Posts made by ixokai

@alzie Nope! That's a good amount of information. Thanks!

@Thenomain I was, apparently failing, trying to be funny and suggesting more information in the recruitment post would be good.

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I have absolutely no idea what this game is about.

Does interpreting "L5R" and "Great Famine" and "Five Rings heresy" as having a non-zero meaning, well, is that important? I'm figuring that's important.

Does The Clique still exist?

See, I'm all for protecting the game, protecting people. I'm all for the first state one takes when hearing a complaint should be believing it. I'm all for believing not just the complaint, but the second hand report of an issue.

I brought this up before and was told I was the reason why a person didn't want to trust staff to report an issue, but that doesn't make it any less real.

I know for a fact that a regular tactic of The Clique used to be to file false complaints against someone that went against them. Pillowfort would decide on an enemy and organize around destroying that enemy.

This isn't denial, this isn't shaming, this isn't minimizing the real abuse people can have. But its real and the awareness of it has to also be a part of how we address these situations.

@theonceler said in TheOnceler’s Playlist:

Devilshire - Cedric, Saint, Tim, Natt, Ringo, Bob, Thousand Truths (Staff)

I can not for the life of me quite remember why, but Cedric at Devilshire rings familiar.

@coin said in SunnyJ's Anti-Sexual Harassment Guide:

@ixokai said in SunnyJ's Anti-Sexual Harassment Guide:

@coin said in SunnyJ's Anti-Sexual Harassment Guide:

re, logging:

If something is happening to you that is important enought hat a log will be needed for verification, do not present a text log--reduce the font size of your MU client, open it up to full screen if you don't have it already, and then proceed to screenshot the entire conversation, with each image having at its top a verifiably identical section as the bottom of the image before it.

Yes, images can be doctored; no, most people won't think to doctor an image, they will think a text log is enough. It's not. As a staffer, if I am presented with screenshots of something and the other party gives me a text log that is different, the text log isn't going to be worth SHIT.

I absolutely cringe at this advice.

Well, I mean, screenshots are harder to doctor, easy to take.

It's not that I won't take logs at face value unless I have reason not to, but if we´re talking about having the best possible evidence of bad behavior, a screenshot is way better than a text file.

In my experience, getting people to log is hard. In my experience, the people preyed upon are not the most sophisticated around (though this is not entirely true).

Screenshots are absolutely more likely to not be doctored, but just getting logs is a challenge.

@coin said in SunnyJ's Anti-Sexual Harassment Guide:

re, logging:

If something is happening to you that is important enought hat a log will be needed for verification, do not present a text log--reduce the font size of your MU client, open it up to full screen if you don't have it already, and then proceed to screenshot the entire conversation, with each image having at its top a verifiably identical section as the bottom of the image before it.

Yes, images can be doctored; no, most people won't think to doctor an image, they will think a text log is enough. It's not. As a staffer, if I am presented with screenshots of something and the other party gives me a text log that is different, the text log isn't going to be worth SHIT.

I absolutely cringe at this advice.

@Tinuviel There is surely nothing simple about these situations. A key problem is that it often comes down to two people making opposing claims: Who do you believe? There's often nothing like tangible proof.

@tinuviel said in SunnyJ's Anti-Sexual Harassment Guide:

@ixokai I'd add... to a point.
Assume they're right unless proven otherwise. Never take an accusation at face value, but never discard something because it's "just an accusation."

This is complex.

Moore, a terrible human being, is entitled to due process. He is thus innocent until proven guilty.

And proving most of this is nearly impossible.

If a man gropes a woman 20 years ago, how is it proved?

But, not being proved, are we to assume the woman lied?

That's where society goes. It leans that way.

Or, a subset of society goes that way.

Here's what I know. Moore is 70 years old; when he was in his thirties was fourty years ago. I know that in that time, 'sexual harassment' wasn't a thing prosecuted or accused. It was what happened to women, period. They got grabbed. Groped.

It wasn't really... not normal.

So taking all that in: I can believe the women, or I can think it a political ploy. Well my politics lean towards it benefiting me to believe the women, but I hate how everything is political these days. I believe the women because I see her stand and cry in the shame she feels. Its not proof: I don't think there's proof enough to prosecute.

But the accusation is proof enough to consider who someone votes for, for sure.

But for entirely different reasons I am adamantly opposed to this troll. My opinion may be biased.

I just want to say, in light of recent events:

Believe the women.

@chet I'm not against using custom systems, the current project I'm working on we're settling on a custom RPG system.

But in doing so, you should have a clear reason for what you're about, what you're for. What the mechanics of the system accomplish.

At first i thought you were against the complexity of traditional systems (Storyteller and D&D), now I hear you having a parkour skill that you specialize for burglary.

I don't understand, still, what you're about. Though this time don't find the words completely baffling; its intent and purpose I question.

You say you think the traditional systems don't translate to a MUSH; I don't disagree. D&D practically can't run without a GM, ST allows too much argument without one.

I don't think number of "statistics and variables" is the problem. I don't see how having a set of skills you "specialize for <action>" is easier. (What does specialization mean, actually mean, in mechanical effect?) If the problem is rules, mechanics, let's talk rules and mechanics -- specifically.

If we're talking mechanics you start at the basic foundation of probability. How likely is someone to succeed at something they are skilled at? And does it involve a GM/DM/ST needing to interpret or set things like difficulty, target number, etc?

@surreality I've nothing against custom systems, and the idea of (For example) unifying vampire and werewolf regeneration. But, story-wise, theme-wise, these two things are different not just to be different, but because in the WOD, a vampire healing and a werewolf healing are not just SFX on top of a 'regeneration' stat, they are qualitatively different things.

The vampire must hunt; her blood must fuel the knitting together of flesh; but also the vampire heals the seeming passage of time. Cut your hair? Get a tattoo? Such a transient action does not lightly change the eternally unchanged. The werewolf is different: she heals in moments what could destroy lesser beings. She is a creature of pure life.

I don't see how you can express the theme and story of these different sets of things that both 'heal', so can be called 'regeneration', as a basic, generic stat of 'regeneration' with special effects all that differ between the two races. Fundamentally, yes, the vampire can heal from great injury: but it is a limited resource, based on blood. The werewolf just heals, in an unlimited fashion.

I'm gonna pretend no one mentioned HERO system so I don't have a stroke.

I literally have no idea what you're talking about.

@collective said in The Eighth Sea - Here There Be Monsters:

Something I came across when preparing a On Stranger Tides based home campaign a few years back:

https://sexselvesandsociety.wordpress.com/2014/03/24/all-about-the-booty-sodomy-in-the-golden-age-of-piracy-1718-1723/

I'm thinking queer pirates would fit right in, with the proviso that some people (mostly Calvinists) have a stick up their butt over it. And with a player understanding that 'gay' is a 20th century social construct and nobody would identify that way, verbally.

Oh, I have no issue bending to the theme where it needs to bend: 'Gay' as a worldview is I recognize, a modern convention. The flag, Pride, all kinds of things that is 'gay', and including the word, aren't things I'd expect to bring up in a historical pirate drama.

That said, yeah, I'm gay. I play characters like me. Thus the question. ... which was answered, thanks, @Auspice.

@auspice

@auspice said in The Eighth Sea - Here There Be Monsters:

@ixokai said in The Eighth Sea - Here There Be Monsters:

Is this game run by just @Seraphim73 and @GirlCalledBlu ?
Plus a coder?

Kraken (who does manage serverside/code) is at the helm ("Head Staff"), with Blu and Seraphim and myself.
It's a team of 4. They are not co-running in this instance. We discuss and decide things as a team.

Okay, thanks.

Question two.

This is a historic setting, how tied to historic social norms is the game? I see on the wiki women pirates/crew aren't such a big deal. Good to know.

What of we gays?

Is this game run by just @Seraphim73 and @GirlCalledBlu ?
Plus a coder?

@faraday said in Regarding administration on MSB:

@ixokai Uh yeah, when you start the response with "God I hate (your) response...", shout at me in all caps, and accuse me of being passive-aggressive and putting up a steel wall to discussion, I consider that a rant. What's your definition?

My definition is that you're not willing to have an honest discussion. You didn't have anything to say about the content, only the form. You can't manage any other response, or don't care to. Very well.

Augh, browser fail

@faraday said in Regarding administration on MSB:

@ixokai said in Regarding administration on MSB:

Or I'm an idiot, quite likely. But that's what I hear to those words.

I seriously did not mean to be passive-aggressive and I certainly did not mean you're an idiot. You replied with a number of particularly emphatic points that sounded to me like you were stating them as objective fact. I was merely attempting to say that we have different opinions based on our experiences.

But this is kinda exactly the sort of thing I'm complaining about. I state an opinion about the generic hobby as a whole and get comments like "I have serious questions about your experience and history elsewhere" and a personal rant calling me passive aggressive. Seriously?

The moment you use the term "rant", tells me you are not responding in an emotionally-neutral stance. YOU state an opinion, and its stating an opinion. (Granted, couched in: I AM ENTITLED to my opinion). I state an opinion, its a rant.

Seriously.

@surreality said in Regarding administration on MSB:

@ixokai Actually, that Rick Sanchez dude did that to me.

And the whole forum ripped him to shreds for it even after he was banned, including the people who he had previously palled around with on here.

Kinda says a lot about the kind of shit this community is not keen on tolerating.

Yikes, I didn't know that. Good we responded well. But like, this shit is COMMON in other communities of gamers on the net. Its horrible.

MUSHers-are-worst is not a thing I'm gonna get behind. Its flatly unsupportable. For all our faults, and oh, we have them, this isn't 4chan.

@faraday said in Regarding administration on MSB:

@ixokai said in Regarding administration on MSB:

That doesn't mean no one has a negative experience. But I deny this pervading negative aura that lays heavy over the hobby.

That's fine. I'm not on a crusade to convince you otherwise. But I'm entitled to my opinion based on my experiences as much as you are. There's a reason I only run co-op, niche, borderline-sandbox games.

God, I hate this response. "I'm entitled to my opinion." It suggests, passive-aggressively, that someone suggested you aren't. "That's your experience, but mine is different", again, suggests, passive-aggressively, that someone stating THEIR experience was declaring yours was invalid.

People expressing different views is communication.

EVERYONE HAS THEIR OWN EXPERIENCE.

Sharing experiences is COMMUNICATION.

When someone feels a need to be entitled to their opinion, what I hear is: I'm entitled to my own facts.

If it were just an opinion, there'd be no need to state it (EDIT TO ADD: that it is their enshrined, unapproachable opinion). In any discussion its automatically assumed everyone has their own opinions. Isn't that what discussion is? I express, you express, we debate.

"I'm entitled to my own opinion" is this steel wall put out which has this implication right next to it: "and thus you challenging it are wrong to do so. Discussion over.".

Or I'm an idiot, quite likely. But that's what I hear to those words.