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If the Avatar is unplayable, then I don't really care what they're doing, but I do wonder how canon purists will react to the Avatar being removed from canon. It might save more effort to just say "oh the world's pretty much fine so the Avatar is off doing Avatar stuff and will be back if Sephiroth or whoever pops up."

@Andraian said in Empire State Heroes Mush:

Instead, the mush has now lost an excellent player and disrupted RP for numerous other players.

And all because his actions MIGHT disrupt RP for some hypothetical person who would want to app Aunt frigging May but would be turned off by having been portrayed doing Aunt May things.

I really do not get it.

@simplications said in What Would it Take to Repair the Community?:

The prevailing vibe I've gotten from the responses in this thread has felt like "Protecting the community from known bad actors is so important that we must maintain a stance that accepts public judgment of individuals, and any collateral damage done to actual innocents is acceptable."

That is the vibe literally everyone is getting. We are only disagreeing about who are the default bad actors: the reporters, or the reported.

@Ghost said in Good or New Movies Review:

Which, yanno, sucks.

I don't fully get that. Like, if you enjoy the books, they're still on your shelf, right? If you like the comics, they're still in your longbox. George Lucas can't take them from you, or make you stop liking them, or make you think they didn't happen if you want to think they happened. The only thing anyone can do is not make movies about them, which they could still choose not to do even if the books and comics and whatever are canon; so how does it hurt anyone?

Random thought: if the game is post-Korra, there's no reason we couldn't have playable spirit characters.

ETA: apart from all the game design difficulties, I mean

The no animals thing is another rule I do not understand the purpose of, but I've made peace with not understanding the purpose of most of their rules.

@Rinel said in Good or New Movies Review:

One of the best things the Morrowind community ever did for me was getting me to realize that "canon" is a spook.

I'm a comic nerd, so I have a lot of reason to question the value of canon and continuity. They mostly seem to be excuses to hate the thing you love by asserting your intellectual superiority over the people who produce the thing you pretend to love.

General "you" there, for the record.

@Misadventure said in What do player-STs need?:

Does anyone feel as a player that there is something that player-STs definitely could use from staff, even if its been mentioned?

Just clear communication. I come mostly from a background of comic book games, where the utter obsession with continuity drives me mad, and there have been so many times that I try to run a plot, get it approved, and then at the last moment it's canceled because someone else on the food chain had not communicated whether this or that NPC or aspect of the universe is permitted to be used because it doesn't fit with their vision of what the world should be.

@Carex said in Empire State Heroes Mush:

@Andraian said in Empire State Heroes Mush:
Given a large number of players over time, it was inevitable that some game somewhere got someone who wanted to play Krypto the super-dog and go around playing out bestiality scenes or something like that.

I remember hearing stories back in the day about a group of X-men walking in on Wolvesbane doing it doggy-style with Havok in the X-Jet hanger.

It's not unreasonable for staff to limit the characters who would draw that kind of focus.

This may be and probably will be one of those things I just never get, but it seems to me if you want to ban bestiality, then you ban bestiality. Banning some of the characters who could engage in bestiality but not all the characters who could engage in bestiality strikes me not just as needlessly devious toward achieving that one goal (assuming it is the goal), but also ineffectual.

@Ghost said in RL things I love:

In other news, I failed to convince my SO that the netflix show "V Wars" is the sequel to "The L Word".

Reminds me of a video review of God of War I saw once. "My boyfriend told me Freyja was from Milfheim and I believed him for way too long."

...I thought this was going to be a game about hunters versus mavericks in the year 21XX.

@Roz said in Firefly - Still Flyin':

There's a lot of things that people think "pretty much everyone knows," but I think that's kind of bad to assume.

For example, I am horrified to learn of this, because if spying on PCs is as rampant and expected as people make it sound in this thread, then every complaint I've ever lodged has been documented by some creeper on staff and they just refused to do anything about it. Now I can't stop wondering how many of the requests that I produce logs supporting my case were made by people who already knew what had happened but were looking for excuses to protect their creepy friends by creating hurdles for me until I tripped over one of them, thus providing a pretext to drop the case.

This probably has nothing to do with the game being discussed but is upsetting enough I had to say something.

So, uh, Elsa sure does enter a lot of tight tunnels while singing about having confusing new feelings that nevertheless seem right and make her tingle, huh?

I have not been able to stop thinking about this game. Several questions about the setting have come up. I ask them from a place of excitement, which I say because with my tone I probably come off like I'm being a downer.

How does the law treat non-human heroes? For example, someone gets bitten by a radioactive weevil and develops weevil-like powers, so they go to their doctor to find out what's wrong with them. Does the doctor still have a responsibility to protect Weevil-Man's private medical information and not disclose this mutation to a government agency?

How much do you intend to define other races in the setting? Will players be allowed to say they come from a secret subterranean race of creatures? Will you provide a list of aliens and their traits which is permissible for players to choose to base their characters on? How about which mythologies, if any, are true or at least based in fact? Will characters be permitted to help define the setting by creating characters who are part of a pantheon and/or the secret Ancient Aliens who really built Stonehenge or whatever?

What overall tone are you going for? If this game was a movie, what would the MPAA rate it?

If you're using a system that has mechanics to model them rather than a consent-based system like most mixed universe games, do you intend to implement any particular rules or protections against effects that can control another character's mind?

I used to think PBs were important. Then I met a guy who would use his boner for my PBs as a sales pitch for RP; like, "Wow, your PB is so hot, we should definitely meet up and your character should be inducted into the cult mine is a leader of where I'd have total authority over you as well as an implied slavish control over your character's outlook and goals." So I guess I actually do think PBs are important, but in the opposite direction of what they probably should be: nowadays I calculate them less to represent my vision of my character than to try to convince creeps to not bother.

@Kestrel said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@GreenFlashlight don't ever quote Ben Shapiro @me, you sick fuck.

@jennkryst Not for nothing but I think it's okay to institute a policy of "you're not allowed to play a lunatic who is compelled to murder the whole world until and unless you prove you can handle it well."

@Ghost said in Tyche Banned:

Anyway, I digress, but it's like: "I ACCIDENTALLY came across this One World News article about Hillary Clinton..."

C'mon. Bullshit.

I can believe it. I'm in a few politics groups, and there's always one Neo-Nazi (I will not be suckered into calling them "alt-right") who's trying to infiltrate by subtly sneaking in articles from sites you don't recognize whose headlines sound progressive but then you read it and you notice it uses the term "Zionist media."

Doesn't sound like it was a mistake in Tyche's case, but I can believe it happening randomly and/or carelessly.

@TiredEwok said in Tips for not wearing out your welcome:

Not to speak for @Cupcake, but in most social things, calmly means rationally and like an adult. You can still feel whatever way you feel about something or whatever, but calmly means you're not flying off the handle, exploding, going off and throwing tantrums, etc.

To add to this, it is a good idea to learn the difference between feeling a thing and displaying a thing. How you feel only matters if you decide to make it matter. If you present yourself as being calm, then as far as the world is concerned, you were calm because they can't access your inner world to experience the upset you were feeling.

Masking is also mentally exhausting, but again, it's the world we live in.

@Testament said in Depression Meals:

@Kanye-Qwest People who are so depressed they operate on automatic pilot and just go through the motions. Because one grey, bland day is just the same as any other grey bland day in the monotony of a life without meaning, in world that is ultimately uncaring.

I've done a lot of things I honestly can't recall when it got that bad. Things bought and food made that I don't honestly remember doing the day/night before.

I still don't remember a lot from those times. It's all a colorless blur.

Seconded. Depression steals my ability to think, which steals my ability to consider other options, leaving me to follow the habits I've ingrained in myself; thus making cooking technically possible.