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@Collective Not a bad idea.

Let's be real - most people in this hobby know damn well what the expected behavior is. Treating them like children who don't understand what's wrong to do to other people without an exhaustive list of examples and scenarios isn't doing anyone any favors.

If your game has something specific that most games don't (IE the no rape policy, all about that being laid out so expectations are properly managed out the gate), note that. Then just say generally "don't be a dick. We will probably ask you not to be a dick once."

@buttercup said in The hog pit thread titled Admin Derp:

@kanye-qwest

Their board? Their rules? Isn't that what is preached on Arx deeming content? Is skirting around a locked thread to complain ban worthy?

If they want to ban me for this, that's their prerogative. It would, however, be a bad look on top of bad looks.

I agree with @Apos. After Auspice's turn in this thread calling people who didn't realize she wasn't using "mod voice" stupid, any subsequent MOD VOICE is just going to come off flip at best, and snarky at worst. Find a more mature way to do it.

@Ganymede This. I am so tired of JRPGs expecting me to relate to whiny early-teenagers.

I don't know. Having extensive policies and warnings and an explicit process for defining whether or not someone is being an unfun dick just seems to me to give people ways to weasel out of admitting they are being an unfun dick. Ohh I didn't realize, no one else I page detailed descriptions of my dick to seems to mind. I've never even heard a complaint! Oh, you've talked to me about this before? Ahh, well, I appealed that talk and so now I'm only at the step 1 warning so I guess I will do what I want until I'm at step 9? Ass covered? I guess?

It seems to me cleaner to have a reasonable staff(er) be the disciplinarian. Kind of a, if you do something dickish but it could be a misunderstanding or maybe you just don't know any better due to changing game cultures, that person will ask you to cease and desist, and then if you do it again they can just tell you that you aren't a good fit and to hit the road. Or, if someone does something really, truly reprehensible to another player, you can just give them the boot right then. No letting them linger through warnings and appeals, likely paging their victims the whole time to pressure them to recant.

I think better is pretty hard to define when it comes to things like "how to police a pretend fun time game where nothing really matters", but I can definitely say which style I'd prefer in the games I personally play.

@scar said in The hog pit thread titled Admin Derp:

I interpreted the locks as a pause (on acting a fool?) so that this all can be dealt with. It's a Tuesday morning, and not a particularly good Tuesday.

This is entirely fair. It is not, however, what was listed as the reason for locking the original thread. Nor the one I'm referencing, tbh.

@buttercup This place isn't Arx. For one thing, the documentation is much better.

Amen to that.

@roz I think the difference is that Glitch and ES never used MOD VOICE as obvious sarcasm. This mod team has, and thus it is kind of ruined. I'm not going @tempest over it, whatever. People are people, snark happens, mistakes are made. But I do think that makes it very hard to use "MOD VOICE" going forward.

Fuck you BOB I will never be free because you blew up my planet.

@phaedrus I'm still here! PS (pspspsps), a lot of it was noticing your attempts to skirt around the game rules for new characters twice. Also, the copious amounts of other people who reported you, like Glitch, one of the founders of this forum

But go off, I guess, if it makes you feel better.

Maybe you'll get upvotes from those still very upset about people not liking them over a decade ago. Find your own clique to call home.

@auspice said in Regarding administration on MSB:

I understand you have a vested interest in seeing me hurt in some way, shape, or form

This right here is beyond ridiculous.

I think it's fine to respect something you have at a 1 or a 2, but not something you have at a 4 or a 5 unless you are FRESH out of CG and messed something up - like not realizing skills are duplicates, or something. A little cleanup is fine but changing a core aspect of the character as you have played/built them is not, imo.

@Ganymede you fucking thumb

lol. lmao.

Stole this from Go Fug Yourself (<3) because the girls labeled like five actors and I wanted them to do ALL OF HOLLYWOOD.

You know how some people just look great in period pieces? And some people look jarringly modern?
Reese Witherspoon, for instance, has a super modern face.
Halle Berry has a super modern face.
Julie Roberts, super modern.
Elizabeth Olsen has period piece face, but her sisters, le olsen twins? Modern, all the way.
Emma Stone does NOT have Period Piece Face but you think she does until you really consider it.
Jake Gyllenhaal does not have Period Piece Face UNLESS he has his beard; Maggie has raging Period Piece Face regardless.
Drew Barrymore has Modern Face.
Matthew McConaughey has Period Piece Face but it’s kind of a surprise once you realize it.
Naomie Harris has Period Piece Face.

What are some PBs people use that just don't belong in a modern (or futuristic) setting, and which just don't belong in 'period' games?

For instance, two faves: Jensen Ackles and Chris Hemsworth? TOTALLY MODERN FACE. STOP IT.

@krmbm said in Wheel of Time:

The only hard part of not setting it after the books is how you allow for male channelers.

what is this FORCED DIVERSITY

oh my god, people. This is not that complicated.

Picture Jensen Ackles, but they put hair extensions on him and dressed him up like Colin Firth in Pride and Prejudice. It would not look right.

(Colin Firth has raging Period Piece Face)

I never saw Kate cheat while she was a staffer, and can't speak to what happened before I played Firan. I feel confident she didn't. What I did see was a lack of awareness/interest in the fun and enjoyment of the people around her, and a really intense level of mean girl nastiness. If she's grown as a person and left that behind, great. But that's the kind of thing that needs demonstration more than stating.

It's true that Firan brought out the worst in a lot of otherwise decent people.

@bored it really depends on how you are classifying it. I think a lot of people are trying to debate the validity of the idea of Period Face vs Modern Face, and that's cool, but not what I came to dish about. I just want to put famous people in a category. It is pleasing to me.

Benicio Del Toro has modern face
Javier Bardem has period face

@collective As I tell people, these games are ALL fantasy, and there's no reason in a fantasy that you have to have anything. Use your creative brain, and it's easy to come up with societies and chains of events that lead to situations other than the 'real' historical and modern ones from our world.