@Raistlin said in Marvel Multiverse Web Portal Stuff:

Not really anything about an actual game. I’ve just been laid up dealing with some health issues, and, for some reason, I find fighting with code relaxing. While I’ve been recovering, I wanted to see if I could do a web-based character generation and sheet for the Marvel Multiverse RPG in Ares. I’m pretty proud of it. It’s not 100% done but it’s in the final stretch, I think.

Not sure what, if anything, I’ll do with it. Just wanted to see if I could.

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This looks awesome!

When someone you hero-worshipped as a child turns out, 30 years later, to be into some of the conspiraciest of conspiracy theories.

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Arguable, but the Teshigahara film Woman in the Dunes is based on The Castle by Franz Kafka, specifically the first part and the reaction by the villages. Also, please watch Woman in the Dunes, it is beautiful.

@Pavel said in Minigames in MUSHes:

@Muse said in Minigames in MUSHes:

@Pavel Or maybe a self limiting factor, like clues know how long since the last clue and will stay in hiding until it’s time again.

Just let me have my slap-upside-head tool okay. 😞

Fiiiiiine, but only because I’m a sucker for a sad face.

@Melichor said in Melichor’s Playlist:

@tsar OH OH I just saw your playlist — I knew you as Nenita!! Iirc A’nas had a big giant teenaged boy crush on her 😂 He developed as my coping strategy for teaching an unruly class of teenage boys that year, channeling all my frustration into a character.

Your game has come across my radar. I’m staffing on the Ares Pern game right now (On Dragon Wings) and enjoying coming back to the genre after so long away—taking the best bits of the world and scrapping the rest. It’s been a blast.

I’m happy to run across you again! Glad you found me!

OH MY GOD YES, at Ista! That makes so much sense. God, I loved playing her, lol. It’s nice to see you back around in the community again!!

So yeah, sure, I did get an email late Sunday night from my boss’s boss’s boss’s boss that I had to jump on as soon as I saw it at 7AM today…

But he called my writing for him strong and clear. Verbatim quote.

Just gonna stick that right in my annual review that’s due on Friday.

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@tsar said in MU Peeves Thread:

If you’ve been turned away from a game, or know that you’re probably not welcome on a game-- DON’T SNEAK ONTO THEM.

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@Hobbie said in Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent:

Couple things today.

Firstly, to everyone I RPed with before getting on the ADHD meds (which is everyone I’ve ever RPed with), holy crap I am sorry you had to deal with someone so horrifically erratic and scatterbrained. I’m currently on the fifth and thank god final day of my psychiatrist-advised no-medication break so the meds don’t lose efficacy and it’s absolute torture for me, the wife, the kids, the wife, the dog, and especially me, and definitely the wife. I understand now why the psychologist who did my initial assessment said “if you weren’t a genius, you’d be completely crippled”. I thought he was joking!

Secondly, perhaps more pressing because the above nonsense ends tomorrow, the cat situation.

You know the one.

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This is the mother of next door’s litter of cats and has always loved my family. I found her sitting in the regional park across the road from my house. She’s always been very friendly and came hopping over the road when I made a single pspsps. We had lots of head and chin rubs, plenty of belly showing, and we even played with a twig in the grass. She’s a wonderful and affectionate little cat.

Once again:

Unsure if desexed/registered/microchipped. Gonna assume finally desexed because she’s not pregnant. No collar (illegal in my local council). Roaming in a national park (extremely fucking illegal in my local council).

This happened at 11:30PM.

11:30PM.

Unfortunately, limited by a keyboard as I am, I can’t unleash my frothing annoyance appropriately at what I’ve dealt with. It’s the middle of the night and this friendly little girl is at the mercy of snakes, spiders, kangaroos, emus, and especially snakes all alone. Next door’s lights were on so maybe they took her back inside later I don’t fucking know!

I cannot stress enough how many dangerous snakes we get here. It’s so bad that last time I played Pokemon GO it kept spawning Ekans and I’m like “this tracks”.

I’m starting to think this is no longer a question of legality. Seeing a roaming cat at 11:30PM with at least two laws broken, I definitely have moral grounds to catch her (and maybe her kids) and maybe I’ve got legal grounds as well. At what point is it animal neglect? I don’t know but emotion keeps winning out over logic and I’m going crazy every time I see this colony-in-the-making.

Look, as someone who has inadvertently become (one of) my neighborhood’s resident crazy cat ladies who just ends up bringing in whatever little flea-bitten, three-legged, one-eyed, mangy trash goblin who happens to rub up on my ankles…

I strongly advocate for calling whatever your country’s version of animal humane officers are because fuck your neighbors in their stupid fucking faces.

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This is Oreo.

@Warma-Sheen said in Re: Dies Irae:

I will say that in my time there, I never had much an issue with Scylla, personally, but I know others did. I think people have long memories in this hobby and reputations aren’t easily repaired, regardless of how you go about it. If anything, people just wait for a chance to use reputations and prior bad acts against you years/decades down the road. So sometimes, despite doing decent stuff in the present, you’re doomed to fail for your past mistakes and then… whatever you’re working on in the present goes down with it.

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Come and play Pern!

Think of it as Lords and Ladies with dragons… sort of.

It’s the 9th Pass of Pern, and the dragons have done an impressive job of growing the draconic population from nearly-none to over a thousand, enough that it’s time to open a new Weyr: desert-bound Igen.

Things we’re playing with at the moment:

Politics and machinations over who will lead the new Weyr. With Igen to be populated by riders from both Benden and Fort, and its leadership as-yet undecided, everyone has an opinion, and tensions are rising. Everyone knows that the ‘dragons decide’ but that doesn’t mean there aren’t ways to influence the process.

Fort’s latest hatching saw three Journeymen crafters Impress, including one from the Stands and one who distinctly did not have permission. Tensions are growing between the Weyr and the Crafts as a result: should the Weyr be able to steal the talented young people the Crafts have spent so much time training up? How much does the rest of the planet owe the Weyrs for keeping them safe? And if the answer is ‘less than the Weyrs think’ … what will the Weyrs do to change that balance back?

On Dragon Wings has some new staff on board, and we’re doing our best to cultivate play where character actions can influence both locally and globally. We’re using the world of Pern as a canvas to tell stories that range from exploration and adventure to political angling, with the (statted) combat of Threadfall lurking in the background as the omnipresent threat. We’re a small but friendly bunch, eager to tell interesting stories both big and small.

Never played Pern before? That’s okay! We can help with the important details… and handwave the rest. We welcome OCs (and are always happy to help brainstorm new ideas)– but we also have plenty of rosters available.

Come join us on https://pern.gaslightswitch.com!

Tomas Lindberg, lead singer for melodic death metal band At The Gates, considered one of the founding acts of the Swedish death metal scene. This one hurts me a lot because I’ve been listening to AtG since the mid 90s.

@Third-Eye shhhhh they were beautiful and I loved your poems

@Jenn if this was discord I’d respond with a laughing emoji. Holy shit my brain is rotted

@MayorMccheez The ‘went to headstaff’ bit was news to me.

I’m just saying that getting a nice present in the post can be a creepy thing and pointing out that it was a nice and not creepy present doesn’t change this possibility.

Honestly, we’re more friendly than friends. We’re not close. I had fun RPing with him. I would play with him again. I’m not on Retro, and a major reason for that is that there are players and staff there where my experience has been that they do have habits of being manipulative, gatekeepy, mean, dishonest, and likely to smear-campaign others. So that happening here seems plausible to me.

A peeve I have is sometimes staff -try- to disperse plot hooks, but like… end up giving three plot hooks all to people in the same insular group, failing to solve the bottleneck problem at all when they proceed to treat a gamewide plot like it’s their own personal treat.

@Babs FATE dice are funny.
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Pigeon Too Fat To Fly

There was nothing special or secret about the pigeon. This just reminded me of it.

Not at all related to @dvoraen’s work, but here’s my latest. I have a hard time resisting t-shirts and this one was $3.80 on Temu, and is awesome.

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