Posts made by Warma Sheen

@seraphim73 I'm sure @faraday would be able to help you with that lightsaber problem in no time at all.

Fuck people who take out their anger on you instead of manning up and dealing with the problems in their own life.

@ThatGuyThere OMG you are the worst ever for having your own opinion of that place and even worse for sharing it. Flamed.

@faraday said:

What I care about is whether your skills reflect your background.

Why does this matter? If you can have any skills you want and you just have to oversell your character's background, what's really the point? Fresh out of flight school? Okay, top of his class, experienced in multiple training and missions. Now that's fine on the game? I never understood that. If I can write any background I want, what does it matter what background I write?

And I'm sure there's a reason, I'm legitimately curious as to what it is.

@Jennkryst That is some violent and hostile generosity...

@groth That sounds fun. I wish I would have played there.

@Thenomain No save points! Win or die!

@skew I'm the exact opposite. The stuff that can happen is scarier to me than the stuff that can't happen. I used to love horror movies when I was a kid, but now they don't really scare me so I tend not to like them nearly as much.

@Lithium said:

1. I find D/s (as it is most commonly portrayed online) to be a far cry from what it can (and in my /opinion/) should be.

2. RP is better when people are actually knowledgeable of what they are trying to RP.

3. People become desensitized to things, and I'd rather they not just become 'accepting' of abusive relationships, IRL or otherwise.

1. The same can be said of every subject out there.
2. The same can be said of every subject out there.
3. The same can be said of every subject out there.

It seems like you have a lot of personal preferences about how other people conduct themselves consensually in private, which seems oddly controlling. There are lots of bad things that people RP. The WoD is built around that and it is hugely popular in MU*ing. You can't throw a stone without hitting a form of media that capitalizes on people/characters doing things that people shouldn't be doing. It just seems odd to me that you're taking such a hardline stance in this particular medium on this particular topic, which was a battle that was lost a long, long time ago. Especially when you started out speaking on this reasonably, like everyone else:

@Lithium said:

Which is fine I guess, not my cup of tea, but as long as they're not actually hurting anyone...

So how did things turn in one page to no longer being fine to the point that you're trying to dictate how and what people RP in their spare funtimes?

@mietze said:

PowWow, which for you youngsters is like chat roulette with no video of boobs or jacking off, sadly

You can't really be sure about the latter one, can you...?

@skew said:

As a rule, I try not to murder people's children.

Another bleeding heart liberal softy...

AOL in the chat rooms and the AOL hosted MUD: Terris. I have no idea how I ended up here. Its been a long, long journey and most of it is a blur...

I have to back up @shayd on this one. Saying someone is a "shitdick" online is not very specific. The reason why you categorize someone as such is sometimes important. People get called that or worse not because they are rude or insensitive or mean, but because they nitpick rules or "twink" a character a lot. Which can easily make someone intolerable on a game, but completely cool in real life.

And who someone is online can be very different than who they are in real life. A person might not change, and that's debatable. But how a person is perceived can be wildly different than who they really are. I probably often come across as cold or impersonal on games because I don't sit and chat or emote silly, goofy things to other people in the ooc room or make winky or kissy emoticons at people I don't know in real life. I log on, I look for rp and play and then I log off. And it may seem cold or cruel, but I'm not interested in purely online social interactions much. At least not to the extent many other people are. But does that make me, as a person cold or cruel? I don't think so. But others might disagree.

And I have to second @arkandel here. Don't tell me you guys have never heard of (and experienced) internet bravery. And I know there has to be plenty of you who have had one impression of a person online then went to a convention or a meetup and met that person in real life and had a completely different impression.

And I'm not saying @roz is wrong in the most recent post, I just think people are more complex than what they are being made out to be, especially in terms of being accountable for how you treat others in a digital space. Some people are exactly who they seem to be online. Others are not.

@Cobaltasaurus That hurt is a good thing. It means your body is gonna kick into overtime to reshape itself to accommodate what you want to! Don't stop! Also, you burn more calories doing nothing as your body works overtime to make the change happen. Enjoy it while it lasts!

@Arkandel Nine hours seems excessive... people got shit to do, yo. We can't just be walking around all day!

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@Insomnia I also like the updates and have found good deals through this thread. Keep em coming!

@Jaded I disagree. I think its bad. But I like it.

@Thenomain said:

@Ganymede said:

If you're going to run a Vampire: the Requiem game, for instance, paranoia and power-mongering are essential to the theme and setting, and, very often, players have to bend over backwards to find a reason to be inclusive.

That these games or players on these games don't think of ways to be inclusive to players (not necessarily the characters) is I think a major part of a larger issue, but I boil it down to "how these games are presented to be played need to be fundamentally changed to really work on-line".

There is that line that people sometimes unintentionally cross... player vs character. And the problem of expectation. Do you feel unwelcome as a player on a game if your character isn't included in scene, with the understanding that you are not your character? Do you expect that others find a way for your character to be involved even when they shouldn't be ICly? Do you feel unwelcome if the Sabbat don't let your Cam PC join their super secret meeting? There's no single defining line as to how much the IC has to be skewed in order for someone to feel welcome. One person might think its good to bend over backwards 30 degrees while another feels unwelcome if someone hasn't bent over a full 90. In short, its an impossible task to "fix".

There's also the feeling of not being welcome vs. feeling disliked. It is completely possible to not feel welcome without anyone actively doing anything to you, whereas feeling disliked should involve someone actively doing something to cause that. But then we're also talking about feelings... so... yeah. But plenty of people will sit and do nothing, then feel unwelcome because they aren't dragged kicking and screaming into RP or plot.

All you can really do is take the worst of the worst and try to skim that off the top and be content with whatever ambiguity is left behind.

@Cirno I don't think there's any high honor in not being banned from a game. That's what is supposed to happen.