Posts made by surreality

@Arkandel said in +poseorder and +repose:

@surreality Who gets to +poseclear?

For instance you start a scene with Theno and you guys are having fun until I pop in there. HI U GUYS! I pose a couple of times then... shit, look at the time! +poseclear.

And your log is fucked.

While I agree there, I think the alternative problems are worse in a number of ways.

Could have it require anyone less than X idle in the room to confirm or something to avoid that particular issue, though (without getting caught on people who have been gone several hours or similar). Could even potentially have it require confirmation from all parties to turn it on in the first place if the room is a privately-owned location (residence).

@Thenomain That has a lot of potential for a number of reasons, so I do hope that you do end up working with it.

I know a friend of mine had some kind of poselogger code that would store the last few poses from a scene on their own charobj for their reference -- like me, apparently she's in a lot of scenes that are slowly picked at while folks are at work and sprawl out over a couple of days, and it's a handy way to store 'when last we left our intrepid adventurers' immediately on hand. I don't know if that's something that would be useful in this scenario, but I know I'd call that a pretty useful feature to have available in some fashion, even in the 'just for personal reference' category, to handle such situations.

@Thenomain My worry on this one is scenes in shared spaces. Again, I played on Shang for... a long while. And I can just see someone rushing into a hotel room on a game where this code was in place, and immediately reading the contents of a private scene they were not involved in/etc. for kicks or snooping.

Also, truly... (again having played on Shang), if some few poses are caught from a previous scene even in complete innocence, well. There's just things one can't unsee, guys. <curls into a little ball, shudders, fumbles around wildly for a security blanket> In a game with heavy PvP, it isn't so much the unsee factor, but 'oh, that meeting just went down in <location> with my rivals... why don't I go see what they did... ' could pose an issue.

S'why I suggest the '+poseclear' option be present -- so those concerned about such things at the end of a scene can prevent embarrassment/therapy bills/potential cheating with said code.

An additional option would be to completely clear the log when the room becomes empty, or there are no character objects less than X time idle in the location, possibly, (as some players do idle endlessly in a home or business location)? That'd handle it nicely if it is possible.

Edit: Also, the obvious... a lot of us don't use lock code much any more because it's not part of the acceptable social norm to wander into someone's private IC residence without invitation, and most folks know that. That doesn't stop a bad actor from going into every bedroom on the grid and checking the pose logs to dig up dirt, snoop, or stalk, unfortunately.

I figure, if I wanted people reading my (bwahahahaha like there actually really ever is any these days) smut, I'd be writing it in the town square in public view. On the off chance it does happen, though, I think it is entirely reasonable to prefer that total strangers who walk into the room next NOT get the spambomb of everybody's virtual o-face, y'know?

If someone can make this happen, consider me a second party very interested.

Suggestion: A +clearpose command, because... yeah. At the end of a scene, this should be possible to do. For many reasons.

I'm not using WoD for the setup I'm describing here, so mentally adjust as necessary.

1. I'm going open sheet. This can resolve quite a bit in terms of people playing to their stats -- as in, when everybody can see your stats, they can have a good, fair, and reliable means of evaluating a baseline (whether someone poses for crap but statwise is charming, or is posing well above what they should be) in a generic, no rolls would be required really sort of situation. Like I said, as a baseline.

2. I'm going with PvP = consent for the project I'm speaking of. People can absolutely opt to use dice for it anyway, but in PvP, it's negotiation/consent default, people can opt to use dice instead. (It's the reverse for PvE; dice default, if everybody agrees, it can just be run freeform/consent.) Certain subjects will always require consent. (Pregnancy, romantic relationships, sexual acts, any alterations of sexual preference, sexual assault, because no good has ever, in my experience, come from forcing any of these specific things on a player who is absolutely not into that roleplay.)

Re: why...

First is the easiest: they live next door. They own the house we live in, having figured that since it needs about $125k+ in repairs and in top condition would at best sell for $150-$175k, it's easier to just let us have the damned thing, and we're in zero position to move. But they also live next door. They're elderly enough that providing care is rapidly approaching, and I'm an only child -- nobody to pass that buck to.

Second: ...my mother and I have had an art/jewelry side business since my age was in the single digits. (No, really.) We've been actively doing shows and whatnot since I was 12 or so. It got handed off to me this year, and the first show is next weekend. So there was a whole lot of planning chaos to do, since while it was decided this was gonna be 'transition year', that has -- other than just the brief discussion this evening -- translated to 'have fun, I'm off to hang out with my church friends at the beach, I suppose I left the paperwork somewhere! BAI!' (Yeeeeeeeah, there's reasons I've been a stressed out, testy bitch this year... more than usual.)

Having to deal with my parents today, that... is filling me with a similar dread to @Auspice's. That mine like to blackmail and strongarm me about shit to force compliance (@Ganymede, I need to take some notes... ) with their views (which they have had almost no luck with since I was 8, hence the strongarm bullshit) is not something I am much looking forward to.

When my husband has to run an errand with my mother and tell her in the strongest terms that political matters are not to be discussed and to pass this along to my father, you know it's not good.

I am going to get yelled at for unfriending her cheerfully gloating ass on FB over dinner, and to put it bluntly, she is well aware that her daughter is a survivor of rape and multiple sexual assaults who has been extremely fucked up by the events of this election cycle and what it potentially means for those of us who have gone through this in our lives. "Hold your nose and vote the party line" is forgivable, understandable. Cheerful gloating and wholesale dismissal of any concerns with a cheerful laugh and a flippant wave of her hand... it is going to be a very long time before I can look at my mother again without feelings of utter disgust.

As it stands, I have to hear about how godly she imagines herself to be on a disturbingly regular basis, which is typically eye-roll-inspiring. Until I calm the fuck down a little -- which is likely to be a matter of weeks rather than a mere handful of days -- so help me, it is going to take all the resolve I have to not actually spit on that woman for her myopia, bigotry, and callous disregard for not just her fellow man, but for her own daughter.

(No, I do not remotely believe that everyone who voted that way is a bigot, or 'yay sexual assault' -- but she, specifically, actually is a long-standing racist, and pretty much gives none fucks about sexual assault or abuse, and is equally long on record as being in the 'legitimate rape and/or she must have been doing something to ask for it' philosophical camp.)

Thank you, @Roz.

@Monogram said in RL Anger:

If you're a woman, you're probably fucked.

No probably about it. He's going to fill supreme court vacancies. But... please. Politics forum? <crawls back to bed>

@WTFE said in RL Anger:

You think it's bad for you, how 'bout we poor fuckers who have to either watch your insane electoral gibbering pass by our social media feeds or install specific software just to filter it out!?

People all think I'm kidding that I stopped looking at all social media in January, and won't look at it again until February.

I'm not.

Yes. FUCKING GOOGLE. The people who steal collect all the information they can about you down to your sock size. Those people can't seem to fucking figure out that a Canadian citizen living in China can't vote in an American election and offer to help.

^ This is somewhat hilarious.

That moment you have such election fatigue that you see the name 'Crumpton' pass by in some local race in the incoming results, and your brain instantly goes:

Oh fuck no, they have MERGED. All hail our hermaphroditic bad hair orange tan pantsuit-wearing self-loathing mecha overlord!?

@Ghost I don't know whether 'I'm drunk off my ass at the moment' means mine are less, or more, up to that task.

I suggest we don't find out.

@Ghost Just as long as you don't use the mini-cooper to kill zombies. That trick's mine goddammit!

(No, really, my former char on Reno1 absolutely did that once. )

Not to mention, 'because you like the beach' is probably less a factor than 'close to work'. I mean yeesh.

The first recording at this link is pure joy.

Somebody needs to make this guy as a character somewhere, because... shit, I'm more surprised someone hasn't already.

I already went so far as 'no dreads this time'. That's all you're gettin', man.

It's also worth mention that pretty much every new game that opens, a huge portion of the hobby makes a character.

Within about 2 months, about 1/3 will drop off, because they never got into it. This is pretty typical of what I've seen happen on a pile of games at this point, and I see it more as a case of 'rush to the new shiny to see what it's all about!' than anything re: the actual quality of the game itself, but as a factor of 'new thing, let's go see!' instead.

@tragedyjones Zombie-splatter by mini-cooper is still one of my proudest moments on that game, to this day, no lie.

The second was the little socialite consistently scoring headshots while worrying about what the trigger was going to do to her manicure in a biker bar full of zombies.

@Arkandel Zoe liked to murder zombies by plowing into them with her mini-cooper, just as a fair warning. Because nothing adds insult to injury like being flattened by a car that looks like it's a Hello! Kitty accessory.

@Ganymede said in Shadows over Reno:

I'm sorry, but I'm cooking up a sexpot Gangrel because if I don't, someone else will and do it poorly.

...damn you. Now I want to remake my fail ghoul as your ghoul, just so if I say, "Nah, she's too busy painting to go look for random dudes to fuck," I won't get an OOC lecture on how I'm a polyshamer, because in a sane world, that's what would happen.

Because fallen NYC socialite artists with 'Bitch' as a vice and dots in the Etiquette merit are, apparently, too much fun. I still miss the shit out of her, she was fucking hilarious. Weirdest Bruja ghoul ever.