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@SG said:

Unless you're into House of Commons Rp, i don't see rival characters like this interacting all that much. Even thought Harper and Trudeau shared the same barber, I don't imagine they met up that often for what we'd call RPs type scenes.

There are actually lots of cases of political rivals in different parties who have quite interesting relationships outside work (Reagan and former House Speaker Tip O'Neill are the most prominent example I can think of off the top of my head, but this isn't even uncommon or strange, much as present rhetoric would like to suggest). That's also tangential, so.

@Arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:

I really enjoyed the soundtrack; its flavor of bittersweet nostalgia just worked for me.

I enjoyed the songs, but I'm very aware the people singing them were cast for things other than their ability to sing awesomely. Gosling in particular. Emma Stone was fine.

@Shayd said:

What I'm noticing here is what I suspected: most people on MUSoapbox appear to have discovered text-based games (at the latest) in the 1990s-2000s. Have any of you discovered them after 2010, or do you know anyone who has?

A buddy of mine did (I think BSG Kharon might've been his first game, and that was back in 2009-ish). I ran into a 19-year-old this year who was new to MU*ing, which tickled me. I think the hobby's main problem now is that there are fewer gateways to randomly stumble onto it.

@Ghost said in Good TV:

Is anyone as remotely excited as I am about Twin Peaks returning in May?

I'm so stunned it's actually happening that I haven't quite worked up to excited yet. But I'm definitely looking forward to it. Whatever it is, the sheer weirdness will be worth it.

Still want the 'Deadwood' movies. Come on, HBO.

I play on a pseudo-X-Men game that's using it now and I've liked the way they've customized things so far. http://xfnyc.riverdark.net/wiki/Main_Page I play a fire-starter with a customized blowtorch weapon. With stuff like that it's fairly easy (you can make a pretty wide variety of custom weapons), but a lot of powers are handled through +rolls.

@Auspice said in RL Anger:

Whether single or in a relationship, cheap candy is the only fuck I give about VD.

I'm also enjoying the many Galentine's Day playlists on Spotify, and the free cookies at the office. Otherwise, no fucks, but I'll always accept free food.

What I'd really like is some way to auto-post in-game +bbposts to a wiki feed, but that might require more work than it's worth.

@surreality said in RL Anger:

@PuppyBreath I am not going to give you any platitudes, because they don't help. I will say, it's becoming more and more recognized that people change careers and such many times over the course of their lives these days than it once was -- and many people don't find 'their thing' until much later than we were always told as kids we were expected to know what that was and be immersed in doing that thing.

This is absolutely true.

I was involved in a lay-off of most of my entire office (about 50 people total) and got some 're-employment' courses as part of my severance. The guy leading them said that on average people stay at a job for 2-3 years. It's not only accepted by employers, turn-over is expected at this point and the old 'stay at the same desk for 10 years' can hurt you in a lot of ways.

I'm also doing something radically different than the thing I got my degree, though the degree itself was useful when I was transitioning (just having a degree at all is useful at a certain point). There's far too much emphasis in our society on finding YOUR DREAM when you're 14 and never deviating from it. It's not healthy. I've done what I needed to do to get along in life and searched for my bliss along the way. It's worked out OK.

@Gingerlily said:

Also I swear I read a hard copy library book about MUDs in specific, but it couldn't have been the Richard Bartle because that wasn't out until early 2000s so WHAT DID I READ, I still wonder.

I feel like these things were part of academic discussion back in those days, though I never read about them in an actual text book. But my freshman year computer science teacher in my first year of uni, in 2000, did a whole day on chat interfaces and talked about MUDs in some detail. Universities were still a natural pipeline into these kinds of games (I didn't do much MU*ing in the computer lab but I knew people who did), so I guess it's not surprisingly they were Things some teachers knew about as well as students.

I got my uni degree in journalism and spent the first five years of my working life as a newspaper reporter. It was around 2004 when I graduated.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

I laugh because I weep at the dying industry, and such.

I didn't get furloughed or anything, but when I was looking for The Next Job I realized that, with five years experience, I'd still be making shit money and living in another shit town if I wanted to keep doing this, and I was coming off a job that had made me pretty miserable. So I started looking for alterna-jobs, and kind of fell into fraud review for a financial outfit. This was 2009, right after the crash, so there was a scramble to hire anyone with any kind of investigative experience, even if it wasn't financial industry specific. I'm doing pre-funding reviews (basically, liar loans) for a bank right now. I like the puzzle aspect of it a lot and it's great experience for this kind of thing.

I'd like to stick my head back into freelance non-fiction writing now that I'm settled enough to have some flex time. And I miss journalism, but the current media landscape freaks me the fuck out and I'd never want to go back full-time.

ETA: My first job and one I had on and off through college was as a barista, and it's still The Dream to open a random coffee shop with my retirement money. It'll be next to my hermit cabin.

@Arkandel said:

@Ganymede said:

It is reasonably inferred from Ingrid's statement about having her background tied intimately into Sam's. You generally don't do that without Sam's knowledge or consent, so I presumed that Sam had knowledge that Ingrid was coming in as Ingrid.

If that's the case I'll retract my statement, but my assumption was the background ties were due to the source material - in the Maltese Falcon the two are tied together - rather than that Sam explicitly asked Ingrid to roll the character then neglected her. Yes, that'd be a very dick move to make.

Mostly, this thread reminds me that it's been way too long since I watched The Maltese Falcon.

Rebound guy having access to a KEY after a week would freak me out a lot more than anything else in that scenario, maybe even more than him randomly hanging out. YOU ARE RIGHT TO BE ANGRY. I would hit the goddamn roof.

I think all these factors sort of feed upon themselves.

There's definitely a lot of Ls are Awesome masturbation happening, but I think @Apos hit on something important in that the structure of MU*s kind of feeds this. These games are typically set up so most of what you can do without ST staff is play The Game of Marriages and do petty, rumor-y "politics" that doesn't lead to much game-wide. I think there is an audience of players who is really into this (and it becomes very easy, in my experience, for them to completely dominate RP), but I also think more structure would keep all RP from drifting toward it. It's the kind of thing where staff has to work constantly to keep other stuff going on, though (or enlist players to keep other stuff going on).

In the early 1850s, few pedestrians strolling past the house on H Street in Washington, near the White House, realized that the ancient widow seated by the window, knitting and arranging flowers, was the last surviving link to the glory days of the early republic.

And then the murders began.

Tumblr seems to have a huge RP community.

I occasionally try to read it and want to gouge my eyes out (I'm sure decent RP threads exist but I've yet to find them), but it does seem huge.

If anyone hasn't seen 'This Film Is Not Yet Rated', I cannot recommend it highly enough. Documentary on the American movie ratings system and how f'd up and non-sensical it is. Which I knew, but it gets into the secretive and weird way the ratings are assigned in ways I found really interesting. It's a few years old now, but I suspect most of it still applies.

I feel like the term originated on WORA a couple years ago as a catch-all for these kinds of games and now people just kinda use it. Like PHB.

@Arkandel
I'm not all the way done yet (not that I care about spoilers, clearly) but it's the lack of specificity that's bothering me maybe more than anything else. And the lack of...idk exactly how to put this, but why is Iron Fist here at all?

Daredevil covers the martial arts angle, and is also probably the most recognizable Marvel character in the Netflix series. Also, while I found the Catholic guilt stuff at times a bit 'Whatever, Matt,' it at least gives the show a distinctive feel.

Jessica Jones has a distinct power-set and was very clearly her own thing. Same with Luke Cage. I get why they're interesting characters to throw into this mix. I also get why Punisher was added when he popped so much in Daredevil. It's a very different character than the others, and he clearly adds something.

Iron Fist is...also a martial artist but played by a less good actor with less good writing than Daredevil (and also less good stunt doubling. I don't know how much Charlie Cox actually does in DD in terms of stunt work, but either him or his stunt people deserve major props because that is some of the best choreography you'll get on TV)? I don't know why THIS guy, out of all the Marvel bench-warmers that could've shone in their own show.

@Arkandel said in Finding roleplay:

The flipside of it is people whose schedules, socialization skills or plain newbie status prevents them from being organically part of interesting scenes which grow to be more. Organized +events give them an in, and from then on they can cultivate IC relationships, show off their RP chops to people and gain hooks into the game's theme. Sometimes a STed PrP let me grow my still generic 'grumpy cop' into a legitimate more three dimensional character.

This was my issue back when more random events were more common on games I played. They never seemed to happen when I was online, or would be in progress and have started an hour ago, when I was still at work. My only objection to somebody dropping something on me would be that I sometimes only have a couple hours a night to RP, and if a random scene happens when I've just got an hour left, it'll probably be less frustrating for everyone concerned to just beg it off.

I am sad the practice has died, though. It at least shows an ST is trying, even if they aren't dropping stuff I'm 100% in the mood for or can participate in, and I appreciate the effort.

I had to take a solid night of pouting when it hit me I couldn't play as an alien. I wants me a turian Mass Effect protagonist one day.

Getting back into it now. Don't feel like I've played enough to form an opinion. It's huge.