Posts made by Silver

@Arkandel said:

And I say that accepting the hypocrisy in that I'm quite fond of Ultimate Spider-man, and in that I really liked Tim Drake than any other incarnation of Robin.

Certain characters like Robin or the Flash were successfully made into legacy characters. Notably the person who took up the mantle of Robin next was acutely aware of the previous one and his history and most particularly in the case of Tim Drake, maintained a high regard for his predecessors. Similarly Barry Allen was Wally West's hero, and both of them looked up to Jay Garrick.

When you have a Ben Reilly it's basically just a cuckoo scenario where someone is replacing your Spider-Man with Folger's Crystals. That's cheap. Almost the same thing happened when Jean-Paul Valley became Batman for a minute. That was a blatantly temporary and empty replacement and even DC didn't look like they planned for that to last.

@Corruption Awww kitties. You are wonderful.

@Coin Or Oliver Queen. Or Hal Jordan. Or Superman. Or Jason Todd. Or Bucky Barnes. Or Peter Parker. Or...

It's fine if someone wants to write the story about how characters have their lives risked or are just this side of death, but if they actually cross the line into DEAD and are brought back at the convenience of some future writer then it cheapens not only the past story but any future stories told. Now I will not believe in the risk these characters take.

My problems with the Crisis stories (I cut Marvel more slack with this really because they have so far only done it once) is that a story is about conflict, tension, and resolution of that conflict in some way. Comic books do this plenty, but when DC specifically comes up with these multiple crises they are phoning it in. The motivation for them to tell the story they try to tell in these is robbed of its tension for me because of the meta nature of it. Clearly they are looking for excuses to rewrite continuity, and not in a way that respects the ongoing storylines.

Even more of an offense to me is characters who die but don't stay dead. Marvel is just as bad about this as DC. It is impossible for me to take seriously any story-based tension where a character might die or is depicted as dying. It is not a surprise when dead characters are brought back from the dead. In fact, it is pretty much cheap when it happens now.

The second reason more than the first is the reason I stopped reading comics.

@silentsophia said:

@Silver I dunno, given some of the uh, stellar talent I saw of management who happened to be related to the owner of the call center... sometimes I suspect what you know becomes irrelevant in the face of who.

Also, I hate that job search sites are ignoring my 'no childcare' and 'no sales' settings. Look, you fuckwits, I do not handle children or sales well. I do not want to do these things. Stop suggesting them. Aaaaaah.

I'm certainly not saying it's a GOOD way to hire...

@2mspris said:

implying they should just be handed the job based upon who they know in the community.

...you're not wrong, but in fairness this unfortunately does result in a hire more often than not, provided the degree of "who" and how much they "know" them is adequate.

Drove down to the lagoon and there are sandy beaches there.

Saw a pickup truck that someone had jacked down and turned into one of those low-riding street hugging things with the wide ridiculous tires that don't belong on a truck.

It's stuck in the sand. Wheels spinning.

Schadenfreude.

@WTFE See, I love Christopher Nolan movies. To me they're amazing. Sure they're not perfect! That's because movie makers cut corners for purposes of story sometimes and other times they get lazy. Whatev.

But I definitely don't see any reason to be insane about Nolan movies to the point of attacking people who dislike them or are even just critical of their flaws. I guess I don't care enough about his movies.

@Thisnameistaken I loved it until the bugs just never got fixed and months later I realized they were never going away.

@Misadventure Absolutely. No more posting here.

@Coin I never posted on WORA. Never kept an account there.

As a native Texan, and a pretty proud one at that, I've really never felt any association with that stupid confederate battle flag. Or any confederate flag (because the actual CSA flag is different from the one most people think of and use). I've always considered myself Western, not Southern, and there's a very large difference.

Also I rather like the USA and am proud of it too, and am pretty dead set against the wrongheaded rebel insurrection against it a century and a half ago. So racism issues aside (and the racism aspect is so very real) there are many politically rock-solid reasons to sneer at the rebel flag.

@Shebakoby said:

No, because dark is like a staff only thing. I think the thing was, some people were having trouble keeping OOC and IC knowledge separate, so they were set "unfindable" so you couldn't immediately go to their location, and do something dumb like pose that you found them. They were visible in the room OOCly, but if you wanted to find them, you'd have to actually talk to the player and OOCly coordinate a scene. There was IC code for "stealth", where you knew the person was in the room but ICly you didn't know unless you had E-senses or Radar.

Well I have seen a few games that made dark available to everybody, but yeah for the most part that gets restricted to royal flags. Which is cool. I don't really see a good reason for general players to have it.

Still all unfindable does is make your location masked from +where, and since +where is an OOC command for OOC purposes, I don't see how that relates to IC anything.

@Shebakoby said:

I always thought 'Unfindable' was for IC, not OOC reasons. On most of the MUs I have been on, "Unfindable" usually applied to characters who could become stealthed or outright invisible. Mostly characters whose job description was basically spying or infiltrating.

That wouldn't make sense as your character has no good way of knowing where someone else is on the other side of the city unless they're using scrying magic or similar, or GPS bugs or whatever, and even then much RP happens in slightly disjointed timeframes to where "before next and after" matters much more than "3:45pm".

You may be thinking about dark instead of unfindable.

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.

@Ganymede I feel so good that I started this thread.

@silentsophia said:

@Silver Saying rape victims deserved it because of how they dressed IS wildly inappropriate at best.

You're are absolutely right!

@Sunny You really think that's inappropriate?

@Sunny said:

And thus, you are part of the problem. If someone is breaking the rules, why would you not tell staff? Particularly if they're making you actively uncomfortable? We're not talking about kindergarten bickering here, we're talking on a mush violating stated policy.

That's me. Part of the problem. I'm the part that chose to dress like that. I mean, just look at me. I was asking for it!

@Sunny I don't feel the need to tell on somebody to staff and have someone else be my daddy, but more to the point I also don't feel the need to "fix" someone's behavior issues on a game because I get really fed up of fixing people's behavior issues for them. They're not going to change anyway.