Posts made by Sunny

@ominous

I mean, she said that they're enjoying Gloomhaven and it works for them? I'm not sure what your issue with it is, but there's nothing wrong with enjoying a paid product. You're coming across as weirdly aggressive about peoples' enjoyment of a game.

Balance and letting everyone play what they want > disparate power levels w/ restricted slots

@derp

Thanks for having the courage to let us help. I know it's really hard. Much appreciated!

@wizz

Yay. I'm so happy you've got it! Crisis averted!

Chrono Cross remaster wut wut?!?!

All I've heard is rumors but apparently NVIDIA had a leak and the leak implied that SE might be working on this. The THOUGHT is spectacular.

I still have permission to set a game in West's universe. ^^ I doubt I'll have energy any time in the foreseeable future, but it's still something I think about a lot.

There is one group of people that I know that is scared of vaccinations, and a LOT of work is being done by leadership of that group to get them educated/unscared. They are frightened because they were medically experimented on and murdered via that medical experimentation by the US government, within living memory. This is a reasonable fear. I do not think "let them die" is appropriate. It hurts me a great deal to hear people I care about expressing this sentiment, because these people DO NOT deserve to just die.

There is another group of people that I know that is also scared of vaccination. My step-brother-in-law got COVID, after thinking for a while it was a hoax. He got a positive diagnosis, then two days later went to his daughter's wedding. He didn't mask up, he didn't tell anyone, he didn't alter his behavior at all. His 93 year old grandmother was there. My parents were there (including my medically vulnerable mother). The majority of their family was there. I skipped it because I don't trust them. Three days after the wedding, he was so sick that he had to be hospitalized.

They didn't tell anyone. They didn't tell a soul until two weeks after. I am still seeing white with rage when I think about it. I still don't think "let them die" is an appropriate sentiment. I don't know how to fix it? But "let them die" just isn't a solution that works for me.

Good. Thank you. I know it's a really hard thing to do.

I'm tired of the death. I've been steeped in it for two years, being part of a small community with a lot of health challenges. We haven't gotten back to the devastation of last summer (it seemed like there was a funeral every week; we had to stop closing for them), but it's just...bad, still. Today's loss hit really, really hard.

My community has a long history of being very distrustful of power, so I can't really....I can't blame anybody there for not being vaccinated. The tribe is TRYING to encourage it, but when you have people in their remembered history -- some of it during some of these folks' LIVES, like, CURRENT history for them -- who WERE killed by "medical intervention" that wasn't, I'd be wary too, and so it's really rough to see the whole "they should be left to suffer" thing. The fear some of these communities have is valid and real and comes from what the US government did to them within the last hundred years. This isn't shit they learned in a textbook, but in their very real lives.

I just want people to stop dying. I want to make it through more than a week or two without being asked if I'm sitting down, or stumbling across info unexpectedly, or a closure for a funeral, or--

just. that's all. It's so hard.

@derp said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Maybe you could set up a GoFundMe or something for donations toward something new? Even if just a temporary fix.

Please do this. I can't swing a laptop right now, but I could contribute on payday.

I am covering for a friend at work, publishing a newsletter on the day off. Reviewing said publication before sending it out is how I just found out another one of my work buddies died yesterday (while we were closed for a funeral). I am so tired of being surrounded by death.

@sahin said in RL things I love:

This. Yes. This.

Right in the feels.

@ninjakitten said in Attachment to old-school MU* clients:

@sunny said in Attachment to old-school MU* clients:

(especially given we have a whole subset of games that don't even have grids any more).

Which would those be?

The ones that I'm told exist every time an adjacent topic comes up. "We do fine without a grid! Nobody needs one any more! Nobody plays on them anyway, we just choose rooms off a list." Unless that's been just hyperbole and the games DON'T actually exist.

eta: I don't know what they are, I just know I'm yelled at about them every time I mention preferring grid based/initiated play, so I was trying to acknowledge they existed before somebody came at me again about it.

@tinuviel said in Attachment to old-school MU* clients:

That said, I was stating that the idea of it being the norm is now over. It still happens, just as I still could ride my horse to work if I wanted.

I think this perspective depends entirely on what games you're playing on. If you're not on games where it happens, yeah, I can see the viewpoint of the norm having changed (especially given we have a whole subset of games that don't even have grids any more). If you're on only games where it's still the norm (like I am)...the perspective seems very foreign, because it's still very much "the norm" where I play.

@il-volpe said in What is a MU*?:

Hmmm. I find I feel that having a grid is a defining element of MU-ness. They were created to have multi-player Zork.

I disagree. There's several games that I would consider MUs that don't have grids, they just have lists of rooms to pick from or some similar accommodations.

"I know it when I see it" is about the best definition you're going to get, I think.

@kestrel said in Attachment to old-school MU* clients:

@sunny said in Attachment to old-school MU* clients:

ALSO

blinky blinky flashy flashy is super important to remind me I'm RPing.

IIRC Ares sends desktop notifications, at least on Chrome. Is there a difference here still?

I wonder if a mobile app with push notifications could make a difference, too.

Whatever notifications Ares had when I was playing on an Ares game did not manage to catch my attention / keep me reminded I was RPing. If this has changed or is different now, I don't know, all I do know is that it was previously a problem for me that my client solves by flashing.

ALSO

blinky blinky flashy flashy is super important to remind me I'm RPing.

I use a modern client (BeipMu) so I can't say I'm attached to old-school clients, but I still use a client at all because the only place I play isn't Ares and doesn't have everything I need on the web. When I was playing on games that had everything web accessible, I still used a client because one of my games needed it, and I was not about to have two programs open.