Posts made by Roz

@thesuntsar UM ARE YOU STOPPING

ETA: nvmd i just saw

@thesuntsar I would say to check your house, but I still subscribe to the less popular theory that you are married to Magpie-player, not Thena-player.

@HelloProject said in Original Arx Isabeau:

Nah I never played with the current Isabeau. I think I left Arx in 2016 when I got sick for like 3 months and couldn't play, so didn't wanna char squat. And current Isabeau started playing in October 2016, which is after I left.

exCUSE i was at an event with you at the very end of October 2016

@RightMeow said in Original Arx Isabeau:

@Roz

Is it wrong to say maybe? Or that my very bad, no good, horrible day yesterday was probably giving me reading comprehension issues? Or you know. I skimmed? Or...

May I offer you RP to make up for it?

i never rp anymore

@RightMeow

@Panda plays Isabeau now and I'm PRETTY sure she's been playing her since super duper early on maybe in your timeframe.

@Arkandel said in The ethics of IC romance, TS, etc:

So let's talk romance/TS involving canonical characters. Are there boundaries involved and, if so, what are they? To get us started:

• Is it okay to create couples out of characters who are canonically with other people? Can (adult) Peter Parker date Captain Marvel?

Yes. And people who complain about this clearly haven't read many comics. Everyone has dated everyone.

• Is it okay to change sexual orientations in any way?

Yes, IMO, as long as you're respecting the core of the character. The fact of the matter is that people not exploring other sides of their sexuality until later in life is a hugely common aspect of real life in the society we live in, and I don't consider it counter-canon if someone says, "I want to explore the potential of this PC to maybe also be attracted to people of the same gender." It can get a bit finicky if you go from one end of the spectrum to the other, although, really, the comics have done this, too. (I'm one of the people who thought it made more sense for Bobby Drake to discover his bisexuality rather than homosexuality, although it's also true that sometimes people do have big realizations that cast their past relationship difficulties into a very different light. This idea isn't actually unrealistic.)

However, I think if you take one of the few canonically queer characters and alter that, it's different. Don't do that. If you make Northstar straight you're a jerk.

• After any of this happens and a character changes hands is it okay to revert them to the defaults in the same game?

I like to favor continuity wherever possible, but sometimes fresh starts can be necessitated.

@mietze said in Staff’s Job?:

@Roz yep. I do love it when wiz staff has very clear and concise expectations that are shared when they're looking to hire though. Always a major major plus when I see that!

Yeah, absolutely. I was moreso objecting to the idea that, because someone is not volunteering for the specific staff role you're looking for, it means they're not interested in helping the game and/or they were interested in it for the sake of power or something. (I mean, the individuals may very well have been! Idk these people. Just that not being up for being a story-focused staffer doesn't mean you're not up for contributing.)

@Auspice said in Staff’s Job?:

But I recall something I often ran into when I was considering a Magicians game:
I had a few people come to me expressing an interest in Staffing. They really really wanted to Staff!

And my first question was always: 'Will you ST? At least once a month? Staffing (approving apps, answering +jobs, etc.) is pretty easy on Ares. Unless the game gets really big, it can reasonably be done by a single person (as Faraday has proven). What I really need are STs.'

Every single person, to the last, ducked out.

What that told me was: they wanted to staff for the sake of staffing more than actively contributing to the needs of the game.

It sounds more like it told you that people were volunteering for areas of staffing that you were not looking for. I am not an ST staffer when I staff, but I can and will do lots of other things.

Someone not wanting to ST does not mean they were more interested in authority or whatever. It doesn't mean they don't want to actively contribute to the game. It means that they're not an ST.

the new pokemon is real cute

Why do people think the Y2K issues weren't real? The reason we didn't see anything seriously fuck up is because of how much work people did to prepare and update systems so they didn't break.

@Derp That's not the case, tho? Banned people's posts aren't automatically purged when they're banned. You can find plenty of posts by banned peeps.

@Pandora I mean, I think the analogy is actually the OPPOSITE of what you want, not close, because actors actually know ahead of time what is happening to their characters and they prep and rehearse for it. It would actually be more akin to the philosophy of sharing/warning OOC.

@Arkandel said in The ethics of IC romance, TS, etc:

@Pandora said in The ethics of IC romance, TS, etc:

Much like the actors in a television series are not given advance warning of their characters being betrayed or killed, in order to keep their portrayals authentic, I believe that there is a watering-down of authenticity when secrets are discovered OOC rather than IC.

I'll need to disagree with that specific part. Actors are professionals being paid to do a job and thus there's less need to consider their feelings. Communication with fellow players who're there to be entertained is a different matter.

I'm not saying there should be a warning given, mind you. Just that the comparison here isn't sound.

Yeah, actors actually regularly talk about being given advance notice of their characters being killed off. And it's considered a bit rude/thoughtless for them to end up blindsided, like, learning about their character's death on the day of the first table read.

It's a bad comparison overall, because even if actors don't learn about something until the first table read, that's still -- before they're shooting the scene on the day. Good acting isn't based on the actors themselves being surprised by the script. And generally the instances you hear actors comment about not getting any advanced warning are ones for TV shows that have built into their brand that the most important part is SECRECY and SURPRISE, and that's about reducing the risk of leaks. Not for some sort of authenticity in portrayal. The authenticity comes from acting skill.

@Ganymede I guess it depends on how the policy is set up. For the previously-mentioned Transformers game I once staffed on, the policy re: sexual themes was pretty clearly a matter of public acknowledgment. It was very much a "we don't police your stuff behind closed doors so long as you don't try to bring it out from behind those doors." Similarly, Arx's rule file regarding prohibited themes calls out that they're not interested in policing private RP that's kept private, but that they wouldn't be allowing storylines on those themes to be brought into the public sphere, other people's RP, or the game canon. Incest got added to that list of prohibited themes within the past year mostly because it was deemed to never be fun for players put in the position of having to be IC authority figures for these PCs who were engaging in a very big cultural taboo.

Do I think this means that private RP with incest themes has disappeared from Arx? 100% no. If a game just doesn't want certain themes brought out where anyone but the engaging parties can see them, does it at all matter if people are doing side things on Discord? Nah.

@Arkandel said in TS - Danger zone:

@Roz said in TS - Danger zone:

I did staff on a game once where PC sex straight up wasn't thematic (because robots), but we knew people were gonna do it behind closed doors

I want to ask but I'm afraid you'll tell me.

It was Transformers. You're also welcome.

@Tinuviel You're welcome!

I did staff on a game once where PC sex straight up wasn't thematic (because robots), but we knew people were gonna do it behind closed doors, and we weren't gonna care about that. People just couldn't post logs with it or reference/allude to it in other scenes.

Sometimes I see people going through SUPER old posts -- like not month old, but months or even year+ old -- and I'm just so curious like, WHAT ARE YOU DOING OVER THERE

@Cobaltasaurus https://discworld.mush.website/

It sounded like maybe the new Discworld game has a strong European contingent? Including staffers.