Posts made by Silver

@Miss-Demeanor Eat it. Eat it all. Chew!

@Luna Air is overrated anyway.

@Eerie said:

Unsettlingly perhaps, my drunken, corrupt, maliciously bored sheriff's deputy clicked instantly for me. I'm not thinking about that too much.

I pretty much think I know why.

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.

@Coin

@Coin I don't understand what you are trying to say.

@Coin I'd play the hell out of this.

Doxxing is exposing the real life identifying information of people in order to intimidate or harass them, such as has been done to some of the victims of the GamerGate fools. Nobody should ever do that, but it's not the same as saying X person has been kicked off the game for harassing other players.

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.

@Misadventure said:

Example: Egypt - pyramids not made by slaves. Columbus - works Carrib island tribes to death by the hundreds of thousands.

Interesting bit of history: Egyptians had a system of civil service called Corvee, in which every Egyptian was expected to spend a portion of their life in service to the kingdom. I don't remember how long that service was or how it was figured, but once it was finished they went about their lives free of their service. The people who made the pyramids were normal Egyptians fulfilling their service within Corvee. There were slaves in Egypt but typically they were a minority of the labor force.

You already have my answer.

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

@GentlemanJack said:

A_kazlauskas on the Skypes.

^ Highly recommended. Best coder I know of.

I hope nobody ever makes a thread about ethnicity ever again.

@Coin said:

Replying with quote to re-post the giant picture because it is obnoxious.

I would post self-porn if it got me into a 7th Sea game.

@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.

I love Sherman.

I'm up for it. I'm logged into Skype but invisible. If you poke me, I will come.

My father told me that his grandfather (therefore my great grandfather, I think his mother's father) was full Apache. I saw said great grandfather's grave and there is a little portrait of him on his headstone and I can see the distinctly Amerindian look. Also his name was distinctly un-caucasian. That's a neat cemetery which exists in Rye, Texas next to a little country church all alone on a quiet highway. My father is planted there with both of his parents and many of his mother's siblings.

Then it turns out that my mother's mother comes from Oklahoma and brought with them some Cherokee, which I kind of wrote off because it seems like everybody in the US is "part Cherokee". Mother's mother turns out to be related to Edgar Allen Poe. Also mother's mother's uncle lived to be almost 100 and was an oil painter (artist) in Arkansas. I have some of his paintings now. He was very good and mostly did landscapes.

The rest of everyone I am related to has been in the US forever. My family name is English in origin and I am aware of an ancestor that moved to Virginia in the 1600's, presumably from England. Over time they moved west and spread out. One of my great uncles became a Vice President of the United States. He has that name. There's also a huge state park named after him and stuff, but these days people forget about him because most people forget the VPs, which is fair.

My mother's father's father came from a family that has a homestead in East Texas, which I have visited. It's a nice place. Unfortunately a lot of the people out there are freaking crazy. I don't have much to do with them. Mother's father's mother is from a different family mostly from Georgia and North Carolina. I have been out there and met them. They seem nice, but distant.

Short answer: Mixed but mostly caucasian. People used to assume my father spoke Spanish because of how dark skinned he was, but that's because he worked in the sun a lot and thanks to aforementioned Apache ancestor he tanned.