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    Posts made by Ghost

    • RE: A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like

      @Thenomain said in A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like:

      The advantage of the rumormill is that there is enough uncertainty that it doesn't become a tool for, as @ghost would say, the witch hunt. Mind you, I believe that the kind of people who would abuse the tool for that level already abuse rumors.

      Agreed.

      The people who abuse rumor mills and exaggerate subjective complaints to their advantage aren't going to stop doing it anyway. People have doing this as long as MUs have been open.

      posted in Mildly Constructive
      Ghost
      Ghost
    • RE: RL Anger

      @Thenomain AGREED.

      Here in Az, the area around Arizona State University in Tempe used to have affordable apartments ($800/mo for a 2BR around 2005) around the campus. Since then, those apartments have all been bought out and replaced. Berkshire-Hathaway got involved in real estate there. Now, many of these smaller apartment complexes have been replaced by apartments best described as luxury dorm apartment housing with courtyard pools and salons on the ground level.

      A friend of mine tried to see if one was affordable and said they were running about $1400/mo for a 1br.

      http://www.tempemetro.com

      Rooftop basketball courts. Some 2br are going for $1850/mo

      Edit: while the gallery on that site shows some definitely swanky/sexy apartment living, they're definitely cashing in on the $$$ that comes from being able to afford ASU and/or grant money, and gentrifying the ease of access to the campus area.

      FFS the stuff around campuses used to be affordable. The whole point was to be able to afford college.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
      Ghost
      Ghost
    • RE: RL Anger

      Hey, Jew-washing has been a thing since the Council of Nicea. I, for one, think it's cool it's still being fought against in 2017.

      seeWhatIDidThere?

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
      Ghost
      Ghost
    • RE: RL Anger

      @Three-Eyed-Crow oh so it's not about whitewashing, its about...gentilewashing?

      I read just now Abigail Breslin is 1/2 Jewish but I'd imagine downplaying the Jewish was probably more related to the current trend of American network television sanitizing the non-Christian out of everything.

      ABC pimps out well-dressed scumbag Joel Osteen and deems itself a family friendly network, owned by Disney, and formerly purchased from Pat Robertson. I tend to not watch ABC because their push of "family values" (airquotes) is way too overt for my liking.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
      Ghost
      Ghost
    • RE: RL Anger

      Replacing a white actress with a more attractive white actress should be called Whitestripping

      Because like tooth whitening, you're taking something already white and making it into a more attractive white.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
      Ghost
      Ghost
    • RE: RL Anger

      @Cupcake said in RL Anger:

      ABC's new version of Dirty Dancing was a complete piece of unnecessary eat my shit pie, but I'm also doubly irritated that they white-washed the Housemans and the Kellermans into painfully WASP-y versions of themselves.

      Wait.

      Is replacing white actors with white actors whitewashing now?

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
      Ghost
      Ghost
    • RE: RL Anger

      For example, I prefer to be referred to as a:

      FrenchWelshGermanItalianWhiteNorthNebraskan-Turned-ArizonanFormerlyCatholicNowVaguelyFightClubInspiredQuasiZenGamerITProfessional American

      We're out there and deserve recognition, yo.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
      Ghost
      Ghost
    • RE: A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like

      Okay, this might sound stupid, but hear me out.

      People wanna avoid innocent people getting blacklisted, right? But at the same time, there are people who deserve to be blacklisted.

      We have many regular game runners. @faraday @Cobaltasaurus @Seraphim73 etc etc etc

      So...if what people are looking for is a coordinated effort, then maybe these people who we regularly turn to for game ownership should put their heads together, keep a google drive folder of logs and evidence, and post a list of personalities who are unwelcome on their games.

      Kinda like...ship captains

      posted in Mildly Constructive
      Ghost
      Ghost
    • RE: A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like

      @Arkandel sometimes...the bullet is easy to dodge.

      posted in Mildly Constructive
      Ghost
      Ghost
    • RE: A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like

      @Arkandel well, the next logical step after that would be to suddenly have a lawyer show up at my door asking me to sign an affidavit that I'm not Bucky0hare420. Or, worse yet, being waterboarded at a Chicago black site until they're convinced I'm truly not that person...and then release me to return to WoDMu#8778

      posted in Mildly Constructive
      Ghost
      Ghost
    • RE: A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like

      @Arkandel See?!?!? It's everywhere

      Once I had a player I didnt even know start texting me really weird questions about where I'd played. Turned out she was screening me on behalf of someone else I was actively rping with at the time.

      DUDE, I got blackOps'd screened.

      posted in Mildly Constructive
      Ghost
      Ghost
    • RE: A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like

      My personal favorite is the one of us might be a Cylon paranoia. Far too many people(for comfort) I've met on these games would often go into stalker mode themselves trying to determine who is who.

      • That person typed a pose like VASpider does! Might be spider!
      • Your character name is vaguely similar to an old character name who stalked me...are you <blah>?
      • A creepy guy used that PB once on another game and I can't trust you arent him, so please don't take offense

      It'd be interesting to see the results as to whether or not the damage done out of paranoia is > the damage done by the actual bad guys.

      posted in Mildly Constructive
      Ghost
      Ghost
    • RE: RL Anger

      @Meg Your Decepticon privilege is showing.

      Decepticon.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
      Ghost
      Ghost
    • RE: RL Anger

      @Ataru well done.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
      Ghost
      Ghost
    • RE: RL Anger

      Gany used the N Word so now I gotta be like:

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
      Ghost
      Ghost
    • RE: RL Anger

      @Auspice yeah that friend of mine considers himself an academic and his apology game is strong

      But in a crowd he totally looks like he's a Vladivostok Russian white, which is Asian.

      Edit: Also? Charlize Theron is an African American. Wuddup.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
      Ghost
      Ghost
    • RE: A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like

      Constructively, I think, from a certain point of view, it's easy to approach this hobby as figurative sandbox. When I was younger, around 19, so probably around 99/2000, I had this lackadaisical attitude about these games. Don't ask me where I played, I couldnt remember. Fuck, 1030, I'm digressing Back to the point:

      I think it's easy to approach these games like its a community sandbox and whether your individual fucked-up-ness leads you to a place where you take a karate kick to all of the castles in the sandbox, even the ones other people are building, it doesn't matter. It's data, words on a screen, time spent, and within x# months/years the game will go away and it'll all be lost, right? If you get frustrated and destroy everyone else's creation in the sandbox, even your own, you're not destroying actual property. You can walk away anonymously. Life will go on.

      Now, back then, I might have kicked a few assets when leaving a game, but I never did anything damaging, but my point is this:

      Depending on who you ask, the level of value as to what is on these games and how lasting that value is, even if the game is only open 6 months, varies from person to person. It is, however, very likely that these unapologetic repeat offenders view this hobby as sandcastles made of ether and code where people merely donate their time, and that there is no actual, lasting value aside from what your own self seeks to get out of it.

      The worst repeat offenders may, on some level, not take the hobby seriously outside of their own involvement, view the stories as important only so long as they're involved, and don't see the point in bothering much about anyone else's involvement or feelings because, in the end, very few of us know each other in a RL sense.

      Which would explain why these people become unapologetic about the way they fuck with the sandbox. Because, what's the risk to them for doing so?

      posted in Mildly Constructive
      Ghost
      Ghost
    • RE: Good writin'.

      I would like to point out my love of time spent writing with @skew @Auspice @surreality @Pondscum Wendigo @Paris @faraday

      By no means a complete list, but its 1030, I'm tired, and I cant remember all the @ tags at the moment.

      I had a lot of good times with you guys and you're all very vivid and challenging in the way that a good writing partner teaches you to dig deeper and show, not tell. For those of you who haven't had the pleasure, I highly recommend them each for different reasons.

      Kind of like working out with someone who pushes you to lift an extra pound in one session more so than you did the last session.

      When I write, I don't care about me. I dont care about agenda or what I, myself, want for my character. Instead, when I write I care more about finding the voice of my creation and writing through it. Players like these make it hard to find plateaus where RP stales and becomes rote.

      Whenever I dig into this hobby, I always find a lot of comfort working thru people who are less concerned with the direction of plot as they are that it has direction. Cooperative writing requires pushback. I ❤ u fuckers. You don't pushback. You bodyslam.

      posted in MU Questions & Requests
      Ghost
      Ghost
    • RE: A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like

      @Paris said in A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like:

      Ghost, you're advocating for a player (edit: AND STAFFER) who, for over a decade, has done to others the kind of bullshit that was done to you. In some cases, she did worse.

      Oh I'm not advocating for HER, Paris. I'm not trying to stop this discussion at all. I'm about to politely bow out of it.

      I'm more or less advocating at this point for other people who might not be so deserving of ugly, open displays of he-said-she-said that may follow.

      I'm not accusing ANYONE of shit talking or whatever, I'm just being this philosophical little toad in the corner going "...but what are we if not evolved creatures and this method of Socratic turns into mob justice?" LOL. I can totally get it that you guys are like "Okay, fuckoff Ghost, VASpider's earned this".

      The floor is yours, folks. I'll stop it with the DVD commentary.

      posted in Mildly Constructive
      Ghost
      Ghost
    • RE: A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like

      @Paris said in A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like:

      @Ghost said in A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like:

      So I'd hate to see such an open forum used to attack innocent players

      She isn't.

      Well, VASpider is just the first one in the stocks.

      posted in Mildly Constructive
      Ghost
      Ghost
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