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@ixokai said in Reasons why you quit a game...:

@gingerlily said in Reasons why you quit a game...:

I like that one. In general I am a bit exhausted when people create these parallels between those staffing a game and those doing paid work. This was more 'here is an easy thing from our professional lives that we can also use in games'

I don't see why I should expect less of staff of a game then I expect of professionals in a paid gig.

because they are not paid professionals? I mean it's fine to have expectations, but...

@Songtress said in [Interest Check] Original vampire-based supernatural MU*:

I'd really like an alternative world, something, that feels different. I mean if Vampires have been around, and they are living and breathing,

Giggles!

@nyctophiliac ugh that sucks. I'm so sorry

@arkandel said in Staff and ethics:

@surreality So for example what's the correct generic approach to a scenario like this:

• There is an allegation that Bob is harassing Jane. Staff investigates.

1. Bob is found GUILTY and bans him. Does Staff announce that he's banned? Do they explain why? To what degree? To whom - is it only to those involved or to the public?

2. Bob is found NOT GUILTY. Does Staff announce there was an allegation at all? Do they reveal the reasons why they concluded that? If so, same question as above - to whom?

This is sensitive territory. You want to be mindful of privacy, to steer your culture correctly, to be sensitive to potentially wronged parties, etc... there are a lot of ways this can go bad.

What's the right way to do it?

At first we weren't announcing bans, because of privacy and respect to the banned parties. But then we realized people were just disappearing and it was confusing, and figured that announcing who and why would take care of that and might also serve to let people know we are super cereal about what we don't tolerate. So now we have a bannings board. I don't think there's a clear right answer, here, but I think you can come down on the side of "do what's best for the people actually playing your game' and feel all right about it.

@Cupcake So your issue is with the OOC backlash against an IC argument you had? Because I don't personally think one can justifiably complain if you made up a rumor about your own character and people believed it IC.

@Sunny and dollar menus won't? eating just meat won't? I think I've lost the thread of your point, here.

• that is a good point about people not having power/kitchens to cook. Also a factor, but again not really about the food.

@arkandel Nah, if it's just a little bit of a correction or discipline that does not result in a banning, I'd say no. No need to announce that. I might announce a clearer version of a policy if necessary, but then Arx is kind of a different beast.

The real ? here is that bisexual male characters are totally welcome, but no female characters. Only 'emitted'. So I guess the done thing is to puppet a female character for bisexual gratification purposes?

@Sunny said in What do you eat?:

@Kestrel

'Misconception that it's privledged' is why I got upset, because it isn't a misconception.

ETA: the misconception is that it is solely food cost alone that makes it a privilege

The ability to have plenty of food that makes up a healthy diet (any type of diet) is a privilege, yes?

@ixokai Yeah I probably would have banned the "i raped myself" player, if their proposal was a bunch of innocuous shit.

@faceless I'm never trying to get a last punch in on the bannings board, I don't think. Now i have to go re-read them.

@Karmageddon

All those avenues to scratch those itches. I get shipping characters that don't actually hook up, but I don't understand completely breaking the established character to do so.

Fenris/Anders is something that would just never happen in the established whatever. Canon? Universe? So if you really really need to scratch that glowing elf/whiny mfer itch, make up your own whiny mfer or glowing elf.

Or ignore me and make a game to play out your random fetish, inviting other people to come be supporting extras without admitting up front they will be extras in your random fetish play. Apparently, that's the choice people are going with.

@Kestrel yup. Microwave baked potato with salt and salsa another thing I do.

@ixokai said in Staff and ethics:

I don't think she planned it.

But....they did plan it. They asked specifically to use the possession NPC. The RP does not choose you.

@Misadventure You're not yourself when you're hungry. Here, have a snickers.

@Ganymede i mean if you don't eat carbs and you are allergic to nuts and legumes there isn't a lot you can do that's going to be filling (salad forever?) but also I am sorry for your life. Carbs are the best.

@bobotron said in Questionably viable character types and tropes (tangent from staff ethics convo):

But a lot of us view a lack of OOC communication and collaboration to be a very bad thing. Like, talking to each other to ensure that there's not OOC animosity is fucking important in these hobbies.

Well get your shit together, Summer.

@Roz I was also a big fan of DA2. Not for the gameplay, dear god, but I loved that it was just this scumbag and her scumbag friends, forced to muddle through a lot of crazy bullshit.

I agree it wasn't an epic fantasy, but I found it far more immersive and relatable.

@Salty said in Depression Meals:

Turn oven to 350. Get out tinfoil.
Wrap a fully frozen boneless skinless chicken breast fillet in a tinfoil pouch and top with Italian dressing, fold foil closed tight to seal in steam/juices. Wash and poke holes in a potato, wrap that bitch in foil too. Pop em in the oven.
1 hr break to smoke and watch mindlessly funny shit.
Pull packets out of oven and open them. Retrieve chicken with a fork and cut your potato open. Pour chicken juices and Italian half on the chicken, half on the potato, add butter to potato and sour cream and cheese if desired. Five minutes or less of work and you have a dish free meat and potato meal without even needing to defrost your meat.

Who is doing this when they are too depressed to eat??

@seraphim73 said in Regarding administration on MSB:

So... people were upset that she wasn't being clear when she was being a moderator and when she was being a poster, and when she makes it clear, it's "flip at best, and snarky at worst?" And immature?

No, people had questions about her suggestion to leave something out of a thread, and her response to those questions was to heavily imply anyone who could not tell the difference between her saying something as a mod and as a poster was stupid. When there were questions about that, she sarcastically labeled something MOD VOICE in another thread. This was discussed, in this very thread. So, when someone uses all caps MOD VOICE in an attempt to seriously mod after using it in a snarky manner, that's just going to muddy the water. I'm saying once you do that with a label, you can't use that label again in the future and expect people to realize you are using it seriously.

@Alzie People are allowed to like things you didn't like. I'll pretend I enjoyed DA2 forever, because I did.