Posts made by Three-Eyed Crow

Jenny Lewis is currently one of my sources of power. I saw her in Tucson this summer and she's bliss in person as well as in streaming/tarot card form.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jubKE-ymrV0&list=OLAK5uy_nwQyJIv-FHhKudABtG4_Sgc9aMa17lsKg&index=2&t=0s

I'm pretty often frustrated by this hobby, for a multitude of OOC reasons. But sometimes you'll ask for help from someone you barely interact with except in the strange, also often frustrating place of a board, and they'll give it to you without hesitation, and it becomes very reaffirming, gives you much-needed perspective, and makes you remember why you bother.

You're good people, @apos. Thanks for the solid. Don't let the bastards get you down.

@faraday said in Gray Harbor Discussion:

I'm a pretty ardent feminist myself, but even I could accept that female infantrymen were not historical in TGG's WWI campaign and that my boundary-pushing female cattlewoman was going to face historically-appropriate prejudice in the 1840's Australian outback on Pioneer.

Same. I actually played the 'woman soldier in disguise' thing in TGG with the understanding that this arc was done the second she was found out. She was found out! Her run was fairly short, given the realities of getting wounded on that game. I enjoyed it as a mini-arc but would've enjoyed it much less if the reaction to her had just been 'shrug, whatevs' because I was playing that game to enjoy the setting, including some (Hollywood-level) realities of it.

@bear_necessities said in Gray Harbor Discussion:

@Three-Eyed-Crow we are definitely not banning trans people or anything like that.

I didn't seriously think so and was mostly being tongue and cheek and also wanted to say WE ALL KNOW THIS GAME THIS THREAD IS ABOUT ISN'T BANNING TRANS PEOPLE, RIGHT?

@Snackness said in Gray Harbor Discussion:

Maybe this could get forked to another thread? It’s WAY off topic.

Seriously, I had to wade through pages upon pages of backscroll to see if Gray Harbor was banning trans people (they aren't to my knowledge!).

Sci-fi has always struck me as a genre that attracts a lot of system/gear-focused players. No shade, though it's frustrating as a player who gives no fucks about those things but likes sci-fi stories.

@Atomic
I could live inside the Supergiant game soundtracks. Absolutely gorgeous.

@Runescryer said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:

Star Wars Set in a single sector so the Players have a greater impact on the game setting

I really liked Chontio's setup, though, alas, no brain for another game when it was opening. http://chontio.aresmush.com/

The game update on the bboard says it's in kinda sandbox mode now but I hope the idea is actively revisited when staff has time for it, it seemed to have a lot of potential.

@Jaded said in General Video Game Thread:

Even so, it has Triple Triad and that was fun. I mean it completely derailed me finishing the game so that has to count for something.

FF8 is maybe my least favorite of the series but I could play Triple Triad for days and days on end.

The British accents took me out of it a little for the first episode, but after that I stopped noticing. To my knowledge most of the Chernobyl cast was British, so it was probably less jarring than them trying to do Russian accents that not everyone could pull off/was pulling off to widely variant degrees. At least this way they all just sounded the same.

@Rinel
It won't be eligible in most of GoTs categories since HBO can submit it as a mini-series (bonus that it actually is one, unlike a lot of what winds up in the mini-series category), tho it's certainly of higher quality than most of GoTs last season, that aside. I'm digging it, even if it's harrowing to watch. I held off because when it initially came out I wasn't in the mood for grim, but now that I've gotten to it it's REALLY good.

Eh, while I don't know if it's thousands, the openings at Spirit Lake and Gray Harbor recently (Ares games) lead me to believe it's way above anything like 200. There are different pools of players in different genres that seem to rarely touch each other and it can be dramatic when they do.

An aside, is mudstats still updating its listings if you email them or use the submission form? I got the impression it'd become pretty spotty as far as getting something new up but not like I've tried in years.

I would be intrigued to see a breakdown, with numbers and percentages and such, of where particular posters were most active. I would be very intrigued.

'Breaking Bad' was also more character-based than plot-based. It didn't really matter how Walter White decayed morally, just that he did decay morally and became more of a gangster/druglord than suburban high school teacher. It was all about what happened to that one guy and the supporting cast around him, there wasn't an over-arching mystery to solve or questions to answer (up until the last season introduced some flash-forwards that I don't think totally worked, but the ride was so good nobody cares about minor missteps). I'm really digging 'Better Call Saul' for the character journey and similar moral deconstruction of its protagonist, even if it doesn't have the ZOMG action most of the time that BB did.

Reading that Slate article, I think Moore's perspective of 'haters gonna hate' is more or less the sane approach, though I would've been more interested in what he thought worked/didn't work about the finale and final season of BSG overall now that there's more distance from it. As a viewer, I was generally fine with the finale of Game of Thrones, and BSG, and even Lost, but had larger, holistic problems with the final seasons and how they got there. It would be interesting to see the writers break down the challenges of landing a plane like those shows and what didn't work.

Mostly what I thought while reading that article is that I'm super interested in what Damon Lindelof is going to do with 'Watchmen,' because I think he's internalized the reaction to Lost in kind of interesting ways and (based on what he did on 'The Leftovers,' which I really dug in its second and third seasons and also dwelled on the idea of 'searching for answers to unanswerable questions will tear you apart' in occasionally pretty meta ways) become a better writer out of it. Which I guess suggests what Benioff & Weiss do next, with their Star Wars stuff or whatever, might be pretty good, even if my expectations after the last couple GoT seasons are kinda low.

@mietze said in Poll: Do I enjoy this hobby more than I don't?:

I think I enjoy the hobby a lot more now than I have in the past, in part because I no longer feel as compelled to do a lot of emotional labor for others. Or solve every problem that I see.

For better or worse, letting this shit go is a lot of why I'm still able to enjoy it. I'm probably less engaged than I was 10 years ago but also less frustrated by the things/components of players that I cannot change.

Yep. I try to be quick to cut the parts of it I'm not enjoying at any given time.

@mietze said in Difference between an NPC and a Staff PC?:

I find the people who obsessively check the who/where and keep tabs on alts and comment to/about those alts while activity is going on to be extremely creepy and offputting. I do not think this is the intention but it comes across to me as extremely controlling. It is an instant turnoff to being involved in RP with that player, and I have instantly ended scenes where that person pinged my alt that had no association with them as if to check up on me. If you want me to avoid you, "playfully" paging my alts with questions about my activity or commenting about where my alts are located or if they are on while I am scening with you is the #1 way for me to dump your ass as a RP partner immediately.

Seriously this shit is NOT OK and it's extremely controlling and makes me NOPE away from players pretty fast, whatever the intent is.

@Taika said in Good or New Movies Review:

Live-action Land Before Time.

They're talking dinosaurs it's not...

I see what you did there.

@Sparks
Yeah I remember encountering it on Tales, which was my first MUSH.