Shouldn't use "text message talk" if the abbreviations/words don't make sense...
Wait until you read it in e-mail correspondence from opposing counsel.
froths, twitches
I used to work in state government in the public works area, doing grant administration and stuff. I once sent a very official, formal document to a Mayor, and got 'thx' as a reply. For a formal document.
Where are the liege houses losing? Can they not also take steps to.grow their own domains? Can they not regain the income? They aren't being punished. Nobody is taking something away that they earned and worked hard for. Somebody else earned enough pretend money to go off on their own. Earn your own pretend money. 1000 economic resources buys a point of income domain stat. Invest the taxes you are getting into your income. Do something proactive.
Thanks for the well wishes for my kid. Way to be what you're bitching about.
If spying is the game plan for dealing with 'some kinds of complaints', then say that. Don't intend to do it and then not say so just because some person said 'oh everyone assumes...' - you are going to have way more issues hiding it than stating it up front.
It wasn't the spying that killed it for me (don't mind my rp.being watched in most circumstances), but the lack of specificity. I don't understand anything about this game beyond it is a tool staff put on the table, and apparently now still plans to use, but is in the closet so people don't even know it's there?
Yes, it is possible to spy, and you can't tell, and technical limitations, but my expectation is that staff will follow the rules that they set for themselves, whatever they are, until I have reason to think otherwise. Thus, when a staffer says in policy 'I will not watch TS', I assume that they aren't. If that is not policy, then I have no assurances that it will not happen when there are no presented boundaries for the spying.
Thus, I appreciate being informed that it is being used indiscriminately, so I can not play. Taking that notification out, ESPECIALLY when you still intend to use the tool, is less comfortable for me. Am I a good litmus test? Absolutely not. But this is the general issue I am seeing with it.
I am really sick of the Very Loud Complaints of people who aren't playing. There's a couple of people I know on Facebook that any time anybody posts anything at all they have to get all up in it about how awful/whatever the people are who are playing. I swear to god it's like people seriously hate fun.
I get it. You don't like it. That doesn't give you any call to piss all over my fun, particularly since it's not like I'm spamming or anything.
You did so good. Thank you. A million times over. Your consideration and effort is EXTREMELY appreciated. I am over the moon happy right now. And then some.
Yeah. It's been a year and a few months, and I think the shock is really wearing off now. The whole grieving process is stupid and ridiculous and I hate it so much. I can't even talk to my dad right now because all he wants to do is say awful things about her (the last 5 years or so of her life she turned into a demon between her fear of death and the medication she was on, plus dementia, I think) and I know that's part of HIS process, but I just can't cope. Stupid.
@mietze It's okay to be human. What you're feeling is not bad or wrong. I mean, I know you know it, but I'm in your corner, lady. You aren't wrong. You aren't bad. It's not evil to feel that way. It isn't fucking fair, and it would be REALLY NICE if the universe would fucking take fairness into consideration. Stupid. I hate that, too.
That's a good list of rules for erryone in this hobby, up there with JC's guide to staffing. Well done.
Laundry. I just washed you, shirt. Why do I have to wash you again? Sigh.
It would also need to be headed up and managed by someone reputable, with a demonstration of understanding the consequences of advertisement, and a plan on how to handle that. Giving random strangers money to bring in players games are not prepared to receive? No thank you.
My son's school had an active shooter today; one of the teachers tackled the kid immediately. Nobody was hurt.
I agree completely that there's way way way way way more RP happening elsewhere, I just don't think that mushing is in decline in comparison to itself.
I'm sorry you aren't seeing it, and I'm sorry you don't understand. I maintain that taking a step back would help restore clarity a lot. You've given people the same advice, you know the place I'm coming from on this.
I mean, @egg has a point. These games are full of blonde haired blue eyed tall / short characters. They really are. I play one, and there's like eleventy billion others on the same game. BOTH of my PCs have blue eyes. I think. Pretty sure, it's my default go-to when I have to create my own PC.
I agree it would be nice to see a more diverse collection of characters. I think it's representative primarily of the fact that it's a predominately white hobby, which seems to ME that it would be more helpful to make it a safer space for POC players than it currently is. Does more people playing POC make it a safer/better space for the players? ETA: My 'badly' should have been more strongly implied.
I don't know if I should put this in love or anger!!
My new work laptop got here today. The box is open, things have been taken out, it is READY FOR GO!
My coworker made Pho.
I have to eat my Pho before I can play with my laptop.
WHAT A PROBLEM TO HAVE!
Edited to add: omg it is so tasty.
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We can lie to ourselves and say it's about RP, but it really isn't. WE all want /something/ for our time.
I really don't think this is true. True for you, and maybe for many, but I do not believe this to be a universal truth, or the full consent/statless/freeform games where there's no advancement at all would not exist. There is a ton of evidence within this niche community that it isn't true, and that's not even branching out to other platforms or genres.
The guy who tried to rape me years ago tries to contact me every so often (when I still lived in OH, he actively stalked me). It's passive usually, like following my social media accounts from new accounts. Sometimes he'll email me.
But goddamnit it still makes me ill whenever I see his name pop up.
I empathize and I'm sorry you have to deal with this.
I think also personality factors really big here, because there's going to be a significant difference between someone who just has Big Moods all the time (hi) and someone like my partner, who is pretty emotionally reserved. My muppet flailing and his muppet flailing are going to be VERY different, and one can be ignored where the other one reaaaaaaaally should be addressed.
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I am officially down 5 pants sizes from when I started working this job a year and a half ago (and by officially, I mean I am not having to wiggle to zip the pants up). Between activity levels, far less stress, and healthier eating (both in terms of what I eat, and also how I eat it)...I've just steadily been getting better. Is pretty cool.
Teach me your magic plx.
Cut back on soda and junk. Eat less more often, and especially breakfast. Get enough sleep. Reduce stress levels. I also went from a sedentary job to a fairly physically active one. Mostly I think it was the more sleep and the less stress, mostly.
Wait eat breakfast especially or especially eat less at breakfast?
Reduce stress levels..hahah!
Eat breakfast especially. Do not miss that one. It will make the rest of your body work better.
I don't understand what you're trying to say. Acknowledging that humans have feelings about things does not make the situations you are describing any better or any worse.
eta: what impact does having emotions about things have upon whether or not you have integrity?