Posts made by Three-Eyed Crow

@DamnitJim said:

This is an odd thread. But it's gotten this far without devolving into a helter-skelter racewar, so I'm ready to wade in.

I remember almost quoting this right after it was posted, because I was marveling at how generally sane this had been for a long stretch and that seemed worthy of praise, but a little voice in the back of my head said, "It won't last, it won't last, this will end in fire as do all such things on the Internet. Don't jinx it while it's still pretty civil."

So it goes. The early posts are still surprisingly decent given the subject-matter and the general incitement level of Internet People, though.

@Roz said:

@Thisnameistaken said:

• If it's a info drop get what you have to say out as quick as possible. Those interested will seek you out, even after you leave. Make the first couple poses count.

Oh my God thiiiiiiiiiis. I was in a scene once where the GM had indicated that it was going to be a major NPC talking to their faction. But then the GM decided that would happen -- at the end? We were supposed to socialize before? Idk it made NO SENSE and the GM was so confused about why people weren't getting into it. It was such backwards logic.

The last faction head I played, I did my very, very best not to have "infodump" scenes, and to get most of that done via +bbpost. I did lots of other scenes, even large ones, but I made a conscious effort not to have meetings that were just meetings, because I hated them and figured me doing something I hated wasn't going to come off well. I never got any complaints and things still got done.

I keep hoping one of the new Tolkien places that pop up occasionally will catch on. I've kind of given up on Elendor, but the setting itself seems worth exploring.

@Coin said:

I am usually put in a weird position. Here, in my home country, I'm privileged; I'm light-skinned, descended from Italians and Spaniards for the most part. I am not a Bolivian, Paraguayan, or Peruvian immigrant or descended from them. To be explicit, they are our version of the racially/ethnically disenfranchised. When someone in my country complains about "them there peoples stealing our jobz", that's who they mean. I'm not that.

I spent a couple years living on the US/Mexican border. My home on the US side was a fairly dumpy little place, so I ended up spending a lot of my free time in the much larger and more metropolitan Mexican city. It had a pretty big population of Chinese immigrants and their descendents, along with the standard anti-indigenous-people racism that's common. It was interesting in an, 'Everywhere is racist but everywhere's racism is different' kind of way.

I expect a web page that players can update with logs and character pages and where important theme files can live. A wiki seems to be the easiest way to do this (I use Wikidot, which is free and does not require me to host it myself or find another party to do so). I've seen pretty good set-ups on WordPress (Second Pass and No Return do this in a way I consider user-friendly). There are assuredly other ways. It would never be anything I would expect a hosting service to provide, because it's a separate service, though the ones that do it are really nice.

I have never played a game without something and probably wouldn't. Even back in the dark olden days when we were posting logs to Yahoo! user-groups and only the headwiz could update the website, at least that was something.

I finally broke down and bought DA:Inquisition, and it is definitely taking a chunk out of my timewaster hours.

@Glitch said:

On the plus side, as a hobby with no appreciable return for time invested, at least it is not also a monetary sink. I mean, we could all be model train builders, as @HelloRaptor so often likes to reference for their own brand of invested crazy.

I'm 90% sure that continuing to MUSH actively is the reason I never got into subscription-based multi-player games like WoW. I know lots of people do both, but it always fell by the 'not enough hours in the day' wayside before anything else. So, while this is unquestionably a time-waster for hermits, I suspect it's just taken the place of other, more expensive time-wasters for hermits.

@Luna said:

White people love to know they're part Native American. I don't know why, but they love it.

Everyone is 1/64 something, if you splice down enough. It's generally pretty silly.

I went on a genealogy kick a year or so ago tracing my father's side of the family, which was Americanized recently enough that records are fairly easy to come by. I'm one generation too removed to apply for Irish citizenship through descent (though my father could've, and I'm kinda annoyed he never bothered, in a 'I might have wanted to work in the EU someday' sort of way), but my great-grandmother is listed on the Dawes Roll, so I could apply for Cherokee tribal citizenship if I got my shit together. Part of me wants to do this, for obvious connection with your roots reasons, which are getting a lot more ephemeral as my family has spread out across the country. And part of me is all, 'You are a pasty-white ginger daywalker, you would seem ridic.' This probably still qualifies as a #whitepeopleproblems.

I have no idea what was going on on my mother's side of the family, which is your basic Scotch/English/palid mutt.

@Thisnameistaken said:

Seriously, though, as a Washingtonian... I don't think anything bad about Texans. Well, Houston could use some work but I don't hold it against you all.

I was born in the boonies not far from Spokane, which is as hard core redneck country as ever you will find. It amuses me that the crunchy granola Seattle thing has become the predominant Washington stereotype for people outside the state.

I agree it's fair to say that singling it out over other traumas is irrational and makes no defensible sense.

I'm also basically OK with a staffer nixing it if they decide it's too much drama. I don't need every game fiat to make empirical sense if the person putting it forward truly feels it creates a better play environment. We might disagree on what that "better environment" is, but as long as they're clear and direct about what goes and what doesn't, that's fine, and I can make my own decisions about whether or not to play there. I would probably consider a 'We don't have rape plots just 'cause we don't' rule a good sign for my own personal enjoyment of a thing, for what it's worth.

@BetterJudgment said:

@Misadventure Oh, sorry, I meant "I'll offer that story as an example." It's only one I have. (Well, I once saw @walls of Brooke getting kidnapped and I assume assaulted on SerenityMU*, but I figured that just meant it was Tuesday.)

I have heard more horror stories about weird-ass sex stuff bleeding over into RP and overwhelming everything else going on than I have on any other game (that didn't just bill itself as a sex game). I guess this is to be expected when the game is used as a very strange tool by the headwizes for whatever issue is going on in their marriage at present.

I guess if I have any contribution to what RP of sexual themes should look like, it's, 'The polar opposite of the shit Mal and Inara do on Serenity.'

@Coin said:

Tolkien had a huge hard-on for his own characters, which is to be expected, since many authors (and roleplayers) fall in love with their creations in one way or another. G.R.R.M., from what I've been able to gather, doesn't have that "problem". (I use quotes because sometimes it's that very passion that creates such compelling stories.)

From his interviews, I get the feeling that he does have this attachment to Tyrion. And Tyrion's one of the more compelling figures in the story, so that's kind of telling in and of itself.

I've always kind of wanted to see a system in place that allowed stat raises after major story arcs/the conclusion of plots, rather than using XP.

I've never felt like most games that calls themselves "consent" or "non-consent" were hard-and-fast just those things, outside a couple of entirely free-form consent games I've played on. Most consent games I'm familiar with have some concept of Actions/Consequences. Most non-consent games I've played on are OK with players negotiating what happens among themselves and settling things without dice in certain - though not all - situations. I find those terms more useful in sussing out the culture staff is trying to instill more than anything else. They can be applied in variable ways and to variable degrees, and that's as it should be as far as I'm concerned.

I've seen +alts/mail floating around some Penn MUSH places. Very handy, but I don't know if an equivalent exists in other code bases.

Thedas MUSH, a Dragon Age game

http://www.thedas.net/

I know nothing about this place, but it is a thing that apparently exists.

I write +finger information expecting it to be read. It's basic public info. I expect other players to write theirs assuming the same. So everyone should, by definition, know the public information they are writing to be read is being read at various times.

I object to them behaving like juvenile asshats and making me give up using this very basic command because it's easier than dealing with them.

I almost never use the +finger command anymore solely because of &afinger and what irritating fucks other players become because of it. Which is sometimes involves a lot of cumbersome searching through semi-updated +info and wiki pages for something as simple as a surname check so I'm calling the character the right thing, but it's worth it to avoid all those "Teehee that tickles!" pages and weird-ass paranoia.

@EmmahSue said:

Nor do I know how to reach out to and invite the non-WoD community to join in; they'd be just as necessary to the effort, after all.

I think players from the non-WoD community would participate if the content wasn't overwhelming WoD-centric and/or filtered through the assumption that The Way Things Are On WoD Games is actually the broader Way Things Are. It would just be a matter of spreading the existence of the thing and showing players and developers that it's for everyone. I think it's about how such a thing is pitched more than anything else.

I don't think it's a bad idea and really like it in concept. It relies on someone willing to be a central organizer for it, and for that person not to be insane (I seriously think OGR/Gateway might still be a viable thing is Ra hadn't been the one to take it over when that all happened), but that's not insurmountable and I think it's worth doing.