Posts made by Roz

@Nein Not necessarily? People often play superhero games to do big, heroic stuff. Some people don't like the drama of how PvP tends to play out on MU*s. With an active staff, you can still do big, heroic stuff in a PvE environment.

@Ghost They do make that joke in one of his solo titles at one point. (Rich may or may not be my favorite ever. I may or may not have a Nova tattoo. My icon may or may not be from original artwork of him by Kris Anka. I may or may not love Rich a lot.)

Then again, you'll pry bisexual Rich in love with Peter Quill from my cold, dead fingers, and I 100% played it on a MU*, so.

More on-topic, I imagine the reason a lot of superhero games don't have villain PCs is that a lot of games don't want to be that hardcore PvP.

@Ghost I have seen you tell this story so many times but you still keep spelling Rich's last name wrong.

When you have the RP days that are really, really magical.

@Auspice said in General Video Game Thread:

SWtOR is having an event until April 10th in which you gain 250% XP.

It's a good time to give the game a shot, since I believe it applies to F2P users as well.

They apparently actually adjusted it so that it's a 350% gain. So even better.

@Arkandel said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

@Roz said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

Honestly, I tend to be welcoming enough in public scenes 75% of the time that I don't feel bad if 15% of the time I need to hide in places when other folks enter. And if there's more than one new person about, they can clearly just RP with each other, so I don't feel bad about that, either.

How do you handle the spam though since not everyone is using a place? It's usually my problem... well, that and people reacting to everything anyone is saying, so I have 6 people trying to talk to my PC at once which gets pretty weird if I try to visualize it.

I, uh. Maybe skim the spam in case anything important happens but mostly just respond to the stuff happening in my place. I'd probably pose discouragingly enough from other people trying to talk to me outside the place. (Like, flash a quick smile, but clearly distracted with private conversation, etc.) Eventually people will generally stop trying to engage with me and just engage with the other folks there.

@Ominous said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

@Misadventure said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

There are other minor issues of continuity that also intrude, like one group poses just coming in from pouring rain, and two poses later people come into the scene talking about the break in the weather, or you start your scene at IC time, but it ruins slower than IC time, so you have folks showing up for nighttime in the middle of your lunch scene.

Those sound like issues with not providing a proper set for new arrivals or new arrivals not waiting for the set. The first is an understandable oopsie. The second is annoying as hell. No one's writing is so fantastic that it cannot wait for those in the room to give a set and some poses.

I do get a bit annoyed when people pose in before waiting just to see what's going on. It could be totally nuts in a way that you'd notice as soon as you walked in, you never know!

@Kanye-Qwest I can see that, but I also think on the flip side it punishes people a little bit for RPing with people who have alts. If that makes sense.

@Pyrephox said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

Places can be awesome, when it's appropriate. I had a really great private conversation while doing a large public scene where there was a central focus that people were focused on (which provided a good cover for the conversation my character was having). But, that sort of large, focused scene is different from the 'increasingly large numbers of people wander into you random scene', and I always feel bad and wrong for confining the conversation I was having to places when there's a couple of new people who clearly want to be included.

I'm not sure there's a great answer that's universally applicable, except to try to be understanding and flexible with other players, regardless of the setup of a scene.

Honestly, I tend to be welcoming enough in public scenes 75% of the time that I don't feel bad if 15% of the time I need to hide in places when other folks enter. And if there's more than one new person about, they can clearly just RP with each other, so I don't feel bad about that, either.

Re: votes, I would like them to not be shared across alts. Even if I can't vote for the same character on both alts or something like that to try and mitigate that potential affect.

I make prolific use of places in situations like this, yeah. Sometimes you get spam, but I still find I can contain the more serious scene to tt. And I'm not shy about nudging other people to tt if it's clearly appropriate from their poses. (That is: three new people are all sitting at a different table/the bar together.)

@Ghost Sure.

@Goldfish Yes and yes! There's an organization called the Whispers, which are like the best courtesans in all of Arx. And there are totally male courtesans/Whispers. Very egalitarian society.

Roster characters are the easiest to pick up just because they're almost completely grab and go. (They ask for a few brief sentences about why you want to play the character.) And there are a lot of roster characters at hand currently!

In a general sense, I think either noble or commoner have a lot of fun in different ways. If you're overwhelmed, steer away from noble heads of houses (who have more responsibility) and probably also noble voices (who are like 2nd-in-commands who can also have responsibility). Look for families that have at least a couple active players who can take you under their wing and such. For commoners, there are a couple commoner family units you could get a similar kind of support from, but there's also a lot of room to do different stuff with commoners. I'd suggest aiming at at least some sort of org to attach yourself to, be it something like a noble house you work for, a job organization (Iron Guard, Champions Guild, Crafters Guild), or something like that.

If you get a cool metaplot secret (they tend to come with roster characters and you can +request one if not or if you make an OC), try chasing it down! A ton of my commoner alt hooks came from chasing down his metaplot secret.

From my impression of the sort of behavior we're talking about, I think offering honest apologies and acknowledgment of the behavior to the people affected and then just doing your best to walk the walk can go a long way. Don't try to explain the reasons why, the backstory, what you're doing (unless they ask). Just leave it with: "I recognize that the way I was acting before was not cool. I wanted to let you know that I'm taking really conscious steps to change that. I'm really sorry if anything I did hurt you or made you uncomfortable." And then leave it. Most people will see the proof in the pudding if it's there to see. If you give them room to make that decision for themselves, people will feel less pressured and free to make their own decisions.

@icanbeyourmuse Okay, but to a certain extent it's just easier to let some amount of familiar terminology lie. They're not gender-specific roles, they're the same role with gender-specific names. That's not the same thing.

I agree that when the theme is set up specifically to remove gender roles, it's weird to add one -- even one that isn't negative/demeaning. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the theme. Could easily just be something like "smaller-framed people tend to be favored in the society" to contrast how warriors are so often the ones in power in martial cultures, etc.

@Ganymede said in RL Anger:

@Roz said in RL Anger:

Common meatloaf mix is beef, veal, and pork. Meatloaf without doing a mix of meats -- not necessarily that specific mix, but something! -- is so weird to me. I don't just want a loaf of ground beef! One of my favorite mixes I've done is bison, lamb, and pork.

I like to use lean pork, turkey, chicken, and beef chorizo.

Hello I'm here at your house for dinner

Maybe you guys should make a thread in the TV & Movies section?

@surreality Common meatloaf mix is beef, veal, and pork. Meatloaf without doing a mix of meats -- not necessarily that specific mix, but something! -- is so weird to me. I don't just want a loaf of ground beef! One of my favorite mixes I've done is bison, lamb, and pork.

I do think doing a mix of meats in your meatloaf is perfectly normal, though. Not everyone does it, of course, but when there's a standard "meatloaf mix" that's gonna be pretty normal.

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