Best posts made by Jennkryst

Alright. So. Smol might be the wrong direction...

Votes with her feet by kicking the door back in , EXTRA HARD... no, you don't get to know what size those feet are, fuck off

So I am in chaos goblin mode, in part because I'm arguing circles around folks about bodily autonomy on the Twitters over the abortion thing, which is part of what kicked things off here. Current Events thread was locked, and then Politics and Hog Pit to boot. So now you all get to see the scary real world events happening here! Abortion ban! Rawr!

Not that... there was anything actively discussed in Politics aside from the Current Events thread, but gotta shut down all avenues of dissent, amIright?

So we've got hidden threads and entirely deleted threads that are pointing out the authoritarian bonaza going on here. Farfalla getting banned for nothing. Nearly twenty people banned for defending Farfalla. Refusal to post logs, which is KIND OF THE WHOLE DEAL HERE. You post logs, and let people decide.

If this a court and Gany is the Judge whose decrees must be followed, then hiding threads is suppression of evidence in a trial you should rightly recuse yourself from, and deleting threads is destruction of evidence. Which... I am not a lawyer, but those both seem kind of bad. Unethical, maybe. Could even be illegal. Who can be sure? The unemotional robot seems to be on the fritz, can't ask her.

... incidentally, if this is a court room, there is also Derp the Building Maintenance/Janitor, acting like a Bailiff by closing threads when it has been stated multiple times he is only supposed to be doing code support. Weird, that.

So when admin on a mush does these sorts of things, people come to the Soapbox (the press/town square) and let the evidence out HERE, where all can see, even after trying to be shut down.

We've got logs of Gany comparing people banned terrorists. Someone else threw up a lynch mob comparison. Screenshots grabbed from before Gany locked everything down and tried to hide them away. Also at least one screenshot of Gany insisting that 'no, actually, a lot of people have not complained to me about this' when people are standing in the square, being ignored.

The reason we do not DM concerns, is the same reason we do not page complaints to staff. If you shut down the public complaints, then you can lie about how many people have been complaining, and try to brush everything under the rug.

Again. If any game had an administration that did this, the Soapbox would rally against them. We are an anti-authoritarian, pro-transparency kind of people. And continuing to delete threads, lest others see you joining in on that sort of fuckery, is pretty disgusting.

For these reasons and more, I join the chorus: ban me, you coward.

The United States of America

04 July 1776 - 08 November 2016

GOODNIGHT SWEET PRINCE

The Coronavirus Shitposting group I am in has some zingers.

The numbered dial on your toaster is for how many minutes the bread is toasted for, rather than the 'degree of toastiness'

David Koch, about fucking time.

This thread has a few more instances of 'we should not help group A who are often overlooked/in need of help, because it might also help group B who might manipulate the system/benefit when they shouldn't!' than it probably should, and is drifting closer to Politics territory than anyone wants me to bring up.

ahem

The ideas behind a lot of these are good. I'm not a monster, but I play one online, so while I will do chin-strokingly evil things, I try to get the boundaries set in advance, check in periodically through the scene, and all that jazz.

And even with all the advance prep there, I STILL somehow manage to feel like a piece of shit when I accidentally go somewhere that wasn't said was off-limits, but I also didn't do the regular check-in about.

THAT'S RIGHT, I'M MAKING THIS ABOUT MEEEEEEEEE!

Or maybe not, and I'm just like. Posting a warning.

Like @BlondeBot says, all the code and policy and systems in the world won't stop every problem that can happen. Ignoring all of the bad-actors, this sort of thing can happen to people even when all parties are acting in good faith.

But more/new systems can allow for additional ways to prevent this sort of thing from happening, and can also provide other ways of resolving the issues that come out of it.

Equipment management and/or local economies.

Encumbrance rules exist for a reason: for the ST to rules lawyer a player into not being able to carry all of the things. When we ignore this, the characters SHOULD look like the Junk Lady from Labyrinth. Yet somehow they do not.

Local Economies... some places have a magical ATM for gold. I know some bandits stole all your gold and we gave it back to you... it was only 40 pieces... but now that we have slain the dragon, we're going to sell you some of it's loot, and you will now magically have thousands of gold to pay us!

... semi-related to economies, anyone else remember when 1 gold was a month's wage for a peasant? How many adventurers were killed because they limped back to town with 3hp left and a farmer gets them with a pitchfork and doesn't have to work again for years, because this player had 100 gold on them?

There is an arrow on your fuel gauge that tells you which side of your car the fuel tank is on.

Jill the Guest.

Everything Everywhere All At Once is amazing, and I am livid that the one local theatre that had it playing only had it playing for a single week.

In the long-long ago, there was a d20 setting called The End. The premise was a game that took place post-apocalypse. Literally. The book of Revelations happened. The catch: when the bible said the meek shall inherit the earth, it was intended not as a reward, but a warning - those who were too meek to pick a side got left on earth, the gates to the afterlife shut forever. A hilarious catch here is that the world is returning to a primal state... flora and fauna are growing crazy fast and/or big... mankind no longer rules the animal kingdom, because that was God's doing. So the critters are all mega-deadly/hostile (except for dogs, because man's best friend. No really.) Add to the mix that if humans don't interact with a thing often enough, it starts to break down into it's component elements. Buildings are crumbling if people don't go in them enough. There's some other lolzy stuff to go with it, but that's the gist. Could be neat.

I DARED to like Mummy, which everyone else hates.

@Derp said:

So far the only Jedi we've seen be in a relationship (in the movies, mind you -- Mara Jade is still <3) was Anakin, and love of Padme drove him to atrocity and desperation and all that. I think there would be a nerd eruption if a Jedi shacked up with someone.

There is some serious hand-on-thigh action between Obi-wan and Padme in Episode 2. To make the prequels interesting, watch Ep 1 with with Darth-Darth Binks theory in mind, and Eps 2-3 with the idea that 'Obi-wan was totally banging Padme' angle.

@Arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:

Adam Driver fucking killed it.

With 0 dialogue for the back half of the movie. We stan his acting chops, despite what he had to work with.

@Auspice said in General Video Game Thread:

@Sparks said in General Video Game Thread:

@Auspice - Must... resist urge... to restart... Final Fantasy debate.

WHICH FF MOVIE IS BEST?!

Spirits Within, don't @ me.