Posts made by Arkandel

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It's possible postfix isn't set right after the issues we had earlier in the week.

Just call this guy's bluff and make a thread on MSB about him!

@Auspice said in A bit of trouble on Firefly:

Someone threatening to post on MSB

It's also a hilarious threat.

Hello folks,

There was an extended unscheduled downtime today (lasting roughly 5-6 hours) as I worked with Linode's sysadmin team to resolve some issues the server faced last night.

Apologies for this. Hopefully we've seen the last of it. I'll keep you posted.

@Auspice said in Getting into Writing:

I'm also in that camp that MUing and prose, while both creative writing, are not remotely the same. There's so many reasons they aren't. One reason is actually the critique. Sure, you get feedback.

Obviously being paid for writing stuff is great feedback in and of itself. That goes without saying.

I do feel others choosing to spend their time with you is a form of feedback as well. Even if you don't actually get directly complimented for it it still means something; perhaps it's both your writing and your personality that compels people to hang around. That isn't so bad.

@Seamus said in The Game Game:

It has been mentioned on more than one occasion that one game is in competition with another game. I have never really seen it that way. I look at them as just a different book. It might catch my eye or not. What are the thoughts of the hive on the topic?

So we won't derail another topic.

It's a naive way to see it. Look at it this way; the golden age of MUSHing was when there were more games around. It drove everyone to improve the code, the command interface offered to users, innovate around the notion of a grid, CGen, etc.

The only 'competition' I can see is when a game is explicitly created to disrupt another. Say you're running a WoD game in New York and I fork it, asking your players to come play the same characters in mine.

@LittleLizard On top of what others have said, make sure there are provisions in place to keep the plot rolling even if the initial group of PCs are no longer present for it.

These days any plot that takes more than 2-3 weeks from beginning to finish has to account for this since you can't quite count on players sticking around in the game. Folks disappear.

If only Bob, Jane and Jane know about the artificial black hole your mad scientist is building underneath the city to destroy it and these three just stop logging on, but others are still interested, you need to have a way to engage them without logical inconsistencies or starting from scratch.

This story is not about a pet in any way but the thread is called critters so...

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/a-very-old-man-for-a-wolf

@Tinuviel said in The Work Thread:

@Arkandel The only thing I can add to the above responses is of a disciplinary note. Those intentionally and/or repeatedly not complying with the new hire's gender identity wishes need to be actively punished. This is the same as any other kind of bullying or workplace harassment, and needs to be clamped down on immediately.

I'm not worried people might do or say anything intentionally. I know my team, there are no assholes on it.

What I want is make sure the wrong thing isn't said without realizing. For example someone on voicechat, without video, might hear a deeper voice and assume she's a man. Then again I don't want to make a big deal out of this either, ultimately she's just another team member.

I had a question for the class.

We just interviewed someone and she was pretty good so we're extending an offer. The thing is, the reason she's leaving her current job is that she's trans and her current boss has an issue with that.

Assuming she accepts our offer what's a good way to make sure she feels comfortable working with us? For example what's the best way to ensure the team members, all of whom I'm positive will have no problems whatsoever but some are also older, come from different backgrounds etc, so I want to ensure they realize they need to use the correct pronouns, etc.

I already plan to ask her directly for feedback on what we can do, but I don't want the onus to be on a new hire.

Your advice would be appreciated.

@Ganymede If Kawhi had stayed I don't think there'd be a question about this year's favorite to win the chip.

As it stands I think it'll go down to the Clippers versus the Bucks.

<sigh>

https://notesfromadogwalker.com/2018/12/13/once-when-you-were-trouble-loving-an-old-reactive-dog

@nyctophiliac said in Critters!:

New puppers sleep belly up and horizontally across the bed to make my sleep as impossible as possible!

You wouldn't move and wake them up, would you? What kind of monster does that.

@Auspice said in Bad TV:

@TheOnceler said in Bad TV:

@Auspice said in Bad TV:

@Quinn said in Bad TV:

he lady characters aren't there just to give the guy characters something to do/avenge.

no, just there to be fake-bisexual.

Can you expand on this?

They wavered between whether Sara Lance (between her time on Arrow and LoT) was straight or lesbian or bi so much it really left a bad taste in my mouth.

The characterization in comics changes constantly based on the writer. One person's Spider-man is often drastically different than another's.

The same applies to TV characters, only there not just the writer changes but the entire show, narrative, plot devices, everything.

@Ominous said in AI Dungeon:

It started with the app asking for my email address

Well, it starts with it asking for an e-mail address.

You have a disposable one for all these things, right? There are plenty of services generating mailboxes on demand as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEUhVeQCzos

Huh. The MCU is still a thing?

@SinCerely said in Dating in the 2020's:

on WoW, he was my GM and I traded soundbytes for enchant materials

<curiosity ensues>

It makes sense though. In traditional dating you only even meet let alone successfully connect with people physically near you. Whether you believe in finding the one or not the chances such a person just happened to grow up within 10k of where you live and goes to the same places at the same time you do are kinda low.

With online dating you can kinda... explore the options more. Optimize, so to speak.

Also by my understanding you also be the recipient of many an unsolicited dick pic but that's part of progress I guess?

My damn youngest cat (about 1.5 years old now). We've had him since he was super young and a former stray, so he picked up... weird habits to say the least.

He has such trust issues, even now. He'll probably always be half-wild. For example he loves me, he'll sleep on or next to me, purr when he sees me, want his belly rubs, all that stuff. But that's only if I'm immobilized - laying down on the bed, sitting on the toilet, etc.

If I'm moving? If I do anything he's not expecting, including reaching to grab my phone in a completely different direction than he's in? He bolts and hides. If I walk toward his actual general direction? He bolts and hides.

What the hell, dude.

@Aria Pet peeve: Couples sharing their social media accounts. The "Nick and Laura" Facebook page kinda deals.

For some reason it irks me so much. Like aren't you people separate beings! Don't you have more than one device connecting to the interwebs?