Posts made by Three-Eyed Crow

@Pacha said in Sexuality: IC and OOC:

On both of those games (much more so on SoI) there was a policy of strongly discouraging nonheterosexual characters, on the basis that they did not 'fit' within the settings. This basically took the form of a staff member pulling you aside before approving you and making it clear that if you were discovered to be gay IC, it was basically open season for you to be subjected to any level of discrimination (up to and including your character being outright murdered) and that no complaints about it would be entertained.

As you might imagine, this had a chilling effect on anyone rolling up anyone that was nonheterosexual and of the few attempts that I did see (including the only gender non-conforming character I ever saw rolled up there) most ended up getting brutally tortured and murdered almost as soon as they were discovered. I will say that I generally played on 'team evil' there, so I am not sure if this was less pronounced in the more heroic areas of the game, but it was made clear that it was discouraged and opened you up to any level of IC discrimination wherever you played.

Holy fuck this shit. These are umm not people I'd want to spend my free time with, is all I can say. I'm glad MUSHing's been a comparatively better experience, insofar as most experiences sound better. comparatively.

I'm a straight girl creature IRL, as a preamble.

I play male and female characters I feel like pretty evenly. I first started playing men largely for setting reasons and due to my feeling that it's good if characters support the 'norm' IC sometimes (because everyone wants to be rebel-rebel it gets tired for me). I like historical games and fantasy settings which are (frustratingly) often using European feudal gender norm tropes, so there were certain types of characters like knights and trench soldiers were just going to be men if I wasn't doing something designed to push against the setting in a certain way. I didn't always want to play that, so, boys. After awhile I started doing it just because I enjoyed it, felt like it gave me more colors to draw from as a player, and because certain concepts seem more interesting to me if they're male or female. I think I do it OK. I've had players I know are guys IRL tell me they didn't know I was a woman IRL when they initially met me on a dude bit because I wasn't fucking it up too bad heh.

I've never played a gay guy for any length of time, though it's not really intentional. I've conceived a couple characters as gay dudes but didn't care for the games I apped them on for various reasons, so they were two of the many alts I've abandoned on the woodpile. I mostly end up playing straight men (an a bisexual dude who is buttoned-up and gets no tail at all for various reasons) and more variable straight/bi/lesbian women. I'm super self-conscious about whether or not I suck at relationship RP in general but idk I enjoy it.

I get not feeling like a woman who knows woman things IRL though that's become less of a thing as I get older. Like Roxane Gay I'm a bad feminist and bad at a lot of girl things and that's fine.

@Wretched said in Random links:

@silverfox I never realised she was 22 when this happened, TWENTY TWO.

I 'realized' it but was a teenager in the '90s with a lot of internalized bullshit and didn't really have the context to even consider what that must've been like. I do now and it's awful. Her perspective is really smart and helpful in re-contextualizing that and that was a great interview. I also found its ambivalent take on the issue of societal shaming interesting, as that's an attitude I kinda share.

@Ghost said in Good TV:

Brooklyn Nine-Nine is the best cop show since the Wire. Fight me.

Andy Samberg has said in interviews that he clicked with the Peralta character when he figured out he was playing "comedy McNulty." So the DNA is real.

@surreality
Yeah, when I think about the stuff I regret not reporting it was...That Guy being fucking creepy on Pub chan, or That Guy being creepy ICly in scenes in ways other players 'handled' but oh gosh it was a sign of behavior that wasn't cool. Things that were public and involved multiple other people, just not staff at that exact moment. That Guy spun that stuff into 'oh I was just having fun and also I apologized and also what was the harm?' when it got to staff via other reports but the logs and my particular 'this fucker is a fucker' interpretation of the situation would've been a hell of a lot different. Shit like this is extremely verifiable but staff often won't act on it unless it's clear it bothers people.

@faraday
All I expect staff to do is to keep the complaint saved somewhere, remember it happened, and look at the player complained about in a different light if other stuff comes in. And very, very often, it will.

This looks neat, particularly the ship stuff, which I've rarely seen done in a way I'd describe as fun. Will check it out.

I'd like to think a staffer can tell the difference between a personal conflict where two players should just leave each other alone and actual harassment. If they can't, the game has other problems.

Thing is, 9 times out of 10, the person who's being a creeper to you has been a creeper to other people before and will again. A lot of what they do with paging and ooc'ing weirdly at randos is a process of feeling out targets.

I have rarely felt like I can't deal with people who're making me uncomfortable. I'm pretty good at not responding or telling them to stop. If it rises to a level that skeeves me I'd sure as hell report them, though. Even if I deal with it on a personal level That Guy (of indeterminate gender) has maybe just moved on elsewhere. There's usually a pattern with these types and reports that may not result in a ban at least establish that.

@ZombieGenesis said in Dead Celebrities 2019:

I was never a fan but the dude was the epitome of cool when I was a teenager. Luke Perry

Oh man he was so good on Riverdale.

I always enjoyed him as an actor even when the material was lulz. His work on Oz was gr8.

I have a broad outline and try not to get too married to it, though I find an outline of some sort essential for not just letting things peter out into nothing. Some high points I want to hit but nothing so detailed I'll get stressed if the players do different stuff.

I don't GM much anymore these days but I've recently seen a one-shot PrP of mine spun off into bigger things by ST staff, which has been heartening that I don't suck and made me wanna do more again.

@krmbm said in Wheel of Time:

Yeah, I think if you were going hard into Daes Dae'mar - playing Cairhien maybe? Having a civ-simulator would be yay.

Yeah, there's definitely a version of WoT that I think would fit with the domain stuff Arx seems to be building, but none of the fantasy-adventure stuff is married to the code. I like the combat system but I pretty much like anything that automates combat, Ares or Arx or otherwise. It's probably a matter of whether you're more comfortable coding one or the other at this point.

I'm also in the 'you don't need male channelers' camp. I'm a creature with girl parts IRL who's played plenty of men for setting-specific reasons. I like historical games but dislike playing overly against-tradition characters, and like actions roles, so my knights and soldiers were men-folk. Stretched me as an RPer in ways I think were positive. Folks who want a channeler can do the same, and it's not like there aren't plenty of boy roles in WoT.

ETA: I think a more defensible reason to set the game during the books (with no canon characters and possibly a different, NPC Dragon Reborn) or after them is that it's both more familiar to theoretical players and in theory quite dynamic if you're willing to play with the storyline and just make up your own shit off all that. It also makes Sea Folk, Aiel, and Seanchan a bit more playable.

@tat has done a really bangin' job making FS3 usable for a magic game, which I didn't think was possible a year ago. I suspect some of what SL is doing would translate all right to WoT.

Kenna and Norwood are aces.

That was another thing that bugged me a bit about the +reports. There was a definite tendency to write them in bureaucracy-speak and make them fairly long. I feel like it was encouraged. Which maybe was fun for some people and accurate to how TNG in particular portrayed Starfleet, but gosh.