@Rucket said in Visit Fallcoast, sponsored by the Fallcoast Chamber of Commerce:

So what's the word on The Reach 3: The Reach Around? Curious because I was listening to some 80s tunes earlier.

I found a way to travel back in time solely to announce that The Reach 3 would be opening soon as of 2011.

@cobaltasaurus Oh no! I've been watching this thread for a while. But RL comes first. ❤

@The-Tree-of-Woe said:

@DamnitJim There was a real fear that the UK would intervene on the Confederacy's behalf, both because of trade revenues and to gain another foothold on the continent. Whether that was realistic or not is debatable, but the British earned a reputation as opportunists for a reason. You can hear it in a lot of the war songs/marching songs of the period.

When we studied the Civil War in AP History in high school, we debated how much this had to do with the timing of the Emancipation Proclamation (among other things, like the language in it that specifically avoids freeing slaves in loyal Northern states. I enjoyed this class.). I don't think it was the only reason for it, of course, and I don't think the political situation in Britain at the time would've made siding with the Confederacy at all tenable. But it was certainly interesting.

I liked Merril... way more than Isabella.

Isn't a pizzadilla a calzone?

@Tinuviel said in A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like:

For the record, I call United Statesians 'Lower Canadians'.

I call them "Canada's Rejects". Well, the Cajuns anyway, at least.

@Kestrel ugh, I hate being let down like that. These days, every time I like something a dude has done/created I have that nagging "you are probably going to regret enjoying this" feeling. Women are not immune, of course, but...

The thing about 'sexist behavior' - or racist, or whatever - is that it's so rarely a binary. I know several men I've had to bring around in my actual life who seemed to think sexist men were these mustache twirling goons who couldn't stop themselves from making comments like GET IN THE KITCHEN AND SUCK MY DICK every time they so much as saw a woman. It's so rarely like that. These biases and entitlements are deep seated and strongly conditioned, and often you don't even see them until you knock that person off-canter. You don't see that a man is sexist until a woman challenges him/has some kind of control over an aspect of his life.

RP is so emotionally charged, and SO full of wish fulfillment. You see sexism coming out of people around rp because almost no one gracefully accepts having their fun/power fantasy affected by someone else. I am an ethical, thoughtful, and compassionate person, and I get bent out of shape emotionally about rp.

@jeshin said in The ethics of IC romance, TS, etc:

The ethics of IC Romance and TS is all about managing expectations. If you're going to be 100% IC, you need to be 100% IC. If this means you're cheating and you have crazy hawt seches and have some hickies, you need to RP covering them up or they get spotted. If you're going to have OOC collab you need to be upfront. OOC collab means that you are writing a story together and just like writers in a meeting you're pitching ideas and discussing story threads. This includes any negative drama you want to explore. If you want to go some IC/OOC hybrid because you're chatting and coordinating playtimes and you banter a bit. You just need to be honest. Don't mislead your RP partner. If honesty leads to hurt feelings that sucks but you're not a creeper or abuser if you don't try and obscure or manipulate. You might be an asshole, but I think there is a fundamental difference between being an ass and victimizing your RP partners.

100%!

I'm wary of supporting positive reviews remaining in the ad threads if negative ones are being put elsewhere, especially with the risk the negative reviews could be hidden behind the membership wall of the Hog Pit. It might be easy to join but it isn't something a new member will know to seek out unless someone held their hand into discovering it.

I think keeping the ad threads for Q&A as well as for linking to revelant threads, whether in this subforum or the Hog Pit, is the correct course of action to avoid bias.

@kitteh I'm going out of my way to disagree politely, and the response is to accuse me of making it contentious and personal and painting you as unreasonable. Fine, whatever. I'm done trying to express an opinion.

I did it. Saves someone else the notification hell. Lol

@Seraphim73 said in Strange Game Dev Inquiries from surreality (condensed):

Oh god yes. I agree 100%. I wish very much that more people would keep RPing after the "end" of a GM'd scene rather than just being like, "Welp, we killed the bad guy, and even though we're at the bottom of a collapsing mine, knee-deep in acid, with wounded to carry out and prisoners to rescue, we're gonna log out for the night and not worry about it."

If I run a scene which the PCs see no reason to play about after it's 'over' I consider it a failure.

Mmm, at the risk of re-awakening this... I don't look at MSB very often, so I didn't see this thread before; but from the specific details given on here, especially in certain of the earliest posts, I'm 98% sure this is the person who afflicted us a few years ago on Game of Bones. Made ridiculous overblown male concepts that smashed together various extravagant and incompatible bits of theme, broke the spirit of that very laissez-faire MU*'s minimal rules, then the minute he was gently asked if he could maybe not do that so much, please, he vandalised the game wiki and ran away issuing a stream of personal threats based on his vaunted IT skills.

Apparently he just recurs every so often. Blah.

Just to be a pedant, @Glitch, they are Unicode objects, not string objects. There are some differences.

@wizz said in Constructive (keyword) Criticism of Arx Systems:

Arx aside, we've had some great discussions here......... ere these many years gone

Discussion here would be great if it weren't for everyone involved.

@ThatGuyThere http://theonyxpath.com/now-available-condition-cards-aplenty/

@ghost That sucks... he was one of my favorite vocalists too.

His cover of Lucretia, My Reflection was spectacular.

@Auspice

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Changing the World Takes Time, Gentle Readers
by Judith Martin, Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin
Miss Manners | August 4th, 2022

GENTLE READERS: There is a disturbing trend in Miss Manners' correspondence that she wishes to address, lest Gentle Readers give up hope of a more polite future. It concerns letters that begin:

-- "When did it become OK to ...?"

-- "Am I just being hopelessly old-fashioned or ...?"

-- "Am I being too sensitive when ...?"

What follows is an example of something that was never OK. Miss Manners' field is external behavior, not internal squirming, but her concern is the implication that the victim has, or should have, given up hope of improving society.

A fourth type of letter underscores the point: It seeks a polite response to a slight, real or imagined, that the Gentle Reader already answered with a taunting rejoinder, a rude gesture or worse.

Miss Manners does, on occasion, supply responses which, though faultlessly polite, cause an offender to explode in a burst of mortification and apology. But she more often counsels more subtle responses, which, even had the reader known them when the event occurred, would not have required a fire extinguisher.

This is because the goal is not to strike someone who struck you first -- the goal is not to get hit in the first place.

This should be apparent, as even Miss Manners' most caustic advice is too late to touch a driver who has long since sped away, a line-cutter who is off offending new people out of reach of the Gentle Reader, or everyone else who has long forgotten what happened at that date, luncheon, meeting or class reunion.

It takes time to improve the world -- or even, truth be known, one's friends and relations. This is not because there are no solutions to rude behavior or because one must either accept rudeness or be rude oneself. Nor is it because the solutions proposed do not work.

True, Miss Manners' approach does not always provide the instant gratification of smacking our fellow citizens under the guise of good manners. She realizes this runs counter to a world that is impatient when the package just ordered is not already at the door. What she advises used to be known as solving the problem, an activity that Miss Manners accepts is old-fashioned, even if it is the only one that ever worked.

And just because we do not see the offenders shrivel up in front of us does not mean we have not succeeded. Who knows but that, having been shown a better way, they have not spent a sleepless night repenting?

@Thenomain Ah. Sorry. Not trying to be nit picky on the sissy, was more just conversing on how I liked that they were adapting beyond the whole: Genophage is killing us thing.