Posts made by thebird

@Chime

I live there. That is a very accurate description.

When the wind blows, you can watch the pollen blow off the trees in giant clouds.

Kind of feel like I'm stuck in that awful movie The Happening, during spring...

"...it's the plants..!"

@Gingerlily

applause So very much that.

@Kestrel

God yes, about the dialogue. I second that so much. So much. I even prefer to write more about the body language, than the dialogue. Kills me when there's nothing but talking, since in RL I don't tend to talk a lot (Shocker, right?), and as a result my characters don't tend to speak all that much, either.

@SkinnyThicket

About the time/mechanics...could be? They're definitely more "mechanics lite" than MUDs, in my experience. After a while, when I get used to a certain group of players, I tend to find people who are good at "fudging" the mechanics, within their sheet's abilities. Like... not necessarily rolling all the time, but only in scenes that are PrPs, or when they "feel" like it "really" matters. Again, feel I'm explaining that poorly, but ah well.

I tend to try to play my characters up to the dots they have in certain abilities, so hopefully that means I don't have to use the mechanics/dice all the time. I think that helps a lot with the time factor, because then there's not as much discussion about what's going on, and things can happen more fluidly. Improvising.

@Seraphim73 said in Does size matter? What about duration?:

@SkinnyThicket said in Does size matter? What about duration?:

What happens if they bump into each other? What about global communication?

You talk it out OOCly, asking "So, when/what time is this scene set?" And then one person will say, "Oh, we just did a scene that lasted until like midnight," and the other person will say, "Huh, we just finished up 3 PM. How about going for a 3AM snack at Taco Bell, or meeting up for last call?

^ Another example of how wordy I am, versus other people <.< Summed that up nicely, @Seraphim73 =D

@SkinnyThicket

In my experience, since I exclusively play on MUSHes (I think? never did understand all the different things...either way, RP-heavy/enforced online places), I generally ask the other person/people beforehand if they have any preference of time (in the case of people restricted to nightime, etc), and kind of go from there. In some games, you can use a command such as +weather, and it will give you a general idea of what's going on in your environment... otherwise? You just wing it.

In the instance of people coming in to a public scene, generally there's someone who will do a "Set" to let everyone who's just come in know what's going on, so folks are on the same page.

It's usually considered poor RP etiquette (at least in the circles I tend to run in) to skip people unless something weird happened... like RL got them, or whatever, so things tend to carry on in a linear fashion. Usually if you need to "skip ahead" for some reason, it's discussed briefly ooc and then...again with the "winging it".

That's probably my favorite thing about MUSHes and RP. You can start wherever you want, do whatever you want (more or less), without any real prompts, unless you want prompts. Winging it is my forte, and what I enjoy the most about RP.

I don't really know how to explain how a more global "time-fabric" works but...it just kind of does? Haha. I think most people try to keep things in order with...whatever they play out first, happened first. Or, that's been my experience with, again, the circles I tend to run in. Hope that helps explain things a little bit =D

For me, I enjoy a pose with content. Generally a bit on the larger size - two paragraphs of moderate length are good. About ten minutes between poses is ideal, but I'll wait about fifteen, if I'm also doing other things.

Generally speaking, I don't at all assume that a scene correlates to real time at all.

My biggest thing about pose length, is if people give me something to work with or not. You can pose for ten paragraphs and still leave the other person with little to nothing to react to, and that gets frustrating sometimes. I like learning about people's characters, so some superfluous information is good, to me.

I still remember one of my most irritating scenes before I went kind of away from RP for a while. All the poses were basically "soandso nods. "Blahblah blah, no real information, bantering for no reason, blah."

And that was a scene I was STing, too, where I went out of my way to get them to react and use their brain, rather than just standing around or rolling dice.

But anyway. My point is, I'm clearly a wordyperson, so I tend to enjoy more wordy poses.

Eta: duration of a scene - really depends on what kind of scene, for me. I can easily drag a scene out for hours and (generally) be happy as a clam. I know that I'm kind of the exception there, though. I try to kind of read the opposing player - If their poses keep getting shorter and more sporadic, or if they start talking ooc a lot, I try to help wrap things up as best and as quickly as I can.

Being too riddled with anxiety and depression to get off my ass and get shit done... Like going to work. =/

And then having to make up some "I'm sick with the stomach flu" excuse, to avoid repercussions, because of course this is the busiest time at my work, of the year.

Then feeling like a terrible person for calling out and leaving people hanging...especially knowing full well you're going to do it again tomorrow.

Super lame.

Brain, I hate you. So much right now.

@The-Duke

I'd love to cut off my MIL. The only thing that makes me sad about is ..well two things.

She's great when she's properly medicated.

To my husband, she can do no wrong. His mommy is perfect in every way.

The later throws a wrench in things, and the former has me holding out hope for eventual normalcy =/

Just because I don't feel like people do this enough in life in general:

Communication is key.

The best/most ooc-ly sane TS scenes I've ever had were largely with one of my now-best-friends, because there was excellent OOC communication.

I think most TS scenes I've been in throughout the years were memorable because of good communication from an OOC standpoint.

That or the scenes were just that awful/mildly traumatiZing. >>

But I think mostly good, because communication.

Communication.

Did I mention communication?

Eta: Should mention that when I say communication, I don't mean planning out every detail. Mystery is good. But not totally blindsiding someone is good, too. If things come up that make a scene uncomfortable, say so. Or whatever the issue may be.

Throwing my two cents in... Time willing, I'd love to play/give it a shot

@Arkandel

That may be me sometimes. These days, I'm on my phone when looking at MSB, and the buttons are awful tiny...
That or I'll be trying to scroll and accidentally hit something else. Or I've upvoted people before, only to realise later that I accidentally hit it twice, which undoes the vote.
Etc

@Kanye-Qwest said in RL Anger:

@thebird said in RL Anger:

Not so much anger, as a frustrated/irritated "omg" kind of situation...

Totally used nasal spray as eye drops, accidentally. That shit burns after a minute...

At least my eyes won't be congested, at least..? =/

So how high are you, exactly?

....moderately? >>

And.. @DnvnQuinn, maybe it helped..? After the burning stopped, my eyes didn't itch anynore, so that's good =D

Not so much anger, as a frustrated/irritated "omg" kind of situation...

Totally used nasal spray as eye drops, accidentally. That shit burns after a minute...

At least my eyes won't be congested, at least..? =/

@Ganymede said in RL Anger:

@thebird said in RL Anger:

Shouldn't use "text message talk" if the abbreviations/words don't make sense...

Wait until you read it in e-mail correspondence from opposing counsel.

froths, twitches

Not sure if this counts as "RL", but... Goddamnit...

People who are basically illiterate, trying to say things on the internet, really piss me off. Can you not use Google, at the very least, people..? "U" is not a word. Etc.

I am irrationally enraged by this right now... Haha.

Shouldn't use "text message talk" if the abbreviations/words don't make sense...

ragequits Facebook

@Duntada

I highly recommend BitN. I wish I had time to play lately. Hopefully that will change and I'll have some more free time. For now I've just been logging in sometimes so my char doesn't freeze/to catch up on boards and such.

When I can, I'm playing on BitN. Might be playing at FC again, but not sure.
Exclusively daytime weekdays EST though.

I watched the first season of Sleepy Hollow...mostly for the laughs. Headless horseman with a shotgun...? Come on...

I have been wanting to catch up, though..

@Arkandel
Never! I fell asleep in the movie theater the first time through (pregnant, exhausted, don't judge), so I went to see it again. I'd been excited for Civil War, too...But I was kind of sad I didn't get a nap the second time...
There were lots of enjoyable parts. Mostly I felt like the plot was too forced, as a whole, though. The reasoning behind a lot of the characters actions, and such, reeeeally bugged me. Sort of ruined it for me.