Weirdest Things You've Researched for MU*s

[L. B. Heuschkel]

This one came up on Keys today and it made me smirk.

[Pavel]

@L-B-Heuschkel I assume the “You know you’re called” bit is a reference to something?

[L. B. Heuschkel]

@Pavel Yeah, the game’s theme – the Called are the player character protagonists. The funny in question was more the browser history issue, though – in the light of this discussion.

[Yam]

On a WoD game I played a dockhand (or harbormaster? I can’t remember) who was a changing breed oceanborn spinner dolphin. So I heavily researched the area surrounding the fictional town, and made a map of basins and banks.

[Tez]

@Yam The red Xes are where you hid the bodies, right?

[Yam]

@Tez Lmao NO I WAS A GOOD DOLPHIN!!! TEAM GOOD GUY

My notes say they were “major seamarks”.

[Roz]

@Yam said in Weirdest Things You've Researched for MU*s:

@Tez Lmao NO I WAS A GOOD DOLPHIN!!! TEAM GOOD GUY

My notes say they were “major seamarks”.

so where you had dolphin sex?

[hellfrog]

Park Ranger uniforms.

But also, we used to do fambly breakfasts every week, so just about every Sunday morning you could find me and Puffin in a restaurant, talking about war and setting up ambushes and killing people. (We were both Firan staffers). Got some very interesting looks.

[Roadspike]

@hellfrog I always loved talking about Shadowrun plans in public.

[Testament]

The weirdest thing I ever talked about publicly that got me strange looks was the fact that teleporters should actually kill you and create an exact copy/duplicate at the other end of the teleport. Only the duplicate thinks it’s the original, so in your mind, you don’t know that the copy/duplicate is dying every single time you teleport.

[shit-piss-love]

@Testament said in Weirdest Things You've Researched for MU*s:

The weirdest thing I ever talked about publicly that got me strange looks was the fact that teleporters should actually kill you and create an exact copy/duplicate at the other end of the teleport. Only the duplicate thinks it’s the original, so in your mind, you don’t know that the copy/duplicate is dying every single time you teleport.

The Ship of Theseus problem is my favorite grenade to drop into a lame party vibe.

[Testament]

@shit-piss-love Fun fact: If you really break it down, the Ship of Theseus problem is basically the entire plot of Cyberpunk 2077

[shit-piss-love]

@Testament said in Weirdest Things You've Researched for MU*s:

@shit-piss-love Fun fact: If you really break it down, the Ship of Theseus problem is basically the entire plot of Cyberpunk 2077

Less fun fact: The Ship of Theseus problem is basically the entire plot of going to sleep at night.

[GF]

@Testament Ghost In The Shell, too, if I remember it right.

Wait, are my memories the Ship of Theseus?

[Testament]

@GF Probably. Is the you that went to sleep last night the same you that woke up this morning?

[Smile]

@Jumpscare hmmm what /is/ small ice called? googles

ETA: Nugget ice!

[insomniac]

@shit-piss-love said in Weirdest Things You've Researched for MU*s:

Less fun fact: The Ship of Theseus problem is basically the entire plot of going to sleep at night.

Nah, not unless you define the “self” to such a narrow degree that it becomes useless. When I go to sleep, everything that makes me “me” continues to exist and act; I even continue in awareness, experiencing vivid sensory hallucinations even if I forget them afterwards.

[Roz]

@eye8urcake said in Weirdest Things You've Researched for MU*s:

@sao said in Weirdest Things You've Researched for MU*s:

I have googled shit about shock and gunshot wounds and first aid so many fucking times that they probably could prosecute me for something.

Every time a search history comes into a case in court, I die a little inside.

[BloodAngel]

Played a violinist cannibal chocolatier serial killer once. We all get to be over-edgy once. So, the google search for that one had to be all time of trouble. How to make these or that out of insert body part.

[Evilgrayson]

I’ve researched a lot of weird things. The one that really comes to mind right now, though, is the history and practices of the Thuggee.