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@faraday said in Emotional separation from fictional content:

@Thenomain said in Emotional separation from fictional content:

I agree with you entirely, of course, but I thought the complexity of implementing something this simple needed singling out. How many people here have lost trust in staff, players, or even an entire game because the line you expected turned out to be argued or even outright told was wrong?

A lot of people stop engaging rather than causing trouble for themselves.

I think for me this comes down to the same old adage: You can't use code to fix social problems.

You can, however, use code to make specific kinds of communications easier. I remember years ago on the old X-Men Movieverse MOO, we basically made up an @askstaff command that sent in an automated mail to staff with all the mail switches already handled and whatnot. We made it simpler to engage in a certain kind of communication with us, and a good number of people in the playerbase really liked it and people used it. It lowered the bar of difficulty on contact just a bit.

Sometimes people have had really bad experiences with staff on other games and it leaves them really hesitant to reach out on new games. This is super frustrating on the staff end, when you try to have that open-door policy, be reasonable and approachable and friendly, etc. But sometimes people have trouble anyways. I'd see putting in an easier code structure for lodging complaints (not necessarily anonymous) as just lowering the difficulty bar for the process of making contact with staff at all.

@ganymede said in The Work Thread:

@roz

Some people don’t want to take vacations. Or some people like the idea of working on their own time and at their own pace while on vacation.

That's not a healthy way for people to engage with their workplace.

When I had vacation time, I felt compelled to take it.

That is a good thing.

@Ghost Out of curiosity, is there a way people can basically express their experience of a toxic player's cycles and history in a manner that doesn't trip your line of "this is going to turn into a witch-hunt"? I'm asking that non-sarcastically. I think people have described the utility of records like this, which is basically: forearmed is forewarned. If someone has a really long history of acting shitty (and already going through second chances, third chances, fourth, etc.), isn't there value in giving others who haven't come across them yet a heads up? A level of education so that they can at least take a bit of care in their interactions?

Finished Jessica Jones with my friends earlier today. A+++++

@Arkandel Yeah, that's very fair. And I don't doubt that a lot of instances like that are probably just careless. But if I really had reason to believe someone did it purposefully with full knowledge of the situation, I'd consider it actionable.

Years ago when I got asked to join staff on X-Men Movieverse MOO, I took the staff bit name Rosalind. (It was a Shakespearean theme.) Which shortened to Roz, which has become my regular online alias.

For some reason, I sometimes have issues getting jokes in online chat. (Not in the 'ugh you have no sense of humor, learn how to take a joke,' although I'm sure some people who have tried to tell gross jokes in front of me might say that, but in the 'I don't get it???' kind of way and then everyone laughs at me.) It became such a running joke on XMM that my name became a verb for not getting a joke. "You rozzed the joke!" (Which is now the top result on Urban Dictionary.) Which is why I show up in some other spaces as rozzingit if Roz is already taken. Which I realized halfway through this is not actually the case here, where I'm just Roz, but I'm not deleting my story so there.

@saosmash I bet I could make a one-pose entrance ridiculous enough for a first impression. DON'T CHALLENGE ME.

Fuck. This one really hurts.

@kitteh said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

I will say that watching people talk about XP on the family channels etc, it seems like the game is already totally off the rails dinosaur wise. People talk about spending 1k+ xp for a new stat, plus everyone also has all these bodyguards, animals, many of which I've heard discussed having stats that would easily eclipse starter PCs.

While I do hear people talk about spending the 1k+ (and sometimes 2k+) for a legendary stat/skill, I've yet to hear about anyone getting close to it at all. If anyone manages, it'll likely because they've been saving and not raising any other stats/skills.

I sure love waking up to the sensation of my uterus trying to claw its way out of my body.

If you wrote new attributes to overwrite the ones on the room parent that set the formatting you could certainly change it if you didn't have the power to change the parent, but the cleanest way is definitely to do a new parent.

Not anger so much as just stress and nerves, but MAN job interviews and then waiting to hear back especially when you really really want it aaaaaaaaaaaaah

@Monogram Check the "Omit From Display" checkbox. That tells it not to show up in your "main window."

Edit: Which, granted, is pretty unintuitive, because everyone's sort of used to thinking of every one of their windows as a spawn. But Potato seems to classify things more like "Your main window is your main display, your channels are a spawn."

@Jaded said:

@Ganymede said:

@Jaded said:

I had a few guests over tonight and each time one showed up the dog would sit at the bottom of the stairs to his apartment and bark at the door. The dog would do this for about 10 minutes. Then each time one went outside onto the patio to smoke, the dog would come back. This guy had the nerve to ask me to not have people over after 8pm because he works 2am to 10am and he's trying to sleep at that time.

People ask me why I don't want to have a dog. This is why.

I like my cat because he leaves me the fuck alone most of the time.

I would have a cat but my roommate isn't fond of pets.

My cat is way better than my roommate.

Karen is amazing and I want to marry her forever. Foggy is also amazing and I also want to marry him forever. Matt is such a mess but I still love him. All the bitching he gets he totally deserves.

While I love Matt a lot, really it's the supporting cast that I love the most in this show.

Elektra's accent is probably French, as the actress is French.

I came here to complain about spilling my iced coffee all over my desk first thing into the office, but then I read @Admiral's post and -- damn.

Rez because freaking FLCL is coming back and that's kind of crazy. Toonami is co-producing.

@ShelBeast That's funny, because guys may find it far-fetched, but as a woman I find it disgusting and not at all unlikely.

@Lithium said:

On a side note: Why is SJW (Social Justice Warrior) even a derogatory thing? How did fighting for equal rights ever become a fucking /negative/?

When you're on top and don't actually want to share it.

Getting a ton of major change requests on a website redesign at the very last stage of a website launch. You know, just suddenly asking for major structural or design changes for pages whose design and layout were already approved weeks ago.