Best posts made by Sunny

Yay! At least I'm not the only Team Instinct person around. It feels like it, in my neck of the woods.

@Bennie said:

It all comes down to the Approval and the Staffer who does so. A lot of games are fearful of approaching new players to their game for a conversation about their concept. So the concepts slide into home plate, one after the other.

What? This statement is nonsense.

@Cupcake said in Tulpas or Roleplaying?:

Every now and again when discussing my characters with someone, I find myself slipping into first person. When I realize what I'm doing, I try to halt it immediately - I just feel it's embarrassing and the person's going to think I don't have a grasp on reality. So I try to make sure I focus on remaining third person when discussing my characters.

I actually used to be a lot more fussy about this myself. Lots of tabletop gaming has made me less worried about first/third person in reference to my own PCs, because that's just how conversation flows. 'I can't believe you did that!' at the table isn't in any way implying that anybody thinks anyone is their character, or anything. Put through that lens, what used to worry/bother me on this line (oh noes, am I having separation issues?) doesn't really, any more.

@Arkandel said in CoD - Victorian - Penny Dreadful-ish.:

@Sunny It was an example of something that would affect gameplay and theme at the same time. I'll refrain, my apologies.

Hey, it wasn't you, it was the direction of the conversation, sorry to single out a few of your key words. I play a sexist as fuck character on KD where women don't have all the rights, and it's actually more frustrating to me than playing someone oppressed would be because oh my god the backlash when my character dares to suggest someone should be putting the sword down and having babies. It's not particularly fun, and I would much rather see a game that sidestepped this issue entirely unless someone actively wants the rp.

@TNP said in Issues with SimpleMu:

It's simple, really. SimpleMu does everything I want it to. Why should I replace it when it works fine?

Dual input windows and pretty, pretty colors?

See, that's what I mean about entertaining trolling. At least it's something.

Lord. It was a joke, folks. Ha ha.

Use whatever server your coder prefers. If you don't have a coder, stop development and focus your attention on either learning to code yourself or on recruiting one. We all have our preferences and there is no 'objectively better in all ways' server. Penn has FS3, Mux has a package of out there, etc. 'What do I use?' vs 'What are your design goals?'

I have a good boss. He's competent, fair, reasonable, and intelligent. He's flexible, honest, and straightforward. He did my eval last week, and recognized the things I bring to the team IN WRITING. I have never worked for someone like this before. It's so fucking amazing.

Best of luck for this project, it's pretty exciting. If there's anything I can do to help in the not-heavy-commitment way I'd be happy to do so, but I've got my own thing I'm working on presently.

@ThatOneDude

Building a game and running a game are VASTLY different skillsets; his flake doesn't threaten the building of the game, and he's intending to pass it off to folks for running. That certainly satisfies my concerns, and I think you'll be relieved too once you see it start working more. I'm definitely going to second the statement of making it easy easy to run stuff as players.

@Auspice Shower. You'll sleep better!

@faraday

And it's not an actual problem, either. Again, if you have people ditching all of their characters and leaving a game, rather than switching alts around? And it's happening regularly enough that it is causing actual disruption?

There is a big problem with your game and it's not alts.

@Olsson said:

On the subject of literature, I currently have the pleasure of reading The Prince by Machiavelli for my History course.

Joys.

I read it for pleasure. On purpose. I was really young and the bragging rights were important. It meant I was smarter than everyone else. I'm so sorry you have to read it for a class.

No, I just find it heavy handed, using a sledgehammer to swat a fly. Having an alt limit? Sure. Not allowing them at all? It is a preference, not a solution.

@ThatGuyThere

Family means different things to different people. When you start getting into the big families -- if you cut your parents off, you lose the siblings too, or grandparents, or whatever. If you refuse to have anything to do with one of your siblings, you hear about it EVERY SINGLE TIME you hang out with your mom. Or, or, or, or, or. Also, don't underestimate 'this person raised me, I have many good memories, and in most other areas they're acceptable...and they are going to die before too long'. If relationships are wholly bad, sure. It is very, very rare that they are entirely bad, and again -- family. There are people that value it very differently, that family is the foundation of their moral core. Turning your back on family, it's just. not. done. Culturally, morally, it is unacceptable, just as it's unacceptable to some to go against their word, for example.We are talking base right and wrong, here.

Potato potato potato.

Motherfucking people bitching about their bloody Freedom of Speech when private companies censor speech in private areas. I do not know that I have a stronger pet peeve. AUGH. Infuriates me so much.

@WTFE

Nope. My anger is pretty specific. Thanks for playing, though.

@GirlCalledBlu said in Leadership, Spotlight, and PCs of Staffers:

I have run plots for people, and rarely ever received a plot in return. So, I come to the point where I'm left with: do I wait around for someone to run something for me (even after I've suggested I could use a GM to help me out) or do I just get it done so I can keep moving forward with my character?

I'm going to voice what other folks aren't saying here and say yes. You wait around. If the only way you can go forward with your character is by running a plot for yourself, then you should be going in a different direction. You can still have agency over your PC, you can still have your PC grow. As a staff storyteller, you simply should. not. run. something. in which your character is the star. Ever. If that means you don't get to be a star, then you need to look at what problems your game has that even staff cannot get personal storytelling attention.

1. Do you have enough STs?
2. Are people being rewarded in the right way for running plots?
3. Are you behaving in a fashion that discourages people from running for you, personally?
4. Are you creating an environment where people feel free and comfortable storytelling for each other?
5. Do you have a venue on the game in which everyone can ask for someone to run something?

If your game is set up so that nobody can get personal attention from ANY Storyteller, that's a problem. If you, as a staffer, cannot get someone to volunteer to run something for you? You. Have. A. Problem. Because if you, as a STAFFER, cannot find someone to run a plot arc that helps your PC grow, how much luck do you think your PLAYERS are having with the same thing?