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    Posts made by silverfox

    • RE: Differences Between MUDs and Everything Else? (MUSHes, MUXes, etc)

      If the RP and organic interactions with other people aren't the focus of the game, I won't play. If the systems overwhelm or prevent that basic focus you'll lose me.

      I hated the SW game where I'd ask my little known group, 'hey, you wanna rp?' and they would respond, "yeah, in <insert number> when my shipment is done." That just murdered my desire. I am an adult with a bed time. In the evening I have 3-4 hours tops. If I can't find rp in the first hour, it isn't happening that night.

      I'm really mad at myself for letting some of the Arx systems get the better of my rp. I can rp without them, but I got in my own head.

      posted in Game Development
      silverfox
      silverfox
    • RE: MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't)

      @SparklesTheClown

      Man. I wouldn't even know how to find the open source stuff, and if given a link, what would I even do then. You have to pay money to do something right?

      (This is not a real question, but part of why we will never make these games. )

      posted in Mildly Constructive
      silverfox
      silverfox
    • RE: Favorite/Most Memorable Childhood Books

      @faraday

      Oh man. I first read that on audio book, and it has never been the same just in print. So it remains the only audio e book I have ever purchased.

      posted in Readers
      silverfox
      silverfox
    • RE: Favorite/Most Memorable Childhood Books

      @Quinn

      Oh man - yes. The Beggar Queen and its sequels is what really sticks in my mind about Alexander though. Just 💔

      posted in Readers
      silverfox
      silverfox
    • RE: Favorite/Most Memorable Childhood Books

      More:

      Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel. The shovel was //obsolete// and then rocked the town's socks. After, they took care of her and Mike. ❤ ❤

      The Little House. The illustrations in that book wow me even today. They're so freaking detailed. It's what a children's picture book SHOULD be. You can feel the loneliness of the house as it gets abandoned and the city built up around it. Then when it is FOUND and is LIVE IN AND LOVED just. 💔 ---> <3!

      posted in Readers
      silverfox
      silverfox
    • RE: Favorite/Most Memorable Childhood Books

      @SilentHills

      We called my older brother the pokey little puppy when he was little because he was ALWAYS making a mess and being slow.

      posted in Readers
      silverfox
      silverfox
    • RE: Favorite/Most Memorable Childhood Books

      @Macha

      Oh man, The Black Stallion. ❤ ❤

      posted in Readers
      silverfox
      silverfox
    • RE: MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't)

      His Dark Materials

      I want a daemon.

      posted in Mildly Constructive
      silverfox
      silverfox
    • RE: MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't)

      I'd love a pern game on Ares.

      posted in Mildly Constructive
      silverfox
      silverfox
    • RE: Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff

      Woman's pants that
      a) don't have functional pockets
      b) don't go all the way down past my ankle

      Like, just stop it people; my ankles are NOT sexy, nor are my socks. Cover that shit up please.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
      silverfox
      silverfox
    • RE: RL things I love

      ... why are the TAs writing the answer sheet. I was always given an answer sheet but for a religion class there could be many right answers.

      Just wow. I'm sorry this happened to you!

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
      silverfox
      silverfox
    • RE: RL things I love

      @Aria
      When I was a TA my professor gave me strict rules for grading and I followed them. He would then instruct them to come to him if they wanted to discuss their grades. 7/10 times he would raise their grade and the other 3/10 be all, "yeah, my TA got that right, your answer is way off."

      I worked for a religion professor and I think he just enjoyed talking about his content matter.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
      silverfox
      silverfox
    • RE: Favorite/Most Memorable Childhood Books

      The Phantom Tollbooth is a big one for me - big enough I've taught it 6/10 years I've taught. It is my biggest regret moving down to 2nd, they are too inexperienced to really get a lot of the deeper connections without a lot of backfill which would ruin the pace of reading.

      Narnia is another. My mother read them to my older siblings but I was too young to really get into anything with chapters, and then it took me a while to learn to read. Once I did I would sneak into my parents room to lay on their water bed and read them. That poor box set (which, unlike the newer ones followed the PROPER reading order of The Magician's Nephew after The Horse and His Boy, and before The Final Battle) fell apart in my hands. I now own two box sets- because it is IMPORTANT.

      Winnie the Pooh was my other one. Like Narnia this one sat on my mother's headboard instead of the bookcase. I loved reading those books.

      Now... if we go into picture books... I could go on forever. As I've grown up more I've realized some of them have not aged well though, so they are retired to a box of 'aww, good memories but woah, racist as fuck, set aside and never read to the next generation.' (5 Chinese Brothers being the most recently added when I came across it in a second hand bookstore.)

      posted in Readers
      silverfox
      silverfox
    • RE: Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff

      @Ganymede

      I am so sorry.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
      silverfox
      silverfox
    • RE: MU Things I Love

      I'm getting to rp non-serious things on an alt I love

      and my other alt got to give something horrible to her ic husband

      and my alt on another game got hit by a car

      and finally i have an old lady who I love

      so yes

      happy

      posted in Mildly Constructive
      silverfox
      silverfox
    • RE: Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff

      @RightMeow said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

      , I'll do it, but.. meh

      yeah.... I won't until I have to

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
      silverfox
      silverfox
    • RE: Silverfox's Playlist

      Updated - I need to play old women on more games.

      posted in A Shout in the Dark
      silverfox
      silverfox
    • RE: The Work Thread

      @GreenFlashlight
      That is horrible. I'm so sorry you have to go through that.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
      silverfox
      silverfox
    • RE: Someplace to play?

      @Cobaltasaurus said in Someplace to play?:

      bad anxiety with making a character in fs3

      I had someone else take over stating my characters in the first two ares games I played. The third I took a roster, then once I knew people were nice (@JinShei and @L-B-Heuschkel to be specific) I took the dive to do it it myself. That was positive enough that I've done it myself multiple times now. My last one took about 5 minutes to stat, and that was on the high side.

      So, I get the anxiety. If you need hand holding (please don't take offense at that, I mean it 100% in empathy for anxiety and needing the support myself to get over it) do reach out.

      posted in A Shout in the Dark
      silverfox
      silverfox
    • RE: Brandon Sanderson

      @tek

      ALRIGHT. If you want to dive in head first:

      A Way of Kings. This is the stormlight archive and it'll give you all the Sanderson-ness you could ever want. Downside, he's still writting the damn thing. Upside, there are 4 1000+ books in the series allready.

      If you want into the Cosmre more gently:
      Warbreaker It stands alone as a novel, but we're all hoping he writes more some day.
      Elantris I found the imagery in this book just overwhelmingly detailed. It takes some time for the action to "pick up" but every moment of the 'slow' part is important later.

      Outside of the cosmere I suggest
      The Rekoners with Steelheart being the first book. I read the whole thing in one sitting and thanks to the foresight of my husband went straight to the second, then third. I didn't sleep much those two days.

      If you nee something MUCH shorter:
      Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds It's an intersection between sci-fi and mental health. A bunch of novellas that you can eat quickly and feel happy about each one.

      posted in Readers
      silverfox
      silverfox
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