I remember when an app of mine on Arx got lost in the void because I'd fat-fingered my email. My assumption is stuff like that's pretty common with anything where you need to provide an email and a 2-minute conversation with staff confirmed what had happened and got me login info.
I really try to manage expectations in async scenes in terms of pacing, because people can have vastly different ideas on what even 'slow' means. I think it's good RP etiquette.
RP that is just JOY and RP comedy that is actually funny.
Dealing with people - and RP definitely qualifies as dealing with people - has gotten gradually harder and harder as everyone's isolation and insecurities (my own included) have gotten doubled down on. So, it ebbs and flows. MUing definitely doesn't feel as escapist as it used to and with forever WFH screentime in general feels a bit more oppressive than it used so. So, the reading.
I have picked up very few positive habits but I am reading more. I'm working my way through my 'books I bought with the best intentions but haven't read' pile on my bookshelf at a decent clip.
Pure dumb fun RP that you can actually feel everyone enjoying. Also hearing that someone you'd never RP'd with before thought you were fun (they were also very fun).
This was a super nice thing to do this weekend.
I can function either way but the dork in me loves seeing how all my dice rolls came out. THE NUMBERS. THE NUMBERS BETRAYING ME. It's fascinating.
@Quinn said in Favorite/Most Memorable Childhood Books:
The Book of Three series by Lloyd Alexander. The ending book, The High King, is still one of my favorite books ever.
I came to this thread of post about the Prydain books. I distinctly remember reading them weirldy out of order (starting with the last one which I did not understand was part of a series initially, then the second, then the first and third, then the fourth) because of limited copies in my school library. I've got copies of them at home now that I occasionally reread (in order).
@Ganymede said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
I think we all misjudged Kavanaugh a little as to his jurisprudential leanings.
Wasn't he supposedly someone Kennedy hand-picked to succeed him? Granted, this is more an indictment of Kennedy than anything else.
@Misadventure
I was just rewatching that skit. It remains one of the funniest things SNL has produced in my lifetime.
Trebek hits me hard. Dude was a constant presence in my life for as long as I can remember through 'Jeopardy!' and somehow comforting through all strange times.
I appreciate many things about Ares but the ability to: spill beer on my modem / panic and restart/unplug everything / pose on my phone without missing a beat as things restart, is a treasure.
This is all anecdotal, but Spirit Lake got a pretty sizeable uptick in Guest logins and newbs after its MUDConnector listing went up. I was legit surprised at the extent of it.
It's also usually 'there's nothing out there that's exactly right for ME therefore the hobby is dying.'
And yeah it's pretty tedious and a cycle of eternal return. There are games! I think there's a pretty OK spread depending on genre and interest right now, really, at least better than other years I can remember.
Even FS3 didn't have full web support until...what a couple of years ago? It got it because enough people were using it and wanted it that they either coded it themselves or it became clearly worth supporting.
@Pyrephox
Not sure why Ares' FATE plug-in isn't more widely-used, all things considered. It'd be fun to see something done up with it.
I sometimes think I overeact by assuming everyone is This Guy, but, if you're right 70% of the time that's a bet you keep making.
@cyberdemon said in Euphoria - Feedback:
I would think that such a thing would increase online activity of this sort, not decrease it, since people are no longer permitted to have normal social lives in many jurisdictions.
It did for a while, at least in terms of character creation/apps, at the beginning of the pandemic in March through...I'd say about May or June? But that's tapered off into exhaustion mode for a lot of people in more recent months. That was my experience on a couple games (not Euphoria because...oh gosh, I am part of this pattern and new things are hard), at least, but it feels pretty typical as far as a pattern.
@Pyrephox said in Web portals and scenes and grids oh my!:
@Coin Weirdly, the Ares portal doesn't bother me at all. I usually have a bit logged in on the webclient for chat, and then another tab open for the scene in the portal, and that really works for me.
Same. I'm usually playing both on my browser and in my client , because they both do certain things a little better, but if I'm only playing solely on web I don't tend to lose track of those scenes like I do the flashbacks. The ability to check notifications on my phone probably helps as much as anything else, but I also just approach them with a different mentality, so it may be back to a culture thing. I don't do any RP on Arx via the web outside like my two flashbacks a year, so I just don't habitually check them.
