Posts made by bear_necessities

You don't have to "police" Discord to respond to something to players on your game. Much like @mietze said, if it's happening on Discord? It's happening all over your game, or they just took it to Discord to feel 'protected' from staff or whatever.

If anyone came to me and said their crazy ex who beat them was on the game and they needed help, I wouldn't think twice to nuke the toon. Just like if I was a manager at McDonald's and someone came up to me and asked me for help because their crazy ex who beat them is here, I would pick up the phone and call the police and put the woman somewhere where she can feel safe. It's like, the very basic of what a decent human being would do even if it's not expressly in your job title or whatever.

When players really lean in to the prompts you give them and makes the scene a million times better than expected

@paradox No iOS for me, ALAS

I really wish I could find a copy of Tactics somewhere and play it, why isn't it on Steam?! Ahhh. That's my two cents!

@macha said in The Work Thread:

She wants HR's number. I wish I could listen in on that one.

Uhm, if they are discussing you and your personal health information, you SHOULD be on the call to listen in. I don't know why you wouldn't be on that call and you should never allow anyone to speak for you to your job without you present.

I would treat it like a table top, there's a guide out there that I think would work. Then there's no extensive coding, you just dice 2d20 and have at it.

@derp I mean, you're kind of forgetting in your response that at least some of the push to keep kids in school "no matter what" is because of all the children that were left behind due to no access to internet or because they didn't have a permanent living situation.

Like, there is no easy answer to this and whoever claims they have one is fooling themselves, and it shouldn't be hard to "be kind" right now because unless you have the magic answer, you aren't helping the situation by being unkind about it.

@buttercup Yeah I would be nervous too, especially buying a business for the price of only the equipment. Are there no other assets on the books? Cash, accounts receivable, are you buying the contracts and customer lists for that price too? Cuz damn, IDK, I'd almost feel like I was robbing this guy if that was the case LOL

@buttercup I hope you are getting some kind of business valuation performed, as buying a company that made $700k in profits this year alone for $1 million is one hell of a deal.

@pyrephox DONK! lololol

@carma "On cam" just means like, IC. Not actual cameras

That being said, it's your game and you should do whatever you want if it is fun for you. I don't know what the eavesdropping mechanism provides if characters can't die, or be kicked out of a group. What is the point of eavesdropping, exactly? To learn someone's IC secrets? What can someone do with those IC secrets?

I always approach game mechanisms by asking how it can be abused, and making sure there are controls in place to prevent that abuse. For an eavesdropping mechanism, I'd make sure there are a lot of OOC controls - like, what is eavesdropped is being system logged so someone can't learn something OOC and then "pretend" they heard it while eavesdropping, etc.

@carma I think that eavesdropping has a large tendency to be abused OOCly. I know in Firan, being spied on was something that was routinely used to manipulate people on an OOC level, the whole 'I heard so-and-so saying this about your character'. It was also used as a fear tactic - if you do XYZ on camera, someone will overhear and you could be killed/kicked out/etc! A few years ago on Arx, someone was soft-banned for pretending there was an eavesdropping mechanism and using that to manipulate several people ICly and OOCly, which granted is not entirely the same thing, but I can only imagine what this person would've actually done if there HAD been an eavesdropping ability.

Anything that gives someone control/power over another PC without that PCs consent is opening you up to being abused in a gross/manipulative way, and since they are using game mechanics to do it, people are less likely to report.

As far as the consent list being used to out alts, I really don't think that risk (which I perceive as generally small) to outweigh the benefit of being able to feel OOCly comfortable that my boundaries aren't going to be crossed either intentionally or accidentally.

@pyrephox said in Silent Heaven: Small-Town Psychological Horror RPG:

I'm curious about the reasoning behind only allowing a consent check on one item once a day - a given scene or plot might logically include a number of things which could be no-go areas for someone, so it seems like it'd facilitate cooperation if people could just access or share their full lists so that they can more easily find people of compatible tastes and boundaries.

Yeah I mean if the purpose of the consent list is to keep people comfortable, then the consent list should just be made publically available. It's just an OOC list? Not sure why it would need to be hidden or anything like that.

Obviously this is your game and you can do whatever you want with it but I'd be very hesitant to include any object that would allow a player to eavesdrop on other people without their consent. I have never seen that work in production where it does not cause major, major issues.

@krmbm said in MU Things I Love:

I've been having a lot of fun the last couple months. I missed playing with a lot of you guys, and I'm enjoying some new friends.

Here's to more yeti-babies, pixie dust and hairless cats soul-sucking demons in 2022.

And here's to more peppermint barf! WOO!

But seriously I love having a place to play with old and new friends TY for making the last couple of months really fun.

@lotherio Except they aren't the same. Haircuts are totally different.

@thesuntsar said in Paying for a MU*?:

@krmbm said in Paying for a MU*?:

@smile said in Paying for a MU*?:

Pretty sure it'll just pave the way to players asking staff, "If I pay extra can you GM me becoming a mushroom mage, controlling all fungi" or something.

@thesuntsar said in Paying for a MU*?:

@smile thank you for outlining my next personal @action

I believe I am owed $5.00.

Or is it 4.75?

I am due my admin cut.

@thesuntsar I'm spinning up the server now. TS: The Sex Mush: THE MUSH is coming!

@il-volpe lol I do not believe this for a second, there's no way anyone would pay $$ to TS when there are pleeenty of people who give it around for free.

ETA but seriously how did this work?? Was it per pose, or just per TS event? How long were sessions, what was the admin cut? lol This sounds like a lucrative side hustle.

@krmbm you're my bestest friend too

ETA: wait i'm sorry i mean my bestest online real online friend