Busy busy busy.

It is busy, stressy week of doom. It's also not helped by the urge to game in the evenings until Too Late on VR. So, tonight I'm not going to log in at all...which, also, will help me cool down over my simmering dissatisfaction with the headwiz there and his/her Interesting methods of dealing with players. Going instantly on the defensive is never a good thing, particularly when you just asked for player input...but then, I more and more get the feeling that when they say 'player input', that can be translated to 'tell us how much you'll love what we already plan on doing anyway'. And, since I'm bitching, also the sudden emphasis on 'courtly politics' as the 'focus' of the game. I suppose I shouldn't be all that surprised, since staff NPCs or PCs seem to be the people who actually give a damn about the courts, but tell me this:

You have VICTORIAN ENGLAND (at the beginning of the Famine and just before the Indian Revolution, no less).
You have MAD SCIENCE.
You have secret societies, classism, poor-law riots, and hideous alien /things/ of terrible beauty that steal people for their own purposes, and maybe even now have orchestrated your own 'escape' for their own amusement, and could come back at any moment to deliver you back into your own personal hell...

And you're going to focus on the backstabbing/melodrama of what basically amounts to philosophical clubs? Man, WHAT.


...but I really like the players, damn it. And with the PrPs, I can maybe avoid too much of the staffliness.

My political boggle for today...

Last week, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she found it "hard to understand what is going to be gained by having discussions with Hamas about peace when Hamas is in fact the impediment to peace."

Um. Y'know. Well. Just /possibly/, that whole 'talking' thing, it might, y'know, have an effect on them being an impediment to peace. I mean, hey, crazy idea when you've got nukes, I know, but give it a shot.