Posts made by Mourne

Youtube is somehow got it in its head that I want to read right-wing nutjobs because I am interested in global finance…

Yeesh this is horrible.

I play the gamut in characters but they always have flaws to match their strengths. It doesn’t need to be a perfect balance, but I don’t believe perfection is achievable, and trying to do so just makes things super awkward.

I play characters who are sometimes special snowflakes and go against the grain, I play characters who are the stereotypical ‘book’ idea of a concept, really just depends on my mood.

I have never, ever, had a personal association with my character there.

They aren’t me.

I would be very weirded out that someone thought that about me.

The only association I have with my character is that as their creator, and the person who decides what they do, when they do fucked up things… that’s on me. I made that choice. The idea that I didn’t choose to do something, that the character would do that somehow makes it right?

Nope.

Sure, the character might do something a certain way, but I wrote the character, and I can just as easily have them not do the thing that ruins things for others. Maybe the sociopath had a conscience for half a second, if it’s better for the RP and enjoyment of the game for others.

Decisive I know.

I had a knee-jerk reaction to someone saying I was ‘victim blaming’ and lashed out a bit.

That bought into the attempted manipulation, and I apologize for that failure.

So I am erasing my former statement and saying this:

Being asked how you (The royal you, not the specific you) would prefer to handle a scene in advance, is not a crime. It is not someone abusing you in any way shape or form.

You are not a /victim/ for being asked how you would like to RP.

Especially when it is done without any lewd or crude comments.

For all those here whom I may end up RP’ing with some day, I am not going to stop making sure my RP partners are comfortable with the direction and tone of RP.

I owe them that.

I am truly saddened that there are people who believe that this is somehow… wrong.

@Selira So you’d get squicked, when heavily flirting, going to a private location, with the flirting ramping up towards petting, if someone wanted to make sure you were A) ok with RP going in that direction and B) if it did go in that direction, making sure you were comfortable.

Can’t.

Win.

To be fair, I have altitis, so coming up with new pc’s, of any variety, is exceptionally easy for me.

So when I create my NPC’s that are as fleshed out as any character, it’s because it’s how my brain works. I would always say for anyone to do what works for them. Those who run stories have their own methods, we’re all unique, do what makes it great/easy for you to run stories people have fun with.

@Warma-Sheen said in Liberation MUSH:

@Mourne said in Liberation MUSH:

@MisterBoring Because dice are superior to pips and rock paper scissors

Wrong.

(Apparently, there’s no imperative to support our left-field opinions with any sort of supporting evidence or argument, so that makes this an easy one.)

Objection: Presumes facts not in evidence.

@Faraday In every single FS3 game I’ve played, the game runners did none of that.

You could have it be determined completely randomly, or, you could have it be that the controller has to set what they are going to throw before hand.

I create my NPC’s as if they were PC’s. They all have their own motivations, drives, goals, but, I am horrifically silly about the level of detail I can put into things.

Also, an NPC to me, is very different than a nameless mook.

Not all nameless mook’s are baddies. Sometimes they’re the poor unfortunate scenery involved in the thing.

NPC’s are special. They’re a type of PC, even if it’s a ‘Non’ type.

@KarmaBum said in What we can learn from video game tutorials:

@Mourne Have you seen what @Jumpscare has been up to with Silent Heaven?

I have actually, I am not sure it’s a game for me, but the technical aspects have really helped get my creative juices going for converting systems.

@Faraday Oh, Evennia takes Python, I am not professional coder so I only know Tiny/Rhost/Penn. The way I read that was you only offered hosting for Ares games only.

I may be in touch if I could run older style codebase.

@Jennkryst I have only tried to larp, once, and all the rules needing special versions of ASL and pips and… it was way more confusing than stat + skill

@KarmaBum Hidden side effects is bad game design imho.

My idea would be that choices would not hurt the player, they’d just be directions in which they got stronger.

@Arkandel The problem with dino’s and the heavy sheets, and we see this so often with Werewolves who get to primal urge 8 or Vampires with Blood Potency stupid whatever, is that they have a resoundingly negative impact on the game //when the player// decides they want to throw their sheet around and there is literally nothing anyone can do about it.

Except Staff.

And I’ve found that on those games that /don’t/ limit Blood Potency etc to reasonable levels, they don’t give a frick to begin with.

It can and will have a negative impact, but, good people are good people. We (as humans) tend to remember the negative, and for every Laibah there is at least 3-4 of the:

@Faraday That’d be cool, but I don’t know Ruby/Python so no Ares for me.

@MisterBoring Because dice are superior to pips and rock paper scissors

@eye8urcake

@mietze I actually don’t mind that I will need bifocals, I just mind that it negates my ability to wear contacts and read stuff close to my face.

So I just discovered that I either need bifocals, or, I need to tilt my glasses down my nose a bit to read stuff in small text or real close to my face…

Now what am I going to do when I have my contacts in?

Ugh.

Old, why you hate me so?

@eye8urcake I tried to be very respectful as the scene was heading in an intimate direction but everyone’s clothes were still on. So I asked OOCly just to make sure and clarify things and I got chewed out for breaking RP, which is… ok, sure I can get that but to /me/, better safe than sorry.

I’d rather not assume my boundaries are the same as anyone else’s at all.

I don’t want to get into the fine details, but all the clothes were still on but the flirting was pretty heavy and direct and we’d progressed to private location.

It was precisely because people can have such negative reactions to things in RP or out of it, that I think it is important to ask. Any offense is not intentional, quite the opposite.