Best posts made by saosmash

You do get to declare bankruptcy and exempt items of personal property. Private jet? Probably not. A smartphone? Absolutely.

Like ... are there scammers in the world obviously there are but also what.

People can get very invested in their wrong ideas, which makes sense since they came up with them themselves.

I want to really capitalize on the flexibility of my work schedule to make more home cooked meals. I think it will help me eat better and also maybe keep my father in the apartment upstairs from going to McDonald's so damn much.

Personally I just wish I could swap my @rs picks between alts. Like yes okay I'll rp with my character's BFF on my alt but it's awkward.

Lord save me from employers who insist that a letter that says a court appearance is mandatory is not sufficient and they need me to subpoena my own client so she won't lose her job...

I think the thing that makes me most want to RP with someone again is when they riff off of my meta in a way that is funny.

Returning an item is the fucking worst.

Does anyone need a home blood pressure machine? I'm just kidding, I've been trying to get my shit together to ship stuff to a friend for literal weeks at this point and it still hasn't happened, so I am sure as heckie not trying to send my accidentally doubled blood pressure machine to somebody else.

Lost and Found actually has / had a dedicated staffer whose job it was to help onboard people new to the medium. With help of newbies they had a cheat sheet developed for helping people who had never touched a mush before figure stuff out. Primarily they recruited by going to the fandom we are attached to and reaching out to tumblr rpers.

In order to help people who have never touched this kind of gaming before in my experience you really do need to really want to help people who have never touched the game before. We have all been playing in this medium so long it is hard to come up with stuff on our own to help those folks. A lot of them balk from the beginning just because what do you mean "client".

@mietze We love you, mietze. Please take the time you need. I'm sorry this has been such a cluster. Thank you for letting us know what was going on even though it was difficult for you.

I haven't run into this as an issue at all. I share clues routinely and freely unless there are reasons not to. I think clue "dump banks" where clues exist floating freeform without context and people just take them to justify whatever crazy theory of the week they're working with is a way more prevalent problem than people not sharing their clues.

The only thing I've run into as an issue that's brought up here is running low on AP for clue sharing when RPing at the end of a week. Which could be solved by me time managing better, probably. IDK.

Upkeep systems that require you to lose what you already have always come across systemically as player "punishment," and I don't think this would be any different than any other time that comes up. Sorry, but I really don't think this is a good idea. I also really hate the idea of protecting clues from erosion from sharing them to an org. Orgs are ICly groups that involve large numbers of NPCs. You should not be sharing anything to an org that you would not freely share with large numbers of NPCs. MANY, MANY clues should not be shared freely with large numbers of NPCs.

The ability to double check things shouldn't fade over time because the fact of having the @clue means that your character has sources of some kind to back up the information they have. Now, the ability to remember shit OFF HAND that they have sources on SOMEWHERE in their STUFF should fade over time, but let's face it, it does, because, human memories.

@bananerz Describing it as "fringe cases" when it was prevalent as a problem issue across a significant portion of the playerbase is disingenuous at best. This is a thing that literally happened, on this game, to a player, on this game. It was not the only instance of it happening, only the most flagrant instance of it happening. No one who was doing it was thinking that they were participating in harassment OOC. They were thinking, "Oh my character totally agrees with this, of course I will participate."

And yet! It still became a massive issue that continues to distort the factual representation of what happened on this game over an OOC year afterwards.

Personally I did not attempt to glean the identity of the defamer from context clues. Ultimately, I know that people are going to talk shit about me because I am a person who exists on the internet in communities with other people.

I was... surprised and confused by what Surr told me, which did not include the identity of said defamer, and I didn't ask. If the source of the garbage was in fact Auspice, that's disappointing and sad, and yet I remain without outrage.

Frankly the accusation in question was so ludicrous as to defy outrage, too absurd to defend.

Just like... really? Really, really?

Grow up.

@tinuviel On the other hand, when you insult someone publicly, why should you get to apologize in private? I'm not super impressed by the public theater either but I don't have a better solution.

I like to run events, but also it is exhausting and I hate it. Whether I am running events depends entirely on which part of this preference is dominant at any given time. Prestige rewards aren't really germaine to that, I don't think. I'm not sure what the solution is, though. Perhaps if there were a RL chocolate and/or alcohol delivery system involved with event-hosting.

I'm playing a local deputy of the Grand County sheriff's office.

Honestly in a busy public scene I just assume the pose was missed and redirect my energy. The scene will have moved on from whatever it was I did by the time someone scrolls back to find what they missed.

@Ghost Of course they CAN involve OOC titillation, the point is that if you're writing with someone whose opinion about it is compatible with yours there's no problem. If people want to fap together by themselves in a corner who cares? Not me.

It's when people who want mutual masturbation and people who want to write stories with sexual themes get their wires crossed that conflict is created. So like...

If a staffer wants to jerk off and isn't planning on using the connection to create story, then yes, it is inappropriate to do that with a NPC. That's not what NPCs are for. And yes, if someone is mutually masturbating with the staffer and creating that kind of for-bennies relationship, that is also not cool. That's why Sunny was making the distinction earlier about ethical staffers. No one is making the argument that this never happens, because we're not all morons.

But if a staffer wants to create sexually themed story, there's nothing at all wrong with that, and assuming that all scenarios in which sex happens with a staff NPC are in that category is bullshit. Pretending that this is what is always happening does a disservice to like... everyone.

Code solutions to social problems don't really work but code solutions to accessibility, ease of use, or other mechanical problems do.

I think anyone can play anyone, provided they treat the concept with respect and remember that people are people, and not just "elves are a small, lithe people who excel at poverty."

I want to clarify here that I'm not taking some big moral stand against getting aroused from TS or from RPing out your kinks. My not doing this is not moral or immoral. It's just not my thing.

Yet I still have reasons to write TS sometimes and enjoy doing so, and object to the idea that I don't exist or must be lying or something.