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@ixokai said in What's your identity worth to you?:

@arkandel I disagree. The 'I wont give you an email' crowd is nothing at all like a silent minority, from what I've seen/remembered. They'll vocally and viciously not give you their email more often then not.

The reason I was asking wasn't to judge the sentiment (even though I kinda do), it's that there's zero need to give anyone your e-mail or for that matter, to even create one.

For example I can send an e-mail right now to weirdpeoplewhodontlikeemailaccounts@mailinator.com without taking any other action first - not even to create an account. Then I can go to mailinator.com and yep, the e-mail will be waiting there for weirdpeoplewhodontlikeemailaccounts .

I would like to understand the moral qualm about this, that's all.

@faraday said in General Video Game Thread:

There has to be some separation between personal and professional lives.

In general I agree with you, but in this case it was her responsibility as well to separate those two aspects of her lives, and she didn't manage it very well.

It'd be quite inappropriate for example if I got fired because of comments I made on my Facebook feed about politics in general; it's not my employer's business to regulate what I do outside of work hours when it entails non-work stuff.

However if on my FB feed I was engaging customers and referring to the products I'm working on as part of my job then in many ways I am representing the company - or it could very easily, not to be mentioned fairly, taken that way.

Way I see it, people need to meet somewhere. Usually that involves their mutual hobbies or what they do for fun.

Well...

@ghost said in What's your identity worth to you?:

I thought some MUs blocked proxy services, or was that just one or two sites that got blacklisted?

Other than for case-by-case banning it's pretty unlikely MU* will have the resources to block anything but TOR. One of proxy services' biggest profits come from Netflix masking (so non-USA residents get the benefit of a USA subscription) so it's in their interests to continue adding new addresses to their rotation... which probably makes it too hard for anyone other than dedicated professionals to keep up with that.

@faraday said in General Video Game Thread:

Nevertheless I believe that "don't ever say something dumb that makes the company look bad or we'll fire you on your first offense" is an idiotic company policy. Counsel her, make her apologize if she's wrong, tell her to stop even vaguely representing the company on twitter... there are any number of reasonable approaches short of the "off with their head!" that the internet clamors for these days.

I must agree that firing someone on a first offense would be a real knee-jerk reaction for sure. Worst case scenario just tell her to stop twitting anything work-related; that'd be well within their prerogative. But as everyone has noted, we don't know what was really happening within that workspace.

@thenomain I feel kinda bad doing that to non-major chains. Like there is prooobably a Canada's Computers on my way to work and a couple of smaller holes in the wall I could do that with, but then they lose money on me if I don't find anything I like.

With BB I have no reservations. Fuck'em.

TOR exit nodes are publicly known, although of course that won't tell you much about where they are actually from.

For instance this page - https://www.dan.me.uk/torlist/ is updated every 30 minutes. Blocking TOR wouldn't be too hard, they are after anonymity and not accessibility.

World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth's pre-expansion patch is coming this Tuesday, a month before the main act launches.

Lok'tar ogar!

@tinuviel Those kids would have loved MSB.

People: Please stop snarking at each other in my goddamn thread. Take it elsewhere.

@roz said in General Video Game Thread:

Wasn't programming originally thought of as "women's work" way back in the day? And then that shifted when people realized the incredible power and potential of it, and so it became a "man's field" and that's why the rates of female programmers a couple decades ago were higher?

I've heard about this, but at an 80s kid I do know I met waaaay more boys who even had access to/owned a computer than girls.

These days that's surely a non-factor since the financial investment is computers are far more common and online resources are so much more accessible (so a young girl can just go and look at tutorials online as opposed to having to gather the courage to walk up to a grizzled neckbeard and ask questions) that perhaps things are changing.

@icanbeyourmuse said in Make it fun for Me!:

I've had, at least, 3 people in about as many days say that people treat them, the player, like their character. If the character is overly affectionate, they are treated as they are to. Or if they are a crappy character people assume the player is like them too. I've had people do it to /me/ too. As me why /I/ am being so mean to them. Not my character. Me. When it was my character.

Yeah, the inability to see the line between OOC and IC is a big deal. It's why I always advise people to refer to their characters as "him/her" rather than "me", even if I understand it's just a convention.

Ugh, World Quest Group Finder doesn't work any more, and it won't in the future either since Blizzard intentionally broke that functionality.

RIP me

@auspice

@thatguythere said in D&D 5E:

I would be wary of including too much Lords and Ladies into a D+D game.

Just to clarify, the L&L angle was just my quick pitch for what other kinds of content could be provided to keep things going on a D&D game even in the absence of DMs. I'm not by any means saying it's the only way to generate more hooks for players to occupy themselves with, though.

@kanye-qwest said in D&D 5E:

Once @pax is done with her exploration room system for Evennia, a game that automates adventuring would be totally doable!

A hybrid between a MUSH and a MUD would work really well for a D&D game, honestly. Something where a ST plugs in an adventure ("guys guys, the village is under attack!") plugs in a difficulty level which with D&D rules it's extremely easy to automatically generate an appropriate challenge for, then the code takes over. By taking all the gruntwork out of the equation and letting DMs just pose things I think more content would become available - hell, you could even give stock or randomized adventures for people to play out, which could still be awesome.

Also, a pony!

World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth launches tonight!

... I won't be around for more than an hour but fuck it, I'm pumped as hell.

Lok'tar!

Motherfuckers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/07/world/asia/islamic-state-tajikistan-bike-attack.html

@pyrephox said in Spotlight.:

The problem isn't necessarily that a tailor can't sit in at the King's privy counsel and be taken equally seriously, but when the big noble can sit on the privy council /and/ bring in his soldiers to solve the gang trouble on the tailor's street /and/ make better clothes than the tailor /and/ gets the magic sword and stuff as well.

Again good point - I'm glad for this thread now.

It's pretty common in games to see exactly what you described, isn't it? The High Lady who's also hangin' out with the peeps at the pier, the billionaire philanthropist who sits at a bar to have a beer with the riffraff, the nobleman who's a great swordsman... these tropes are far from exceptions, they are very often the rule.

Sometimes it's a product of the system that allows this to happen. Maybe that means someone in CGen is giving the thumbs up without giving it too much thought, or it could be the mechanics simply let you buy some things (street contacts, fighting skills) and still afford the high-end life anyway, encouraging people to dip their toes in more than enough pool. In fact when that happens the norm is for folks seeking the spotlight to have their toes in every pool.

So maybe that's a good rule for games to have. Don't let PCs have it all, force them to make interesting choices - and then, also, enforce the consequences for them when they break social norms. As much of a no-brainer this sounds, it doesn't happen that often.