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

writing style

Law school peeve: If, in your Legal Writing course, you are prescribing a specific style of writing (such as that suggested by Bryan Garner in, say, "The Winning Brief") please make sure that you faculty knows that this is the prescribed style.

I get it, in the real world, judges and such probably have a slew of different expectations, but guys. Come on. This is the low-hanging fruit. The stylistic choice of whether to use full-sentence headers or handful-of-words headers doesn't have a massive impact on the substance of the argument, and marking people down because they did what you told them to do except that this professor doesn't like it is fucking stupid.

That is all.

@Sparks said in Spawns and How You Use Them:

So, one thing I've been considering is making spawns less 'concrete', so you can stick them together to view everything or retroactively turn them on and alter scrollback, etc. It sounds to me like that could work nicely for you, so that you could turn off spawns when in 'heads down', and have everything slip into a single thing, but turn it back on with a single click when done Heads Down Mode.

So, I don't use Atlantis (because I don't have a Mac, and I'm pretty sure that it's Mac-only, yes), so I guess take this with a grain of salt, but: Personally, I've always hated spawns because they create a new window that I have to pay attention to.

But if we could combine two of the options mentioned above -- have it just go to the other half of the screen (maybe a little checkbox or something?) and have it pull all that stuff retroactively (another little checkbox maybe?) I'd probably actually use them, because that sounds like a hella nice feature to have.

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

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

I never realized how different they looked and how much they had aged until I went all the way back to the beginning and it was like 'holy shit.'

I didn't start watching until about..... two years ago, at the recommendation of a co-worker? And even so, whenever I see anything from the first few seasons, I go a bit wobbly-eyed trying to process that.

But. BUT. If you like the Supernatural soundtrack, there's an entire massive playlist of it on Spotify. I was raised on classic rock, so the roadtrip soundtracks were definitely part of what generated my soft spot for this show so damned fast.

!!!!!! OMG !!!!!!!

MSB is still pretty anonymous truth. be told. Unless you post something to a playlist or use the same handle on a game where it would be known, there is really nothing to tie you to any character on a MU. Some very clever people might pick up on things based on OOC comments, writing style, etc, but for the most part, if none of you ever told me who you played, I'd have no clue.

@too-old-for-this

This sounds like an excerpt from my biography.

@hella said in RL-Friendly Game Design:

@ganymede said in RL-Friendly Game Design:

(Just kidding: I concur that planning important get-togethers and keeping them short is a good policy to keep for non-sexy-time RP ... and sexy-time RP.)

Do people plan sexy-time RP? Like. "Thursday nights, we bone."

I would be as likely to lose track of time and forget in RP as I am in RL, so I don't know that this would help. <.< >.>

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

I am in a terrible spending spiral, and ordering out way too much. Like how lazy am I, when I can't fucking be arsed to boil pasta?

Babish - Aglio e Olio

This is simple to make. Like, dead simple. The hardest part is slicing and peeling the garlic, but it's so worth it. And it's dirt cheap.

I have made this stuff so much during COVID. It just doesn't get old. I seriously recommend that you give it a shot. You might end up eating out less just because this stuff isn't on the menu.

The main complaint I have about places code with traditional mux things and huge scenes is that often times, things said in places are directly relevant to the scene. So you get a lot of people remembering a lot of things said in the scene -- except they n ever make it to the main room, so the log is just this bare bones boring-ass nothing burger whereas all the important conversation happened on the purple fainting couches.

If it would auto-compile all of the places stuff into a final version of the log it'd be the bee's knees, but that's never how I've seen it used, so a lot of really important and/or useful information just disappears into the ether, even though people were expecting it to be saved.

I bet there's a way to make it happen. Coders are smart.

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

@derp That recipe is fine, and it was the first time I'd ever heard of pasta aglio e olio, but I recommend using an entire head of garlic, and crushing it rather than slicing it so it gets a nice crispy texture and clings to the pasta a bit better. And this will sound bizarre, but seriously, dissolving two sardines in the oil before adding the garlic adds a weird but really compelling flavor.

I personally do use an entire head of garlic, but I find that crushing it leads to it burning too easily, and I like big garlic pieces, so I slice mine. Crushing it would probably be faster, but I have one of those garlic press slicer-crucher things that makes just slicing it a breeze. You just put it in and squeeze and tada, garlic slices.

I will try this sardine thing though.

@devrex said in Wish Fulfillment RP:

@kk I'm a 5'5" guy, and while I just go with whatever height my PB is I am happy as all get out to get some one who is 6'2" and up. c_c

Short king!

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

@ganymede I had a Murano that did something similar one day. Had a nut on top of one of the battery terminals that was JUST barely not tight enough and needed a quarter turn to get full contact or would intermittently act like there was no battery at all.

Or it's because of the tourney. No good can come from winning.

That would have been my guess too. Loose terminals. YOu said that they were corroded? They might just need cleaned with a wire brush.

Alternatively, depending on how much nothing it's doing when you turn the key, the ignition switch might be going bad.

So. NodeBB 2.0. There are bound to be some weird things happening, either with plugins or something else. This is the place to put them. Find something broken? Find something cool? Plaster it here and we'll try to work through it together.

Oh my god, and they're two of my favorites, too.

Definitely going to be giving to this. So sad for her. For both of them.

@Devrex

Yeah, that's been kind of aproblem for me too. I've found that I need to set strict pose-time expectations for async scenes, otherwise people just tend to get to them when they get to them. Async is fine, but I think a pose time of 2-6 hours per pose is reasonable.

But that's another benefit of Ares. All the communications are easy to pull back up and go 'look, we definitely agreed on this thing here and that has not been happening so I think that we should work on wrapping this up asap'.

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

oh fuck I better find some CLEs to do...

National Constitution Center podcasts often count as CLE.

@hobos said in Observation:

I can't really make a post without taking a stab at a solution though, so how about... we try not to care if anyone tracks us down, and let our current behavior stand for itself if anyone does figure us out, because all that will do is let us know who our friends are... and we try to legitimately have better current behavior -- including being as actually fair as our theoretical code demands, when push come to shove?

Or we could not.

Personally, I'm not playing anywhere. It's kind of a bummer. I'm just too damned busy with life to actually devote hours and hours and hours of my time to a character that may or may not ever get accepted because I may or may not click with the 'in' group.

But I'm certainly not going to demand that people who are playing somewhere and have found that group (the MU equivalent of winning the lottery for many of the people that are still around here) out themselves just so that readers have some entertainment value. Especially not for people who themselves aren't posting the same content.

As far as being better or worse than other people? Opinions differ. I don't think any of us are saying that. I think that a lot of us have said that it's a better environment without certain voices, which is a different thing.

@Warma-Sheen said in Observation:

But also the "MU" in MU Soapbox seems to be conspicuously absent.

That's true. A lot of us aren't playing. We're getting older, we have more responsibilities, our fatigue with trying to appease certain groups grows by the day. But some people are still playing.

If you're playing somewhere, you could always post about that. I'm sure that there are plenty of readers out there that would like to see it. They may feel emboldened to do so themselves. Others don't, for the reasons noted above. It's just a kind of sad reality of an aging and fractured base.

But this forum isn't JUST for MUs. It hasn't been for basically the entire time it's existed. It's so that friends who have known each other for ages and ages have a place to come, check in, communicate about the things that are going on, vent frustrations, support each other, etc. MU is the thing that brought us all together, but it isn't the reason that we persist as a friend group.

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

Really hope they legalize/decriminalize it federally at some point so I can partake without risking my job.

As a note: It can still risk your job, even if it's decriminalized. Your employer can set a zero tolerance policy on anything, really. They do all the time with alcohol and tobacco.

Just saying, legalization isn't the end of the battle.

@Ghost

My dude. You’re a bit out over your skis here. Take a breath, find your chill. Reasonable people can disagree in reasonable ways. Your examples and language do not currently fall within the bounds of “reasonable”, nor in fact “mildly constructive.”

Take it down a few notches.

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

I'm really curious how this applies in the case of medical marijuana. Is it still the same or, given some of the things that it's allowed for in my state are protected under the ADA Amendments Act of 2008, would this now be considered a discriminatory act?
I dunno, but I would like to.

Given that it's still federally criminal, it would not be protected under any of the ADA Clauses.

ETA: If it were federally decriminalized, your employer could probably still end up being fairly discriminatory, especially if you are around machines / vehicles / anything at all wherein the effects of marijuana could present a hazard to yourself or those around you, the same as they can with opiate / opioid substances currently.

@LittleLizard said in The Case Against Real PBs:

And question why people who you believe are usually sensible people give it a pass.

Nobody gave it a pass. It was called out and acted upon. By two different admins.

Giving it a pass would be just ignoring it. That's not what happened.

Also, we took an action that we thought was appropriate once we conferenced a bit and talked about scope and impact, other things. If you don't agree with us? Cool. But it was our call, and that's the call we made.

To answer your much broader question above -- we'll always make decisions based on the totality of the circumstances, including the severity of the behavior and time between infractions.

Cool? Cool.