Posts made by Sunny

@Arkandel

Um. Yeah. I was not curious as to why they were bitching. They hate fun. It's just aggravating to see people who are usually decent people running around doing their best to spoil fun for others.

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.

@Bobotron

Victoriana is soooo good.

I just evolved my first Pokemon! This is definitely a cute little game. I didn't really have any interest in Ingress, but I'm enjoying the hell out of this.

@ThatGuyThere

The key you're missing there is the expectation that the other person knows what you mean. People get offended all the time by people answering them literally, and that's on them.

If you ask what I need and I answer that with no way of knowing what you actually mean and you walk because I don't know what your actual question is, that's not my problem.

Much like in the real world, people who ask questions that are not what they mean cannot (with any leg to stand on) expect people to read their damned mind. Seriously. That's bullshit. If you know you mean something else, /ask that/.

What do I as an ST or game lead need for the game? Bodies in seats. That's it. Saying so doesn't imply that I don't have a focus or know what I'm doing, it's that I don't bloody plot for concepts I don't have.

@Pyrephox This is personal preference, not fact. Your way is not objectively better, nor are the 'truths' you're spouting universal. It's great that you recognize it's opinion, but this topic is a lot more nuanced than you're treating it.

If I tell someone to play what they want, it may just be because that's exactly what I want them to do. If I'm running a vampire game and end up with twelve former policemen Nosferatu, this... isn't a problem. Not for me, not for my players.

I say it's bad storytelling if you can't be creative enough to give similar concepts things to do.

My work is lousy with Pokemon and the pokestops. It's pretty neat, I have to say.

Best of luck for this project, it's pretty exciting. If there's anything I can do to help in the not-heavy-commitment way I'd be happy to do so, but I've got my own thing I'm working on presently.

@ThatOneDude

Building a game and running a game are VASTLY different skillsets; his flake doesn't threaten the building of the game, and he's intending to pass it off to folks for running. That certainly satisfies my concerns, and I think you'll be relieved too once you see it start working more. I'm definitely going to second the statement of making it easy easy to run stuff as players.

Nope.

I haven't used the Excel in Onedrive at all, so I don't know. If it's mostly the same as regular Excel, then it handles project management a lot better, has the email-to-cell functionality, and making checkboxes / attaching files to specific areas / content discussions relating to specific areas of the sheet is WORLDS easier. The discussions are a lot like Excel's comments, except easier to use/see and are formatted better for actual discussion rather than just a notation.

ETA: Also, nesting items are a thing. It's super cool.

Yeah, I guess it's pricy in comparison -- it's cheaper if you do more than month to month too. For what it does and how well it works, I find it worth the cost.

There IS also a month free trial, too.

I definitely don't think it's worth it for people who don't love this sort of thing, but I cannot possibly be the only one...right? RIGHT?

Smartsheet!

So as part of developing a project, I'm working with a lot of spreadsheets. I came across this website at work; we use it for a couple of different things. It's $13/month, so possibly not worth it to folks that aren't serious about their spreadsheets -- but the thing is, only the creator of pages / layout has to have a subscription: viewing and even editing established fields can be done by anyone with the access rights. It's really super easy to use, and perfect if you're looking to collaborate on this sort of thing. While yes, I could get a recruitment bonus if anyone else signs on, I'm not going to use that link just because I do think the product is something that people other than just me could really use.

• Easy collaboration -- multiple access levels based on the invitation sent, and a really easy to use sharing interface -- and people don't have to remember the sheet address, just 'smartsheet' -- when they sign in, it lands on a page with a list of everything you have access to
• Does things like checkboxes / dropdowns / filtering super super easy
• Allows for e-mailed forms to populate fields without ever giving someone actual access to the whole sheet -- you send an email, they follow the directions to give their answer, and it goes into the sheet. Again, super simple interface for this.
• Really good nesting of related items
• Excellent project management tracker tools (progress on items by percentage, that sort of thing)

There's a lot more there (it's super fun to play with!) but I think those are the key ones for the community. I find it a LOT easier to use than Google's spreadsheet stuff, and for the collaborative and project management aspects, it's far superior to Excel. Not sure about advanced functions and math support, but I don't think this is a right product for performing in-depth calculations anyway; getting into that, you need to at least be working with Excel.

@Thenomain said in Do you believe in paranormal things?:

@Sunny

And I don't see where credibility is lost if someone does want to slog through someone's bad attitude to get to the salient points. Clearly I have to surround myself with people who know how to do that.

I am going to partly blame being on the phone and party blame being at work on my lack of clarity/expressing myself correctly, and I do apologize. I did say that; I didn't mean it. What I actually meant to imply was that @wanderer destroyed their own credibility by coming out swinging (if you disagree with me you're a closed minded idiot, essentially). It called his judgement into question, because before anyone said one word he was preemptively attempting to shame anyone just for disagreeing.

This was followed by him being engaged as if he were credible and then the equating out of their argument as if it held equal weight to what @Arkandel was saying. That, to me, is where the judgment / credibility issues come in. It seemed (to me) like @Arkandel was being taken to task for being condescending while the person he was talking to's wish of death upon children was ignored.

@surreality
I get where they're coming from, too. I've had a lot of really awful things happen to me, though, and I generally don't start off my argument shrieking at everybody and expect to be taken seriously when I do (at least after I've calmed down). I respect that you don't want to dogpile, but again...it's just frustrating to me that on one hand we have folks saying 'bad @Arkandel, you're being a jerk' while the person he's being a jerk to (probably in reaction, yeah?) is leveling death wishes.

@surreality

I admit that I am frustrated that so many folks engaged with @wanderer on the topic and outright ignored the nasty. It encourages that sort of behavior.

@Kanye-Qwest said in Do you believe in paranormal things?:

Where is the outrage for me and my daughter?! Only Sunny cares that we are going to die of cancer (but she is going to die first so I can watch, apparently).

1 like = 1 prayer

Not just you, man. I felt compelled to downvote, too. My kid is up on the chopping block.

@Thenomain

No, I totally get what you're saying, or at least I think I do. It's reasonable to separate out the sensible points and address those and just sort of try and ignore the crazy points. I don't feel the same way -- if I have to put you through a crazy filter (figurative you, I don't think Theno is nuts), then your argument is already invalid without some heavy lifting on your part.

Where my significant disagreement comes in, where judgement comes into question (and thus credibility) for me, is in equating out 'emotions in science are bad' and 'I hope your kid dies' as if the problem with them is equal. They're both BS statements, yes, but one of them is more worth engagement, to me. I don't have energy for the other.

@Thenomain

What I saw was @wanderer coming in swinging from the start with behavior nasty enough that it -- to me -- removed all credibility to the extent that I am unwilling to take his/her word for shit, particularly when the argument seems to be 'yur dum because science is bad'. I disagree vehemently with their premise, but I have no interest in offering them even enough credit to engage. They're posting things like 'prove we went to the moon' and other utterly ridiculous statements. @Arkandel has been incredibly respectful given the babytown frolics going on up in here. He's actually extended enough credit to the person to engage seriously. Just because he is being marginally respectful, that doesn't actually excuse the crazy town going on.

How you make your argument is important. When one person is flinging runny shit and the other is holding up a shield and trying to talk them down, taking the shield bearer to task about how they're holding the shield is absurd, and it calls your own credibility and judgement into question.

@Thenomain said in Do you believe in paranormal things?:

I saw two people who in normal circumstances agree go at each other's throats for little more than a slight disagreement.

How is 'I hope your children get cancer' a slight disagreement, @Thenomain?

@wanderer

Thanks for the well wishes for my kid. Way to be what you're bitching about.