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Sex : Yup. You gotta pick one! For the mentally delayed players, pick between Male and Female.

That blurb is so uncool on so many levels.

@Tinuviel, I think what you meant to say was: Screw the rules because, I'm Charles Dance.

Kung Fury

So, if I'm correctly understanding what I've read so far:

• Players are upset that they are inundated by a bunch of IC unpleasant to varying degree characters. Maybe this wouldn't be bad if it were limited to only a few, relative to the size of the game. That way people can choose to interact or not. It doesn't matter if Jackass Joe was only mean to you once, and that Megabitch Maisie was, and Dickhead David and Diva Danielle and Punch-happy Peter, etc. etc. etc. were only mean to you once or twice because the net result is still being treated like crap every day of the week. At that point, it makes no difference where the antagonism and abuse are coming from.

• No one is complaining that the players of those jerks are necessarily being OOC jerks. Just, at most, obtuse. Except for one player who was threatening to kill other characters while they slept if they didn't fall in line, but that player is no longer on the game.

• There seems to be a lack of friendly, welcoming PCs with whom they can interact.

• No one is saying antagonistic characters are bad per se, but the antagonism needs to be presented in a certain way in order to be engaging and fun for the non-antagonistic characters/players -- which may or may not be a valid description of wrongfun.

• Some players are complaining they don't see the problem. Others players are saying those players are part of the problem, either because they don't realize the extent they are being IC assholes or because they are so happy in their own RP bubbles that they are oblivious to anyone else's lack of a good time.

And if this is not what people are intending/meaning to say, I'm putting it out that this is the impression pages of comments are giving me.

Edited to add bit about one OOC bullying player.

I'm absolutely re-watching Kickboxer before the end of the week.

You must be really bored, @Ghost. A lot of this thread was people lambasting @GirlCalledBlu and @Seraphim73 for not just running a sandbox game, and now that they seemingly are running a sandbox, there's still a bunch of hate.

I know a handful of players who played at the 100 who give zero fucks that the Fifth World re-opened. Some of them are bummed out that the 100 closed. Some aren't. None of them have any interest in playing at the Fifth World.

For someone who didn't play at the 100, though, you're awfully keen to talk about a cut or whatever. If people who played at the 100 are upset by these recent events and their timing, they certainly can express that discontent on their own accord. They don't need a player who never played there to take up the mantle for them. I mean, seriously, when has any player ever needed someone to bitch on their behalf? Especially someone who isn't directly involved.

My mom is a tiny, white Frenchwoman in her sixties. This morning, she was singing the chorus to L.L. Cool J's "Going Back to Cali" around the house, then went to YouTube to listen to 2-Pac's "California Love".

Pointing out facts is now being buried up someone's butthole.

Stating that players who may feel shafted are fully capable of expressing their feelings is being salty.

We're living in a meme culture.

@auspice said in The Kitten Army (GIF Heavy):

@templari said in The Kitten Army (GIF Heavy):

@auspice But but.. I'm supposed to be scary.

It's okay. You can pretend. I won't tell anyone.

(But the kittens know, man. They know.)

The video some from which some of these were snagged.

@DownWithOPP said in The 100: The Mush:

@Ghost said in The 100: The Mush:

Use these words...or else.
You hypocritical twat.

And there goes the moral high ground.

It never was there to begin with. Speaking as someone who regularly gets hung-up on semantics, I agree that there is a spectrum of abuse and that @Ghost's use of the word wasn't incorrect even if I feel that only some, but not all, he's been railing against meets my definition of abusive in an online environment.

I also agree that @tek said some shitty things, which she seems to have recognized and apologized for.

Since then, however, @Ghost waltzed back into a thread he said he was done with (good thing we have no shortage of salt for all the margaritas we have to drink now, AMIRITE?) to get all rabid the moment he saw people were coming to his defense.

For someone who claims to be well-adjusted and not caring about online bs, he's really failing in demonstrating that.

I've been on the National Do Not Call Registry since 2004. As of 8/01/2016, the maximum fine is $40,000 USD per call.

Three days ago, someone called me claiming to be from a certain bank where I don't have an account. I informed him I was on the registry. I told him to remove me from his list. I informed him of the fine. I warned him that if he called me again, I would report him to the FCC.

He called again about 25 minutes ago. I told him, "I told you the other day that I was on the Do Not Call Registry. I told you to remove me from your list. I am now reporting you to the FCC."

He immediately hung up.

I immediately reported both calls to the FCC. I'm certain he's made more than two such calls. I'm also certain he will be unable to pay the fines for all those calls.

So even though I'm kinda peeved, I feel good for reporting him.

@kanye-qwest said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

@apos you have to take a Buzzfeed "which dog breed are you" quiz in your app.

Which quiz?

What kind of dog are you?
What kind of dog would you be?
What kind of dog breed are you?
Which Uncommon Dog Breed Would You Be?
Take This Quiz And We'll Tell You Your Dog Breed And If You're A Good Boy
Take This Quiz And We'll Tell You What Your Spirit Dog Breed Is

@Ghost said in The 100: The Mush:

@Kanye-Qwest Don't be like that. I have said repeatedly that staff should definitely RP on their own games and enjoy the work they've put in. I'm just saying that staff shouldn't pigeonhole the entire game to being about their PCs and need to understand that by opening a place of RP to the public, there is an unspoken expectation that the roleplayers that they have opened a play space for are joining the game to matter.

By matter I mean: beyond assisting staff PCs in being the big heroes, and not being unwittingly delegated into being supporting cast characters.

People join these games to get camera time, have arcs, and feel like they're causing an impact on roleplay, not to be listed in IMDB as "Guy in Coffee House #3"

My stance is that people who open MUs who do not understand this aren't really supporting their players, but instead duping people to log on for hours a week to support their fun.

I agree with you, @Ghost. I also fail to see how this is applicable to a sandbox. Repeatedly, in this thread, several posters have accused @GirlCalledBlu and @Seraphim73 for running sandbox games that they pass off as public games. So now, when @GirlCalledBlu and @Seraphim73 finally open a sandbox, they still get heaps of shit.

In an ideal world, staffers on any game would be cool and would make sure all their players are having fun. Also, in an ideal world, any player who was having a miserable time would just cut their losses and not get so damn hung-up on how it didn't work out. They wouldn't stick around, gnash their teeth, whine, and complain about the abuse they chose to continue to endure -- and I say that as someone who has gotten unhealthily attached, on more than one occasion, and who is hideously embarrassed about it because, hey, I know better, but eh. Feelings are a bitch, and pretendy fun times have a habit of becoming too damn serious when RL is shitastic.

Also, speaking as someone who has little contact with the outside world, I believe that you mean well, but you come across, at least to me, as a patronizing prick when you say things like:

It's cruel for some of these people (not myself) who put so much effort in or have very little other contact with the outside world, and I don't see anything wrong with joining a game with the expectation that staff intends for players outside of their control mechanisms have an effect on the game.

"Some of these people" don't need people like you to be their so-called champion while you backhandedly point out that you are oh so well-adjusted. Which, by the by, your recent rants in this thread make it very clear that you absolutely are not.

@thenomain said in Random links:

@sg said in Random links:

@tinuviel said in Random links:

The term cracker meant poor white people in Virginia

I always thought it referred to slave owners cracking the whip.

According to Wikipedia, you're both (kind of) wrong.

Not that I'm taking Wikipedia as the definitive answer, but I rank it somewhat higher than "something someone said on the internet". Wikipedia is more, "something someone said on the internet, but showed their work".

I was called a cracker once when I was in college. I was so utterly baffled. I peered at the person who called me such as if they were nutters for thinking that was an insult.

I thought I was being called a cracker because I was white like a Saltine cracker, and I asked wtf was supposed to be so offensive about that. Were they implying I was bland? (Not an adjective anyone ever has used to describe me, so the whole thing was extra ridiculous to me.)

That whole group of black people were entirely taken off-guard by my response. One of them told me it was for "whip cracker". I said that made more sense for an insult, except it wasn't accurate cos I am first-generation American and if they were insinuating that my eastern European Jew ancestors were somehow responsible for the slave trade, they really needed to better educate themselves.

They gave up after that.

@auspice That's one of my fave Key & Peele sketches. I also die at how much the white chick costs in Wendell's video for "The Power of Wings".

@Kanye-Qwest said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

But they are the sexy, tricky Mediterranean-flavored people.

But they don't have Jensen Ackles, which, really, we all know is the true reason Velenosa loathes Valardin.

Double post because Hot Dudes with Kittens. I don't even use Instagram but I still visit. >.>

@Arkandel, my point is that there will not be a list unless Staff changes the policy, which seems very unlikely. Having a list will result in policing PBs. If you are concerned about not having the same PB as some other character, your only option, really, is to go through all the character pages of the same gender and look at the photos. Even then, someone else can come along and use the same PB you have, and it won't be in violation of anything. In fact, from what I gather, it would be considered poor form to complain about it.

@Kanye-Qwest, I'm definitely among those who feels frustrated by an inability to add content, and I still intend to create a Wikidot site to act as a repository for my org's lore and doings. If any of it is worthwhile enough to end up on the main Arx site, cool. If not, my peeps and I will still have a handy reference for our history and evolving cultural notes.

ETA: Speaking of the main Arx site, I would love for a search function. I miss that so much.