@arkandel said in Regarding administration on MSB:
Personally I much prefer threads about ... kitten armies.
@arkandel said in Regarding administration on MSB:
Personally I much prefer threads about ... kitten armies.
@three-eyed-crow said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:
@deadculture
I mean nobody's government is going to come to MSB and say we can't call each other nasty names (or, if they do, that'd be pretty amazing). I always cringe at the conflation of laws curtailing freedom of speech and the moderation private companies and groups like a bunch of fucks on a message board should or shouldn't engage in.
At the same time we get people expecting us to read every single thing posted somehow.
Shit, I've had paid full-time jobs for moderation and even then no one expected us to read every single post made. We were expected to check reports, emails/messages to the moderators, and read "hot spots." Not every single thing.
Even on paid moderated sites, there was an expectation that the community could handle itself to an extent. That it'd function as a sort of ecosystem.
Look, when it comes down to it: I don't give a shit. I don't want to police people. But a fairly large portion of these boards wants to attack people for the sake of attacking people and for whatever reason they can't go to 4chan or reddit to get their kicks. No. They wanna do it here. And once you're into the 'ha ha I'm just gonna be an ass even though no one is having fun except me' it's gone beyond free speech and into the equivalent of pulling one fighter off another because the fight is fucking over goddamnit.
Hence the: attack the idea, not the person.
But at the same time, people... learn to identify when someone thinks the idea is bad and isn't going after you. Learn when 'That's a fucking ridiculous concept' is different from 'You're a fucking idiot' so you don't lash out at them and oh look your thread is in the hog pit.
We play text based games. 'Tools Required: Reading Comprehension' is on the tin.
I love notebooks. So much. I have an entire shelf full and it's not even all of them. Months ago, I backed some on Kickstarter. Nomad's Sea+Air+Space pack.
Description from their site:
Our first premium 3-pack of Nomad Notebooks! The Sea+Air+Space pack is made up of three different all mixed up notebooks, with historical photos on the inside covers relating to the theme, as well as a map for each theme. The inside pages for each notebook are completely different!
It was inexpensive (even retail it's just $12 for all three; roughly the same as Moleskines). I got them today and oh man they're lovely.
Photographed with my Kaweco Sport for size comparison and because, well, who doesn't love a Kaweco?
This is the theme map for the Space one, obvs.
Each one has a themed kraft paper, plain white, grid paper, and colored sheet. This is from the sea book. (BTW: the theme map for the sea one is the depth chart for the Chesapeake Bay)
End cover photo for the Air one is the Tuskegee Airmen. Hella cool.
Okay. Done gushing. I just srsly love notebooks and I've been pretty excited to receive these for a while now.
@friendlybee said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:
someone using SJW (a person who has chosen to not be a dickwad online)
One could argue the usage of 'dick' there is utilizing a gendered slur and thus we have come full circle.
And many of the people who label themselves 'SJW' can be very violent, threatening individuals. Oh, sure, they avoid gendered, homophobic, transphobic, and racial slurs, but there are those who will dox people, stalk them, threaten them, and engage in other forms of utterly gross behavior.
I recently reported a woman to Twitter (who did, indeed, acknowledge that it was out of line) because she was harassing Terry Crews for being 'just out for a quick dollar' for speaking out about his sexual harassment. In many of her posts to him, she was outright telling him to kill himself. But her profile proudly proclaimed her as a feminist and SJW.
So yes, for many people, SJW is a bad thing nowadays. It is not 'someone who just doesn't behave poorly online' because many, many who call themselves that do.
@templari said in The Kitten Army (GIF Heavy):
@auspice So. I. May have yelled out loud "KITTEN!! IT'S SO CUTE AND FLUFFY LOOKING! OH MY GOD I WANT TO PET IT!!!" prompting my roommate to once again remind me, that I am apparently a large grown-ass man, and should not be losing my shit like that over kittens.
I have a soft spot for large, grown-ass men who love kittens.
@friendlybee said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:
Someone claiming to represent a group =/= what the group represents. Harassing a victim of unwanted sexual contact for speaking out is not at all in line with the ideals of social justice or really even being a good person.
There are violent jerks in every subgroup. They do not tend to define the subgroup, unless the subgroup itself is founded on violent, jerk-like beliefs (see: white supremacists, etc.)
And yet that is what a good number of political disagreements come down to. It's what a lot of things on these boards come down to.
@Templari brought it up early on. We witnessed it again later.
Right-wing supremacists are terrible. Even most conservatives will agree to that. Yet there are very public places on the internet where all you see is 'All conservatives/Republicans/Centrists/Libertarians are idiots/racists/nazis/etc'.
In this day and age, people believe that the subset is the entire group. That even if the main group decries them, works against them, routes them at, the main group is still, in the end, at fault. I mean, churches like Westboro have, for many, come to define Christianity despite the fact that true Christians utterly loathe them as well.
It does not matter that 'SJW' had good "intentions," it has become sullied. So, so many people have seen vicious, terrible attacks. Been viciously, terribly attacked themselves that they want nothing to do with the term. That they immediately shy away from anyone who will bear it 'loud and proud' because to them that's a warning sign already.
@Derp said in If you work hard, son, maybe someday you'll RP:
@juke said in If you work hard, son, maybe someday you'll RP:
I loved Faraday's 'RP wish list' on BSG
For those of us who didn't play there, tell us more.
Hi!
This was actually a player effort between me and @Seraphim73 that faraday kindly put into action. We wanted a way to be able to share things we wanted to see happen. Either scenes, plots, etc. So we got faraday to put a page on the wiki that we could edit and add our own lines onto. Stuff like:
Susan - Making a beer run on Caprica.
Bill - Getting shot in the leg.
Jamie - Getting into a bar fight.
Georgie - Firing on Centurions with makeshift weapons.
Then, people could add their names in to ideas they liked:
Susan, Bill, Jamie - Making a beer run on Caprica.
Bill - Getting shot in the leg.
Jamie, Georgie - Getting into a bar fight.
Georgie, Bill - Firing on Centurions with makeshift weapons.
...and us player STs had a ready-made-list of ideas we could roll with (and the easier ones like 'beer run on Caprica' worked well for quick and easy RP ideas).
(I think a lot of why ideas didn't get run was that most of the things ON the list were @Seraphim73 and I trying to populate it and thus it was stuff he and I -- the primary player STs -- wanted run for our characters and a lot of other people didn't really add to it. Once again, it was something that was awesome in theory, but didn't get used as much as we'd like.)
The only good thing about my parents' visit is that my brothers (the two good ones, not the insane drug-addict shit head) got me an Instant Pot for Christmas.
Made my first thing in it tonight: beef stew.
I haven't eaten anything that rich in... uhm. I don't know how long. I had one bowl. I've got the itis. It's gonna be hard peeling myself off the sofa to put the leftovers away.
I believe NPCs should be Staff Property - playable by any member of Staff 'as needed' - for a plot scene, for a scene with PCs (a leader discussing disciplinary action, handing out a quest, etc etc), and so on. Their plot, their progress (such as sheets), and major actions should be tracked and shared (potentially discussed depending on scale) with the rest of Staff. Things like GDoc are great for this.
Once an NPC is being played by a Staffer on a regular basis in casual, day-to-day RP and is exclusively played by them (particularly if they are playing in personal, intimate friendships and relationships) they are no longer, IMO, an NPC and become a PC and should then be governed by the same rules as PCs.
@cobaltasaurus said in Comfort Food...:
@ashen-shugar Oh my god, smoked string cheese is a thing?!
seriously you need to rename this thread to 'Fat Kids Anonymous'
@Ghost said in Poll: Do I enjoy this hobby more than I don't?:
I also think that with 51 votes saying they're happy and 46 saying either an outright NO or "somewhere in between", that there's a lot of people who aren't exactly comfortable and/or might be feel comfortable being vocal about it.
You're pretty insistent on pushing people into saying the hobby is bad/unfun which is... sort of going to make people feel like it's bad/unfun because it's like 'yeah there's this guy who just spouts a lot of negativity over there'. Self fulfilling prophecy yo.
Where's your boom gif now?!
So the other week I dealt with a 'feedback' email from a user that was just laden with abusive language and profanity. I basically said: 'We appreciate your feedback if not the abusive language it was delivered in.'
Got chewed out for doing so and told 'Saying that isn't needed. Just thank them for the feedback.'
Fuck that noise. Part of being a team lead is going to bat for my team and I know it bothers some of them when they get abusive language and threats, even in an email. I was actually downright polite. I've shut people down in the past and told them we'll gladly assist them when they can be polite about their request.
I fucking hate when companies are OK with their front line agents being treated like shit.
@Ghost said in Poll: Do I enjoy this hobby more than I don't?:
@Auspice said in Poll: Do I enjoy this hobby more than I don't?:
@Ghost said in Poll: Do I enjoy this hobby more than I don't?:
I also think that with 51 votes saying they're happy and 46 saying either an outright NO or "somewhere in between", that there's a lot of people who aren't exactly comfortable and/or might be feel comfortable being vocal about it.
You're pretty insistent on pushing people into saying the hobby is bad/unfun which is... sort of going to make people feel like it's bad/unfun because it's like 'yeah there's this guy who just spouts a lot of negativity over there'. Self fulfilling prophecy yo.
Where's your boom gif now?!
Dont make me post the gif again, damn it. You goad me with your honeyed words and heroin taunts.
Srsly, tho? I swear I'm not trying to cram some point into a jar. I'm just saying: "Hey, there's clearly people who are unhappy on some level, so let's start talking about how we can be better."
I just hate to see this 46 people poll go entirely ignored without some attempt at forward movement.
A lot of it may be your language, then. You tend to use very negative, inflammatory "chicken little the sky is falling!!' language and then look around going 'Well what are you lot going to do about it?!' and I admit I can fall into that sometimes too and I am trying my best to stop.
A lot of being better is just fucking be better. Don't fuss over it. Don't theorycraft. Just do it.
Double-post whatev.
I now wish I could have made it to the campus for my school for graduation. I got Salutatorian for my program.
There's a big issue:
Humans crave connection.
A large part of why many of us are in this hobby as much / as long as we are is that circumstances keep us from being able to connect IRL as much as we'd like. Be it health issues, anxiety, or even schedule (look at people on 2nd or 3rd shifts where the world caters to 1st shift). This hobby provides a way to connect.
Your method essentially negates that connection and puts up a wall that says 'no, you cannot know me.'
I believe you yourself would fumble after a while. All it'd take is a conversation or a person really into horror movies and you'd want to start to chatter your head off also. Remaining the distanced, stand-offish person who gives nothing of themselves only works to an extent. And that extent is: people stop interacting with you in return. Because you're weird. You're sterile. You're suspect. You feel wrong and awkward and untrustworthy.
It may seem a bright and gleaming idea in theory and a good way to hide from the mean and terrible people that have hurt you (general 'you') in the past or might hurt you (general 'you') in the future, but... I think it's just a way to feel isolated.
Women get SwampAss too (at least if you live in certain regions), so add the boob sweat on a hot day and you get me staring at women not wearing bras like 'Why do you do this to yourself?!'
Pro-tip: if your well endowed female pc is going around sans bra all the time, she's gonna have hella boob sweat, hold her breasts when she goes up/down stairs or runs, and be at risk for the ladies popping out if she bends over (these may still apply regardless, but they def do sans bra).
The sneezing (or coughing!) on period is totally legit. And also the discomfort when sitting or standing on those heavy days.
For the underwear-junk-adjustment? Boob adjustments. Sometimes you just gotta reach in there and fix em.
@cobaltasaurus said in Critters!:
@auspice I thought the top was my cat for a moment, and was confused. XD
Cuz black kitties are best kitties.
@tragedyjones said in What MU/RPG opinions have you changed or maintained?:
Don't punish a player for playing the game you advertise to be playing.
The issue I frequently run into is the opposite: players playing something entirely different (usually this is someone who knows absolutely nothing about the theme or setting and just wants to play somewhere active while investing low effort into learning).
I have been one of those people who is a staunch believer in playing to theme. And I know I've upset some people over the years by being that stickler, but I don't regret it. I'm still that way. I will remain that way.
And the reason is because if 9 out of 10 people are within spec and the 10th person goes off the rails? That's one person ruining immersion and potentially even gameplay for nine. It's a collaborative environment: fucking collaborate. Be a team player.
That said, I absolutely regret some of the angsty RP I engaged in during my formative years (as it were) as a MUer. Drama and angst are big deals and drive story in media (books, TV, film), but they aren't great for people you're playing with. It pretty much strongarms people into RP they may not want to engage in.
Is all drama or angst bad? No. But some of us (and I totally did for my first 5 years or so!) take it to an extreme it need not be. Don't get your character horrifically injured in an on-camera scene just to explain your absence while on vacation. If you need to explain it (srsly usually you don't; our characters are presumably doing things off-camera all the time), there's a plethora of options that don't corner people into either RPing out this OMG TERRIBLE THING or looking like an uncaring asshole.
Communication. Arguably, it could be said that joining MSB or getting to know people is a terrible thing and maybe (probably definitely in MSB's case) it is. For me, however, it was beneficial. I spent the first, oh, 13? years of my MUing career playing in a vacuum. I rarely got to know people. I rarely established myself anywhere. As a result, I never knew what plots were going on. What the 'greater story' was. I often sighed from afar as people I wanted to play with did things that I wasn't a part of.
I did know people. I did go out and RP and generate RP. But I kept this massive wall at all times and in turn, it made me afraid to even page people to ask things (to RP, to have BG hooks, to...).
It was on a game with @Ghost where I wanted to see a possible path of RP that I finally swallowed down the fear and reached out. And I'm glad I did. It led to months of great RP. So I try to be social now. I try to be open. I communicate: even if it's the unfun ('Hey what you're doing is bothering me.') stuff. It has enhanced my engagement and RP so much.