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@Wizz That's a little under two years. I expect reports in 2021.

It's still weird to say 2021 as a thing that is in the immediate future.

@silverfox said in MU Things I Love:

The person who picked up Norwood's daughter Adalyn is amazing. Could not have asked for a better draw.

I temporarily forgot where I was, and with zero context that sounded like a kidnapping-gone-wholesome and I was very, very confused. Carry on.

Smaller groups. If you want to encourage people to RP together, get two or three maximum together for something small and low-stakes. Five to seven is a large enough scene that some folks will be wary and/or uncomfortable, so will stick to who they know. Two or three and they've no option but to RP with someone new.

That said, don't force it. Sometimes people just don't want to RP with people with whom they're unfamiliar, especially not in any organised scene/plot. Especially if they've got limited play time.

@derp Nah, the cat is a public defender and he's taking the only five seconds free he has all year to nap.

@RayneDev It has been on its last legs for what seems like forever. Is the terrible duo still running things, or have they taken a step back to focus on their arguing?

@WTFE Well now you have to re-tell the Marrach story.

@aria ... physical logistics? Okay, this I have to hear.
It's how I imagine @Ganymede TSes.

@silverfox

@bristled-thistle You ain't missin' anything.

@ganymede My wife is an American man, so no. But he'd probably also be into it for other purposes.

@sg said in Questionably viable character types and tropes (tangent from staff ethics convo):

@surreality said in Questionably viable character types and tropes (tangent from staff ethics convo):

'Lone wolf/solitary crackpot/always goes it on their own' character tropes.

Whenever I meet snipers, I usually just say, that must be nice, I'll call you when I'm doing anything outside and we have hours of notice so you can belly crawl to your position and not move ages, then, when things go sideways and the firefight is on the OTHER side of the building, you can complain OOC to us that you have nothing to do. FFS, grab a SMG smartgun and get in the game!

While I agree that lone-wolf style snipers (the players of whom clearly have little idea how the vast majority of snipers actually do their thing...) are meh character concepts... if you're running a thing and there's a sniper-PC - using a system/theme in which snipers are definitely a thing - and you don't give them something to shoot at/do? They're not the ones at fault.

Noble won a war against the orcs, rescued the nobility... had the disloyal ones executed, had himself crowned king...

@cobaltasaurus Yes! I finally get my Gilmore Girls MU*!

I see your faerie and raise you daemons.

@lotherio I presently give few fucks. The ultimate goal is no fucks. One can't give negative fucks as that's just giving a fuck in the other direction - love and hate being two sides of the same coin and so forth.

Whenever this question comes up, it really boils down to one thing: Are all the gathered people having fun?

If no, then it is a problem. If yes, carry on.

The problems in the former are often situational and subjective, and it usually simply reflects a difference in attitude rather than anything inherently "bad."

@surreality said in SWF LF Non-WoD MU:

or drink way, way more

I am your great sky-god.

@ganymede

@faraday said in The trappings of posing:

@tinuviel said in The trappings of posing:

@faraday Almost like any culture or sub-culture.

Okay? I mean, maybe you run in some pretty rough sub-cultures, but if someone bows to me in greeting at a party, I'll raise a curious eyebrow but I'm not going to be all: "Wow, what an idiot. I never want to invite him to another party."

We're talking about things like using you or past tense or tabs in writing. It's not like these are alien ideas in prose.

If someone sees everyone else shaking hands, and decides to bow... then I'd probably think they were strange, yes. I was referring more to the first part of your comment, however, that we have unwritten rules. But they're not difficult to determine the very basics by simply looking around on a game. Everyone's using present tense, third person? Then that's probably what you should use too. Nobody else is using tab indentations? Maybe you shouldn't either.

@WTFE We're using our time travel ability for shitposting purposes.