@Rook said in CyberSphere Recruitment Drive:
First sentence had the word 'MOO' in it. I'm out.
So you'd rather it be a MUCK, huh. Really. A MUCK.
Are you now, or have you ever been, a furry?
@Rook said in CyberSphere Recruitment Drive:
First sentence had the word 'MOO' in it. I'm out.
So you'd rather it be a MUCK, huh. Really. A MUCK.
Are you now, or have you ever been, a furry?
@Ghost said in Emotional separation from fictional content:
Edit: will note, I'm still a fan of my idea of a toggle command that silently forwards incoming pages to and from from a target, one-way only, to staff channel. Like a silent alert.
Now for Coder Theno!
The SUSPECT flag does something close to this, adding every single thing typed by a person to the hardcode log file, where it can be poured over. I know what you're talking about and you want something more specific, but there's something there.
@Coin said in Emotional separation from fictional content:
@Thenomain said in Emotional separation from fictional content:
We have been arguing about where "the line" is all thread. Hell, all forum. Hell, since the first WORA.
The line shifts when society shifts; the line has been shifting ever further towards something less permisive of destructive and abusive attitudes, and we need to shift with it.
Except that the average person does not see things from a societal perspective; many see things at a personal perspective. This is not me trying to be pedantic but wanting to point out that most people don't have the ability or don't have the time to seek out where society is. No, they defend their views and either bend as society changes, or stand still and try to carve out a pocket of their own social beliefs.
So telling people where the line is can infuriate and argument rather than quell one.
We have been arguing about where "the line" is all thread. Hell, all forum. Hell, since the first WORA.
I agree with you entirely, of course, but I thought the complexity of implementing something this simple needed singling out. How many people here have lost trust in staff, players, or even an entire game because the line you expected turned out to be argued or even outright told was wrong?
A lot of people stop engaging rather than causing trouble for themselves.
I had a student ask me, for the first time in my (admittedly short) career why the save icon in Word was a strange symbol.
Don't listen to the others. It means that you are now officially old.
Okay, now listen to the others and mess with their young little heads.
@WTFE said in State of Things:
Whenever I get tempted to get my undies in a bunch over this I think of what would happen if my wife wore this pendant in Canada:
Wouldn't you have to un-bind her feet, first?
I absolutely blame the repealing of the Fairness Doctrine.
White Wolf had a quasi-joke line of splats from their hard-core-death-metal arm, Black Dog; Darkmetal Mush had this as their highest level Fate as a way to say that you opted out of fade-to-black and were willing to challenge yourself with any and all events of every kind. Kind of the WORA of RP choices,
A "Heavy Metal Comics" flag on events or games would be a good place to start while we look for the language that best suits our hobby for these issues we're talking about.
I prefer this pain scale:
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/02/boyfriend-doesnt-have-ebola-probably.html
Edit: Of course XKCD has touched on this.
Feel better soon, Sweet Cuppin Cakes.
I will miss the New Email bug. SAM was my AOL.
How about the lawsuits filed after bad Yelp reviews? As much as this has almost never worked, LA Law has taught us that lawyers are cool and anything can be litigated. I fear to think what these forums would be like if we had any lawyers here.
I mean amoral lawyers.
Fine, I mean ambulance chasers and IP trolls.
@Misadventure said in State of Things:
I suspect the product would have to exist mainly as a digital image, or certain as an image to be effectively appropriated.
IoT garage door opener maker bricks customer’s product after bad review.
This scares me much more than a number of dedicated amateur social engineers harassing an innocent small business owner.
@HelloProject said in Thought Experiment: Material Design and MUing:
I don't know how many people have read the Material Design documentation (I'm almost done), but I keep thinking: How can this be applied to MUing?
I feel like there's a way, like it's on the tip of my tongue. I think that we should scratch our heads and think of ways, even if it might seem like nonsense, that we could learn from Material Design, even if in some abstract or esoteric way!
We can learn that there is benefit to a well-thought off design document. Notice how almost nothing in it explains why these things are; there is undoubtedly a deeper design document that is used between members of this design team, or the document used to explain to management why this works. Probably during classes for the curious at Google's I/O.
This document is for informing people how to design a consistent experience. You'll notice that the most core of concepts are explained and illustrated before getting to the meat of the matter, and each layer of complexity (movement, color, etc.) does the same thing.
Though all I can think of now is how Google hired a graphic designer who quit out of frustration at the Google engineers arguing over which color of blue to use for a project.
@Rook said in State of Things:
It just goes to show how easily swayed and driven today's people can be, out of ignorance.
... Today?
"Did you hear that Duchess Genevive was seen sleeping with the stable boy?"
Boom. Fall of a household.
I don't feel bad for tulips, because the tulip industry has a lot of very smart and well-funded marketers.
@surreality said in Emotional separation from fictional content:
A clearer example, perhaps, on the broader point, would be something like this: instead of a restaurant, picture you're that person with the food allergy again.
No, no, stop, see, just stop. Everyone has their example. Several people are countering with one example with another. There's a point—often starting with 'for example'—where those examples confuse the issue. And when someone else chimes in with their example, you end up with people telling others that they are missing what you're saying, and they say that you're missing what you're saying. More examples doesn't help. Addressing the confusion helps. "Talking past each other" is a thing that is happening and you are violently agreeing with things that at least half a dozen people have said.
@surreality said in Emotional separation from fictional content:
@Thenomain I don't think it's insulting until someone tells me 'if you even think this is a good idea, get the fuck out of my hobby because you're making us all suffer with your exorbitantly demanding entitlement just because you clearly are unable to do things the way I think they should be done at all times the moment you have a glimmer of a sad; you are explicitly not welcome here, GTFO'.
If someone is saying that, they can take both hands and stretch their anus until they can fit their head up into it.
And yet, if you think someone saying that means that they get to say what you can and can't do, then I honestly think that it's time to take a break. At least, this is what I've said to people who have thought this.
I honestly don't know if you are; this has become a He-Said/She-Said situation.
@skew said in Almost Real-Time Weather System:
I can't recall, but how much data was available to you from the API? Like, I know we have "next day", but do we have a multiple day forecast?
3-Day Forecast:
https://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/d/docs?d=data/forecast
10-Day Forecast:
https://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/d/docs?d=data/forecast10day
@surreality said in Emotional separation from fictional content:
I think that if there are reasonable, simple steps we can take to minimize the risks that exist, they are worth exploring.
I'll say this again: What is reasonable to one can be insulting to another.
Saying "this is what I think is reasonable and why" is absolutely part of what we're here in this thread to do. If someone else doesn't think your idea is reasonable they are not necessarily being insulting. If you think someone else's idea is not reasonable and you're not insulting about it then you shouldn't be talked down to.
Clearly "you" in this has become everyone, in every universe, ever, of all time.
It's one of the harder things I've had to learn; how to take someone disagreeing with me because like many people here, I can mistake passion for...a thing that is also passion. Passion is passion.
A lot of my online friends are people who can roll their eyes at even their own passion. Sometimes with a "your mom" reference. I'm looking at you, @COIN.
@faraday said in Most 'Plug & Play' Friendly Server?:
regedit is used in exactly one thing, which is the wiki-dump archive of the BBS and news systems. I wouldn't really call that cause for dubbing it impossible
But possible or not I have zero interest in porting it to a different codebase, nor would I encourage anyone to try. It's a PITA.
I was, what, two-thirds the way through before I hit this? Unless your code technique got horrible in the past five years, I can't imagine it being hard, just tedious.