Journal entries for that game would be amaaaaaazing
June 16 1787 Saturday
But a fornight has passed since I last had tea with Lieutenant James Hargrowe. A tall man of broad shoulder and presence, I miss him dearly. He is off to fight the undead menace, leaving me to the vastly important task of preparing poultices for those unfortunately wounded...
My SO uses a ridiculous amount of body wash per shower.
I use about a dime's worth.
She's like:
She ran out of body wash.
I will now be out of body wash in a week.
Preemptively, before the Hog Pit kills us.
402 represent.
I'm from the era when Ak-Sar-Ben hosted concerts and the Lancers, saw Manson and Gwar at the Ranch Bowl, and am relieved as hell that Sokol is still playing shows.
Good to know there's people from the banks of the muddy river around here.
@Tinuviel Hey. I'm going to show you something.
This is my ten foot pole...
And this is a video depicting how I'm gonna use it to NOPE the fuck outta this one.
ETA: I'm not entirely sure that I have the willpower to address that gently. I told her that Irish immigrants were indentured servitude and had rights, unlike chattel slavery, but if it turns into an argument, I dont know if I can keep Jim Halpert WTF from turning into...
I hope you're not unironically defending the practise of indentured servitude.
Hey folks, just checking in at the end of the weekend. In answer to your question, @Groth ?
Absolutely not.
Bad is bad, period, but my sarcastic gifs and whatnot to my original post were due to a bit of incredulity from the white Irish indentured servants were treated worse than any other ethnic group in American history statement this friend of mine on FB posted.
Sure, it's a subjective topic, but it's one I'm sure the Native American and African-imported kidnapped chattel slavery historians would have an opinion or two on. That's all. I don't exactly see where any point in my original statement might have suggested unironically supporting one form of slavery over the other?
@Roz said it well: "If you compare the horrors of two things, and you call thing A more horrific, is that...defending thing B???"
@Too-Old-For-This said in RL things I love:
@Ghost I dunno, I think she picked the deceptive hardcore mode. IIRC, the family wanted a big church wedding and reception, hundreds of guests type wedding. So the guilt-tripping is real.
Well, yeah, but ULTRA MONSTER ENERGY DRINK HARDCORE mode involves Weddin' Guns.
But, yeah, that does seem like hardcore mode.
@Aria Well, sure, if you wanna play on easy mode.
Also: Congrats.
@Auspice said in RL things I love:
@Ghost said in RL things I love:
Put a gun in those pockets.
A weddin' gun
"I bet you can run down that aisle fast, but I got six little friends in my pocket and they can all run faster than you."
I bet they make a BBQ gun just for those purposes.
ETA:
It'd even work for your something blue.
"Pre-order the Johnson Brothers Devon Cottage 2-Piece Murder Set! A Pottery Barn EXCLUSIVE."
@Auspice That reminds me of the Starcrash episode of the new MST3K run...
“Release her or I’ll blast your queen.” (Texarcana accented robot)
With authentic hickory-smoked barbecue flavor.
@BobGoblin Might have gotten my hands onto a copy of Tiny Supers. >.>
Put a gun in those pockets.
A weddin' gun
"I bet you can run down that aisle fast, but I got six little friends in my pocket and they can all run faster than you."
A friend on Facebook: "White Irish immigrant slaves were treated worse than any other ethnic group in American history, and you don't see them asking for reparations..."
Really?
I mean, really?
ETA: I'm not entirely sure that I have the willpower to address that gently. I told her that Irish immigrants were indentured servitude and had rights, unlike chattel slavery, but if it turns into an argument, I dont know if I can keep Jim Halpert WTF from turning into...
@surreality Correct. With my luck in life, I'd be the guy walking in saying "Eyyyy look at all these losers tryna' find E.T." and then walk off to the section of the forest designated the bathroom forest...
...directly into the presence of some six-tentacled alien.
I'd run back going "GUYS GUYS GUYS there's a six tentacled alien in the forest" and some guy would raise his hand and say "Dude that's MY story; get your own."
That would definitely be my luck.
P.S. I aikido deflect your ruse to lure me back to this hobby.
And they've all got a story...
It's never "eh, I think there might be aliens out there and just wanna be on the inside track for when something pretty sweet happens..."
Instead, almost every one of them has this quasi-practiced story: "It was the summer of 1982 and I was in the high desert. It was a normal night such as any other..."
Yeah, c'mon Hemmingway.
@Aria Preeeeeetty much.
It's somewhat fascinating to see the little differences between these people, because they seem to have central themes that are the same, but with little differences so that each are unique, kind of like BSG MU characters.
BSG
MUFON
@Aria Mutual UFO Network. Regular people who X-File and document a worldwide network of UFO/paranormal phenomena (phenomenon? Phenomenae?Mana-Mana).
I should expound. Every one of these guys likes to talk about themselves as unbiased investigators, but each and every one has "first-hand eye witness testimony" details prepared for the day some History Channel show wants to interview them. My SO wants to get involved every now and then.
They wanna do stuff like: Hanging out on a hill in the wilderness and watch the sky with night vision goggles for 6 hours. OMFGBORING and I'd have to bring the Nintendo Switch or weed or something because it would literally be watching stars that take years for their light to get to our planet for signs of alien life.
So...stuff like remote viewer "experts" and psychics doing hard-nosed paranormal investigation.
Like...I'm half considering promoting myself as a psychic remote viewer and claiming I used to be involved in secret underground battle royale psychic cage fighting just so feel awesome when people go "Fascinating, what was that like???" because the plausible deniability is like -14 with these people.
ETA: So help me god, I am not going to some wilderness camping scenario to stare at the sky and wait for some satellite to fly by and everyone gasp because its MechaJesusRudolph unless I'm getting snuck off back to the cars to get laid twice. Then? I'd go, put in my hours, carsex, and then Battle Chasers on Switch.
My friend has gotten into investigating for MUFON and he's trying to tap my SO and I as "ghost hunters" with him.
Fuck. My. Life.
I should also note that most mushes use the default telnet port and don't use SSL.
Default telnet sends the packets from your PC (username, password, pages, TS scenes, etc) in cleartext through the default telnet port to the MU, making any information contained easily read by sniffing programs, spyware, etc. Even if you use a port other than default, telnet by itself is an insecure, cleartext protocol.
So unless a game is utilizing SSL connectivity (which encrypts the transmission rather than sending it in cleartext), you should also be aware that there is a risk when typing sensitive information sent to a mush on the client-side.
Like...if I weren't a musher and someone in my house was, I could theoretically set up a sniffer to monitor all incoming and outgoing traffic on TCP port 23 and just read what's getting sent through my router to any mush activity in my household.
tl;dr I highly suggest a mush culture migration to adopting SSL as standard.
ETA: This is in topic with the privacy talk the last few posts in this thread, as well as a suggestion as to how to take care of your players. Giving them access to SSL as an option treats them well.
@faraday With you 100%.
Without logs, and word of mouth tells you that a player is complaining about it, and then when you ask that player they do not corroborate the complaint, then the correct action is to do nothing.
The only way to be fair and ensure that you are making the right decision is to place the burden of proof onto the accuser. This is a text based hobby. Log that stuff.
It might upset people, sure, but I agree with how you handled it 100% and would appreciate that sort of staff candor and neutrality if someone were accusing me, guilty or not.
Corporate HR guidelines are actually pretty solid for this.
It's a text-based medium. You can log your request for them to stop and leave you alone. You can even be up front and say "You're making me uncomfortable, please stop paging me, and I would like to avoid non-group roleplay with you."
Ya don't need to let staff see the log, but I've done this before and dropped a line to staff that I've had the conversation and would be submitting log/formalizing the issue if it didn't stop.
