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@faraday said in Hello MSBites! Grade your administrators.:

@auspice said in Hello MSBites! Grade your administrators.:

And call each other out. Not by attacking one another, but by a mere "Hey, that wasn't cool." Just like you'd (I'd hope) call a friend to task for being an asshole, pull someone here aside. It doesn't have to be out in public, but it can be in PMs or in your private chats / pages. We want to be a more uplifting, positive community? It begins with ourselves. Be better, yourself. Pressure your friends to be better. Start small.

It isn't even remotely like this, though. These people (for the most part) are not my friends - they're strangers on an internet forum. Moreover, they're strangers who by the very nature of the problem we're describing have demonstrated that civility and respect for the rules (and by extension other people on the forum) are beyond them. Someone with no authority telling other strangers on the Internet "that wasn't cool, knock it off" is most likely to be met by "hahaha yeah whatever" at best or "F you" at worst because these people don't care what we think. They may only marginally care what the mods think, but the mods at least have the authority to kick them if they don't listen. If there are flagging/downvote tools like on many forum software systems, I'll use them, but I'm not going to play Lone Ranger moderator. That's just not going to end well.

Oh, no, I get it. For sure. But a lot of the people on these forums also have friends on the forums.

I'm asking them if they see their friends act out of time to go hey, that probably wasn't cool. Like, I'm not close friends with @Derp, but we chat a lot. I'd say we have good rapport. Decent enough that if they were out of line on something, I'd feel comfortable enough messaging them to say 'That was pretty harsh, saying that. Cool off, yeah?'

@tempest said in Potential Game / Temperature Read:

Assuming magicians, how would you handle the uh..."bonus powers" stuff like the teleporter guy? Like it's not normal magic, but that guy can do normal magic too on top of his OMG RARE ABILITY.

(As you can see, I am clearly an expert on Magicians theme.)

Well, for one, Travelers won't be allowed. The problem with OMGRARE abilities like that is everyone wants one. And if everyone has one, it negates how rare they are. Just like hedge witches, Travelers won't be played by PCs. One might show up as an NPC for plot someday, but that's it.

@wizz
Of the nWoD 2.0 systems, I think Mage is the most headache inducing. I hate it. I hated making a character in it. There's shit that's not properly described in that book. Blurbs that are vital to your character, but never actually fleshed out.

So while it may draw Mage players, I think it'd turn away people who want to just delve into the setting. I don't want to go for that 'how much can I break this system to be THE MOST POWERFUL' that draws so many Mage players.

I've had a really rough day. Insanely rough. I blame some of it on it having been my 6th straight day of work. More of it on the fact that I'm fairly sure my anti-depressant needs adjusting (I talk to a doctor about that tomorrow).

A friend got a windfall she didn't expect and sent me some of the money as a gift.

I spent a bit crying. Like, ugly crying. It's the only real good news I've had in days.

I'm going to do my damndest to just set it aside and save it towards something nice for myself rather than using it on bills or something. Maybe start saving for that PS4 I've been wanting.

@insomnia said in Hello MSBites! Grade your administrators.:

@pandora said in Hello MSBites! Grade your administrators.:

@krmbm said in Hello MSBites! Grade your administrators.:

Also, I don't think a "vocal few" people who want the board to be made out of rainbows should have a greater voice than the "vocal few" who appreciate having a place to call a spade a flaming piece of cunty spades.

Listen, I don't know if there's something specifically wrong with your genital area (there are all sorts of antibiotics these days, best of luck) but how about not using the word cunt/cunty as an acceptable mud-slinging insult when that's actually precisely the sort of shit that will get you slain in the Hogpit.

The thing about the word cunt though, is it is used much more in the the UK than it is North America. About as interchangeably as bitch is here. I mean it's in their daytime soaps. So it actually is an acceptable mud-slinging insult in some places. Language is different all over the world. Are we supposed to stick u's in everything because @Arkandel is in Canada, and @Ganymede is from Canada, so 2/3 of the mod team dictates the rules of word usage? (I mean it's not a problem for me, I usually only remove my u's from poses and not where I post online, but I can try!)

I may be a terrible dirty American, but I actually stick u's in myself. >.>

@tempest said in Regarding administration on MSB:

If we want no personal insults outside of the Hog Pit, that needs to be clear cut and dry, IMO.

My vote, but I am a mod so I understand if it gets at peoples' jimmies that I voice it... is to avoid personal insults outside of the Pit. Not because of 'we must be happy fluffy forever!' but because almost every time a personal insult comes out, the thread becomes a dumpster fire.

Like that first 'UR DUMB AND UR FAS IS DUMB' comes out, it's basically the Steel Chair Effect.

I got my first wrong number text today:

@tyche said in General MSB announcements:

@arkandel said in General MSB announcements:

Please let me know if anything I'm not looking at is on fire.

I lost a level, 1300GP, and a +2 magic sword. Please restore.

Please provide screenshots,proof of purchase, and your firstborn child.

I know I'm inviting ire, but... we've strayed into a whole new discussion here. It's not wholly off-topic, but I think it may be deserving of its own thread (as it's no longer explicitly about administration, but rather the state of the board in general).

Would people be opposed to a focused topic on the subject?

Pho is a good one. I also love a good banh mi.

@Wretched said in Tyche Banned:

@Admiral Ya'll Queda?

One of the reasons I roleplay is to practice the description of motion and body language. To convey emotion through showing, rather than telling. To display an emotion through gesture and form rather than outright handing it to the reader.

I've had some success with this. I've had people pick up on things through a character's body language (as written) without having to outright state what is being evoked. I always check in, 'Hey, she's sitting like that because...' 'He did that gesture as a...' since I figure hey, their character would know this, even if they didn't pick up on it. And often? People say they got it.

Even better is when I've been threading something subtle through a scene and someone later goes, 'Oh shit! I just realized...'

To me that's success. For as much love as I have for snarky asides and meta-jokes at my character's expensive, I love even more when my writing is immersive enough to draw the other player(s) in.

All this to lead to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqD5WqChUY.
It's about camera direction and acting in regards to immersion (David Fincer, verily, is a god unto men), but it showcases, to me, just how vital that display of body language is. It's not enough to just show it in Fincher's world, but he wants to pull you in and sweep you up in the moment through the camera.

I strive to do the same through words.

@arkandel said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

I'm looking for a new backpack - duffel bags are nice, but my new gym is a 45 minute walk away, and I do like to occasionally walk there when the weather isn't fucking freezing as it is now, but diagonally straps are annoying over somewhat longer distances.

Does anyone have any recommendations? It needs to be spacious since it'd need to fit my shoes and belt, and I'd rather not pay triple digits for a freakin' bag.

It's not like I didn't do a whole thread on this or anything....

@Glitch said in Downvotes:

Glitch disables @Auspice.

@apu said in An Apology to BSO and BSU.:

Wait. Skype dates? That kind of sounds familiar. Did this guy also play Zachary on BSO, by chance?

Yeeeep.

Atlassian passed. They liked me, but as I was concerned about... my database knowledge was too rusty. So I'll keep an eye on any openings they may have that would be a better fit.

Ah well.

I'm currently at urgent care for my hand. At least it's not pulling a car at the shop and is at least in a fair bit of pain today (don't you hate when that happens? You finally go to the doctor for something and it feels better that day so you feel like a dolt?).

I wish you'd named it Totally Unnecessary Messenger System.

Cause I need TUMS.

I wholly agree with the 'lone wolf' ones. It's kind of like the super-ultra-shy types. You're only hurting yourself for RP and you're sort of going against the whole point of this 'cooperative storytelling' thing we're here for.

When I am approving/vetting apps, I also eyeball the following:

• Does/did ALL THE THINGS. Especially when the sheet doesn't support it. I've seen so many of these and it's often used to later evade rolls. 'Well your sheet doesn't-' 'But my background says!' Nope, I nip that in the bud during CG. It's an annoying bit of snowflakeness that's both a way of circumventing min-maxing on the face and mocking your fellow players. You don't need to be everything. Find a niche. Play with your fellow players. You do not need to be on every team.
• Was almost <insert leader/owner/important thing> but... I've seen too many times where someone does this in regards to roles filled by NPCs and then once they're out of CG, they approach Staff a week or two later and asks 'So, since my character was supposed to be this thing, but it's just an NPC right now, I might as well just take it over, right? They use it to get around actually doing the legwork through IC means.

@sunny said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@lithium said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@lisse24 That or you are just a bit more south of me to get only ice. We're getting rain mixed with snow (Because Floridians have never /heard/ of the word 'sleet' before) and actual snow, that might actually stick. Wouldn't that be something...

SOMETHING DREADFUL!

Wintry mix and sleet are different things!

Not everyone is from Seattle! They only have like one word for rain, too!

(no I am not being serious)

Pffff. Maryland. Where winter is a horror show of ways ice can fuck up your world. (The Mid-Atlantic peeps know.)

I've tried playing the first Dragon Age so many times. In theory, it should totally be my kind of game... But I just can't. It doesn't capture me at all.

@thatguythere said in MU Things I Love:

@auspice
How scary of a drunk are you? Cause that can makes a difference, I have sworn to things that are th polar opposite of what I believe to avoid pissing off drunk scary folks.

I don't think I'm a scary drunk.
I am a quiet drunk.

I tend to nestle into a corner of the couch and drink and watch everyone. Apparently it's not easy to tell I am drunk because people will frequently shove more drinks into my hand, declaring they want to 'get' me drunk or 'see' me drunk.

...I tend to end up very, very wasted by the end of parties.

You know that whole 'standing in the bathroom, gripping the sink, and staring in the mirror while you think 'oh god how am I this drunk?' moment? That moment and I are very familiar with one another.

No, no, there's just this delicate balance of a couple drinks plus just the right amount of weed where I stop worrying about 'oh god cooking is hard' and I just... cook. I want to feed the world. Everything in the kitchen becomes full of possibility.