I promise you that as long as you aren't getting mad at us, we won't get mad at you! Be as slow and reluctant about the coded systems as you like, our playerbase is very helpful and friendly, and Apostate literally doesn't burn out (I am less helpful as I also ignore the coded systems and thus can't answer questions very well). But as long as you have a positive attitude, we are down for it. We'll find an answer!
@Coin Why would you even link and encourage website hits oh my god he's a neckbeard Christian MRA.
@Arkandel
Still no. I'm not talking about people I despise because of the way they eat cereal, these are all people who left very bad tastes in my mouth due to my interaction with them in games. Some of them have cheated, some have behaved horribly towards their fellow players OOC, some are just asshats.
But, as long as they aren't cheaters, horrible jerks, or asshats in Arx? Great, fine.
My purpose staffing this game is not to sort people into naughty/nice based on my interactions with them outside the game, or punish them in some way for past behavior. It's to make sure the game is a decently civil, decently relaxed place to be where one can be confident that harrassers, cheaters, creeps and asshats will not be allowed to CONTINUE those behaviors in Arx, if they demonstrate them.
This whole second chance thing, honestly, comes down to the fact that I think lots of rp games have policies about OOC behavior that just aren't conducive to maintaining the atmosphere they want. People get shitty when placed in shitty situations. Taking, for example, Firan: Firan was not a horrible, completely terrible game full of non stop chicanery the way people make it out to be. It was not the devil. It wasn't even as traumatic an experience as the time I got a big box from Target that held a single pack of gum I never ordered.
But Firan's policies encouraged rule-skirting, players policing and witch hunting other players, and the suffocation and stifling of plot access, and those things made for some pretty unpleasant experiences for individual players.
@Arkandel Was actually just not following Thenomain, there, so was curious.
I would think it obvious that modestly reasonable adults using generalizations are doing so with the knowledge that generalizations do not apply to everyone, but I'd like to ask : how would you prefer these things be said?
Let me spin the perspective around, just for a moment.
Put yourself in my shoes, for the sake of argument. In my shoes, you would realize you'd faced sexual harassment ranging from mild (or what most women think of as 'the norm', and how screwed up is that?) to scary/disturbing in every single job you had ever held.
Every job. 100% of them - and it's been a wildly varied array of jobs! Food service, bartending, waitressing, clerical, office, retail, on through IT and big data.
Now say I find that to be worth talking about, and I declare "Ugh, most workplaces are lousy with sexual harassment!"
So if you think about your own workplace, and your own life, and how tired you are of being lumped in with some faceless throng of male aggressors and you say "NOT MY WORKPLACE! Not ALL workplaces!"
...Well, you aren't wrong, but you are changing the subject in a hell of self-centered way.
*PS thread at large, on the subject of men's rights. Of course they are important. Feminists stand up for them! Getting rid of backwards social expectations and constraints based on gender is good for everyone.
@Thenomain You didn't shit on the game, you said that anyone who thought there was a valid reason for email requirement to play refuses to see/use logic.
You're confused about what's going on here. I wasn't trolling, I was legitimately offended by what you said. For the first time! So grats on that. I was calling you out for calling two of the best people I know incapable of logic. You have edited it since then, and I'm guessing that's not what you meant to get across, so that's fine. It's all good.
Seriously, @mietze, you need to lighten up and learn to take a compliment. Maybe if you ask nicely (or just state your own perspective) Derp will tell you how should react to things.
God knows you probably need all the help you can get.
@WTFE said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
But no amount of repeating the mantra "just use a temp email" is going to change the fact (and yes, it is actually a fact) that requiring email for a pretendy fun-time game is an idiotic decision from the get-go. Especially given, again, the history that is paired with such requirements.
So do you promise that an email requirement will keep you away? Asking for a friend!
@Roz said in MU Things I Love:
Just -- the really good days. Like, I just had a lot of RP packed into one day yesterday with a lot of really exciting developments and I'm feeling pretty giddy and blessed right now.
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I'd say yes if you weren't specifying "things that science hasn't yet explained' don't count. I think you are sort of setting this discussion up to be a lot of short "No" replies with that caveat.
@surreality said in Sensitive cultural/political/religious aspects of game themes.:
@Ominous That's not quite what's set up, though. That's not the setup for rape at all, in fact. That's a full consent subject. There's a preference, too, where someone can state 'OK with it' or 'not OK with it' in advance, but it's a full consent subject that cannot be brought up around people who are explicitly not OK with it.
How is this ensured/enforced? Because I can foresee a lot of issues if, mid scene, Jane is suddenly put on the spot to say "Oh I don't want to see this or rp about it, check my +preferences".
How do you keep your game consistent if you are going to have stories that some undefined portion of your PC population just gets to say "nah, I'm going to pretend that's not going on" to? How does that actually protect people who don't want to rp those themes, if they are still going to be exposed to them and are going to have to bow out of storylines? How does it free up people who DO want to pursue those themes if they have to check with every PC that might eventually be drawn in to make sure they are ok with the subject matter?
For a sandboxy game? Sure, whatever. For a game where you are trying to tell a story and keep players from all 'spheres' involved in it, I don't think that's going to play out anywhere as cleanly as you'd hope.
ETA: perhaps I'm a cynic, but to me this seems a bit like the worst of both worlds.
@Arkandel
Yes, I put a lot of thought into this and have prepared about six rounds of rebuttals, so I hope you brought your A-game. Your joke and my pithy reply are serious fucking business, and it is ON now.
The best part of the +firstimpression command, from my viewpoint (since XP doesn't matter to me) is how overwhelmingly positive they've been. It's so nice to see characters (and by extension, players) finding nice things to say about each other.
It's so satisfying to see someone get sassy about how careful they are when they have misunderstood something. Hate when it happens to me, but lawls.
@Faceless Not that it is relevant to this discussion, but:
People who come to you saying "OMG SO AND SO SAID X ABOUT YOU" are not your buddies, and should be told to stop or cut from your life. At the very least, they should absolutely not be taken at face value, because their only motivation is to watch drama, so the goal is shit stirring. Not honesty. Not just 'letting you know'.
@Kwashiorkor said in RL Anger:
I find it really annoying when people make a point to judge works of fiction or art based on how well it conforms to their political ideology. Examples might include hating on comic books because the illustrations of women are "oversexualized" or finding that anything which has a non-lolbertarian perspective amounts to worthless communist propaganda.
Similarly, I actually don't like most propaganda pieces of our era. Things like American Sniper and the Ghostbusters remake elicit eyerolls not just because they're political propaganda, but because so many people are emotionally invested in them not being regarded as political propaganda.
I think our culture is too politicized, and we're too concerned with what other people think and not concerned enough with if their thoughts are sane or are even presented well.
Oh hi, Rick Sanchez.
@D-bone You asked for a check for interest?
Please tell me if this interests you. Now, please stop telling me how/why it interests you.
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I fucking love Betty White. STAY AWAY FROM HER YOU HARPY YEAR.
Speaking anecdotally, I noticed (and commented) that there were WAY more PRPs during the siege, and I was happy since that lent it a bit more 'realness' for the people involved. But I definitely agree that having a way to tie them in/together that works better would have served to do more.
@Insomnia She probably still thinks that 45 seconds was about as troublesome as sneezing.