Posts made by surreality

Here. FINE. I see how it is. Have some boobies.

And the predictable accompaniment of:

Now I wish I could upvote @Glitch's post twice.

I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE. YOU MADE THESE STANDARDS TO SPECIFICALLY EXCLUDE ME. HOW COULD YOU, GOOD SIR.

I will be in my trailer, crying girl tears.

@Miss-Demeanor said:

All in all, its a REALLY fun time between the people, the exhibits, the panels... just so amazing. And everyone is totally chill and cool.

What drives me bonkers is we're road-tripping to FL in a few months -- but the odds of it overlapping the time the con is happening are roughly nil. (I need to schedule this stuff better!)

@Miss-Demeanor said:

is prepping for Spooky Empire's Halloween con in Orlando Last time there was Tom Savini and Bill Moseley... this year, there is original Fright Night cast reunion AND RHPS cast reunion. And George Romero is a staple there. Every year. God I love getting to talk to all the people I have watched so many times. still clings to her Moseley and Savini autographed pictures Malcolm McDowell, Tony Todd, Neve Campbell, Julian Sands, Skeet Ulrich, the creepy dead twins from The Shining... its shaping up to be an EXCELLENT con this year.

OMG... so much envy. That sounds amazing.

@Sunny said:

That being a grownup means when I have a really, really bad day...I can have ice cream for lunch, and nobody can stop me. HA.

Eating ice cream in a bubble bath: the thing your parents would never let you do there's actually no good reason not to do (provided you have plastic bowls and/or don't drop all the things ever), and a million good reasons to do you discover the moment you do it. It's like the official cure for a bad day.

Happy good thing: OMG I finally tweaked that stupid wiki code bit that was driving me bonkers. There's always that onnnnnnnnnne thing that is just crazy-making, and once it's hammered into sense, everything suddenly seems to go so much better.

@HelloRaptor said:

@surreality said:

@HelloRaptor said:

Are you suggesting that if a handful of people started rambling about how they'd love to make a MLP-Transformers Crossover game, like Beast Wars only with magical ponies, and all using the WoD system you wouldn't think it was some silly shit that would never see the light of day?

GOD DAMN ALL THE THINGS!
...back to the drawing board.

The battles would be truly epic.

I that thing. On some level it probably proves why that would have more appeal than what I'm actually doing, but...

@HelloRaptor said:

Are you suggesting that if a handful of people started rambling about how they'd love to make a MLP-Transformers Crossover game, like Beast Wars only with magical ponies, and all using the WoD system you wouldn't think it was some silly shit that would never see the light of day?

GOD DAMN ALL THE THINGS!
...back to the drawing board.

@Sunny said:

@surreality said:

Working on methods. Will poke when viable and functional! (Still working on prefs things, it just now works... )

You are doing amazing, wonderful things.

@Arkandel

Brilliant. Thank you. I wish I had some big long reply, but just thank you. I'm going to chew on it for a while. If you have any other brilliant ideas, I am all ears.

Prefs is working, so Seeking should be easy to adapt from that.

I am wondering if it might not be possible to work in a 'staff' catchall for the seeking template idea where these things could be added to mix in; it was already a consideration for individual players and stuff like factions/businesses, so if all that can be made to work, adding a 'game-wide' list shouldn't be too tricky!

Working on methods. Will poke when viable and functional! (Still working on prefs things, it just now works... )

@WTFE2 I've gotten that sometimes, too -- and had to ask it to resend a reset of the password to email. Has happened more than once.

I, too, am a life-long loather of mayo. And miracle whip. Even the smell of mustard can pretty much cause my stomach to turn on a dime from happy to 'someone get a bucket!' as a raw condiment, but weirdly, it's fine cooked in/on things.

There was, once upon a time, a magic dipping sauce made by one hole-in-the-wall place that involved both mayo and mustard and it was horribly delicious with the combination of spices they used on their chicken... chunk things.

That place went out of business before I could wrestle the recipe out of them. I'm still sorta pissed about that, because that was some fucking voodoo I would have liked to understand.

While it's not my thing, I recall seeing this on drivethrurpg and thinking it was pretty goddamn creative. It's cool to see it's somebody from M*-land behind it, and it's extra nifty to see it's doing well. Many congrats, Nuku!

Pretty much all of this. I used to do things all the time. I recall this! Then shit got stupid busy, I couldn't do things because other things needed to be done, and... well, enough other stupid things happened that made the idea of trying again less than pleasant, even if the opportunities were there. Which they're not, in large part due to Stupid Shit Goes Down, round two.

I more or less just do +jobs now and then go off to develop weird crap on a sandbox project that's unlikely to ever see the light of day. I console myself with the knowledge that without anybody to argue about things I want to try to see if they'll work, there's some cool stuff that developed there I'm going to be sneaking over to other upcoming games since folks thought they might be useful bits and pieces. (Pardon me while I leap wildly to grasp for that silver lining there, ignore the flailing.)

@The-Tree-of-Woe The moment they develop a mystical can opener, they'll get over it.

@RDC said:

It's pretty impossible to separate whether WC's system was good from whether the staff was good; it was a very subjective system. I think, IIRC, that Surreality says the system was adapted from one she proposed for a game before WC existed? She said that they bastardized and ruined her original concept without permission if I'm remembering right. Anyway, the system was pretty horrible. It was broken in some real obvious ways.

If it was adapted from the system created for Manifestation: Hong Kong, yep, that one was the horribly broken bastardization of mine. It sounds like it got worse from there, and it's hard to get worse than 'look we don't understand this crap we just want to write up spiffy powers to make us the specialest snowflakes so we can get on with our lesbian fairy sex, so here we're going with this version that removes the benefits of the system and leaves it horribly broken so we can get back to artificially inseminating one another with our magic nymph tongue-tentacles'.

I wish I was kidding. I'm not kidding. I'm not even kidding a little.

Edit: Oh -- and no, the creator of Windy City (whose RL name I know but I don't know what name she used on WC so I can't name the name here, sorry!) did NOT have permission to take the system written for M:HK, broken or not.

Addendum on this one: The combat system wasn't my nightmare. I just had a core stat block at the time, without the combat system in place. I don't remember who did MHK's, so I have no idea what happened from there. (It may not even have had one to speak of; I don't even recall if MHK and the game it was based on were 'consent games with stats' or not, and they may very well have been.)

Thankfully, most places have a CG channel now where you can ask questions even if the CG itself doesn't do that. You mentioned taking a multi-year break -- I had as well for a long while, and that seems to have cropped up as a trend while I was gone, so it may be the same for you. (I dunno, but it is a helpful thing either way.)

Even on wikis, traditionally 'inactive' and 'dead' are different categories.

People fairly often consider it reasonable to leave town for a while IC and come back; if that isn't the case it probably needs to be laid out a little more clearly than simply leaving the word 'inactive' sit there, open to any and all interpretation.

@HelloRaptor said:

my little mecha pony

This is the most epic thing ever. Somebody get on this.

@HelloRaptor It's like they were in my brain right then exactly. Amazing.

Now there's a horrible part of my brain that is picturing transforming sparkly pink robots that turn into cute robot animals or random trinket-gadgets, like flashy rhinestone covered mobile phones or tamagotchi or furbies or ipods.

And then the very moment I finish typing that, my brain goes: Come now, there's doubtless an anime of that already, you silly woman.