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Posts made by Thenomain
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RE: How should IC discrimination be handled?
@ganymede said in How should IC discrimination be handled?:
I'm saying that anyone trying to justify their choice to engage in IC discrimination probably took lessons from the Dan Brown School of Writing. And, no, I don't mind being judgmental about it; there's good writing and there's terrible writing.
And good writing never included IC discrimination.
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RE: How should IC discrimination be handled?
I think the question is, then, are people who play a woman agreeing to the discrimination of their gender? Or a person of color for their race? Nationality? Physical injury?
Unlike @Ganymede, I disagree that this is an all or nothing case, though I don't entirely disagree with her logic. I agree far more with @faraday because her thesis is that its harm can be mitigated, even eliminated, with respect of the people involved and recognition that this is not really happening.
Like you, I personally quite enjoy escapism into reality. But like everyone here, we don't like it when it goes too far.
Though if you look at Firan's boundless popularity even in its infamy, some people's definition of "too far" is on a galactic, not local, scale. Sheesh.
The balance is between "Anything Goes" and "Nanny State". Should be easy, right?
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RE: How should IC discrimination be handled?
Rule #1: Real Life Comes First.
This means if you have to leave in the middle of a scene because you have an emergency, or even if your SO is pulling you away offering sex, your character should not be punished for your actions.
Real Life Coming First also includes your physical and mental health. While it's not up to staff to keep you happy--and this is hard for some people to take but not one single game on the planet has the edict of making sure that you personally have fun--it's entirely reasonable to expect that they will help maintain a space where you can find your own enjoyment.
In spite of my agreeing with most of the sentiment, the game never, ever, ever trumps the player. The game does have a responsibility to maintain the game, and sometimes that means suggesting to the player that this isn't the place for them, that gives nobody the right to do so in a manner lacking in respect.
We do, however, live in an increasingly socially open society where emotional harm is defined by the person taking harm, and I personally think it's dangerous simply giving the offended the right to stop the game for their beliefs.
How much effort is "reasonable"? Which requests on whom are "reasonable" and which are not? Here's where I think we simply cannot come up with an answer. It's going to rely entirely on the game staff's interpretation, and some of us are going to take that interpretation as not reasonable.
For me, that answer is: Whatever allows the most people to enjoy the game as designed by staff.
Nobody trumps anyone else, but everyone should be aware of their effects on others as they're asking others to be aware of effects on them. Understand and respect.
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RE: Cheap or Free Games!
@jaded said in Cheap or Free Games!:
@thenomain
A Cave Story for $11 is much better than X-Com Declassified for free.You'd have to pay me to play X-Com Declassified.
Like, a free copy of A Cave Story.
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RE: How should IC discrimination be handled?
@faraday said in How should IC discrimination be handled?:
The problem on a MUSH, IMHO, isn't the departure from historical norms in and of itself, it's the scale on which it's done. Instead of one protagonist being "the special one", you've now got a whole town full of them.
This is why I wanted to hilite Victorianna. It has come up with an excuse to allow the players to be Special Snowflakes in a world that does not well appreciate them, yet needs them.
And this is, to me, the perfect D&D-based world. Adventurers are reviled as being lower-class, as being basically serial killers and thieves with just enough conscience to be let into the outskirts of town because they're necessary, they're needed, like mercenaries and libertines but not quite as stable nor as organized.
Rat Queens is a comic that speaks to my D&D heart.
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RE: Cheap or Free Games!
So apparently "A Cave Story" is only $11 right now.
2,300 reviews on Steam, Overwhelmingly Positive. It isn't as brutal as Castlevania: Symphony Etc., but it is a platformer in every sense of the word. I've only seen it via a playthrough, but even Yahtzee Croshaw loves it for a strong narrative and good gameplay.
Just sayin'.
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RE: How should IC discrimination be handled?
As a dreaded Cis White Male, I think I’m seeing people start to find a balanced medium between changes we must make in society (and are), and our ability to accept that not everyone’s is going to have the same reaction to it. You wouldn’t be the first woman (or person of color? person who has to fight micro aggressions) I’ve heard this week who’s said that they can handle it on their own terms, and gaming is mostly our own terms.
That’s not really why I’m posting, but it’s tied into it.
One of the things I love about Victorianna, the RPG, is that the introduction has a hilited sidebar that says, paraphrased, the following:
Your players are going to bring in modern social sensibilities. Let them. The characters will be outcasts to society in many aspects, and that is one of the challenges of all adventurers of this era.
They baked it into the game and theme. It helps that the world is only similar to our Earth.
But being not even as accurate as a Netflix costume drama is why I always look at any period game with suspicion.
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RE: General Video Game Thread
@rook said in General Video Game Thread:
Torment: Tides of Numeria is on 60% off today.
As a Planescale Torment fan, a million thank yous for this note. I hear it’s nowhere as good, but I still want to play it.
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RE: Dead Celebrities: 2017 Edition
I don’t know if he was one of the good guys, but I like to imagine he was.
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RE: Good Music
@insomnia said in Good Music:
@thenomain The world needs more women who do funk. Come Into My Head.
The world needs more women who do videos like that, too. Thank goodness the latest group of pop musicians has.
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RE: Good Music
Has Kimbra been mentioned?
Kimbra.
Featured as the woman on "Somebody I Used To Know", and the best part of that song. And almost everything else I've heard her do.
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RE: Characters You Enjoyed Playing
Sywin Billard.
Asexual Virtual Adept. Not in-your-face asexual, nor "Forever Alone" in-vir...in...those people who band together because they're not having sex and insult everyone. I mean, Virtual Adept, so insulting was on his list of things to do that day, but because he wanted everyone to be better and the end of the world was coming and shit needed to get done. His played-by, in the days before played-bys, was literally the image of the Virtual Adept in the original Mage book, and I thought: How would he be as a person? How many people would mistake him for a woman in the wrong light? How would he take this? And I thought: He'd be aware, and annoyed about it, but in general tell people to get over it. And in turn, people got over it.
I should note that I can't tell if the image is supposed to be a woman or a man, but I think that's the point. Data doesn't care.
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RE: How should IC discrimination be handled?
I agree with you. What's the point in wanting to play a period piece if you're not going to play a period piece?
But I have one note: Star Trek.
Utopia shouldn't mean boring, we're just not creative enough for them. Just like the people who think "Lawful Good" means "stick up their bum".
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RE: The Kitten Army (GIF Heavy)
@ganymede said in The Kitten Army (GIF Heavy):
TAKE OFF THAT DAMN HAT.
You know, I'm hesitating about it, but I want to say: This actually hurt. That kitten didn't do anything wrong, and got hit for...well, probably not smelling right.
I know it's animal nature, but goodfeels it's not.
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RE: Regarding administration on MSB
@saosmash said in Regarding administration on MSB:
@Ganymede Man I wish I felt like working out and singing karaoke at the end of the day. I bet I'd be less fat and more in tune with popular music.
Why would you want to be in tune with popular music? Why not instead be in tune with good music?
They could be the same thing, but I've been getting drawn in to many new things thanks to Welcome To Night Vale's 'the weather'.
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RE: Regarding administration on MSB
Dog-Piling can happen when two dozen people go into a thread to say nothing more onerous as, "I don't like this."
Dog-Piling can happen when a vocal minority repeats the apparent offense over and over.
But it always happens to a single person, and it involves repetition of the same criticism to the point where it can be called an attack.
And attacks are something that should not be outside the Hog Pit. And I certainly don't trust most of you lot to not participate. Most of you.
#notallsaosmash
Even under the guise of "but I had a valid point", there is such a thing as context, a time and place and a way to bring it up.
I had more of a point here but I forgot what it was. Don't Participate In Dog-Piles.
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RE: Regarding administration on MSB
@bored said in Regarding administration on MSB:
@thenomain I mean, damaging only on the scale of any of this shit being anything which anyone takes remotely seriously, which is a... very low scale, yes.
And yet, here we are.
if we're going to have 'active mods' (which I categorically object to as a major and harmful shift in the board culture) they need to post better than 'useless at best.'
So your summary of Auspice is 'useless at best'. Which means that you think her average is 'below useless', with no more evidence than "it looks bad if you don't trust them to begin with".
And this is constructive?
That was rhetorical. I'm now to the point where I don't think you're even trying. You are doing a good job of repeating the same words in different ways, but as far as bringing more to the discussion I think you're done. I know I am.
Which, in the grand scheme of things, isn't very much. Isn't it funny how we present things that are not, in the grand scheme of things, very important as critical and dire and worth going on about?
Well, I find this hobby worth going on about. That's why I'm here.
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RE: Regarding administration on MSB
@bored said in Regarding administration on MSB:
@thenomain Yes, that post. I don't know what to tell you. 'Hey I am making a big show of us not supporting this thing.'
Ohhhhhhh, then yes, I understand. Mind you, I already said that I thought it's cart before the horse, so I'm not sure what you're arguing about. I think calling it "damaging" without seeing any results to your fears is also cart before the horse.
I may not agree with what you say, but I'll defend to my banning your right to say it.