Best posts made by WTFE

We know its culture already. Sales. At least one of its principals has come out and said that.

This whole debacle reminds me of a tea chatter place I frequent. Now I make no secret here that I'm a huge aficionado of tea. This means I tend to know my shit and, more importantly, I tend to know what it is I don't know. (I personally find the latter knowledge more important of the two.) I hang out in a forum of like-minded people: people who like teas (and tisanes) and want to learn more about them.

Into this forum comes someone who suggests we join another forum of people who've been around for longer discussing tea. Several of us eagerly go to join other tea lovers and expand our knowledge and social base.

Uh…

Problem is: in our small tea group we've got people who can meaningfully express the distinction between a <deep breath>Castleton Estates TGFOP 1st Flush Darjeeling</deep breath> and its 2nd flush kissing cousin, explaining why they prefer the "inferior" 2nd flush in most circumstances to the rarer and more expensive 1st flush. And we've got people (well, OK, me) who are currently exploring the bewilderingly huge world of pu'er tea. And we've got a guy now tackling all the weird traditional tea-like beverages like "rooibos" (still have to track down a good source for that to try it out) and making reports on progress. Other problem is: the other "longer, better-established" forum consists of people whose idea of talking about tea is "I just found this place near my home that sells TWINNINGS Earl Gray!"

That tilting the head and looking confused thing? That was my impression when one of us started asking about favourite estate-grown teas and tea-growing regions. There was absolutely zero engagement across the divide because, although we were both "interested in tea" we were interested in radically different subsets of the topic of tea. We drifted off back to our own forum where we were happy and left the others over on their forum where they were happy. We had smug thoughts about their shallow understanding of the topic they purported to love and they probably had their smug thoughts about our pretentiousness.

I'm getting this vibe from the OR crowd, only … they kept coming BACK to tell us about themselves after it was pretty clear we weren't compatible. At least they've cleaned up that part of their act. So far.

Don't do things that make people bitch you out?

@icanbeyourmuse said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

How does deciding not to judge people by past actions?

This sentence is missing something key: actual meaning. Please rewrite it as a complete thought, not something left hanging vaguely in space.

I don't judge you each time you post to being an asshole. I decide you're going to be a decent person each time you post.

That would be a HUGE error. Kind of like giving VASpider or Custodius (among many others) another chance to fuck up the hobby.

I was impressed by the whole experience thus far. When, in chargen, I hit the "backgrounds" section, my precise thoughts were: "Ah, backgrounds. My old nemesis. We meet again." Largely because in the past this is the step where nitpicking, anal retentive assholes tend to turn what should be a simple approval process into demanding instead a Ph.D.-grade thesis on the ins and outs of the setting (including huge amounts of non-documented bits).

Imagine my surprise when, upon seeing a staff member log in, I suddenly had a mail notification not ten minutes later with an approval. Not even a hint of a nit to be picked.

I like this place. Friendly players. Friendly staff. Fun setting.

@Luna said:

@WTFE I'm the daughter of an Engineer.

You poor person. If you ever need to talk, <frasier>I'm listening</frasier>.

The Generic SF one had my attention, actually, even despite the FS3 usage. Then the economic system popped up…

I have never been in a game, table top or MU*, where an economy system added anything I liked to the experience. Most of the time they turn into grinding to keep yourself barely afloat (while the friends of staff get boosts).

@bladesurfer said in The Lost Dominion MUX:

Welcome to The Lost Dominion, a Rifts inspired game powered by Fate Core.

Wow! Talk about mixed emotions to a single sentence!

My students are increasingly nervous of the impending exam. (This could be because I was playing up how hard it would be on QQZone, sort of a Chinese cross between Facebook and Twitter.) So today I tell them if they give me 1RMB, I'll give them the answer to one question. One girl tests me and hands me a 1RMB note. "Thank you. The answer is 'true'."

For some reason they thought I was cheating…

I put "Other" because there wasn't an "ABW" choice (Anything but WoD).

@Auspice said in Shadowhunters MUSH:

OK. That could be a lot of fun. Plus, y'know, younger generation. They could just go and get a home insemination kit. >.>

@Luna said:

Me. I love me today!

Yep. Definitely an engineer's daughter. Self-love is pretty much the defining characteristic of an engineer.

United Heroes has managed to take a genre I'm usually a poor fit for and give me more laugh-out-loud fun RP in the past couple of weeks than I've had in the couple of months before it. Some of the things it gets VERY right are:

1. The scene system. It records poses (and only poses) and stores them for recollection later. It is, of course searchable. You can list scenes you own. Scenes you appear in with another person, or scenes in which two people have appeared. And once they get the wiki stuff integrated (the code has it; they haven't got the Wiki prepared yet) the scenes will be auto-posted to the wiki complete with tags naming people involved, and nicely formatted for the reader. Finally, scenes can be paused, relocated, and restarted at whim. And when you restart them, you can replay what happened before as a memory refresher.
2. +pot (POse Tracker). For those of us on unstable connections this is a Godsend. Oops. Disconnected. Need to reconnect. Takes a while. Instead of asking someone to page and/or repose what I missed, after figuring out what it is I missed in the first place, I type +pot and get the last few poses replayed for me. (Independent of scene. If I'm in a scene I could use +scene/recall for the same effect.)
3. Approvals. Ruby@United Heroes has stated that her official policy is to get the damned apps done as quickly as possible. This is to the point that she's frequently reading the apps as you go through the system and issue the commands. There have been times when people have submitted their apps, posted in +Public that they're now just awaiting approval -- and the approval announcement (on the bboard) was sneaked in BEFORE THEY SAID IT.
4. Approvals (redux). They have approved a lot of weird characters that at first blush don't seem to fit, but whose presence has made the place a hopping joint full of creative play. Kudos for not being The Comic Shop Guy when dealing with characters! The theme is magnificently eclectic and weird, and it gets more eclectic and more weird as time goes on ... and yet still hangs together.

Repeating the same point endlessly without variation is pretty much the fucking definition of "harping on it".

@AmishRakeFight said:

I am angry because it is unreasonably hot and no one here has air conditioning.

And now you do.

@Thenomain said in Emotional separation from fictional content:

The SUSPECT flag does something close to this, adding every single thing typed by a person to the hardcode log file, where it can be poured over.

<peeve type="pet">Pored. Pored over.</peeve>

   Holodeck 5 is a Adult RPG MUSH with Sexually themed topics, and settings!
However, Holodeck 5 attempts to seperate itself from other Sex Themed Mushes,
by encouraging an emphasis on Social Role Play and Charachter development.
We are still in our infancy so please bare with our incomplete rooms and systems
we are constantly working to add to our Rooms and codebase so if you are a buil-
der or a coder and are interested in contributing anything to Holodeck 5, send
an @mail to Drea once you connect! Thanks and once again, 

                              WELCOME TO HOLODECK 5!!	
================================================================================
Use create <name> <password> to create a character.
Use connect <name> <password> to connect to your existing character.

Guest logons are not permited.
Use QUIT to logout.
Use the WHO command to find out who is online currently.
================================================================================

Nothing says "welcome" quite like "guest logons are not permited" (sic).

@Thenomain said:

@TNP said:

@Thenomain said:

We're #1! You're #0!

Who is number one? You are number six.

I am the new Number Two.

"Who is Number One?"

"You are, Number Six."

I told a friend who was a serious Prisoners freak, that there was a pause between "are" and "number" there (just like I punctuated it) and that it meant that Number Six was really Number One. His problem was that when I told him this there were no copies of the show handy for him to double-check. He was left the rest of the day pondering what that would imply and what that meant for the "meaning" of the show until he got home and slid in a tape. Next day he punched me.

@Thenomain I can't even begin to count the number of times I've cracked open the code to a die roller because I was convinced there was a flaw in it that was biasing the results. Or later how many times I just did a quick monte carlo of, say, a hundred thousand virtual rolls to check similar perceptions. True randomness sadly, given the flaws in the human brain's construction, never appears random. While that which is emphatically non-random can appear random.

@Seamus said in Dealing with Staff:

@Sunny I'm not sure what attitude I have shown in my one single reply. But thank you for the advice.

Dude. You had the specific attitude pointed out to you: (emphasis mine)

Sure I can leave the game, but to me that means they win, and while that might be the end result, I would prefer to avoid it.

While you have that "I must WIN" attitude there is no hope at all for you to coexist peacefully, if uneasily, with that staffer. And in the end the staffer holds the kings, the queens, the aces, and the left and right bauer. You cannot win.

It's not about winning. This particular staffer does not like me at all. it is very clear in their interactions with me. So I'm trying to figure out away to continue to play.

Sure I can leave the game, but to me that means they win, and while that might be the end result, I would prefer to avoid it.

While you're at it, would you please make up your fucking mind? I'm getting a headache.

I just received 3×180g bags of Salmiakki today. After shipping, even, it was under US$5. Not per bag. Total.

Of course, being the good family man that I am, I shared it with my family. My family who've never tasted any kind of licorice before, not to mention "salt" licorice…. My son put on a brave face and pretended to enjoy it (later confessing he didn't), but my wife and mother-in-law both promptly spit it out, looking at me like I'd suddenly grown a third eyeball for enjoying it.