Posts made by spasticgoat

I'm leery of this model when it comes to "casuals versus actives". The difference seems to be who is blowing which staffer at the time or is in a popular time-zone. That's either clique behavior or omitting someone for where they happen to live, versus their idea being good or not. For my time, neither of those is really "cool" behavior.

RRC is not The Boys.
RRC is not Crossed.
RRC is RRC.

When someone posts about Game of Thrones, do you feel compelled to mention GRRM also wrote sci-fi of dubious quality?

@The-Tree-of-Woe said:

@Arkandel I owe you no explanations.

If you want to read trashy, violent smut and smutty, trashy violence, that's fine and more power to you, but don't wave it around like a fan and tell me misogyny and rampant, cynical misanthropy capped off with a woman being raped by a garden weasel are barbed and insightful social commentary about catholicism.

You didn't actually read Red Rover Charlie, did you? If you did, your version is much divergent from my copy and I think you should ask for a replacement. If you're talking about the Crossed series, the majority of it is written by non-Garth Ennis people, who are allowed to write things they want. One thing is not equal to the other thing.

@Arkandel said:

@The-Tree-of-Woe said:

If it's anything like a Garth Ennis comic I'll shank anyone who tries to make me play it.

Explain. Explain while knowing Garth Ennis is my hero.

I'll summarize: they are wrong. Read that book and then you will be as certain as I am about it.

@The-Tree-of-Woe said:

Dogs (and other animals) have inherited a post-humankind Earth. The center of Canine society is the Code of Man, essentially a code of behavior centering on "be a good dog" and maintaining a religious vigil waiting for the humans to return.
If it is anything close to this, I will shank a bitch to play it.

My, the weather is looking glorious today.

@Wizz
Set it in a companion city and flit back and forth for different groups to operate out of, maybe? You still get Night Vale and a diverse option without losing anything in the bargain.

@The-Tree-of-Woe They're trying to hide. Of course they stand out.

@Arkandel Because WW is fucking stupid when it comes to their naming convention. They mix Greek, Latin, and French words up into a single lexicon, because the game designed for Americans to play tragic-goth trenchcoat holders needs shit like that.

@Bobotron The rest of what you've got, it all looks really good. My criticism was from the only place I found a possible fault. You did good.

@Coin I know very, very little about Geists. I can count on one appendage the number of times I played one but it wasn't within the last two years.

@Bobotron said:

@spasticgoat
I don't forsee the options 2 and 3 coming up much, if at all, with the low alt count that is currently planned for the game.

Ultimately it might be 'Player A's Mortal hosts a party; Player A's Kindred alt goes to party to schmooze other people and may be in the same room, but doesn't interact with Player A's Mortal.'

Option 3 I'm putting there because it MAY come up, and MAY be valid (very few cases come to mind about validity of alt-interaction, but I want to account for that corner case that staff has to rule on directly).

The closer you let alts get, the faster you'll see intentional and "legal" blood pool circles and Vaulderie problems. Please, rethink this strategy and make a decision that will be as easy to support with a player base of ten as it would be with fifty.

From the "Alts" section.

• Characters may be aware of one another. They may have heard of, or seen in passing, each other.

This is not bad.

• Alts may be in the same scene, though they may not significantly interact with each other. In essence, each alt treats the other alt as a 'background NPC' in terms of interaction.

This is bad.

• If for some reason a direct alt interaction should be needed, please consult staff to discuss this.

This can only go very bad.

@Silver said:

@Coin If you do this you need to find a way to include the transmogrifier.

Don't Sin-Eaters have a talisman thing that uses their power system?

Phantasmal Caul, right?

@Derp Shadowrun?

@Ganymede said:

@spasticgoat said:

I included quotes around the word "hero" for a reason. They're often self-appointed class guardians and I see a lot of their class-based ideology spewed on my Facebook feed.

Okay, so what you're describing is a working-class asshole, then, that buys into the same shit that upper-class assholes do.

Pretty much, yes. On each side of the whole economic divide, there's assholes, it's just the blue collar ones I hear more from than most. It's why I put it as a peeve.

I included quotes around the word "hero" for a reason. They're often self-appointed class guardians and I see a lot of their class-based ideology spewed on my Facebook feed.

@Ganymede A champion of the downtrodden without the slightest clue of what life is like when someone's collar is a different color. The presumption being, someone who makes more money than they do is living an easygoing life and that they obviously didn't do anything special to arrive at that point.

@Anonymous
I have a coworker who is liberal with my chair. They "borrow" it whenever someone visits their office and "forget" to return it. If I could lock my office door, I would.

@Anonymous said:

@spasticgoat I hope you don't mean to imply that the beneficiaries of inheritance and nepotism actually earned their high station...

I didn't imply it. What I said is very clear. You can read anything into it that you want, but it won't make you right or sane. You are also free to be as upset as you wish.