Best posts made by Three-Eyed Crow

@surreality said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

...awkward thought: my most recent PoC PB has blue/grey/green eyes (depends on the photo; she's Jamaican/Irish). But, uh. That doesn't make her a generic white girl last I checked?

Ha, one of mine was, too, awhile back, because I'd really liked Michael Ealy in "Almost Human" and wanted to use him somewhere. What this says about me idk (PSA: "Stumptown" is a gr8 show if you're into PI antics). I get that this is probably SUPER tangential to what @egg is talking about, though I think they're right about the preference in US media in general for light eyes and it's interesting to think about. I definitely think there's an aspect of "playing the unique thing" in the same way red hair is popular, though there are probs also coded levels to it.

@Auspice said in The 100: The Mush:

That hate in my world still sits with Witchcraft and Wizardry (seriously why require people set whether or not they would allow their char to be rostered if you're just gonna ignore it anyway?!).

I was so fucking weirded out when I saw an old character of mine being played by someone else there. Not cool.

So much fun to sit in a meeting for 30 minutes that's all about a department totally unrelated to yours...except they keep referencing 'changes to make all procedures the same' without giving you any details. Except this Other Department is the problem child in a bunch of trouble with regulators so you're pretty sure your life is going to become miserable even though we're doing everything right and not failing our audits unlike SOME PEOPLE.

@surreality
This is also the first place I've heard anyone complain about nurse costumes and would love to know where this comes from. I get that 'sexy nurse' is a trope but 'sexy everything' is a trope in Halloween costumes and doesn't seem a nurse-specific issue.

I didn't play either Fifth World or The 100 for any length of time enough to comment extensively on them, but I will say my issues for Not Sticking Around were quite different.

I feel like the criticisms of the headstaff spot-lighting their own PCs were a lot more applicable to Fifth World.

Maybe The 100 had these problems too, but the thing that made me want to log out and not come back were the other players.

Whether this represents growth or just me being annoyed by different things at different times, I don't know.

@insomniac7809
I feel like these assholes were not nearly so vocal in 2010 as they were in 2000 (oh, my youth) or now. Maybe even numbers empower them, idk.

@Ifrit said in Why no Star Trek games?:

If we look outside the world of MUs (it does exist, I promise!), Starbase 118, a play by email game, has been going for 25 years. And it has neither sheet (beyond character details) nor stats. Advancement through the ranks is one of the options, of course.

30 seconds on The Googles for 'star trek discord roleplaying' also yielded this: https://disboard.org/servers/tag/star-trek

I mean, I skimmed and one of those has 'fapping' in the description but that's just the law of internet averages.

My concern with that stuff is always less about what I'm obligated to do (attractions are fleeting and can be RP'd around/downplayed) than what the other player will take it as license do. I've been on the receiving end of 'This flirtation we agreed to' became 'YOU ARE MY ONE TWU WUV NO YOU CAN'T SAY YOU'RE NOT IT IS DESTINY'. And that was with a player I thought I was on the same page with, not just some rando.

@TNP
Of the fast food chains, Burger King is one of my lesser favorites, so when I say 'I found the Impossible Whopper about comparable with the actual Whopper' it's kind of damning with faint praise, but it also feels like a huge deal commercially. Replicating 'it's perfectly OK for lunch I guess' meat that's consumed on a massive scale by millions of people every day is probably more promising than replicating gourmet burgers. I do try to pick one up every few weeks now, which is more than I've eaten at Burger King in years.

Touched off by the convo in the Peeves thread. I am honestly curious, as someone with a limited degree of oversight on an Ares game. I tend to treat Open scenes with no Limited provisos as normal/real-time scenes, but idk if I'm the majority. I do do a decent amount of pausing and time-shifting in private scenes but I figure that's just whatever you and your partner agree upon. Also, what do people think a good 'standard' is for Open/non-Limited scenes, if one is having a standard?

ETA: '5' is 5-15 minutes/basically real-time because I cannot make polls

I will try out this place solely because of the single-planet focus. I was always baffled by how dozens of planets did anything but spread RP thin and cause frustration.

The ProPublic article "Unbelievable" is based on, "An Unbelievable Story of Rape" is fantastic (it won a Pullitzer in its day) in its own right.

https://www.propublica.org/article/false-rape-accusations-an-unbelievable-story

Like the show it's all about sexual assault and also spoils the whole thing, so those caveats. I'm pretty glad I came in knowing what happened as I think it made watching a bit easier, but idk if that'd hold true for every viewer.

FITE FITE FITE

@kitteh
Yeah, that's fair, and it wasn't aimed at you personally. I've just heard it A LOT over the years, from players who were waaaaaaaaaaaaay less constructive, and have a kind of Pavlovian reaction to it, because I don't think it's the case (and because I've had to look at the kind of federal shooting data @The-Sands is talking about for work in past lives). The thread has moved on, and better for it.

I am more excited about the X-Files mini-series than I should be, after having watched that show to the bitter end.

I'm not excited, per se, about the Heroes reboot, but damned if I'm not watching it. It hasn't horrifically disappointed me so far, but it's young yet.

@faraday said in Criticism: X-Men Divergence:

So is requiring apps at all; Ares has a simple roster/claim that immediately lets you take a character and play. Some games just prefer to have an application process.

Speaking as coming from a game that's tried both options, an issue with roster/claim is that it leads to a lot of drive-by app claiming of people who never log in their rosters and play. Which is fine if you're a game with a robust roster/geared toward roster play and you can afford to let one of them turn over and idle out, but if you've got a more limited roster it can suck if a viable character is stuck in the idle void a time or two (or three, or four, or five, literally real case of a char that just got a player who actually logged into him and played after like 2 years). It's kinda shocking how much a one-sentence 'application' mitigates this (idk, if I understood MUer psychology I could make a mint, I'm sure). Not that it isn't ideal if someone can make an OOC bit to do job maintenance.

@silverado
Yes, in that there aren't any other good options.

@Ganymede said:

Crimson Peak is a wink-and-nod to the gothic horror genre, which very few people have actually read and fewer appreciate. It is actually a very, very, very good movie from that perspective.

One of the better reviews I read about it called it "a ghost story, not a horror movie," which I feel like is an important distinction. I went in expecting that. I feel like a lot of viewers didn't. Then again, I also love frock dramas like Rebecca and the literary tradition that comes from.

@sunny said in Character likeness:

public broadcast look sounds like my worst mush nightmare.

I was checking out a MU a friend of mine recommended once that both notified everyone of +finger/+info checks and also showed who'd last +finger'd them in their profile that anyone could see. It was very strange and I can't fathom the motivation behind this code. People be weird, tho.

@Arkandel said:

I'm neither amused nor annoyed unless it gets in the way or goes too far at least for my tastes. For instance I found it frustrating on TR that to play a cop you had to know the jargon and use it extensively, including emergency codes, badge numbers and the such. That was too much, and as silly as requiring a working knowledge of nmap to play a hacker.

In my experience, the fake Armchair Generals are the worst about this stuff. The handful of players with actual, long-term military experience I've encountered didn't get up in arms about details so much (or at least understood, 'Meh, game' better than the dudes who mostly just masturbated to Call of Duty in their spare time). They'd sometimes play technical details other players wouldn't, but if it got overbearing they seemed chill about not.