Posts made by Three-Eyed Crow

@Ghost said in RL Anger:

I know the list of people that don't like me, or that I've had spats with, and truly believe that the inability to sit down across a table and hash shit out like normal people makes things difficult.

The difference between how people act IRL, when they actually have to own their shit to some degree (if, indeed, they own their shit, this isn't common IRL either, but it's an environment where you can be physically punched, which helps sometimes), is indeed staggeringly different than the way they act online when they're just being forum edgelords.

Anyway, we have no beef tangible, if this was a vagueblog at me. I actually said in my unhinged ALL-CAPS rant that I don't think you're a bad person. I do think your lack of self-awareness is pretty damn staggering a lot of the time, so maybe stay away from that as a criticism of other people. Or don't, I'm the boss of no one.

ETA: I meant every word of the unhinged ALL-CAPS rant and own it happily. Don't misunderstand.

It warms my cold, cold heart to know that DB is still kicking around. Old soldiers never die, and such. Very neat that you're preserving it.

My experience is more...

There's a certain audience for sim space (I'm not in this group).

There's a certain audience who prefer environments where travel is just free-form RP'd or done via GM fiat (I'm in this group).

The VEN diagram overlaps a little bit, but not very much, so if you make one type of game, it won't appeal to the other type of players. Some people will lump simulated space or grudgingly accept the lack of it, but I feel like this is just a different style of play at its core.

@Aria said in Aria's Playlist:

@Three-Eyed-Crow said in Aria's Playlist:

I have zero long-pent rage for you (also, good to see you about)! Phin @ Orion here, and I always enjoyed our RP/appreciated all you brought to the plot. It was good times, when the times were good.

I'm digging BSU at the moment ( http://bsgunificationmush.wikidot.com/ ) if you're ever in the mood for BSG RP. Reasonable activity level, stuff blows up, it's good times.

...I actually have a rather blathery apology I should probably post about that place and how it closed down, but I'm being all awkward and scuffing-my-foot-in-the-dirt about it.

Given the amount of MU shit I've abandoned, lol, I feel this. Sometimes you gotta just peace out for your own sanity/fun. I had my differences while on that game with both you and DK from time to time, but I appreciate the hell out of the work you guys put in and had a lot of fun there, and whenever we chatted OOC I always came away respecting where you were coming from more.

Bwawhaha, Ares. That fucking guy. I feel sort of vindicated that he was apparently even MORE of an asshole on Game of Kings than he was with all the Pegasus nonsense.

Mu dramaz. Good times, good times.

I have zero long-pent rage for you (also, good to see you about)! Phin @ Orion here, and I always enjoyed our RP/appreciated all you brought to the plot. It was good times, when the times were good.

I'm digging BSU at the moment ( http://bsgunificationmush.wikidot.com/ ) if you're ever in the mood for BSG RP. Reasonable activity level, stuff blows up, it's good times.

Glad you're OK! Best wishes from Calliope@BSU.

@Rook said in Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?:

Realism? Most people I know, you know, we all know... are not the epitomes of their Thing. Olympic athletes, maybe. Yeah, yeah, I get that most games are superhero/fantasy games on logarithmic scales, but even in the scale of a game system... it always bugged me how some players have this attitude of "Best or Bust". Not you, specifically, but Gamers Out There (aka: They).

It's pretty hilarious how much your character stands out if you RP them as being...average at their job. Not bad, but good at some parts of it and not great at other parts of it. This is the way I've found to most enjoy myself in spheres/factions crowded with similar types.

Dark Spires (a Dresden files game) did pretty well for itself for a long time, though I don't know what the current state of it is.

@Sparks said in RL Anger:

(What drives me insane are the other native Seattle folks who have this whole desire to cling to those rose-colored ideals of the past, and who don't like the change we need for a city this large. "I don't want light rail where I can see it from my house!" "I don't want apartment buildings in my neighborhood!" And so on.)

Man, light rail is about the only good transportation decision the Phoenix-Metro has made. Yeah, construction fucks up the streets for awhile, but once it's done it's great. I'm never moving off the line.

@Ganymede said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

If you're a casual gym-goer, you may want to consider your local Y. Especially if it has other amenities, like a pool or racquetball courts. Plus, you'd be giving your money to a charitable organization that gives free classes (probably) to underprivileged kids.

Casual best describes how I'd use it. The Y is a little out of the way, but we're talking a 10-minute drive as opposed to 5, so it ain't exactly a hardship.

Jesus fuck arbitrated gym disputes. I'm curious how the industry became so mired in contractual horror, but I suspect the answer is just "people are making money and customers don't know any better."

So, it's a thousand degrees outside again and, as inevitably happens this time of year, I'm considering a gym membership.

Anybody have any experience with ProFitness? There's one on the way home from work for me that's convenient enough that I'd go to it, but I've been burned by gym memberships pretty badly in the past.

@Vorpal said in Superhero movies:

I'm just going to eat crow about my original doubts concerning whether or not Gadot could carry the role well, because she fucking crushed it. This, in fact, is the first DC movie I will actually watch more than once in... a long time.

SO GOOD.

I'll end up seeing it twice because I'm taking my dad for Father's Day. Really looking forward to it.

The trailer for Justice League did not make me particularly excited, even given how much I loved WW and Gal Gadot in the role, but ah well. I'll always have the DC Animated U.

@Tinuviel
I upvote because this board does not have a 'crying on the inside' indicator.

@magee101 said in Are there any active sci-fi MU*s these days?:

Back on topic, any other scifi games besides that really old Firefly one, Star Wars or BSG?

Jesus fucking Christ is Serenity still not dead?

DRIVE THE STAKE THROUGH ITS BLACK HEART ALREADY, BY ALL THAT IS GOOD AND PURE.

I've heard about it from a few quarters today. I'm bummed as well. I'm sure Sense8 was expensive as hell, but it was utterly unique and I'm sad to see it go.

@mietze said in Considering Arx? Consider Deepwood!:

My issue mostly is time and stupidity (when it comes time learning new game systems).

The nice thing about the rosters is that all you do is log in and say, 'I want to play X because they seem cool' and you're done with cg.

I was put off by the SO MANY THINGS nature of the game for a long time, and there is a lot of that. Though I found I could ignore most of it on my dumb bashy commoner until I got the hang of things, and the RP is reliability good. I feel like a noble who wasn't in any kind of leadership position would also be pretty easy to coast on for awhile (a fac head less so, admittedly).

@Cupcake
Just co-signing this. I feel like I lucked into Deepwood (and Grayson as a whole) kind of randomly when I took Esoka off the roster. Samantha (and Tikva, Rymarr, Zhayla, and more of the Grayson players than I can name) really helped me find my feet and not feel lost and overwhelmed on what can feel like a huge game. I find the way Riven is positioned within the theme as a blended old nobility/Prodigal house really rich and ripe for exploration if people want to dig into it.

I grew up in Northern Idaho during the 80s/early 90s, when it was a hotbed for Aryan Nation activity (the house my folks lived in was like three miles from the Ruby Ridge stand-off. Maybe it still is like this, I am long gone and don't know anymore!). Not "people having views that were mean and abstractly hateful," but robbing banks/putting bombs under people's cars/selling weapons to and supplying training for groups that are classified as domestic terrorists. There were backroads you did not want to drive on because of white nationalist militia fucks were trigger-happy about anything that got too close to their "compounds." I am terrifyingly white (ginger, y'all), so my family was never targeted, but this shit is real. It's not an intellectual exercise in people having distasteful views. These are actual domestic terrorists.

Admittedly I don't know where the line is, in terms of how these fucks should be curtailed. I would personally be against applying European-style speech codes in the US. I enjoyed the hell out of that Richard Spencer getting punched video in a visceral way, even while on a civil discourse level it made me uncomfortable. I'm angry that, after a couple decades removal from this, I became as complacent about it as anyone else, and it chills the fuck out of me to see it alive and well right now, even if it's wearing more socially acceptable clothing in some instances. I have no answers and don't know where we go from here, except acknowledging that this shit is a part of our country and it's a problem we need to deal with.

Also, yeah, seeing the term "Nazi" thrown around casually to describe people are who are just bigoted morons hits me wrong as well, but I don't think I'm in a position to bark at people about it.

@krmbm said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

I seem to have picked him up in a time of intense OOC drama for Darkwater and may put him back on the roster.

The roster's at least deep enough that there's a decent variety to choose from, and seems to get refreshed regularly. One of the things that typically bothers me about roster games is feeling like all the 'good' characters get picked over and you're left with the dregs if you show up six months in, but I find the pre-gens at Arx pretty rich all around (I'm very happy with mine, and I'm a heavy roster skeptic in most respects).

@Coin said in A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like:

This is wrong. If you had read my earlier post about this very same thing, you'd know a lot of other languages use a completely different term for people who live in the United States. In fact, most of the languages that use 'American' to refer to people from the U.S. are used predominantly in countries that 1) have no cultural interest in America as a continent, and 2) primarily do business with the United States, and not the rest of America, and thus have absolutely no need to respect any sort of linguistics that would take into account those appropriative.

I haven't spent a ton of time in Mexico, but I lived on the border for a bit and worked there off and on, and the attitude I encountered toward the term 'American' as a thing only referring to people from the United States could be best described as "Lolsigh." It makes me rather agree with @ThatGuyThere about it on a basic level, though I can't sign on to the pedantry.