Posts made by Arkandel

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IANAL (I love that acronym) but I don't see how you could ever be responsible for anything someone else signed on your behalf unless they were your legal guardian at the time.

Another factor to consider is, as a whole, MUSH-dom doesn't do subtlety very well. When it's there to be found in RP it isn't usually so much an undertone of racism or discrimination as much as a consistent stream of wide-eyed ranting and gleeful mustache-twirling delivering monologue after monologue about whatever the character is about.

Movies and books can actually portray this kind of villainy to add some depth and set a tone without making these aspects the every scene's sole focus. PCs often don't. Far more so when their players are disingenuous about their characters' purpose in the game.

@Ghost said in Historical MUSHes:

I don't see mushing surviving these concepts unless at the very least it's an invite-only MU where everyone knows going in that some players will be dropping N-bombs, but there's enough OOC love that the other players are well aware that it's a role and not covert racism spank-banking.

Not even that exception will work. Who is the 'license' going to come from ? For example as a white guy I can't just permit someone else to drop N-bombs even if I'm playing a black person on the MU*.

Ironically there's room for spank-banking (literally!) in sex-oriented MU* where that's kind of the point. I'd never be offended by just about anything on such games, and I couldn't tell you why.

@Ghost said in Historical MUSHes:

In short: Adrian Brody in THE PIANIST would mean little without the theme of racist, fascist Nazis sacking Poland.

Sure, and it's true that a lot of themes could be very interesting to explore if they weren't almost definitely going to be completely derailed by idiots who essentially glorify the horror, trolls who just want to get a reaction and the SJWs they would be getting the reaction from.

... But that's a very big if unfortunately. And while The Pianist is a static work of art that narrates events within a specific context and tells a specific tale. MU* simply don't work like that due to their interactive nature.

Hell, it might not even be possible after the fact (let alone in a vacuum) to tell if it was staff who had bad intentions to begin with or if a player or group was responsible for messing it up for the rest, or even if the theme itself poisoned its own well then things got progressively bad as time went by. But, again unfortunately, it's pretty much a matter of time before these things go really wrong.

Without any spoilers I enjoyed Captain Marvel but I felt it took a dive in the last 20 minutes or so. This is a complaint I also had in Black Panther as the movie became a bit of a special effects pasta instead of staying strong with the character development arc that had worked really well for the rest of the film.

Something really weird happened today.

So I use Twitch for just one reason: Updating my WoW addons to their newest version. That's it - I don't stream, I don't chat (and pretty much literally never have), I've got a zero social footprint on that network.

This morning I got an e-mail from Twitch saying they're suspending my account for "Harassment, Scams, or Other Malicious Content". I've no idea what this means but when I try to access its contact support page it doesn't load from either my phone or laptop at work (which are on different networks), so maybe this is part of something else.

I wouldn't even care since I can create a bonus new account just to continue updating addons but I don't like being accussed of scamming or harassing anyone, and it's also making me curious since I've never interacted with anyone through Twitch's entire platform in the first place.

@Groth said in How To Treat Your Players Right:

It would be trivial to make any MUSH log tells the way @Pandora describes. It's just a question about how comfortable you are with members of staff being able to read your tells since the default behavior of MUSH is to grant all staff readaccess to all variables. It would be slightly less trivial but equally possible to make it so only wizards could view them.

I like GPG for functions like these because you can separate and treat different aspects separately then keep the ones you want. For example data validation ("did I change the log in any way?") is easily treated by signing it server-side before any other processing takes place. Encryption ("only X can read this") can guarantee a different layer of privacy.

This might be an issue solveable through code without sacrificing privacy.

Let's say I'm about to have a conversation that might turn ugly with @Ganymede. I type something like +logstuff start before I go into it, then it will continue to get logged server-side until I hit +logstuff end or I quit.

Once either of those things happen (I toggle it off or quit) the game takes the logfile, runs it through GPG clearsign (using the game's own key) and e-mail it to me, then delete the file. Since the file is digitally signed it's trivial to validate it wasn't altered after its generation, so I can submit it to staff later on to show Gany's toxic behavior.

The issue here is we can't have encryption at rest for the file itself (well, we can, but players would need to have their own GPG public keys and that gets pretty technical for some) so if staff can't be trusted to have those plaintext files automatically deleted after e-mailing them out then privacy can be invaded. Then again logging on someone else's host running code you can't see always requires a degree of trust, so...

There's heartbreak every time I go overseas to visit because in Greece strays are very, very common.

For the most part they aren't anyone's pet - although many people let their dogs out freely but still feed and they sleep indoors at night - but they are just... there, a product of very few shelters booked to capacity and very few folks fixing their actual pets ("I don't want to take the joys of mother/fatherhood away" is a common stupid thing people say).

Some of them, especially in the tourist season, actually have okay lives. They get food handed out, there's lots of garbage they can plunder, it works. But over the off-season, or in busy or industrial parts of big cities, they are really screwed. They are too friendly or too scared (I don't even know what's worse), sometimes obviously starving since you can see their ribs. The bigger ones are in trouble so you see fewer of them - they require more food, after all, but also people are more afraid of them so the chance of being taken in by someone are less.

It's the whole culture there, too. I've spoken to people who had others imply (or state) they'd poison dogs if they barked and disturbed them and the police can't act on allegations alone, plus it's damn hard to prove who did what after the fact. It's just such a mess.

@Alamias said in RL Anger:

@Arkandel said in RL Anger:

One of my neighbors told me the following story:

She was walking on the side of a road close to her son's house who, at the time, was a student so it was a bit out of the way in the suburbs. This car stops and the driver lets a puppy out, shuts the door, then drives away.

The puppy just started to run after the car, confused and probably wondering if this was some kind of game. It couldn't keep up so it stopped soon after.

For this kind of person there is no hell warm enough. Like at least take it to a shelter.

What an ass. Now I have mental visions of that poor pup and am tearing up. Tell me at least the neighbor took the pup in or helped it in some way.

I don't recall since this conversation was years ago. She had four dogs of her own, though. Not sure what happened with the puppy.

@Thenomain said in Modiphius Games:

@Ganymede said in Modiphius Games:

In your collective opinion, how well would the Modiphius system work on a MUSH?

YouWe have a problem.

FTFY.

One of my neighbors told me the following story:

She was walking on the side of a road close to her son's house who, at the time, was a student so it was a bit out of the way in the suburbs. This car stops and the driver lets a puppy out, shuts the door, then drives away.

The puppy just started to run after the car, confused and probably wondering if this was some kind of game. It couldn't keep up so it stopped soon after.

For this kind of person there is no hell warm enough. Like at least take it to a shelter.

@mietze said in How To Treat Your Players Right:

3. I do not know them on a personal level, just a "professional" one.

This is something I've had issues with in the past.

While I played on The Reach I didn't want to approach @EmmaSue about issues because I knew her personally. It felt... awkward, like I was going to be leveraging a personal friendship in order to get some kind of preferential treatment out of it, and even if no such thing existed or the problem I was having was pretty clear, it still didn't sit right with me.

It's easier when there is a more formal relationship between me and staff so I can go, present the facts as I know them, make my case and see what comes of it. In some ways it gives me the opportunity to gauge staff's ability to handle larger issues by observing how they handle smaller ones.

Game of Thrones: Season 8 trailer.

I could not possibly be more hyped than this.