"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." I'm not really seeing anywhere in this thread where somebody said the latter, but it sure as hell seems like the former is being responded to as if it were the latter. Nor is anybody making the point saying anything about the people who like to RP this stuff, let alone that they're bad people.
@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?
@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?
@ganymede The most traumatic thing about the whole thing (aside from the pain itself, because it was INSANE) was 'dunno, go ask the next doctor in a few days' I kept getting. Like 'I don't know' was an acceptable stopping point. I was scared. Thank the stars for the ER doctor last night who didn't think it was acceptable.
If you use Facebook at all, I highly highly highly adding this page to what you see on your feed regularly. It has done me a world of good to see the stories of good people doing good things multiple times a day. Helps break up all the rest of it.
@thenomain I think that's really fair, both as a definition and as a thing that we (including me) should not do.
@auspice ...I am saving that for the next time it's my turn to put a funny picture in the work newsletter thing...
So for multiple weeks, I have been having one hell of a time medically. I have been vocal to varying amounts because omg terrible.
I was sure it was a kidney stone, doctors couldn't find the stone, there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth and 'group death' made me understand well why they had that nickname (even tho they're Kaiser now). 'I don't know, wait a few days and see somebody else!' was the answer I was getting, except they kept bouncing me between ER, PCP, and Urgent Care. Presumptive diagnosis ultimately was kidney stone, started treating it finally, referred me to the urologist, blah blah. Still couldn't find the stone. Doc told me that if the pain got worse before I got to see the urologist, go to the ER. This was Wednesday, last week. By Friday I was symptom free (they were treating the kidney stones) and feeling better! Which was good, because I had no more pain pills (we do super super limited pain pills with my doctor and I because blah blah pounds of metal in me blah blah). And then Sunday hit and it flared again a tiny bit. Not too bad. Went to work on Monday and thought I was freaking dying all of a sudden. So I went back to the ER.
So many hours. Initial test, couldn't find the stone, but the ER doc was like 'we're figuring this out' and so she did.
They found the stone!!
...they also found the thing that is causing the majority of my pain (which, while the stone is causing some, it is not actually causing even the majority of it! awesome!)...
Four centimeter cyst on one of my girly organs. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY.
(and then just after I fell asleep last night I got a call from the doctor from the ER btw you were right, you do actually also have an infection in your colon, go FIRST THING in the morning and get the meds I called to your pharmacy for you, this is really bad please come right back if you get a fever).
sigh
@mietze ABOUT ME. IT WAS CALLING ME NAMES.
(sorry caps but srsly augh!)
@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. 
@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.
@saosmash said in Regarding administration on MSB:
@thenomain there's a difference between thinking that a staffer has made a mistake (or multiple mistakes) and finding them untrustworthy or unethical. Is that really the question here?
Yeah, I have to chime in on this, too. I disagree with choices made, but I do not in any way think that any of the moderators here are unethical or untrustworthy.
Like literally, the only comment I made in that thread about the mod action taken was to say that I agreed with it (because I did actually agree with it)...that is not braying for anyone's head, in my reality. I am not sure why shit is being flung in my direction because I...did what we are supposed to, in that I wanted to say a shitty thing about a game, so I took it to the Hog Pit.
@surreality There is nothing respectful about that statement. My posts are not unclear.
@surreality FYI, that thread had nothing to do with Auspice and everything to do with the STF staff and me actually doing what we are supposed to (taking shit flinging to the hog pit instead of leaving it iin the ad threads). There is no shrieking about this at all. Speaking of personal vendattas...or was there some other thread where there is supposed shrieking about this decision?
@gilette said in Reasons why you quit a game...:
Oh, and when there are too many goddamn otters.
Holy shit, that article is great. That's a really succinct way to put that issue. Oooooh interesting. Thank you for posting it!
@faceless It is super dumb. Super dumb.
@saosmash Pfft. Peeeeew (like a BAD smell) wallop (like the hitting!).
Also, wtf people who actually get mad when their complex last name is mispronounced. Mad!
