Posts made by Derp

@Macha

That sounds fun!

Yeah, just read about her too. Sad.

@Devrex

For those that don’t click the link:

Dev’s cat needs emergency, life-saving surgery. Regardless of our personal opinions of each other and the tribalism that comes of it, our furbabies have always been a rallying point for the community. I hope that they can continue to be. Please help if you can, and even if you can’t, please share the message. This is the worst situation for a pet parent to find themselves in, and I know that we can pull together to help a kitty.

@Kumakun

Sounds fun!

@LemonAid

Looks fun! Hope this does well!

Dominos coupon code 5162:

Large five topping for basically half price. Comes out to like 12 bucks here. Might be more where you are but give it a shot.

@Macha

She had a good run though. 83 and a hell of a life story.

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

@Devrex Today in our Friday meeting it was emphasized how they could not make exceptions every day for everyone.

Well then thankfully they only have to make the reasonable accommodations for those affected by disability every day. As required by law.

@reimesu

The Darth Jar-Jar theory is one of my personal favorites.

So one of the very first tabletops I ever ran was just for me and a handful of friends, and my at-the-time boyfriend. Well, kid sister to one of the friends was like 12, and wanted to get involved in some of what we were doing. Kid sister was pretty cool, so I agreed to let her play.

This kid, man. She soaked up pretty much the entire rulebook inside of a day, was asking me advanced questions about gameplay by the end of the week. Hadn't even played yet, but I was starting to get a feel for where her mind was going.

Well, I knew that the others at the table were either going to take it easy on her for being new, or try to do the whole newbie initiation hazing thing that they do, and I was starting to get a feel for how her mind worked. So I set her up as one of the villains of the story, infiltrating the group and actively working to undermine them from the inside.

And man, this kid sold it. Every time they would encounter a setback that she had cleverly engineered, she would be the first up in arms, calling for them to mount up and ride off, no time to wait or rest or prepare, we have to go get that son of a gun!. And the rest of the people at the table are just like "Yeah, we can do it, rar!"

And I'm trying so hard not to just lose it because this kid's acting is worthy of Hollywood, right? And she's coming up with just the most devious stuff -- we had agreed that if she had a question she could write it on an index card and I would write the answer back, since she was new and playing shy (this was well before texting was anything like easy or affordable, SMASH THAT BUTTON 4 TIMES FOR S, 25 CENTS A MESSAGE), so nobody else was catching on.

So by the end of it she's managed to sabotage half their efforts and prevented them from resting in their haste to race to the bad guy, and when they show up, she just casually adopts this big, chipper smile like 'Alright, they're all yours now, I'll be in my room!' Grabs a blow-pop from the big bowl, and just straight up walks out of the room with a little skip in her step before the big boss battle.

They still managed to win, but man, it was a tough fight, and they never underestimated this kid again. She was a regular in our group for like four years, and is easily one of the best players I'd ever met. I'm thrilled that I was able to introduce her to the hobby, and I hope that she's carried that torch forward.

@TNP

Hey dude?

We.

Can.

Read.

Who are you trying to fool?

@Ghost

May I also suggest:

“EVERYONE’S MENTAL HEALTH IS THEIR OWN PROBLEM BUT IF YOU ACCIDENTALLY STUMBLE INTO MY OBSCURE TRAUMA IT IS YOUR SOLEMN DUTY TO TRIP ALL OVER YOURSELF TO APPEASE ME YOU INSENSITIVE TOXIC JERK.”

@Ghost said in Ruiz:

Also, to add:

Of course, I joke up above with gifts of champagne bottles because the truth, tongue in cheek, is that despite the insistence of many that everyone here (including myself) is toxic, there sure are a lot of forays away from that safe space where we arent to interface with us and subject themselves to this so-called unbearable toxicity.

It's kind of the unspoken truth of the situation altogether

Which is precisely why I’m not exactly bending over backwards to do what @hobos is talking about. Would I like this board to be more positive? Sure. It’s a good goal I think.

But I’m also not an idiot, and people like TNP and Tez aren’t coming here to engage in good faith. They’re just coming here to fling shit because they can, and I have no intention of being so bound up in bureaucratic red tape that I just shrug and go ‘but what can you do? Rules.’

The rules exist to guide our actions and (hopefully) make a better board. But they chose to go a different direction, and I’m not going to sit here and pretend that there’s any chance of somehow winning them back. There isn’t. I know it. They know it. Everyone reading this knows it, and if the the expectation is that the admins are going to just sit back quietly and not call them out on that behavior? Then you’re going to be disappointed.

For the people who actually do want to engage in good faith and build something positive, we’re here. But if the BMD crew just wants to behave like howling shitgibbons and scream about how we’re supposed to be better than them, I have no patience for it. They have a board, they can act like idiots there.

@Cobalt said in Ruiz:

I’m really tired of this particular community using the fact that I engaged in sexual RP in the past to shame me or question my judgments.

To be clear, it's not slut shaming. I don't give a shit who you get down with, or don't. I actively encourage people to bang it out with whoever they want.

My question wasn't about sex. It's about boundaries and using positions of authority to gatekeep RP and leverage your own desires, sometimes crossing into territory that the community has a whole has considered unethical for some time.

So fly your freak flag high. Nobody is slut-shaming. But dipping your toes into a situation as an admin that your PC has a stake in? Not a good thing to do, and something that we should all be questioning more. The fact that, in my experience, you do it more with romantic situations is really entirely tangential to the point, not the focus.

As for playing on one of your games, I haven't done that since Darkwater, and don't plan to. Ever. Not only for the reasons Reimesu mentioned, but also because I respect you as a player and a coder, but think you're a garbage decision maker. I'm sure you have even less respect for me than that anymore, so it'd be foolish to pretend that we were ever going be copacetic in any scenario.

You do you. I'll do me. We'll both continue living the same as before.

@Bessarion

Logs that were very selectively provided, which were later proven to be only a partial picture wherein he actively continued to engage her for sexual RP while she was concerned that he was harem building?

That's based on logs too.

Not that the existence of this evidence has exonerated @Macha in the eyes of her accusers, naturally. She's surely done something else equally abhorrent so she's still just as guilty.

I hypothesize that there might be more to then story and I'm 'writing fan fiction' and 'making up crimes out of thin air', but they can ignore actual exonerating evidence while continuing to decry her as the devil.

Kind of like that same group did to you, what. Last week?

@hobos

That's not how conjecture works. If I had proof of something happening right now then I would simply post that and it would no longer be conjecture.

Then it would be an accusation.

But I did not make an accusation. I said, based on my past experiences, that it would not surprise me if there were an alternate explanation for the situation that went something more along the lines of the hypothetical scenario.

Which is why it's conjecture. It might not have gone down like that. But based on who is involved, my own personal knowledge, and the actions of everyone all around? I won't rule it out.

Players can come to their own conclusions. They're going to anyway regardless of what gets said or what evidence is presented, as we can see from the community response to this situation even after exonerating evidence is presented. But being made aware that there are possibly other motives involved is hardly News at 11 for MU-land. That's our standard playbook.

@Cobalt

I said that it was conjecture. But that conjecture is based on past experience, wherein you did this to me, personally, twice. (Or three times. I suppose it depends on whether you count 'twice at the same time across different games' as one incident or two.)

I didn't say that's what you did here. Maybe you've changed. It was a long time ago. I said that it would not surprise me if the actual events were more like what I described in the, again, statement of conjecture.

That said, you have done it. Repeatedly. Pretty shamelessly, I might add. It's a pattern that I've personally witnessed, and in fact been on the receiving end of. So I'm perfectly allowed to wonder, and even hypothesize, that maybe you had a personal stake in this incredibly hasty and rash action that, from all evidence so far, was based on exactly the kind of weaponized accusation that I repeatedly warn against.

Perhaps, in the future, consider digging a little deeper before doing something hasty. This one seems to have come back to bite you a bit.

There are several threads scattered around this here forum somewhere. I’ll see if I can track one down.

@simplications

Didn’t you just disavow us with a dramatic exit not even a page ago? Is this one of those “I wish I knew how to quit you” situations? Get in or get out but don’t stand there yelling through the screen door.