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@lavit2099 said:

@Alzie I figured by that response he/she wasn't interested in sharing it.

A lot of Mu* coders are okay if someone asks. It's the not-asking that sometimes we get salty about.

Things I'm glad for:

Programming is easier than law.

@arkandel said in Regarding administration on MSB:

@thenomain Only the kind dogs bark at.

I'd howl for that.

This is what I get for not knowing to reload while something's being fixed. Other things are fixed as well, working with @Glitch. I thus decree that this system doth Kick Mightily Ass.

@rook said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

Fuck cancer.

Fuck. Cancer.

@arkandel

Sometimes people have to be reminded how you expect them how to behave. That's why businesses have an employee manual. That's why we sometimes ask posters to please cut it out. These actions help remind everyone that yes, sometimes we get emotional and that yes, sometimes we forget the context of where we are.

Reminders are the first and most reasonable step towards the problem escalation process, and if done in a respectful manner then leaves the de-escallation process in the hands of the person who you believe started it. It shows them that you don't immediately think that they are a troll, or are causing problems on purpose, and so you respect their ability to manage themselves. (edit: And people managing themselves is what you want. I want it too.)

Adulting. Sometimes it's hard, but it builds respect and trust.

I have no idea what this report has been about. I rather assumed at first it was a sarcastic response to a spam post that got deleted. I even went there and it looked like a parked address at first glance.

<Jurassic Park> This is Unix! I know this! </Jurassic Park>

@Lotherio said it better than I could, but apparently picking on fiction not yet having reverse-explained nonsense fantasy elements is the thing to do right now.

We all have different levels of suspension of disbelief. Sometimes it's hard for nerds to let people have their own.

@wolfs

Wait, does that officially make this a Hog Pit post?

I'm not yet sure what @Arkandel, @Ganymede, and @Auspice consider the line from 'constructive' to 'baiting'.

Umbra these days should exclusively be handled by reality levels. Just sayin'.

@auspice said in Random links:

but it's still something Apple should have been up front about.

This is the most common sentiment I'm getting from what I'm reading, yes.

But it sure as hell isn't "Apple Hates You, Wants Your Money". That's Business Insider devolving into clickbait media, which is what they've been doing for about four years now. I know reputable news outlets have been grabbing to hold onto the decline in paid news, but they have pretty much sold their souls. If I trip across the various articles I've seen about this starting around 2013, I'll link them here. It's pretty interesting to know how shitty they treat their bloggers.

The fact that they came out to explain themselves at all is a post-Steve Jobs/mid-Tim Cook era Apple phenomenon. Remember "antennagate", one of the biggest mountain-out-of-a-molehill "problems" with the iPhone 4? Steve Jobs' answer was: You're holding it wrong. Then he said: Fine, have a free bumper. And they ignored people complaining over this legitimate, free solution until they went away.

@auspice said in Random links:

you can get a replacement battery for "only" $79 rather than an entirely new phone.

Nice "scare quotes". Apple is the epitome of capitalism: If you want our services, you pay our fee, if you don't want our services then go somewhere else. The problem that they are solving is not theirs; rechargable batteries fail over time. This is chemistry and physics. You might as well complain to Ford that your car needs constant maintenance or complain to Sony that that your 20 year-old non-HD-ready TV needs a special adapter to get over-the-air programming.

And if that's not good enough, then there are a lot of non-Apple places that make and install the batteries for $30-$50. Caveat Emptor. If you don't want to pay Apple's prices, don't buy Apple's devices. If you don't think they bend over backwards and spend billions each year trying to make sure that their customers are content, then you haven't looked very far. Like, at all.

@carnivale said in An Apology to BSO and BSU.:

While I do understand that there have been people who have been hurt on an emotional level at some point in time by @DownWithOPP, we have ventured into a territory of baiting and blasting - neither of which seem to be overly conducive or even mildly-constructive in any way.

Yes, but whose fault is that? OPP's, who in spite of how people see him has been more or less civil in his own thread? Or the actions of others who are taking this opportunity to not simply call him out for being dishonest, but bash and mock him?

I'm not defending anyone here (I don't know enough to have an opinion), but questioning the idea that others can behave poorly and punish everyone in a thread regardless of the civility of others. I fear the chilling effect this would have, or the power this would give to those who want to drag any thread that they personally want into the Hog Pit.

We'll see if I can't get this altered to TinyMUX. Thanks for the links.

@auspice

Yeah, the arm of Apple that sets up and runs their stores have gone from super-friendly and as flexible as possible to pretty much dickmunch-levels of unhelpfulness. Apparently the reasoning was that they were losing money on them, and hired a new overseer about 4 years ago to turn that around.

The Apple Stores around here try to make space for people between appointments whenever possible, though, so just how draconian they're being is entirely up to the training your hipster or barely-college Apple associate is. (Note: That was a stereotype. I know that was a stereotype. Many jokes require incorrect statements. Sheesh.)

@tek

And saying, "You've got to be shitting me!" should not push a post into the Hog Pit. Nor should it prevent it. Passion is not trolling. Passion is not disgusting. Passion is passion, and everyone should have the right to offer their side of a story and to say, "No, I don't accept this."

@Carnivale talks about repetition, what I call "dog-piling", and that could indicate that the thread or at least parts of it are in candidacy for the Hog Pit. Disassembling a thread to do so, though, diminishes it and can pull context out of both halves. (Except tangents. Tangents are fun and easy.)

It's easier to just have someone or someones take a moment and say, "This is enough." And if someone else says, "Yeah, I was and still am pretty burned about this" then the living discussion is brought to a more realistic angle.

This is my completely non-administrative thought on it, though. There's a lot of quite creepy information floating around here, but is that not constructive? Only Ark & Aus can tell us for certain.

It looks like it would fail on TinyMUX because of things like this:

[cemit( ~~, {#248/CMD`ATTACK: #$ returned in @switch check when executed by %n( %# ).}, 1 )]

I'm guessing this is from Penn's peculiar channel system.

TinyMUX doesn't have a 'nospoof' @pemit, so @nspemit --> @pemit will have to do.

attrib_set( xx/yy, zz ) --> set( xx, yy:zz )

I don't see anywhere that the user-defined-functions are defined or created.

So far everything else looks fine. table() and haspower( guest ) both come from TinyMUX.

@emmahsue

Why yes, yes it is.

A game I was super invested in?

I have never left a game I was that invested in.

I have become less invested because of basically the three reasons mentioned by @Ganymede, but I will find a way to stay on a game if I enjoy my character enough.

I’ve even played a game through three months of being actively campaigned against by several players, behind my back. And I’m glad I did, because I am still telling stories about the experience, and made some very lasting friends from it.

My favorite is the /noeval switch. E.g.: say/noeval, pose/noeval and of course for helping people from afar, page/noeval

(Not at all edited because @Cobaltasaurus was right and I was wrong or anything.)

@admiral said in Random links:

@auspice ...wasn't U2 one of the first rock bands to lack any masculinity whatsoever?

So we should ignore The Partridge Family, then?