Posts made by Thenomain

I find that there are three kinds of metaposes.

Information that clarifies, prose that prettifies, and personal attacks. The first is desired, and I think will be pretty clearly okay to act on if you believe your character has that kind of perception or gives a damn. The second I think is superfluous but, like the word "superfluous", is a bit overmuch and I can do with or without it; this kind is not to be acted on, because it's fluff. Unless you're into fluff.

The third should be acted on as OOCly as politely as possible, asking the metaposer if they really meant to pose that and giving them a chance to back down before you tell them to cut it out.

I have long resisted the idea that 'where' or 'hangouts' code completely hides people who are unfindable. Instead, these should list how many unfindable people are there, so if you're looking for scenes you can still see them.

Perhaps "looking for rp" should also override personal unfindable flags, but not location unfindable flags. I don't find things like "lfg channels" to be at all useful, though, and "lfg" flags not much more. It's cool that people like the idea, but the utility seems pretty niche.

@Coin said:

Some day I will make a The Strange MU.

It would be easier to code.

@HelloRaptor,

I am so swole.

Dear Landlord,

Used toilet water is dripping into my bathroom. While you might not consider this an "emergency maintenance situation", you can at least return my calls to let me know that someone is on it.

Sincerely,
Someone Who Is Going To Spam the Emergency Line Tonight

(n.b., this is a reputable rental agency, so I know someone is listening to the emergency line and I'm pretty shocked by this lapse of service.)

And everybody knows, those in leadership positions never, ever give not one fuck for unexpected bad shit that happens to the people under their command, even when they should or could have done something to prevent it.

Totally unrealistic.

C'mon, dude, the unreasonable hyperbole is my gig.

All of the iOS clients I've used can be categorized at best as "good enough", because who is insane enough to want to Mu* on a phone?

@HelloRaptor said:

@Thenomain said:

As soon as Bash.Org comes up with a solution, HR can steal it and let everyone give him credit for it.

For the cheap seats, Thenomain's not-at-all-bitter-because-I-think-he's-being-an-obstinate-turd-about-changeling-2.0 sarcasm is because my old WORA signature used to be derived from this

Man, you get tetchy when you're bickering with Sammi. Lighten up!

As soon as Bash.Org comes up with a solution, HR can steal it and let everyone give him credit for it.

@HelloRaptor, re: kith examples.

Fairest are lovely, elegant.
Wizened are patchwork.
Ogres are rough.

Taking the examples as a whole, this pattern emerges. Sure, you don't have to use the descriptions exactly, because only a jerk would enforce that, but I think you are reading too much variance if you are saying that a Wizened can be perfectly formed and graceful and elegant.

I'm not going to anywhere near saying that an Ogre can't be pretty or a Beast can't be rough-hewn, as long as they are also fill in blank for their Seeming. I would want the Seeming to be dominant, but then I'm a jerk.

@HelloRaptor
I still can't see your reading in the write ups. Then again, I also think they are in dire need of rewriting. I'm starting to wonder if their idea of throwing first drafts out there was a good one.

I'm only down on Changeling because I can't entirely figure out why I'm down on Changeling, and frustratingly struggling with that in trying to make it discussion.

@Arkandel said:

I think any line of thought where you need to play a certain way because it's the right way, and other ways are wrong, is less about what the game's creators intended and more what self-appointed purists want.

I'm reading the previews, slowly and twice, and letting it settle before I go to see what the wider reaction to it is. I'm reading it very much as "x because y" and "p therefore q", because that's how it's being written. If you want to be a Fairest, you're going to be hurt if you don't treat your charges like precious little ducklings. This isn't a question (save my hyperbole), it's the curse; it's fact.

I can see us (i.e. me) missing key information. Like: You're supposed to balance the curse with the blessing, as both allow you for losing and gaining points of Clarity. The only way I can think of getting around it looks a bit like this: Vera the Angriest Fairest would not have any charges, therefore no risk of curse and no benefit of blessing. I do feel kind of bad for people who would love to be a manipulative, deviant, nasty Fairest, who throws people around like resources because that's what must be done. (Or because they can, because that's what people do.)

Neh.

@Sammi said:

Still true, except that part of "what you do with that" is incorporated into your changeling nature as a Seeming.

And this is where I roll my eyes and sigh. With the decision now out of my hands once I choose a Seeming, it limits exactly the kinds of things I like to RP. "Then don't play Changeling" is the logical conclusion.

How much does escape agency define a character? If I want to make a fair-hearted leader, he's probably Fairest [...]

What if I escape Arcadia by being an unfair-hearted leader, not by defying cultural taboos etc etc.? Someone who had to Get Shit Done, and Shit Got Done, and because of me we made it out alive. Like I said, I believe, or at least hope, that Seemings are optional.

That is, the stereotypes presented so far are much more limited than I'm used to. We'll see how the chips fall at the final draft. I'm frustrated at the constraints.

@Sammi said:

Something else to say: You were talking about how you couldn't think of any concepts that would fit the new Seemings, but Vera would have made a fantastic 2nd Ed Ogre.

I had thought of that, except there's something about these things are being written that bothers me. Part of the point of Vera was that her anger and hate came in part from wanting to fall into being a Fairest. Under the new system, she would be Just Another Self-Hating Ogre, and after skimming the Kith document there's nothing pretty-pretty-princess an Ogre would have to fight against. Boring boring boring.

At the end of Vera, she had come to terms with this, or as much terms as she was going to come to, which was a perfect time for Vera to end.

I don't mind the Ogre write-up itself, but I am disappointed that the options for the new Changeling seem to backslide on how easy the game could be a game of Fighting Fate, at least as presented so far. In nChangeling, you could be a killer flower, but what you did with that was up to you. Now, if your agency is a fair-hearted leader, you have to be a Fairest. If your agency is bully, you have to be an Ogre. You might disagree, but if you read the OP threads on these you'll find out that I'm not alone in reading it this way.

Or present it the other way around. If you want to be an Ogre you must be secretly sensitive. If you want to be a Fairest, you have to be super-concerned about those you order around. These are their curses, their breaking points. Boring boring boring.

I'm going to chalk this one up to these write-ups being first drafts, and therefore wishing they weren't. I'll hold on to some optimism, but much more cautiously now.

@Sammi, you have no idea how little I missed our talks.

edit: I know that in logic 'x therefore y' <> 'y therefore x'. This is a fact that I'm pretty sure that I know how to apply in day to day conversation. Getting jumped on not once but twice that I'm not using this correctly without anything else to say? Yeah, that door that Pyre opened up is there for you, Sammi. If this is all the conversation will be, you two can have it without me.

I have invented a daring new drinking game.

Browse Kicstarter. Sip when the extended entry claims that the item is "the world's first" something.

Take a second sip if you're sure that it's not.

I entirely disagree with how you're taking this, @Pyrephox, so mark it down to difference of opinion and not "you are entirely correct". I didn't go to the snarky better-than-thou, but if you're opening the door to that then enjoy walking back out through it.

Semantics. Your Seeming is basically who you are now.

For once, I'm not the one getting the reading entirely wrong. People can pick on you, especially the more they know about you, but not just because it's Tuesday.

Also, someone recently pointed out to me that physical appearance and Arcadia escape agency are permanently linked, which means if you want to be a bully you have to look like an Ogre. Neh.