Best posts made by Sunny

@surreality

omg I laughed so hard.

Yeah, I know with my place we set a first of the year opening, but I was way, way too ambitious. I have to both adjust opening date, and dial down what all I wanted to get done before opening if I ever want to get the project off the ground.

@deadculture

I can tell you that the time I put a complaint in on Fallcoast about Spider, the first thing staff did was go to her with details of who complained, what I said, and much of it was promptly used in her whisper campaign against me.

@surreality

If it helps at all, it's not personal/something directed specifically at you. We get about 5 of that sort of email every week at work (bitcoin, porn, we saw you! going to tell everyone!), to different folks. Freaks everybody out, but they don't actually have anything and it's randomly generated based on info they can troll from the web.

And there's so much turnover that even if a list is up to date, a couple of weeks and it's outdated.

@Tinuviel

It is a very deep rabbit hole, please do not make me go down it.

Also, I realize I wasn't being clear about part of what I was saying and I am trying so hard to stop ETAing every goddamned post I make because 2 minutes later I thought of something:

When I say 'the actual problem' I am not referring to a specific problem; the statement is a general one. In this example, I am discussing the desire of players to not be outed to the people they are complaining about -- that is the actual problem in this scenario, but the logic I'm advocating is for more general problem solving.

@mietze

Right there with you.

@Coin said:

@Sunny said:

@DnvnQuinn said:

@Sunny You're a stupid expectation!

I'm just saying the 'genre' of something has nothing to do with the ease of coding something.

But it does. Because some players who stick to particular sorts of genres expect particular sorts of code.

That and isn't pretty much every freeform mush failing right now? Isn't there a whole thread on that?

Could you name for me a genre of mushes which you think aren't failing, right now?

@Sunny, stop copying my interrogatory posts! YOU COPYCAT!

Shut up, I said it better.

ETA: @DnvnQuinn -- so following your logic, why should anyone be doing something besides one of those sorts of games? FFS.

@Highfalutin That's a hilarious list.

I sitebanned everyone from Ashes at one point. Including myself. Site admin person had to go in and fix it.

@SinCerely

Oof I am so sorry. There are few more terrible feelings, combining the hormonal issues themselves with the loss of control they bring. Double helping of suck. You have my sympathy.

@Entropy said:

No one person should really be the end all say all.

Oh for the love of all that is good and cuddly, yes. Yes, one person needs to be the end all say all. Absolutely. It is a hard requirement. The buck has to stop somewhere. At the end of the day, if nobody has the final say than nobody has the responsibility of making the hard choices. A ship has to have a Captain. Even running a triumvirate as I have, or teams I've worked with, or groups that make it LOOK like we're a democracy, someone was always in charge. Someone was always responsible. If you have no final authority, you have no final responsibility or accountability.

Maybe not like... the full on "everything needs to be voted" thing like mentioned above. That does seem like it's taking things too far, and looks as if it led to the logical result. But simply put, stuff like denying a player something that's within reason... or giving a clique of lackeys priority over everyone else... that kind of stuff should be checked. Basically, staff who moderates other staff, as well. Just in the interests of keeping things as fair as possible, and so that no rash... or overly stupid decisions... are made and are without a fair chance to be reviewed.

What about you and your idea makes it so that you and the team you find are not subject to the basic human condition?

A staffer (maybe former staff? I'm not certain) over on BNW was telling me how he had approached Elsa on behalf of a player to discuss why certain stats on a character's sheet were the way the were. Elsa had denied the sheet and demanded pretty significant changes. When the staffer made polite and reasonable suggestions about why the player had made the decisions the way they were, Elsa flipped out on him and basically said that it was her game, and that he was a bad person for daring to question her authoritah.

Yes, crazy game owners exist. I'm seeing a lot of 'we won't look like that' but no 'we will look like that'. What sort of solutions do you have? What examples can you give me of policy that you're going to implement that will prevent these things from happening? It's harder than it looks.

That... just isn't cool.

I don't know Elsa from a hole in the ground, but I'm going to bet that this Elsa person, if you told her about this situation in a way that she didn't realize it was her, she would also agree that it isn't cool. Active maliciousness is VERY VERY VERY rare. Stupidity, assumptions, and breakdowns of communication are usually the culprits.

I think that there's a lot of potential, and a lot of good people out there that could help run a game that's fun, fair and not just ruled over by one dictator, benevolent or not. But I am a bit of an optimist.

No, lovely. I am a bit of an optimist. You're in the realm of pipe dreams.

There is a difference in orders of magnitude between "keep a game that already exists moving along" and "build a new game from scratch", and willingness to do the former does not in any way indicate the latter. It's not a fair request to make of somebody. Yeah, it would be great to build a new Firefly game, and somebody who thinks that should be done ought to do it. It's not the same project.

Cats are cats. They have figured out where their food is coming from, and if there is no food, they will come and "ask" for it.

Yeah, they came and asked for food yesterday when they could see the bottom of the bowl. Cats.

@somasatori

I don't know if I hate or love you right now.

@Jennkryst

I am going to guess it is the game that they already have and have been making commentary on and asking for feedback on.

@Ganymede

I like plans. Planning. Especially this sort of thing, where you have a clearly defined framework to work within. I get objectives, what resources are available, and access to knowledgeable experts. I have to turn that into something people can execute to meet the objectives. I find it very interesting.

eta: With COVID it's not as immediate as it would be for a wildfire, but it's going to give me experience I need to be more successful in the case of a wildfire or earthquake or whatever.

Ah! Okay. I'm used to oWoD! Thank you.

@Wolfs said in Empire State Heroes Mush:

But, it remains that your initial post about this was low on detail led to others having to ask for more information about what you were talking about. You didn't even say it was about you.

Can you explain to me why this is relevant to the issue that @ShelBeast is discussing?

@cobalt

There are LOTS of things it could be that are not at all catastrophic, but you're not going to stop being terrified until the vet. I wish you lots and lots and lots of luck distracting yourself until then.