Best posts made by TheBigD

Loved his character on DarkSpires. Humour is the best and only weapon against this darkness and Branwen wielded it sharply.

Fuck cancer, man. Fuck cancer.

The discord link you have up the thread a bit has expired. Is it possible to get a new one?

@silverfox Why does Trump, suddenly appear... whenever poop is near~

I'd like to see a Starfinder MU*.

@grayson And at least one of those people queuing up is intending to shank you.

@Ghost I hope it's good. Mel Brook's humor is such that I think a lot of his old stuff couldn't be made today.

@runescryer said in Player Omsbudsman?:

So. An idea that I've been tossing around the recesses of my mind for a while now is the concept of an ombudsman position on a game. Basically Staff/Royalty whose sole function is to be an advocate for the players of the game. Someone who is not regular Staff that players can bring concerns to without fear of having said concerns either handwaved away or met with claims of the player being uncooperative, hostile, misrepresenting the facts, or any of the multiple ways Staff can sabotage their own games. This isn't a concept for complete lost cause games, but more for those games that honestly try to do things right, but might have bad instincts when it comes to Staffing and some control freaks are given power they really shouldn't have.

Thoughts?

Most, if not all, of your staffers should have the player's interests at heart, and player interests should generally align with the staffers. If not, then it won't matter if you have a staffer with the soul purpose of advocating for the players. If the staffers won't take the player's considerations seriously, then why would they take that particular staffer seriously? And if players don't believe that they are being treated properly, they won't put their trust in that staffer.

My first mu* was a mud named Redemption. I messed around a bit and didn't make much headway, until I convinced a friend to join me, and we made the dragon siblings Ying and Yang (me). Many good times taking the fight to the bad guys, and as many good times playing the bad guys.

With the passing of Dark Spires, and the imminent closure of Mechanipus, seems like all I have left are memories.

As someone who still idles on the grid instead of the OOC room, I find that people tend to come to me when I do that. I do also ask in OOC and occasionally PUB, but most of the time, people show up in the IC room I'm in and inquire if there is RP to be had.

@wildbaboons Dark Spires was awesome. Miss it so much.

@egg said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

Play a POC, it wouldn't kill you.

Yeah, no. This is a situation where no one wins. There are folks who will find this idea to be as insulting as wearing blackface. And others who would call it cultural appropriation.

Me, as a white guy? I'm choosing the safer option every time.

@HelloProject said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

Either way, anyone saying that playing a POC in an RP is cultural appropriation is completely objectively wrong. Though as the example above proved, someone can be a whole ass and it can definitely turn into something racist lol. To me this is just common sense though. That "everything is offensive and understanding how not to be insulting is hard" stuff people always say is nonsense. I know far more white people who understand basic respect and not being a whole ass than ones who don't, so I really don't think it's that complicated.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying play a POC if you aren't comfortable with it, but not doing it because you think people will find it inherently insulting and offensive and all this other stuff is really only a valid reason if you literally have no idea how not to insult another human being. If the reason is "I don't feel comfortable because I'm concerned about being disrespectful", that's one thing, but the way you worded it has a very inflammatory "the SJWs will absolutely fucking destroy me" vibe. I can't imagine someone complaining to you that "RPing as a black person is basically blackface" outside of like a random 13 year old on Twitter whose entire understanding of social issues is memes.

The vast majority of people are fairly reasonable. I am not concerned about their reaction. I'm worried about the people who will conflate a white person playing a black one as racist and cultural appropriation. I think I could play a black character and pull it off reasonably well. But there are people who have nothing better to do than find the next person who is 'wrong' on the internet, and 'take them down'.

If you can't imagine someone doing it, you don't have much of an imagination. As I said originally, I'd rather take the safer option.

@JinShei said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

As a nurse, feel free. But it should have bodily fluids on it, be trousers, and have a pen stain mark on the pockets.

Hah, fair enough. But I suspect they meant the "sexy" nurse outfit. If I were going as a nurse for Halloween, it would be scrubs and enough blood and gore to make someone wonder if I was the survivor or the zombie. xD

@HorrorHound said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

Man, look at you guys having civil conversations. What happened to this place? Did they legalize weed around the world or something?

It was legalized in Canada. Welcome aboard, eh?

@reason Well, I'm no coder, but I've been breaking things in games since 2000, if you want alpha/beta players?

@silverfox I, too, use MukLuk on my phone, and DuckClient on my Chromebook. Both are fairly basic, as you say.

For my laptop and desktop, I use BeipMU. All the bells and whistles you can shake a stick at, and really nice to use when it's fully decked out.

@buttercup In my mind, at least at the time, I don't think there's anything to apologize for. To me, anyways. I admit I giggled at the dog's name. I thought it was a joke. One in extremely poor taste, but still a joke.

I do admit to still being baffled by Shangrila. A lot of weird, not nice shit went down there. I only logged due to a friend's insistence, and when they got bored and left, I never logged there again.