Best posts made by Kanye Qwest

Let me just throw this out here: If you are waiting two years to resolve a plot because you are "trying to let players figure it out", you have not done a good job of storytelling. At all. At /all/.

Ares is a really cool fkin thing, actually progressing the hobby, and she's handled every suggestion/criticism I've ever seen with far more grace and patience than most coders, Tehom included. Which is not to say coders are obligated to be graceful and patient but it does kind of make her a saint. I think only Griatch also strikes me as that patient, so she's in good company.

I've got no interest in watching the rest of this process, so I'll leave you with some free advice.

If ever you see a person characterize themselves as 'highly logical' or 'rational' or 'robotic', that is an unmistakable indication that they have zero emotional maturity or self awareness, and they will absolutely lose their shit if ever pressed in any way.

@derp said in RL Anger:

Alright, well... cool then? I mean, by all means, stop trying to help educate women on how to protect themselves from predatory behavior because it puts too much onus on them to take responsibility for their own safety. Let me know how that works out, I guess?

Wow.

Ok. Here's the thing. WE HAVE NOT YET REALLY TRIED STOPPING RAPISTS FROM RAPING.

When there is actual punishment, when rapists go to jail for actual jail terms, when judges don't victim blame and people don't ask that rapists not have their lives ruined for 20 minutes of fun, then maybe society can say it has tried to dissuade people from raping, and the onus can go elsewhere.

Jumpin fucking jehosephat.

You guys should probably not be modding beyond splitting off threads that have quite obviously gone down the hole until you have an idea of what policies you want to enforce. You've - meaning the three of you as a group - been all over the place.

If you just want to ban spammers and 4chan trolls, fine. No need to hammer anything out. If you want to be threatening longtime posters with nebulous "you'll be unwelcome", or make suggestions on content in the hog pit, you probably ought to have your story straight. Both for yourselves, and so people will know what to expect and whether or not they want to expect it.

@auspice said in The Dog Thread:

Braum goes heavy on the guyliner.

He used to rock the winged look!

Honestly i don't give a fuck if someone's online behavior matches their RL. If I'm only ever going to deal with them online, and they are gross or annoying, then they are gross or annoying.

@mietze Hey. You feel how you feel, and it's okay.

I am adopted, and I never had any information about my birth parents outside of rumor. I never looked, and after awhile I didn't even care. I didn't think about them, for years at a stretch. I took an ancestry.com DNA test because I wanted to know my mix of DNA. It's a cool thing to know! That was over a year ago, and then I got an email out of the blue about a DNA match and logged in. It had matched me to a few 3rd cousins before, but this time it said "This person is your mother". Suddenly it was on my mind a LOT. I found myself looking to see if she'd messaged me. Talking to my friends about it. Finally I decided to just message her, like hey. Did you give up a baby for adoption in x on y date. Her first response was weird. It was yes, I'm your birth mother, I don't know what you're expecting but you can message me here again if you want.

And that felt hard. Like, I wasn't EXPECTING anything? I lived 30+ years without her, I wasn't reaching out to fill some need. It felt like a rejection, and it felt bad, but I have good friends and family and they propped me back up. And then she reached out again, a month later. She'd had a very bad year of her own, and now we are very tentatively getting to know each other, and I have 2 half siblings that have also been very kind. I hope your story ends the same way, or whatever way this resolves, it's in a way that gives you some peace.

@seraphim73 INCORRECT

CORRECT:

Random shoutout to @Apos, who did a bunch of reading on his own when I was diagnosed, just trying to learn what to do to help someone with ADHD. Since then, he's been on top of cleaning up and clearing clutter away so that it doesn't overwhelm me.

Even with me working against him >.>

random straw men arguments are exasperating and get points deducted in debates

@saosmash said in Emotional bleed:

@Herja Did he live?

don't answer that, that's exactly the kind of question a cop would ask

@krmbm said in How to launch a MU*:

@wizz Just on the flipside of this: Some people (hi!) actively avoid the "sim" games.

Which brings us back to: build what you would enjoy. Not what you think other MUSHers will. We can't agree on a goddamn thing around here.

And if YOU don't enjoy it, but you try to make a thing just to 'appeal to a lot of players' or whatnot, you won't have the personal engagement and passion, and it will die anyway. Gamerunner engagement is key to keeping something going.

I made a map of the continent of Arvum. Arx is on the east coast, and the distance from Arx to Sanctum (on the other coast), is around about 1700 miles.

MOAR LOKI

Babybraum's friend used to be almost as big as he was!

Man, if I had $100 for every time I got accused of favoring/handing something to my "friend", when it was someone I (A. did not know at all or (B. actually OOCly disliked, I would...well, I'd be on vacation right now.