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Faraday is flawless.

I hear her code's insured for $10,000.

I hear she does MU* commercials... in Japan.

One time she punched me in the face... it was awesome.

@Caggles said in The Work Thread:

Got two separate formal grievances lodged against me by one of my academics. One for the tone of voice used when telling her to please stop asking the same question again and again when we've already answered it, and please to also stop threatening us. And this latest one where apparently I, along with my head of school, head of faculty, head of HR, head of ITS, and the vice chancellor of the university have all been conspiring to read her emails, send her spam mail, and arrange cold callers from India to phone her about a road accident/PPI/a virus on her computer.

On the one hand it's laughable, on the other, she clearly needs help. Either way it's many many man hours of official investigations and due process (and because she's accused everyone who would otherwise be involved in the investigation, we've had to go to external investigators at £400 per day) for a paranoid fantasist who is so far removed from reality it's frightening. If she were in the real world, not a university, she'd have been sacked by now for vexatious litigation.

And although I know I'm well and truly in the clear - I cleared my phrasing with my head of school before sending that first email out, to be sure I wasn't being overly sensitive, and I physically don't have the ability or access to read this woman's emails - it's fucking with my stress levels and my sleep.

I do adore my job, but this woman makes me want to go out at night with a shovel, a tarp and a bath full of bleach.

DING DONG THE WITCH IS... fired? SHE IS GONE!! 9 MONTHS OF HELL OVER!

Well, apparently this is a thing, and it'd be nice to get back in touch with some people having fallen back into the hobby.

Stuff I have played:
Gryphael / Raccia - The Inquisition MUD
Kintyre - Turning Point MUD
Endeera / Wendos / Felicia / various + NavyBuilder / Caroline - Firan - yes, that one
Tug / Roan - Battlestar Pacifica
Shiner - Battlestar Cerberus
Douglas / Frid - Witchcraft and Wizardry
Caggles - PioneerMUSH
Philomene / Hugo - Marsilikos (current)

Various others, here and there, probably not a whole lot to write home about. Still Scottish, still catering, still a LARP nerd, and still pissing people off, one idiot at a time.

Welcome to Penmarth; a wind-swept little town in Queen Anne's England. The 18th century has just begun, the winds off the Atlantic are harsh, the excisemen and tax collectors never rest, and the press gangs of the Royal Navy lurk in the taverns. Life is not easy, but it’s rarely boring.

Smugglers, harlots, seadogs; tradesmen, artisans, fishermen, and the occasional penniless gentryfolk. This is Penmarth, a struggling hamlet in Trelawney Cove, in the far south of England. A motley community just trying to survive and make tomorrow a little better than yesterday. A small town like any other small Cornish town, except --

Except it's not unusual here to find men and women, and some either or none, living, working and even marrying outside of traditional gender roles. You could ask over a pint at the Red Lion, but ask politely -- the people of Penmarth defend their ways fiercely, and are quite ready to go toe to toe with any outsider thinking they know what’s best.

Trelawney Cove is a relaxed sandbox game. We favour PVE over PVP, telling a story about a community, where the social experience outweighs chasing fast plot and high drama. You create your story, at the pace that suits you. We are an alternate history game in which daily life is often grungy, smells of seaweed, but unusually tolerant. A game not about winning or conquering, but about being human.

Will you be a fisherman running cargo past the noses of the queen’s excisemen? A daring pirate retiring from the South Seas? A trader profiting from the sale of salvaged goods? A wrecker, directing ships to dangerous reefs so that there will be something to salvage in the first place? A merchant, a midwife, an artisan, a farmer, a shepherd, a miner?

Trelawney Cove is still in alpha development but we now take applications. We're a pretty laid back, slow paced place to suit 2020, a year where everyone is exhausted, and where staff is happy to take feedback and suggestions. Come make your mark on the coast of Cornwall today!

Good opportunity for Europe based players, and those on slower schedules through work, timezones or illness.

http://trelawneycove.aresmush.com/
or trelawneycove.aresmush.com port 1707

October 1707. The coast of Cornwall is a windswept, exposed place, and a huge, unprecedented storm coming in off the Atlantic could mean danger, it could mean battening down the hatches, or for the entrepreneurs of Penmarth, it could mean profit.

Trelawney Cove is officially switching to open beta from the beginning of November, and we’re launching with a slow-safe week of action from 24th October around one of the greatest storms in British history, for those who want to be involved.

We are above all a collaborative sandbox game, deliberately aimed at those of us with less time or ability to play constantly, whether through illness, family, children, work, or just 2020 on the whole. Staff do not run plots out all the time - instead we provide the buckets and spades, the tools for RP, support and ideas, and we improvise together to build a beautiful sandcastle.

Now is a good time to get a character on the grid if you’d like to help build our story. You don’t need to be a historian to play - if you can smell the salt air and the whiff of gunpowder on the breeze, if you can feel the resentment in this small town for the threat of the authorities, or the oppression of the outside world for our safe haven of Penmarth, drop by and find your place with us.

• http://trelawneycove.aresmush.com
• More info on our theme and setting
• Wanted concepts

@krmbm said in Faraday Appreciation Thread:

I honestly can't even tell you how many times I've been like "can you pls help me, i don't know what i did :(" and Faraday was like "yep, here is what you did and here is how you fix it." She never even was like "omg just stop touching things, you are obviously not competent." Which I deserve many times over.

But actually... this, though.

And when I am somewhat less than patient with people, she's awfy good at getting me to STFU.

I run a small catering business at weekends and I've seen an increase in people adopting the vegan lifestyle over the last few years. What I've also had, though, are people apologising for being vegan or apologising for being coeliac, as though it's something to be ashamed of, which I think is nuts.

There is a very vocal anti-vegan subset of people who really do go out of their way to be dicks to people - those who are vegan, vegetarian, anti-palm oil for ethical reasons, those who don't eat meat or dairy or gluten for digestive or allergy reasons being told HAHAHA eat bacon lol or 'you're just being fashionable'!

Personally I'm a meat eater, but it's a considered choice - again, I like to eat local as part of my bit to step up against climate change, and being in the UK that means in certain months I'm going to eat meat, and in certain months I'm going to be more vegetarian. But I'm not about to call anyone out for choosing (or being obliged to) eat certain things - it's relatively easy for me to get a wonky veg box every week (delivered, to the house that I own - yes, I am privileged and I know it), and to visit my local butcher. If you don't have that privilege and you need to grab a 99p McDonalds burger because you don't have the time, energy or money to cook, I'm not going to judge you. Being able to choose your diet IS a privilege, whether that's meat, vegetables, fast food or an indian from the local takeaway. Simply having a workable kitchen isn't something everyone has. If you need to eat cold beans from a tin, power to you, and I'm sorry that it's come to it.

Nobody should ever be ashamed for what they eat.

Unless it's a pot noodle. Those things can get in the fucking sea.

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

Last weekend I spent hours looking at alternate careers for teachers because I'm burning out badly right now. (I don't think I'll ever really leave - I'm terrified of losing the stability that comes with teaching. It would take a lot for me to lose this job, but my husband has gone through the private sector fire-hire roller coaster enough for me to want to engage in it.)

This is why the UCU (University and College Union) over here went on strike last year, and it looks like we're back on strike again end of February.

These workloads are not sustainable. It's not good for us, and it's definitely not good for our students. How can we give our best to them when we're working 60, 70, 80 hour weeks on a regular basis?

Fuck your 'wellbeing' and tai-chi and painting a fucking rock for self help.

I wasn't allowed to use the 'If you're looking for high octane action and plot at breakneck speed, jog on, this ain't the game for you' line. Got vetoed. Much sadness.

We are on strike this week and next. Picketing in the relentless rain, flood warnings for the local area, everything I own is wet through. Drying it out now ready to get back on the picket line for 6.30am tomorrow.

I got eggs. After 9 weeks of trying, I have 6 fresh eggs in my kitchen right now. I am so happy I could squeal.

I'm just saying that the ideal sexual partner is one who turns into a nice cup of tea and a pizza afterwards.

@GreenFlashlight

Do you think this separation is more difficult with writing than eg. with music?

If I enjoy a Wagner symphony, am I tacitly expressing a fondness for fascism? As music is a more abstract form, does it become easier to split artist from art, whereas with writing there are assumptions from the artist which form a baseline for everything written?

To further muddy it, is this different for fiction vs non-fiction? Does a paper on covalent bonds lose validity if written by a TERF? How about different disciplines? Social sciences vs physics?

Am interested in the debate - not sure which side I fall on the argument. Keep talking, this interests me.

It's a game I'm running, so I figure this is a good spot to put it as there's a lot of crossover interest.

Not a MU* but a one-off LARP, so if you're not interested, look away now.

Being held in the UK, so if you're not UK based and/or won't travel, you can also look away now.

For those of you still here, we have 4 tickets remaining (2 in the Clergy faction, 2 in the Orleans faction) for this socio-political LARP set in 18th century France in the court of Louis XV. It's July 17-19 2020, and tickets are £140 or £160, which includes all catering, accommodation and the game itself. The site is Ingestre Hall, a grade IIa listed jacobean stately home in Staffordshire, now converted to a youth arts centre.

We've deliberately pitched the game and the bespoke rules-light system to be accessible to all, particularly those with mobility or hearing difficulties, anxiety or ASD, but feel free to ask if you have queries.

https://2etat.co.uk

Rice cooked with/in a tin of tomatoes. Salt, pepper, pinch of sugar.

Add leftover veg as required.

Or potato curry - literally just fry potato chunks in spices then add tinned tomatoes.

I think I would quite like to cheerfully stab anyone who wants to say you can't play X, Y or Z because you are black/fat/short/disabled.

Seriously. If you can bring yourself to believe that the foam and latex sword is going to hurt you, or that this 18 year old is actually the Duc d'Orleans, or that you're a goddamn WIZARD, I think you can bring yourself to believe that Bernie the 6'5 dwarf player is a fucking dwarf.

@JinShei

Please can I have your students? I just had to flag one with 89% plagiarism from 4 easily googled websites. This is a 3rd year LLB student.

Got two separate formal grievances lodged against me by one of my academics. One for the tone of voice used when telling her to please stop asking the same question again and again when we've already answered it, and please to also stop threatening us. And this latest one where apparently I, along with my head of school, head of faculty, head of HR, head of ITS, and the vice chancellor of the university have all been conspiring to read her emails, send her spam mail, and arrange cold callers from India to phone her about a road accident/PPI/a virus on her computer.

On the one hand it's laughable, on the other, she clearly needs help. Either way it's many many man hours of official investigations and due process (and because she's accused everyone who would otherwise be involved in the investigation, we've had to go to external investigators at £400 per day) for a paranoid fantasist who is so far removed from reality it's frightening. If she were in the real world, not a university, she'd have been sacked by now for vexatious litigation.

And although I know I'm well and truly in the clear - I cleared my phrasing with my head of school before sending that first email out, to be sure I wasn't being overly sensitive, and I physically don't have the ability or access to read this woman's emails - it's fucking with my stress levels and my sleep.

I do adore my job, but this woman makes me want to go out at night with a shovel, a tarp and a bath full of bleach.

@Ganymede I don't know what that means, but if it's not the feminine version of a dictator I'm going to be horribly disappointed.

@L-B-Heuschkel

ANGRY FORUM POST!

How DARE you run things that people might enjoy. Back in your box!