Posts made by Kanye Qwest

lol. lmao.

@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

@lotherio you are exhibiting no understanding of what words like “minority” or “bully” mean, even conceptually

The admin banned almost everyone who was protesting with no hesitation. I think you can stop stomping the picket lines to defend them from all the unwarranted terrorism, my guy! Like what even, lmao

@bloodangel questions are only acceptable via dm so that they may be dismissed or misrepresented as pleases the lieges

@Ganymede you fucking thumb

lol. lmao.

@phaedrus said in Hog Pit as read only:

question, dear reader, was about forming relationships during the first three months of having the character - which is a very sensible rule that I was very much happy to follow).

Also, that is not the rule. The rule is that you can't make big changes to a char that would involve them leaving their families/orgs/important relationships, etc, in the first 3 months of playing them, unless those changes were already on their sheets.

@phaedrus I don't know if you're lying, or you just didn't understand this rule for some reason. In case you didn't understand, I will give examples.

You can't take a knight, who is a dedicated knight per their sheet, and decide in week 2 they want to break their oaths to become a common merchant or something.

You can't take someone dedicated to their spouse and decide to go godsworn in week 3.

You can't take a noble sheeted to be determined to marry someone of very high birth and ONLY if it doesn't require marrying out of family, and then immediately decide to marry out.

@phaedrus said in Hog Pit as read only:

At the end of the day, though, no one told me when I took that character that he was reserved for his IC sister, which is fundamentally what the whole issue was in the first place, and led to all of this regrettable offense.

You can keep saying things like this, I suppose, but that won't make them true.

There's an entire set of manipulative tactics I see from online people - often bad actors - and they are so painfully transparent. One of them (1) is to keep asserting falsehoods as if they are something anyone else has confirmed or agreed with.

You were playing the character against his sheet, first of all. You were planning to obey the letter of the 3 month rule while completely trashing the spirit of it. It's not about the number of days, it's about encouraging people to play a character as written, both for CONTINUITY of the world - and because they might find they like the character as written. And if they don't, they should probably find another character.

Another of those painfully transparent manipulation tactics is (2) fishing for clues as to who reported them after they are banned. I'd say fully 75% of the people I banned or paid attention to the bannings of did this. And here you are, doing what looks suspiciously like padding the stats.

Sometimes they do this by pretending innocence. "Gosh, I don't even know what I could possibly have done! No one has talked to ME about it. No one has complained to ME, whatever is this about?"

Sometimes they do this by immediately trying to guess. "Oh, is this about x that happened? I told them they misunderstood, I didn't mean it like that!"

Sometimes they do it by appearing contrite. "Oh no! I would never mean to do such a thing! I'd really like to apologize, for my own peace of mind! But - to whom?"

Sometimes they do it by stating something false or oversimplified, in the hopes eventually it will annoy someone so much they'll be baited into giving away those clues. Such as, hm, glance above this post.

PS (pspspsps) I played your brother for the end of your tenure on this char. I went to a big open scene with an NPC to support your char, being vocal and involved. My experience of you was:

• you barely acknowledged me
• you attacked a powerful NPC no one could scratch with no armor, and then complained in OOC (and? I don't actually remember if it was both) channels about how apparently USELESS and WEAK your char was when you didn't win (which is against the rules of the game)
• you said something OOC to me about having to go for RL, completely unprompted, I assume as a way to indicate we'd have to RP another time
• you then were on @where IC elsewhere with other chars. Now, maybe your RL was quick! I can't know, and don't care. But you def chose to use OOC communication with me instead of IC.
• the next few days, you sent an IC message to me and our IC sister, indicating we should get together for a family dinner wherein you would 'try to be nice to each other' or something.

The end. Not the most extensive experience but it didn't leave me with much hope you were really out there 'stimulating rp and running events'.

I'm sure some people are happy to buy your narrative of this. I am just not, considering my experience with the behavior markers I see.

@phaedrus I'm still here! PS (pspspsps), a lot of it was noticing your attempts to skirt around the game rules for new characters twice. Also, the copious amounts of other people who reported you, like Glitch, one of the founders of this forum

But go off, I guess, if it makes you feel better.

Maybe you'll get upvotes from those still very upset about people not liking them over a decade ago. Find your own clique to call home.

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.

@cobalt said in The Worst Thing You Have Done in this Hobby Thread:

Blood and Citrus: (An Anitaverse Game set in Fort Lauderdale). I... used NPCs to TS PCs. It went about as good as you can imagine.

omg sex in Ft Lauderdale

Just gonna say I don't believe for a moment that "not realizing i was trying to be too nice" is the worst any of us have done.

That's like when an interviewer asks for your biggest flaw and you say "i work TOO hard sometimes".

@jennkryst

@tinuviel said in Season of Endings:

Apparently, tis the season for endings, and mine is drawing near. I feel much like Cicero did when Augustus came to power, watching the names of friends and colleagues be posted to the forum door in the latest round of proscriptions. Bearing witness to a once-great thing becoming torrid and abused.

So, I feel it only sensible to leave before I'm sent naked to join my colleagues in exile. Lord knows that my mouth will get me into trouble one of these days, and I'd like to retain a little dignity as I vacate this once great home of free thought and expression. I find I barely recognise it now. It may simply be that I am old and tired, and what I thought this place should be is something best left to the ashcan of history. Or perhaps it never actually existed as I imagine, and my mind is tainted with the rose-coloured glass of reminiscing and mourning the past.

I have been a member of this and related communities for many years. We've laughed, cried, mourned, and celebrated together. From whence we started many of us have started families, gained academic or professional acclaim, or simply just gotten older. Though I pride myself on my ability to emotionally distance myself and to regard this place as simply A Thing and not anything important, I find myself sad at the state of affairs with which we have been presented.

I could articulate why I feel as I do, and indeed so many of us do, but that has been done dozens of times by those now gone and my analysis would not add anything of merit; I shall simply say that I disagree with many policies, some new and some old, and that disagreement has reached a point making my remaining here untenable.

I have found friends here, for which I thank you. I have found foes, for which I curse you. And I have found myself, for which you all owe me an apology and a refund.

Much love and respect, to those that deserve it,
Tinuviel

From the void, cries of : +1

@tinuviel Good day

@tiredewok in b4 the lock to say:

bring back downvotes!

@tempest Man, for a minute I was having a warm feeling for you. Like, look at all these bans and Tempest is still here. I hope she's enjoying it.

And then you have to use the insults of a 16 yr old League of Legends streamer and everything is back to normal.

For some people, it seems like it should be obvious right around now.

What the actual fuck lol

@ganymede
BRING BACK DOWNVOTES

@ganymede said in The hog pit thread titled Admin Derp:

when the situation has been dealt with to my satisfaction,

How long does it take to tell Derp he should step down?

@devrex said in The hog pit thread titled Admin Derp:

I wonder if people would be so comfortable reading an unemotional statement of legal procedure as an attack if it had come from a woman.

Absolutely disgusting, my guy. Get out of here.