This is my ancient buddy Bear. This taken after a long day and I was in need of couch... where he is on the couch now is where I need to go. He was NOT there until I said I was going to lie on the couch... lil bastard even goes and annexes the ottoman at the same time.
I have to start with...
I love it when a plan comes together!
I love being surprised, like others here.
Being made to laugh out loud, I have a soft spot for comic relief types.
On occasion, I love falling into someone elses verbal trap... and having to just keep right on plodding through "I meant to do that, Honest." while everyone knows I'm full of shit. 
@ThatOneDude When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail."
I'm going to be as short as possible in my response that I will probably be forced to regret.
I feel that it has been made abundantly clear on this forum, unless one is left leaning in nature, they should keep their mouths shut. Regardless of topic. If you try to speak otherwise, the dogpile will come.That if you are a moderate, or right leaning, you're simply not welcome here.
That. Is exactly how this place has made me feel.
@auspice So. I. May have yelled out loud "KITTEN!! IT'S SO CUTE AND FLUFFY LOOKING! OH MY GOD I WANT TO PET IT!!!" prompting my roommate to once again remind me, that I am apparently a large grown-ass man, and should not be losing my shit like that over kittens.
@tempest My understanding was the gun belt had been referenced in pose more than once. Hell the SHORT desc included the uniform.
Here's the thing, why require descs and not require people to look at them?
As for the days of the OOC Masq, yup. Pile on me, I'm one that misses it. There was something to be said for being completely unaware that some innocent looking kid was the real monster you should have been watching instead of the large hulking vanilla mortal. Not knowing had it's own brand of fun. Figuring things out for yourself isn't always a bad thing.
I'm not saying that the wiki side isn't useful for getting RP together, but I didn't see RP lacking in the ooc-masq side days either. If anything I still feel the RP overall was a better quality. That's my opinion.
@auspice Mine has been compared to being a jealous angry wife. Loudly wants to know where I have been, what took me so long, and why am I not paying him any attention? And heaven help me if I pet another animal while I was away...
I'd rather see things on the MU*. Honestly I feel that wiki's have killed a lot of what our hobby is, not enhanced it.
Does anyone even look at desc's anymore? My favorite is someone not looking at the desc of a police PC, who was clearly desc'd in uniform and did not have a wiki yet. Someone was stupid in front of said cop PC and then freaked out OOC because "I had no way of knowing you're a cop".
Nothing is secret because, well, wiki. There's no sense of wonder, it's hard to enjoy that suspension of belief sometimes because everything is on the wiki about PC's.
I'm not completely anti-wiki. If you have a lot of theme stuff, background story etc etc as a game. Then a wiki is great for that. Take Arx for example, massive amounts of lore and things to know... NO SEARCH FUNCTION.
Wiki's make for a good friendly way for new folks to view the game, absolutely. You know how to log in the game, maybe a chargen guide is up. Things like that are not so bad.
For the most part, it's just simpler to keep it all in game. Oh, and well, less bots posting dumb shit on a MU*, unlike wiki's.
Yes, especially if connected to the +weather. Always hated people RPing running about on the beach... during winter. Sometimes having a little weather suggested just helps in a scene set and RP. It's flavor!
Disclaimer: I was all extra curious excited when I read the topic as "Ambulance Emits". I was all "OOOH DO I HAVE STORIES" (and bad memories). So instead, I leave you all with the quintessential ambulance scene: Bringing Out The Dead
@auspice This may have made me go head boop my cat.
Since The Reach comes up… fuck it.
Tank. Stephen ‘Tank’ Dunlin. Tank was my PC built for fun, a caricature in action made for a few reasons. He was my first Family PC on the game. So I picked one that was busy, examined the theme of the family, and built it specifically for that theme. (Unlike others, I never bought out the nightmares flaw). Said flaw occurred for attending a Fire Science Program in Massachusetts, hold that thought.
For those unaware, Tank was a Firefighter, see not all Dunlins had to be cops or military! 
Not just any firefighter, I stole borrowed from Backdraft, and essentially remade Stephen ‘Bull’ McCaffery the Fuckin’ Lieutenant for Life. I upticked his alcoholism, and added on more balls and bravado, a lot more bulk of strength and partying. Tank was a Partier. Tank was not a complete Manwhore. Tank was fun. There was a purpose though.
Speaking of that nightmares flaw… for those curious, the reason Tank was considered to be mister party times was simple. It was the perfect cover to looking like shit the next morning after dealing with a night of spirits fucking around with you, and the nightmares such can create. Not to mention some issues from his youth
He was a Cryo/Pyro, now the only reason for the pyro powers is to have better cryo powers. Tank was immune to fire itself, however, the night the powers came to be was the nigh his old man died in a fire on the job. Waking up to your own room on fire, and finding out the next morning your old man died to fire is a bit of a mind fuck. Anyways, with cryo powers he could keep people from dying in fires directly, and some other neat abilities. Oh and why Tank as a nickname? Well it was close to Bull, the source material, and he had a habit of breaking through walls like the goddamned Kool-Aid man to save people. (Kool-Aid Man was a later nicknamed applied to a PC in the FD)
Tank became hard for me to play though. When I made him I was very much NOT a firefighter, just related to them. Work stuff happened, I needed to move closer to my folks, I ended up volunteering as a FF, got my national certification. Tank is… not a safe firefighter. Suddenly that mindset became anathema to me. In fact Backdraft as a whole is a documentary on HOW TO NEVER FUCKING FIGHT FIRES!! So unfortunately, all that fun, and I had to stop playing him for a while. When I was able to pick him back up, fun times were still had and I got to meet some more amazing players and their PC's.
I am completely looking forward to this. I'm a fan of the series and currently reading the first book. So I'm excited about this. We need more grim space based games. You know, one of the best things about being in space is the ability to give under-performing minions an Airlock Promotion.
This is my bundle of death. Lil jerk, when I originally looked at my comforter it was a black hole. Suddenly eyes appeared, which inversed my blood pressure to pulse.
Mushclient. I like it, I do. I don't have all the functionality I could get out of it. But I'm old and hidebound sue me.
I did like where potato was going but, I haven't spent enough time on it yet.
I've also used duckclient, and that wasn't too bad.
I didn't see this posted elsewhere, so...
With the release of the new expansion, Stellaris has all editions 60% off for another 27 hours. So base game for $15.99.
@auspice said in Scissors' Playlist (cuz me too):
I love the name Beppe so much.
Chose a great played by too!
