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Yup pretty much exclusively.
Can't watch it online. I live in a rural area and I have a 20 gig a month data limit on my nets. TV eats that up real quick. I can catch the occasional ep i miss online but watching an entire series would end up costing me more then most shows are worth.

@roz said in Regarding administration on MSB:

There's a difference between "there's a community but I'm not interested in engaging in it" and "there's not a community." Your posts have sounded a lot like the latter. If that's not what you meant, then it's just a miscommunication.

What i was saying is that the community doesn't exist to me, whether it exists to others only matters to me in so far as how it effects me.

The Ron Swanson quote above pretty much sums up my thoughts about most things.
Though my personal version is more along the lines of, "Harm no one else, do what you want, don't expect me to care."
I don't mean this in a negative way but in a neutral one.

@auspice said in Hello MSBites! Grade your administrators.:

So this was suggested once before and the utter lashback ("How dare we not be able to say negative things about a game!") was enormous.

I was part of this I am a firm believer that if positive things are allowed to be said negative things should be as well. I have mush less of an issue with ad threads being locked to just the add or just q+a things but if positive opinions are allowed then negative ones should be as well.
Of the examples Skew used: "Sorry, how do I connect?" "Please link website" "I just started playing here, if anyone else wants to join

I find the first two fine foe a g+a perspective the last likely better suited for a constructive or shot in the dark or whatever looking for folks section is called.

Talk with him, but know it likely will not do any good. And be prepared to be the supportive friend when the fall out happens.
I had a friend in the same situation back when I was younger, it was a mess and the marriage lasted roughly a year. Said friend was really in a bad place afterward. The upside is that said friend is now in his thirties and married with a happy family, sometimes people need to make and learn from their mistakes. Though i fully understand letting them is one of the hardest parts of being a friend.

@arkandel said in Regarding administration on MSB:

I hate to break this to you man, but whether you like it or not... you're part of what we call a 'community'. Welcome!

Not that I am going anywhere unless told to but I have never read anything before this that made me consider not posting here.
You randos keep your community to yourselves.

@auspice said in Hello MSBites! Grade your administrators.:

Except I think we can all agree that the negative regularly becomes overwhelmingly vitriolic and often dogpiles.

Then that would be an argument for locking the threads to only the ads and legit q+a, nothing will ever convince me that allowing positive without negative as well is anything else but an attempt to allow others to blow smoke up my ass which is the exact reason I have have the entire ad section on ignore for months.

This was linked to me on a game and I had to share, Redneck Avengers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOQnk-hRVuc

I think the biggest issue to me comes down to is it fun for everyone involved. After all that is the goal of the game. So as a player i am not really comfortable RPing a character who is sexist or racist because I know there are other players who have to deal with those issues every day.
It feels different to me if I am playing a character that hates Mutants in a Marvel setting, or dislikes Joe because he is a Gangrel, there might not be much IC difference but on an OOC level I know none of the players are mutants or Gangrel.

@faraday said in Hello MSBites! Grade your administrators.:

ETA, and not directed at bored particularly... I'm just kind of irritated that every time this discussion comes up, "mudslinging should be kept in the hog pit, if there even is one" is being misconstrued as "happy rainbow unicorn land where nobody says anything negative ever". Literally nobody is suggesting the latter.

Maybe because on literally every other board I have been on regardless of topic from TV shows to sports to games when there is a rule about how negative thoughts are expressed, that rule gets used to attack any negative thought put up regardless of how it is expressed. So until I see that work I will not believe it is possible. To paraphrase Harry Truman, I might not be from Missouri but if you want me to believe that you will have to show me.

@WTFE
All that yummy Ritter and none of it Marzipan I was very tempted to downvote for that.

@arkandel said in Staff and ethics:

@surreality So for example what's the correct generic approach to a scenario like this:

• There is an allegation that Bob is harassing Jane. Staff investigates.

1. Bob is found GUILTY and bans him. Does Staff announce that he's banned? Do they explain why? To what degree? To whom - is it only to those involved or to the public?

I would say staff should definitely announce the ban, for no other reason than to let people know Bob will not be around. Assuming Bob was not an asshole the entirety of his time there are likely other PCs unconnected to the complaint who might be in plots with Bob, politically aligned with Bob etc and the announcement lets them know to move on with RP.
Personally I would also like to hear a reason but that is secondary and optional but I think knowing the person is for true gone so weeks don't pass waiting for him to run the next scene of a plot is essential.

@faraday
I would argue that public apologies are not really constructive either, not commenting on this one since I don't know the principles but the vast majority of them are propaganda not motivated by actual contrition.

Honestly creepy might be a slight overstatement. When I had a nametag job I did not like it but I felt it was more overly familiar then creepy.
I think the disconnect likely comes from the different positions, as a customer you interact with maybe a dozen or so cashiers etc, during a day of shopping. As the employee I would interact with around a hundred customers during the shift.

Ok I have not read the stranger than fiction thread yet, though I will soon but how is a Mod tell people not to plot against a game even a debatable thing?
Even me who favors a total shit flinging environment to moderation thinks that is the sort of thing that should be stopped. I am all for this place being a spot to discuss games however the discussion goes but using it as a base to actually attack a game rather than just talk bad about it is definitely beyond the pale and should not be done.

I too am an American but some things just look better spelt the British way, for example armour and theatre look off to me using US spellings. However I will spell center and color like an American until the day I die.
Edit: I grew up close enough to Canada to receive Canadian broadcast television so that might explain my mixed spelling tendencies.

@Jaded
Since both versions of Ocean's 11 are basically all about the cast. I think an all female one could work but casting would have to be spot on, but that is true of the male cast ones as well.
In my case I loved the original Rat Pack version, did not care much for the modern one.

@gilette
the first example I used with the club was the exact same thing that you said doesn't happen. yzou said. "no one has ever walked into a punk club and, over time, attracted more of their friends and turned the punk club into a hiphop club" That is almost exactly what happened in my example except substitute dance music for hip hop.
Another true real world example from where i live now. There was a gay bar my friend used to DJ at. It was the most popular one in town. A lot of straight women would go because it was a nice place to drink and dance and not worry about being hit on. Influx of woman lead to an influx of straight men seeking straight woman, which lead ot most of the original community leaving and starting opening a new place where my friend ending working as a DJ instead. The original gay club is still the main meat market in town.
I am not saying these things are good by any means but they are not unique to on-line. Something gets formed for reason. Succeeds at forming a solid core of people that gets it noticed to a wider audience, the parts of the wider audience that like thing but aren't devoted to it move in causing popularity surge. Popularity surge causes more numbers gains because some folks will swarm to the popular. Original Core loses power or is squeezed out entirely.
This is not unique to the internet this is pretty much humanity.

Setting wise I definitely prefer the earlier editions of Shadowrun. But then It is for feel reasons.
I have played ever Edition of Shadow Run except 2, and 3 was my least favorite mechanically, that is the main reason I have never given Denver a real look over the years to be honest.

@Kanye-Qwest said in Comics Stuff:

@ThatGuyThere said in Comics Stuff:

@Kanye-Qwest
I agree some of the reactions I have seen are a bit much. Let the story finish before tearing it apart, and the mind control plot is not new to comics or Cap himself.

And slight correction on Caps creation he was not created to show the defeat of what amounts to Nazis but literal Nazis it was 1941 after all.

No, he was created to defeat "Hydra", which, while clearly a Nazi standin, is not a sovereign government led by Adolf Hitler.
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Read the reprints of the orginial stuff he was created in 1941 by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon to fight Nazis Adolf Hitler himself appears in numerous Golden Age cap stories. As does Benito Mussolini.
http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/captain-america
Follow that like it has most of the covers in the history of Captain America right there on the first one from March of 1941 are Nazis including Adolf himself.
Hydra is created in the 1960s mainly to torment Nick Fury in the pages of Strange Tales then branches off to Cap and the rest of the Marvel universe.

@faraday said in How should IC discrimination be handled?:

But it is equally absurd to dismiss the potentially-hurtful implications of the "Space British" heaping crap onto the "Space Irish" under a paper-thin veil of changing the names (to "Hibernians", because that makes it so much better). Is it as bad as seeing racial slurs hurled at fictional people like yourself? No. But that doesn't make it fun for everyone either.

Just an FYI Hibernians isn't even changing the name it is simple using an older and less well known to US peoples name, after all the name Hibernian for Celtic/Irish things is still in fairly common use for things like fraternal organizations, Rugby clubs and soccer clubs. Such as this one located in Edinburgh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibernian_F.C.