@TheBigD said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
@egg said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
Play a POC, it wouldn't kill you.
Yeah, no. This is a situation where no one wins. There are folks who will find this idea to be as insulting as wearing blackface. And others who would call it cultural appropriation.
Me, as a white guy? I'm choosing the safer option every time.
I play POC and other genders/orientations quite frequently, and no one has ever said anything like this to me.
yes, rp is dying, soon no one will ever do it again. f's in the chat
Yeah honestly the "this hamstrings creativity" arguments are laughable, to me. There's an 85% chance this applies to any person who reads this sentence: the creative significance of whatever thing you have set up is basically nil. It's probably not even that good a story. There's nothing sacrosanct about your 'vision'. Don't look for excuses to be a jerk.
Or look harder!
@greenflashlight said in Sensitivity in gaming:
@insomniac7809 said in Sensitivity in gaming:
So, all that said, people are going to have their opinions but usually I think the concerns about being cast eternally into the darkness of Cancellation for a single misstep are taken pretty far. (It wasn't tasteless jokes that got Louis CK on a lot of people's shitlist, it was years of using his position of power to make women watch him masturbate.)
Reminder for context that Louis CK is not canceled. Despite everything he's done, he was greeted with a standing ovation when he returned to standup barely a year later, and he's currently in the middle of a sold-out international tour.
I mention this to explain why I have absolutely no patience with anyone who complains about being "canceled," because it never means what they pretend it means. It means they think they're so special it's unjust for them to suffer consequences when they spend a lifetime being shitty to people.
AMEN. He was NEVER canceled. After ten years of calling them liars, he admitted he might have goofed a little and then...took a year long vacation. He was still a millionaire. He still is. He returned to standup with a victim persona and got a standing ovation. He's still working in comedy. He's still a millionaire.
He might be dead to ME but he is 100% not canceled, and never was.
"Coffee shop" rp (AKA rp amongst yourselves) should be at least half of your rp on a game. Otherwise, you probably aren't roleplaying a character so much as playing the world's crappiest video game.
@VulgarKitten said in Pretendy Fun Time Games:
You know, I've found it's very hard to know when someone is actually being a dick to you, versus when you're making a mountain out of a molehill. Anyone else have this issue? Not too many people come right out and say "Oh yeah, I'm doing x because I just don't like you" versus "I'm doing x because I don't think it's a big deal". Sometimes, the simple act of asking which of these two it is or expressing how you feel 'Hey, when you do this, I feel x' is met with the 'chill out it's just a game' spiel.
Where do you draw the line?
I know I troll on here, but this is the realest of real talk.
If you want to have a life as stress-free as is possible, do not EVER assume that people are doing things out of spite, or because they don't like you, or because they are trying to make you question yourself and your personality and your choices. This is a foolproof plan to happiness.
A. if you are right, and they are not trying to be-bitch you, then great. You dismiss anything a little questionable as their issue, it is, and you are able to bliss right along.
B. You are wrong, they are trying to be-bitch you, and your blissful lack of give a damn will both rankle and force them to be way more explicit if they want to be mean to you. Great, make them show their true colors.
But I have to say, my life experiences teach me that A is true a lot more often than B. Don't waste your time worrying what other people think of you, because . . .they don't. They think of themselves, and their lives, and their moment to moment issues, and how things affect THEM.
Man idk, I try to come up with opportunities for people to help each other IC, as I think that fosters a (FALSE@!!!) sense of camaraderie that will hopefully lead to some friendly encouragement and chit chat and MAYBE lead to engagement between players outside the plot.
Like if someone does a really good roll, and someone else botches, give the first player the opportunity to save the other if they like or take a blow for them. Everyone likes to feel like a hero! I think it's even more satisfying than getting the big damage, or the killshot, etc.
@derp said in Question: Code of Conduct:
I'll just go ahead and answer these.
Point number 1: Questions are welcome via PM because Ganymede has said that questions are welcome via PM when it comes to administrative decisions. She might decide to open up the board for it. I don't know. What I do know is that our standing request is to have them done via PM, so I put them in there via PM.
Point Number 2: This isn't a bug. It's a feature. You might have noticed, but certain persons have gone to great lengths to skate right along the very border of what a written, explicit rule will let them get away with, and then choose to cite that rule back in the face of the mods when told to knock it off. So now we've given notice that this kind of behavior will be seen as violating the rule in question. For 99% of our users, this won't ever be an issue. For that other 1%, they're now on official notice.
So who is on notice, exactly? I ask because an admin just made a vague disciplinary threat in a thread, and I personally am only accepting them in PM. But not from you- don’t ever contact me directly thx
There is an entire vocation named 'explorer' that is based around the idea of getting hired to go out and do the (eventual) exploration system. A High Lord is not, in general, going to be going off into the deep woods every other day to probably get eaten by a grue.
Everyone knows the RP chooses you and we are all completely helpless in the clutches of these poorly fleshed out 'people' we pretend to be, boiled down to two or three traits and some grudges that are absolute and immutable.
@Jeshin it's a lot more likely random mushers will have seen Korra than read the comics, I think. And it would still not make it easy for people to play TOGETHER and be different benders in the way they are in Republic City
hey you know what, I don't WoD but I think it's great to see a game including some of the spheres other than the apparent werewolf, changeling, and vamp standard. Kudos!
And then she went on a multi post tirade about how some of us are shitty human beings! But I don't regret donating. I can feel it, this is the time things turn around. This is the day we start our diets, and jog before work.
@Coin said in The 100: The Mush:
It's like saying, "I do apologize you fell down," after you trip someone accidentally. Mother fucker, apologize for tripping me, not for my inability to catch myself adequately.
No, fuck you.
Happy birthday to the ground!
how about just let people criticize or bring up negative experiences without letting it devolve into a bunch of RL character judgments and horrifying vitriol?
Even in this hobby, most people are not at all aware of anything outside their own cage of wants and anxieties and eternal grudges.
Excuse me? Your fellow mod is the one who set that tone. If you want to fix moderating, fix that.
