@Kanye-Qwest If you actually cared about insulting behavior, you would have given surreality hard time first, since she insulted first. The fact that you didn't makes you a hypocrite.
Literally anybody who defends this one-sided "analysis" is a cunt. Are you a cunt? The choice is yours.
@surreality I think there's a lot of malice that gets attributed to simply saying "I don't like your character idea" to people. I don't blame you for not wanting to do the customer service rep thing on your games, though. It's a game. You're staffing on this shit because it's something you do for fun. These things almost never generate revenue and real profits, so I don't think there's any expectation of impartiality.
That said. I read your links and the only thing I disagree with is the guy with the Nazi hat. I don't think it's really the job of airlines to regulate the content of people's hats or whatever. I'd have a really hard time believing that the FAA is obligated to make sure passengers go unoffended on flights. The guy with the hat could have played the First Amendment card so hard in that context, and been right: "Well, the First Amendment is Constitutional, whereas your FAA regulations are merely statutory." Someone getting butthurt about this guy's stupid hat is not him interfering with the duties of the crew member. In fact, the person bitching about said hat is the one doing the interfering if anybody is, since you don't have a right to not be offended. For example, if I were on that flight and I were to complain about someone's Naruto shirt because I find weeaboo shit offensive, I'd rightly be told to just deal with it. This is actually a perfect example of a reason given that just doesn't... follow. The real reason for that decision to bring the hammer on the Nazi hat guy is that Nazi opinions are unpopular and, as a private entity (even though it's a heavily regulated one), they have social and legal license to give him shit for expressing those views. It had nothing to do with FAA regulations and everything to do wanting to fuck with Neo-Nazis.
Do I have an inherent objection to Nazi shit being socially unacceptable and people getting in trouble for going around in public with clothes that read "1488 GAS THE KIKES RACE WAR NOW"? Not really, but please don't shit me about why you're doing it when you do. Spare me the mental gymnastics.
In conclusion, just tell me you think my character idea is shit instead of trying to water it down with arbitrary stat restrictions and bureaucracy until I want to quit, and just admit that you want to suppress certain political views when you demand people remove their hats by pain of removing them from an airplane. 
@surreality Here are a few examples of something being banned for being too interesting:
I can go on, but to no insignificant degree staff often expects people to color inside of lines they don't actually draw anywhere, and much of the time the lines they do draw are literally there to preclude one from making all but the most cookie cutter, lame shit. Pointing this sort of thing out doesn't really qualify as "entitlement" so much as it does "entirely valid criticism." So spare me the talk of how justified you are in shooting down all these ridiculous concepts as though only ridiculous concepts get shot down, because frankly, what I've seen a lot more of on my time on MU*'s is essentially a an expectation that you follow rigid and arbitrary yet undefined and pointless guidelines, and a ban on reimagining anything. And if you've been on MU*'s for twenty years like you say you have you'd see plenty of it, too.
@Kanye-Qwest Ed, Edd, n Eddie was the shit. Fuck outta here.
@surreality I've already objectively disproven your basis for disagreement, so I'd say I've made a really solid argument. Successfully defending your argument is, in itself, an argument.
Sorry, not sorry.
@surreality It also teaches us the lesson that when the general population incorrectly believes something, they'll believe that they are correct because the general population believes it. See also: @surreality and @Kanye-Qwest
@surreality Just out of curiosity: do you actually believe that if enough people believe something, it becomes true? Or was that just a useful rhetorical device in the moment?
@Miss-Demeanor Rotes in 1e were objectively a waste of experience points in the long run, but good in the short run. Especially when they put in Extemporaneous Affinity, which gives you a bonus to improvised casting, and raising Gnosis/Arcana also raises dice pools while having lots of other benefits...
I don't know about 2E, but Rotes were just pointless in 1E if you had even a little bit of strategy in your mind.
@Miss-Demeanor Rotes in 1e were objectively a waste of experience points in the long run, but good in the short run. Especially when they put in Extemporaneous Affinity, which gives you a bonus to improvised casting, and raising Gnosis/Arcana also raises dice pools while having lots of other benefits...
I don't know about 2E, but Rotes were just pointless in 1E if you had even a little bit of strategy in your mind.
@il-volpe said in Making a MU* of your own:
@Nausicaa said in Making a MU* of your own:
You can subscribe to every 'this is how to do it best' and still fail.
You can ignore almost all of them and still do okay, too, in my experience.
Yeah, it's why I seriously question the tips, tricks, and heuristics mindset, but still use it anyway since I have no better alternative.
@ThatGuyThere Actually the topic is what goes into running a MU*. But to answer your question, I quit on the spot because if you can't even choose your own name, they're likely to have other unreasonable demands about your guy.
The only possible reason I can think of to take Thanatos over Exsanguinate is that it's more boring
@Arkandel No, but I can't take seriously the opinions of people who appeal to the majority, either. When things amount to, you're being stupid, because everybody thinks you're being stupid, it, to me, says that the whole point is to just dogpile me, or whoever else is on the receiving end of that. It says they have little basis for their views, and just want to dodge that fact with their popularity.
I see it a lot in these kinds of forums, too, and I'm not always on the receiving end, either.
"You're an idiot," one person says, in so many words.
"Fuck off bitch," that person responds.
Then come the le gasps. Oh me oh my, how could you insult back? That makes you the bad guy even more than you already were.
I have very little inclination to be respectful to people whose main arguments are "like omg I can't even" and "you're an idiot," which, like it or not, is pretty much directly where surreality went.
@surreality Just out of curiosity: do you actually believe that if enough people believe something, it becomes true? Or was that just a useful rhetorical device in the moment?
@surreality It also teaches us the lesson that when the general population incorrectly believes something, they'll believe that they are correct because the general population believes it. See also: @surreality and @Kanye-Qwest
@surreality I've already objectively disproven your basis for disagreement, so I'd say I've made a really solid argument. Successfully defending your argument is, in itself, an argument.
Sorry, not sorry.
@surreality said in [Making a MU* of your own]
consensus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum
Lmao, your intelligence is subhuman.
@Kanye-Qwest >le virginity accusation maymay
So basically, you have no argument. Got it. So, anyway, back on topic. Do you have anything to contribute to the matter at hand (how to start your own MU*), or are you here to, in a massive display of irony, do exactly what you accuse me of doing?
@Kanye-Qwest If you actually cared about insulting behavior, you would have given surreality hard time first, since she insulted first. The fact that you didn't makes you a hypocrite.
Literally anybody who defends this one-sided "analysis" is a cunt. Are you a cunt? The choice is yours.