Best posts made by Tinuviel

@seraphim73 This is all, seemingly, working from the idea that a game must appeal to the widest audience. Which it doesn't. I'd argue that if you're going for Hollywood Historical Accuracy, you're safest approaching a period that doesn't... directly impact modern society as much. Hollywood Medieval vs Hollywood 1940s, for instance. But if you go for the latter, be very very narrow in what location and exact themes you want to explore to enable you to massage out the distasteful parts without diminishing the impact of those parts on fairly recent history.

@Wizz

I only really skimmed your post, but some minor points:

@deathbird said in Apology to Darinelle:

now some players might wonder that while they're having fun, is the person next to them having fun

That's hardly a bad thing. People should be concerned as to whether what they're doing is fun for everyone involved. They should also be concerned as to whether the level of their workload is impacting people.

@deathbird said in Apology to Darinelle:

but is cowardice when it's done to avoid private confrontation

That right there is plain wrong as a generalisation. There are plenty of reasons to state something publicly rather than in a 'one-on-one' that have nothing to do with cowardice. To assume otherwise is, at best, disingenuous.

@insomniac7809 said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Auspice Even better when they don't mention a country.

USA, EST unless otherwise specified.

Get with the hegemony here.

@surreality said in Bloopers:

Ever since, I've felt like a loser for not being able to write so well as I apparently write when I'm asleep.

This but when I'm drunk.

@Ganymede said in The Work Thread:

@Rinel

I think that one reaches the zenith of honesty when the audience gleefully accepts the cruelty you heap upon it.

Calm down, Marquis.

All good answers, of course. However, one rather important point to remember:

We aren't the community. We're just a tiny backwards little part of it. So our answers won't necessarily be reflective of MU*ing in general.

@insomniac7809 I do sometimes get screwed up with Pacific Time and Eastern. To my east is where the Pacific is, so it takes a little mental jiggering to reorient myself.

@krmbm said in Bloopers:

man-grabby

Is this a reference to a predatory man, or a harem-building woman with ideations on any man that's definitely taken?

@Ghost said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

How can you sleep while your beds are burning?

I probably wouldn't notice, since I sleep next to a goddamn furnace.

@ganymede said in MU Things I Love:

except there's no drama, no supernatural things, and people actually like one another.

So... it's nothing like a World of Darkness game?

@Arkandel

@wizz said in Constructive (keyword) Criticism of Arx Systems:

Y'all are a bunch of incredibly witty, smart peeps

Could you point them out to the rest of us?

I keep several single-serve pots of soup in my freezer for when I'm depressed. Put them in the microwave for ten minutes, stir, another five, done.

@faraday said in What drew you to MU*?:

I hold out no hope for the average MU runner to plan for a limited series run.

Oh, naturally. It's a pipedream nestled in a fantasy snugly wrapped up in a cocoon of nevergonnahappen. But it's still pretty.

@Ghost Oh don't get me wrong, we have buffets with every kind of food under the sun (that can be cooked in massive batches in 20 minutes or less) but we just... call them buffets.

@pandora said in Poll: Are MU* video games?:

Is a monitor required to play a MUSH? Yes.

Is a monitor required, though? Blind people play them using screenreader software of some nature. So I would argue that a monitor isn't required.

@pandora said in Poll: Are MU* video games?:

Is a MUSH a game? Yes.

Again, are all MU* games? Would you go to MUS*H and call it a game? I wouldn't.

Most are games, sure. Even using @Misadventure's definition of game vs play. They have rules, and restrictions - be they self-imposed or handed down from on high, and restrictions, and a competitive nature to them (Be it character-versus-character, character-versus-world, or whatever).

@Macha said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Auspice Vodka. Provided a little alcohol won't eff it up.

Vodka is for the person doing the cleaning.

I mean. I guess my main query about all this would be: Does it matter? It's a thing. Nobody's going to agree due to the vagaries of application of the MU framework, the differences in ideas on definitions on 'video' and 'game' and 'MU*'.

If we mean MU*, we say MU*. If we mean more mainstream, video-based, electronic, interactive, rules-driven, entertainments that are traditionally called video games, then we say video games.

@Ganymede The same goes for any professional environment. Fuck your authority, if someone questions something you want or say, double-check your shit. It's not hard. Be humble, correct mistakes, and move on. Authority doesn't mean shit when you're wrong and someone from HR or higher wants to know what the fuck you did.