

Yeah, I kind of love dumb meta where players are being self-aware about their own characters.

@Three-Eyed-Crow said:

@Jeshin said:

Example: Jeshin walks down the road after a long night out drinking. He has a faint sheen of sweat on his face and cannot walk straight as evident by his slow weaving route.

I guess this is sort of metaposing because it mentions the long night out drinking, but it's mostly just calling attention to body language cues that would be observable in any normal interaction, but are harder to highlight in text. Most communication that we have in-person is non-verbal. I don't think it's constitutes meta to highlight these things, since they're a big part of normal interaction if you aren't a blind moron.

With a lot of other narrative posing there's more of a gray area. The kind that's generally targeted (rightly) for hate is passive-aggressive thought-posing that there is no way to respond to, ie: Three-Eyed Crow sits at the bar, chatting pleasantly, all the while thinking about how much she hates Creature and her awful personality.

Agree. The example barely even pings my metaposing radar. You're giving explicit reasons in your pose for the physicality, yeah, but it's info that seems pretty overt from the physical cues that other people could observe.

And also agree that the meta that everyone hates most is passive-aggressive insults you can't respond to. I'm also personally not a fan of posing meta about thoughts in general, but that's a YMMV sentiment. I just don't really like stuff in poses in general that is stuff other players can't respond to, although I'm way less bothered by stuff that isn't the p/a stuff. (Unless, of course, you're sitting there posing to a telepath and you pose your thoughts because the telepath can read them.)

@Coin said:

@Royal said:

I use MUDMaster. Hasn't steered me wrong before. Especially for light and easy use.

Your face is a MUDMaster.