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@Faceless That's awful and tragic. My wife and i would rap along in the car to 'Til Death do us part' in a thoroughly embarrassing way all the time.

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@surreality I actually forced myself to stop watching, to that i can come back and BINGE because... so damned good, 1 ep at a time isn't enough.

I didn't see anyone mention it but... Taboo. UNF.

@Auspice FUCK WELBUTRIN... ugh. I know exactly how you feel. I was a goddamned wreck on a stormy sea with a rollercoaster on it. the lows were so fucking low. After two months of not adjusting I stopped. It could have also need a combination of being on the ADD medicine at the same time. I need to go see my head doctors again to try something new. But i hated that stuff so hard.

Laibah was great, i had fun crossing her on my changeling on HM

@Arkandel said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

2. Give me something at the end of the trip. For example I walk downtown where the largest Indigo bookstore I know is, so I can sift through new arrivals. Or to a restaurant I really like to have lunch at. It's nice to walk toward something than just aimlessly.

This right here. I used to walk... like a lot. I was a lean mean walking machine. Then... i became a sedentary machine and I doubled in weight or more. It's been a long road of health and mental issues since. A few weeks Twice a year i walk when my wife takes the train home from work, and go and meet her and in that time, things improve. The rest of the year, i have no goals, so walking becomes a joyless chore. No goal means I make excuses to go home, or stay home.

@Thenomain Hah, old days.

I too enjoy the Dragon age world, but the FC thing /really/ turns me off of it.

@Apos said in How does a Mu* become successful?:

Who on earth puts staff in a position where they have to rein in players for thematic violations without empowering them also to deal with abuse? Wtf, that's horrible. If some staff told me I made a desc or background or whatever that was over the line, I would be like mortified and apologize. Who fights about that shit?

Oh I have all the power, I am a terrible despot. Well, Co-Despot. However, in being a tyrant, i do attempt (occasionally) to not come off like a power mad totalitarian. So, Politeness, firm deadline.

Changeling suffers from a fairly unique problem of having a /lot/ of room for creativity. There's a lot you can do with you desc, but there are also some clear (to me, and in the books) limits on things. So yeah, you can have badass looking horns, but your horns should not be like those of Tim Curry in Legend. Animal features, but not full on Furry until you are damned high wyrd. A lot of changeling has to do with story, but some take that to mean literally everything they ever read in a fantasy book should somehow be canon. My keeper is totes obsessed with D&D and made me a Drow! Or that the hedge is 'generic fantasy realm X', here are your Gryphons and Dragons, despite many of the books being filled with unique flora and fauna and environments and MOOD that are totally unique to the thorns. STAHPIT. (Please ignore late night nerd flail rage rambling).

@Lithium I have literally had players get on channel and say that a staffs job should be to process apps and jobs and butt out unless someone they don't like is going too far. That is it the players game and not staffs.

Yeah, we honestly don't want to play desc police and there are probably more than a few borderline cases that we aren't going to nitpick. But when things that are hugely out of theme come across our desk, we will act. As politely as possible, pointing out the rules and whatnot and offer to help Give them a few weeks to change it, If they adamantly refuse, we simply freeze them until they comply.

I completely understand feeling like yer being told 'wrongfun', and feeling like staff is coming down on you for something you thought was cool. On the other side, man it sucks to be the guy to do it too. In most cases however, the players in question have been polite and understanding.

Yanking things away from players after approval is a huge pain in the ass. On FC I've recently had to ask a few players, as politely and as firmly as possible to scale back their Mien Descriptions in changeling. Gany's 'anthropomorphic skunk' is the perfect example in my case. Having a wyrd 3 character that's not even a beast looking like they were an extra in Disney's Robin hood cartoon isn't thematically appropriate. There was very understandable push back, as the apps were approved. Luckily we have had wyrd/mien policies since day one, and are able to point to that, but it still sucks from both player and staffside to have to deal with that. We are making a stronger effort to look harder at those things before approval to avoid it in the future.

Ive always loved provisional Rp tho, you just need to go into it knowing that some details may need to be changed, and engage such things with that in mind.

@Kestrel said in Cultural differences between MUDs and MUSHes:

Even on a MUSH — if a player doesn't RP with me, I'd rather our characters just not have our stories be more intricately involved than, 'Oh hey, yeah, that guy John, I've seen him around'. I don't want that player sending me a page assuring me that John has been giving my character lots of personal one-on-one time if we cannot actually RP it out. Otherwise, it's as dull as solo-killing a player who's offline on a MUD and calling that 'story'.

I'd like to express a small peeve here. I understand what you are saying, I totally do. I have also however experienced the other side of this.

Say your character and mine are in A RELATIONSHIP. You know, they hang out a lot, they enjoy bumping uglies and we have Rp'd this. However MUSH time is a tricky thing, and a scene that would ICly happen in about half an hour takes about 4 hours (to throw a random number out there) to Rp through. If, through the course of me Rping with other people being involved in plots and the like means we have not RP'd in a week, that does not mean you should assume our PC's haven't spoken or interacted in a week. Things happen in downtime.

The next time we Rp, if i get comments like 'Oh I haven't seen or heard from you in a week you jerk omg!' To hell with ya!

If someone you get your PC tangled up with cant meet your times, it's probably better to just say 'hey, it's not working out with our online times' than just assume someone is ICly ignoring/neglecting.

To Clarify, I don't think that exact scenario is what you were talking about, but man i have had this literal thing happen.

@Seraphim73 said in Core Memories Instead of BG?:

@Arkandel said in Core Memories Instead of BG?:

I agree. One of the mistakes people make is generate characters who've already done all the cool things in their lives before they ever step foot on the grid

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. If I see another BG filled to the brim with awesome events of awesomeness that the player just wants to brag about... I'm going to scream (I'm going to be screaming a lot). Get your accomplishments ON SCREEN, so that others know about them, you get to actually experience them, and others are involved in them, so -they- have reasons to bring them up.

On a more pertinent note, I love the idea of using Core Memories, and wish I had thought of it in time to use it on The 100 MUSH. But yes, I use BGs for the same purposes that @Sunny does: demonstrate an understanding of theme, match the story to the stats... and for one more: To prevent the AwesomeBGers from slipping onto the grid.

I third this. I just want to yell 'Don't App Bruce Lee, App the person who will become Bruce Lee! Especially if you only have starting stats, or close to it.

Look I know the 3 of us were camped out in this safe house and have NO LOGICAL REASON that we would ever not be there. Except that we had a sudden plumbing problem and everything is fucked and since I have an allergy to drinking shit water and wading around in backed up toilet I had to go an an emergency stealth mission to buy space-draino and water filters.

Just don't make assumptions without talking to the other person. These are supposed to be (IMO) cooperative games most the time.

@Arkandel said in Cultural differences between MUDs and MUSHes:

@faraday said in Cultural differences between MUDs and MUSHes:

@Lotherio said in Cultural differences between MUDs and MUSHes:

they don't want to waste on-line time having to fathom some IC excuse for why they were absent.

Yeah, I really don't understand where this became about wanting a favorable outcome or not wanting to fail. I don't care about that. What I care about is being forced to come up with a preposterous explanation (I fell asleep in the crawlspace with noise-canceling headphones on!) for something that is an extremely routine MUSH event (someone not being online at the exact moment you want them).

This was actually a thing on HM from time to time. Did the big scenes where a Covenant's domain was attacked happen at 3 am in the morning for one of the political aspirants in it? "Where were you when we were fighting for our lives, you COWARD?".

Yeah, it's a douche move.

This happened to me in a Werewolf LARP I was in like 12 years ago. I skipped out one week and i came back to my pack having decided that i abandoned them on an important mission and were all douchebags about it. This was the trigger for me deciding to destroy their apartment, get them evicted (ICly ;p) and the fall to the Wyrm and betray them at a critical moment. Which was great fun.

If someone is OOCLY unavailable, never give them dickish consequences or treat them like an abandoner. They just had some Gandalf level shit to do and will be back whenever.

@ixokai said in Cultural differences between MUDs and MUSHes:

Powerposing is NEVER OKAY. Never. Under any circumstances.

Let me change that to 'Powerposing /without permission/ is not okay.' Sometimes in a scene I will ask 'hey, can I powerpose for a sec here' usually with a hint of what I want to do, or I am simply in a scene with someone I know well and I know where the boundaries are. Sometimes a bit of a powerpose will smooth things along rather than going back and forth 4 more times, and save another half hour of RP, so you can move things along.

Definitely the character. I mean I am clearly there for the Rp, but the Rp on one character, over an extended period of time. To see them grown and change and develop in unexpected ways over the course of years. If i get Ideas for short term on off characters i will probably make them extras in a PRP or something.

Adding my fall coast folks

Kerfuffle, Elmo, Telly.

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