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@mietze said in Regarding administration on MSB:

@sunny said in Regarding administration on MSB:

@arkandel said in Regarding administration on MSB:

To me the ability to stick together even when we don't like each other very much is the reason this place exists.

Huh. That's a really good/interesting point. A lot. It's not what I would have said the reason is, but I think you're actually dead on accurate. Thanks.

Agreed 1000 percent. (Which autocorrect keeps trying to change to pervert.)

Even autocorrect knows.

I don't think anyone should have "repercussions" for accidents of this nature. Intentional griefing via spoilers -- regardless of when it happens in relation to the media in question -- should be swatted (fly swatted, not the other kind omg), though I don't know what kind of consequences are possible/enforceable. I don't think that anyone should ever be banned for this specific infraction, only breaking it many times (like, not for spoilers, but for repeatedly not following rules or w/e).

Two weeks out is reasonable mod-enforced (edit peoples' posts or whatnot), though I don't think people should be discouraged from being respectful about it after that. Like, there's no reason whatsoever to not put spoiler details behind a cut if you know you're going to blah blah a bunch of stuff. If set rules are written down, please include a clause that says something like 'two weeks is the hard and fast rule, but please don't take this to mean that two weeks out you should run all around the forum screaming THE TITANIC SINKS just because you can, it's disrespectful.' Or whatever.

This stuff isn't as hard for people as it's made out to be. Spoiler tags are easy. Not ruining things for other people is easy. It's really NOT hard to tell when you should or shouldn't give away major details of a book/movie. Nobody here is dumb.

If you want to use a couple of pages on one of mine to sketch stuff out, just let me know. The format is less important than the content -- what commands you need, what you hope that they will do, what your goal is with the command.

You don't have to be able to code, but you should be able to present your request in a format that conveys to someone with code ability what it is you actually need. I have found that doing that has always made it far easier to find someone to help me.

@rebekahse I'm glad it doesn't bother you. It does bother other people. There are still games in which people choose to include -isms, so why are games that have actively been designed to not have them a problem?

@surreality

They got him within like 2 or 3 posts this time. The answer is 'not much'.

@faraday It's really difficult to have a discussion when any point made that's not part of the dominant narrative is completely mischaracterized and misrepresented when it's being responded to. I'm not sure how you think you're going to get a good discussion out of this sort of behavior. Sure, people have said it before. @Collective and I are surely not saying it now, but it's sure being addressed like we are. I disagree that there's been some sort of seismic shift in the community. I disagree that anybody here and now is suggesting that folks are bad people.

Why are we addressing 'bad people' when there's an actual issue that's actually happening to talk about?

Pixels have a great camera and shit for quality control. If you get a good one you're golden, if you get a lemon, you're screwed -- I am the tech support for our enterprise account at work, and I had to send a good third of our first round of pixels back for warranty replacement, and then half of the refurbished ones back for another replacement.

The Samsung S9 is hands down the best phone on the market right now, provided you're not an iPhone user. The plus is worth the extra money; it's faster, and the bigger screen is great (I do use mine as an ereader, though I just have the 8+). We have zero problems with these at work, except for....

If you are clumsy, get an Otterbox if you DO go with either the S8 or the S9, because of the aforementioned glass back. They are hands down the most breakable cellphone we have ever had. They will crack in your pocket if you don't have a case and you bend wrong, and a drop on a corner (because glass) will shatter the whole thing.

If you are super super clumsy, look at the Kyocera DuraForce pro. They are waterproof, shatterproof, and drop proof. The battery life is great, they don't come with much bloatware, and they are the workhorse of the phones right now. They just work. For a year. At which point they very rapidly deteriorate. If you plan on keeping a phone longer than it takes to get an upgrade, wait until the next workhorse, whatever that ends up being.

We're still looking to recruit a few more players for the Amber OTT; we're just wrapping up the prologue/prelude now, and as of 2/1 I will be accepting Chaosian characters. If you're interested in online tabletop with scheduled scenes with plenty of opportunity for downtime play, feel free to come check us out.

We're running a 1st generation game; Oberon and Dworkin are (apparently) dead, and relations with Chaos are going to be opening up here shortly. The Amberites have at this point resolved the primary issue they've been dealing with, but that doesn't mean there's not plenty that's yet to happen...

http://water.chrysalis.me/wiki/Amber_Read_Me

@faraday

@Roz and @Collective have answered your question, and made my point quite well. This is what I am talking about when I am referring to the misrepresentation of the point being made.

@jibberthehut said in My first cellphone:

You can find second hand newer phones, unlocked and usable.

Be REALLY careful about doing this. Really really careful. It is super easy to get completely screwed when purchasing second hand phones because of a lot of the new security features.

@misadventure

Persistent world is one of the big ones. One of the hallmarks of an OTT game is having the GM on hand for most (if not all) gameplay. The grid, the policies, guidelines for others running plot and the like, these things don't exist in an OTT environment.

@sunny said in How should IC discrimination be handled?:

"I don't want to deal with this in my fun time" =/= "Nobody anywhere ever should have to deal with this in their fun time."

@wildbaboons said in RL things I love:

I was in the grocery store today and Sweet Caroline start playing on the Muzak system. while moving through the aisles I heard at least three people singing along. the two older women were somewhat expected but amusing. the college dude bro really getting into it to the horror of his companion was the highlight though.

Just reading this makes me happy. This story is a RL thing I love.

I suspect what he isn't (but should) be saying is, 'You are not the audience for this game if those are your preferences' which sounds terrible and so people avoid it, but end up saying actually worse things. It's ok if somebody isn't the target audience.

This game isn't for a lot of us around here. People's objections aren't because they're pansies who need a fee fee check.

@arkandel

Good luck. It's hard to have a discussion when one of the perspectives involved is continually grossly misinterpreted because people are threatened by the very EXISTENCE of an opposing viewpoint.

The reason community property is important is not for the cases like those being brought up, though. Yeah in those situations it's unfair/etc/etc. But if someone has been supported by their spouse since they got married and has only ever been a stay at home mom and then dad cheats on her and runs off with an 18 year old and leaving her with 3 young children, her life is now destroyed. She has nowhere to go. She has nothing to fall back on. I've seen it happen a number of times -- a LOT of the people on public assistance are there because of this precise sort of circumstance. At this point, you can get help to get on your feet and schooling and stuff, but it's really, really awful.

It's really easy to judge people, too.

@thugheaven

@evilcabbage said in Armageddon MUD:

the welcome might be an introduction to being mugged and murdered, or being abused, or being treated lower than low because you're a commoner and that's a templar, but you are being introduced to the world.

@arkandel said in How should IC discrimination be handled?:

@sunny said in How should IC discrimination be handled?:

@arkandel

Good luck. It's hard to have a discussion when one of the perspectives involved is continually grossly misinterpreted because people are threatened by the very EXISTENCE of an opposing viewpoint.

That's one of the benefits of having the discussion. If we never do then the perspectives are never challenged, and we can only get so far from an echoing chamber of talking to people who already agree with our viewpoints 100%.

I disagree. The point of having a discussion is absolutely to examine differing viewpoints and the like, but complete misrepresentation of a point makes it impossible to actually talk. If I say 'I like it when it's warm' and someone responds to it with 'well, I think sunsets and sunrises are just as pretty as a summer blue sky', that's not a discussion.

@Roz said:

Steven Universe.

That is all.

I love this show so so so so so so much. My favorite is when Garnet sings.