Posts made by Thenomain

@faraday said in Make it fun for Me!:

good sportsmanship

This.

All of this.

More of this.

I don't care what the goal of your game is, without a sense of respect between players, players and staff, and staff and staff, it's going to be toxic.

I press this as a respect for the game, because that's a shared goal that gets outside the equally toxic idea about who is responsible for fun, like "fun" is this thing that we can define.

We cannot universally define fun. Trying is implausible. It's a fool's errand. We might as well define world peace.

We can, however, define each game. Most of this work is done by staff. What you get to decide, really the only thing you get to decide, is how you're going to interact with that game, if at all.

This is not a small task. Deciding how to treat others is a massive responsibility, and you will be judged by it. "Good Sportsmanship" is pretty damn close to a catch-all as I think we're going to see and I think includes and goes further than our favorite "Don't Be a Dick", so is more useful.

Or in summary: A+ Faraday. Would Quote Again.

@tinuviel

I gave indications to exactly what I meant. If you want to ignore context then yes, anything can be argued.

And apparently will be.

I'll be honest: People who conflate different mediums as the same source are one of the things that has turned me off comic books for most of my life. Not just this, but it's the topic of the day.

This bugs the shit out of me because of anyone, you'd think that comic fans would understand that different versions of the same character are distinct entities.

@miss-demeanor said in Good TV:

@roz Unfortunately, its now canon for the MCU and we must deal with it as a 'thing'.

Which MCU?

sets down the nerd trap, baits it, and walks innocently away

@arkandel

I...don't think I said it did?

I think that Star Trek answered this question in Voyager, in one of the very few interesting things it did. Of course it did it with the Q.

@tinuviel said in Life... in outer space!:

@ganymede True, but generally we (general we, not us we) consider 'Egypt' to be one behemoth that lasted from X to Y.

This would be wrong, and is my second example of a civilization that could not hold together more than a few hundred years at a time. The difference between Egypt and China one of modern governance.

I tried to give cues to what I meant by indicating that contacting another planet would require resources and organization and permission from whatever structure of culture is going on. The ability is not enough, though it is the most important part.

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This is why I can't get into most fantasy authors, by the way. I'm my own killjoy.

@griatch

I think she should give it names instead. Might I suggest each major release is a different sci-fi show, and each point release something from that show.

And then not use numerical releases at all, except for a lingering build code.

... Tho I want to see the resulting bug reports.

I have a stupid sci-fi theory that lives in my head, that I kind of like:

You know the gray aliens? Those are us from the future. That's how long it will take us to work it out, knowing by that time we'll be commonly screwing with our own biology. We might as well be aliens to ourselves, tho I wouldn't say as we are to ants as I would ourselves to early Neanderthal, or similar hominid.

The idea that any civilization can survive for thousands of years drives my scientific self insane, because we can't even keep a moderately small civilization going for a few hundred years without it fracturing.

It also reminds me that the sentiment is moot if we don't try to get off this planet.

Then I just get depressed.

I subscribe to a mix of things, coming down to this:

Even if there was another race within range and timespan, why bother? I mean if you knew that there was another alien race out there, would your planet be to a point where anyone on that planet could get funding and organization to do anything about it? And if so, consider the amount of resources just to be able to manage more than a many-years-long game of phone tag. If they could come here, besides curiosity we have very few things that they could want: Our sun being on that list. Our sun is still here and stable, so I'm inclined to say we haven't been visited yet.

Basically, that intergalactic species are so rare across history that I'm not surprised that we haven't seen any.

@arkandel said in Life... in outer space!:

Let's have an aliens! do they exist! thread.

To misquote Pogo (and Walt Kelly): We have met the alien, and they is us!

@arkandel

Oh I don’t, sir. I do not indeed!

@arkandel said in What's your identity worth to you?:

Part of this has to do with MSB in particular, since lately we've taken tentative steps to alter the new account registration process in order to address certain issues we've had in the recent past, but I want to see how you guys treat these issues and how important they are to you.

There is nothing you can ask for from us that we can't easily fake, unless you're asking for a mailing address or phone number in which case you're going to lose a lot of people.

@misadventure

<janet>Not a robot.</janet>

@arkandel said in Pineapple on Pizza:

@thenomain I hate ham I don't know why.

Could be that it's too often over-cooked and ends up leathery and dry, could be the taste of the fat, or otherwise the mouth-feel.

I can think of only two foods I refuse to eat: Brussel sprouts (because it smells like compost to me), and squid and the like (because my brain thinks it's eating snot and I haven't had it as a good carrier for flavor yet).

The only people I feel sorry for, and I genuinely do feel sorry for them, are those who will only eat one classification of food. The most popular in my region is 'Americana', burgers and meat and very little else, for example. It's like refusing to listen to anything but music from your High School years; what a sad and boring life that is.

I like pineapple on pizza, if it's with ham.

According to The Good Place, it does have a negative goodness value, tho.

Just sayin'.

I am willing to accept that Facebook and Google know things about me that I don't know in exchange for the services rendered, but I'm also going to do what I can and is reasonable to make this harder for them (AdBlock Plus, Ghostify, etc.)

I am paranoid that my hobby is going to make it harder for me to find a job in my field, but honestly don't know anything more that I can do about it than keep my real world name and my online name separate as much as I can at this point.

@testament

Just so you know the No Sleep writer (or one of them?) has been involved in Liberty: Tales from the Tower, a fictional horror/Twilight Zone radio show from the fictional city of Liberty.

There is just so much damned good stuff out there right now.

Did you know that someone wrote a new radio show for the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that takes place after "Mostly Harmless" and that they got the original radio cast to voice for it?

Well now you do and you can listen to it here.

I must absolutely try to remember that steroids equals antsy and moody, not a great combination if you've forgotten this because you haven't had to take steroids for anything for almost a decade.

Deep breaths and various calming techniques are critical for anyone, and I forgot that too.

Thank goodness I remembered the former so that I can remember the latter.

@sparks said in Atlantis Client: How to autolog:

@misadventure I'm more of a tea person. Coffee is a last resort fuel.

Teeeeaaaaaaaaaaa.