Posts made by EmmahSue

Braindead is the less serious West Wing meets sci-fi space-bugs in ears, yes. I didn't like Wynona Earp as much as I wanted to. I'm enjoying Preacher but I find it confusing now and again; I'm not a huge fan of surrealism for its own sake.

If you want animes to watch Ark, you can look my big list over:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1z7bopO0U4iD0xMp-gNQwFPF3-_Q-v7gzDQbBh77fVaI/edit?usp=sharing

That list is my comments, HR's comments about my comments, and Glitch's comments about both of our comments. Keep in mind that I hate Slice of Life with the passion of a thousand burning suns, and despite RPing it myself a time or two, I find bro/sis-con animes totally off-putting and won't watch them.

I'm told Outlander is fun, but I hates the time travel too much to really consider it. If you haven't watched Penny Dreadful yet, you're a monster who needs to get on it tout de suite. And if you're at all a fan of silly reality shows, Alone (on the History channel) is entertaining fluff about people living solo in the wilderness of Vancouver Island for as long as possible with limited supplies, with the longest-lasting getting 500k.

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Cirno has been re-banned under his newest name.

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MOOC: Ethical Leadership says that ethical leaders are shaped by narratives, particularly their own in conjunction with the background of the world physically, culturally, politically, economically. Those narratives shape the leader-to-be and how she presents herself outwards.

MOOC: Science of Every Day Thinking tells us that memories aren't etched in stone, that they change every time they come up. That we're not lying deliberately if we remember something incorrectly, but truly remembering with all the strength of our brain's inability to store objective truth.

How do these two lessons interact? Does reinvention of self (however unconscious it may be for the purposes of this question) remove the necessary authenticity of a Leader? If we're constantly rewriting our own stories for ourselves, whether to make ourselves more the hero or less, are we also turning a true narrative false? As far as slippery slopes go, it feels a little shaky underfoot to say it's okay for this to happen. But if it's not okay, how on earth do we fight our own internal mechanisms to keep it from happening?

EL (Tony Morrison quote) goes on to state that memory is a form of willed creation. It's not the search for the way it really was: that's research. Instead, the point is to dwell on the way it appeared and why it appeared in that particular way.

Does acknowledging the potential falseness of the memory make it less abhorrent to be false? Where does the need for honesty (to self, if not to others) as a facet of honorable behavior, fit into that concept?

To twist it to MU-focus: We save logs, both on our own and on wiki, to remember what happened as if that were the whole of the situation. But reading a log doesn't tell us what mood we were in, whether our friend was being friendly or snippy in those paged asides. Every time we go back and re-read, we do so as if the situation were happening new, with that moment's emotional weight on the text. Is there a way to use that to our benefit as a community?

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This has started! Chapter One released on May 24th, with Chapter Two on June 7th. I'll probably ramble off and on here as the mood strikes, based on what's come up. Anyone and everyone who wants to join in, whether the full course or just conversation, is welcome.

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@TNP

We haven't taken the final step yet, since we're moving everything in stages. The final step (DUN-DUUUUN) will hide all Hog Pit posts, including notifications on unread threads, from anyone who hasn't joined the Pitcrew.

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@Admiral said in Changes to The Hog Pit:

Hiding it won't change the content of other posts.

It will just decrease the number of posts in the Hog Pit.

You're absolutely correct that it won't change the content of other posts. That's not the point of the shift in focus.

I want to allow the Pit to do what it do, but not have it front and center. This is an attempt to do so. It might turn out that this doesn't have the effect we aim for; it's easy enough to change back if that's the case. We're not married to this idea 'til death do us part.

But I at least want to see what the board can do when the Pit and its environs are opt-in instead of automatic; what sort of tonal change will or won't take place? I'm personally hoping it's towards the positive (that is to say, towards conversation and benefit-to-community, not specifically treacly sweetness-and-light). Glitch and Theno can speak for themselves on what they hope to get out of it.

As to decreasing the number of posts in the Pit itself, I suspect that putting it behind a curtain will make folks even more likely to go vitriolic, but I'd be glad to be wrong.

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The idea of making the Hog Pit opt-in is less about the recent explosion of crazy -- if you'll recall, their crazy happened in the non-Pit areas first, and were then moved as appropriate -- and more about trying a new way to encourage more discussion rather than all ugly all the time. We don't dislike the Pit, and certainly we've all posted there our share.

It's an attempted shift in focus, I suppose. Making it opt-in means someone who wants to interact with that level of vitriol (giving, receiving, or just watching from the sidelines), has to make the decision and act on it, rather than it being splashed willy-nilly even on those who don't care to do so.

She says with run-on sentences a-go-go.

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Prolly Glitch or Theno's doing. They're better at naming.

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In the row of icons up top, there's one that looks like a group (ha ha ha) of people. Click on it. Click on the group you want. Join at will.

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A new group has been created: Hog Pit'ers. This is an open, public group for anyone to join. At some point this coming weekend, the Hog Pit will be placed behind that group, so that only those who want to see it, do.

The only change will be that it is opt-in; if you don't want to participate in those threads, don't join the group. If you do, you know where to click.

This thread is open for questions.

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We're investigating.

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Sandor has been banned. If you have questions, you may ask them and I'll decide at that time if I have the fucks left to answer. My give-a-fuck levels in this matter are not a reflection on you, but the situation. Please don't use this thread to cheer or chime in or whathaveyou, because that'll just make it all the more tiring in the end.

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I've put this topic back into Mildly Constructive. Please keep it that way. If you find yourself veering, do it elsewhere.

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Locking this thread to split it. I'll unlock afterwards.

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Mod Voice:

This thread has gone beyond the announcement; I should have locked it to begin with, but didn't think it through clearly in time. I'm locking it now.

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We're not here to be everyone's mommy and daddy; if people want to be awful to each other in the Hog Pit, that's their business. Anyone, at any time, can just mark those threads read and never bother with actually reading them (I do this regularly). But he took it into private conversations and continued the abuse despite being told to go away.

This is not a hard and fast rule. Every situation is going to be different.

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Rick Sanchez has been banned. If you have any questions regarding this, please feel free to ask.

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Just in time for me to think about not running a Mage-game after all!

Is this what irony is? Do we need to call Ms. Morissette?

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Almost always the latter. This may explain why I've run more scenes than played my own PC.

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This topic was briefly locked while I split it up. It's open again. I'm going to move it to the Suggestions area, since any original Announcing is long since past.

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