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When you warn people that a troll is a troll, yet they go ahead and engage anyways.

@Auspice

I had an video interview last Monday with some people in California. Button-down, suit jacket, and tie on top. Colorful beach shorts and flip-flops on the bottom.

A method I use is to put groups into situations that require everyone to do something and be so busy doing something that they can't do the other somethings that have to be done. For instance, sailing a ship in the midst of battle. A couple of people have to be fighting off those boarding the ship, one has to be steering the ship and issuing commands to the guys handling the sails, someone else has to be firing arrows at the other ship to down as many of the opposing crew as possible, so on and so forth.

@Jeshin

You have a .25% error rate. Maybe ask them what their error rate is for their job, and see if they manage any better. I doubt it.

My reply to all this hate of the anime PBs:

You just make clear to your supervisors that your crying place is off-limits or it will soon become the place where you hide the bodies.

Reading some of these stories made me think of this.

@Derp said in The Fate of MUSHdom:

It's just becoming more exclusive and tribal.

Like everything else in society.

I have the same problem with wealthy blowhards. I got these families in Montecito with their gated homes who are refusing service. Sucks to be them, though, as I know where they work and California law allows you to serve a workplace as substituted service in lieu of personal service. So now the workplace will hopefully be gossiping about how rich douchebag is getting fined by the County.

@silverfox said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

"Resistance to equitable funding for schools has also been supported by several belief systems about the causes of poverty. One of these, the ideology of individualism, holds that success and failure result mainly from individual effort rather than social circumstance. The people of the United States are known around the world for their strong belief in the power of personal effort, but this can lead to associated beliefs that blame impoverished persons for their lack of success in life (see Kluegel & Smith, 1986).

Which is a hold-over from our Puritan roots and their Calvinist beliefs that God rewards the good with success and punishes the immoral with failure. We've just replaced God with the economy and good and immoral with hard-working and lazy.

@auspice

You should always read the EULA and Terms of Service very carefully.

@Tinuviel

Can you tell me where Stevelik was two nights ago?

Witness #236 says, "I saw Stevelik picking a lock in his own room six years ago."

No, two nights ago.

Witness #568 says, "I saw him having sex with a prostitute two years ago."
Witness #569 says, "I saw him having sex with the same prostitute ten minutes later."

@rightmeow said in Tell me what you want -- work edition:

What would have motivated you or helped you have fun?

Don't do this. Companies that try to "have fun" are so hollow and annoying. It's work. I know it's work. You know it's work. We're not fooling anyone. If it was fun, it'd be a hobby and you wouldn't have to pay me to do it. About the most fun I like out of a place I work is an informal happy hour get together with my coworkers after hours. However, the emphasis is on the "informal." The more people attend, particularly higher-ups, the more it starts to feel like it's something I have to take part in for office politics reasons, and now it's back to being a company that likes to "have fun."

The thing that makes me like my job is having a workplace that is organized and competently run. I'm banging my head against that right now, as my current employer is pants-on head idiotic with how they run some things and communication between areas is terrible. So keeps things organized and run it competently, and you'll be a winner in my book and probably the books of most of your subordinates.

@rucket said in TTRPG's You've Wanted to MU* (But Probably Won't):

FATAL.

We have that. It's called Shangrila.

@macha said in RL Anger:

If you spend time on social media, you fucking know better.

Not necessarily. Social media is fantastic at insulating people into their bubbles.

@tinuviel

I don't think Arkandel is evil, and I find I side with him in any discussion he partakes in more often than I don't side with him. But, come on, just going to UEG's videos section and looking at the first 20 videos shows such gems as The Fall of Society, You Have Been Convicted of Wrongthink, The SJW Mindset Explained, and Everything is GamerGate. A cursory check of the content should tell you "This guy is a tool."

My solution to people who absolutely refuse to email me their questions or arguments is to take the call and to respond to almost every thing they bring up with "I'll check into that and get back to you." Once I've crushed their spirit by wasting their time, I round out the call with, "To make sure that I don't forget this conversation or miss one of the things you asked, could you send me an email with everything you brought up?"

It tends to do an effective job of driving the damned point home.

@insomniac7809 said in Sensitivity in gaming:

@derp said in Sensitivity in gaming:

I mean, I get that in a sort-of general principle way? But like -- I'm not sure that that's a great idea either. That would be like saying 'an American' gets to decide whether Squidbillies is a fantasy comedy based on specific tropes/stereotypes or a horrible slander against Appalachian persons.

I mean, there is something to be said about how lower-income white people are the last acceptable target of mockery, and one would hope that someone writing about Appalachian characters would have more knowledge or experience of their subject to draw on than having heard jokes about toothless cousin-fuckers.

As a proud Appalachian who is related to the McCoys of the Hatfields and McCoys, I take offense at the stereotype that we are toothless and can proudly state that I have all of my teeth aside from my wisdom teeth.

@derp

My favorite article explaining zombie popularity was on Cracked and explained there is cycle between zombie and vampire media. When the right is in power, we get mindless hordes of consumers that all conform and can't think. When the left is in power, we get sexy, deviant foreigners that are parasites.