Posts made by Thenomain

@AmishRakeFight said:

One more innocuous reason is that player behavior does tend to change in front of staff members, in and out of character.

But why?

If this can be addressed, maybe the rest will seem more like a bandaid?

I feel that if we held people more accountable for their behaviors, we wouldn't be bothered by any amount of spying. The trusting/trustworthy thing again. I am an optimist, which explains my depression.

@Coin said:

They should have named him Wedge, though.

He would've been cut from the movie almost entirely.

Now that I've seen it, I have to say: Solid, decent, not great, I understand the complaints about being derivative except that I think this is the point. There are non-derivative parts of the movie that serve to me as lynchpins. Where Rey is herself is the point, she is getting sucked in via the plot ... er, I mean Force, which is being pretty heavy-handed. ("No, you don't get to keep beating on Ben. You're done. Have a sudden physical separation.")

The last five minutes, though, is entirely new. Luke goes to Yoda because he's told to. Rey goes to Luke because she has an obligation to the Universe, to the Force?, to find him and bring him back.

For that scene alone, I'm on board 100%.

@Ganymede said:

@Thenomain said:

I think this kind of code is worth exploring, and since it's public I don't think it counts as "spying".

I concur that this is not spying, but for what reason was such code popular? I cannot wrap my head around why anyone would use it.

The people who played on and enjoyed Aether were very much writer types. To me, they're the kinds of people who take every log ever and post them to a wiki, or binge-read wiki logs for the experience. Many of them were students or desk-jockeys who can't always take time out to engage, so this allowed them to keep in touch without having to put their character out there.

These are largely educated guesses, but whatever the reason it worked.

Wait.

Cobalt's involved.

And the words "dark" and "water" are not in the title.

I am disappoint.

People on AetherMUX really liked the public-room-watch code, to see what was going on in a room without having to go there and spam the hell out of it. It was clear when people were watching, could only be created by wizards, and was always in a place of great RP importance.

I think this kind of code is worth exploring, and since it's public I don't think it counts as "spying".

Harassment is a problem.

Harassment to someone's boss, family, or not game related friends can just fuck off my game. Probably with warning first but maybe not, depending how malicious the harassment. Reaching out to make a person's wider life difficult is a dick move and using a game as the vehicle for it is betraying my trust as a provider of a game.

As I think I've largely staffed on games with an explicit No Harassment rule, I think I'm on pretty solid ground. As this philosophy has come from watching people threaten suicide over game relations and try to ruin marriages through the context of the game I feel on pretty solid footing.

Mind you, if a marriage can be ruined by something someone is or isn't doing on a game, that's not my responsibility as a game owner, but man would I want that situation off my front lawn as quickly as possible.

@Arkandel

We seem to have different ideas about "benevolent" with regard to serving their own ego.

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edit:@Coin, I was thinking about our beloved but flakey creator of The Reach. Naturally I can't remember his name just now.

@Coin

I'll take a batshit game dictator as long as they are benevolent.

I don't know Unknown Armies, but in general free form skills are easy to code. They are more difficult to administrate.

@bored said:

So you're claiming there were no bad staffers with Wizard bits on, say, TR?

I'll approach this question seriously when you ask it with less melodrama.

@bored

Not with access to the dark flag, to the server, to even an alt list. And if I do? Then I take responsibility for the changes I want to see rather than sitting on my ass discouraging others from making or demanding that change. That change won't happen overnight or even ever, but it will open discussion which will make changes happen.

You kids these days, so defeatist.

@bored said:

it's still head-in-the-sand level naivete to imagine your privacy is going to be protected on a MU

It will be if I have anything to do with it. Negotiating control of your own experience in the world is acceptable. That George Herbert Walker Bush and others have convinced you otherwise doesn't make it true anywhere except inside your own head.

Or in other words, stop being stupid.

I now hear Chloe everywhere in Fallout 4, especially in Vault 81. The ending of Life is Strange was such a horribly missed opportunity, though I understand what was being attempted.

@Cobaltasaurus said:

@Thenomain, they were in Oregon-- not Washington.

There's a difference?

(Again, just kidding, everyone.)

@Coin said:

@Thenomain said:

@Coin said:

@Runescryer said:

So, one of the many ideas that is 'in development' due to my ADD is a game that would be a continuation of the 'Young Justice' animated series. I'very got the storyline for a full year 'Season 3' frameworked out. Any interest?

Uh. Yes. Lots of interest. Me and my fifty other personalities are interested. That's like 52 people right there, counting @Roz!

The New 52.

That was the joke.

Shut up. I don't do your Superhero Comic Book humor.

@Three-Eyed-Crow

For reals.

(They reign it in with Episode 3. I think someone sat them down and said, "Look, girls don't talk like this. Even in Washington state.")

edit: Another glaring forum bug we've found is that mentioning someone by @reference in a locked forum section still notifies them to the post, including a link which they can't get to because it's locked to them.

Whups!

@Coin said:

@Runescryer said:

So, one of the many ideas that is 'in development' due to my ADD is a game that would be a continuation of the 'Young Justice' animated series. I'very got the storyline for a full year 'Season 3' frameworked out. Any interest?

Uh. Yes. Lots of interest. Me and my fifty other personalities are interested. That's like 52 people right there, counting @Roz!

The New 52.

@bored said:

Everything you do online is logged to some degree, possibly temporarily

That data is "written" to RAM is how Blizzard won a lawsuit against a group who was manipulating part of the WoW data stream, I think to make automated gold farming acceptable under the WoW terms of service.

Re-defining terms like this is amateur hour.

I missed this one, too:

@Cirno said:

[...] it doesn't matter to me if people spy on me, especially since I do nothing that would invite suspicion.

This isn't the point of requesting privacy on a Mu*. It's to request that you not be put into a position where you are compromised, to assure that you have a reasonable expectation that people won't come barging into your life just to fuck with you...

@Admiral said:

I hate it when I'm TSing and I get 'bow chicka wow wow!' paged to me by a staffer.

This is the point of the expectation of privacy on a Mu*.

As long as the women are talented. That would be strange, in a porn film.