Posts made by Coin

@Arkandel
In general that entire thing seems much more recent for MUers than otherwise? But it may just be me that gets that impression. I don't know.

@Darinelle said:

I'm all for training, but "online ninja training" kind of makes me go "wut"?

Martial arts with your stepdad sounds pretty cool though. My parents ruthlessly kept me away from everything violent or martial for most of my life. Which is why now I'm such an easygoing, laid-back, gentle and non-violent person.

Are your eyes naturally that brown or is it just the shit you're so full of? /ducks.

I get a feeling it was easier back in the day when people didn't tend to add each other to skype and what not fairly easily. I mean, if I get on with someone well enough, I'll ask for their skype or e-mail to keep in touch just in case, which means that if I am keeping my alt a secret and they ask, I have to lie to my friend, which I don't really like.

@somasatori
And probably makes you the reason it's going to get gentrifide soon.

The only time it's okay to keep alts actively a secret from your friends is when you're punking them. At least, for me, anyway.

I have a friend who likes to secret herself away for the lulz and wait for someone to finally recognize her (which sometimes we do, sometimes we don't). I totally got her back one time. It was great.

People who give old folks a pass for obnoxious behavior in airplanes, but shit on babies.

Mother fucker, the baby doesn't understand pressurization.

@Darinelle
Oh, baby.

@somasatori
I fucking hate people who BATHE in perfume or cologne.

@somasatori

That is weird, you swore you'd wait for me.

@Darinelle

/sighs and puts his katana away again. Dang.

@Arkandel

Stop hittin' yo'self, stop hittin' yo'self.

@Cobaltasaurus said:

Eg What grinds my gears 2.0

Peeve: There are still plenty of seats on the bus dude. So why the fuck are you sitting so close our shoulders touch! I don't know you, get the hell out of my personal space!

"Hey, baby. In my planet, shoulders are our sensitive spot." /browwaggle.

@Darinelle

I bet you slept with him. You totally slept with him, didn't you?

@Three-Eyed-Crow said:

[...] tagged and radio collared, so he could be tracked and shot (banned, I am not advocating real-world ninja assassination) on-site [...]

/... puts the shuriken away.

You just want to suck the joy out of everything.

/smokebomb.

I think everyone has a right to privacy, but when you're staff, you need to accept that you have authority, and that means a level of transparency in your identity on the game. So while I don't expect being able to keep my alt list private while I'm a staffer on a MU*, I do expect people not to be like, "Oh, he's <real name>!" to everyone. Of course, it's pointless, most people don't know me by name, they know my alt list. "It's such-and-such from The Reach" is just as identifying as my real name within this context.

@Arkandel

In general, though, this isn't a "game" thing, but a "person" thing. I know a lot of people who auto-log. It's ingrained into the way they operate now. @2mspris, @HelloRaptor, and @EmmahSue among others are people I know pretty much log everything, and it's not necessarily out of paranoia for having proof of anything; often it's so as to have a reliable source of information for things that happened and memory fails to recall.

Real ninjas don't advertise. ... Duh?

@Chime said:

@Catsmeow said:

If you don't log, you get screwed.

Player logs are ultimately meaningless and easily forged. There are various ways to do server-side logging to line checksums or the like, but people either think it's some spy game or too complicated.

But yes-- it's essential to keep your own logs independent of what the server has.

I've never understood the over-reliance on logs-as-proof, myself. It's foolhardy and stupid to think that someone being accused of something bad (if guilty) wouldn't be willing and able to forge or edit some log to further their own goals or whatever.

And then you want people to believe you're fair and just. Maybe Troy's right. >:|

@tragedyjones

Finallyyyyyy.