It has always been my opinion that the whole purpose of plots is to give people stuff to RP about when the scenes aren't being actively ST'd. All plots of any sort. That's the goal. 'Give people reasons to RP when I am not running things actively'. If you shoot only for an evening's entertainment, you're doing your players a great disservice.
People bringing up the "hot coffee" lawsuit as an example of people being sue happy.
sigh.
third degree burns and skin grafts =/= coffee that is a reasonable temperature
I almost always prefer two alts: I play my heavy hitter political PC, and then I play a second character for when I feel like playing but do not want the weight of the 'main'. It's why I tend to advocate for two-alt policies. For a FC game, or a super pvp focused political game like RfK was, one alt is absolutely appropriate and should be the baseline, I agree. I was just trying to squawk about 'can we not go down the road of saying serial alters are bad players' because they aren't.
I comfort myself knowing that we're going to Mars. It's on the schedule (so to speak), even if we don't know when or exactly how we're gonna get there. Which means we'll get to Mars and we'll have the ability to grab Opportunity, bring it back, and get it working again. It's a distant future, but it IS in the future. The little bot won't have to stay up there forever.
F&L is very very very bad.
ETA: Like I would suggest FH before F&L, and VAS is there.
I work in IT.
This conversation is far too exhausting to have here, given these posts. Someday I won't tell someone I work in this industry and have them go "Well if you REALLY were in IT..."
Lol
It used to be way way way way way way way way way way way way way worse. The BANG LIST was absolutely terrible, don't get me wrong, but this is in no way, shape, or form worse than it was before the advent of wikis. All of that behavior was always happening, but now it's in the light where it can be seen, addressed, and stomped on. The culture around our hobby is FAR FAR FAR FAR FAR less negative and hyperbolic than it used to be. Man, there were people on WORA that cheered on someone posting pictures of aborted fetuses on somebody's damn personal livejournal. Trust me. Things have improved, they are NOT declining.
ETA: Before wikis were used, people had game livejournal communities where the same (and way way way way worse) behavior as happens on the wikis happened. Wikis were a huge improvement for a chunk of people, because now they didn't have to either keep a dummy LJ account or use their RL stuff to engage with games, but instead had a game specific account and identity that was way easier to use and much less risky. People pulled the crap like a BANG LIST back in the day, staff on the game had little recourse. Now, if it's on their actual game wiki, staff has an administrator and it can be immediately addressed.
Well, I mean, you walked into a conversation where people with medical conditions were discussing how they had difficulty specifically losing fat, and dropped that pearl of "wisdom" on their heads, I'm not sure what kind of reaction you were expecting.
ETA: True? Yup. Makes it look like you didn't actually read the conversation before adding your input? Also yup. Did you know that going for a walk outside helps with depression?
ETA2: 'It worked for me so if it doesn't work for you you're just <lazy>!' needs to die in a fucking fire already.
@rebekahse said in How should IC discrimination be handled?:
People don't seem to leap to OOC accusations of the player behind a character being a murderer when that character kills a bunch of people, and I'm confused why we seem to have decided that's self-evident but a character being a sexist or a racist is legitimate cause for OOC concern.
Maybe because it's not entirely about this, but instead about people not wanting to deal with the shitty things they have to deal with IRL (those pesky -isms that are so fun for people who aren't usually impacted) in their pretendy fun-time games.
ETA: Like, why does my PC have to suffer the same crap I do IRL for somebody else to be having fun?
Finally have a doctor that listens to me, and now that my heart is under control, we are addressing some of the other issues. Today’s appointment is long term going to improve my quality of my life. By a LOT. Yaaaay.
While I know it's easier to just '@set me=unfindable' when faced with the bad apples, the more appropriate choice of action is actually 'p staff=Hey, so and so is hassling me about being in a private place with someone else. Can you let them know it's not cool?' (better) or 'page creeper=Hey, when you bug me about who I'm playing with it makes me uncomfortable' (best).
Yes, the flag is an easy solution, but it's also an incredibly passive aggressive solution that does not in any way, shape, or form deal with the problem, but instead addresses the symptom.
Unfindable enables passive aggression. It also enables those bad apples to go 'oh, no, I had no IDEA who the person was playing with, she's unfindable, I didn't see anything' and makes cheating along these lines much more difficult to address.
Harassing someone about playing with another person? This is generally against the rules on any given game; the key in this one is the word 'harassing'. Using OOC knowledge (obtained from +where) IC when this sort of thing is not permissible? Against the rules, the key for this one being 'cheating'.
Make (and enforce) rules that actually address the problems themselves, not the symptom. If you have some guy paging people with links to him jerking himself, the solution is not to @wall for everyone to please pagelock themselves. See?
ETA: tl;dr: All unfindable really does is let assholes keep being assholes.
Opioid epidemic and all, you would think these doctors (it's not all of them, it's really not) would WANT to work to help those of us who want to stay far far away from them. lolololololololololol I am so naive.
ETA: I'll even say it: the MJ was an off-the-record suggestion from a nurse. Nurses are the best. PAY NURSES MORE.
@arkandel said in criticism not allowed in ad threads is only enforcing a false positive, prove me wrong:
See why a wiki is better, g'dammit?
No.
ETA: People following the rules, and the rules being enforced consistently, is better.
In no way is this meant to be dismissive of very real fear/concerns -- they're huge, and this is something that's REALLY hard to deal with, but but but but but but -- folks, no matter what you do or what choices you make, you're doing the best you can with what you have AND THAT IS ENOUGH.
Even if our children run wild like total little monsters and accomplish absolutely zero -- ZERO!!!!!! -- this year, they will be okay academically. Children are HUGELY resilient, and this upcoming environment doesn't suit anybody at all. They're all going to struggle, they're all going to fall behind, and they will catch up. They have you, mama and dada (and teachers!!!). You're doing the best you can for your family (and students!). THAT is the important part. They'll be OK.
You are enough. You are enough. You are enough.
OK? It happened.
The "blind" / anonymous method only works as far as you can trust staff. If you can trust staff, you don't need to be anonymous. If you can't, there is absolutely no reason to trust that they're actually keeping things confidential like they say they are (guess what? if they aren't trustworthy people, they aren't). The code systems used are pitifully easy to get around with no way to tell if they've been accessed.
@deadculture
Nah, there was just a problem with the staff on that game; they couldn't be trusted. No reporting system is worth more than the people running it. There's no one-size fits all answer.
I caution the log thing though, man, I really really do. I know of at least one person that was banned from a game, come to find out later that the four matching logs vs his one...the four were doctored. It was fabricated and ugly, and as @Tinuviel says, they are trivially easy to doctor, as are screencaps.
Damnit. I love you guys. I'm sorry so many folks are having such a shitty time. I wish I was SURPRISED by that, but I am not really. I was hoping more people were doing better than me, though. Everybody else seems so chill to my...not-chill.
@SerenityMush said in SerenityMUSH - Discussion:
No reset has been done on the game in recent years, and doing so would require a conversation with the other game admins. Some of the long-standing, overpowered players are gone, and some still exist but don't really play any more. This is really a good time to start something fresh on the game. None of the long-running plots are active. So come join us!
Something to consider, since you're using this as a selling point of the game now, is that if you do successfully revive the game and things get active/running again, is that a lot of those dinos / overpowered people / long-running plots will see that activity rearing its head, and once it's up and going again, they come back and stomp all over everything again.
This is a very standard cycle for games with this sort of -- situation. The problems all go inactive, so without those problems, a chosen few manage to get things swinging again. As soon as things start swinging again, the problems swoop back in because now there's a playground for them to mess up / dominate again. If you want to make it stick, you have to actually DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, rather than assuming the inactivity is a solution. It's not.
@Ghost said in Difference between an NPC and a Staff PC?:
One major issue in the hobby is that sometimes this happens on games where the site/server owner is unethical and/or the unethical staff are their friends.
Honest to god, I refuse to play on games any more where I think the site/server owner is unethical. Period, end of story. I will not play there. I also find 'reduction of harm' policies, where they are in relation to ethics, unacceptable. Staff policies need to be made with an eye towards supporting good staff doing good things and enforced in DRACONIAN fashion.
