Posts made by Silver

This.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2015/0619/US-Marines-resurrect-historic-Raiders-name-for-Special-Ops

To me this is kind of like hearing that King Arthur has opened up applications for new Knights for the Round Table.

@Insomnia said:

@Silver said:

I am now ignoring this thread.

Are you? Are you really?

Yes. Also ignoring this response!

I am now ignoring this thread.

@tragedyjones My basic tips to everybody who wants to create Something Interesting?

1. Make it mundane. Nobody staffwise really cares if it's a normal mortal that does a thing with normal tools and for normal motives we all see on the news every day.

2. Never forget how stupid people are. Your NPCs can be jackhole morons. Sometimes the stupider the better. It is very hard to make an NPC TOO stupid. Trust me, someone out there in RL-land is that bad or worse.

3. Failure is beautiful. When your players fail, it can be hilarious. When your NPCs fail, make it comedy gold. They don't just trip and fall. They trip and fall and knock over a table with six drinks on it, dumping them all over the girls having their night out, two of whom get so angry they start trying to stomp their high heels into your NPC's face.

4. Aquaman's powers suck. Not the modern day, pumped up Aquaman. I mean the pathetic Aquaman on Superfriends from the Filmation cartoons in the early 80's. All he could do was talk to fish. You know what fish say? "Glub." If you have players who think their awesome power is the PERFECT thing in this situation and it genuinely will not work or even help the situation? Don't be afraid to just make it worse. Like if someone wants to do psychometry on a dirty diaper or something. I've seen these things attempted.

There's probably more, but those four about cover it for me.

@EmmahSue said:

Why the fear, though? What could staff do, really? Sure, they might go 'nu-uh' or 'stop that random RP you guys' but then at least you'd know they're assholes. Sitting there afraid is... I won't say silly. That'd be rude. But I'm kinda thinking it really hard, unfortunately. Terrible person, you may all hate me now instead!

ES

It is silly. The fear is unfounded but prevalent, I have noticed. There commonly exists a mindset of asking permission instead of forgiveness. I err on the side of forgiveness. I make up my own permission.

@EmmahSue This is why ES is on my list of people to always play with.

@tragedyjones Honestly everything I've heard about CtL 2.0 sounds cool to me. I do not share the grim opinions.

Just don't be that person who goes "Wanna RP?!" "I want RP!" "Let's RP!" And then I answer the call and show up and then you drop it:

"So what're we doing?"

You will go on the list of people I just don't respond to anymore.

@Thenomain said:

I know that in logic 'x therefore y' <> 'y therefore x'. This is a fact that I'm pretty sure that I know how to apply in day to day conversation.

Clearly X is not Y. X comes before Y in the alphabet, Thenomain.

Alphabet fail.

@silentsophia said:

Oh, here's one. Someone tells me I can't be seriously mentally ill because I have a degree. Wow. Thanks... I feel a lot better about it now...

Whoever said that hasn't met some of the scientists I have.

http://www.tickld.com/x/something-indiana-jones-and-darth-vader-have-kept-secret-this-whole-time

@Miss-Demeanor I prefer "take that off before someone takes a picture of it".

@Miss-Demeanor said:

Also, YES. Dear God yes. Please stop telling me that I need to stop drinking so much coffee while you shove your second Big Mac into your mouth. Or that I need to eat more than two meals a day when that keeps me perfectly content. I don't like breakfast, sue me. On the rare occasion I actually eat that early, I tend to be too full for lunch. So what, that's just how my body works, leave me alone.

If you stopped drinking so much coffee I bet you'd have more friends AND money.

eats mayo and butter by the spoon

Another deadpool point I missed. Dammit.

I used to love oWoD. Back then it was the biggest thing out there, but even then I had problems with the metaplot. Not that there was anything wrong really with Cain being the First Vampire, and I was even into the War for Gaia against the Wyrm, but the way Gehenna/Apocalypse was forced into the setting didn't sit well with me. Largely this was because the end of the world was impossible, even within the game setting.

Eschatology doesn't play well to me unless it's plausible and oWoD's idea of it wasn't, even when I made imaginary allowances for magic and vampires and werewolves, oh my.

Not that I don't blame people who like oWoD still. Go ahead and like it! Play in it. Enjoy it. I'll be over here with stories that fit me instead.

@Sunny said:

@Royal said:

Same with great role players. They're awesome! Surely they are waiting for a scene to start, so I shouldn't bother asking. When in reality? They're staring at the OOC room chatter.

This is so a thing.

It is a thing, but I'm swimming in RP. I think I found the solution!

@Misadventure Mmmmmmmmm theories.

@Rook I'm upvoting yours AND BigDaddyAmin's just to pile it three-deep.

@BigDaddyAmin It's more about the decadence of spoiling yourself a little. And it's totally cool if it's not everybody's thing.

@BigDaddyAmin Oh I sharpen my own with an oil stone and a 4000 grit/8000 grit water stone, complete with bowl and boar bristle brush and soap cakes.

I am the kind of guy who wants to drive a standard transmission, knows how to use a topographical map and a compass, sharpens his own knives, and calls strangers "sir" and "ma'am" without irony. Straight razors just kind of fit right in with my style.