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@surreality said in RL things I love:

fuck me to tears.

Paging Dr. @Ganymede.

@faraday said in Forum wonk:

The only low-effort, low-cost option is to start fresh, and I don't think anybody really wants that.

Only if there's a read-only archive so we can hold grudges accurately.

@arkandel said in Historical settings:

On the other hand I do dislike creating rules around trying to stop jerks from doing jerk things

Have detailedish rules tailored for 'decent people that sometimes make errors of judgement' and an ultimate open-ended 'anti-jerkwad' rule. Then whenever a punishment for the latter is applied, be open and transparent about it. This not only ensures that players know what will trigger your ire, but it also allows them an inside view of the way staff works when it's usually a "don't look behind the curtain" thing.

If I have to explain one more time that the Second Amendment isn't a fucking thing in Australia, I'm going to shoot someone. Ironically.

@faraday Most likely. In my view survival is the barest ability to do anything. Survival versus actually living, for a vague example.

@three-eyed-crow said in When Staff No Longer Cares:

I don't personally think the idea of games as permanent and unending is positive for a lot of stories.

To a point, I agree. I'd also say that the idea of characters being permanent has also lead to some pretty poor situations. Not like 'characters can never die' or anything, but the fact that many places have so-called dinosaurs bopping around two or three years after creation. We should, generally, probably be more open to the idea of shelving a character and starting something new.

@auspice Or in a way that intentionally traumatises innocent people, like the frequent occurrence of people jumping in front of trains.

@arkandel There was a reasonable and seemingly well-intentioned apology made. Folks appear to have deduced the source of the initial misinformation that caused the behaviour that is being apologised for and have expressed their displeasure.

ETA: ELI5: Person got told things. Person did bad. Person said sorry. Other people found out who told person wrong things. Other people hate wrong-thing-teller now.

Gotten to my train super early because work meeting on a Saturday (should be illegal dammit) only to discover that I've got a sock stuck in my jeans and nowhere to put it, so I have to leave it there so I don't lose it.

@arkandel I can! I've no horse in this lasagne, just doing my best to translate the verbosity.

@paris Aye. I also hate the "modern" idea that just because I don't publicly announce something every single time I open my mouth that I'm clearly on the "other side" of whatever argument is being discussed. If I don't publicly denounce racism every single time I log on to my computer, I'm clearly a racist or a 'racist enabler' but no, Sharon, this is my me time.

@wizz said in I owe a lot of people some apologies.:

This was just...a weird way to do everything you all just did.

Oh! I actually have an RL peeve today.

"Orient" when used to describe a people is understood to be racist. That's fine. When used to describe gathering one's bearings, it is not a racist word. Just stop.

@saosmash I think a private apology comes first. If the person being apologised to accepts it, then they can say so in the same thread that caused the offence. Then it becomes less about the 'contriteness' of the apologiser and more about the feelings of the apologisee.

Alright, I'll do this summer camp 'getting to know you' game.

• I am an anthropologist by training, a teacher of necessity. At least out in the wilderness of Australia teachers are either English teachers or Math teachers at their core, branching off to the humanities or sciences respectively.

• I speak with an Englishish accent, due to my native one being a source of ridicule during the 90s in the norf of England. So I sound smarter and more confident than I actually am.

• I have serious, and occasionally cripplingly so, mental illness. Specifically bipolar disorder (type 1) and various other little maladies that all coalesce to give me mental health issues instead of a personality.

• I have children,with the eldest being fifteen. Long story short: Mother is also gay, old friend of mine, turkey basters may have been involved, and now there are children.

@testament There are exactly ten. And @Ganymede is three of them.

@Thenomain Agreed.

I pagelock people far, far more frequently than I report them. Not because I'm a big strong man that can look after my own damned self, but because people are fucking annoying. Being someone that I find annoying isn't generally something I'll go through the tedium of dealing with staff about, but it could be that my annoying is another person's harassment that does need to be dealt with.

@faraday said in How To Treat Your Players Right:

If all I'm getting is vague reports of "Bob is harassing Susie and Janey" and Susie won't tell me anything's wrong and Janey isn't even on the game any more, I'm not going to take action.

"Hey dude, apparently you're being a dick. Stop being a dick." It's not difficult.

@arkandel said in Random links:

I mean imagine the AI that could get created if it had learned all it knew going through MSB posts?

@Ganymede

And if everyone could stop assuming all Russians say "comrade" every other word, that'd be great...

@packrat said in RL things I love:

It was just tea