Best posts made by Sunny

I have recently been introduced to Chuck. I did not expect to like this show, let alone love it.

Raging? Really? How about we not do that, please and thank you.

No one said it, no; it was definitely an implication hanging heavily in the air, and I responded to said implication by making a statement that I felt was relevant to the conversation.

GMing is a creative skill, like roleplaying or painting or writing stories or making towering sculptures out of popsicle sticks or makeup or entertaining people on a stream. It's not the same skill as roleplaying, it's a different skill, and not everybody has the capacity to learn it just like the way my hands works means I will never be able to paint in a particular fashion. Being entertaining as part of an unscripted group versus entertaining people somehow under your guidance -- they're different muscles.

I think it's a great idea to encourage people to do it, bribe them, make it worthwhile, find ways to motivate more people to find out if they have the skill, but don't do it with an air that's going to make the people who can't do it feel unwelcome. That's all I'm trying to say.

Trying this again, cough cough.

Maybe found a doctor that will listen to me! Hope is nice.

This whole thing just stinks of a serious entitlement issue to me. Most folks in the hobby don't live online any more.

Making decisions for someone else's character is never okay to do as another player without permission. If someone were to start ICly saying that my character was avoiding them / not doing their job because our schedules weren't meshing, I'd be going to staff immediately -- and justifiably -- and having a stop put to that right quick, because it's NOT okay.

My mom.

She's awesome and we have a great relationship these days. We haven't always, but as the years pass it gets better and better. The more I work at being present with her where she is, and working on understanding her for who she IS, not who I think she SHOULD be (as a mom), the better our relationship gets. I am so, so, so glad I was able to get my headspace in line enough to enjoy her for her. I'm a lucky duck.

I want a Buffy game SO FUCKING BAD.

Buffy? Anyone? BUFFY? PLEASE MAKE ME A BUFFY GAME.

@Herja

Bless those people. I'm really glad you have them. The rest of us appreciate them, too.

I don't know to what extent it's been done before or not, but this is the first mud I've ever heard of that sounds like something I'd like. I'd play the shit out of something like this.

Office365's web interface now lets you 'like' emails and things. I made the mistake of ranting about this (having likes in a professional environment) to my coworkers...

Yeah. My boss 'likes' every email I send her now.

ETA: I need to clarify. It is all in good fun.

Uh. Yeah, it's fun. It's not about shame as much as it is exposing. And yes, venting to like-minded individuals. It's nothing to do with an attempt to shame someone into changing their behavior because that's stupid.

@eye8urcake

Ugh, Nevada appears to be really terrible about this in general, too. I don't have any more suggestions atm. However, I will say: yammer on. Please. As much as you'd like. If you don't want to put it out for everyone, you can PM me and I will listen and you can get it off your chest. Do NOT feel like you have to keep it to yourself or suffer in silence. And this thread works as good as the other, it's all about talking about bad shit in our lives of one flavor or another.

@Swaggot

Troll is being troll again. They didn't say the fucking concepts were not interesting you mouth breather, they said they weren't denied for being interesting. Learn to read much?

I can't stop laughing. I've watched it like a million times, and I just laugh and laugh and laugh.

I have met tons of people. I had a few bad experiences, but mostly good. Better crowd than LARP was when I was a kid. People are mostly normal.

I do NOT voice chat with anyone I haven't already known for years, though, period. Not any more. Phone to meet up for plans? Yes. Discord talk? Never ever again. The assumption that voice chat means I want to talk sexy with someone is--really gross, and I have had a huge, huge problem with mushers and mmo players both. Apparently this is the fault of my particular voice, but whatever.

Also, no, no pictures. I don't care. I have a FB. Some people have seen it. I am an old fat woman. My bits are old. I do not need to send pictures.

I've been working on a new game, as well. Which is also something I swore up and down and sideways that no, never again. I think there's a lot of that going on right now. I've actually got a handful of players I'm interacting with these days that are 2 years or less in the hobby, which is freaking amazing, and I've been watching some people who 'quit forever' come back, too. I think I definitely agree that something good is happening with the hobby right now.

I also think one of the biggest hurdles to recruitment is awareness. We don't advertise in other communities -- when we do, there are results. People mostly just don't have any idea this format exists. Like, at all. Nobody does community outreach in general to just find new blood for the hobby. Even if they did, we no longer have a central place to point new people towards to learn, find games they'd like, and so on -- OGR and Electric Soup once upon a time served that purpose (IGU was more like MSB in that it was a discussion forum rather than a community resource), but when those died nothing rose to replace them (because it's a lot of work, even more so than running an actual like roleplay site).

When we lost Astra, Siobhan, Adumla (as much as I despised her, and that's probably not spelled right, but all I remember is the insult form of spelling her name and that's just not cool to use 20 years later), Saffron, and the others who REALLY pushed community outreach, nobody really picked up the slack. I see Evennia's developers and their community site are getting to that point and bringing in new folks, but I'm pretty sure that RIGHT NOW, that is the only forward-facing community project aside from a couple of specific games that go and reach out to specific audiences.

Way more than UI, types of games, etc -- people for the most part just have never even heard of these games.

I don't mind characters being restricted by theme/setting as long as the restrictions are such that I still have significant agency as a player, as long as the character itself has enough agency to be playable and fun.

My menu button no longer works on my phone; the problem is manifesting only on this site. I've tried using the checkbox to switch sides (it does nothing), I've tried switching skins. No success.

@WTFE

@Meg is not staff on the game, FYI. Maybe find another premise.