Posts made by SG

Labrum tear is almost healed. I can't wait to start doing stuff again, like remembering to stretch and warm up more before squats.

@arkandel said in How do you construct your characters?:

"oh, no, that plot twist wouldn't work for a MUSH"

But really, what twists do work for a MUSH? I'm trying to think of one that I've encountered that turned out well or was interesting for the players rather than the staff running it having just a laugh. More often than not, it has months of planning and RP being thrown down the drain.

I was thinking about trying 8th sea with this guy

@faraday said in How much Code is too much Code?:

Very true. Though I think anything that directly impacts the characters, not the players (such as XP in your example) is always going to butt up against RP. What blindsides me sometimes are subtle things like @SG (I think it was) saying that they didn’t like to RP any more on BSGU because people were mostly using scene temprooms instead of grid rooms. Which is a valid point, but my experience was the exact opposite. So I agree - code can impact the game in surprising ways.

Yeah, it's stupid. It's not you, it's me. I think I have this sticky idea of awesome temp rooms being for plots, hangout/casual scenes are for grid that I can't shake for some reason. I'm sure I'll get over it one of these days.

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

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

Get out and vote for something, it's not that hard.

I do feel that people who refuse to vote sort of give up all right to bitch.

(And before 'but voter suppression!!!!' note my wording: 'refuse to vote.')

I dunno, when I look at the US, the choices look like right wing and lunatic fringe, I can see why people don't want to vote down there. They should, but I don't blame them for not. It'll probably take a generation to babystep back towards sanity.

@auspice said in Period Piece Face vs Modern Face:

@sg said in Period Piece Face vs Modern Face:

@auspice said in Period Piece Face vs Modern Face:

@kanye-qwest said in Period Piece Face vs Modern Face:

This is why I can't play these games. I thought this was Robin Wright.

Face blindness is a real problem y'all. I can't just imagine person as thing.
Except in certain cases. I know Matthew McConahahahahaha has a punchable face. I remember that. I couldn't describe him for a sketch artist, but I know whenever I see him that I want to deck him.

HOW DARE YOU mistake Gwyneth Paltrow for Robin Wright!

I thought it was Cate Blanchett

I'm confused now

That's the joke. At first glance I always confuse Cate and Gwyneth, until I focus and lose myself in Cat... ahem.

@auspice said in Period Piece Face vs Modern Face:

@kanye-qwest said in Period Piece Face vs Modern Face:

This is why I can't play these games. I thought this was Robin Wright.

Face blindness is a real problem y'all. I can't just imagine person as thing.
Except in certain cases. I know Matthew McConahahahahaha has a punchable face. I remember that. I couldn't describe him for a sketch artist, but I know whenever I see him that I want to deck him.

HOW DARE YOU mistake Gwyneth Paltrow for Robin Wright!

I've been wanting to dip my toe into L5R for a long time, I hope this gets going soon!

@packrat DoD 1 was awesome. I was sad when Source came out and pretty much everyone jumped ship, I really didn't like the character models or movement in source, they all looked like hunchbacks skating on ice.

I enjoy thinking about codes and systems and economies all that sort of thing. I'll sit down with my game books and make provinces in minute detail sometimes just because world building is fun for me.

While Mushing?

It's a pain in the ass, largely because RPG economics make no sense. Like, in star wars, you can buy a space ship for the same cost that a box of blaster pistols, or two repeaters, or one suit of armour. In every game I've played with a coded economy, being a space trucker was way more lucrative than being a space pirate, so there was a tangible incentive to Don't Bother Adventuring.

@lithium said in General Video Game Thread:

playing an fps without voice chat is just frustrating in the entirety

Yeah, I play a lot of rising storm/red orchestra, you can really tell when an opposing team is using voice chat or not. Of course you'll get trolls out there being stupid, but some servers are good about banning them, and they're a joy to play on.

Once in a while, though, you'll just be on the same brainwave as the rest of your team, and very little gets said and you just pwn some n00bs. It feels like you're in the borg when that happens.

@faceless I'll keep my eyes peeled, then. Canadian game prices are nuts the last few years.

Does Overwatch ever get sales? I've wanted to try it out, but it doesn't look like an $80 game for me.

@flahgenstow said in The Eighth Sea - Here There Be Monsters:

I understand pirates didn't bath but I like to bath.

Yar! Der wuz plenty o' bathin! BATHIN IN BLUD!! Only a scurvey ridden land lubber be worried bout smellin like rosewaters.

Every thursday (my work friday) it seems like a convention of open mouthed coughers are on my morning train. I can get off of the car and go to another one, and there's inevitably another groady person wet coughing straight into the air. Sometimes they'll be considerate and do the 'dab' but most of the time when they do that, they just cover their eyes and their gross mouths project all sorts of gob everywhere.

I can't wait until bike season starts again.

It's my turn to GM for my tabletop group and everyone voted for Warhammer fantasy this time around. Renegade crowns is awesome for creating detailed settings in a jiff, and while working on the map, I was reminded of the Cartographer's Guild website.

Blowing the dust off of the bamboo tablet and firing up photoshop again to follow along with their tutorials is a LOT of fun. When I get home tonight, I'm probably going to work on the map instead of firing up a video game like I usually do.

Salvae on Battlestar Unification was a lot of fun, but people stopped playing on the grid. It's silly, but I just couldn't get into the teleporting into people's temp room scenes that were already in progress, even if they were marked pub.

Igrel on Tenebrae. A witch with a grump cat familiar. My schedule didn't jive with the other players on that game, and there was this pressure to grind xp rather than explore the setting and rp casually. I think people also dismissed material components on that game, when I tried to incorporate them into poses when casting spells, people treated me like I was from mars.

Blackheart on Denver. Mullets, Mirror Shades, Magic, Motorcycles and Machineguns. How is that not fun?

Thatcher on Lost Generation was also fun. Snipping wire under the germans' noses was kind of terrifying. Eating the apple at someone's funeral was also fun. Thatch was an asshole.

@surreality said in Questionably viable character types and tropes (tangent from staff ethics convo):

@tinuviel I don't know if the thread has just come full circle here (re: some concepts don't work well in this medium and should potentially be restricted), or if we just agree or disagree really strongly.

Let's say I have a scene posted for 'it's a normal day at the diner when two thugs show up and try to rob the joint', and Giles, the sniper, the seamstress, and let's say someone specializing in playing guitar, and another who is a crime scene tech are the ones who sign on to show up.

Are you suggesting that each of these characters should reasonably have a chance to demonstrate their primary concept skill in this scene or someone is a failure as an ST? (Sniping, occult research, tailoring, playing guitar, and investigating a crime that hasn't yet occurred?)

I could fit everyone but the sniper into this scene. Have you seen the Story of Ricky? There's a guy that murders with knitting needles. BAM. Have you seen 80s wrestling? The honkey tonk man used a guitar to great effect in combat. Occult Research, well, the thugs likely have tattoos.. or something...

You're probably right, I just wanted to picture that guy from Ricky-Oh and the Honky Tonk man teaming up in a buddy cop movie.

@tinuviel said in Random links:

The term cracker meant poor white people in Virginia

I always thought it referred to slave owners cracking the whip.

@apu said in Questionably viable character types and tropes (tangent from staff ethics convo):

They often fall along the lines of being able to do ALL THE THINGS EVER! despite being relatively young and, in my experience, are the kind of characters the players try to get into the role of center of attention.

I think there's a math to this. Starting characters often get gimpy level 1 rookie sheets, where it makes little sense to say they're older than 25 given their skill levels can barely handle the most mundane things when dice come out.

Then, after a year on grid, through rp, and xp through noms, they become 20 year old admiral-commando who's the best at everything, even though they just get laid and hang out at the bar. Props to faraday for making a system where this doesn't happen.