Posts made by Roz

@Derp said in Separating Art From Artist:

@Roz

That's true, and I should have mentioned that. Not all employers fall under the auspices of either federal or state laws. Small businesses rarely fall under either.

Eh, I think discrimination of protected classes doesn't have requirements based on size the way some other federal requirements do (like FMLA). But my point was that LGBT employees are often not protected in the US because their sexuality and/or gender identity are not federally protected (explicitly, in any case, but I understand it's an ongoing argument), so it'll depend if they're in a state that's passed laws protecting the classes. tl;dr we don't protect all the classes of people that ought to be protected, which makes certain classes of people extremely vulnerable in an at-will employment situation.

@Auspice said in Separating Art From Artist:

@Kestrel said in Separating Art From Artist:

So in the US, you can say whatever you want around your colleagues, behave unprofessionally, prove yourself unsuitable for the job you were hired for and not get fired?

This is sort of a benefit to at-will employment. Because in an at-will state, an employer could absolutely fire you for -phobic rants.

People often worry about 'but what if I get fired for being LGBT and my boss is religious' and at-will does not apply where it'd be illegal (you can't be fired for your religion, sexuality, race, etc.).

There are lots of states where it's still legal to discriminate based on sexuality and gender identity, FTR. They're not explicitly federally protected classes. Some states have made it explicit, though.

I really liked FF15

The Final Fantasy 7 remake got delayed, too.

Everyone I can think of that I personally know who takes issue with Whedon did so before the divorce and the article by his ex-wife. That whole thing just kind of confirmed beliefs, it wasn't the root of it.

He's still got a new show coming out, though, so his career doesn't really seem to have been hurt.

I work in marketing at a nonprofit that raises money to help people who really need it, and we go through tons of image selection processes that, in a stark sort of way, boil down to "what cute child picture will raise the most money." Which sounds pretty mercenary and exploitative, but, you know, a good cause? So I don't feel bad.

@L-B-Heuschkel said in Well, this sums up why I RP:

@Kestrel Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett took turns writing a scene and emailed it back and forth, I believe I've read Pratchett saying. So not really all that different from writing long poses on a code that allows time delays, such as Ares' web interface.

I actually believe they might have MAILED chapters back and forth. Gaiman's definitely written a bit about their process.

Yes, I take the "RP isn't writing" in this context as "RP isn't the same process as writing your own work, despite both involving writing" and I think it's very apt. I've actually witnessed it be difficult for players who are kind of novelists first in their heads to loosen that control for RP. It's a totally different process.

Unraveled on Polygon - Hilarious video game ridiculousness

Binging With Babish - Cooking! Cooking things from TV and movies! A smooth, appealing voice!

Lindsay Ellis - Insightful, funny, and thoughtful reviews of movies and other pop culture things.

Jenny Nicholson - Insightful, funny, and thoughtful reviews of movies and other pop culture things. Bit less academic than Lindsay Ellis, bit funnier (if you like her style).

Pop Culture Detective - Insightful and thoughtful reviews of movies and other pop -- oh I have a type, don't I--

oh my god i literally didn't get the baby name reference until now

I'm putting my money on 'we didn't think of this use case until after the website redesign was finished and didn't want to pay the developer more to futz it, so came up with a minor workaround (that is easy for a new person to miss entirely)'.

@Auspice Really if you have to toggle that it usually just means your templates are inadequate.

lol god fml there was a checkbox to not make automatic paragraphs in the WYSIWYG editor in order to manually make alignments work

@Alamias While the project I'm currently chipping away at is replacing written names and contact info with dynamic content (to make things easier to update in the future), no, I don't think it's a data loading problem. This is fixed, written content suddenly not appearing because, from the looks of it, it's stripping things out of <p> tags. FOR SOME REASON. Hence figuring it's a template issue.

Doot doot, making some website updates.

Hit PREVIEW to make sure it's all good.

Hm, everything now weird. Paragraphs now missing.

Go back to live version, everything is fine.

Hit edit on live version, change NOTHING, hit preview.

Everything wrong???

???????????

template how can you both work and not work

I became friends with @saosmash back when she was in the early days of law school and honestly from an outside perspective the bar prep and exam process sounded like it was more miserable than law school itself.

@Auspice Big mood.

@GreenFlashlight Eh, I think this is very much a case where people's experiences vary. I've been in the hobby for some two decades and I've never run into it on a game I've been on. People just definitely remember the instances where they run into it.

@TiredEwok said in Firefly - Still Flyin':

@Browncoat said in Firefly - Still Flyin':

@faraday said in Firefly - Still Flyin':

You just have to weigh whether the "last resort" kind of situation you're describing is worth establishing a policy that's going to chase good people away.

Thank you for your thoughtful response, @faraday and the thought occured to me as well that we'd also invade the other player's privacy in this case.

To be entirely honest here, I personally hadn't expected that this bit of policy would stir so much feeling, because it's been pretty much a given on every mush I've been on that staff might lurk "dark" in scenes. I've only ever RP'ed wth that thought in my mind and would only ever talk about staff in pages or through channels away from the mush. So when we wrote the policy, it just seemed... a normal staff thing to do (and say). But if people think that the line would make people uncomfortable and even chase good players away, I wouldn't mind removing it from the policy.

I think the policy is best left as being something left unspoken. At this point in the hobby, which has been around forever, I think pretty much everyone knows that it is a possibility that one's RP/OOC interactions/etc might be monitored by staff under certain situations. Stating that outright makes people who have had bad experiences, heard bad stories, or whatnot, anxious and less inclined to play on a game, as been evidenced in this thread.

There's a lot of things that people think "pretty much everyone knows," but I think that's kind of bad to assume. I've seen plenty of newcomers to the hobby continually over my time in it. There are always people entering the hobby and tripping over all of our community assumptions that we take for granted.