@mietze said in MSB: The meta-discussion:
Everyone knows that everything you say in skype and all always gets back to people eventually.
I can agree with you on this. I can attest that this is one-hundred percent true.
Edit/Addition: ...But it doesn't stop it from happening as if it won't get back to the person.
@Ganymede You make a hell of a point.
@Wretched if you're going for data entry, all of the QA, code-checking, app review, wiki editing, UNIX command throwing, etc could all be written as positives in a resume or interview.
"I work with some of my friends on online UNIX systems, which was a lot of data entry and code checking, so I have a lot of attention to detail and am very comfortable in an environment where information has to be accurate and correctly reviewed."
While it's not much more than introductory, technically maintaining a DB is a form of data custodianship.
@WTFE said in MSB: The meta-discussion:
@faraday said in MSB: The meta-discussion:
…I regarded [Electric Soup] as a success while it lasted.
Literally everything is a success while it lasts. Even if it lasts a few microseconds. What you said up there is basically the equivalent of "the operation was a success until the patient died on the table".
There was very little constructive point to this reply, and I think this is a prime example of the kind of attitude people are talking about on MSB.
You had an opportunity to keep the topic about Electric Soup and instead chose to wax negative on the definition of success.
So, seriously, there's no need for responses like this.
--On Point
Is there anything left of Electric Soup? I must have missed this entirely or it was before my time. Anything about it I can read up on?
@Meg You should try a Misfit's/Orphan's Thanksgiving.
We try to do one once a year where the day after Thanksgiving we get together with our friends for something like a THANKSGIVING 2, but mostly for people who either dont have family in town or dont like them.
Take the hole. Fill it with warm.
@WildBaboons Ya got me there. 
Guilty as charged. Nerd card on +warn
@surreality Agreed. Non-personal griping can really open a good discussion on conduct, how to write policies, etc. God knows you and I have talked at length about all of your awesome policy write-up ideas. I love the way you focus on the bigger picture when thinking about these things, and the ability to bring up behaviors and other issues, without personal attacks, is really just problem identification and a solid part of the improvements process.
Having said that, I think a lot of people on the boards are always on the lookout for being someone's vague-post topic. The assumption is, if it's being made vague on MSB, it's being far less vague via pages, and people want to know if they're being complained/shit talked in a way where they can neither address the problem, nor defend their actions, purposeful or not.
So I think with many of these vague posts about behaviors there's always a quick round of OMG ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT ME? that happens, which determines whether or not it needs to be a fight, ugly, etc.
LOL I think we've messaged each other a few times with: "heyyyyy that wasn't about me was it? Are we okay?"
Yeah, because shit goes from okay to NOT OKAY in the blink of an eye around here sometimes.
Who the fuck can relax, rp, and have fun while having to watch out for that shit?
TMW someone you work with (who is pretty cool) is in a swinger relationship with their wife, then you see them suddenly hanging out a lot with a couple from work who are fucking annoying morons and you want to be like "DUDE NOT THEM AUGH!"
@Cupcake said in MSB: The meta-discussion:
OMG @GHOST ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT ME?!?!?!?!?!?!
@Thenomain said in MSB: The meta-discussion:
Incidentally, "still around" is a shitty metric of success.
The Cleveland Browns
Piece of shit internet people who consider themselves hilarious (yet noble, caring safe space) people to bag on someone for having a cause, but never stop to consider the reason for the cause could be related to personal trauma.
Those people can go fuck themselves.
I'm getting really tired of my SO's SuperChristian friends posting things all over their Facebooks about how when things get bad, all you need to do is sow some positive seeds and the world will magically become a wonderful place.
Fuck you, bitch. Positive attitude doesn't stop throwing stars and you've got a dumb fucking haircut.
@FiranSurvivor I'm amazed there isn't a new one. Wikidot has got to know who we are. We create and abandon wikis more frequently than Kardashians get married.
Not a lot of depth to mine. Ghost is short, sweet, and I've used the word in numerous ways in RL tabletop games. I also like the band Ghost...and it wasn't already taken.
@bored I'm saying this to be constructive, not hostile, but I keep rereading your posts and I think you need to take a break. Not necessarily from the hobby, but perhaps this thread.
This stuff isn't that important.
Shit. This Bowie one is actually impacting me.
When I was a kid, I once took a picture of Bowie to a hairstylist because I wanted to have Bowie's haircut. I loved his music.
I haven't picked up Blackstar yet, but I wonder if it will be like Johnny Cash: American IV, because it was clearly obvious Cash knew that would going to be his final album when he made it.
Weeeeelllp. Looks like Chewlie's Gum guy got what he wanted.
Good luck on you and your friend's 7th Sea game, you lifeless fuck.
I highly recommend this on crunchyroll
Because what's better than a teenaged kid surrounded by cute anime girls who is forced to choose between two horrible multiple choice decisions (Like: Telling a girl she has small boobs OR Taking off his shirt and run around squealing like a stuck pig) or suffer blinding pain until he chooses one of the two.
I'm exiting the thread, but I want to let it be said that when someone who's made a post seeking constructive input that she's worked hard on, for a game idea, getting nitpicked until she says "fuck it" and walks away, leaving the rest of us to look forward to the upcoming games run by the people who henpecked her to death...is not constructive.
What we end up with is a dwindling pool of new ideas and an environment defended by a handful of reliable long-timers and a growing population of people who have succeeded in chasing others off.
What happened in this thread was absolute horse shit, and while it may sound like Hog Pit, that is a constructive synopsis.
Peace.
Edit: and, yes, I hope she changes her mind, too. I would have played my ass off on that game.
@Cobaltasaurus for the record, in WoD LARP lingo, this was not a CamFanclub game but an unaffiliated offshoot of OWbN players in the Phoenix area.
Your story, ugh, for lack of a better term, sometimes people just need to be cool. That must've been a pain in the ass.
@Groth I totally LOLd. Can't fuck a caitiff. I knew girls like that back in the day who took it way too seriously.
True Story: I LARPed one night in New Orleans with a number of people who claimed (whether it was true or not) to have been friends with the infamous "Vampire Clan" killer, Roderick Ferrell (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Ferrell). From what i understand, he was down in NoLa a lot while i was down there. I might have met him and not remembered. That summer of 96 was the absolute prime of Gothic-Punk WoD taking LARP too seriously, and New Orleans was kind of an epicenter of it. I met at least 20-30 people walking around claiming to be Tzimisce, Brujah, etc. There were so many and a good number of times I had no idea whether or not a LARP was going on, or if they were for that taking it too far type.
Great time to be in NoLa, though. Trent Reznor's club was amazing and with Anne Rice and Poppy Z. Brite, it was vampire stuff and goth people with capped fangs everywhere.