Posts made by Derp

@seraphim73 said in Wheel of Time MU*:

@sunny It absolutely could be run like that. Heck, the game that @Arkandel and I played on for... 20 years? Something like that, ended up having (essentially) 3 stats: Channeling Strength, Channeling Finesse, and Weaponmastery. All you did was compare those things and pose accordingly. That had its own issues (you "tested" with Staff to get and raise those stats, so there was room for a TON of favoritism), but it was nice and simple.

This is pretty much what Dev and I decided to do.

We get that it isn't the super dooper complicated channeling system from the books but also:

1. way before the books and
2. not really focused on channeling anyway

So it's really just treated like another skill with guidelines on what weaves are available and what they end up doing.

Hell, we only barely use the FS3 coded combat and just do more story-based resolutions with custom die rolls.

You absolutely can use FS3 to do WoT but if your major focus is channeling and getting everything absolutely perfect with it then yeah, that's gonna be a lot of overhead.

Kind of sounds like something that would be right up his alley, and I'd be interested to see what sort of coding comes out of that.

@alamias said in The Work Thread:

@kk said in The Work Thread:

I was actually bummed that MSB was done, because in the real life section, this is almost a safe space to rant and I needed to rant!

Yeah. I don't need to rant or anything most the time...but when MSB was down I felt something was missing. I didn't realize how much I rely on it for news and such during the day.

@greenflashlight

You probably won’t. The general consensus is that giving them airtime does nothing but help them, kind of for the same reason we don’t give much coverage to suicides anymore because it does no real good and a whole lot of harm.

People know nazis are bad. We fought a war about this. The whole world was in on it.

The only thing coverage of these rallies in some neutral fashion does is give the impression this is accepted and normalized and that if you do it you will get media attention.

I fully support the making of more games!

@icanbeyourmuse

This sounds neat!

@faraday said in General MSB announcements:

Having a discord for a message forum seems oddly redundant.

Well, given that the idea was 'we have no way to communicate with the Gods of MSB outside of MSB itself if something goes wrong with MSB', the redunancy part was intentional. The idea is to have some other line of communication.

Ares forums might be a good call.

This is the reason that the last and only vacation I have taken in my two years at my job was to attend Gencon.

I know that by the time I get back I'll have a pile of stuff that I'll never get out from under.

@testament said in Forum wonk:

With that said, if NodeBB is willing to migrate the server for a fee, I'm willing put $100 towards it.

We've set up GoFundMe's for all manner of things. I'm pretty sure that all of us could pitch something toward helping to get a thing migrated if it needs it.

@silverfox

A public health crisis is kind of a different animal from what shoes you're wearing or what church you go to.

A virus isn't a matter of opinion or personal preference. Kids not wearing masks should probably expect that people don't want to be around them as 2000 people a day die of a virus whose spread can help be prevented by simple things like putting a piece of cloth over your blowhole.

Editing my post because Dev beat me to the answer!

@snackness said in General MSB announcements:

@derp Or https://uptimerobot.com/

Well, there's that, too. I was more thinking about -- a game opened yesterday and an ad for it didn't get posted until just now because MSB was down and we weren't really sure where else a good central repository might be other than like mudconnector.

If MSB bites the bullet and isn't coming back up might be a good idea to have a place to go so that can be seen, somewhere. For all people gripe about this place sometimes it's still pretty much the only place I learn about new games and read reviews and whatnot, so if that resource goes dark forever it might be good to have an alternate line of communication to the people who can make those calls, for purposes of checking in or whatever.

@arkandel

Do the admins want to set up a non-MSB line of communication for issues in the future and/or updates if and when it finally dies? Like a discord or something?

@too-old-for-this

I think you underestimate the amount of influence students have on other students.

In either case, STILL not how separation of church and state works.

If I were @Wizz I would definitely be making some noise. Harassment based on atheism is harassment based on religious beliefs, and is unsupportable in a religiously neutral environment. If they had told a kid they couldn’t be friends because the kid was a Jew we wouldn’t even be debating whether intervention was appropriate.

Atheism is just as much a protected religious belief, and teachers are just as obligated to ensure that students are free from that kind of harassment. Period.

@too-old-for-this said in RL Anger:

But no, I will NEVER support teachers having to also make decisions on religious matters.

Yeah, that's not how separation of church and state works.

In this case, given that I'm assuming it's a public school and that these children are going to attempt to exclude this student from more than just their friendship during school hours, yeah. Teachers do, in fact, have an obligation to ensure that the students understand their religious beliefs don't get to dictate what happens at the school, so, kind of the opposite of what you're likely thinking, there.

@ganymede

Ehhhhhh. That -- really depends on what we're talking about when we say 'kids'.

A teacher letting a kid think it's ok to exclude someone because they don't believe in the same invisible man as you is about the most fertile ground for future bigotry I can think of.

Especially if these are very young kids.

If their parents want them to believe that strongly in whatever, private religious schools are an option, and they can pay to have their child go to the super elite place where they can solely be around their own people.

@roz said in The Work Thread:

@derp It's a nice thought, but haven't studies shown that giving people unlimited vacation actually ends up with them taking less vacation than they would otherwise?

I mean, maybe, but currently that's less of an issue than people coming in to work with a plague, so. That'll be the next thing to deal with.

@roz

What Gany is saying is that giving people sick leave as a reward for attendance incentivizes attendance and creates a fear of using a limited resource, whereas we should do away with sick leave entirely and just give people performance benchmarks, allow them to effectively set their own schedule, work from anywhere if they want, and then just check to make sure the work is getting done per performance window, which you get paid a set salary for.

It would encourage people to not show up to work when sick, or when having an emergency, or whatever, and give them the flexibility to go on trips or do vacations or whatever else they need to do so long as their basic job expectations are being met, with a set pay schedule per performance period and not productive hour.

I've generally seen all time where you aren't in the workplace referred to as Paid Time Off if you're getting paid for it, but some people decide to split it into weird buckets, and there's no standardization for it.

For instance, I have:

Sick Leave
Vacation
Personal Leave
Funeral Leave

And then my Personal Leave is capped at 3 days but any additional gets rolled into extra sick leave.

All of that is PTO, but for some reason people just -- use PTO as some kind of weird extra bucket of stuff for -- reasons.

@arkandel

OMG LOOK AT DEM EARS! LOVE IT!