Posts made by Arkandel

@Lotherio said in Fandom and entitlement:

It may have changed her understanding of why Dumbledore didn't contribute in going after Grindevald, but otherwise, I don't see it as a game changer to understanding the movie.

And that was a very important plot point. It wasn't like time travel where paradoxes can be expected - time after time Dumbledore explicitly said he couldn't go after the main antagonist but didn't explain why although we kept being told no one but him stood a chance to defeat him.

Obviously an explanation was needed, that wasn't a nitpick. But I can see why you might have needed to explain it.

@Ghost If it helps in my mind canon you're all serial killers. I've seen your Hog Pit posts.

@Bad-at-Lurking If you look at it from a historical perspective it makes more sense. When MU* started spawning all over the place (and back then there were next to zero other options for multiplayer online gaming at all) each was completely, 100% ruled by the person who owned the server. They could do whatever they wanted, each MU* was its own island and word of mouth was next to impossible - you'd get banned if you annoyed the admin and then that's that.

Not that we're in the clear these days but perhaps there's a bit more accountability and visibility. Plus we simply have more history to show (and learn from), examples to bring up, there's more substance to potential complaints than there used to be.

There's no real room for analysis. Both teams missed open shots (the Raptors more than the Warriors) but basically in the Finals you can't let the other team go 18-0 on you and expect to win.

Toronto lost the game in those 4-5 minutes of the 3rd quarter.

@Misadventure There's no magic to this (unless we write our own custom nodebb extensions, which isn't going to happen); either the functionality already exists or it doesn't, and if it does it'll be on nodebb's list of plugins.

After all the Games of Thrones theories I don't want to overcomplicate my brain.

This looks fairly simple to me: Toronto is a far superior defense than the Warriors had to face in the playoffs for this year - or even in the West. Other than for Memphis and the Spurs I can't think of robust defensive lineups the last several years. Well, they hit a wall.

They also have an injured KD and a rusty Boogie - plus, I hear, a hobbled Iggy. Well, with a lineup this top-heavy they don't have much of a bench behind these guys.

The testament to the Warriors' greatness (I dislike the team but I have to give kudos where they're deserved) is that even so, even playing in Toronto, they still trailed close by no more than a few points the whole game. That's impressive as fuck.

I think game 2 might be a different story. If it's not and they need to win 4 out of 5 for their title... well, we'll see, but it's much harder then. Game 2 is their chance.

... A month after I got my Twitch account back someone must have finally ran into an old ticket asking WTF was going on because:

Upon review, it appears that your account has been compromised. I am so sorry for this situation.
I have reset your password with a temporary one that you can use below. Additionally, I have changed the email on your account for your protection, in the event that it was also compromised.

Argh.

@Warma-Sheen Well, so what's your conspiracy theory?

@Ganymede Boogie will shake the rust off. But I think KD is done for the season, and if the rumors about his achilles are correct... this could severely impact him going forward, too.

Also Kawhi had a quiet game for his standards. He hit one big three but otherwise he deferred - which is a good sign.

As for VanVleet, wtf.

@Thenomain MSB comes with a full money back guarantee for its administrative lapses.

@Ghost said in Poll: Do I enjoy this hobby more than I don't?:

@Arkandel I agree with your view in spirit. I'm all for everyone owning their stuff. Their stuff, not the stuff people diagnose via confirmation bias as being their intent regardless of the person claiming "they didn't mean that".

Reputation is what it is. It's a very human kind of behavior to match expectations to behaviors which may or not have been in play but that's... expected. Perception matters. It's one of the downsides of having the persistent identities we debated in your other thread - as long as I'm not actively trying to 'hide' who I am, people who know me will see "Arkandel" and that will weigh in on how my actions are interpreted, for better or worse.

@AeriaNyx said in Poll: Do I enjoy this hobby more than I don't?:

Now, there are the rare occurrences in which I find people I just do not gel with. I can think of one such person, who I genuinely like as a person, but if I try to RP with them, my emotional state just flips into entirely irrational. So I avoid them. Not because I don't like them, not because I don't like their character. I just know that I cannot trust my behavior around them.

That's a mature way to handle it. I would add this though: You don't have to justify it. If you don't want to play with someone, anyone, you don't need to have 'a good reason' to do it - or rather you already have a pretty damn good one.

My one caveat in all this is people who project their prejudices on others. It's one thing to not like or want to play with someone else or even to have concrete arguments against them you are willing to share with others, and another to make vague negative comments on their behalf to dissuade people they've never met from playing with them either. That's really shitty. And it's actually happened to me, albeit only once, so I speak from experience there.

It's fine to not like me. It's also okay, if I screwed you over in some specific way ("that guy stalked me for three weeks until staff banned him") to say something. But disparaging others when they can't defend themselves about nothing in particular is rather juvenile.

@AeriaNyx said in Poll: Do I enjoy this hobby more than I don't?:

For me the hobby is filled with extremes. Excellent highs, horribad lows. I'm slowly teaching myself how to find the balance. And I think that is one of my favorite things about this hobby. The opportunity it offers me to grow as a person. While at the same time losing myself in neat worlds and cool characters.

Here's the thing: Everyone is working on some shit, no one has it all together nearly as much as we'd like to think - or at least project to others that we do. So although you don't get to control how you feel I can tell you there's nothing wrong with anything you just said.

As far as I'm concerned the only requirement for people (and even that is reserved for folks I don't know that well and we're not already friends) is that even if they're working through their issues using a game as a way to vent, try things out, socialize, whatever it might be... they don't get to use it as an excuse if they do something wrong.

I don't think it's too high an ask of people to own their stuff, whatever it happens to be, and try to ensure it doesn't happen again. If someone can't control their temper and react in a disproportionate or inappropriate way to something... well, it happens. But I'd expect them to come back afterwards, offer some sort of explanation (or apology) as needed, then to try keep it under the lid from that point on.

Everyone fucks up at some point, we can all get overly emotional, be caught at the wrong time and mood or misinterpret something terribly. If it happens once it's no biggie; if it keeps happening then it's a pattern, and that's no longer okay.

Folks, whatever Arx-related drama there is here, please take it to a different thread.

Also please keep in mind this is in the Constructive category. Please don't take potshots and personally flame people - this is not the place for it.

@Rook said in How to Escape the OOC Game:

I've met several people that have made no bones about outright saying "If I dont know you, we don't RP" and then they needle for past characters/games/interaction information to place me by. I have learned to simply smile and shrug, tell them that it is their loss, and I move on.

How can that not be everyone's response?

If I have to prove myself to you just so we can play a game together what does that tell me about how much of a gift to the rest of us you think you are?

Wow.

Toronto.

Summer is coming and we're in the NBA Finals. The city is abuzz at the moment, people are excited about being downtown tomorrow night, bars and restaurants are packed.

And we're not even in the ethnic food festival weeks yet.

I don't think anyone (reasonable) has an issue with either staff members or other STs running things for smaller subgroups of people, including their own friends or excluding problem players. None of us are getting paid for any of this so we all still need to be entertained somehow or we won't be doing it in the long term.

When it comes to my post earlier in the thread, it referred to signs an NPC might be ran as a PC. They weren't supposed to be definite markers of impropriety - or at least I certainly didn't mean them to be. Obviously there are perfectly good, valid reasons why (say) an NPC is to only be played by one staff member but not others.

However in the past, and it's not rare, there have been NPCs on games who were basically playable characters in all but name with abilities, ranks or privileges unavailable to regular players, and who staff treated as their personal favorites in a way that it definitely showed, going as far as to be defensive about actions meant to assault or disparage these NPCs' positions or influence.

This is a pretty awkward position to put your players in.

@Too-Old-For-This That's great because... there's no freakin' way to say no or opt out of it. Slow Armstrong is coming to your front door whether you like it or not!

@Wretched Do UberEats folks in your area ride bicycles? Because that's the bane of my existence.

No, I don't want the fucking food to arrive 25 minutes extra and cold because you're saving on gas and car insurance.

@Kanye-Qwest https://imgur.com/gallery/47BlHtR

On the other hand there are those of us here who simply attract creepers through no fault of their own. Usually players of a female persuasion. I could see the case being made that they'd want the chance to just play somewhere in peace and anonymity could provide them the chance to do so.

Also: Anyone who's fucked up big time but wants a fresh start should be entitled to one. Hey, there's nothing wrong with that either.