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

https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/12/23/20991659/ebook-amazon-kindle-ereader-department-of-justice-publishing-lawsuit-apple-ipad

"But Apple couldn’t enter the ebook market while charging consumers five dollars more per unit than its biggest competitor was. It needed some assurance that no one would have a cheaper product than it had. So it made a deal with five of the Big Six publishers (Simon & Schuster, Penguin, HarperCollins, Hachette, and Macmillan; Random House, then the biggest trade publishing house, abstained): They could all sign on to Apple’s agency model, as long as they guaranteed that they’d also use that same agency model with every other retailer they worked with. That way, Amazon, too, would be forced to sell its ebooks for $14.99 — and if it refused, publishers could withhold their ebooks from Amazon and make them exclusive to Apple.

Publishers agreed to the deal. And just like that, everything changed."

Solution: Everyone quit buying Apple shit.

@tinuviel said in Sensitivity in gaming:

ETA: That said, I think more games should have a 'news rating' or something, to explicitly state what sorts of things (violence, drug use, etc) are thematically anticipated to be common. That way people will know what sort of things they should be expected to disclose regarding triggers in their +finger. So we both win.

I mean, this is what I thought already normally happened, so I'm all for this. I think it makes more sense, anyway.

I mean, I get it, people should be more sensitive, but ffs, we're all adults, and we're capable of addressing our own needs. Which is easier and less likely to end in disaster?

Player, to me: Hey, does this scene involve any spiders? because that could be an issue.
Me: Wasn't planning on spiders, no, so I think we're good, but if they come up I'll steer us clear or give you an escape!

or me trying to compare my scene to an arbitrary list that may or may not include something you think it should include?

You say this is not that heavy a lift(1):

"This plot will involve violence/scenes of a sexual nature/excessive drug use/eldrich horror/etc"

I say that a much lighter and more directed lift is:

Player: Hey. No sharks, right?

And I know which direction I prefer that communication come from.

I don't think we're disagreeing about the end result. Just the methodology to get there.

(1) With the understanding that the content warning in question there should really just be a game default if those kinds of scenes are allowed.

@Ghost said in Good or New Movies Review:

Sucks that we only see Mickey and the gang in Kingdom Hearts, these days.

Make some more Donald, Minnie, Mickey, and Goofy shit, Disney.

Do you have kids?

If so, you'd probably know about the evil that is Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.

@l-b-heuschkel said in A healthy game culture:

Ares has a smidgen of it in that you accumulate Luck by scening, and more Luck by scening with new characters or characters you haven't scened a lot with before.

That's FS3, not specifically Ares.

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

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

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

Oddly, I was in the middle of explaining to you that we aren't Arx and that our families have little power when I woke up...

Your motion shall not be considered until you have filed your memorandum in support with a corresponding affidavit.

Can I use one of those pre-filled forms someone was on about?

Most judges wouldn't notice. Most things that go through the court are pretty much pro forma these days, as far as paperwork goes.

@Ganymede, on the other hand, is a lawbot and will be checking your margins down to the last pixel.

This could fairly easily be done.

So, think about this -- everything in the universe has some manner of momentum, something carrying it forward in a specific direction, and it resists changes to that. So why can't time be the same way?

Yes, you go back and rewind 30 seconds or so and save the boyfriend from getting shot. 30 seconds later, he's shot by someone else. You undo that, he gets hit by a car the next day, etc, etc, on down the line. Final Destination played with this to some effect. Just because you prevented -one- way of it happening doesn't mean you prevented it from happening.

So why couldn't time travel be the same? Sure, you can go back a bit, and you can make -huuuuge- changes to things, but you always find out that in the end, the exact same things have managed to happen, through whatever sort of events unfold to make them a thing. So time travel is only really useful for getting a new perspective on the past, or learning something that would otherwise be impossible, or testing certain limited changes. Not for anything really big, because no matter what, you come back and find out that time as you knew it is still the same. People who were dead are dead. People who are supposed to be alive resist dying outside their appointed time at any cost. They have the same positions, etc.

@Arkandel said in Daily Routines:

soccer

@ominous said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

@ganymede

Holy crap. I just re-read an old thread on EnWorld about the differenced between D&D editions and how they cater to players who prefer Combat as Sport vs. Combat as War. A particular point of contention was that in Combat as War, being pragmatic and fighting dirty wins over being heroic, which didn't jive with players who wanted to play heroic PCs. The Combat as War folks pointed out that, if victory in a fair fight is a sure thing for you, there isn't anything heroic about it to begin with. There's nothing more heroic than challenging the forces of evil to a fair fight in a CaW game. Your character will be wishing for death by the end, but it will be very heroic.

Pretty sure he is talking about this thread and it is a very good read, if very long.

@Ghost said in Depression Meals:

@Auspice said in Depression Meals:

I'm still so glad I broke myself of buffets years ago.

Too many days in my early twenties of getting stoned AF and going to Cici's or a chinese buffet.

Indian buffets are pretty unfair, IMO.

If you go to an Indian restaurant/buffet, then you can have everything you want (biryani, naan, etc) for $12 and unlimited plates. But if you want ONE meal (say, just Chicken Korma) then they unleash this weird TIERED PRICING payment thing that results in it coming to around $17.

Curry chicken? Yes.
With rice? Yes (cash register sound)
With naan? Yes (cash register sound)
One naan or two? OMGFUCKOFF.

Me, but with egg rolls.

@lotherio said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

@ganymede said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

@carma said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

"How do you make social RP enjoyable and unique?"

Be enjoyable to RP with.

An old post, @faraday saved it and has kept it.

https://www.aresmush.com/articles/give-your-rp-sparkle.html

bookmarks this

@TheOnceler said in Good or New Movies Review:

I'm not sure if "not sure if trolling or serious" is being used correctly when in reference to someone not recognizing an internet meme no one should really expected to know.

Memes should really go through some kind of quality control standard and then get released as a quarterly journal or something.

@HelloRaptor said:

The fact that right now there's probably half a dozen people immediately thinking about posting with righteous indignation about how cyber-bullying and suicide are never funny and how dare I only really illustrates why I lost interest in posting here.

This. I don't get this at all. Unlike @Sundown, I see a lot of this, and it never fails to boggle the mind. When did we become so obsessed with protecting people's feelings and insistent upon being politically correct in all things? It baffles me.

I was raised by people that honestly couldn't give a damn about my feelings. I was regularly told to suck it the hell up, because the world is a terrible place and someone making me feel bad was like, the very least of the bad things that could possibly happen out there. A world where the callous survivor has a much better chance of making it to old age than the delicate flower. Now, granted, my family is fucking nuts, but they taught me important lessons, and I think I'm now a better person for it. I can handle things with barely a blink that just break down other people for weeks at a time. I might not wanna always, you know, hug it out or whatever, but I function, and I function well. When did this become a bad thing?

That totally awesome feeling when your non-attorney boss comes in to a room full of attorneys that just got done taking a legal training, and wants to do something contrary to the legal training that you just took...

...and you, the non-attorney in the room, are the only one to speak up, so boss takes it as you personally challenging his authority (to... say what the law is, apparently?)

@carma said in Antagonistic PCs - how to handle them:

The only thing I didn't do was start singing like a Disney villain.

@nyctophiliac said in The Art of Lawyering:

Jury System. Just why would anyone ever want to be tried by a court of their peers when the majority of our peers aren't all that smart - why not rely on a professional with experience? (Like a Judge!) Does this happen anywhere other than America? What do yall lawyers think about this?

The idea of a "jury of one's peers" actually goes back to old english law, wherein the power of the king to make arbitrary judgments was suspended when it came to certain members of the peerage. In order to pass judgment on them, they would have to be tried in a court before a jury consisting of other members of the peerage.

This, presumably, meant that you would get a fairer trial because it would be in their best interests to set precedents that protect themselves, and dispense justice on their own terms.

Now, it just means that everyone has to serve on a jury, which I think is a fucking terrible idea.

The Gavel. Talk to me about this. ORDER ORDER! BLAM BLAM! Is it just to punctuate that you mean business? What do yall lawyers think about this?

It originally was used to indicate that the terms of a judgment were decreed and passed (comes from 'gafel', meaning 'rent' or 'tribute'). The tiny hammer was used to clearly indicate this. It just sort of persisted and morphed.

Why did you choose the section of law (family, criminal, etc) that you chose? Or did it choose you?

The area I work in now I'm passionate about, but it sort of chose me. There's surely no money in it. If I were an actual attorney (note: I am not, yet) I would probably go where the money is. Tax law or something.

Bond and bail, what's the difference?

This depends on jurisdiction, but here 'bail' is usually a set amount that has to be paid in full before release, whereas a 'bond' is a fraction of the bail that serves as a surety that you will appear and make good on debts etc. Every jurisdiction has minor variations, and various laws regarding how bail bondsmen operate if you get the money from a third party, etc.

Why on earth did you choose to practice law to begin with? Was it the money or..?

Money was one consideration. I also think it's fun. And I'm halfway decent at it.

What is the most hilarious case you've worked on?

I don't know that any of them are hilarious. There are a bunch of crazy people though.

What is the saddest case you've worked on?

Pretty much any case involving child abuse. I worked for an agency that investigated this. So many stories, none of which I can talk about.

Criminal Justice Lawyer Types: What's the scariest person you've represented?

n/a

Would you ever represent someone that is guilty but they wanted you to get them off the hook? Would you lie for them? What's the furthest you'd go?

Attorneys very much strive to not know whether a client is a terrible person, but no, you cannot lie for them. Despite popular beliefs, there are very strict codes of ethics that the legal profession has to follow. Which is why we also get certain privilege and don't have to say shit unless compelled by a court.

Do you like arguing? How can you manage to keep your shit together when impassioned?

We're on MSB. So... yes. Clearly.

@juniper said in Antagonistic PCs - how to handle them:

the main form of plot development seems to be constant charity drives

@Auspice said in The Art of Lawyering:

homgwhatifsomeonewhoisn'tqualifiedandisjustgoodatself-marketinggetsin.

It's weird to me that you have to be an attorney to practice law, but not to be a judge.

@faraday said in Attachment to old-school MU* clients:

If folks are having issues please reach out via PM or on the Ares forum or discord with more details so I can look into the problem.

I have this issue but my problems are:

1. My home web was until recently kind of crap, and;
2. There's somethign with the work network that absolutely will not let the website keep a live connection, it'll drop it after like two minutes so the game informs me that it's no longer receiving live updates.

Client-client works fine though! Not sure that there's anything to be done about those for people like me.

@Ominous said in The Art of Lawyering:

Being a partner means your name is part of the firm. "Smith, Jackson, & Goldstein" for instance would indicate that the partners are attorneys whose last names are Smith, Jackson, and Goldstein.

This part is actually not universally true. Those are called 'name partners'. It's usually one of the name partners that acts as the managing partner, the ceo of the firm, so to speak. Then you have senior partners, who may or may not be bought into the firm, but do not have their name on the firm, and junior partners, the (usually) lowest tier of actual partner. Partnership is weird.

@ravengirl said in Online friends:

Then you stop playing and after a month or so it can feel like everyone's just forgotten about you because they don't have mechanics or lore questions to ask anymore, or anything outside of the game that they want to talk about with you.

It's not even that.

It's that you're often literally out of sight. Like -- not appearing on channels or Discord servers, probably buried in the list of DMs. There is nothing there to grab the attention of people like me. So it's not that I don't want to talk. It's just that you're not in my line of sight, and my brain is not the type to go hunting people down. I don't even do that with Rl friends. I can go months or years without messaging them, too.

That's just people.