One time me and a pal made a pair of sibling Nosferatu blood bankers from Israel. We had each other, and a couple of ghoul PCs played by third parties who were knew OOC. Our strategy was to wait until someone really needed blood bad, and then charge them ridiculous interest rates on it. When they couldn't pay, we'd demand favors from them by pain of "enforcing" the debt, which just meant beating them up and then PKing them. Since there was a group of us, we would rule-of-five them.

A few PCs ended up getting Diablerized, and we would brag about how they essentially consented to it in public, since owing us blood for a long time was not acceptable. However, we could always work something out if you can't pay. It was actually extremely effective, but it stopped working when the ST's stopped enforcing our rolls to track people down. We disbanded without getting banned.

@Misadventure said in RL Anger:

Weird. At my work, its a question of which messaging and voice system someone wants to use. Make them learn! Teamwork is a thing, including easy to use tools.

There are companies that mine consults with, but they use decidedly unhip things like HipChat because those companies are also run by 40+-year-olds who are out of touch. Basically, I get no respect because I'm a Millennial and therefore my outlook is invalid. I swear I'll never turn into these people.

Brb, telling the kid who delivered my calzone how beneath me he is.

@Tyche said in RL Anger:

@Nietzsche said in RL Anger:

The amount of butthurt in this thread over the fact that I said 35+-year-olds typically can't use computers is hilarious, as though this is some kind of controversial opinion, as opposed to an observable fact. Sensitive, much?

Apparently millennials think phones are for sending text messages and desktop computers are for talking to people. Clearly this is ass backwards.

Apparently Gen X/Boomers don't realize that unless they're still using that rotary phone they inherited from their parents, their phone probably is a computer. It's a common misconception among people age 35 and older that if the operating system was released after Windows 98, or there is no CRT monitor, that it doesn't qualify as a "computer."

The amount of butthurt in this thread over the fact that I said 35+-year-olds typically can't use computers is hilarious, as though this is some kind of controversial opinion, as opposed to an observable fact. Sensitive, much?

I'd be into this, actually. Set it up, fam.

@Three-Eyed-Crow said in RL Anger:

If anyone hasn't seen 'This Film Is Not Yet Rated', I cannot recommend it highly enough. Documentary on the American movie ratings system and how f'd up and non-sensical it is. Which I knew, but it gets into the secretive and weird way the ratings are assigned in ways I found really interesting. It's a few years old now, but I suspect most of it still applies.

If it's any consolation, we aren't going to get rid of free speech in America any time soon. I mean, Europe never really had it, so, there's that. Hasn't the movie rating system kind of lost its credibility, anyway? Who honestly cares about movie ratings, aside from parents who don't want their six-year-olds seeing gorefests and BDSM?

@Arkandel said in Where's your RP at?:

staff ethics

What did they do wrong?

@Arkandel

Are tits so much more offensive than killing someone?

Yes. So are bad words, apparently. I recall being on MU*'s where you can kill people IC but you can't slur them IC. Frankly, I'd rather someone call me a honkey-ass kike white boi than kill me, but maybe I'm insane for that. Maybe the pen really is mightier than the sword.

@Catsmeow said in RL Anger:

@Nietzsche said in RL Anger:

people who can't use computers, i.e., most people over the age of 35. Yes, even the techies.

What the actual fuck is this? THIS is probably why they won't listen to you.

What the actual fuck is this? Definitely not an argument.

@Auspice Well, I suppose it is "nudity," but still. If someone can post their child rape illustrations on Facebook, I can't think of a good reason why someone out there should be allowed to get triggered by tits. But you betcha if someone posts response to their violent pederasty illustration that reads "this is some faggot shit," they, somehow, would get a ban.

I can understand banning both. Expecting public decency out of your userbase is one thing. But when you combine all this crap it's plain that they just want to push an agenda.

Indeed, we need to remove everybody's racist uncle who is only guilty of having backwards views (which is to be expected of people who are decades older than us), but we can't kink shame degenerate NEETs who masturbate to yaoi lolicon or whatever that garbage is called. I beg of you, shoot me now.

@Auspice I've never used Slack, so I'll have to just take your word for it.

New gripe:

I just saw an illustration of a child being violently raped by an adult on Facebook. While I'm all for free speech, there are some things I really just plain don't want to see, and this is one of them. So I reported it. Apparently, this doesn't violate their community standards.

Yet "hate speech," which in reality is broadly defined as anything progressives find offensive enough, such as calling someone a "faggot" or a "cuck" or whatever, is against their community standards.

???

Okay.

@Sparks I honestly regard things like Discord, Slack, etc, as being TeamSpeak/Ventrilo for people who can't use computers, i.e., most people over the age of 35. Yes, even the techies.