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Another Let’s Get Physionomical, please?
I second that.
New year, new thread, new repost to begin the final push for a virtual Yuri’s Night party!
I think that MB should hold a virtual Yuri’s Night party in April of 2011. Seeing how much resistance there was to a Moon Landing Day party in the summer, I realize a late March-early April party is never going to be approved unless it’s a one-time thing that never happens again. Thus, as this year is the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s flight, I feel it should be the one time this party takes place.
IMPORTANT: all ideas which follow are subject to suggestion, criticism, change, and evolution and none should be considered to be set in stone…
Who: Any MuseBloggers who wish to attend. If you wish to assume the persona of a technician, astronaut, or spy or just create some sort of backstory for yourself, you’re welcome, but it’s not mandatory.
When: March 20th to April 17th, 2011.
Where: On the Yuri’s Night thread. Within the classic Muse Academy ballroom, decorated to resemble a room aboard Space Station Odyssey in all ways possible.
Food: TBD
Décor: 2001: A Space Odyssey is the general reference. 2011 as seen by 1961. A large ballroom entered through sliding doors in the Star Trek fashion. Models and framed photographs showing the highlights of spaceflight and SF in the past 50 years decorate the room. (Yes, lots of gorgeous Hubble shots) “In-storyâ€, we are aboard a rotating space station, and large “windows†(Perhaps floor-to-ceiling) will show the rest of the station, the Earth below, the moon and stars, and every now and then, shuttles and cargo ships flying up to dock with the station. (The windows being just TV screens and all of this being stock footage or CGI.) Perhaps announcements over a PA periodically to announce the “dockingsâ€.
Music: A live band, playing a mix of 60s classics, New Age electronica, and any other favorites requested. Any MBer who wishes to drop in and play with the band may.
Dress: Futuristic formal. Black suits and ties, glow-in-the-dark dresses, neatly pressed jumpsuits, shirtsleeves with pocket protectors and skinny ties, Starfleet dress uniform, and the like. Go for a 60s feel, but nothing too hippie.
The goings-on: To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s pioneering spaceflight, and the completion of Space Station Odyssey, various distinguished employees from the space agencies of the world have been invited to enjoy a civilized evening of dancing, music, intelligent conversation, and Earthwatching. (Binoculars provided at windows by wungs.) But keep on your toes, as befits the anniversary of such a prominent Cold War event, espionage and intrigue are in the air…
People who have already expressed support for a 2011 Yuri’s Night party on MB:
LittleBasementKitten
Selenium the Quafflebird
Cat’s Eye
Shadowfire
Additional people who were in favor of a 1960s summer MA party in honor of Moon Landing Day in the summer of 2009:
Zinc
Cerulean Pyros
RoseQuartz
Starr
Additional person who participated in impromptu Yuri’s Night celebration in the H&H in 2010:
I like this idea! Seconded. Or technically, sixthed.
My name seems to have been clipped off the end of the proposal, Kai.
Sorry, Piggy! How could I forget my favorite barkeep? It was an accident when I was pasting into the comment box.
Although, by your interest, I take it you’re in favor of the party, in which case I can add you to the top third of the list?
Same goes for you, POSOC.
Sure thing.
Okay, good. POSOC?
I love this idea.
7thed!
…Also, this is going to make me sound really ignorant, but what exactly happened on Yuri Garagan’s flight? I’m not exactly a space person…
He was the first human in space.
And his last name was Gagarin. He was Russian.
Yes, the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human being to travel into outer space in 1961.
Will the GAPAs have time to make another signature shirt sometime in the future?
Oh. Pshaw. Yes.
I have never been on one.
I never have, either.
People who have already expressed support for a 2011 Yuri’s Night party on MB:
LittleBasementKitten
Selenium the Quafflebird
Cat’s Eye
Shadowfire
Piggy
Ambystoma Maculatum
Bibliophile
Additional people who were in favor of a 1960s summer MA party in honor of Moon Landing Day in the summer of 2009:
Zinc
Cerulean Pyros
RoseQuartz
Starr
POSOC, I’m still waiting to hear if you’re in or out.
(Er, “People”. That shouldn’t be too hard to fix, right?)
I eighth the idea, I’ve been meaning to but I kept forgetting!
Me. This is wonderful.
That’s nine confirmed, if POSOC says yes, that makes ten, and if the four who liked the Moon Landing Day party idea agree, that’s fourteen…
I-it’s beautiful. ;_;
[I’d like it!]
I support it!
New hot topics thread for a new year. The old one has more than 400 comments and is from 2010.
Could we have a new Cooking and Food thread, please? I have a very long recipe for ratatouille that I would like to share.
I have been noticing that a lot of MuseBloggers do D&D or want to play. I personally play D&D, Jadestone said in the R&R thread that she does, POSOC and Ebeth said on January random thread part 2 that they do, and Piggy recently said on this month’s random thread that he would like to play (though he probably meant the real game).
Therefore, I propose a Muse D&D RPG thread. No dice rolling or character sheets, just an RPG that follows the layout of D&D. I could post all the relevant rules, classes, races, etc. We could have a DM (Dungeon master-person who moderates the game, for those who don’t know), but I don’t think it would be necessary, and it would be more fun just to have a standard RPG with the D&D rules. Pleeeeease?
Wow, I just went to this thread with the same idea. Seconded!!
D&D is rather dependent on dice-rolling. It’s quite complex.
I don’t think I’d want to play a free-form RPG with what is, when all’s said and done, basically a bog-standard high fantasy setting. If we’re not limited by the rules, then there are all sorts of more interesting things to do.
Yes, I know I backed up the original idea… but part of what I like about D&D is the freedom to build one’s own world and characters within the framework of the rules. If we toss out the framework, why not just build our own world and characters without any of the prior assumptions that the D&D system implies?
Also, the GAPAs have turned down RPGs based on copyrighted material (Harry Potter, etc) before.
Thirded. I play D&D too (although…now I don’t. I should say I used to.) and I think that it’d be a fun thing to do.
Piggy-D&D is quite complex when you follow all of the regular rules of combat, magic, etc, there are many rules regarding concealment, cover, armor, accuracy, items, skills, and most of them involve dice (I have read all core 3.5 rulebook cover to cover, the thing you saw on community was Advanced D&D, which was an earlier version. There is also a v4.0, but I don’t like it as much as 3.5, so I stuck with 3.5).
However, that’s not what I’m proposing. I want to go with the layout of D&D, not the specific actions. It would be pretty much as POSOC said, a bog-standard fantasy RPG-which I don’t think would be a bad thing in itself anyway. Having a set of guidelines for how you can make your character and what en can do though, I think would make for a very enjoyable RPG.
POSOC-It is true that the restrictions would not be as big and with as many fun add-ons. Making characters would be somewhat less personalizeed than the real game. Only the DM makes the world anyway, so I don’t see that being a big problem. I am also not proposing we toss out the framework of making characters-just all the dice rolling and deep specifics. It would not be as good as the real system, but I personally believe it would still be fun. I don’t know about the copyrighted material thing. I wouldn’t copy paste the rules, I would definitely paraphrase, but I don’t know if that helps
Well, if you toss out dice-rolling, I don’t see what rules you’ll have left.
I’m just saying that dice rolling for everything isn’t that practical on a blog. Instead of saying, “I rolled a 14 plus my BAB of +6 and my strength of 4 equals 24, so thats a hit” we could just estimate how often we should be hitting and how much damage we have taken. And instead of rolling for stats, we can just average, like fighters would have high strength and barbarians have low intelligence. We won’t be using the dice, but we will still have the framework of the rules and the stats behind them will be estimated.
Well, a lot of people would view the golden age of D&D as being one of the earliest versions, which the creator advertised as almost pure imagination and innovation of gameplay, not dice rolling and books full of rules.
D&D is about imagination and creativity, in its rawest form. I think the creators wanted to bring order to the game, so they created all those rules, but it would be nice just to let go of most of the rules regarding combat and dice roles and all that stuff and just let imagination flow, which is why I think this thread is a good idea.
Then why not go the whole hog and toss out races, classes and monsters too? I can enjoy a game of D&D, and I can enjoy a free-form RPG invented completely from scratch. I just don’t see the point of something in between.
Re- D&D thread suggestion: OK, I have to agree. The main thing separating D&D from any sort of free form imaginative gameplay is the d20 system, which clearly isn’t really possible on the blog (well, it is, but it will slow down gameplay quite a bit), so why not just make a sort of freeform RPG? I mean, feel free to take classes and races and things from D&D itself, but I don’t think there’s a point to unnecessarily tacking on ‘D&D’ as its name, if it’s not going to include the d20 system.
I guess maybe what you’re saying you want is a game in the style of a blog RPG crossed with D&D, in that people control their own characters and the Dm controls the world and NPCs, but no rules as specific as in D&D? That seems a bit silly and I don’t think it would work as well as you’re imagining, no offense intended. Sorry.
Sudo-No, I don’t want a DM controlling any NPCs or the world. (see my first post-I think I said that already) I think that this would work as a normal MuseBlog RPG, just adding on the D&D classes, races, monsters, etc, since lots of people are already familiar with them. This will make it into a basic RPG for muse except more controlled because there are limits on how powerful your character can be, etc. I think it would make a good fantasy RPG.
Giminator- What you are saying makes sense, but what I wanted with the D&D RPG was more control and limits on how people make their characters. If there was a fantasy RPG without limits on characters, there could end of being one person that is ridiculously powerful and controls the adventure and another person that gave enself a miniscule power that amounts to nothing. I think incorporating the D&D rules would limit that and give people an idea of how to make their characters.
I’m sorry I haven’t been specific enough with my intentions. I guess I should have made my idea clearer in the first place.
Okay, the list, as it stands:
People who have already expressed support for a 2011 Yuri’s Night party on MB:
LittleBasementKitten
Selenium the Quafflebird
Cat’s Eye
Shadowfire
Piggy
Ambystoma Maculatum
Bibliophile
Mikazuki
Small But Fierce
Thief of Light
Enceladus
We’re up to eleven confirmed, twelve if you count me and thirteen if POSOC’s in favor.
I’ll add my support as well.
Can we have a Manifesto thread? Just, like, a thread where people post big philosophical statements they try to live their life by, or epiphanies they just had, or thoughts about life they’ve had rolling around in their brain for a while?
My March issue of Muse came today, and I’d like to talk about it. Could we please have the threads for it?
I was just reading through some old threads and I got lead to a game of Paker. After reading for a while, I was laughing really hard and wanting to play. Can we have a Paker thread or whatever its called?
We do. Search for ‘Muse Academy Game Room’
Okay, so we have twelve people (counting myself) in favor of the Yuri’s Night party and we’re aiming for the party to start on the 20th, so when would be a good time to start a planning thread?
Just to recap, those in favor of the Yuri’s Night party at last count are:
LittleBasementKitten
Selenium the Quafflebird
Cat’s Eye
Shadowfire
Piggy
Ambystoma Maculatum
Bibliophile
Mikazuki
Small But Fierce
Thief of Light
Enceladus
Errata
KaiYves (Me)
I was in favor…? I barely know what it’s about…ah, well. XP
Anybody?
Me!
Oh, why not now? If we finish planning early, it can’t hurt, whereas if we wait too long, we’ll never get the opportuniy again (unless any of us is still here in 50 years).
Okay, then! Let’s get planning!
KaiYves et al.: You’ve got your planning thread.
*Jump-hugs The Honorable Mr. Coontz*
I would like to throw my full 5 feet 3 and 1/2 inches, 95 pounds behind the D&D/Fantasy/whatever thread.
As would I! (Only with different physical size parameters)
I am taller than you.
*Woah*
A thread proposal: “What I Learned Today”. We could share factoids we’ve read, advice from personal experience, observations about the world, what-have-you. Everyone learns something new every day, and I’d like a place to share.
Medieval Fantasy RPG *Cough* “Meanwhile, your characters are welcome to have magical adventures in other locations, on threads that I’ll be happy to create for the purpose” *cough*
Seconded!
Yes, off campus and off the island, you’re free to violate physical law any way you like. Gravity? Entropy? The speed of light? We don’t care.
Forgive me for my impatience/ignorance, but are we waiting for something for the thread?
The Medieval Fantasy RPG has now been created.
YAY!!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!
What if we had a Steampunk Airship RPG/RRR? Like those “# people on a spaceship” plots, but steampunk and Not In Space. Or like the book Leviathan, minus World War I and the flying whale.
Never read that, but seconded.
I third this motion! (Though I have never read that either.)
Yay, thanks guys!
“The bronze behemoth hung glittering against the clouds, like a second sun of bright metal plates and swooping propellers and huge patched balloons. You couldn’t look at it and say man was never meant to fly.”
The airship thread is ready to raise anchor.
More brainstorming: What if it was the first airship flight, as a sort of test to see if air travel was safe, and the antagonists were Well Intentioned Extremist protestors trying to sabotage the “evil” new technology?
Woo! Steampunk heroes vs. evil Luddites! (The actual Luddites were from the Victorian time frame, weren’t they?)
The actual Luddites were active in the 1810s, before Victoria was born. And they targeted only spinning and weaving mills, which threatened their jobs; they wouldn’t have cared about airships. But a later incarnation of the movement in your steampunk timeline could have revived the name, of course.
A new Nationstates thread. There are some things we may need to discuss. And Piggy was deleted.
*coughcough[*coughcoughoverlybroadhintsnippedcoughcough*]coughcough*
DISCLAIMER: the internetz outside this site is potentially filled with weird, creepy stalkers trying to get info on you. Beware!
What!?!?!?
I was a bit annoyed at that. I’ve been working on my country for literally years, and I was permanently deleted without so much as a warning or a preliminary punishment. I can’t find a solid list of rules of NationStates anywhere, so I don’t know whether what I did was actually prohibited or not. Nothing I mentioned was private information–he himself put it on the internet.
In any case, it’s not a huge deal. I was planning on abandoning Piglonia soon anyway.
Also: I doubt the GAPAs will grant you this thread. It’s discussion of websites other than MuseBlog, which is against the rules.
Indeed it is.
But what about the previous NS thread?
That thread was made when external discussion wasn’t as dangerous. MuseBlog has grown, and we’ve had to adjust our rules to fit our expansion.
The thread was started to head off discussion that was taking over the Random Thread. It became a problem because MBers couldn’t resist trying to pass along information about how to find each other on NS. That amounts to providing off-blog contact information, which is strictly against the rules. In retrospect perhaps the thread shouldn’t have been created in the first place, but MB was only a few months old then and many valuable lessons had yet to be learned.
[Didn’t see Piggy’s comment until after I posted.]
Wait, but doesn’t NationStates have rules about personal information, similar to MB? And our region is password-protected …
It’s off-blog contact, and telegrams can’t be monitored. I suggest you accept the position that the GAPAs have made clear numerous times.
Not really sure where to put this, but–GAPAs? April 15 (this year, it varies) is National Day of Silence, which is an (to quote the flyer I just made for school) “event for students to raise awareness against anti-LGBTQ bullying and harassment in schools. Anyone can participate by taking some form of a vow of silence for the day. This event is a great opportunity to show support for those around the country who aren’t always able to be comfortable being and expressing themselves due to fear of emotional or physical harm.” I was wondering if we could put it on the calendar?
If you need more information (or anyone wants more) the official website is: www. dayofsilence. org (without spaces)
Thanks!
Seconded. Oh good, you made the flyers.
I’m participating this year, finally
I’m doing Day of Silence with my GSA.
Me: *explaining DoS to my French class*
(Afterwards)
Guy somewhere between aquaintance and friend: So, you just don’t talk the whole day?
Me: Yeah.
Guy somewhere (yada, yada, yada…): That’s stupid, but I respect you for it.
Me: … Thanks?
A new Just Friends thread, perhaps? The old one is long dead.
The Yuri’s Night party is over, so I guess we should start gearing up for May Day.
How about a Gender and Sexuality discussion thread separate from R&R?
I second this.
Third.
Fourth.
Fifth.
Sixth.
My May issue of Muse came today. Could we please have the threads?
Maybe a squid thread? ‘ For all Squiddy needs?’
Could MLC have some Museion-related things?
That’s a great idea! Do you have any particular requests for what designs you’d like to see?
Well, not really; anything would be great.
new MB games thread. It’s nearly reached 600 comments.
Please can we have an
oxymoron thread
please????????
Could that be framed as an MB Game?
Hmmm… Okay!
What about towels? I’d love to buy a Muse-themed towel.
Cafe Press doesn’t offer towels, but it does have stadium blankets. They’re practically towels. Should we add them to our inventory?
Aiya, sixty bucks? I doubt any would be bought.
Could we have a travel/travel guides thread, please?
Remember when the color scheme of the ‘Blog would change from month to month? Do the current software and GAPAlian schedules allow for that practice?
We have the capability but not the time — which is to say, we could but we can’t.
That’s what I thought.
There are a lot of things we’d love to do with the blog, if only the Macarthur Foundation would hurry up and give us fellowships. But patience is a proverbial virtue…
New quotations thread. 751 comments at last check.
What if we had a Futuristic Dystopia RPG? In the future, an evil anti-Muser organization has taken over most of the world, crushed all forces of creativity and learning, and created a Cakesaccharine World where mind control reigns and those who don’t conform to society mysteriously vanish. Only a small band of rebels, the Kokonspiracy, have escaped the brainwashing and are plotting to overthrow the evil government and free the masses.
Yes. I like that idea! It rocks!
Thirded
14 pies, so far. Could we have this thread please?
You don’t really have 14 pies. Still, it sounds like fun. Go for it!
I think she was counting the pies on all the replies too.
I think the same four people pied all the comments, so I count four pies.
Probably true, now that I think about it.
Whatever happened to the Incredible Morphing Chameleon Threads? Could they ever come back someday?
35- If I remember correctly, they eventually all died, turned into the Polling Place, or were spent discussing what we should discuss next.
I just accidentally pied your comment; I didn’t mean to. Apparently, I’m posting too quickly; why is that?
That make sense. The reason why I’m wondering is because the conversations on the Random Threads these days ping pong around so quickly about day-to-day things that there isn’t much opportunity to discuss topics at length. (Besides specific threads for specific subjects, of course.)
Maybe we could have a webcomics thread for all webcomices to go other than VA? So they don’t get jumbled.
… seconded! I’d like that.
A ‘redo’, of sorts, of Bunny Apocalypse? A lot of us original roleplayers in that have improved vastly, and it was the best RP on the site during the time it was active. BA:TNG wasn’t quite so good, character overflow hit it hard.
What I’m requesting is a reboot of BA, where we can start out with the base of the original RP and most of the same characters-but let the people who weren’t around join, and see how much we’ve all improved in our writing.
…forgive me if this is silly, I’ve been away for Museblog for a long time now.
Oh, I really like that idea! I missed the original BA and was a horrible writer during BA:TNG, and we haven’t had a popular, fast-paced
and gratuitously violentRPG in a while.It ran fast, it ran well, and for a bunch of teenagers writing a story it was really good. I’d like to see what we could do with our improvements.
I’ve been having that same idea. The whole Bunny Apocalypse RPG was really awesome. Now that it’s dying, I think it would be great to redo it, but all new characters, all new setting, all new plot. 38.2- Yeah, I’m not the greatest writer either, but RPing is helping me improve somewhat. I was just thinking that after we wrap up BATNG we should start over.
BA:TNG didn’t work, we lost the idea somewhere and got a metric ton of characters that nobody could remember and a bunch of us thought that being 28 meant that you couldn’t be awesome anymore.
Start out with new characters (or even revised, more realistic, less perfect versions), work with the basic plot, and run from there.
Yeah…and I kinda dropped out after 2 or 3 posts. Still, a reboot would under be awesome.
Yeah, that’s pretty much what I meant. Bunny Apocalypse= good, BATNG= It’s a sequel.
Please. Please, please let this happen. I go back over BA and like “awww man I wrote /vampires/” and I’d like to do it again. (although I’ll say it again, I miss ZVX a whole lot)
I go back over BA and want to smack younger me in the face. Cake, younger me, you wrote Mary Sues like they were breakfast! How’d everyone never call me out on it?
You were fantastic, Zinc, but yeah. We could all use a redo. Wait, ZVX isn’t here anymore? I’ve been away for a long time…
I don’t think we’ve seen Ź√Ҳ for almost two years.
…wow. I just figured I wasn’t on the right threads. Maybe it’s like what happened to RoseQuartz? I emailed her lately, she says she’s been crazy busy.
It’s too bad he’s gone, but we’re stronger writers now, and we can make up for it.
With RoseQuartz it’s been more like a year and a half, I think.
We still remember them fondly and will be happy to see them whenever they wander back around to say hi.
… “fantastic”? No man, I was melodramatic at the best. I honestly couldn’t write well, and I think I’ve progressed, so let this go through…
Indeed we will. What shall we call it? “BA:TNG Reboot”?
No, we’re retelling the original BA. Not BATANG. It’s like we’re retconning everything that happened in those threads.
We’re…rewinding it? I like that word. Bunny Apocalypse: Rewind (or perhaps replace Rewind with Reboot)?
Ssssh, Zinc, you’re fabulous and sparkly in a good way.
*sis fist* YEAHHHH
Aw, thanks~ I don’t deserve the praise, though… that was then, this is now. I will do better this time, count on me!
TNG brings memories of children. When I was half-asleep earlier I was thinking “Bunny Apocalypse 2.0” but that was earlier. “BA Reboot” would be fine, since BA:TNG makes me think a redo of post-BA world. So the absence of the TNG would be better.
But that’s just me. Anyone else?
I agree with Zinc. I think it would be better if our characters were teens, in the recently-bunnified world with William.
AvalonGirl, my character from back then, will be making a comeback. :3 I’m chopping her name down to Avalon, at least, and aging her down a year.
I’d hope we don’t go by our blognames quite so much, at least: we can have Rainbow, or Storm, but not Rainbow*Storm. I’m hoping for a bit of realism with the names, of a sort.
ALL RIGHT! YOU’RE USING MY NAME!
*excited and sleep-deprived*
Except are we going to have William reboot… or someone else?
Sweet, 12 pies on that original post!
William, I’d presume…? He had a PHD in Horribleness, there’s no way we can make up something cooler than that.
We all miss ZVX, I think…. I [snippety-snip], but even so, I haven’t heard from him since he stopped posting on here. He made up, like, 50% of the entire awesomeness of BA. [/not really an overstatement]
BA was the most epic RPG we ever had on here, I think. BA:TNG was… meh. I’m not sure if we could pull off another BA — it consisted mostly of randomness and not overmuch planning, which I think worked well when we had a bunch of younger kids and a few older ones to keep the plot semi-stabilized — but still, it would be interesting to try.
Ooh yes! Please!
* Holds up my cute kitten *
You can’t resist the face of cute….
Hey, Pie Girl! It’s nice to see you’d like to do this. You weren’t around for BA or BATANG, were you? That’s also why I’m suggesting…newbies could finally get a nice RPG to join.
GAPA’s, It’s pinked. Do you think maybe you could make it?
Grah, I need to stop hounding you guys.
Done.
So, a while back, I was trying to think up hypothetical book titles that would grab a reader’s attention and “I Saved The Titanic” popped into my head.
So, I thought, you know, that could be a whole series. “I Saved The Hindenburg”, “I Saved Pompeii”, “I Saved Lincoln”, “I Saved Apollo 1”, etc. Then I thought about the discussion we’d had in the Alternate History thread about different ways of creating the same result by changing history and similar discussions I’d seen on other websites.
And then I got the amusing idea of students at a Time Travelers’ Academy giving presentations to their teachers on the plans they had made for how they would go about doing each of those things, with the creator of the winning presentation being allowed to travel back in time and carry it out, creating an alternate universe.
And THEN I thought, since it was inspired by Internet discussions, it would be fun to actually have it play out as a semi-RPG with groups of MBers being the students and working out such plans before presenting them in a final form for “approval”.
A plan would be judged based on:
– The odds that the plan actually will work.
– The odds that the plan actually will work and not create even worse consequences down the line.
– The odds that the plan actually will work without injury or harm coming to members of your time-traveling party.
– The amount of dumb luck needed to get it to work.
– If revealing that you are a time traveler/knowledge of the future/future technology is required.
– The complexity and cost of getting the plan to work. (The cost of the time travel is not factored in, but having to rent out an entire restaurant for a night would be, or having to hire assassins in the time period.)
– Whether the plan actually prevents the disaster from happening or simply leaves the door open for the same flaw to create another disaster later on.
Yes! This is awesome!
It wouldn’t have to be an RPG- how about we suggest changes to the timeline and then other MBers/GAPAs vote on them? More like a Game or something.
YES YES YES
TOTAL YESNESS. AND I DON’T CARE THAT THAT’S NOT A WORD.
I think that’s a frabjous idea. So be it!
Back to School 2011?
Can’t we use Muse Academy Class Discussion?
It’s traditional to have a dedicated Back to School thread. I’ll create one.
Are we going to do a new MuseBlog Signatures? That looks fun.
Since we still haven’t got that new rants and plaints thread…
Haven’t you? I made it last night. I wonder if something went wrong.
Eh, I see it now.
RRR idea: Worst Story Ever. A Mary-Sue girl moves to a new town and finds out that her classmates have a DARK SECRIT!!!1! From there it’s pretty much a logic-free Random Events Plot with tons of plagiarizing and pointless cameos from as many fandoms as possible. And of course a love triangle that eats half the plot, preferably one where the two love interests have slightly different looks and the exact same personality.
I walked into school and every guy in the school ran over to carry my books. I was taking every class, even Calculus which is only meant for seniors, but I’m a freshman who skipped 7th and 8th grade but I still look like at least a junior. I was taking enough classes for every guy to get to carry a book! I walked to class and then got 13 marriage proposals.
oh gog what did i just write.
I looked over the 13 guys who had just proposed to me. (That was less than usual. I would have to dress cuter tomorrow, even though I didn’t need to because of my natural beauty.) All of them had normal-colored eyes, and weren’t radiating auras of power. So I politely said “NO U CREEPERS! UR ALL HUMIN AND I’M WAITING FOR MY SUPERNATURAL LOVE INTREST TO SHOW UP!”
Then a Dalek rolled into the room.
Suddenly, one of the normal looking guys turned into a black-winged angel and leapt at the Dalek. I clearly overlooked him before, since he had beautiful black hair and a dperssed* look on his face. He sliced the Dalek in half after it shot one of the normal guys ( i* didnt care becuz* he was booooooooring ) and was looking towards me. He then knelt with his emo black hair streaming over his face and he said ” I have waited 3,005 years for a beauty as great as you to come for me to reveal myself. I am a seraffiem*, an angel cast down to earth. ” he said emotionally. I gasped. “I though my love interest would be a vampirre*!” I shoeted* angrily. Suddenly! A beautful guy with sparkling skin and sexy shiny long teeth burst into the room!
*(intentional)
The hott vampire guy turned to me, flames flickerig in the depths of his cristal blue eyes. “Serenity,” he said in a melodis voice. (Did I menton thats my name? Serenity Darkraven Indigo Farfalle Silvermoon. The raven simbolizes the flight of my sole, and indigo is the color of my eyes, with flecks of purist gold. The farfalle simbolises pasta. I like pasta. Anyway, back to the beautiful vampyre guy!!!)
“Serenity you are so beautiful and I would die for you, only I’m immortel. I am a vampire who is your soul mate,” he said romantically. “I have been sent by my vampire family to protect u from Dalex!!!!! But now we have to run because more are coming!” He held the door open for me to escape, like a true gentleman vampire.
“Wait!” said the dark angel guy angrily in a sexy way. “You can’t be Serenity’s soul mate cause I waited 3,005 years for her! Only I can protect her from danger!”
I guess we have to create the thread, don’t we?
Please do!
This is amazingly, hilariously bad!
So, like, a Really-Bad-Fanfiction-But-On-Purpose RRR? I’m curious as to what the point of this would be…
To make everyone feel frustrated.Er, World Domination?So, when should we start planning the Halloween Ball?
Soon, I hope?
Assuming the Halloween Ball begins on the 13th, as it did last year, we have two weeks and five days to plan. I’d say we shouldn’t start planning any later than T-minus two weeks.
So, about now?
I think the calendar needs to be fixed. I know almost for a fact that my birthday and 5K day should be in there, along with a whole ton of other stuff, but it’s skipping right to August 2012. Is this abnormal or am I just ignorant/clueless?
SFTDP. But what if posts with ten squid turn black with squid ink?
Thread idea: a “you know, that thing where …” thread. You can post about books/movies/shows/etc. you vaguely remember from your childhood, and other people can help you figure out what they are.
What about just a general “when I was a little kid” thread?
“When I was little, I thought all the teachers slept in the school at night…” -Doctor Who, Season Two
I thought that you could clean your hands with butter like you did with soap. (It was soft! And shiny)!
I second this.
I third it.
I thought the 1900s and the 1990s were the same thing. As in, I thought almost everything that had happened in the 20th Century had happened in my lifetime, but I had been too young to remember any of it.
That’s how Paul Baker probably feels about the past 500 years.
A NaNoWriMo 2011 thread? Or at least some sort of “NaNo Brainstorming” thread?
In previous years, the NaNoBraSto thread has begun between the first and the sixth of October, so it’s not too early, I’d say.
Seconded. It doesn’t have to be right this day, but by the middle of October we should definitely have something going. (I actually have ideas this time around!)
Thirded!
No need for a third. We created the thread on October 7.
Now there’s a NaNoWriMo thread, too.
You did? Sorry.
* is oblivious *
Thread idea: Band kid thread.
Yes please!
I am not in a band and do not ever intend to join one, and I agree that it’s a good thread idea.
I think that would fall under the category of “Making Music.” ( https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=5465 )
Jinx!
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=5465
GAPAs! We need a planning thread for the Halloween Ball. It’s due to start in just over a week.
I know we have far too many dead RRRs already, but what if we had a “humorous fantasy” RRR? Not a badly written one like the Serenity Saga, but one where we deconstruct/parody various cliches of the genre? With lots of random happenings and spontaneous tangents. Like some of the Discworld books, almost.
This has been suggested on other threads already, but a MuseBlog Singalongs thread?
I still don’t see what’s wrong with Song Lyrics.
BECAUSE YOU CANNOT SING ALONG
Who’s stopping you?
Sure you can. Just wave your arms and go “And a ONE, and a TWO, …” and wait for people to join in.
New hot topics thread, we’ve hit 700+ posts.
I don’t know if this is possible, but it would be nice to have a universal search on MuseBlog, like an internal Google – like I could search “March 3, 2010” and get all the posts from that day or “Hosni Mubarak” and get all the posts we put on Hot Topics from him. It would be especially useful if I couldn’t remember what thread a conversation was on, or from when.
You can do something like that with Google by adding “site:www.musefanpage.com/blog” after your search term.
Hmm, thanks.
New College/University/Higher Education thread? As the admissions process begins… Plus the current one has more comments than the 2009 one did when it was replaced (though I can see why this one could stay; it has a 2011 label).
This is a somewhat fuzzy idea/concept for a thread/RPW, so please bear with me: lately, as I was reminiscing, I thought of two things: one, the blog seems a little more serious lately and two, somehow most of the Musiverse establishments don’t seem to be around anymore. So I was thinking of creating a new RPW/RRR Life in Museica. Posts would be written in mainly in past tense, sort of like the we recount our lives on the random thread, except that they must be entirely fictional. Metaphors to represent the events currently preoccupying us are permissible though. They can be anything; random poems, zany anecdotes, poetic descriptions of the countryside. As long as it’s not the time-old somewhat stale RPG-typical conversations: you don’t have to interact with others at all. It should be a sort of mosaic of the lives we would live in Museica and the more different the stories are, the better to read. Not to say that it should be all fancy and poetic-like and “deep”. Everyone lives in whatever type house they want (sort of like the Reclusive Gardens). All the old Musiverse-related establishments exist there as well, people could “put out fliers” or “put an ad in the paper” for a thread that exists already, such as the H&H or a nautical vacation on Ship’s Logs, or discuss things from threads that are pretty much dead, like the Museican government with GM elections for example or Muse Academy classes (there should be a Muse University as well). It wouldn’t be as fast-paced, but people could post events independently (example: someone describes the flowers in their garden while someone else is running for GM of Kokopelli). It would all be very idyllic, not as repetitive as RPGs and much looser. Also, no nesties and no pie/squids.
That’s a great idea! I hope it wouldn’t devolve into an RPG like ORC did…
Do we have a squid emoticon, like we have
and 
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Nope. Do we really need one?
Well, I’m not saying we need one, I was just wondering.
Oops, that was meant to be a reply, sorry. SFTDP.
There isn’t a music thread? We need one!
Never mind, we do. It’s just half dead.
Hey! How about a dreams thread? If you had an interesting dream, then you can talk about it here.
There already is.
Thanks for saying so!
I would be in favor of a new Great Pie War. The pies in my tanks are growing stale.
Given that there are restrictions on flam…
Well, I think that all of the bloggers are currently mature enough to handle a new No, This Is thread. It’d be great fun, and a really good place to just let it all out, for those times when running around like a deranged hermit and/or posting exhaustive posts on the R+P thread just doesn’t cut it.
Seconded.
BUMPINGI still support this idea. Rally, Bloggers! Come out and pie!
The Constitution of the Pie Flingers of Kokino County
Preamble:
A draft of the Constitution of the PFKC stating the rules of the thread and the goals of the opposing sides, as well as deciding who joins which side, and a roster page for members and teams.
Article I:
The goal of this proposed thread is to give competitive and/or fun-loving bloggers a place specifically for unleashing their pie-flinging side, albiet with some rules that were absent before Prohibition of the Pie Wars.
Article II:
The Game, rules.
Section I, The Game:
1. The Pie War thread shall consist only of two teams. No more than two teams may be present at one time, and a team shall not be cast aside by an aspiring leader to make room for his/her own team. This meaning that there shall be two constant teams until the point where the administrators may decide it is no longer an agreeable option.
1.5. Neither of the teams shall carry the name of the Legacy Teams from the Old Pie War, Zemtee and the Prancing Unicorn Slayers. However, subdivisions within the command line of the teams may be named after the two. Take, for example, the U.S. Army. A subdivision of the U.S. Army are the U.S. Army Rangers. In this way, a subdivision may be named after a Legacy Team or division, i.e. [Team name] Unicorn Slayers.
2. The two teams will begin the thread in a state of peace, and are given as much time as they need to establish a leadership system under the team leaders and to gather the minimum number of combatants per side to begin, this number being five (5). 4 shall not be an acceptable starting number, nor shall 3. 2 is right out.
3. The Pie War thread shall be administrated. The GAPAs will have the power to banish any team member they wish from the thread if said player breaks the rules – see Section II.
4. Once the Pie War thread has been started, there will be a new thread monthly. Each thread’s main focus shall be on a different type of pie – hence, a September thread would be named “Pie War – Rhubarb, YYYY.M” with Y being the current year and M the month. Each month/flavor/type will be considered a single battle in the war, and will have a start (the start of a fresh monthly thread) and an ending, by detonation of a large weapon by the GAPAs. This ensures that neither side will win or lose to brag about how great they are.
5. The teams shall be led by two bloggers, determined in whatever way the GAPAs see fit. However, neither leader has command over any of their subordinates. Leaders may not order other players around in any sort of bossy or nasty fashion. This is a semi-roleplaying thread, which means that while orders may be given for the sake of the roleplay, no player HAS to follow the order.
6. The job of the team leaders is simply to form and recruit. On the battlefield in a non-roleplaying situation, the leaders have no command over their players. See above for rules regarding roleplaying and orders.
7. The two teams may be founded on a first-come basis, and leadership may be handed over to any blogger at any time by either leader. However, the team name shall still and should always be treated as the intellectual property (IP) of the team founder and should not be copied elsewhere.
Section II – Rules:
1. First and foremost the main rule. On the whole of MuseBlog this is an accepted rule, but due to the direct part this issue played in the demise of the Legacy Pie Wars. This issue is known as “flaming” and it is the act of being gratuitously or unnecessarily or offensively violent in a personal or semi-personal manner. While two or more players may create characters who are enemies, no two or more bloggers may take out any personal quarrel with the other via pie-ing or other forms of violence. This rule goes unwritten for all of MuseBlog, but for the Pie War it IS required.
2. There shall be no usurping, in roleplay or otherwise. A player may not name himself leader over the founder of the team – power must be passed on as seen in Section I, and even then the power is not great or even good. It is all right, but nothing truly special.
3. If a player does flame, they are given a warning. At the second offense, they are asked to tone it down and are asked to leave the Pie War thread for any amount of time the GAPA decided. At the third offense, the GAPA deciding the punishment may banish the player for any length of time they deem fit.
4. There shall be no Great Ballistic *Nuclear* Spike Pies O’ Doom. Any weapon with potential fallout or potential to continue to damage the earth after deployment and detonation is outlawed and punishment will be dealt with as with flaming. However, at the end of each month’s thread/battle, one weapon of this kind may be used and a new battle will start on the new month’s battleground. The GAPAs may also allow use of the win/loss system in favor of the detonation of a large-scale pie weapon. Should a win/loss system be initiated, rules will be made via amendment for the conditions of a win or loss.
5. Amendments may be made to this Constitution, but only by the GAPAs. A movement for an amendment may be initiated by a blogger on the Suggestion Box and voted on using the Pie/Yea Squid/Nay system and then passed or vetoed by the GAPAs.
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What say you, GAPAs? I would like to form one of the two teams. I am not sure yet of the name, but for now I will call it [Untitled]. I am recruiting if a) the movement to create a new pie thread passes and b) the GAPAs allow me to found a team.
*hurls massive Spike Pie O’ Doom at Koko’s Apprentice*
New polling thread. There’s 730 posts on it. Maybe that’s why there’s been so much deranged screaming going on there–they just want a new thread.
We’re slightly ahead of you on this one. Behold!
Meme-spouting thread.
I used to suggest threads for MuseBlog, then I took an arrow in the knee.
I would hope MuseBlog would be somewhat above the rest of the internet in this regard.
Exactly, but a thread like that would keep such behavior off of other, more important threads.
I don’t see much use of memes here anyway; giving a thread to them, I think, would only encourage their use and overuse here on MuseBlog.
example: trollface
A while ago a guy asked me if I knew any Internet memes and the only one that came to mind was ‘sleep is for the weak’.
… He had no idea what I was talking about.
STOP RIGHT THERE, CRIMINAL SCUM! NO ONE BREAKS THE LAW ON MY WATCH! Your spree is over. Pay the court a fine or serve your sentence.
I think that the Computer and Random threads fit out needs just fine for this kind of thing.
I think that sounds like a pretty cool thread. We would spout memes and not be afraid of anything.
(Sorry if this is a stupid question, but can someone explain the “arrow in the knee” meme? I’ve seen it in YouTube comments and don’t really understand it.)
I’m convinced.
I think it’s probably from the webcomic Homestuck where one of the characters takes an arrow to the knee when he is unable to overcome his self-hatred and racism.
Did I mention that Homestuck is a comic about KIDS AND FUN?
Ack no no no no no. It’s from Skyrim, wherein some of the NPC guards say, “I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an arrow in the knee.” It’s a stock phrase the guards use, so you hear it quite a lot through the game, and such a specific story told by so many people gets to be a bit funny after a while.
I don’t know of any memes that have started in Homestuck and spread to the internet at large, with the exception of a few SBAHJ phrases.
I mean the “I have X’ed all the Y’s. All of them. There are no more Y’s for anyone else to X” which has merged with the “X ALL the Y’s!” kind has…
I WARNED YOU ABOUT STAIRS
I have never heard or read that in my life.
SFTDP
And then there’s “shhh only (dreams) now” which I think has made into mainstream.
Never heard that one either.
Hmm, what about a new Just Friends? I’d like to post there but nobody would check on the old 2009 version…
There hasn’t been much demand. MBers don’t seem to have friends.
Or rather, we don’t seem to have many problems with our friends.
Or perhaps, when we do have problems, we head over to Rants & Plaints.
I’ve noticed. Most friendships seem to lie dormant when it comes to post-worth news, until they evolve into fights and/or relationships.
*sigh*
So I’ll just keep posting on R+R when it comes to my Paperclip-related miseries/other emotions.
Never fear. Look for “Just Friends, v. 2011.”
We need a holiday party planning thread stat.
Questions That We Have Always Had But Have No Reasonable Answers For. Ever wonder why the Doctor’s so obsessed with Cardiff? Has it been bugging you that GLaDOS could be implanted into a simple potato? Does it nag you that so many people love [insert show here]? This could be the thread to ask these questions, and for others to (hopefully) provide answers. It could be like the Headscratchers wiki, but rather more constructive.
Well, what do you think? The name might need some revision, but otherwise it sounds good to me.
Cardiff is on a space-time rift that lets him charge the TARDIS while landed there.
YES I KNOW IT WAS JUST AN EXAMPLE
Seconded. Also, wouldn’t “Headscratchers” work as a title?
Maybe “Imponderables”, like the books?
How about a new MB Glossary thread? Or an open HG2MB? It would be fun to compile.
GAPAs, there’s been clamor on Bunny Apocalypse Rebooted for a thread to discuss the novel-publishing idea. I’m guessing you’ve seen it, but it seems proper to repeat the request in the official venue.
How about a new Quotations thread?
Also, I think some squid products at Musery Loves Company would be cool.
GAPAs, could a new volume of the H&H be made, or the most recent volume be reopened to comments?
Done. New thread open for business.
The next step would be to put it in the Recent Posts bar.
Also, I completely agree about the new Glossary. Our words have changed a bit.
The Imponderables idea is also good.
New Rants and Plaints thread,a s the old one has 750+ comments and is from 2011.
At the risk of sounding redundant, a new Rants and Plaints thread, as the old one is very close to 750+ comments.
Seconded. Or we could just let it run and stop at 1500 posts.
Can I suggest a new thread? I was hoping for it to be a place in which to brainstorm and create (or at least take ideas and places and make them official parts of the musiverse) places, things and other stuff for our world in general, somewhat in the theme of my post asking for old info.
I’ve got maps I drew, and I would like to send them in, but I thought I’d ask for a dedicated place to a) put them and b) talk about what to do next. Is this something you’d be interested in creating? I’ll send the maps your way.
Castle: I’m receptive but don’t quite understand what you have in mind. What would you call a thread like that?
I’m trying to find a way to clarify it.
You know how we have RPGs and talk about places that exist within the universe we’ve created for ourselves? This would be a collection of data on those things that we’ve made, like maps or a list of countries or a list of Pie War team members from the old wars and the new ones. Maps with markers showing places where pie battle have been fought or RPGs have been played.
A visual manifestation of things we’ve described. The act of taking text and turning it into images. So a Musiverse Databank, a place to put official musiverse canon and make things we’ve mentioned in the past (like a mountain in the Pie War threads) canon by putting a mark on a map. A depository of information that can be added to. Like Wookiepedia – the visual manifestation of Star Wars canon that can be edited as more canon is made.
Musiverse Databank, Musipedia, Museiverse Canon…something along those lines.
So, a worldbuilding thread?
I’m bad at saying things in a small amount of words.
What Piggy said. That. But there has to be a vote on what’s canon/approved/an official part of the musiverse so that people can’t just add things at will. I’d like to be a little bit organized.
It sounds to me more like filling in the blanks of, and elaborating on, worlds that MBers have already (to some extent) built. It could be called “The Illustrated Musiverse” — except that the Musiverse has developed many different strands with various degrees of overlap, and I’m not sure you’d ever get unanimous agreement on what is and isn’t “canonical.”
Well, to begin with, there are the independent timelines visited by the Inter-Timeline Agency in the Alternate History RPW. All of those are distinct and separate universes. The question becomes how far in the future the ITA’s home base is, and if it’s the future of our universe, or one of some other one.
I have a suggestion idea that is a writing idea, so perhaps it should be on a writing thread, but this is a suggestion box.
My writing coach from Creative Arts camp has a blog for campers. On it she posts different writing activities or exercises for us to do and post. On of the best ones is called “Limited Dialogue”. She gave us 7 random sentences or phrases of dialogue and we had to create a short story with no other dialogue except for those seven phrases. It was a lot of fun. I wrote one last summer in two days and I am working on a second one now (it is taking a lot longer due to school).
I was reminded of this exercise today because I realized that many of the things said of the Six Word Stories thread would make really good, random dialogue.
So my suggestion is: a thread where you choose seven random, usable sentences from the Six Word Stories thread and then create a short story and post it.
I have no clue if this idea is at all popular/interesting to anyone else. Thoughts?
Could we have a wedding planning thread–and maybe a new suggestion box?
GAPAs, could the Things of Which We Are Unreasonably Fond thread be reopened for comments, or a new version made?
Building off the “Good Omens musical” idea I had a while back: the MuseBlog Movie Musical. We could write the script and original songs for it like an RRR.
Scary Stories thread, for stories we either write ourselves or read elsewhere.
Interesting idea. Let’s see how many pies it gets.
I wholeheartedly second this!
If I could be allowed to repeat the question I asked in January of last year:
Will the GAPAs have time to make another signature shirt sometime in the future?
I’d really love it if that could happen; I’ve never been in a signature shirt before. I wasn’t even here when the last one was made.
It would be cool if we could have a Curiostiy landing party thread. It would be nice to have somewhere to discuss its progression that’s not the random thread.
Perhaps we could have a sort of goals/resolutions thread where muser post about ongoing, moderate-to-short term projects and their progress and motivate each other. Things like learning japanese, or moving out, or writing novels/short stories outside of NaNo season, or improving one’s juggling. For instance, this year I’m planning on getting my driver’s license, moving out, working towards a diving instructor license* and getting my first (A) sailing license. I know a lot of this sort of things/updates already take place on the random thread, but setting goals, hearing about other peoples’ progress and regularly reporting one’s own progress would be helpful motivation. Sort of like New Year’s Resolutions, except the whole bit about forgetting it all in February and laughing the next year when you’ve accomplished nothing.
Anyone interested?
I like this idea!
Me, too! We can encourage each other.
GAPAs, the Rants & Plaints thread is almost a thousand comments long now, and it’s getting hard to load. Could we have another, pretty please?
Oops! Hang on…new one coming up in a minute
make another roleplay thread!!!
those are soooo FUN!!!
maybe a warrior cats-based one or something.
or a pie war
or a pink apacolypse
Warrior cats-based one is unlikely to happen, since it’s probably too close to trademarked material.
We actually have a whole lot of roleplay threads somewhere around, if you want to dig one up and revive it, I’ll be glad to help!
i don’t know… possibly the most recient pie war thread IF of course it is still available
SFTDP
or we could beg the GAPAs to make a new one
like this…
oh please all great and powerful administrators! hear our plea,
for a roleplay thread we beg of thee!
for pink bunnies or a pie war,
for something fun we all wish for!
for a thread based on adventure
that is what we all wish for!
but please GAPAs, just make a,
thread for us if you really care!
Again with the suggesting:
What about a Random Craziness & Non Sequiturs thread? Just a place for pointless posts along the lines “Watermelon, Watermelon” or “The Short and Unfortunate Life of Fred the Stickman” short story that you scribbled in the margins of your Algebra textbook. In short, a place to blow off steam through bits of insanity for bored college students surrounded by serious people.
So, an utterly random thread, as opposed to the pseudo-random threads we have now?
Cheesecake.Yes.Remember how the was a request sometime back for MB diplomacy? What about we partition up Museica into about 99 billion continents and play a free-for-all version with special muse rules until everyones’ brains are fried and we end up in a pie melee? Please tell me there are still people around interested in this.
((Oh, and if anyone misses a turn, their countries get taken over by the chaotic evil split-identity of the the muser two countries counterclockwise. Just saying.))
How do we determine whose turn it is?
Either way, I have a feeling there’ll be some… disagreement about who exactly is two countries counterclockwise of the one who missed ens turn. That may be the trigger for the inevitable pie melee: whose chaotic evil counterpart gets the leftover country.
Anyway, I love your idea. I could make The Land Where Everybody Worships Tardigrades an actual thing! Then again, maybe I’d better wait for that, because if I do that as myself, I can’t imagine what my chaotic evil counterpart will have left to do if she gets a country.
I’d stick to the original Diplomacy rules and just have all moves carried out simultaneously, and whoever misses too many is out. The counterclockwise should be possible since I figured Museica would look something like it does on RTH’s map. Of course, that only shows the nine provinces: further partitioning would obviously be required (and a few more rivers/lakes/bodies of water).
Wouldn’t Risk be easier?
I suppose so, though I’m not sure how we can make the move-making work.
That’s true. Diplomacy does offer the advantage of simultaneity. *remembers those interminable chess games*
Plus added backstabbing.Not that any of us would ever even briefly entertain the notion of such a thing, obviously.Oh, I didn’t realize Diplomacy was an actual game. I suppose I’ll have to look up the rules. *does so* Sounds fun!
Judging by the rules, it sounds like we’re each playing as our evil counterpart, so I don’t have to wait around for mine to get a country. That’s nice.
Anyway, as for the counterclockwise thing: I propose that nine people each pick one of the nine, and if others wants to play, they say which countries it lies between.
I’d divide up the nine a little more so that we have more terrain to conquer as well: I think the other Diplomacy also starts out with unoccupied territories, so that the players can squabble over them and so that different starting points have different strategic opportunities.
That’s fine with me, but we’d have to know how many people are playing to know how to divide them. I think it’s a given that if this becomes a thing, you and I are in, but other than that, I don’t know.
As for unoccupied territories, how about all of those landmasses/islands shown on the map that are outside of Museica?
That could work too. And yes, we should wait and see who else would join us before we start the dividing…
Could we have a “Rearview Mirror” thread dedicated to our discoveries of older MB posts that take on a new meaning, comic, sad, or otherwise, in light of later events? (Robert’s prediction that Michael Jackson would be president, me writing an essay similar to “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” before it was published, etc.)
We’re not all psychic like you! (But yes, some old posts are quite funny in retrospect)
Voilà !
Can we have a new polling place thread? The old one has more than 500 comments and is from 2011.
Good idea!