Posts made by mietze

Oh ok. Well that makes sense for social connection then (like chat channel). But if you want more lasting/slower moving talk with your kaffeklatch maybe not.

@Coin you can scroll back on discord though, right? It's a little better than skype groups at least though maybe that depends on the volume.

Either way, my cognitive inability to keep up with that kind of thing now really gets to me/makes me frustrated too, so. Not the medium for me, I definitely find it easier to be a contributor to a board than something like that. Might be just a matter of spending my time in it though.

I have not done this for a whole game, but I have done it very small scale when creating the history/background between PCs or the formation of a group, ect.

I think it would be an interesting experiment to try to decouple that from the players' personal PCs to create history/legends.

However I think that how well that would work would depend on the players and their interest in taking on a role other than their current PC and being willing to not tie it back totally to their PC (as you mention, hiding a stockpile of magic weapons, ect). It would be a neat way to give players investment in the background of a world other than JUST what their PC can do in it now.

You could always give it a shot, see how it works, if it becomes problematic you can just amend. I think it is worth a try.

@Kestrel I am aware that your discord exists, as you know, and I'm glad that it's continued from when you started it.

However, I personally prefer a forum format like this (I have tried to be part of discord communities before and even when they were nice, it my brain doesnt adapt well to keeping up.). It may very well be that more constructive conversations will happen on discord rather than boards because that's just kind of what everyone is migrating to.

The last one I know about was started during the age of WORA, like 10-15 years ago. I would be interested to see if it would last longer now.

I will be honest in saying that I think one of the reasons why MSB is a lot less tolerant of things like doxing, posting people's rl photos to be laughed at, ect is not because of moderation or anything else here other than the fact that the people gleefully cheering that on and/or participating are now 10=15 years older than they were and maybe have a little more perspective on life.

Because rules of "don't do this" really don't prevent people from doing a thing, but I do think more and more people in the community would not even consider starting a post about their hated staffer/game runner while also chortling about their "ugly" developmentally disabled baby and how they deserved to have a kid like that because of how awful they were on a game. It is less acceptable to post RL pictures of people to mock their weight, attractiveness, ect. and that happened multiple times before.

So I think were one started, who knows, maybe there are more people who can take or leave the dirt--or at least be happy to participate in a constructive place and leave the dirt to discord or dirty sites. But again, keeping a forum or FB group "civil" is by no means an easy task.

From a pragmatic standpoint, for a really long time this has been a very lightly moderated forum.

COULD we turn this forum into one that is much more moderated in terms of tone, strict rules, ect? Yes, we could. It would involve taking away some elements that probably people would object to. (no politics/no religion/limited venting/removal of posts at a far lower bar for belligerence, ect.)

Maybe it'll happen sometime, maybe it won't, but it's not really what it is now.

If someone ever creates a constructive only forum community for MUSH land, where civil discourse is enforced with moderation, I would happily participate. I do think that's a lot harder than a lot of people appreciate, which is why to my knowledge it hasn't happened yet, and when/if it does I hope people will be appreciative.

@Misadventure It can be a root for how I see the PC and formed them, yes! Even if never seen. For me though that tends to NOT happen with photos/actual actors and more with art, which then I get frustrated trying to fine a photo to match the fact that everyone else uses photos (if they do). It doesn't always happen with art (there's always music involved too, and not always of the same time era/style of the MUSH too which sometimes means people make fun of it as well).

Maybe because I use other people's wikis they're created of their PC as a launching point OR just a supplement/insight into what their creator was thinking when they first got on the grid, and most of my experience with them is going to be formed by that personal interaction rather than anything static, I'm not super attached to someone else totally adopting my vision for how they should see my PC.

@Misadventure well, as others have pointed out, the other one wasn't all that. So it's understandable that some people are taken aback by a change. Though I am pretty sure there was tut tutting about people not being silent about their issues with various people before too, because that also is a very common thing to do. No bad actors here, but if it's going to change, might as well announce it?

On this year's thread there really hasn't been much positive or negative discussion of the announcements, so if such a policy change were to happen, seems like it'd be a good time to do it. I don't really care, personally, since I am just fine with people speaking ill of the dead. They're dead, it's very unlikely any of their families are reading MSB, so it's not like we are preserving feelings of people directly impacted by that individual's death and discussion unexpectedly hitting them.

I could understand people wanting a separate thread in the hog pit for no holds barred discussion without needing to worry so much about people getting upset that their feelings are upset (though they still will, because we are human, and its hard to not feel a needling when someone talks shit about something or someone you admire--or brings up things you'd rather forget about it/them/the place/whatever).

Since not everyone frequents the politics forum, this user has been banned.

There are a myriad of ways to be hurtful and insulting to people here and to express your opinions almost as profanely as you want to. Anti-Semitic comments is one that is not.

While not every report is going to escalate to the point of banning when things do cross the line, when you especially see things that cross the lines of forum rules, please report them. Without the report that came in last night, I think it probably would have been a little while longer before any of us saw it. While I do try to skim everything once a day, honestly if RL is super busy I do not always get to it. So thank you very, very much to that reporter.

I am sorry that the rest of the people on that forum had to log in to see that.

No such thing as a fish - Funny Trivia podcast, with 3 panelists giving 3 facts of the week, with everyone weighing in with related ones.

True crime bullshit (may be too graphic) - True crime podcast centered around serial killer Israel Keyes, lots of interviews with people related to the case, research, and FBI interview tapes.

Let's talk about sects - Isn't updated as often but if you like culty stuff, the podcaster does an in depth summary/explanation (along with many times snippets of interviews from various people involved) of cults from around the world, concentrating on 1 per episode

In addition to many already named.

@Derp seconding this! Especially if it is a large company! Even for my peon job I have, it took 3 weeks after the interview to get the offer, because the hr/recruiter person was out on unexpected illness. (The decision for hire ahd all interviewing was local and they submitted it like within hours of my interview). I'd already started more interviews elsewhere and had written it off but the local manager called me at the 2 week mark and asked me to please hold on if I was still interested. He was breaking policy to do so but unbeknownst to me he was moving and on his way out so he didn't give a crap and wanted me to be there because I was a great fit for the branch, and he was right!)

Some companies are def better than others when it comes to hiring process! From interview to actual first day of work for me was 6 weeks because of more out of state back and forth background check and other internal stuff waiting on HR! So I wouldn't put yourself out after 1 week esp during flu season. Will keep my fingers crossed.

I have been totally sucked into that thispersondoesnotexist site.

I make tonkatsu with them, it's imperfect but a good way to use them up. I don't even pound them to make them thinner, though you certainly can. Basically dredge in seasoned flour, then coat with beaten egg, then coat with panko. You can either cook in oil (they cook quick, so unfortunately you have to babysit them if you do it this way), or bake them at 400 for about 20-25 minutes (best if you toast the panko crumbs with a little oil before using them if you are baking them, so they have a really nice color and crunch--and if you've got a heat-safe rack to put onto your baking pan it's better to use it, and I highly recommend pounding them thin for baking, I have been lazy a lot and it's fine, just takes a little longer to cook so risks being drier.).

I chop them immediately into strips once they're done, and then we serve with rice, tonkasu or other sauces, and veggies. You can leave them whole though, they make awesome sandwiches the next day and my kids often eat the leftover strips and rice for breakfast the next day (IF there are any leftovers, which isn't frequent).

Take your time, and I hope you don't feel bad about that. Still very excited to see what you do with it.

I prefer drawn art PBs rather than photographic/live ones, but I feel even worse about using someone's art without permission in a way that I strangely do not feel when using movie stills or photo editorial shots.

While the leading up to no contact (or very specific contact only) can be stressful sometimes, and there's some stress during the testing period, honestly it feels so much better to have that person out of your life.

I am yet another person who really doesn't bother to put stock in PBs, and tend to inform my mental image of another PC more from my on screen interactions with them. I could probably live on a game without need for PB or static descriptions on the pc object (easy for me, since I really don't mind people describing their PC in their entrance pose or referring to features during play, though I know that's not a universally held not-minding). I enjoy finding a PB for my PC as part of a general sense of a character. Very often it's not even really the /actor/ themselves so much as the "mood" of the picture I find, if that makes sense.

I don't really think of the PB I put for my own PCs that much once they are in play an I get more of sense of them, it's more tool (like a vague background and bullet points) for me to try and get some handle on them before I get them into play. Maybe that's why I don't get attached or repulsed by other people's PBs either, because me being a human I tend to kind of assume that people are doing the same thing I'm doing even if intellectually I know that's not so.

The Celery Stalks at Midnight was one of my older kids' favorite read aloud books when they were little (and I enjoyed it as a kid too).

Shit, I can no longer deny that I need bifocals.