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I've been present on my work's stream off and on myself. Probably heading home soon once someone relieves me and I'm not the only one on the couch anymore.

If anyone is interested: https://www.twitch.tv/modsquadinc

@faraday

I adore you and most of the time, you are on point. But the reason we were upset in that situation was because it really did feel like you were protecting someone who should have been gone. If you were in the hogpit group, you could see the whole thread on DownWithOPP and understand, maybe, the depth of why.

If the main person he'd been targeting had felt safe enough to come forward... it'd have helped. A lot. But he'd made her feel like she couldn't (and even in the way he'd practically brag to me about her, well...).

But that's a large part of why I appreciate the tools on Ares. Someone can just enable the reporting in-game without worry of being unable to log because phone mu or whatever (like mudrammer crashes whenever I try to log).

That was why we'd get upset. It was that particular dude. But the tools you have in place now should absolutely prevent anything similar in the future.

A raccoon and dog swimming together: https://twitter.com/rmayemsinger/status/1062243513973129216

@Tinuviel said in How To Treat Your Players Right:

@faraday said in How To Treat Your Players Right:

@Tinuviel said in How To Treat Your Players Right:

"Hey dude, apparently you're being a dick. Stop being a dick." It's not difficult.

Uh huh. And when they say, "What, me? I'm not being a dick." Then what?

You add that last line that @Thenomain mentioned. It's often enough to know that one is being observed to stop dickish behaviour.

Or they out themselves by swiftly accusing the other party or saying shit like 'Well, they sure didn't mind when <super gross shit>'.

@wretched said in Random links:

https://www.polygon.com/2018/11/13/18089574/vampire-the-masquerade-white-wolf-lgbtq-chechnya-apology

Seems a kind of half-assed apology and I imagine the next book will be just as bad, but at least there's something. Seems they need to get rid of more than just Zak S.

The only time it is acceptable is when your skirt/dress has pockets.

@testament said in RL Anger:

I was woken up in the middle of the night(or day for the rest of you normal sleeping hours people)with a cramp in my calf so bad that it woke me up and forced me to jump out of my bed and stretch my leg out.

Nothing like waking up after being in a dead sleep with crippling pain. Because I'm limping around my apartment going 'ow ow ow ow'.

Those suck so fucking hard.

@Kestrel said in Intersectional MU* Community - Discussion:

don't have a reputation for being part of the problem

Out of honest curiousity: how do you judge this? Especially with the large number of games out there and many staffers may be relative unknowns. Is it guess work? What is 'problem' based on?

Would 'I didn't like how they handled my app' cause them to be barred?
Would 'We didn't get along at all' get them barred even if they have otherwise a history of being supportive and well-meaning, just abrasive?

@aria

And the higher-end ones (like Bobbi Brown and MAC) are just annoyingly expensive. ;.;

It's a shame MUG doesn't sell any considering how much she would use the MAC ones in her tutorials. (I know all MUG stuff is cruelty-free)

ETA:
ELF has a couple colors: https://www.elfcosmetics.com/smudge-pot-cream-eyeshadow/200141.html

And I know when I went to the ELF store the girl said they were going to be expanding some of their lines this winter to compete with Fenty so....... maybe hopefully that'll be one?

@mietze said in Sexuality: IC and OOC:

@Auspice I once deeply offended someone by laughing when they posed penetrating someone's cervix. He named like 4 other pcs who said they loved it when a man did that. Oooookay, mister matchstick diameter cock!

Also dont go meet someone your first day on grid at the family mansion room that has a hot tub in it.

And I'd be willing to bet every single one of those other PCs were played by a guy who also doesn't know how the female anatomy works. Or by women who just didn't wanna hurt his feefees.

@aria said in The Makeup Thread:

but I also recently discovered they have better quality tank tops than Target does for literally half the price even when they're not on sale.

homg so did I.
like the quality suddenly went up and the price is ridic? how/when did this happen?!

I use tanktops for layering and I was like well......... this is cheap enough to try???

And they're perfect. Like soft and just the right length and what happened. How even. They're amazing for my budget and a good length and what is this madness

@Ganymede said in Sexuality: IC and OOC:

@Sparks

I think it depends on what your definition of a love story is.

I really enjoy a good love story, but it's not the getting together that means the most. It's the trial and tribulations that happen during or after the relationship that makes it worthwhile.

There's the fun of stupid moments in public. There's the fun of tender moments in private. And there's also the fun of having another PC and player that you can have one-on-one scenes with doing whatever happens to be within the setting.

It doesn't have to be sexy times all the time. It's nice to have someone that you can RP with from time to time on a consistent basis, and have a reason to interact with.

I miss my relationships.

This. But that's also why there's certain people I RP 'em with.

'Cause a lot of people reach the 'love' stage and just wanna lie around being all lovey-dovey and it's meh. Boring.

But I have a couple people I know I can RP a relationship with and there are trials and tribulations and struggle and actual meat to the story and I absolutely love the ride.

@sincerely said in RL Anger:

I don't care what anyone says. The 2017 Power Rangers Movie was GREAT, and the soundtrack was BANGERANG. GRR.

Is this the right thread for this

@WildBaboons said in Sexuality: IC and OOC:

@Prototart if within the first five poses you weren't either doing a helicopter or walking funny to get the boys unstuck from your leg probably were doing it wrong.

Ladies, gather 'round, I will reveal the secret to playing a man.......

Grunting.

@wretched said in RL Anger:

@auspice So i dunno if this is related or will help, but I am diabetic, and i used to get the same fucking thing. Part of it was general ill health, but it happened every time I took insulin right before bed. It was connected (for me) to rapid sugar dropping + being in bed/laying down.

Now mostly I get cramps while swimming, but nowhere near as bad. I used to wake up with either shin or calf cramps and my leg twisting back unable to straighten.

Sugar is a weird thing for me. I am not diabetic, but- I tend towards low blood sugar. I go through these periods of time now and again where I have to keep a close eye on myself because if I start dieting (and thus cutting out carbs, sugars, etc...) ... my blood sugar will drop even more and I'll just get lethargic and weak and so on. This lovely thing was discovered when my father discovered his type 2 and my mom decided 'We could all serve to be healthier! No sugar or carbs for anyone in the family from now on!' and I ended up passed out one day from a really bad sugar crash. From then on I got to keep snacks and such in my room to help balance my shit out as needed.

But, that might be something to start adding to my mental checklist: if I start getting worse cramps around when I'm dealing with sugar imbalance issues (me and my doctors have never been able to pin down my overall leg issues; it'd be swell if I could narrow it down somehow!).

@Ganymede said in Sexuality: IC and OOC:

scrub myself screen.

I've been waiting almost half a year since I bought my ticket for Ghost...

Tonight's the night! Just twenty minutes until I leave work, run home, stuff my face with some food, get dressed, then run back out.

And THANK FUCK I don't actually have a migraine today!

@BetterJudgment said in Sexuality: IC and OOC:

@Wretched Corn starch baby powder. Really. A sprinkle a day helps keep itching away.

I have been told to never, ever mistakenly use cornflour tho.
(Had a guy friend do this one day: he'd heard the cornstarch thing and didn't have any, but he DID have cornflour and assumed 'sure, it's pretty much the same thing!' Hint: it's not. at all. even remotely.)

@kanye-qwest said in The Makeup Thread:

Oh, the tricksy swatches. They do look gorgeous, though. I love this palette, even if I think I HAVE all these colors. I have to stop buying eyeshadow.

Double-post to say..... I have the same issue.

I've been using NYX's dupe of UD's Naked and I'm kind of bored of it. I'm like: I want a small palette in a similar size that I can tuck into my makeup bag (vs the two BIG palettes I have!) ... but what do I want?!

I need something with matte and shimmers..........but what?! Ugh. I know having brown hair/eyes gives me a fair range to work with but I also feel like purples and greens and shit, tho pretty, are basically risking going HEY LOOK EIGHTIES CALLED AND THEY WANT THEIR GAUDY BACK

@Ghost said in MU Things I Love:

You know what sounds like a fun idea?

Playing a character bit with MPD where the login is shared by 3 players who keep 3 different sets of notes and each prepares their own distinct personality for the character.

You'd log in and ICly people would be like: "Hey, about our text conversation last night..." and you'd be like "Urrrrgh that was Jared uhmmm..."

Or your character wakes up in bed with some gorgeous other player in the bed.
"Good morning."
"Ohhhh hey...good morning..."
"Janet."
"JANET right..."

I actually discussed this as a lol concept years ago. MAYBE EVEN WITH YOU.