Best posts made by Silver

@Rook I'm upvoting yours AND BigDaddyAmin's just to pile it three-deep.

In an effort to be more positive than the (very) popular and completely valid RL peeves thread, I am starting this one.

Listening to pretty much everything They Might Be Giants have ever produced while getting drunk on Sunday, knowing I don't have to work Monday. Hell yes.

Privacy is a privilege. It is also an achilles heel. If you make privacy some kind of blanket policy that applies in all situations you will hamstring yourself. The reason for privacy should not really be to protect anybody; it is simply because not everything is everybody's business.

If you have a bad player who is making a mistake or who perhaps has some kind of issue that they can't help or for whatever reason are too immature to help, or who would be unduly hurt by airing their dirty issue, by all means be private. It will cause harm to air their business to people who really have no call to be involved.

If you have a predator, someone who is preying upon others and who is hiding behind the protection of privacy, then expose that person. They're out there. Not everybody is innocent or can (or more often wants to) change. Screw them. Post logs of their private tirades if you like. Dump them out the back of the boat for the sharks so you can move along with the rest of your boat full of players, because they're the ones you should be protecting. There is a very good reason that trials are held in public where everyone has an opportunity to see the evidence and hear every side of things as well as the final verdict.

It's a game, not a neighborhood with real people who have lives to live and real jobs that hang on their fate on this game. Kick the bad ones out when they have it coming. They can go do something else other than taking a shit on your players and then giggle about it when they're allowed to keep on keeping on.

@Sunny said:

Can we PLEASE stop making rules based on the very few bad apples, and instead start getting rid of the bad apples? This isn't at you, @Silver, but an illustration of the trend.

I get tired of people utilizing +where to see who I'm playing with so they can page me some snarky horseshit about whoever that person is or try to give me a hard time about them, or sexually harass or slut-shame me about how they know I'm TSing them, "collecting a harem", even when I'm not, or just to annoy me with their garbage.

I set myself unfindable and make unfindable builds all the time, and the problem becomes 75% solved. And I don't care. And anybody who doesn't like it can eat it! You wanna know where I am, stop being a creeper and ask me! So it probably should be at me, if it wasn't before, because I abuse the hell out of unfindable and will do it forever.

@Arkandel Screw them. They will sell you to Somalians if it occurs to them. Get them before they get you.

1. The ability to hit +where and tell where everybody is regardless of whether they'd like their location known is easily abused.
2. If people have the option to use Unfindable and they are choosing to use it, that says something about what their situation is. A good question might be: Why do you require them to be known at all times?
3. If the concern is that too many people are Unfindable and no one can tell where any RP is going on, that points to a larger cultural problem on the game. These problems start at the top. Punching down at individual players is not how you solve those.
4. Unfindable is not the same as Dark. It's more akin to taking your phone number off of the telemarketer list.
5. I really can't think of a reason to demand that people remain findable at all times except if you just have to know where specific people are without letting them know you're checking on that.

To recap: Unfindable helps to curb issues of abuse and misconduct, in situations where Unfindable seems to cause a problem I contend that the problem is most likely the whole game and not the MUX command, it is a privacy issue and not a sneaking up on people issue (to wit the person who has to find you all the time is the creepy party, not the person remaining private), there is a small element of social control to this whole argument, and I think the very subject is being questioned from the wrong perspective.

@Karmageddon said:

Kung Fury

Hell. Yes.

How did my life have any meaning before this was made?

@Insomnia said:

@Silver said:

I am now ignoring this thread.

Are you? Are you really?

Yes. Also ignoring this response!

@Coin Always with your excuses. All I hear is about how you think that one single ton of plot is adequate. Back in my day we ran five tons each and we liked it.

@GentlemanJack Re: The Magical Maltesian - I get this from so many people outside of Texas that pretty much any time someone that's never even spent time in Texas starts to criticize Texas to me I quietly and internally start putting little red flags next to their name and looking for a way to distance myself from them.

They're often the sort of people who see no problem with the vast humanitarian sins committed in China, India, Russia, and across the rest of the world, but Texas really bothers them somehow. Usually because people there dare to disagree with them on some political issue.

Just don't be that person who goes "Wanna RP?!" "I want RP!" "Let's RP!" And then I answer the call and show up and then you drop it:

"So what're we doing?"

You will go on the list of people I just don't respond to anymore.

I knew exactly what that video would be before clicking on it.

@EmmahSue said:

Why the fear, though? What could staff do, really? Sure, they might go 'nu-uh' or 'stop that random RP you guys' but then at least you'd know they're assholes. Sitting there afraid is... I won't say silly. That'd be rude. But I'm kinda thinking it really hard, unfortunately. Terrible person, you may all hate me now instead!

ES

It is silly. The fear is unfounded but prevalent, I have noticed. There commonly exists a mindset of asking permission instead of forgiveness. I err on the side of forgiveness. I make up my own permission.

@ThatOneDude What you do is if they give you the stink eye you just say in a loud outside voice, "Don't give me that look, Soggy Nips."

People will want to be your friend.

@tragedyjones My basic tips to everybody who wants to create Something Interesting?

1. Make it mundane. Nobody staffwise really cares if it's a normal mortal that does a thing with normal tools and for normal motives we all see on the news every day.

2. Never forget how stupid people are. Your NPCs can be jackhole morons. Sometimes the stupider the better. It is very hard to make an NPC TOO stupid. Trust me, someone out there in RL-land is that bad or worse.

3. Failure is beautiful. When your players fail, it can be hilarious. When your NPCs fail, make it comedy gold. They don't just trip and fall. They trip and fall and knock over a table with six drinks on it, dumping them all over the girls having their night out, two of whom get so angry they start trying to stomp their high heels into your NPC's face.

4. Aquaman's powers suck. Not the modern day, pumped up Aquaman. I mean the pathetic Aquaman on Superfriends from the Filmation cartoons in the early 80's. All he could do was talk to fish. You know what fish say? "Glub." If you have players who think their awesome power is the PERFECT thing in this situation and it genuinely will not work or even help the situation? Don't be afraid to just make it worse. Like if someone wants to do psychometry on a dirty diaper or something. I've seen these things attempted.

There's probably more, but those four about cover it for me.

@BetterJudgment said:

I knew a bicyclist who absolutely should not have worn spandex--not because he wasn't athletic (he was), but because his nickname seriously should have been Tripod. It was both intimidating and embarrassing.

My bad. I just like to hang free and the spandex kept it out of the spokes.

@Arkandel said:

It's simple - most players aren't like that. That's not to say the average person isn't a good roleplayer, far from it - but the average person is not proactive in any sense of the word.

Yup. That is exactly the case. The lack of proactivity is a game killer. And those who are proactive end up, at some point and until they get fed up with it, on staff.

@BigDaddyAmin Oh I sharpen my own with an oil stone and a 4000 grit/8000 grit water stone, complete with bowl and boar bristle brush and soap cakes.

I am the kind of guy who wants to drive a standard transmission, knows how to use a topographical map and a compass, sharpens his own knives, and calls strangers "sir" and "ma'am" without irony. Straight razors just kind of fit right in with my style.

@ThatOneDude said:

@Silver I want to just start paging people now and saying, "I noticed you are unfindable... Who you TSing and do you need a third?" >.>

For you I make room.

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