Posts made by Ashkuri

This subject has come up with a few people lately, but the real peeve is how much garbage media/tv/movies I have consumed solely because my played-by was in it.

Obviously Cujo is Cujo, and various Cujo policies/decisions are always inexplicable. The ships, the cargo, the econ, the Stuff, the fairness or lack thereof, the BBpost Metaplot, the… whatever the deal with Aryn/Poe is, this weird “you can come back” moment, etc etc, you can pick on all of it.

I think it’s important to remember, though, that the whole debacle that started this was:

On this game if you are harassed, and particularly if you are harassed by a popular player who appears to generate activity, there is no help for you.

Cujo doesn’t need to be like “guyz you can have your toon back,” Cujo needs to be here saying “I won’t tolerate bad behavior, I’ll take it seriously, this is my house and I’ll keep it clean.”

But that’s never gonna happen, so. Oh well. Super fun time simple, big IC grid awaits, lol.

Cujo and Friends got rid of everybody they didn’t like or who didn’t agree with them during the Great Drama and built a utopia for themselves out of the echo chamber that was left. No troublemakers anymore!

That is now, and has been, playing out about the way everybody expected it would.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

good luck to them I hope they are having fun

@Testament Prosopagnosia! I have it as well and it can definitely be an embarrassing factor in my real life. It’s also one reason I hate AI portraits, as I find them extremely hard to distinguish.

In terms of descs though (and I know, we’ve talked about this) I don’t think you need to know exactly what their face looks like. It doesn’t matter. You need a vibe, some physical basics, and anything major unusual, and that’s it, that will inform the impression of the character in the written form.

Tastes vary, but for me, I never need to know details like a roman nose or cupid’s bow lips.

@Testament I will write every desc for you forever if you want

You still have to do the drudgery of editing my filthy human writing tho, and it will be a lot of work

Resurrecting the thread to give an art-related warning. A heads up for anyone who draws their character art on an iPad with an Apple pencil:

If the glass screen breaks you have to go through Apple to get it fixed. You cannot go to a 3rd party screen fixing place like you would for a phone. Apple has proprietary chips in the screen and proprietary calibration software involving the apple pencil, and the apple pencil will not calibrate properly with the 3rd party screen no matter what you do. This causes unavoidable jittery lines in the drawing.

Once it’s been done, the 3rd party place can’t fix it because they don’t have the Apple proprietary crap and Apple won’t fix it because it’s been altered by a 3rd party.

The iPad + Apple pencil has been a great way to draw for years. I don’t want to get into right to repair (although I feel strongly about this rn) or Apple sucking (although I ALSO feel strongly about this rn) on the art thread. There are just a lot of talented artists in the mu community and if anyone else is using the same set up I would like to spare them the nonsense I just went through.

I will do the lifting to set it all up, I don’t usually mind.

What I mind is the person who says “I want to rp!” and then they say “I don’t know what to do. I don’t have any ideas. What character would you like me to be? LOL!”

At least pick which of YOUR OWN characters you want to be, come on now. I’m not doing that for you.

IMO, it’s not great to take a stance like ‘the church is in control of reproduction’ unless players are explicitly allowed to take a swing at that institution and that massive social control. Are they allowed or encouraged to make motions back to their own autonomy? Fuckfruits for all?

‘The church is in control of reproduction’ is one thing. ‘The church is in control of people’s bodies and everyone is chill with this IC because that is our ooc policy’ is uhhhhh less good.

WHAT game is this

@mangosplitz pls

lololol

@heysparky I’ve been in a lot of ST/story/stakes things you ran or participated in real-time on Arx, seemed to go alright there?

For me async is at its most useful as an easy way to pause and continue. I don’t miss being like “do you have the last couple poses, my client crashed”

I like async alright in one on one scenes where I plan to write heaps of shit per pose.

Async that goes on and on forever is something I will do if I have great vibes with a person, but as real-time is my preference and I like to stay busy, sometimes I start feeling like I’ve started outpacing my own RP and it’s hard to write two timelines. I also find it hard to pose out of these long long ones.

When there are multiple async scenes going on, who I pose to ‘next’ has nothing to do with how much I like the person and everything to do with how much I need to think. The scene where I’m giving my opinions on Plato’s Cave is going to be a slower pose than the scene where I’m eating cake.

3+ person async is death to me. This kills the frog.

Overall, I really like the things async lets me do (pause, RP with people in other timezones, meet new people) but for the most part if my async partner offered me async or real time, I’d choose real time without much question.

I’ve run a lot of pvp. Things that were successful:

• Clear rules set out ooc at the start so everyone knows what to expect
• Allowing “cinematic defeat” when people lost so they can topple over a cliff and lose the fight but not lose a limb or otherwise be grievously mangled
• Encouraging ooc banter and teasing in a fun way, gently nipping it if it starts to sound snotty
• Everyone using gear/weapons/powers that are clearly defined, and ideally automatic in the system

Things that were not successful:

• Anything outside the bounds of very clear dice vs dice that requires more subjective GM decision making.

“Politics” or social pvp was a disaster. Spy PvP was a disaster. People who don’t want to fight but want to do tricky shit to advantage their team, disaster. People who want to use special gear, perks, and magic that aren’t clearly defined so that they gain an advantage, disaster.

When everyone was rolling clean, no problems, people had fun. When it started getting into “I should be allowed to do this weird thing that means I win,” there were problems every time.

It would have been easier if that game had more things clearly defined, lol. PvP is exciting in a way PvNPC isn’t, but it can definitely get messy.

I’m here for the other RP smoking

@tsar said in Pose Sizes:

I have no real concern about pose length. Give me long or short or 7 different convos at once as long as it’s fun.

this tbh

@tsar Fort Bloodshed says paragraphs AREN’T ALLOWED

@Floof Just reply to “We need to talk” with “Yeah, we do.”

Now they are ALSO anxious.

@Snackness opportunity POUNCED

In my experience:

“I would love to RP sometime!”
“Me too! Hit me up anytime!”
It will literally never happen.

“I would love to RP sometime!”
“Me too, what day this week would work for you? Thursday or Saturday is best for me.”
Better odds of it happening.

IDK why but it seems like heaps of people can’t get to the when shall we do this stage even if they’re the ones that initiated interest.

@Gashlycrumb can you give an example