Posts made by Three-Eyed Crow

@Ghost said:

On one BSG-themed game, a player made a special snowflake character whose skills (aside from being the best fighter pilot ever) included Zorbing (Australian/New Zealand human ball bouncing) and LEGOing.

A player tried to explain to her (SPOILERS) that Battlestar Galactica took place hundreds of thousands of years before Earth culture discovered/invented LEGO and/or ZORB. She promptly reported this person to staff for harassing her.

Bwahahahaha, I think I remember who you're talking about.

What specifically bugged me about this is the fact that staff approved these things at all, and didn't clarify canon stuff with the player before she was out of CG. There were other issues, too, that I recall, but I have no idea if she was ever nudged about it, and she was eventually ICly promoted, despite a lack of interest in the theme or interest in being in charge of other characters during missions. And, if we're thinking of the same place, this was a case where competent, clue-ful players willing to take charge in IC situations were often in short supply.

I don't consider myself a Theme Nazi, but sigh.

@BigDaddyAmin said:

What the hell is "Life is Strange?" Sounds like a bad erotic Italian film where the women don't shave their pits and non-simulated sex is used.

It's an adventure game where you play a teenage girl who can rewind time with a camera.

For the most part, I quite enjoyed it, but it includes a lot of cringe-worthy "teen speak."

Intellectual property always strikes me as the elephant in the room whenever anyone talks about pay-for-play MUSHing. Whatever Nymeria thinks, very few people are going to give a shit about your online game if you aren't making money off it. But the second you want to profit off something based off an existing property, the author/gaming company/show-runner/etc. is going to be obligated to care.

With an original work it's probably viable, though I'm not sure what a game could offer me that I'd pay for. I enjoy RP games because of the other players and storytellers, and those aren't things you can really guarantee for me with a monthly fee. If anything, sub-standard RP or inactive GMs would become far more aggravating if I was forking over micro-payments.

I've played on games with public +watch code on "hang-out" type locations and nobody cared. Players could use it, not just staff, and it was useful for watching events if you could be online at the time but not actually RP in them. I kind of liked the theater-y atmosphere it fostered. People did occasionally TS or do embarrassing things in those locations when somebody'd left the +watch on, oops, but oh well. If you are having hot sex in the park, people can probably see you anyway.

This is way different than staff secretly spying on players and wandering around DARK, of course, which is creepy.

Matto!

@Lithium said:

EDIT: And Control-P to cycle through what I'd written before.

In Potato it's Ctrl-

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@Roz said:

One other thing I THINK I can recall Potato not doing is adding in blank lines between poses in logs. Potato users, can you confirm? I used Potato briefly but it was a year or two ago before my job switched my computer to a Mac.

I sure as hell have not been able to figure out how to add blank lines to logs on it. But I use log-cleaners so aggressively if I'm posting anything (http://logcleaner.aresmush.com/ mostly) that I don't notice much, since that does it for me, so I haven't spent a ton of time trying.

@Coin said:

This is true--in Asia.

It's true in a lot of Native American tribes in America as well. My first job out of college was in a Res town and, even having lived in the West all my life, I was surprised by how often it popped up in art and older drawings (there was a fairly big 'whirling log' style one on a bridge in town). I got used to it (the context is so very clearly divorced from anything related to Nazism), and I now just find it depressing how thoroughly it was co-opted.

@Cirno said:

Let me just upload a picture of myself, by the way.

I frequently wish for the WORA archive, but I did not think I'd ever look back fondly on the "people accuse Cirno of not being black and he proves them wrong" thread.

We grow nostalgic about very strange things, as the years pass.

@DnvnQuinn said:

segregate colleges

This word maybe does not mean what you think it means, to misquote The Princess Bride.

Kell-ster!

I am happy I made this thing. I have missed all you guys, and am glad you're still kicking around these dumb games.

It proves nothing but it's prudent to send up a flag so other players can ask and, if it is him, be aware. That fucker is a cancer of the highly manipulative sort, so he can do a lot of damage if you don't know you're dealing with him.

WAR.

Oh my gosh, dude!

So happy to know you're still out there in the great, wide Internet.

I will now have to bother Pestilence to see if I can get him to post here.

@Usekh said:

@Derp said:
And Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill didn't?

Harrison Ford is in bizarro good shape for a man his age, which I guess comes from doing volunteer aviation search-and-rescue of hikers. So it's not fair to compare him to normal old humans.

Mark Hamill, however, is just as ancient as you'd expect, given time.

Somebody's clearly passed a memo down at Siffy about making actual TV shows again. Not all the new stuff is great, but at least I watch The Expanse and Twelve Monkeys and feel like they're sort of trying to do science fiction television again. I think it'll get a second season, at least. It looks hella expensive, but Defiance was also stupid-expensive, and they got three seasons out of it.

I spent like a solid half hour just staring at the directions and bashing keys to figure out how to do it.

https://github.com/talvo/potato/wiki/Events

Now that I've done that, I like it quite a bit more than how SimpleMU handled it.

I've played on and off with friends using a combination of Roll20 (which has a ton of really nice mechanics for dice and stored character sheets) and a private wiki. Roll20 doesn't quite work for me as a MU* replacement (the lack of private rooms and the 'everything gets dumped into one giant text scroll that's hard to break into individual logs' are what keeps it from being that for me), but I like some of what it does a great deal.

There's also Dreamwidth journals, things I do not play on, but there's a pretty big RP community that seems to use them enthusiastically. I have old RP buddies who've migrated to it, though I enjoy the real-time improv aspect too much for it to have much appeal for me.

Wasn't someone trying to start a The 100 MU* a bit ago? I think I heard of this, but then by the time I checked it out it had already become vaporware. Shame. It tempts, as a setting.

Chernow's Hamilton biography, which I picked up because of the musical, is pretty great. If you're into that sort of thing. I also just finished Game Change, two election cycles after it ceased to be relevant, and found it a very fun pop-politics read and possibly more interesting with the benefit of hindsight.

One reason I enjoy having dice as an option (apart from my love of randomness) is my experience starting on consent-based games. Where, as bad as this sounds, I felt like I spent the majority of my time being an outwardly-graceful loser because I inevitably didn't want to Internet Argue as long as someone else. It wasn't even so much, "I shot you! Nu-uh!" stuff as, "OK, well, it's their turn to be awesome this time, I can be awesome next time...or next time...or next time..." And so on. As much as I know it's fundamentally incorrect - because I've had very fun and unpredictable experiences on stat-less games with players I trusted - I associate systems with occasionally getting to do notable things, not as a hindrance to it.