Posts made by Arkandel

@lithium It's selective bias as well though. When you see Superman locked in a room with Lois Lane you're way more likely to notice it than when Bob's in a room with Jane.

Pornhub uses computer vision to ID actors in its videos.

... It's no secret p0rn has been driving the IT industry from day one!

@auspice said in Werewolf/Mafia:

It was brought up that people have seen these games played on forums? I've personally only ever played 'live,' but if anyone's interested... I will look into the best ways to run it on a forum and facilitate a round or two.

Who knows, maybe someone can get things out of their system by hunting some townspeople.

If you turn MSB into a game then we're running a game, which means we are staffing a game, which means I'm staff again whiI WILL HUNT YOU DOWN.

@kanye-qwest said in MSB Popularity Contest:

No, I mean some people only post every now and then. Cheaters.

Yeah, what the fuck people. More is better, duh.

@Auspice came up with a plan and I like it! She wants to ***=SIKRIT PLAN***

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install some nifty plugins on MSB over the next few weeks and present them as rewards for good behavior to y'all unruly kids out there.

Obviously it will end in fire and blood, but doesn't everything?

Theno's Mod Voice is a grumble.

@ixokai said in FCs on Comic MUs:

To tie, "plays iconic character" to "able to run good plot" together is something I don't feel comfortable with.

It's... a different kind of plot-running. I've done it and it was very satisfactory sometimes but I also had to be very careful the rest of the time since if you are playing certain characters - be that because of their individual power levels or just their significance to the narrative - it's easy to bulldoze over others or to render them a bit... unnecessary if you're not conscious of what you're doing.

But it does put you in a position where you can generate stories for others. It even allows you to enhance other plots, which is something traditional storytelling finds hard to do - two STs running things in parallel tend to ignore each other just because the number of moving pieces makes it hard to coordinate, and communication becomes an extra complexity.

Just for starters, with a thematically important character you can enact that most precious of all storytelling commodities - you can hand out motivation like it's Halloween and you have a bag full of candy. You can talk characters into going on these wild goose chases who are normally sceptical or reserved (but whose players would like to go), act as a quest giver, be inspirational or plain order them to do so.

That's a plot device so handy to have around I've often had to invent to kick PrPs off or lure newcomers in. If someone else was just able to provide this service I'd take it in a heartbeat.

@auspice ***=NSFW content***

@tnp said in Helping Out:

It goes without saying that one of the few things worse than staffing on a Mu* is staffing on an internet message board.

Also I can post here without anyoneas many people accusing me of abusing my authoritah.

Playing on a MUSH you're staffing on is... problematic.

@gingerlily Give me your hamstrings! I'll give you uhm, a chocolate chip cookie.

@wizz Right! We don't want a WHAT IS GRIMDARK REALLY LET'S TALK ABOUT IT smack in the middle of your precious game's ad thread which you were hoping to bait people into giving your MU* a try with.

It's not just negativity we want to avoid there, it's just... random shit. Maybe. I say this after having derailed every thread ever since 1996 with random tangents.

@wizz Basically the way I think of this is what we don't want to do rather than try to nitpick every post; we don't want advertisement threads derailed let alone turned into dumpster fires. A stray tangent here and there is probably okay but anything that goes into more depth or requires a lot of debate probably belongs in the Constructive section - I mean that's what it's for.

As for locking ad threads after putting some very basic information in them... we could do it, but would they be read at all then? The oldest ones would be at the bottom, too, which might affect their visibility, and there'd be no immediate way for newcomers to see which ones are active unless they wanted to delve into their child threads (not that this would be necessarily a bad thing - just saying).

@emmahsue Loser.

@faraday No, these are good questions. I don't know! I think it'll depend, it's hard to make concrete rules and try to match what anyone post against them.

The best way is to probably play it by ear. If a post sounds aggressive we can move it over.

@faraday said in Make MSB great again!:

Just giving my opinion because, y'know, this is MSB, we like to debate things endlessly

That's fine! Just reading through this thread alone I'd like to cherry pick good ideas, because half the posts are like "let's change stuff, this is unbearable!" and the other half are like "change is stupid, leave it the way it is!" - with the same posters sometimes in both camps.

I realize too well that just because something has to change it doesn't mean we just need to do random things for the sake of changing them, but giving stuff a try to see what sticks isn't the worst idea ever.

@thenomain said in Make MSB great again!:

This is mostly why I think it’s better to have the advert thread as being only advertisement information, and any commentary about the game, good or ill, in a separate thread.

The reason I don't like that approach is that I like gamerunners having a post in which they can just answer questions - "is this a L&L game or grimdark?", "do you plan to allow <X>?", etc. I think that information can both help others reading the thread decide if that's the MU* for them, but also game-runners who have this information locked in their heads realize that it's not readily available.

However none of this is set in stone. The guidelines so far are meant as an early bulwark against the negative threads we were seeing - maybe look at them as feelers for now.

What I'd like to do is give it a couple of weeks to see how this shapes out to see if there are improvements (or, well, blue smoke coming out of smoldering ruins) and then we can discuss it internally as well with @Auspice and @Ganymede to see what we can do based on our collective ability to shoulder the workload.

Y'all hear that? You get your fancy popularity 1.0+ scores, I get comparisons to Stalin. But in a GOOD WAY!

@ganymede The physical therapist said I was lucky to have been wearing a belt and dropping the barbell immediately, since the pain itself was caused by a spasm as my muscles all seized up trying to protect my lower back from ... stuff.

The therapist himself was this super limber Asian dude who didn't bother smirking when he concluded that the underlying issue was 'high pain tolerance and strength combined with almost no flexibility whatsoever' once he had me trying to bend a few different ways.

Apparently I am missing 20 degrees in my hamstring flexibility alone. Whee.

... Back to work then.

@bored said in MSB Popularity Contest:

@arkandel In the spirit of the upcoming Black Mirror season, who put this (fellow) sub 1.0 in charge of the forum??

I compensate by offering quantity over quality. Size matters, people.

... I don't know if I just burned myself or what.

@kanye-qwest We're new to this! We'll work it out.

@kanye-qwest said in MSB Popularity Contest:

@arkandel Ok it was already moved there, and both the other moderators commented on it. Calm down, guys.

What do you mean I need to read things before I do other things?