Posts made by Roz

So I haven't watched Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist, but I did religiously watch Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, which also had full musical numbers every episode. CXG took good advantage of its cast's differing capabilities both vocally and physically, but tbh a number of its lead cast are Broadway, musical theatre vets. But even then, you're gonna have differing levels of capability on the triple threat spectrum. Vincent Rodriguez, who played Josh, has a solid voice but is a dancer, and he was given several dance numbers over the years to show that off. Santino Fontana (the original Josh) and Donna Lynne Champlin (Paula) both have ridiculous voices and they're strong movers, but neither of them are known as dancers in New York. (David Hull, who played White Josh, is a really strong dancer, but actually barely ended up showing it off.) CXG's choreography was also fantastic at evoking and honing in on specific styles. The other thing it did was just -- you know, have backup dancers filling out a number, as solos were the more common. When someone is just there to dance, you get someone who's fantastic at dancing.

I cannot speak to Zoey's choreography. But CXG did it very well! (Hello, I loved CXG so very, very much, and everyone should watch it.)

Fred Willard

@bear_necessities said in Preference for IC Time On A Modern(ish) Game:

Are people really celebrating holidays EVERY SINGLE YEAR in-game though? Birthdays? Like, I guess if it's only happening once a RL year, cool, but on games that are 1:2 time or whatever - why? Why would you do that to yourself or be worried about missing an IC holiday or... why?

I mean, I feel like @Seraphim73's post answered that: cause he enjoys holiday stuff and can feel inspired by holidays happening IRL. It's just a thing that some people enjoy and some people don't. (Which is pretty similar to RL: some people are just holiday people, some people aren't.)

Doing something slower than 1:1 seems like it'd be really rough for character progression and growth and whatnot. I can do faster than 1:1 -- there are some settings that a faster timescale suits -- but I think slower would be a real slog.

By "slower is fine," do you mean a time scale where 1 day IRL would be, like, half a day in-game? Like two RL days might equal 1 IC day? I've never actually come across that on a game. 1:1 is the slowest I've seen, I think. (I think I hate the idea of slower.)

@silverfox I mean, people had asked earlier in the thread because there was a number missing at first glance.

@A-B said in Tips for not wearing out your welcome:

Oh, makes sense. If you actually do have some idea what mistake you made, or one of them anyway, that's different. It's when you're having to "take responsibility" and admit that you're in the wrong for something that you see no way you could have avoided doing, or that you're sure you actually didn't do, that it gets tricky.

You don't have to apologize for things you didn't do. Sometimes it's appropriate to apologize for things you did that hurt someone in a way you didn't intend, similar to apologizing for accidentally stepping on someone's foot.

As for "you see no way you could have avoided doing" -- it very, very much depends on what you mean by that. Because if a situation was along the lines of "I got really upset with people because I didn't feel I had the coping tools to stop or remove myself from the situation," then yeah, that's also something people are generally going to feel warrant an apology later.

Me too! (I knew that already.) That may be why I don't respond very much, except to want to scream, to all the advice about "you shouldn't be saying what you mean, you should be saying these things that you don't mean instead". And possibly why I needed to put that disclaimer at the top of this posting. If I'm only supposed to say things I don't mean, what's the point of me being in the channel at all? I might as well just leave them a tape recording of somebody else saying something else and be on my way.

Can you clarify where you think you're being told to only say things you don't mean?

Will you look at that - it turns out I was right the first time to be hopping mad at being described as "choosing" to be frustrated and to think it was totally unfair, because the thing you did instead, I have no idea how to do, hence I couldn't really have done it.

In general, in social interactions, people are going to expect others to be able to regulate their emotions in a reasonable fashion in interactions. "I have difficulty regulating my feelings" can garner sympathy and support in some situations, but not in the moments where others are having to deal with moments of unregulated feelings. The social expectation is that, if you don't know how to healthily regulate your emotions, it's your responsibility to learn. And, generally, people aren't going to take very well to "Well I can't help it because I don't know how" if they've had to deal with being on the other side of someone else's outbursts.

@Ganymede It'd be cool to actually RP with you for the first time.

@kk I am genuinely impressed at the clear work and effort you've put into building and internalizing this whole list. Kudos.

I think this would constitute strawmanning?

what in the world--

@A-B Hey just out of curiosity, why can't you connect to the game itself?

Some rando from another department: Here is a photo to use for that landing page!

Me, having done a Google search for a hi-res original and found it on another company's website: Uh, do we have the rights to this photo?

Rando: ...rights?

Feeling my RP energy and interest starting to slowly resurface.

@Testament Your connection strings, as Ifrit suggested, would be a string of commands you set up to run every time you connect to a game. If you did that, just take out the /newinput; Beip will remember how many inputs you want in the world.

Upvote is for sympathy. I'm really sorry.

Persona 5 Royal comes out at midnight. Which means that, responsibly, I won't be able to start it until tomorrow evening after work.

@Ganymede Yup.