Posts made by Tinuviel

@nightshade said in What's missing in MUSHdom?:

Wouldn't it make more sense to create several such games, so that players are more evenly distributed across them

That's not how that works. We're people, not datapoints you can shift around.

@ixokai We don't like no innovations here, you know.

... most of my PCs start out as widowers. I did not know this about myself.

@runescryer said in What's missing in MUSHdom?:

need to subdivide a MU into smaller groups or 'spheres'

That works only up unto a point. Nothing exists in a vacuum on a MU, wheras it can on a tabletop. The rules for one TT group don't apply to the rules of another group - but the rules of a MU are often all-encompassing. I'm talking about rulings and administration here, not running stories. When one splits a game in the way WoD often does, you take one committee and make fifteen committees all making decisions that then report back to another committee... it's not really what the system was designed for.

@calindra Yeah, I know the rationale. I dislike the generalisation that holds such topics as sacrosanct, however, as I was told the same thing by my boss. While teaching goddamn history, which is almost entirely philosophy and religion.

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

Engaging in philosophical, religious or spiritual-oriented conversations isn't appropriate in the workplace

Depends on the workplace, of course.

@runescryer said in What's missing in MUSHdom?:

smaller groups, true

Smaller groups with a person dedicated to making binding rulings as things arise. Not committees that you have to wait on to get things done.

@thenomain And I sit to the left of the sociologist and just to the right of the archaeologist.

@surreality Did it to my husbando about... a year ago? Credit cards, 'club' cards, the works. In they go. WHIRRR. Done.

@thenomain As a social scientist, please stop shitting on half of my career.

@surreality Well have I got a deal for YOU!

I have available the number one credit card processing service in the Western hemisphere! Our patented process is simple. I take your credit card, and then put it in a food processor!

@vulgarkitten People tend to, at least from what I've experienced, invest far too much into their characters so that any slight against the character is clearly a slight against the player. And when one plays an antagonistish character, the player must also therefore be antagonistic - no matter how nice they are. Because players are dumb.

@ganymede https://twitter.com/icetsvu?lang=en

@sg This is why I always carry gum with me. That and to get the taste of cigarettes out of my mouth.

@jinshei said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

people around you to recognise and call you on the symptoms

But don't use them as ad hoc therapists, I made that mistake.

@thenomain I believe I was agreeing with you, not arguing with you.

@ixokai said in Gwent!:

kegs

Lootboxes, or pre-determined packs?

@jaded said in Gwent!:

microtransactions

Pay-to-be-better style? Or can one git gud without paying actual money?

@griatch Oh yeah, don't get me wrong. It's stupid-pants. But it is what it is. The number of times I've had to shout at people "I don't care what they call it. What's the goddamn patch number?"

@auspice
"Oh, you want me to watch this youtube video? Okay, I won't use my connection all day while this buffers..."