Posts made by Arkandel

@jaded My username is probably not that hard to guess if anyone wants to group up with my Mistweaver (on the Horde side ).

And when Zandalari race opens I'll probably run a priest, too.

Let's do some 5-mans!

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!

@coin Yeah, what got me is the realistic, plausible way they were handling things.

"Don't discredit what they said, discredit them"

or

"Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some."

It all sounds like things people would legitimately say, ways they would actually handle this stuff. It makes it real instead of surreal.

I started watching The Handmaid's Tale. Holy shit this is grim.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/11/traveling-while-muslim-the-case-of-the-exploding-chocolate-219347

I'm a white Christian dude and I still loathe the idea of flying to the US because of shit like this.

Some of y'all suffer from migraines. Maybe this is destined to help?

https://www.inverse.com/article/47454-a-new-wonder-drug-promises-to-end-the-sexist-tyranny-of-migraines

@packrat said in Critters!:

@Auspice is apparently not popular with my kittens, Artemis just decided to 'help' me by tapping at my tablet and setting an ignore. I was just away for two days and they are going nuts with excitement now I am back.

Waitwait, you're accessing MSB over a tablet? Say you don't RP on one, too.

@kay It was terrible but the guy honestly didn't seem to want to hurt anyone. He seems to have had a lot of mental issues no one knew about, and then... snapped. He took the plane for a ride, did a barrel roll (!), patted himself on the back for it and nosedived.

Motherfuckers.

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

@auspice

@auspice What's crazy is Japan already has a documented aging population problem. Going as far as to systematically discourage women from having children and stuff like this under the table... gee, I wonder what can possibly go wrong there.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/08/tokyo-medical-school-admits-changing-results-to-exclude-women

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/08/dog-cloning-animal-sooam-hwang

Click!

Guys, keep in mind this is the Advertisements section of the forum. Keep this to questions about the game and please steer away from criticism - there are other sections for that sort of thing.

@demiurge It's not going to be useful to be doom-and-gloom in comments. You seem to have a handle on things, so I hope I'm wrong, and that it works out well!

@coin said in Dreamwalk MUSH:

3. it does open the door to horrible people all swarming the game so they can just counter-vote and make sure their horrible buddies aren't banned.

You misspelled "the same guy's 10 puppet logins". Which with everyone using a single anonymous name is going to lead to one hell of a situation.

@demiurge said in Dreamwalk MUSH:

However, are inappropriate sexual fantasies the proper limit for a stream of consciousness Jungian cacophony? People are into some bizarre shit, man.

The answer is entirely yours since this is your game. What you should consider though is that if this is allowed you can expect it to take over, or make a pretty good attempt at it, and then you will find out exactly what kind of bizarre shit some people are into.

This can have no effect on your game, or it can turn anyone who's not as eager to participate in a 24/7 sexual orgy away from it, or it can draw players because of it. Either way it's your call to say what's inappropriate and what isn't.

A collective unconscious, minus potentially upsetting content, isn't really an unconscious. To me, it cheapens it, quite a bit. I don't want to go to your game, and break your rules, but I'm not inclined to impose these rules right now myself.

Then don't. You have the power! ... You also get to deal with the fallout.

As for your personal recourse, you can CHANNEL/MUTE COL to make it go away. Is that helpful?

That's probably the worst approach you can take for any public medium on your game. It takes all of the responsibility away from predators ("you can turn it off if you don't want to hear it!") and places it squarely on those they creep out. But which kind of player would you rather came to play and stayed?

@demiurge said in Dreamwalk MUSH:

I do keep logs of who posted what, but it's mostly for the purposes of helping law enforcement should someone think they can post something illegal under United States law, like a credible death threat against a real person or links to pornography that nobody should be allowed to see. As cool as anonymity is conceptually, I don't want my game to be a vector for any of that kind of shit.

That's a good policy.

That said, I'm actually really conflicted about this. Should I go for authenticity, which can be extremely fucked up in more ways to list here, or should I try to maintain a certain amount of decorum? Authentically speaking, people's internal monologues are filled with slur-laden rants, with socially unacceptable sexual thoughts, with word salad non-sequitur conspiracy theories, and other mental detritus. Most people have a few of these kinds of things going on in their heads. Why would a dreamverse with people from all different universes be any different? Why wouldn't a 40k Space Marine have a few uncouth or insane thoughts from the perspective of his own culture, for example?

OOC gameplay should - IMHO - always take precedence. You need to have policies even if they are generic else you will get asshats who ruin everyone else's fun just because they can, and in that case what good will authenticity do for your game if your players are being chased away by a small minority (often as small as a single person)?

But really, I wouldn't worry about it very much. It won't happen often. For all we publicize it here for popcorn purposes assholes of a certain magnitude don't pop up every day, especially after staff sets the tone to show what they will and won't tolerate.