Best posts made by Kanye Qwest

@ixokai said in The 100: The Mush:

The thing with the 100 is... almost none of these people are strangers. Now they don't all know eachother great, but they aren't strangers. You're new to the game, but your character has been around for the last two weeks, everyone probably knows his or her name, some details. Depending on how long they were boxed, they might know more.

I tend to have my character assume a certain familiarity with new people, and just try to work them in as if we at least passingly know eachother. No one's a stranger here.

So are you being extra nice OOC to make sure the players involved are ok with your antagonism?

@Arkandel said in Accounting for gender imbalances:

@Caryatid Do you think the gender imbalance is something that ought to be addressed in the interview?

For instance does a question such as "we're currently a team consisted only of men, how do you feel about that?" sound like we're preparing to listen for feedback and keep things professional, safe and constructive or signal we might be shedding too much of a spotlight on gender right out of the gate?

yeah absolutely don't ask that kind of thing. For reasons people have noted.

But also..what is wrong with your company, that you've never had a woman on this team, ever? Maybe you should hire all the women. Start making a dent in that problem.

@arkandel But there IS a reason, and the reason is: I have things I would rather do with my time than 1. define that and 2. defend my definition endlessly

I mean obviously I'm being fippant, if you are down to spend your time that way, excellent. I would never, ever staff on a comic game where people could play published characters.

Is there anything wrong with staff alts helping to move plot or disseminate RP hooks? I just don't see why that needs to be labeled an accident, if that's what's being implied?

@Sparks yeah it's not great at my company either, but we have teams of people working on it, on recruiting undergrads and partnering with STEM facilitation community programs for the future, which I love. We had a Black Girls Code workshop here recently.

Eh it was pointless anyway to call out an argument fallacy when I was just stating a negative opinion. Best stated and dropped, so no worries.

@Ghost said in The 100: The Mush:

Question: are the Delinquents and Groundersrun by staff PCs/NPCs? Does the game support whether or not players/PCs form their own splinter faction in a PC-controlled tribe to barter and trade with the Delinquents/Grounders as they see fit?

To me, the obvious answer for players who feel they can't break into the clique is to splinter off on their own, but if staff doesn't support it or may negate it due to Staff-controlled factions refusing to acknowledge said splinter tribe, there might be little point in the effort.

But if I were playing there and the tribes were too cliqued/railroaded by staff involvement or antagonistic characters running the show, this would be my response. There would be enough IC justification (and thematic) for characters deciding to take their share of supplies and homesteading.

Wait, why is this getting downvoted? This post in general is pretty constructive. "What can staff do" and here's a suggestion - support people forming their own cliques. Seems logical.

@Ghost I mean you weren't adding anything but more of the nonsense causing the issue so

@arkandel said in Regarding administration on MSB:

We should (and will, going forward) talk among ourselves more but.

ok but like, what about? What are the standards? If you want to mod (and I am not saying I am against modding, I mod the FUCK out of arx), you have to have standards that you are applying consistently, across the board. It can't just be a 'do what you feel, man'.

My actual concern is not that Staff-run plot will be all about the FCs, but more these two points:

1. Who are these people? I would probably weep if I ran into Varric in a game and he was unfunny or terse or (absolute worst case) trying to have sex with people.
2. Even if Staff isn't focusing on the FCs, it seems very likely /players/ will be. Why would anyone come join my random card game if Fenris and Hawke walk in and shout that they want to play Wicked Grace?

@Pandora ugh that sucks. I am sure it's occurred to you, for you are not a dumb, but what about taking him aside and being like 'yo this bothers me becuase i celebrated with my daughter and it was about US, not about anyone else. You never know who you might be hurting when you are inflexible and rude/emphatic about your opinions, and this time you were hurting me, so be more thoughtful or at LEAST keep it out of your job"?

It sucks to be vulnerable, but it sounds like you care about him. Might be worth a try before you have to burn the bridge thorugh either a report or losing your whole damn temper.

What is there to discuss? This is a community with a lot of suspicion of "well we are discussing it amongst ourselves, as staff". For good reason - look at the UH fiasco.

I respect Gany because when they step out of line, they own it and walk it back. Auspice needs to do that. If Auspice won't do that, maaaaybe Auspice doesn't need MSB authority. This whole "we are working to address it in private and shall say nothing public about it" like you're under an NDA isn't doing you guys or this situation any favors.

Yeah, the game's in an early beta and already the FCs are taken? I'd feel a lot better about it if they'd at least held those characters for game opening, so that people could "audition".

I guess. Actually, no, I don't think I'd ever feel ok with someone rping Hawke while I was playing Random_Apostate_001.

@wizz I am not upset. I'm home from the clinic, sipping a mocha, and snerking at this. As an admin, when someone brings up a problem and you don't address the problem, instead changing the subject to the way they are expressing themselves*, you are being a bonehead.

*exception being, if they are cursing you out or calling you nasty names or something. Ain't nobody got time to be dealing with that.

@arkandel said in Regarding administration on MSB:

If you want me to care about what you said, or what you are saying now, you will do well to be civil about it.

Ok. What do you have to say about the civil statements I have made in this thread about the issue I brought up? Not threads being moved, or what the moderation should be, because I don't have any feelings about that. I mean specifically about a mod insulting people in the very thread asking for patience while what moderation should look like gets hammered out.

@Coin said in Dragon Age: Smoke & Shadows:

This would all be moot if the game were PvP, of course.

You can all just get together, gank the FCs, and move on.

<.<

Shut your whore mouth, I would never hurt Varric. Even an imposter.

@Thenomain said in Dragon Age: Smoke & Shadows:

Even a Level 2 Hawke who is schlepping around cheap goods for the Cartel?

Yeah, because like Ark said, we all suspect that no matter what staff says or their good intentions, the events of the game are going to pivot around that character, since the game is set during that characters time of massive influence in Kirkwall. It's a great story, but if I was going to take part in a Thedas world I'd want it to be much more along the lines of the warden's story, or the inquisitor's, where it really could be anyone.

things i have RECENTLY become obsessed with during hyperfocus holes, to the point i have read and watched dozens of hours of content about them:

tiny homes
van life
arctic foxes
the history of Hollywood (did you know it was bought and named by racist prohibitionists who wanted a sober, white town?)
the neuroscience of sleep
misogyny and witchcraft and satanism
hikikomori

No one has sexually harassed me online in years and years, so my advice is to be acerbic and unfriendly.

@Ganymede
man. Imagine a game just set in Kirkwall or wherever just focusing on the Mage-Templar war? Endless possibility.

ADHD sucks. I'm on meds and they help me with getting out of bed/literally being so fatigued I can't keep my eyes still on something without falling asleep, but they do nothing else. My executive is still 100% dysfunction. Fuck you, brain.