Best posts made by Derp

@seraphim73 said in How are you coping with COVID (and other 2020 fun)?:

The West Wing, Madame Secretary

I need to finish MS and re-binge the West Wing.

Also check out the Newsroom if you haven't!

@insomniac7809 said in Staff scrutiny during CGen:

ently suggest that a PC who owns a hopping nightclub is a great PC for a different game.

I've done this.

They all switched it out to 'Irish Pub Dive Bar slash underground boxing ring'

@macha said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

I had so many teachers that learned to let me read my own books. Because I knew what they were talking about. Generally once they tried to 'get' me a couple times, and I would sigh and answer them correctly, they let it go.

I had an english teacher once tell me Romeo and Juliet was a love story.

We spent 15 minutes arguing.

@Ghost said in TS - Danger zone:

"If TS is in character and it's all about the story, then why is there so much aversion to posting logs containing TS or staff snooping in on scenes involving it (but most every other scene is okay to post?)"

As for this one, speaking purely for myself -- some of the best scenes I've been in, story-wise, had some sex in them. Or at least things related to sex. So honestly, I don't really care if you post them. I encourage people to do so if there is some element of character growth or story development in there.

If you're just posting logs because it's tuesday and you're bored and you wanna smash your bits together again -- I mean, I'm not gonna stop you, but I'm probably gonna be a little annoyed that you made me read that expecting there to be something relevant in it when in fact it's just you and your budd(y/ies) trying to find synonyms for 'moans' while describing some piston action or tongue movements.

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

@il-volpe If the carrots are a feature ingredient, or a layer in a layered dish, disks. If they are a component ingredient, strips/julienne. If it is a chunkier dish, like a soup or stew, diced.

Easy.

The correct answer is roll-cut triangles.

@WildBaboons said in TS - Danger zone:

NPC turns into a millions spiders upon climax

Quit reading my character sheets!

@cupcake said in Good TV:

I really appreciate Tyler Hoechlin's take on Superman

To me he will always be Derek the Hot Werewolf.

@Tinuviel said in TS - Danger zone:

If they TS using NPCs I feel that it's wrong because then one person is being prioritised over others when it comes to that NPC's time.

Surprising no one, staff do this all the time without sex. Not everyone has an equal right to an NPC's time or effort. Staff always prioritizes.

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

@cobalt ...that is some of the dumbest shit I've ever seen. even worse was some of the point prices for dumb shit.

Amazon Kindle100,000 Points Needed
Modern e-reader featuring a touchscreen display and Wi-fi.
Amazon Fire Tablet47,000 Points Needed
Modern 8” tablet with an HD display and Alexa.

...what?

Since we're discussing privacy policy and what does and doesn't get looked at in another thread, it reminded me of this thing that happened today:

We were working on privacy policy, and what gets posted where, etc. Naturally, the subject of TS came up, and so we kicked that around for a bit. We eventually agreed that "logs with sex in them are fine, but please don't post just pure TS logs unless there is some kind of character or story development in them, and mark them as NSFW as appropriate. It's 2019, come on."

Which lead us back to the privacy policy, and the basically "we promise we don't want to spy on your hawt sexxors or whatever. It's probably boring and we have more important stuff to do, really."

Though it did make me want to add in the joke-clause: "If you are really desperate for someone to read this, send them to Derp. But be warned -- he's basically Gordon Ramsey. Nobody has scored above a 2.5 out of 10 so far, and you open yourself up to public criticism just as if it were a reality show. Take your chances."

Though somehow I think that people would miss the joke and take it way too seriously.

I can read words. I know all of these words by themselves. And yet together they make absolutely no sense.

Chet, bruh. Are you a prototype AI?

I never thought we'd have to get to the stage of 'are you a bot' on MSB but here we are, I guess.

@Tinuviel @L-B-Heuschkel @Sunny

@saosmash said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

I want to go back to bed.

I have the LSAT scheduled for Saturday.

In the middle of my mom's latest psychotic break and murder threats for testifying against her boyfriend that pulled a gun on us and made more murder threats.

And also while trying to find a new place to live closer to work.

The LSAT was an expected drain on my limited reserves of focus. The other two, not so much. I feel you on just wanting to go back to bed. I think I would like to stay there until sometime early next year.

But we'll both get through our various deals because we're too stubborn to do anything else.

@Pandora said in Privacy in gaming:

"Do what you want in your own little corner without oversight."

Seems nice in theory, til you have a group of <insert special race/class/faction here> or whatever over there making up their own elaborate alternative history via Discord with the caveat 'this is just backstory stuff for our own interest' but then the group grows and they pull in new people and the line blurs and a year down the line you have an established <whatever> stating emphatically that they're the first person in their long family tree to speak <insert language every character speaks>. At that point, the mess is much bigger than smacking Bob and Jane's wrists for their dumb incest plot, it's a whole theme breach you had no idea about.

Realistically? They're gonna do this one way or another. I can't police what someone wants to do in their private Discord sandbox. All I can do is make sure that when on the game itself, they adhere to the policies.

That said, we did explicitly include a policy that if you want it to be game-canon, it has to happen in a public space on the game. Whatever you do in private is on you, but you aren't gaining any sort of benefit from it and we absolutely will not be treating it as written in stone. We'll just treat your PC as if they've had some sort of delusional episode if need be.

@cobalt said in Crafting Thread Part ?:

And the anatomical hearts

It seems to me as if they are sharing one that was split down the middle? I don't play this game or know these characters, so I don't know what it represents, but I approve of the imagery.

Ok, fair. Just seems that we're moving away from 'privacy in gaming' and more into 'how can staff enforce the game theme'.

In terms of controlling what people do in their private spaces, there is blessedly little that I can do for that in an age where everyone can have a private space that only they control. Nor do I want to continually play whack-a-mole with people hell bent on doing so. Again, I am limited in my abilities, and that actually makes my life easier in a lot of ways, so I'm not disputing that too much.

The only thing I can control is what the game considers official. If people are spreading misinformation to newbies, I can try and stop that. I can correct it when I see it. I can make robust theme files. But at the end of the day, we all know that everyone's gonna have their own headcanon anyway. The limits of my power are, ultimately, to try and correct misinformation and if necessary move egregious offenders off of the public game space, and back into their own little private areas where they can live out their fantasy of alternate timelines or whatever on their own.

But I can't stop them from thinking that. I can't change their mind if they disagree with the Official Staff Interpretation (TM) of what the theme files are. I can control a limited set of actions and try to counter theme-drift by providing accurate information, but I don't have any illusions of control over that, nor should any other staffer. People are gonna people. All you can do is try to herd the cats, and remove the bad apples.

@carma said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

@derp said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

@wretched said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

Or you realize that you read them and they did not register at all

Something was written in a way that made me think about something else! The worst is when it's like, two pages back and I'm left wondering how I managed to turn the page.

It's incredible that my own brain can zone itself out.

This. Exactly. Like, your eyes are moving over words but your brain is somewhere else and you get a ways in and you're like 'wait what is even happening...'

@Ganymede said in Privacy in gaming:

For that reason, I don't mind staff playing PCs or otherwise lingering around on channels. The reminder of a staff presence can temper people to cool it most of the time. It's harder, of course, when the bad behavior comes via page, but -- I think I've said this before -- it is difficult to find problems when no one's reporting them.

Upvoting for this part, but also:

Gods bless @faraday for making a command that can flag pages and dump an entire history to a staffer.

@aria

Well, @insomniac7809 is my new hero for the day, then.

@krmbm

They are, thankfully, going the way of the dinosaur as players who consider volunteering as staff quickly catch on to the fact that that is a thankless scenario with little to no reward and nope out of that quickly.