I drink soda with real sugar. I know its bad for me stil, but maybe not as bad! I am trying to cut back. But soda seems to help my headache and that is part of the problem. Maybe I should go get an ice coffee.
I've successfully cut soda out of my diet...except for the occasional Coke with 4realz sugar. There's a hole-in-wall taqueria by my apartment which sells it and it is one of life's pleasures. I think Costco stocks real sugar soda, too.
@krmbm
Yeah, I feel like a roster system where the app process entails saying 'Yo, I want this character' or an entirely painless/low intensity CG (TGG had the latter, and the former seems to be becoming more common/accepted as a thing staff should cater to) helps with this a lot. It won't be for everyone but, frankly, nothing should be for everyone.
@tnp said in Stranger Than Fiction MUX:
I'm giving it a shot. I'm not big on playing sixteen but Riverdale meets Buffy meets It is just too tempting as a change from supers and isn't WoD.
I find it works OK when EVERYBODY is playing teenagers (I was an active Harry Potter setting player, back in the day).
This is tempting and seems well put together. I'll give it a look as soon as I finish binging Stranger Things (alas, workplace that makes me...go to work).
FYI: Netflix renewed Glow: http://deadline.com/2017/08/glow-renewed-netflix-season-2-1202146838/
Probably the most pure fun I've had with a TV show this year. So happy there'll be more!
It's always been awful.
I assumed this was unfixable but if it's not, great!
The game is certainly not beholden to or responsible for the latest atrocities on the show, in any case.
X-Factor: Recommended by players I knew/liked
BSU: Also nudged toward it by players I knew/liked and @faraday's general awesomeness
Arx: Honestly, probably MSB, though not by itself. I had friends who played there but I was resistant for a long time for various sundry of reasons. I think it was @cupcake's Deepwood recruiting post (with a character I really liked attached to it) that finally nudged me over the edge to try it. It had a certain critical mass (that wasn't unreservedly positive, I mistrust too much they honeymoon enthusiam period for games) and I figured I'd give it a go.
@auspice said in Stranger Than Fiction MUX:
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I have gotten report of a supposed "MSB plot" to take down this game. I don't know if there is any truth, whatsoever, to this. I don't know if it was a joke, if it was a few people trolling and when they got found out they decided to point fingers this way to try to cover their own ass, or what.
WTF?
Are there details available to offer about this? My tendency is to side-eye these claims heavily and roll-northernly-eye the 'MSB rule' and such that staff has shown tendency to do thus far, but I'd hate to be rolling my eyes northward unfairly.
(I am not plotting against this game, personally. I do not play there and do not care, apart from the motion of my eyes.)
@Luna said:
White people love to know they're part Native American. I don't know why, but they love it.
Everyone is 1/64 something, if you splice down enough. It's generally pretty silly.
I went on a genealogy kick a year or so ago tracing my father's side of the family, which was Americanized recently enough that records are fairly easy to come by. I'm one generation too removed to apply for Irish citizenship through descent (though my father could've, and I'm kinda annoyed he never bothered, in a 'I might have wanted to work in the EU someday' sort of way), but my great-grandmother is listed on the Dawes Roll, so I could apply for Cherokee tribal citizenship if I got my shit together. Part of me wants to do this, for obvious connection with your roots reasons, which are getting a lot more ephemeral as my family has spread out across the country. And part of me is all, 'You are a pasty-white ginger daywalker, you would seem ridic.' This probably still qualifies as a #whitepeopleproblems.
I have no idea what was going on on my mother's side of the family, which is your basic Scotch/English/palid mutt.
Inability to check their epeen or OOC ego is a big one with me for NOPE JUST NOT GONNA ANYMORE. Even if someone's a great writer, this is a shitty OOC attitude I have zero time for these days. These people are the worst kind of corrosive to a game for me, and I will leave scenes and even factions to avoid them (you can only mitigate this to a limited degree as staff, I find, and often have to indulge it, which is a large reason I don't want to do it again).
Things I like? Being chill OOC while also being willing to play IC friction. A good sense of humor, especially about their own character. Willingness to shift who's 'carrying' the weight of a scene, so I'm not always the person engaging or making up stuff that helps it along.
One reason I mentioned the FS3 games is that I consider them quite a bit less code-intensive for players than other places I've played that probably wouldn't qualify just because the systems they used weren't "automated" to some degree. So I suspect this, as a proviso for these sorts of games, is going to get really arbitrary, as I don't think it's something game designers of this sort put much thought into. As @Rook said, a lot of games will fit your definition, but which ones do and don't is going to be, I suspect, rather random, and probably not indicative of how someone with a MUD background might enjoy them. Something like Firan was an obvious MUX/MUD hybrid (Otherspace is probably one as well), but those games are rarities.
I continue to be baffled by the occasional 4chan obsession with MSB. Do they get points on whatever Bingo Card of Horrible People they have for coming here and trolling? I feel like the reaction, beyond those first couple crazies, has never really been all that entertaining.
Anyway, 4chan makes me RL angry but also RL baffled, to stay on topic.
OGR/Gateway's still up (I just checked! connect.mu-gateway.net port 6700) and up until...I want to say maybe a couple years ago? I still checked it for ads (and MUS*H, which is better-maintained). Hell, there's an ad post up from last month, and who knows how many have timed out in the past years, heh. No reason something like it couldn't thrive again, just needs someone willing to maintain it (and not be crazy, the 'maintain this consistently while not being crazy' is always kind of the rub').
Kevin Conroy = Best Batman.
FITE ME.
I feel like the army repping for The Animated Series as the best incarnation of Batman would be pretty big.
I'd join it, at least!
I came from MUDs so the text-based navigation wasn't completely alien to me, but on my first MU (Tales of Ta'Veren FTW) there was a full walk-through you could take that introduced you to basic commands, bboards, and posing.
I feel like that's gone out of fashion as the hobby's become older and more insular but, through the foggy mists of time, I remember it being quite helpful.
@icanbeyourmuse said:
I'm not a fan of putting all the blame on staff. A lot of the players seem to like were the game is. So the resistance of staff might be due to trying not to alienate the majority of the player base. Allowing certain changes might have a bunch of the players go 'This is not what I signed up for!'
There is a sizable audience for The Game of Boyfriends (or Girlfriends, it doesn't make much difference) who will always studiously play that and not much outside it. I'm not even taking so much KD here as MU*ing as a whole. It's not an audience I'm a member of, but it exists and can be very active, even if it doesn't create an environment where much that interests me happens. I'm not sure what staff does about this, apart from making sure other stuff is happening. If they even regard it as a problem. It's a thing a lot of people want to play, and I guess I can't really Wrong Fun it too much. The most active players will have a huge part in setting game culture, whoever they are.
@Luna said:
Pregnant women who can't talk or post about anything else. Ever. I don't need 10 status updates daily about your pregnant ass or your pregnant diabetic woes. You did both of these things on purpose to yourself.
I'm usually pretty good at pretending I care about this stuff, or at least tuning it out. It only raged me last year, when one of my coworkers was pregnant, and every fucking Wednesday meeting for two months inevitably had to involve a 10-minute digression on her fetus before anything got done. These meetings are annoying anyway, since they grind work to a halt and mainly exist to justify the existence of our managers, but this made them unbearable.
I sometimes feel like the male characters I play are easier to differentiate from each other, because I'm a girlcreature IRL and they're very clearly A Character Who's Not Me in that way right off, so I'm probably paying more attention to developing personality. For that reason, I feel like I click faster with the ones that work for me, whereas female characters sometimes take me more time. I went through a phase for like three years where I just could NOT make a female character work, for whatever reason. It was kind of bothering me. Now I'm playing a woman who's probably in my Top Three Favorite Children Ever, though, so the dry spell is over. Things come in ebb and flow and such.
On the rare occasions when I alt successfully it's usually when I have both a male character and a female one since, again, I've got that obvious thing I'm forced to be different about and I have it to fall back on to avoid same-y-ness, until the new thing I'm playing has a personality.
Idk if I have a clear 'type.' I tend to play action-oriented characters as my mains, but that's mostly just a vehicle for plot involvement. Personality and backgrounds I try hard to vary. Sometimes to the point where I'm probably annoyingly self-conscious about it, but I like to dabble and see how something feels.