Posts made by JinShei

@ZombieGenesis said in Image Attribution & Creative Commons:

Someone wanted to use an Instagram "influencer/model" as their PB and wanted to know if it was okay.
I think it's a thin line but one I justify by saying that celebrities put themselves in the public spotlight. They release photos to publicize themselves and make themselves known.

But so do influencers and models. So if there is a line it might be more on the private individual one.

I do think the actor thing is an interesting one - for me, I tend to use actor as character in film/tv, rather than actor direct. I know that sounds like a narrow distinction too and I'm turning @Ghost 's points over in my mind for my next character.

@friarzen said in Image Attribution & Creative Commons:

feel free to start using something like thispersondoesnotexist.com instead...

That is excessively cool. I may actually do so...

@Auspice Like this?

@Groth said in Image Attribution & Creative Commons:

@Tempest said in Image Attribution & Creative Commons:
@Seamus
The rules protecting the likeness of a person are pretty weak overall and is the reason you every now and then get these news articles about a random tourist family being used for billboard advertising since some random photographer took their picture and sold it.

The EU has some pretty strict rules about copyright and the rights belong to.

"The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that internet users should be free to share links to material, for example photos or videos, providing the material itself has been published online with the permission of the rights holder. The right to share links however does not go as far as allowing users to share links that are designed to circumvent paywalls or other subscription only services. Copying images and then hosting them on another website however will usually amount to copyright infringement. You should ask permission from the copyright owner before using images in this way."

I remember staffing on Windy City and a pissed-off player emailed the author to tell her that we existed. Luckily, she didn't seem to care so..

@Auspice And you aren't Sooooooo bipolar, girl. You are just moody af.

@fatefan Did you have to make many tweaks / house rules there?

@Ninjakitten said in Discworld: The MUSH

FWIW, the writing on some of the roster descriptions/backgrounds was great.

That I can't take credit for - @L-B-Heuschkel is an incredibly talented writer. The game would not even have opened without them

It hasn't been an easy decision, and I truly appreciate the people who worked so so hard on it, and the players that did come and tell their stories. There is one particular person who busted a gut trying to get it to work, and I appreciate them more than I can tell.

I'll be putting up the flatpack of the game on Aresmush for players to take their logs and keep them. I'll redirect the url to that when it is up.

@Tinuviel I think the new information about something that is part of my identity should change how I view it. Rather like being part of a political party, I feel I should acknowledge when things weren't right, and when actions harmed others. I should feel strong emotions when justice is not done.

Doing so doesn't harm my self-esteem. Almost the opposite.

Actor Derek Fowlds has died at the age of 82. His career encompassed playing Bernard Woolley in Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister, as well as Oscar Blaketon in ITV's Heartbeat. Long before that, he had a stint as sidekick to Basil Brush.

@Kestrel said in The Savage Skies - Discussion Thread:

I'm going to put my hand up and say I don't know much of anything about Hirohito, nor the IJA. I feel very embarrassed reading this thread because it's obviously something that had serious consequences on human history and that I should have been educated about it in school, though I wasn't. ... It's evident to me that Eurocentric bias has serious impacts on our education system and cataclysmically, our ability to empathise with and connect with other human beings who have a family history tied to the era.

I have to second this - my education was lacking generally because Steiner (whose own behaviour was very questionable when it came to race, gender and being in touch with any form of reality) education didn't seem to cover much history. But particularly outside of the Eurocentric view, there was nothing.

As an aside, when we moved to Australia and I went to the museum there on the history of the country, I came out entirely horrified and ashamed to be British.

@Ganymede said in Separating Art From Artist:

@bored

It was a question of whether it was acceptable behavior.

I mean, I understand from the discussion that we are talking about shaming. Shaming people for their bad behavior. And if that means affecting their life so be it.

The line I see is whether the shaming leads to physical consequences. It is clearly wrong if someone is assaulted or killed as a result of exposing them.

But losing one’s job? Some people think that the truth hurts. But it also hurts children who depend on that job. Does the morality depend on what a person is being shamed for?

I guess that’s why I err on the side of not shaming.

I don't know if any of you have read / listened to Jon Ronson's work, "So you've been publicly shamed" - it discusses these issues.

For me, I have marched in protests around Brexit and the NHS - I work in the public sector and didn't cover my face. Honestly? I believe in those things, and if I were identified, I would stand by them. BUT I am also covered by solid employment laws and good unions and so there isn't a fear of my income being affected. So it wasn't a major risk for me - my sector is notoriously left-leaning, anti-Brexit, pro-NHS.

I love a video of a nazi being punched as much as the next left-wing person. But I feel that is the part of us - all of us - who would watch gladiators. The same reason some people read threads on here with popcorn.

We have the same with resilience in the NHS - suddenly, if the stress of the 10% missing nurses and the awfulness of the cases you see day in and day out is getting to you, you get to go on resilience training...

I hate it. There is resilience - the ability to bounce back after awful stress - and resilience - it is your fault you aren't coping with this and if you were better, you would be...

Pratchett (ignore the figurines, they are inherited and I'm struggling to work out what to do with them - they may join some other things in a box):

Bobble heads (daughter's - she has around 50 all over the house)

Momiji - more across the house

@Caggles

@Caggles said in The Work Thread:

@JinShei

Please can I have your students? I just had to flag one with 89% plagiarism from 4 easily googled websites. This is a 3rd year LLB student.

I flicked from my screen doing precisely the same to this post! Do yours use a thesaurus to avoid detection too? Top hint: don't use one on the name of a disease or government department...

I just marked someone at 83% (higher is positive). That is publishable material.

I started when I was really quite unwell, and needed something that I could focus on, have people around but be able to just not when I couldn't.

Now I just enjoy the writing as it is very different to my work and uses a part of my brain that needs exercise. It gets my daydreaming out of my head. Also I like a lot of you people. Not, you know, all of you but.

@nyctophiliac I am so so sorry