Best posts made by Tinuviel

Mavved a TS pose.

In the middle of a staff meeting.

About banning TS.

Apparently, tis the season for endings, and mine is drawing near. I feel much like Cicero did when Augustus came to power, watching the names of friends and colleagues be posted to the forum door in the latest round of proscriptions. Bearing witness to a once-great thing becoming torrid and abused.

So, I feel it only sensible to leave before I'm sent naked to join my colleagues in exile. Lord knows that my mouth will get me into trouble one of these days, and I'd like to retain a little dignity as I vacate this once great home of free thought and expression. I find I barely recognise it now. It may simply be that I am old and tired, and what I thought this place should be is something best left to the ashcan of history. Or perhaps it never actually existed as I imagine, and my mind is tainted with the rose-coloured glass of reminiscing and mourning the past.

I have been a member of this and related communities for many years. We've laughed, cried, mourned, and celebrated together. From whence we started many of us have started families, gained academic or professional acclaim, or simply just gotten older. Though I pride myself on my ability to emotionally distance myself and to regard this place as simply A Thing and not anything important, I find myself sad at the state of affairs with which we have been presented.

I could articulate why I feel as I do, and indeed so many of us do, but that has been done dozens of times by those now gone and my analysis would not add anything of merit; I shall simply say that I disagree with many policies, some new and some old, and that disagreement has reached a point making my remaining here untenable.

I have found friends here, for which I thank you. I have found foes, for which I curse you. And I have found myself, for which you all owe me an apology and a refund.

Much love and respect, to those that deserve it,
Tinuviel

The main thing for all of us whackos to remember is that even if we're suffering through a particularly strong episode, or whatever is going on with us, we are still responsible for our actions. Occasionally we will think, say, or do things that are obviously in violation of some social contract somewhere that doesn't need to be explained. That happens. That's life. We just have to deal with it.

The second most important thing everyone needs to remember is that being on a game is not a fundamental right. Neither is being given an explanation when we are escorted out. It might be nice to get an explanation, but it's not our right. Dealing with the emotional fallout of such a thing is our responsibility nobody else's.

@egg said in MU* Gripes and Peeves:

Play a POC, it wouldn't kill you.

I'm going to assume the majority of MUers are white. So they play white.
I'd much rather a hundred dull white characters than a single POC played as a stereotype.

@Chet Oh, honey. No. No.

@Salty said in Depression Meals:

Turn oven to 350. Get out tinfoil.

Instructions too hard, eating cheese direct from the packet while curled up in front of the fridge.

"Staff reserve the right to ban, exclude, or otherwise punish any player that goes against the spirit of these rules, without necessarily breaking the rules."

Had an interview to get me out of my career. It's not flashy or glamorous, but it will be far more stable and less draining a job. Here's hoping!

Faraday's calendar goes straight from March 31st to April 2nd. No one fools Faraday.

Faraday can pick oranges from an apple tree and make the best lemonade you've ever tasted.

Faraday can't actually code, her compiler just knows better than to segfault.

Faraday doesn't dial the wrong number, you pick up the wrong phone.

When Faraday was born she drove her mom home from the hospital.

This is definitely going to sound a bit 'blow my own horn'-like but on the rare occasions I read old logs, or am otherwise exposed to things I've said/done in RP, I occasionally get giddy reading some of the kinda great things I wrote. Especially when others have reinforced that "this is good" with votes or whatever.

While I'm always glad to see a genuine apology where one is required... is this what we can expect now? When one offends a group, certainly a public apology is warranted, but if one person requires the apology do we really need to see it in public? Sure, public contrition is fine and dandy but when does it go beyond that and into "look at me, proving just how sorry I am for real guys"?

@Groth said in Cyberrun:

It's more of a hogpit argument then advertising though

I entirely disagree. "This game allows players to play underage characters without any sort of 'do not TS with them' restriction" is something that should be brought up in its advertising thread.

I'd even question whether such places should be advertised here at all.

No, screeching parent, you do not pay my salary with the school fees. Even if you did, that doesn't entitle your child to be a prat without being punished for it.

The difference being that Wilde thought. And usually listened to conversations before butting in.

It's free.

@sunnyj It reads to me like it's low level Mage without the bullshit. Which... is what most people want out of Mage from what I've seen.