Posts made by Ortallus

@surreality Fair, I can get behind that.

Just remember though, people who can't get jobs because of a criminal history have criminal futures.

@quinn Ah yeah, I played back then and yes, it was a lot more active.

The only one I know of that has THAT many alts is Whirlpool, who is still head wiz over there.

@arkandel Admittedly, I didn't feel Season 2 was as good, and the holiday special was... special. But yeah, season 1 was solid gold.

@lithium said in Internet Attacks? Why?:

In fact if it were a thing, then imagine how many angry teenagers would attempt this, just when they > got mad at their parents and wanted to 'punish' them.

Yeah, this actually occurred to me after I'd already posted. All the same, I think parental accountability really needs to be a thing to some extent. Maybe not charging them with the crime, but forcing awareness classes on them.

Usually, there are signs when children are off the hook. Parents are often just too self involved to pay attention to what should, in actuality, be their top priority.

@surreality said in Internet Attacks? Why?:

I don't think jail is necessarily the option, either, in the real world. I do think mandated extensive empathy training, extensive psychological testing and treatment, mandated community service to be measured in a period of years instead of hours, and crushingly steep fines and restitution are just step one.

If I understand Norway's penal system correctly, they don't jail you for a time. They incarcerate you until you're rehabilitated. Whether that takes 2 weeks, or 20 years. They also treat you like a human being who needs help, not an animal to be punished.

Their crime recidivism in Norway is a miniscule 20% (one of the lowest in the world).

@Roz The US's recidivism is 76.6%. That's what I was talking about.

I also believe in a life-long registry, similar to the sex offender registry, for these persons, even if they are underage at the time of their offense.

Closed registries, perhaps. Registries seriously ruin lives.

Further, I think the target and/or others impacted by the behavior should be entitled to sue for personal damages in addition to any required restitution/etc.
I am not a very forgiving person when it comes to fostering the notion that intentionally causing harm to others 'for the lulz' is acceptable in society, even if the offender is in denial that the very real risk of harm exists.

Agreed.

I'm on pretty much the same page here: re: participants in bullying campaigns that encourage a target to commit suicide, and people who troll memorials or missing persons hotlines/notifications with claims of having murdered/raped/kidnapped the person for attention or 'for the lulz'.
I think this behavior has been permitted to exist and flourish for too long for it to be resolved within my lifetime. In (generic) our children's lifetime, if people come down on this with appropriate force now, we might have a hope in hell of seeing it diminish.

And also this.

@roz LoL, seriously? You don't get that?

And I'm specifically talking about the younger kids, 13-18, with that. I suppose I should have clarified.

Trust me, I was in jail for 2 weeks (charges were dropped, it was for having a fist fight with my brother) and all people talked about was the crimes they DIDN'T get caught for, and tricks they used to commit crimes. Constantly.

@quinn said in Quinn's Playlist:

Tenebrae: Isabelle, Sam, Aerin, and Cataclysm (staff alt). My first stupid dice game!

I've tried to play there so many times, but I can just never get into the swing of it. Maybe because I want something faster paced, or at least with grid RP to fill the time between plots. =/ But mostly, I see 20 people on 35 sockets (Some with as many as 8 alts logged in at once, which to me just feels like shameless number padding), and 28 of them idling. It's really sad to me, because the lore and setting are great.

@roz said in Good TV:

@ortallus I love Sense8 with the power of a thousand suns. I know at least one person on here hates it because they always make a point to talk about how awful they think it is when it comes up, but I can't remember who. BUT I LOVE IT.

I think it's one of the smartest bits of television for a long time. Asks a lot of questions, has amazing characters, with amazing actor chemistry ("Not since Firefly have we seen" comes to mind...), amazing cinematography.

The only thing that could possibly be held against it is the more adult content, and the bigotry of so many people. Which is a damn shame. =(

@surreality said in Internet Attacks? Why?:

@duckula I read a lot about the case (and have on the trend in general since I became aware of it a few years ago). Yes, there are people like that.

The majority of them frighten me more, though: they're kids as young as 13, and they think it's going to be a harmless prank.

People are much, much more likely to do something they consider is likely to be a harmless prank -- even if this is anything but the actual reality of the situation -- than something they expect will involve a risk to life and limb.

That's why the people in denial about how dangerous this is are horrifying.

I've been saying since I first heard of this trend that it needs to be cracked down on, hard, and those who are doing it need to be charged with something like 2nd degree attempted manslaughter. Definitely a felony charge.

Mind you, I don't think jailing them is necessarily the answer, as people in jail/prison just meet other criminals and learn tricks to being better criminals.

However, there needs to be shown to be severe penalties. If a child commits the act, then on their parents. If an adult, then throw the book at them hard. Make them take awareness classes, do community service, pay steep fines (including restitution to the people they swatted on).

If people figured they were going to have to give money to someone they didn't like, then maybe they wouldn't do it. =P

Has anyone talked about Sense8 yet? I was bummed/pissed when I found out that they're cancelling it. As were like many many thousands of others.

I think it's one of the most underappreciated shows on Netflix, possibly because it has so much unrestrained content. =/

@lithium said in "Flag this post for moderation":

@arkandel Justice League (the movie) taught us that Superman's Stache's are edited out of reality.

Ugh, I just saw that last night, and this is my favorite line of the day. I hadn't heard anything about the stache bit before seeing the movie, but while watching it I physically twitched repeatedly.

@buttercup Saw the ad for end of the world, want to see it. Haven't gotten around to it, but it's on the list.

@packrat Ugh, I hate when places do that.

I'm ICly from this city. The background that you approved says so. I need to know where there's a water fountain, because my character is dying of thirst. You say "Ask around ICly". I ask, "Where do people hang out to RP?" You say, "Find out ICly". I say, "Are you being serious right now?" and you say, "Ask around ICly".

-.-`

Not saying Armageddon does that, I haven't played there. Just saying I've seen this in general, and it's infuriating.

@thenomain I'd bet dollars to donuts that's what his lawyer told him to say.

@surreality said in Internet Attacks? Why?:

I'm working on a novel of a response, but feel it relevant to interject here: a lot of the people who SWAT are kids who have no real comprehension of consequences. (And, horrifically, rarely do they face any.) They expect it to be non-lethal, and think that because they expect it will be non-lethal, the idea that it may end in physical injury or death isn't a consequence they even let into their heads.

This? Is fucking terrifying.

Maybe? But usually to SWAT someone you have to spoof the 911 system into recognizing your cell phone as local to the person who you're trying to SWAT, elsewise it just goes to your local 911 system and doesn't work.

I find it challenging to believe anyone capable of doing that doesn't have the mental capacity to realize that if something goes wrong, that someone will be shot, such as what happened recently in KY (Which is even more of a tragedy, for it not being the person the swat caller was angry with).

And AFTER that incident, anyone who says they don't believe it could turn fatal must be living under a rock.

@apu Yeah I dunno. If you don't want someone to get shot, you don't point a gun at them. Swatting is pointing guns at someone by proxy. Just my opinion on the subject.

@apu Not wanting to get someone killed doesn't excuse putting someone in a situation where it's possible they will be killed. It's just stupidity.

If you don't want to get someone killed -you don't swat them-.

@apu I think usually when someone is swatted, their viewership goes up. =P

You definitely don't swat someone because you don't mean them harm though. I mean, at the VERY least police are going to show up at their house and point guns at them.

@mietze My GF got laid out with the flu a while back and it rekt her pretty good for a while. I hope you find good health.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYbDedbPQKs

I think the staff are pretty gentle, and if it's not they'll simply move it to the right place.