Posts made by Sunny

@Ominous

Nope. It works just fine as a framework depending on what you want to do. Game style and game structure are not the same thing. Just because you don't see how the tool can be applied appropriately does not mean I am trying to hammer a screw.

@Ominous

Narrative focus and narrative system are different things, and you're conflating the two. That's where your confusion is coming from. The framework of a mush allows for narrative roleplay, while mechanical systems used support that in such a way as to provide a shared structure to that narrative. Narrative systems can - and have - been used as that mechanical framework (I used Amber diceless for the best damn game I ever did), but that isn't a requirement to have a narrative focused game.

ETA: I have played, tabletop, a narrative focused Warhammer 40k game. No, I am not joking. It was amazing, and went very well. Lasted a good while, too.

@Auspice

So, I support users like this that simply need it, period, and the option of not supporting them isn't there. I have had to find a solution to this!

Cheat sheets.

Lots of cheat sheets. For the specific tasks she does. As SUPPLEMENT to training material, available.on request. Unless your material and tools.make it difficult, it is likely to take less time to cobble this together than you will have to take dealing with her fucking whining.

Eta: the cheat sheets, pretend they are for a TV sitcom grandma. Build to that level. ^.^

Eta2: I swear, this is the type of situation where it is way easier to just give in than it is to deal with the crap for any length of time. If you dumb it down enough, she will also likely REALLY appreciate it, and the whining powers might be used for good.

Eta3: I have this convo regularly with my team's system engineer. I get it. But.

@Ganymede

Yeah, I was around. It was a lot of fun, and lord yes some of today's code would've made a lot of stuff easier. Sigh.

@Ominous

Yeah, I'm way more interested in narrative buy-in than I am in code-enforced "buy-in". Personal preference, but that sounds like a nightmare to me, and I love system heavy games.

I mean my partner and I have IMed before from the same house, but this is just weird. >.>

@Arkandel

I have at least one google doc still bookmarked somewhere, because I was going to use it as a template for another project so Precisi stuck it somewhere for me. Involved. Very involved.

@Lotherio

Best political RP I ever had was on Redemption, hands down. Turning the water off for a province or w/e they were called was one hell of a move. I will say that maybe after you left? There were spreadsheets everywhere keeping track of economy and resources and soldiers and things. So many spreadsheets.

Omg I think I am going to die. My face started itching yesterday. Bad. I survived. Today, my face, my hands, and the INSIDE OF ONE OF MY EARS. It pretty clearly seems to be an allergic reaction of some sort, but I haven't gotten into anything that I know of. ITCH.

@Lemon-Fox said in Punishments in MU*:

That may be the message conveyed, but the goal of punishment is always correction

Citations needed, particularly with the 'always' being there.

@Auspice

I have never seen anything so beautiful in my entire life. Thank you.

A family member just advised me, "don't die" because I laughed so hard.

@Derp

I mean if you're interested in the conversation go make a thread; I don't think it's been enough of a derail that we need to be asking to have posts moved? Especially as it all relates to this topic.

@Pandora

I seriously DO NOT think we will ever actually change stances on this one, because imnsho, this is a moral issue. AAAH. Not that one viewpoint or another is more moral, but the value of our privacy is a moral. It's not an ethic (in my second not so humble opinion, the only 'ethic' involved in mushing is 'do what your policies say you are going to do'), it's an intrinsic value that is a basis for how somebody views the world, and debate on a forum of this sort is really unlikely to have any real impact. The best thing we can hope for us to understand fully and make informed decisions to include as much room for everyone as possible.

@Auspice

I really wish that wasn't accurate.

I was debating this as length last night with my partner (because of course I was), and what we came back to on this one is that it really boils down to a consent. I consented to let someone else read X; I did not consent for a different person to do so. When my issue stops being an issue for me is when the issue becomes big enough that it overrides the importance of my consent to me.

My privacy is mine, like my hand is mine and I don't want you to touch it if you don't have permission UNLESS you are, say, grabbing it to pull me out of the way of a semi truck I didn't see.

@Pandora

Cool; I generalized where it wasn't intended, and I'm sorry about it.

ETA: Thank you for clarifying.

@Pandora

I guess that would make me wary of staff reading my stuff as well, if I was up to no good.

My apologies if this wasn't intended to imply that the objection is because people were up to no good.

@Pandora

Privacy is valuable in and of itself. It might not have value to you, but to pretend that it only is valuable to anyone if they are misbehaving is inaccurate. Recognizing when other people have different values than you without immediately assuming those values are lesser is really helpful when having these sorts of conversations.

I would love an Old Republic era game, but...le sigh.