Posts made by thebird

@Thisnameistaken
That is so many levels of bullshit, I don't think there's a shovel big enough to handle that

(Omg yay new job!)

I don't think I could even go to a shelter ever, without breaking down into a sobbing puddle, before bringing every last animal home with me.
Every last one. Literally.
I want to save them all so bad

@Arkandel
Makin' me cry on my lunch break, man

I would clearly be as dead as those...gazelle-things, if I were there, because I definitely don't see a snow leopard.
Definitely a ninja.

Edit: OMG I FOUND IT. Daaaaaaamn

Definitely looking forward to finishing my app here. When I manage to find the time lately, haha.
I missed changeling after my apparent TR shellshock. Kudos to whoever set up CG and the sheets.

@Coin
I work 16 miles ish from home, and my only route is down a highway or off-road.
Might if only our bike trail went toward work! Bright side, there's a bike trail a mile or so from my house! Just have to get off my lazy ass and get out there after work some nights.

Also, @All Of You Assholes

Love how you guys can bitch and argue about literally anything. Legitimately impressed at this point.

Thanks for all the suggestions and links and stuff

I went off some medication a few months ago and it seems my hormones are now hella out of whack.

On the one hand, I feel like a bloated fat pig and don't want to do anything about because blah blah doom and gloom, woe. /Eeyore

On the other, I bought a bike on a whim to help fix Eeyore feelings. I've gone on a few bike rides, and man...I forgot how much exercising (at least after the fact) feels good. Now I just need to find the energy to keep doing it, even if I'm so out of shape I can hardly make it a mile, haha.

Also, guys. You can totally forget how to ride a bike. My scraped knee says so.

Other than the general motivation of not feeling like shit anymore, anyone have any bike riding tips on what worked for you? Keeping up with the habit while still working on your feet all day?

Vacation.

July 25th. So close, yet so very far, far away.

@ThatGuyThere
Exactly that.
I used to be on and available for RP basically all the time. Even at work, since I had a desk job for a few years. Now I work retail, have a second job, and my hours fluctuate like crazy. Times have changed, and I miss being able to go do All The Things, instead of having to resort sometimes to an @mail of "Hey guys, my char did this"
It's definitely changed the way I RP and what I consider to be worth my time, too. When you only have about two hours of RP time before the majority of people have to bail for sleep, you do what you have to do.
I think a lack of OOC awareness did generate more RP in my earlier years of RP, but I suspect for many of us, that's just not much of an option anymore, if we want to get anything done IC.
The trick is finding that happy medium somewhere.

@Roz

explodes

Although, why did I picture you as the Walking Dead meme with Rick and "Coral" just then?

"A FORMULA, CORAL (bird). A FORMULA!"

Ha. Amusing..

@Roz said:

getting really excited about nested logical formulas in Excel.

My brain broke, just reading that.

@Misadventure

I think that might depend on the players in this particular instance, the 50's flare kind of stuff. As far as I'm concerned, I'm more into providing the environment, and seeing what the players do with it, in regards to flare. Definitely more into the survival aspects than the rebuilding, myself. Or, at least rebuilding on a smaller, more extended scale. Been on a few games in the past that totally destroyed the fun of the post-apocalypse genre for me, by everything getting put back together in a month or two, in tip top shape.

That said, for game system, I think we're leaning toward the Exodus system, though we're considering nWoD as well, if only because the later is more familiar to the two of us.

I know this is pretty vague at this point, but personally, I'd like a good mix of drama/combat things. Mystery and intrigue is good! I prefer a good mystery over hack n' slash most of the time. So we'll see where that goes. Going to try to keep some updates coming for those folks who are interested, when we get some more things set in stone.

We just need to find a coder who's interested!

@Misadventure

We're definitely going for a more Fallout kind of theme. Mutant things, wasteland, destroyed society, that kind of thing. Not really anything magic or nanobot-y. So I guess more of a gritty survival edge?

It's certainly a huge genre, and I am surprised there don't seem to be more places around. I've been wanting to make a place like this for years, but haven't really found someone I trust enough to work on it, until recently. And I wasn't even the one that brought up making our own place, so even better! Haha.

Not that we don't like supernatural genre of things, but we wanted to go more mundane and mortal only. I certainly am getting kind of burnt out on magic and dragons and fairies, oh my! (Even in the more modern WoD setting.)

The app "Wunderlist".
It's kind of amazing.

Also, somewhat related, I'm really liking Windows 8.1, and I thought I wouldn't. So that's a pleasant surprise.

Heya folks!

I know this has kind of been posted about before, but thought I'd bring up a new thread, as our needs have changed a little bit.

@Thisnameistaken and I are trying to start a post apocalypse themed MUSH that has hit a snag or two. Initially we thought "Oh yeah! We'll totally just do everything ourselves with a few tips here and there! It'll be fine!", but brick walls have been hit with the coding aspect of things.

Thus, this is me asking (read: begging) for someone who is willing to take up the coding reins, even if that means changing all the code around. It's coded in Rhost at the moment, but we are not opposed to switching. So far, we have the basis of a history, most of a grid, some policies and some ideas put together. It's a work in progress right now, but if we could find someone to code, that would for obvious reasons be a big stress shifted to let us focus on getting some of the other things put together.

The MUSH will be called Ground Zero, and is a mortal only, post apocalypse setting. We're still torn between nWoD and Exodus, but I think we're leaning more heavily toward Exodus, because it's more catered toward the setting and feel of the game we were looking for.

I'm well aware that most of the coders around here are busy with their own stuff, so if you can't help but know someone who might be able to, instead, that would be absolutely fantastic. Please send them our way!

Thank you so much for taking the time to read, everyone!

Here's a brief summary of the history of the setting, for reference/fun:

2001, Septemper, 11
Terrorists carried out an attack on the United States.
These attacks targeted thirteen major cities throughout the nation. New York, Los Angelos, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Miami, Houston, Seattle, Minneapolis, Columbus, Pheonix, Denver, Las Vegas, and Anchorage.
The first bomb to hit was Seattle. By the time Washington D.C. heard about it, twelve other cities had been bombed and communication had ceased.
No one knows who started the war. The Russians, the Chinese, the Middle East, and Canada are just a few of the popular rumors. Less popular rumors hint that the United States government itself might have orchestrated the attacks. With communications down, no one is certain.
The United States was lost to chaos. Mexico invaded, claiming what was left of many southern cities. Canada constructed a massive wall across much of their border. Alaska… no one's sure what happened to Alaska.
Since 2001, the United States have shattered. Major cities are being rebuilt, either under the Patriots or the New World. Smaller cities and towns are left to fend for themselves against both the environment and opportunistic mercenaries, bandits, and raiders.
Seattle is in a balance, held by both the Patriots and the New Order, the two factions circling each other. Will they work together to rebuild, or will they start a new war entirely?
Because war, war never ends.

@Ganymede
I've always enjoyed RP with you, though the scenes have been few and far between.

I know sometimes, though, it sounds like when people offer to run the vague "things", they're asking for players to tell them what to run?

(Personally, I much prefer to wing it, unless it's some game-specific prp need that I generally avoid until I just can't anymore. )

Point is, I think sometimes "I'm willing to run things!" sounds super vague and like you (general you) don't necessarily know what's going on. Whether or not that's the case. Text is an irritating and fickle medium with which to get one's point across.

For all STs out there, maybe something more like "I'm willing to brainstorm prp things!" Might be received better. People are strange, and tend to respond better to even the slightest coaxing.

I know I'm more inclined to respond to something that implies teamwork, rather than something that sounds on the surface like "give me your already thought out ideas to spit back at you, in which I will have no fun doing at all".
Again. Generally speaking. I don't ever want to be in a scene that the ST doesn't have fun with.

That was even more rambly than usual... More caffeine, stat...

/twocents

@surreality said:

I hate that dream so fucking much, even if it always seems to wake me up snickering at its inherent absurdity.

Snickering until you realize you actually do have to pee so bad that the apocalypse will have to wait, and nearly wet yourself in your feeble attempts to stumble, in blind half-asleep-ness, to the bathroom.

@Silver said:

TBH my work dreams ARE nightmares.

My point exactly, haha. Work is nightmare enough. Which makes the nightmares that much more frustrating. Nightmare during the day, then think "Hey, maybe at least have a cool dream before I do this shit all over again!" But nope. More nightmare.
I'm not sure what I'd prefer, tbh. Creepy zombie witch-lady thing nightmare (it was more terrifying at 3am, don't judge...), or work nightmare. It's a real toss up.

I'm definitely going to try Krita. I don't work much in digital mediums because I could never find much that I liked to use other than pirated Photoshop and Illustrator. But that's more trouble than it's worth these days. Thanks for the suggestion!

@SG
Omg, I hate work dreams. Those are a whole different kind of nightmare.