@Roz said in MSB alias/username:
Years ago when I got asked to join staff on X-Men Movieverse MOO, I took the staff bit name Rosalind. (It was a Shakespearean theme.) Which shortened to Roz, which has become my regular online alias.
Years ago, I read As You Like It, and I found myself taking the name "Ganymede" from it.
It has a more specific, personal meaning, but there you have it, as you like it.
@Arkandel said in Strange Game Dev Inquiries from surreality (condensed):
It is not. Constructive is asking them to stop and notifying an admin to take action if they think it's beyond the forum's rules.
I suppose @Ghost could have simply pointed to this post from @bored a week ago:
Several people comment how they don't play, and just kind of participate here. To me this is a hint of how little there is to actually enjoy in the hobby any more. Most games have the same problems they always have, good RP is painfully scarce, and little of what you can scrape up is worth the effort. Of course, a lot of this is due to a change in personal standards of effort/reward compared to games getting worse, although there are factors on that side too (very sandboxy games, etc).
I obviously count in the above category, except that I don't even post here that much. And when I do, it's primarily to be negative. So I probably haven't moved on as much beyond the WORA mindset as I'd like to think, which is on me. Then again, I think there's a lot of people like me; it's just a matter of the degrees to which people go to veil their vitriol in politeness.
To amend @Ghost's comment, perhaps: "Immature troglodytes like you who freely admit that they are here to be negative and cannot find any reason to continue to remain an active participant in the hobby, yet still feel compelled to arrive and take a shit on others' ideas, are the reason people get all kinds of squicked in this hobby, or on these boards, and I hope a bear shits in your mouth."
Constructively, I sincerely hope @surreality changes her mind, comes back, and finishes her work. Or, if she doesn't, that she has a splendiferous time hopefully not having to defend her work against people that, by their own admission, don't give two shits about her success or failure.
@Thenomain said in Strange Game Dev Inquiries from surreality (condensed):
@Ganymede said in Strange Game Dev Inquiries from surreality (condensed):
Sorry, @Thenomain.
Yes, because I know who you're going to ask for code...
I meant, I'm bumping our Mass Effect project.
@surreality said in Strange Game Dev Inquiries from surreality (condensed):
Honestly, no. This was mine.
That's fine. @Thenomain can breathe again.
@surreality said in Strange Game Dev Inquiries from surreality (condensed):
...and I'm sorry, @cirim13.
It is not my intent to let anybody down in this. It's something I'd wanted to do for a long time, but I am just... done.
Tell you what.
Gimme what you got. I'll work with @Lisse24, and do what I can to lift the project off the ground. Least I could do.
Sorry, @Thenomain.
@surreality said in Strange Game Dev Inquiries from surreality (condensed):
I was already on my way out the door after the friend jacking me around six ways to Sunday for months, and I'd hoped to get the game theory stuff and whatnot done, up, and available before checking the fuck out to hopefully leave something useful behind, but really, I have no patience for the kind of bullshit going down with all the crazy assumptions and failures of reading comprehension.
I can't imagine why. I mean, it's not like you don't have a full life, hobbies, work, and a whole lot of other rewarding things in your life to spend time on.
That you even bothered to respond substantively is something of a curiosity.
We will likely always be here. At least, I'm pretty sure I will be. If your exit turns out to be a vacation, I'll hold the door open for your return.
@Meg said in Strange Game Dev Inquiries from surreality (condensed):
And also, because @bored is getting piled on. Not for no reason, but definitely more than they deserve.
You think @bored is getting piled on? You must be new here.
@surreality said in Strange Game Dev Inquiries from surreality (condensed):
...I hope? I suppose if someone had a very flowers and friendly lovey dovey family sort of workplace the skulls might be troublesome, but there's no nudity. Would not recommend browsing while running a daycare, however.
Drily, if you're running a day care, pictures of skulls on your computer is the least of your worries this allergy/sickness season.
I like the logo, though. And, for the most part, I think your ideas are pretty spot-on. My wariness is largely a product of ennui.
The problem I have with that line of thinking is that things like the Traci Lords case start to rear their ugly heads. Traci Lords was underage when doing her most famous works. WAY underage. Like scary levels of underage: 15 when she started and 17 by the time she quit the industry. She accomplished this through the use of fake ID and a ... how to put this? ... body developed well in advance of her actual age.
I'm not saying I'm against the idea of a defense based on mistake. I'm just trying to explain the mentality towards not having such a defense. The Traci Lords case is isolated and extreme; the average case is much more mundane.
Have you ever asked for ID before having sex? If so, I think there's a hole in your defense.
Personally, no. I've never been the kind of guy who set out to "get laid".
Right. I don't think many people do. So, if they make a mistake, they haven't engaged in an objectively-reasonable practice to determine if a sexual partner is of age. And if they do, it suggests that they are aware of the possibility the victim may be underage, which connotes an attraction to underage sexual partners.
I mean, it's sort of a circular argument, full of innuendo and fueled by speculative stereotypes. That's why the defense has problems in practice, and why some states decided fuck it all bad no defense.
@Arkandel said in Strange Game Dev Inquiries from surreality (condensed):
How so in this case though? If all of them are equally available without special approval?
Much like the practice of law, you really can't stop people from making unsupported accusations that are actually not true.
@bored said in Strange Game Dev Inquiries from surreality (condensed):
Again, while you insist on continuing to read my reference to a very common and obvious MU trope as a personal accusation that HEY GUYS SURR IS CORRUPT, I can't help you.
You're not very good at gaslighting; no one's buying it.
Your truism isn't a truism. It's neither Polonian nor remotely anecdotal. Your statement regarding snowflakes may be true for you and some others, but it clearly isn't for others. You can accept that people will push back against your version of existence or not, but you ought to accept that people's hackles will arise if you suggest that special snowflakes are going to be staff's friends or staff themselves.
That said, I'm a bit leery of the idea myself. In my experience, games that have mundanes (non-narwhals) and specials (narwhals) attract staff favoritism accusations and acts. I agree with you there. I'm willing to give @surreality and @Coin the benefit of the doubt, of course, but I'm wary.
Coming up with a system will be difficult and require careful balancing.
Morally I think it's a fine defense, given the sheer volume of business in things like fake ID out there. Any law that requires psychic powers as its sole means of protection from prosecution is a stupid law.
Have you ever asked for ID before having sex? If so, I think there's a hole in your defense.
“If she steps out and looks like she’s 18 years old, that’s on her. That’s just how I feel about it,” one man said during jury selection.
The mistake-of-age defense is still viable in several states, notably Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Missouri, Montana, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
The defense is premised on the idea of mens rea as a requirement for all crimes. To wit: If you did not know you were having a sex with a minor, did you commit a crime? There is a high requirement of proof for this defense, generally, but it is a solid one.
Source: http://njdc.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/AgeGapProvisions.pdf
@Arkandel said in Random links:
Obsession Is Natural, by Kobe Bryant.
His eagerly awaited sequel, Paying for Raping Someone is Natural, will apparently be co-authored by Bill Cosby, and include a forward by Ben Roethlisberger..
@egg said in Are there any active sci-fi MU*s these days?:
Oh, very cool. I haven't played d20 in YEARS (and years and years) but I'm at least no stranger to it. Very nice that people are willing to build +sheets on there. I am not the most mechanics-y player around, so that's something in favor of that game.
The other good thing about SAGA and these games is that the CGen and help files are very robust. You could feasibly learn the system just by checking out all of help files. Plus, searching online for .pdf compendia is easy.
@Scissors said in Why do you play? (Or not.):
I have no clue about BSG (except everyone's girlfriend is a Cylon), but since it's YOU who recommended it, I'll go take a look soon.
Thanks.
It's a good game, seriously. @faraday's code here takes a lot of things into consideration, and they aren't insignificant. For instance, there's a command that allows you to roll someone else's pool. So, people can participate by proxy, if allowed to.
Try BSG: Unification? Small place. Space is fun. And the game is very pretty and well set-up.
@faraday said in Are there any active sci-fi MU*s these days?:
But then, the Star Wars movies use WWII props, so... eh... it's Hollywood.
Then explain this:
@il-volpe said in Are there any active sci-fi MU*s these days?:
I found it weirdly distracting to see that I have an identical radio and dog-bowl to the ones used by these space people from other planets.
Makes you wonder about whether dogs are truly man's best friend, or whether we have been conditioned to believe so.
@Three-Eyed-Crow said in Are there any active sci-fi MU*s these days?:
There are a handful of semi-active Star Wars games right now...I think? Fires of Hope and Dawn of Defiance are the names that come most readily to mind. I keep meaning to check them out but...motivation, you are a fickle fiend.
These are both great games, from what I've seen and played.