@alzie Recommended clients is a big one, yeah. I'm a mac user, so I'm an Atlantis person -- I have no idea what else is really out there. There's actually a wikipedia page on this, with a collection of MUD clients and a comparison chart, even, but I'm not sure if that would confuse more than it would answer.
I can has enough anger today, I...
...yesterday was a day of almost no sleep. I lost a crown eating quiche. Yes, quiche. That was apparently one badass motherfucker of a mini-quiche, so help me.
Me, yesterday: <nom nom nom nom awwwyeah> "I can eat something then I can totally sleep in spite of this stupid fever finally, awwwyeah, comfort food, this is awes-<crunch>-the FUCK?!"
Me, yesterday: "Feed a fever, I can't eat, there is a hole in my face, I am too pissed off now to sleep. Fuck it, I will make some coffe-<coffeemaker fizzles, makes a sad duck noise, expires> ...no. Nuh-uh. Nope. That did not happen. That did not... <STABBING ALL THE BUTTONS> NOOOOOO! KHANNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!"
Me, technically today: "The sun is up. It is 8am. I am going the fuck to bed."
Me, technically today: *<happy dream, first in a year! in which there is geeking out with dead cast members of GoT whilst looking through their closets>-<foot shake>-NO-<foot shake>-NO-<foot shake>-WHUT."
My husband, miraculously still alive: "The dentist can see you today but only if we get there by 11am."
Me, technically today: <looks at clock, it is 10:15>-Fine. I will make some co-<remembers>-FML."
The dentist, also miraculously still alive: "We won't need to numb you up or use any of the ointment stuff for this. Now sit still while I ram your gums down to the bone. Just stay like that for the next ten minutes, k? I'll brb."
...it is still better than Jan5 of last year, but so help me, I think this was all like, special for the anniversary of ER day. 
At least there's coffee nao?
ETA:
@auspice I love you, but I will cut you. Don't you test me.
...frames...
One of the many horrible life choices of the 90s I'll never be able to take back.
<drinks>
@derp I posit that's what it should read, in a world where instant karma's more of a thing.
Hopefully, this will be helpful. I'm doing this now as I work on some things, and will probably add things here as I think of them as well.
Please note: this topic is not meant to be system-specific. As in, this is not 'this is a FAQ topic relevant only to WoD' or 'this is a FAQ topic relevant only to <game of choice>/<RPG system of choice>/<play style of choice>/etc.'. If there's stuff like that, don't hesitate to add it, but please mark it out as such, not as a generality that should apply to all the things ever.
Questions for complete hobby newbies are as welcome as questions for veteran players to help them figure out what exactly is going on on the game or what kind of game it is quickly.
@arkandel I would murder. I already want to scream half the day because mediawiki uses tab to hop between fields and I spend far, far too much time cutting and pasting things back and forth between the wiki and TextEdit. 
@arkandel Yep, that.
That is shockingly close to the plot of one of the Amazon original series that I'd never heard of until I had prime for a bit, but turned out to be pretty damned good thus far. (Fortitude; is worth a watch if you don't mind some bloody.)
@firepuff I wish I remembered the rest of the list. It had some funny stuff on it. I was lucky enough to play with people who had a great sense of humor there much of the time, and there were some really snicker-worthy things.
Also, pfft, @Arkandel! Shang totally counts, provided it's, y'know, still silly in the context of Shang! I realize there's like, no reason to not do silly shit there, but that's honestly half the reason it's ever any fun at all.
I spent ages playing a whiny goth who got dropped in Shang with her whole (uber new age hippie) family who used to pose into scenes trying to get her mother off the 'phone' orb, after all, while she'd gripe about how she was sure she could smell the overwhelming reek of patchouli through the call; silly was so completely and totally a thing. My favorite random silliness from that character involved an ongoing prank war with a Drow with no sense of humor; silly was joy. Her grandest victory in two years of RP was making him laugh, and not just laugh, but laugh so hard he cried, and that was probably one of the best RP moments ever. So much 
I have started a lot of crochet! And then I put it down for two days, totally forget what in the actual hell I was doing, and... have to undo it all and begin the process anew.
...at least it isn't using up much yarn?
@auspice Oh, please. I did almost exactly that within the past decade when a friend of mine was deployed overseas. 
For some of us, that form of stupid is a lifelong disorder.
On Shang: Random chick with a cart she'd wheel into the square every so often, offering a variety of bizarre trinkets, all of which would have been amusing to me personally, but would be effectively relevant to Shang.
Example: diaphragm version of a portable hole due to all the 14-inch wangs flapping about willy-nilly.
I had a whole list once upon a time, but alas, I forget all the other ones.
@auspice I live in this really weird pocket realm, I'm nigh convinced of it.
Most of the time, when it's horrible north, west, east, and south of us, we barely get hit. Philly will have 8 inches of snow, we're like... 'eh, dusting, melted before it hit the ground'.
The mock running theory is that DuPont has a weather satellite, Bond-villain-style. Any time it gets like this, "The weather satellite is malfunctioning again, dammit!" gets bandied around the house.
@lithium ...thank gods thread drift is not part of the drinking game, or the hobby would die because all of us would be dead from liver poisoning. (Just in general, as in... this doesn't surprise me much.)
Fuck this cold front. Heating pad, long underwear, and foot warmers inside the goddamn house.
My computer room is above the non-insulated/outside the central air/heat garage, so it is always about 10 degrees colder than the rest of the house in the winter.
The bedroom, by contrast, is so warm it's night shirt OR blanket, either of which to be thrown aside after an hour.
Dear house: make up your damn fool mind.
"There is no way that's gonna work, I mean, I gotta try it because it'd be stupidly helpful and save a ton of time and fussing and make things infinitely more simple and modular, but there is just no way that-"
"...worked."
(Last night apparently proved that 'optimal liquor content for coding' rule, at least as pertains to wiki.)
@faraday Yep. 'A person is looking at the specific scenario and the dice on the table and is available at all times as play is happening to oversee the conditionals and corner cases to make a judgment call' is a hugely impactful part of tabletop RPG design. There's a reason it changes dramatically for LARP, even.
@apos said in World of Darkness -- Alternative Settings:
@arkandel I noticed a difference too, with the pace being much slower on nWoD in my limited experiences there. I attributed the spacing to how the game system puts the impetus of managing rules more on the players themselves with it being less coded, which in turn I think emphasizes a strict pose order since the consequences of someone being skipped or passed over is much higher.
Writing the mechanics of a published, for profit RPG system into code that can fire and forget gets into very iffy territory, depending on the game company. Since the mechanics are reproduced on the game in a way that doesn't necessarily require someone to own the books, a lot of companies don't allow this.
More full automation of their systems is something most companies prefer to license to video game companies, not small fries like the lot of us. Depending on how they write their permissions, this may be apples and oranges, or we may all be oranges. We are usually all oranges when it comes to coding in the actual combat mechanics other than 'you have a dice roll simulator and a sheet simulator to tick off damage'/etc. that makes things much more on par with tabletop usage of those rules.
@cupcake said in World of Darkness -- Alternative Settings:
There seemed to be at least one character who seemed capable of doing everything on BitN. Had crazy amounts of all kinds of psychic abilities, enough to make me feel redundant, seemed to get up in every scene and make it focus on her, and seemed incapable of sharing the spotlight or letting other people's more reasonable expertise show.
The game unfortunately had a couple of those in its lifespan.
This is one of those times I'm grateful we have indoor-only cats.
This may make them lazier-than-average slackers even when it comes to cats, but hearing my parents, next door, out at 2am in this weather, yowling for their cats to come inside -- while their cats, naturally, "I DUNNO WHICH SIDE OF THE DOOR TO BE ON THIS DECISION IS IMPOSSIBLE HOW COULD YOU EVER FORCE ME TO CHOOSE?!" the shit out of things for a handful of minutes, as cats do -- makes me super proud of my lazy, purring bastards for being content to remain indoors.
@ganymede Srsly.
@surreality said in World of Darkness -- Alternative Settings:
By the time anything was done about it -- some kind of policy went in, I just did the wiki and RPed so I don't recall what it was -- many people had already given up, and felt completely shut out.
The consideration was a larger core problem, yes.