Well. We have a LOT of Spanish speaking customers, and for some reason, the presence of Spanish on labels just wigs some people out. Like, dude, companies ship things to many places and ignoring a huge potential customer base is a terrible business decision. Plus, Spanish speakers might wanna buy shit, too.
And why not treat it as a free mini language lesson? Now you know the word for razor and you can shave your legs in Mexico. Hooray!
I feel bad because I want to RP more, but my job is just killing me. 
Retail work.
@Roz Yeah, Rain on HM had gotten some plot to distribute in 2007 and Magdalena (the romani mage gal) STILL complained at me about it over mage chan when I came back in 2014. SEVEN FREAKING YEARS.
I don't mind leadership positions being doled out to known players or ones who have been around, but I do object to restricted abilities/cgen stuff. I like an 'app whatever, work for positions' kind of dealybopper.
Sofia had fun hanging out with the BBs. They were pretty groovy.
For what it is worth, I enjoyed Sofia. She did pretty well. I would probably try her again or something I can avoid politics with.
I'm on a boat!
The sea battles were somewhat lopsided (oh god). The big problem Sofia had was that pirate guy boning the Kurgankingdude's daughter (wtf oh god), so the Kurgankingdude was like THAT'S NOT HOMEWORK and was gonna steamroll south with this hugeass fleet and people were gonna be so pissed if Sofia turned the pirateguy over or let them fight privately. Sofia was just like, 100 ships? Hahaha, fuckno, we're firing your ass out of a cannon at this guy to get him to go home.
Although, I think I just had really shitty dice and Paulus and peeps had really good ones. >_< Sofia was really the only major naval PC who was like, doing military stuff. She didn't mind the pirate guy - she just thought he was thinking with the wrong brain and ended up horribly compromised. Amber kind of ignored me until her fief needed something or she needed to remind me over the course of 4 hours that I was incompetent IC and OOC but her pirate boyfriend was totes a better warden. Honestly, I was fine with part of it - Sofia had no real administration talent. I think she did way better as Admiral and Baroness, anyway.
Also electrified spike clubs, huh.
I switched meds again. Also been trying to limit my MU* time on account of crazy. I also found keeping the house clean, preparing for a part time job, attending various doctor and appointments keeps me busy.
@bored said:
So that was the issue. They told one sided stories. It was never you win some, you lose some, it was you look like you win a little and then LOL WHOOPS NOPE THAT WAS BAD FOR YOU HUH? The funny thing is, from what I could tell most of the playerbase was telling them this for months. I won't say the players were always super mature, but I think they would have tolerated some losses if they ever got any gains to match them. It's just that somehow that side of the equation, despite being in P's mission statement, never seemed to make it into play.
I remember that. It felt like some folks ran into things and just never seemed to win. Sofia had a fairly mixed bag and I really do have shitty dice. And yeah, I was in a few scenes with Chiaka. She didn't handle losing well.
@Alzie Moroko! That was it. He so was. Sofia adored him and so did I.
@deadculture Yes, it's the one. I was nixing it because it wasn't in character for my captain, nor was it fair to the other players. I thought a Hogan's Heroes-esque escape would've been more fun. But I was too busy CRUSHING FUN.
Don't get me wrong. I am hardly a saint. I did play a loyal Vassal to Antonio, and later Sans.
@Packrat She had to take out a loan from the Battle Bros and sell the ship they captured to them. Hands ain't cheap. I played Sofia and I think her stats were pretty good for what she was (Hazat Naval Captain deliberately kept bad at politics to prevent quibbling with siblings). I also didn't/don't know the system very well, so it was nice for me.
I did love hauling people around and taking people places. Emmanuel and the Battle Brother whose name started with an M but was not Miles were pretty awesome. Miles wasn't a bad dude. Sofia taught him how to fish. Adventuring and battling were totally my jam.
I thought losing her hand was interesting, and I did have fun - even if I have a knack for rolling terribly and giving GMs good dice wherever I go. 
I did lose a lot of faith when one chick accused me of trying to ruin her fun (lol), saying in OOC I was being passive aggressive in order to ruin her fun (wtf) because my ship's captain wouldn't give up her passengers if she could help it. So I offered to leave rather than escalate. This apparently made it worse.
Maybe I'm wrong, but it felt like consequences weren't really a thing for Renaud as much as others. I did feel awkward about a lot of it, but I was grateful mostly to be beneath his notice. And I will confess I get grumpy at my bad dice but I think Sofia made out well enough. She liked most people she ran across, and balanced out the more hot headed, party type Hazat. I felt kind of crushed by how Amber treated me IC and OOC. A four hour scene for 'lol ur pc isn't competent' was - eh. She just took up a different position and being a baroness was totally awesome!
Also, having a grumpy old man Li Halan was pretty hilarious. She had a phobia of lampreys and lived in the Fens where they exported lampreys. I deliberately avoided politics because 1) I suck at it and 2) It rarely seems to end well.
Here, assholes with giant SUVs and trucks will just use the bike lane as extra space.
Please don't bike much in Texas if you can help it.
@tragedyjones narrows eyes whispers I hope you step on a lego, nuclear Ghandi.