Posts made by SG

@Faceless said:

Is Generations of Darkness the one that had staff spying on player pages/whispers?

There were rumours of that last year before I left. I don't know the situation now, though.

Glitch to the rescue!

Are there any Planescape mushes kicking around? I miss the old table top campaign I was playing in last year.

That's some serious penmanship for someone who spends so much time on a computer. When I write with a pen it looks like someone broke my hands before I tried.

@BigDaddyAmin said:

In that case...can I have a whites only fraternity? Or a club for white heritage? Or a white heterosexual' only club?

My U has a Ukrainian club, are they white enough?

@DnvnQuinn said:

Where do the resources come from providing all these safe places? Whose paying for the staff member to oversee them? Whose paying the security to force these segregating standards?

I believe they're usually started as student clubs. I think funding usually comes from Student Unions as far as other clubs are funded, though I do see a lot of fundraising done by the organizations themselves in the Universities I've been to.

As for who gets them, in my experience, it's usually who sees a need and organizes one, typically it's an LGBT group or a women's group.

Usually there's no security needed, but if some asshole shows up and starts being a dick, the organizers I've met are usually trained in deescalation, and if that doesn't work, campus security shows up to trespass the person. It probably varies depending on campus culture.

@DnvnQuinn said:
The act of preventing white people from entering a place based on the color of their skin is the same thing the black's fought to get rid of. Turning around and doing the same things (like your "White people harassed blacks, so...it's not bad when black folks do it to whites" suggestion above) helps absolutely no one.

I disagree. Pretty much all of North America is a safe space for straight white people. Having Safe Space areas on campuses for minorities can be really helpful for building up mental health support networks.

@BigDaddyAmin

As a fan of power fantasy movies, I agree she was pretty Mary Sue, but to be fair, I think most of the complaints are exaggerated.

Luke was was a total noob to combat, and was able to block blaster bolts while blindfolded from the drone after about 30 seconds of training, I think lightsabre use is pretty intuitive for those strong in the force, especially for people from rough parts of town.

Being a whizkid mechanic seems to be standard issue for SW main characters. This is easiest for me to give a pass since her job is mechanical in nature.

I do agree that she was waaaay too good of a pilot for someone who spent her life digging around old ships and from what we can tell has never flown before. This is the one that puts her into Mary Sue territory for me. That and her escape from the torture chair. I really enjoyed that scene, but it was pure MS.

North Korea: The Mush might be a fun one. You could run it like Paranoia. It might also be an amazing setting for Vampire. Somehow the hunters have cornered all the vampires in that tiny sliver of land.

I'm trying to learn python so I can make one on evennia. With luck using savage worlds.

@Thenomain said:

Does it have either players or quasi staff leading the Sith effort? Like faction heads?

I think it does. At least last year it seemed to.

@Runescryer I'm playing in a Marvel table top game using those rules. It's actually quite a bit of fun. I especially like how you get XP for playing to your character's cliches.

I'd be interested in trying out WoD if it was Hunter themed.

@Sunny said:

@DnvnQuinn said:

Dice prevent the "I hit you!","Nahuh I blocked it with my laser gauntlet!", "Nah uh I'm faster than you!" arguments.

Really? Thankfully, I don't have that problem amongst the people I tabletop with, either in person or online.

I find it happens sometimes even with rules and dice. Especially with people who use purple prose and pose walls of text about how seductive/intimidating/awesome their character is despite them having no codified stats supporting such poses. It really irks me, because they then start spazzing out about how I'm a roll player and not a role player. They often really lose it when I suggest they play the role listed on their sheet.

Part of me thinks this is the same three or four people following me from mush to mush being dinks. Like, if charisma is your dump stat, please stop posing like you're the second coming.

@Roz said:

What features does Potato have that SimpleMU doesn't?

It can handle https links.

I'm sold. Fucking outlook popup. I don't even have outlook installed!

@Three-Eyed-Crow What does the key actually do? I've found the trial version to be everything I've needed it to be.

SimpleMU as well. I tried going with TF a little while ago but just couldn't grok it. I'm losing nerd cred.

Dear perfume lady: please just get the fuck out of my cubicle, I don't care about how you once had a sore throat when you were pregnant and now never take flu shots. Just fuck off and die already. How more obvious can I be, typing stuff on the computer while you're blathering about stuff I don't care about.

Hmm, so maybe add a port of the old door game Trade Wars?

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