Best posts made by Tinuviel

Yet more "don't get raped" rather than "don't rape." Charming.

@ominous No, no. Don't talk about it now. Get your sample population playerbase and test your hypothesis run the game for a few months. Then tell us all about it.

@Auspice said in How to Escape the OOC Game:

I think @Tinuviel revels in calling me an idiot, to be honest.

I revel in being right. The fact that these two things have so much in common is just a matter of casual interest.

@auspice Wait. You mean firing someone that was a part of a group that enabled and allowed his behaviour didn't instantly solve everything? Oh my word.

@ominous said in Roster Characters & WoD?:

Yes. I am surprised at MUs not borrowing more ideas from other RP mediums and tabletop games.

Well, some basic survey questions:

What genres typically take your fancy?
How often do you feel you can reasonably be expected to connect, and for how long?
Are there any game styles, or cultures, that you've had exceptionally negative experiences with?

@surreality I get "omg why is everyone ignoring X?!?!"

Practice and patience, obviously.

@devrex said in Roster Characters & WoD?:

I'm having trouble understanding how it might create a better experience

That's where I'm at with a lot of this conversation. But ultimately, doesn't need to be our version of better. Different is fine too.

Better for me would be games running to my schedule at my pace with like five people and free coffee. Around my kitchen table. Without so much code.

You know I think I'm onto something there.

@Auspice said in MU Things I Love:

planetary details, who/what the locals are, what the PCs will run into

A quarry or forest in Toronto, humans that speak perfect English for some reason at some archaic level of technology, a cult.
Repeat.

"Some babies were dropped on their heads but clearly you were thrown at the wall."

@mietze said in Roster Characters & WoD?:

Yeah I don't think this is about "better" at all. Just different. It might be better for some people because it suits their personal taste?

Aye. Whenever people bring up change, my first thought is, immediately "Okay, well what problem is this solving? What innovation is this making? Why is this change better than what we're currently doing?" And I was the same here. I'm too stuck in the mindset of... change needing to have a purpose, rather than simply accepting that different is okay.

@Groth I get the idea. But that doesn't really make practical sense. What if you were killed in your day-to-day RP? Or started dating someone? Or any number of other things that could dramatically change or invalidate any "it hasn't happened yet" RP.

@derp said in Creative/Clean insults?:

(think American trying to fake a Scottish accent)

Even though that's remarkably close to true, I pretend otherwise in my head.

Wow. I see mention of nutjob spouses and Sci-Fi games and I think of Bryce and Brooke.

I'd no idea all this stuff was going on in the background of GoD/DoD.

I don't know why we keep being the ones being asked how to improve the "recruiting" of new players. Us of all fragments of the MU community.

We're not marketing or sales, we're custodial staff.

My problem with Christmas music over here in "The Other Colonies" is that one of our nation's staple Christmas tunes... is performed by a convicted child abuser. So it's a little jarring to have that thought in mind when cheerful music comes on over the tannoy.

@Three-Eyed-Crow

@mietze said in Getting Young Blood Into MU*'ing:

I do not think that we shouldnt talk or brainstorm about it, it is a fun topic

It would be, if it weren't brought up every six months like a smoke alarm battery reminder.

@aria Oh yeah, on that we agree. It turned from a wink-wink social commentary into something John Barrowman would sing at four am after a gallon bottle of pre-mixed Bacardi and sprite.

ETA: No I don't know where that analogy came from, but it's scary accurate.

@Three-Eyed-Crow I think posting here is enough indication of that.