Best posts made by gryphter

@Arkandel There's something between these two ideas that bothers me, and I'm trying to figure out what it is. I won't go back to the analogy, but it feels weird to me to log onto somebody's game and expect privacy. It's theirs and I feel like they have a right to monitor it and control for content.

I think the weirdness happens somewhere around that important word: expectations. There's currently no process at all, really, that talks about how much or how little privacy you might get so as to set those expectations. Given that, I can see where somebody who walks in with an expectation of privacy -- which never gets challenged at the door -- might take it poorly to learn later on that the reality is very different.

When a person enters an environment where they're being recorded out in the real world, they typically legally need to be informed of that. It seems reasonable to expect similar treatment here.

Currently making Smartsheet my bitch. I've been using it for the heft of my project management tracking for a while now, and just recently cracked the code on pivoting all of my mined data and whatnots out into tables and graphs that live on an always-on dash.

This is my favorite part of any new project: building out new models or thrashing old ones into useful tables, with new ideas and pieces I'm learning as I need them. Wrapping my head around SUMIFS and COUNTIFS and all these nested functions to bring me back counts within date ranges matching criteria and all this stuff and it feels like actual magic when the shit works.

Moreover it's a clutch piece of work to deliver on, and it's reasonable that I might cinch the promotion I've been angling at for a long while now by overdelivering against expectations here -- which I am already doing. So I'm in my zone, and extremely pleased with myself for once.

You ain't shit, Smartsheet. Ya basic.

I'm aware that I'm planting my flag firmly on one extreme of this issue, but for me it's all in. This might be somewhat informed by games I played on in my early years in the hobby, where this was the clearly-stated expectation.

I also admit my understanding of the issue is somewhat limited by my own imagination here. I can't imagine what I could page, @mail, messenger, or pose that I would need to consider sensitive or private. I have no shame. Conversely I also can't imagine why I would want to watch anyone else TS, or even RP out a normal scene I have no connection to.

I'll admit that anyone who can talk their way into a wizbit having access to my PII has always made me uncomfortable. When someone could copy/paste a bunch of sensitive information out to who knows where, it seems like we can and should do better than 'well they won't though'.

I think often we don't pull some of these threads because we sense that the correct application of the law would annihilate our hobby's ability to exist. It's doubtful we would be able to satisfy the requirements of the law, if the law deigned to truly care, in more than one area.

Right out of the gate the glaring lack of protection for PII and the equally glaring lack of vetting and accountability for those that can access it.

Usually for me it's something like 'this character has lots of meaningful relationships and connections, I bet I can find all sorts of important and interesting stuff to do.' Then I hit the ground and can't find RP outside of a bar. To be fair I'm not super masterful at taking the initiative and reaching out, so I'll own my half (whole?) of it.

The world is a lesser place because this exists in it.

@Auspice said in Image Attribution & Creative Commons:

Those famed violet eyes of House L'Envers paired to honey gold skin of House Mereliot place a visible stamp on her heritage. A shade under six feet tall, she blazes with all the energy of the famed lighthouse overlooking Marsilikos' harbour, had it taken on mortal form. Her lithe figure complements her height, bearing neither tattoos or scars to differentiate her youthful complexion. All the seething radiance glittering in her brilliant eyes and animating her lively expression bestows a natural warmth and candor. Her fingers are notably beringed and calloused, indicative of a committed performer. Clear features bear an unquestionable d'Angeline stamp, leaving her a black opal among priceless gems, for the dichotomy of her dark, arching brows and thick lashes against her dusky gold colouration is a stark one. Typically she wears the masses of her dark hair pulled back into an elaborate braid that would vex a spider, threaded by a circlet of small gems on gossamer strands as another trademark.

TL;DR Has spiders in her hair.

I don't think we need to lament these conversations at all. Creeps are a thing; they're out there. Here, we put them on blast, shine the light, and expose them.

I can't contest this point. Driving home from lunch today, I observed a driver of a big truck who felt the best place for him to park this monstrosity for a while and disembark the vehicle to engage whatever mysteries a dipshit like this is involved with, was at the end of a road that joins the one I was travelling down.

To better enable his dubious activities, he elected to park it lengthwise, so as to completely block both lanes. Now this a rural area, yes, but it's not 'sure block the road, it won't be used again until spring' rural. It does mean we have nice, wide dirt shoulders, just perfect to receive a vehicle whose driver needs a lengthy introspective in the middle of nowhere to regather their life's purpose.

Yet, no -- this paragon of mammalian intelligence had a better plan.

I think a whole lifetime of 'what the fuck even' flashed through my brain in the handful of seconds it took to drive past this tableau. Then another before it was impossible to look wistfully into my rear view mirror and reflect on the futility of continuing this bold experiment we call human society.

I'd like to officially submit my recommendation that we take off and nuke the site from orbit.

@Auspice At this point in life even though I've come to expect people to be stupid, they continue to raise the bar. It's amazing.

ETA: Not stupid, that's totally wrong. It implies some kind of blameless deficiency. This is not that; it's willful dipshittery or, to be more literal, the kind of irresponsible and disrespectful behavior that's sadly becoming the norm.

I've found myself researching some pretty wild shit for characters. I have entered into a search bar the words 'Hey there federal agent reading my search history, you should know that this is character research for fictional writing, so please don't raid my house'.

So far, so good.

@Sunny Later and later, as it turns out, as I sit here and procrastinate going to bed so as to stave off tomorrow. It's still tomorrow now, though, so it's not really working.

I do project management, vendor management, and some business analysis. It's a lot of hitting 'reply all' and writing 'Thanks <insert name>!' then mashing send -- things are set up dumb so almost everything is going through email. I'm working on it.

Triple post because apparently I think I own this board, but more importantly I've already heard from a recruiter. They're pushing my application through to the next level, where I'll do some kind of assessment. The ball is rolling.

@nyctophiliac said in The Work Thread:

@gryphter Maybe the new place you applied for called to check references?

It could be. Truthfully if this other thing works out, I do plan to take the new offer in as a negotiating tool and make it clear I'm leaving without a compelling counteroffer.

The thing that sucks is I don't actually dislike my work or my team, and the manager I can't stand to work with is no longer my direct and has the HR lens on him now. I've thought about it a bit, and what I need to stay is the promotion I deserved a long time ago. Nothing short of that will do it.

@Auspice said in The Work Thread:

I need some of y'all's luck to rub off on me plzkthx

I'm not so sure you want any of my luck yet. Wait and see, and if it's good I'll gladly will some of it your way.