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    Best posts made by Three-Eyed Crow

    • RE: When Shit Goes Right And It's Nice (On MU*s)

      I don't focus on the bad, but it's much easier to quantify the bad. We also, frankly, tend to cut our friends a lot of slack on their flaws and inflate their good qualities, while zeroing in on petty bullshit from randos and people we don't particularly care for. It's human nature, but it makes me reluctant to either call people out by name unless they've become complete atrocities, or give someone a public compliment unless they've done something amazing (I give private compliments pretty frequently, and it's the kind of feedback I put more stock in and prefer to receive myself).

      With all that said, I did have an experience recently as a Guest that I really liked. I was actually invited to watch ongoing RP, and @tel'd to the grid by staff so I can get a sense of what an actual scene was like. I wish more games would do this, as the way the players and ST interacted gave me a much better idea of how the trains actually ran at this place. There are obvious pitfalls in doing this (namely, a lot of People on the Internet can't master basic courtesy and will be disruptive), but it was the first time I thought, 'Huh, this is a decent idea and there are ways it can probably work.'

      posted in Mildly Constructive
      Three-Eyed Crow
      Three-Eyed Crow
    • RE: Good TV

      @ganymede said in Good TV:

      I hear that the Bad Place has pie.

      Also butthole spiders. I'm unsure if this is incentive or not, though.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
      Three-Eyed Crow
      Three-Eyed Crow
    • RE: Gray Harbor Discussion

      @faraday said in Gray Harbor Discussion:

      I'm a pretty ardent feminist myself, but even I could accept that female infantrymen were not historical in TGG's WWI campaign and that my boundary-pushing female cattlewoman was going to face historically-appropriate prejudice in the 1840's Australian outback on Pioneer.

      Same. I actually played the 'woman soldier in disguise' thing in TGG with the understanding that this arc was done the second she was found out. She was found out! Her run was fairly short, given the realities of getting wounded on that game. I enjoyed it as a mini-arc but would've enjoyed it much less if the reaction to her had just been 'shrug, whatevs' because I was playing that game to enjoy the setting, including some (Hollywood-level) realities of it.

      posted in Mildly Constructive
      Three-Eyed Crow
      Three-Eyed Crow
    • RE: Good or New Movies Review

      Co-sign the love for Unbreakable. I think it wasn't what people expected after Sixth Sense but is a really good film. It bought me years of goodwill that didn't totally die until The Happening. I'm stoked for Glass.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
      Three-Eyed Crow
      Three-Eyed Crow
    • RE: OOC Knowledge Levels Question

      @faraday
      Yeah def feels like it needs to be emphasized you can just stop a scene in Ares and not share it. Even gives you the option to download it for your record-keeping later it you've used the scenes system to play it out. I've always figured the heavy logging/sharing thing on Ares games was cultural as much as anything else and you could, I theory, hack your setup to tilt less toward transparency in ways I don't understand since I'm not a coder.

      Back in Ye Olden Days the GoT game I was on, Steel and Stone, used Wikidot and most RP was posted, but there was enough PvP that a lot of the moves and counter moves weren't and it worked well enough. Sometimes more revealing scenes would get posted later, after the fall-out from their schemes had come to pass.

      posted in Mildly Constructive
      Three-Eyed Crow
      Three-Eyed Crow
    • RE: How to pronounce FYI?

      @Rinel said in How to pronounce FYI?:

      I have never so much as encountered people pronouncing it as an acronym.

      F-Y-I.

      Same. It would never occur to not to just say the letters.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
      Three-Eyed Crow
      Three-Eyed Crow
    • RE: FOMO and MUSHing

      Google tells me it's "Fear of Missing Out," a term I'd also never heard.

      For me this boils down to more simply: activity begets activity. Ideally, this is the kind of MUSH environment you want. When you're fairly sure nothing exciting is going on and you can stop bothering, that's when things stagnate.

      I guess I've never felt like this is a negative compulsion for me, though.

      I'm also fairly good at just popping in, checking boards, and popping out again if I can't RP or there's nothing going on I want to be involved in. If I'm fucking around on a MUSH when I should be doing other stuff, I'm generally avoiding the Other Stuff and the MUSH is just one procrastination avenue (I have so, so many when I really don't want to do something).

      posted in Mildly Constructive
      Three-Eyed Crow
      Three-Eyed Crow
    • RE: Dead Celebrities 2020

      @Roz said in Dead Celebrities 2020:

      Fred Willard 😞

      This one hit me harder than I expected it to. That guy brought me joy in everything he showed up in.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
      Three-Eyed Crow
      Three-Eyed Crow
    • RE: Do you care about other people's music?

      I've been making character playlists since the dark ages of ITunes. I do it for myself, as a character-building exercise. There are old ones I've saved that were never shared because the game wikis didn't really have that capability back then. They never need to be. They're for me. I usually have music on when I RP anyway so it built out of that pretty naturally. If I can share the Spotify link on my character page I do, but that's secondary.

      I love discovering new music through the playlists other folks make and I do listen to them when I come upon them. They're non-essential fluff but it's a brand of fluff I enjoy.

      posted in Mildly Constructive
      Three-Eyed Crow
      Three-Eyed Crow
    • RE: Good TV

      @arkandel
      I read the books way back when and thus far I've enjoyed the series, though I have some issues with the pacing (it seems REALLY structured around big action sequences without a lot of room to breathe for the characters). I also have some issues with how they're positioning the central 'mystery' (book reader spoilers to follow).

      tags:***=WoT Spoilers***

      click to show

      I think my ambivalence boils to...I don't see them actually changing who the Dragon Reborn is, but they're doing some stuff to keep it mysterious that feels like it'll ultimatley make it being Rand more of a letdown. Egwene, Mat, and Perrin all got a little bit of extra screen-time or fleshing out apart from what was in the books. In the case of Egwene and Mat this worked for me. Perrin's less so, but I see what they're doing especially in terms of his wolfism so...I'll ride with it for a bit. Some of Rand's backstory and time with his dad got actively cut, I think because he has the VERY obvious portent heavy Luke Skywalker parentage that pretty much anvil's 'this is this guy's heroes' journey.' Which, OK, if you want people to not be sure who the Dragon Reborn is for a while, that's a choice. But they didn't replace it with anything, so he feels like the thinnest and most annoying character at this point. Which feels like it's just going to lead to an inevitable let-down when this dude who they've been kinda avoiding fleshing out to make the other characters seem more plausible as protagonists is revealed to be the Dragon Reborn. As a friend of mine who's also watching put it: I can't imagine anyone who didn't read the books is going to be both surprised and satisfied, anyone who's surprised is probably going to be disappointed, and that's without even getting into how Rand's actor is the most boring of the white dudes in the cast at this point, so dragging out the reveal feels kinda not great to anyone who invests in Egwene or Perrin as real possibilities for the lead of this thing.

      All that being said I'm interested to see how they round out the season and am here for it.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
      Three-Eyed Crow
      Three-Eyed Crow
    • RE: Arx's Elevation Situation

      @Kanye-Qwest
      I long for a time jump and all new PCs/new chessboard but I accept I'm in the vast vast minority. Maybe someday tho!

      posted in Mildly Constructive
      Three-Eyed Crow
      Three-Eyed Crow
    • RE: Girl Scout Cookies

      @greenflashlight said in Girl Scout Cookies:

      The caramel and coconut ones. The flavor combination is excellent and the texture of them is perfect.

      I could inhale boxes of Samoas.

      Also have a fondness for Thin Mints.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
      Three-Eyed Crow
      Three-Eyed Crow
    • RE: Twinking in RP MU*

      I just figure people who need me to motivate them don't actually really want to participate. They just kinda want to participate, maybe, some time. Which is fine, but it's not my responsibility. I've stopped worrying about it (which is weirdly hard, at least for me). It's not my job to cat-herd you if you're not into something, even though I'd be perfectly happy if you end up really wanting to at some point. Pro-activity goes hand-in-hand with really wanting to do anything, for me.

      This is totally different than actual unavailability due to RL or health or whatever. That's just life.

      posted in Mildly Constructive
      Three-Eyed Crow
      Three-Eyed Crow
    • RE: RL Anger

      @Luna said:

      Losing weight is super simple. Eat less than you burn in calories a day. Just because it's simple doesn't mean it's easy.

      It takes a fucking long time to see results, was my biggest problem with it for the longest time.

      Once I'd accepted that I just wasn't going to lose what I wanted to lose in the first two weeks/month and stopped discouraging myself, I dropped like 30 pounds last year.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
      Three-Eyed Crow
      Three-Eyed Crow
    • RE: A bit of trouble on Firefly

      @thesuntsar said in A bit of trouble on Firefly:

      who the heck is Patrick

      OUR SAVIOR.

      posted in Mildly Constructive
      Three-Eyed Crow
      Three-Eyed Crow
    • RE: More Fitness

      So the Giant Soulless MegaCorp I work for is relocating my position to another office that (shockingly) will end up being closer to where I live. In a decision that positively impacts my life, purely by accident. So I'll be within pretty easy biking distance of work starting next month.

      I'd like to at least try this. I've been toying with the idea of buying a bike for awhile, for health reasons, and this seems like as good a time as any.

      Does anybody who bikes regularly have advice on what kind to get? The Internet tells me there's a huge range of choices and price ranges.

      This would be mainly for city commuting/tooling around, but I'm within driving distance of some decent desert trails where I go hiking now and might in theory want to bike out there at some point in my life.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
      Three-Eyed Crow
      Three-Eyed Crow
    • RE: Tips for not wearing out your welcome

      @surreality said in Tips for not wearing out your welcome:

      If OOC interaction is a common issue, you may want to look for games that allow for play with minimal or no OOC interaction required. You're more likely to find that on an RPI than a MUSH, from what I gather from other conversations on the forum.

      RP encouraged but not enforced MUDs were suggested.

      For all that everything people say about Haven seems...umm not my thing, that kind of heavy code environment in a modern setting springs to mind.

      ETA: This is an RPI since the MUDconnector links you were given before being asked to leave SL did not suffice. https://mudlistings.com/rpi-muds

      posted in Mildly Constructive
      Three-Eyed Crow
      Three-Eyed Crow
    • RE: Good TV

      @Arkandel
      I have zero interest in football (I was chatting with a friend of mine about FNL and she started making fun of me when it became apparent I had NO CONCEPT of what position Tim Riggins played despite having watched every episode). It's incorrect to say it' s not "about" football, but it's just a framing device (and I guess if you're an actual sports person, the constant come-from-behind wins are pretty dumb and Coach Taylor frequently makes lulzy decisions on the field).

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
      Three-Eyed Crow
      Three-Eyed Crow
    • RE: The Fate of MUSHdom

      Strictly from anecdotal observation from talking to Guests (so, largely useless! but) the MudConnector is still pretty widely used as a search engine for players just looking for games. It could be better maintained than it is, but I feel like there are more usability and cultural hurdles for new players than there is a real problem with not having a dedicated MU listing.

      posted in Mildly Constructive
      Three-Eyed Crow
      Three-Eyed Crow
    • RE: Universal Basic Income

      In theory I like it a lot. I think it has potential both to simplify government programs and raise living standards.

      In practice I'd like to see how it works long-term on a large scale before getting too excited about it, but it's one of those economic ideas I'm surprised there isn't more chatter about.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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      Three-Eyed Crow
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