Posts made by Three-Eyed Crow

@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.

I actually have a Three Strikes rule with people, too, before I stop bothering asking for a scene and/or RP. If somebody puts me off, misses pages, doesn't have room in a plot for me, has a headache once or twice, that's life. If they do it three times, well maybe that's still life, but also maybe they just don't want to play with me. Or they flat out don't have time, which sucks, but I still need to move on.

This is hard when your character's story feels tied up in what somebody else needs to do, but sometimes there's just not much you can do but work around it and ask staff to help you.

@Ide
Yep. If I'm playing with someone who thinks they're the audience and I'm the author (or who expects me to be the awed receiver of their awesome literary constructions, for that matter), I'm going to cease to play with that person very quickly. I enjoy MU*ing most when I'm approaching it as text-based improv, where there's an ongoing give-and-take. Including between players and STs. In my experience, at least, there is nothing more frustrating as a GM than feeling like people just came to watch my emits for two hours because there was a +event, rather than participate and do shit. By the same token, if an ST just expects me to be the audience to their awesomeness, that's a really bad ST'd scene for me.

@Lisse24 said:

I think this idea of having proactive players who start a bunch of interesting plots for their fellow players is also unrealistic. It's also not something that we see mirrored in literature, which means that players don't have a good model for it. Think about it. Jack Bauer* doesn't wake up, leave his house, and start killing terrorists. Jack Bauer wakes up, hears that terrorists have hijacked a plane, and then he leaves his house and starts killing terrorists.

That isn't how I use the term "proactive" and I suspect for a lot of other players it's also not. I don't think proactive is just 'running PrPs' or 'making a scene about what you want it to be about at that moment, usually You.' But it's doing Something. It's some form of active engagement with me, even if it's jumping off what other people are doing. It's reacting to plots that staff or other players are running and trying to RP about them, rather than just passively showing up at events. Sometimes it's as small as picking a place to RP and vague situation instead of just blankly staring at me when I respond to your request to RP with, 'Sure, what do you want to do?' Mostly, to me, it's just not being utterly passive about your own fun.

I just ran into a player recently who'd started MU*ing, about five years ago, on Greatest Generation when I was doing ST stuff there. The fact that he remembered us fondly, and was still involved in the hobby (he was like 18 at the time, so he's in his 20s now) made my day.

@Sunny said:

Most of the couples I know, they're not even remotely a problem. A lot of the time you'd never know without someone telling you. There are a few loud couples, but for the most part enh. The few toxic ones I know, one person in the relationship or the other is toxic beyond just that.

I definitely think this is one of those things where you tend to only notice the obnoxious cases, unless the couple-players make a point of telling people about it. So it's one of those things that seems more annoying than it is, because you generally only notice it when you're dealing with specifically annoying people and not the rando couple who just plays the game like normal folk.

@VulgarKitten said:

That said, this seems especially prominent when there are couples RP'ing together, creating multiple alts who also RP together.

This annoys me, too, but it always seems like a problem sensible alt limits would solve far more than anything else. Since the real problem is the incestuous web of relationships over multiple characters, not so much whatever two people are doing IRL.

Definitely agree they shouldn't be treated as alts. It isn't really that different than apping into a game with a bunch of friends, which is pretty common and not something I think anyone would consider policing. I've known some couples who MU* together and are fine, others who are weird and annoying, but that's also just down to people being people.

As far as basketball entertainment goes, The White Shadow appears to be on Hulu. http://www.hulu.com/the-white-shadow Always enjoyed it in reruns when I was younger, though I haven't watched in years.

@Gingerlily said:

If any of you care, Vinyl was decent. Didn't need a 2 hour pilot, that was too much, but I am optimistic for the regular 1 hour format. Music! Arguments! People playing awkward versions of Robert Plant!

I've been listening to the soundtrack HBO put up on Spotify today and it's making me look forward to this more, so I'm going to carve out time to watch it this week. Might be worth it just for the 70s musical rubbernecking of it all.

@Roz is going to live forever. She's going to learn how to fly...

@dontpanda said:

Oh! Get a U-lock. No, a thick cable is not the same. Get a U-lock. I can't stress that enough.

Got a Pitbull U-lock. The guy at the bike store cut $10 off the price when I was buying the bike, and I live in a college town where bike theft is rampant, so I figured it was worth $40.

@Arkandel said:

Also get some apps. There are some sweet ride-finding ones out there, and with GPS you can keep track of where you're going, how far you're riding etc. If you're into that sort of thing it's a blast - gadgets!

I'm using Strava, which seems to work well enough, but was also the first thing Google gave me that synced with my Fitbit, so I don't know if there are better ones out there. I am enjoying riding three or four times a week, though, so thus far it's a life upgrade.

Having played with both the first incarnation of FS3 and the current version, I really like the look of the third one. It streamlines things quite a bit (I actually like Background skills and the occasional fun I get out of putting random lulzy stuff on my sheet, but it's absolutely correct that they confused a lot of players). I wouldn't mind a first edition style GM guide, honestly. I feel like, with any system, most of the complaints about it boil down to what the GM did (occasionally wrong-headedly) far more than they did the dice themselves.

@SG said:

Though listening to dude obsessing over becoming a sniper and having his dudes die ever weekend was kind of fun as well.

This amused the hell out of me.

This might make me a terrible person, but I can live with that.

Always loved this about TGG. It gave it kind of a troupe feel, as the players remained (somewhat) the same but changed characters over different campaigns. Sometimes we were able to app an old character in a new context (I turned a WW1 Marine into a jaded Spanish Civil War reporter). It was good times.

@Cobaltasaurus
Ack, sorry. Missed that (somehow, dunno how) and it was my primary problem in getting mine to work.

@lordbelh said:

Also, The Wire was the best. And yes, the last season was the worst.

I kinda defend it now by remembering that Sleazoid Politiican Tommy Carcetti is based on Martin O'Malley, and I had some fun imagining him dealing with the...whacky final season plot in the same manner.

@Arkandel
I have zero interest in football (I was chatting with a friend of mine about FNL and she started making fun of me when it became apparent I had NO CONCEPT of what position Tim Riggins played despite having watched every episode). It's incorrect to say it' s not "about" football, but it's just a framing device (and I guess if you're an actual sports person, the constant come-from-behind wins are pretty dumb and Coach Taylor frequently makes lulzy decisions on the field).

I will say, the reason I enjoyed The Wire as much as I did is because it made me love and invest in its characters more than almost any other series I can name (with the possible exception of Friday Night Lights). Including people who'd be one-off villains in any other series. It's admirable in many other ways, but that's why I love it, and why it never felt like Eating My Vegetables TV. I can understand why it feels like homework to some people, but it never did for me after I got past the first few episodes (I feel like there's a moment in the fourth episode of S1 where you're either hooked or you're not).