Best posts made by faraday

@reimesu said in The Case Against Real PBs:

I'm watching an awful lot of people backseat mod when they don't want to step up.

You specifically asked for my suggestions; I gave them.

But frankly, no - I don't want to be a mod on a forum that for years has consistently said "thx but no" to my pleas for a different moderation style.

It's your (collective) right to choose how to run the forum. It's my right to be disappointed and frustrated when every conversation in even the "mildly constructive" section devolves into a flame war.

@Ghost said in Bring back the Hog Pit:

I think it (HP) stands more than anything as a recorded history of mistreatment for far, far more people than it stands as a memory of good times for the people who thrived in it, and for the life of me cant understand why the former isnt the more important culture to protect

Burning the evidence of mistreatment may not help them either though.

But I don't really have a strong opinion one way or the other. I didn't read it when it was live, I'm not reading it now that it's locked, and I wouldn't read it if it were in a HTML archive.

I merely point out that a middle ground of a static HTML archive does, technologically speaking, exist.

@Ghost said in I owe a lot of people some apologies.:

It's at the point that a code base used by many, many games (Ares) own creator doesn't partake in the hobby

That's mostly due to a lack of spoons and personal issues, not quitting the hobby as a whole. I think many of the Ares games are lovely, but I have very narrow tastes (which is why I've usually run my own games.)

@Tapewyrm said in I owe a lot of people some apologies.:

Thus far, the answer to this question has been evaded.

Derp gave a pretty clear answer, I felt, about how rules are applied equally?

But you seem to want black and white answers on a nuanced issue. Someone could use the term "toxic femininity" as part of a healthy discussion on social expectations, tropes, etc. or they could use it as an epithet to shut down a conversation in an insulting, dismissive fashion. Same with "toxic masculinity".

Whatever you think of the context that sparked this in the first place (and I have half the convo blocked so I couldn't weigh in on the particulars even if I cared to), that context does matter.

@Hella said in I owe a lot of people some apologies.:

And when you find them? It's worth the rest.

Yeah, I don't mean to downplay the drama and toxic behavior, which has always existed in MUs. All I mean is that -- for me, personally -- the good people and fun have always outweighed the bad. Otherwise I would've quit long ago.

But there's some selection bias there. I don't play on WoD or L&L games, which tend to have more PVP-oriented shenanigans, or Comic games, which tend to have fights over who gets to play (or hook up with) Batman or whatever, etc., etc. That's not to say my games are happy unicorn utopias - it's still strangers playing games on the internet, and sometimes there are issues. But they're not the cesspool of bullying that Ghost has seen, either.

I had just done a college essay on Michael Faraday, and he was a pretty cool scientist/engineer. Seemed fitting for my first staff coder bit.

For PCs, I tend to just use names that I like, since I'm going to have to constantly be typing and seeing them. Occasionally I'll come up with a unique one special to a setting/etc. (on The 100, for instance, they used variants of local place names/signs), but mostly I just rotate ones from my 'stable' of names.