Posts made by ThatGuyThere

@calindra
I would high five but well you know that is effort.

@tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@calindra People that voluntarily use white backgrounds for anything other than word processing or data entry are very odd people.

What if we use it because it is the default and we can't be arsed to change it? Do I still count as odd or just especially lazy?

@apos
Spider counts as a bad person even ignoring anything she has ever done on a game for the @surreality house episode alone, causing a ton of damage and never paying for it is one of those things that makes you a bad person. I can understand not being able to pay all at once but never a dime after years is really not acceptable behavior.

@arkandel
Man, no matter how well bahaved, is little more than an ape well shaved.

@arkandel
While yes the tax based concerned are valid, I am not sure Market size matters when it comes to someone the stature of LeBron, after all he has been in movies and TV etc already and not sure him moving to LA odds more to the endorsement pull.
Now it definitely did for Durant when he moved out of OKC but Durant was not yet a made man like LeBron is currently.
I am not sure where he will end up going but I have to think he stays in the East for the easy path to the finals.

@admiral
He will make the same money everywhere except Cleveland he is definitely getting a max contract unless he chooses to take less which he has already said he won't.
Due to collective bargaining Cleveland can offer him more money and years than anyone else but for the other 29 teams the monetary part of the pitch will be the same.

@goldfish
I have a character that does something similar, while he will use others preferred nicknames for himself he always uses his full name and expects others to do so as well.
He always when introducing himself always uses first, middle, and last names, because that is a proper introduction.

@ganymede
My comment about Cosmo was not intended to be sexist, just that most fashion magazines aimed at both males and females churn out crap tons of bad advice.

Edit to add: If Cosmo is improving then good for them but @insomniac7809 does point out exactly the things I think of when I think of Cosmo, granted I haven't looked at a Cosmo since i dated someone with a subscription in the early 2000s but in that era it was chock full of laughably bad relationship advice.

Edit number two: I would be just as dismissive if I heard advice came from Men's Health and Fitness unless it was strictly nutritional or exercise related. and yes there is plenty of shitty relationship advice in that magazine too.

@coin
I like it less knowing that it comes from Cosmo given the quality of a lot of their advice.
But it is going into the bag with "Adversity does not build character, it reveals it." As a line I will over use in the future.

@insomniac7809 said in Real life versus online behaviors:

"The person who's a sweetheart to their date and an asshole to the waiter is an asshole."

I think this is one of the best quotes I have ever seen.

@arkandel
That was by biggest reaction to the whole thing to.
If you want security for your information maybe don't put things you don't want people to know about on the internet, it really isn't that hard of a thing to do.

@arkandel
I didn't mean I thought he would go to Philly or Boston just than if he goes west by simple fact that the east is still guaranteed a spot in the finals and with only Toronto showing much besides Boston or Philly if LeBron does go west Philly and Boston are automatically contenders since most likely one will be playing for the championship. (I want to Raptors to be good, they are a fun team but still seem lacking in the playoffs, I am definitely hoping they prove that wrong this year.)

I tend to see how people behave on the internet to be how they behave when there are little to know real consequences for their actions, so if anything i would give it greater weight to them being their true selves than I would their RL interactions, after all I am a large man, and when I was in college and working retail I was a large man in pretty good shape. I couldn't begin to count the number of times a co-worker was being treated like absolute shit by a customer who then turned the attitude down about 10 notches when I walked over to loom over them. Did they suddenly become good people no they just had a potential added consequence so modified behavior.

@arkandel said in The Basketball Thread:

Otherwise I'd put my money in either Philly or Boston to emerge as a defacto contender

Depending on where LeBron goes they could be contenders next year, after all someone from the East has to be in the Finals and as Detroit showed us in 2004 sometimes the inferior team and pull of the Finals upset. If he goes west the east is Boston, Toronto and Philly and a bunch of not much else.
That alone is the reason I think Bron Bron stays in the East, with even a semi decent supporting cast he has a puncher's change at a ring every year. (See 2016 for reference)

@arkandel said in Game Restarts:

Is it just nostalgia? Can it be something else?

For me the draw of a restarted game would be less nostalgia and more hey they likely have some of the kinks worked out. I would be a lot more likely to join a restart even of one I hadn't played before than a brand new game, mainly for the same reason I would be more likely to pick up the fifth novel an author wrote than the first.

@roz said in A New Star Wars game? (Legends of The Old Republic (Name pending)):

Yeah. It's not that there's no place for scenes or plots like this, but you have to just manage expectations. You want to be clear with players up-front at what they'll be participating in. People who are totally not cool with that type of plot will just self-select out.

I very much agree with this, I personally hate the predetermined outcome type of plots and will avoid them like the plague but I do not think having one is a big issue as long as it is clearly marked. You don't even necessarily have to spoil it by saying what is predetermined just somewhere in the event description of discussion clearly note that This Plot has a predetermined ending and you should be fine. I even do this in table tops sometimes the story needs a particular outcome to continue, but having the scene happen on screen is important so just warn your players and let those who want to self select out do so and it shouldn't be a real big issue.

@kanye-qwest said in A New Star Wars game? (Legends of The Old Republic (Name pending)):

@roz I don't even know what a mandalorian is.

Boba Fett.

@thatonedude said in MU Things I Love:

Sweeet! When I app my rainbow haired dreck I won't feel like staff is judging me >.>;

I am sure they will be judging you, but it sounds like they will also be supportive and let you play the rainbow haired drek which in my personal opinion of things from someone unconnected to the game the best option.

I gotta say I like the concept. One of the big plus sides to NWoD Hunter is that there are a lot of ways to help the vigil rather than just being all rar kill monkey.

I tend to be on the side of enforcing travel times but not with code.
As @ixokai just said I think MUSHes work best when the grid is the central hub for most game rp, but I also think it is completely fair to say to a player, well you are in plot x taking place off grid so no grid rp until that is over because it is too far away. Just do that before you start to allow the player to make that call.
I know this happens on WoD games fairly regularly as I have been off grid on two different games within the last four months due to plots. Yes it can suck when you are wanting to rp with a character and can't but if you have the knowledge that that will be a consequence before you entered the plot that becomes a choice you willingly made.
Now if you have a game that has a grid that represents a large travel time from one part to the other I think it will almost always result in headaches and while I would prefer to see travel time enforced I can also see why they likely will not be or will be highly cut down on since the purpose is to rp.
Also one of my thoughts that will likely upset some is that major off gird travel should be run by staff as well. Take a wild west came for example. Let say it is set in Deadwood. Having a group of players head to Rapid City for a plot no big deal that is a day's travel with on a horse. (41 miles) heck even someplace as far away as Fargo or St. Paul wouldn't be that big of a deal as long as it wasn't an every month thing, and both were still pretty frontier during the wild west era, but someone going to NYC or StL should definitely go through staff, not only are they a longer journey by geography but also by theme, by the 1880s St. Louis and NYC were both Urban not western so I think if you have people jaunting back and forth willy nilly it does harm theme, because if you can jump back and forth between the center of civilization and the grid then you are not really on the frontier and being on the frontier is a big theme in western stories.