Barring the rarest of corner cases, I can't do multiple scenes at a time. So, uh. Yeah.
If someone I'm playing with is posing two lines every two hours because they're ten times more invested in something they're doing elsewhere, they're sure as shit not showing respect for my time (whether I'm doing other things or not, provided I'm keeping up promptly).
So, if you can keep up with a dozen scenes at once? Go for it! If you can't, know your fucking limits.
@arkandel Early days of a high protein, low carb die+t tend to be blazing fast. It tends to settle out to 2lbs/week after a month or two, but that first month or two are like a bolt from the blue.
It is not a joke that I could eat a half pound of bacon daily and lose 5lbs/week. I mean, that's just plain insane and a little terrifying on many levels. (Before you ask, my cholesterol is ideal and was when I was on that die+t, too. Even at 'damned near dead', the docs were simply baffled by how perfect all my numbers were, 'cept for blood pressure, which sometimes was a little higher than average on the high end -- I wonder why! 
Downright ooky. Just wired for it, like a proper carnivore. Gnaw-nom-nom-nom.)
@Wretched You are goddamned murder on this keyboard, mister.
@Aria Thankfully, the folks know this is 'crisis mode', so they're handling it, as they technically own this house as well. I think. I'm getting groused at about it -- like I had some control over a 16 year old unit finally dying -- but... yeah, we could get the coil replaced in 2 weeks for $1k less, but it is 16 years old. It's overdue as it is for its swan song, apparently. If it wasn't practically an antique, I would be giving this way more side-eye.
If it gets truly impossible, I can flee next door to crash in my old bedroom. (Their cats' room, now. Their cats would be so confused!)
So much appreciated, though. 
(He is also naturally off at work in NJ until late late tomorrow night. Of course, right?)
@bear_necessities said in Difference between an NPC and a Staff PC?:
@Wretched said in Difference between an NPC and a Staff PC?:
Some of ya'll have never had to answer jobs about players wanting to know their relation ship status with NPC's they were TSing after a staffer quits and it shows.
Gross.
This, for the record, is the only appropriate answer:
@packrat Towels and shirts on the floor are cat heaven. They will be sad with you unless you leave them. Nothing else can save them from the carpet made of lava.
There is also a lot more leeway to do whatever with an NPC from a player bit in a player-run PrP. Yep, even as a staff member, you should be able to do this, too, within the limits allowed for any other player on the game to do the same.
That's where 'run things for your buddies' is probably better handled.
@sunny If you really want her head to explode, tell her you did one of those ancestry.com or whatever DNA tests, it came back with something like 65% Mexican, and you want to learn the tongue of your true people.
(Never actually do this. Ever. Obviously. But imagine the look on her face for a moment if you did, and odds are you will feel at least a tiny bit better about the absurdity of it all.)
@Tinuviel This is definitely one person. The behavior itself isn't something I'd consider incredibly rare, however.
I don't consider myself 'a horrible problem' for wanting to stay away from this person, or not wanting to have them shoved in my face.
Additionally, I don't think I should have to leave the game to avoid having to deal with them being shoved in my face.
In this instance, it's simple: "Please don't put me and X in the same faction, due to a personal conflict I am trying to avoid them."
Y'all can talk about how this is the 'death of the hobby' and how it's 'just so awful that anyone does this', but when someone's done something spectacularly awful within the past month? No, I'm not going to be inclined to engage them in any way.
@auspice I honestly loved this season of Legends for being just. so. dang. goofy. It being so unserious made it much more entertaining on the whole.
Before, it was trying to be serious and failing and falling totally flat to the point of none-fucks-given. Embracing the absurdity, taking it out to tango, and being completely ridiculous works for it much better, at the very least. It's stupid, sure, but it's very cheerfully stupid in a way that somehow became endearing. It gets increasingly goofy and self-mocking until the finale, which... I did not know I had been waiting all my life to see that, but I apparently was.
Also, this season was like a love letter to my childhood with all the references and parodies. They hit me square in the inner child like whoa.
OMG stereotypical surreality response: It depends.
Literally, it depends on the week. Some are amazing!!! Some suck rotten eggs.
My husband likes to do the whole 'but they're open another half hour!' bullshit, because he does not get this, and it drives me crazy. I've managed to educate him out of most of it, but still have to remind him much more than I'd like. There's a reason I steer him toward the 24 hour diner a lot.
I read that inquiry as not where posters were active on the forum, so much as active on games.
Different games and genres all have their own potential pitfalls/etc., so this can be very relevant to the over all experience someone has.
Plenty of us stick to one genre, system, or a fairly small range. (I do horror but no L&L, I only do WoD, I only do purely consent-based games, etc.)
@auspice Back in the 90s, friends of mine thought it would be entertaining to see what would happen if they slipped some to me for my birthday -- only mentioning this after they had done so.
I spent several hours totally fascinated by the bathroom tiles playing hopscotch and the shower curtain breathing and wouldn't let anyone in the bathroom for like... five hours.
They weren't as amused after that, since the house only had the one bathroom.
They finally pried me out of there by reminding me that my computer had an animated fractal generator on it, which resulted in my very first case of qwertyface.
@Wizz And in my head, I'm picturing a tipsy person staring blearily at the screen while a puppet argues with itself in front of them when they asked something relatively harmless, like 'do you wish for me to join the battle, commander?' because two different staffers are working the puppet and talking at the same time.
@carex I keep the politics talk to a dull roar, since I avoid the politics forum. But that's the same reason we don't put out signs.
I mean, I hate to say it, but... I don't know why we'd have to. We're a respectively a green haired forty-something artist and a massage therapist always dressed in geekery of some sort. This is really not a hard guess for anybody to make.
There's a lot of split ticket voting than is likely the average nowadays here, though, to be honest, since Delaware (with a few notable not-witch exceptions) tends to turn out moderates from whatever official party they're representing. Which, y'know? It's so refreshing in this day and age.
@silverfox The loudest voices have a way of wanting to universally define others in ways that can be damaging and false, yeah. It's one thing for a loud voice to have and voice an opinion and note it as such, and another to proclaim that someone is <this, that, or the other>.
It's a line I wish there was more of an over all effort to make the distinction between the two, no matter who is speaking.
@arkandel That just kinda gave me the d'awws because I'm playing a robot at the moment, and that is like... absolutely her brain. D'aww.
@faraday said in How to Escape the OOC Game:
Enigmas can be off-putting, especially when so may folks have been burned by creepers in the past.
^ This. Building on what you said here...
What people don't necessarily understand -- unless it has happened to them -- is how persistent some of these people can be.
I mentioned an example earlier in the thread of someone (Jeurg) who I had never heard of when I played on TR, since I never played on HM and was not active at the time. Being someone who are chill on a game as being chill until they're not, when he mentioned this, it was a case of 'oh, whatever, you seem chill to me, I have no idea who that is'. And I found out the hard way. I also saw first hand as he talked about someone who had put out a 'no contact' with him on HM and had it enforced, and how he'd figured out who they were on TR. He immediately went to join the faction they were in and was needling at them -- gleefully. I don't believe he understood at all that this did not impress me and I did not think it was cute, clever, or some sign of how awesome he was.
I played with someone for ages on Shang, who then turned out to be so possessive they made the idea of even being in a room with another player there, on TR, or on BITN, a very anxiety-laden experience, even if I was just sitting there idle for 12 hours when they popped in to give me crap about what I was supposedly actively doing. (Idling, duh.) And gods help me I unidled. (Normally, I was chilling with Ghost talking OOC about horror movies through the day while he was at work -- pretty sure he remembers this craziness.) This person would, on Shang when CG was easy and open, create unknown-to-me logins simply to go to wherever I was and sit there silently and watch what I did. This was less obvious in big public areas than it was, say, when he'd send one into a cafe where two people were talking over dinner. (Which he also did.) I would get crazy abusive RL emails and text messages from this person -- once involving dozens of texts calling me a slut/whore/traitorous harlot/etc. for, no joke, hugging someone in a public place and saying, "I haven't seen you in ages!"
Someone I played with all the way back in the 90s and was entirely normal at the time? Has started behaving in an abusive manner toward me over the last few years, from out of nowhere, because we have barely had any contact at all between now and then. This persisted to chasing me here to vomit abusive delusions at me that are, frankly, genuinely frightening. Ark and Gany have been champs handling this and they deserve a fuckin' medal, for real. This guy and his penchant for making new accounts once he's banned and PMing from them is... well, see sig. This person is local, knows where I am, and is apparently already known to law enforcement. I had to report this person to law enforcement myself.
So, y'all... it can get bad. I am not trying to throw the bucket of cold water on good feelings here. I am saying: do not underestimate or dismiss concerns when people have them. I am not talking about a few creepy pages in an OOC room where someone says something skeevy, you pagelock them, and you're done[1]. A lot of folks seem to think that's all there is to these concerns when people bring them up, and that is simply not the case.
I know I am not the only one with stories like these. I've heard similar things privately over the years to be tragically aware of that. People tend not to talk about them, because they are scary, they are ashamed of having trusted this person at some point, that they just want it all to be over, and for a variety of other reasons. I have chosen to talk about these things openly because I know I'm not the only one they happen to. (Of all my various and sundry hills to die on, this is the mountain.)
That we regularly only hear about the intermittent bout of creepy pages or come-ons makes it seem to many that this is all that's happening. To be clear: if that traumatizes someone, that trauma is real, and should be respected as such. Truth is, it rarely will. But here's the problem: those are the stories we hear. Those are the issues most folks are able to handle, and in most cases know are not something that's going to considerably scramble their brains or bring on panic attacks or similar.
That, unfortunately, makes it easier than it should be to hand-wave off as 'no big deal' when people talk about creeping or stalking or harassment, period. Because these examples are the ones we hear about on the daily. Are they more common? Absolutely. But they aren't 'as far as it goes'. We would all do very well to remember that, and not automatically assume they're talking about a few pages in an OOC room about how someone wants to bang their hot PB.
@wretched The sheer number of goth geek points in this pic alone is worth an upvote, and kitty's worth another. (Somebody add another one for me 'cause I can only do one!)
The cutest bit about that to me is that her paw is on the moth, like she's tryin' to catch it right off the cover. I mean OMG THE D'AWW!!!