Posts made by Ganymede

"Adora, you should have stayed away. Why did you come back? We both know I don't matter."

"[desperately] You matter to me."

That time when you cried mercilessly in front of your daughter watching She-Ra S5E5.

@lotherio

Cat lawyers.

@crawfish

I am willing to pay for a sketch of Piccola that I will use for her PB.

@goblin

@cobaltasaurus

Sounds to me like they are lying to you.

Your doctor, presuming they are ethical and competent, should have someone covering them while they are out, in case of emergencies.

This sounds like one.

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

"Oh, <your doctor> isn't going to be in for the rest of the week."

"You actually have a duty to inform a patient of their results upon request as well; please have someone call me back immediately or else the next one you will receive will be from my lawyer."

@lotherio said in Developing a WoD Codebase for Ares:

Any mummy except the Saqqara mummies, their opening brought the curse of 2020.

Pretty sure their curse was The Mummy released in 2017.

@ominous

@derp

@quinn

Fuck.

There. I made a topic for you.

@derp said in So I read a thing... [Yet Another City of Hope Hate Post]:

Also given that we've turned to game development we should probably move this to an appropriate place.

I warned everyone about making me do work here, but if you want me to move this discussion I would be happy to do it so that I can lay into this shithole of a game to my heart's content without worrying about clipping a conversation in passing.

@tnp

This is true. My post was calculated for the lion's share of scenes I'm involved with, which are small in number.

@rucket said in Sensitivity in gaming:

I mean, it could work for MUs if people were willing to put in the effort to tag events, or if Staff very clearly lay out what sorts of content players might expect on their game in a rating file. Usually when I see any sort of content warning it's just "R - Adult things may happen" or some such shit.

Here's what I think people are dancing around.

First, there could be tags or ratings for scenes to give people a heads-up on where the GM hopes to go. But having run enough scenes with enough people, I know that a GM can't truly predict what's going to happen. GMs may go into things with the best of intentions, and have it go horribly wrong.

Second, staff leaning on a rating system as a crutch can lead to mischief. For example, if I'm going into a scene which is rated NC-17 I may be ready for something like Adele Exarchopolous' and Lea Seydoux's sex scenes in Blue is the Warmest Colour, but may also have a problem with Monica Bellucci's rape in Irreversible. Creepers also seem to thrive in places which have these levels of "consent" to scenes, where they can manipulate a player into believing they have to play through something because "IC consequences" and "you knowingly entered into an NC-17 scene."

Finally, MUSHing is akin to improv and therefore requires far more collaboration than either a TT game or a movie to work. Rating systems are good when you know the end product, but that's not really the case in MUSH scenes.

I think the better policy is to have player-end preference lists that a GM should examine before they put together a scene and run it. If a player wants to dive off the deep-end, the GM can wrangle them back in by saying something like: "hey, look, what you want to do is going to run afoul of your fellow players' preferences, but if they are okay with it we can go forward; input, everyone?"

@cobaltasaurus

Unfortunately that really modernly-tasteless joke Eddie Murphy made about getting AIDS on their lips is sort of how COVID-19 gets around.

@arkandel said in Dead Celebrities 2021 Edition:

But damn, I loved it so much. This man was a legend. RIP.

I know. I saw him in King Lear.

@arkandel

@faraday said in Sensitivity in gaming:

Literally nobody is seriously suggesting that you should put things like "spiders" or "canadian geese" or whatever into a content warning field.

Sounds like someone who hasn't been attacked by a Canada Goose.

(It's Canada Goose, by the way, yanks.)

@derp said in Sensitivity in gaming:

But I don't look at MU like home. It's only barely life. It's a pastime that I share with strangers, only a handful of whom are actually in what I would consider a friend circle, and therefore they get the same distance as every other stranger.

I see your point on this, I suppose, which is succinctly:

"MUSHing is a hobby in which I keep people at arms' length so I don't see any reason to give them any more consideration than I would a stranger I meet in court."

For me, though, it is because I don't know them that I feel compelled to be a little more cautious in my deportment. That is, I am more apt to watch what I say I do so as to not give unnecessary offense.