Best posts made by Tinuviel

@roz said in A healthy game culture:

@tinuviel said in A healthy game culture:

I mildly object to the idea that a game can "bring out the worst" in people.

It seems short-sighted to refuse the idea that different structures and environments bring out different behaviors in humans. Yes, the problem is still the people, but insisting on a sort of universal view wherein all game types/settings/etc. are the same and generate the same results and behaviors seems like it would hamper the overall goal of trying to develop a healthy game culture. There are some universals, but the challenges of different games are -- well, different.

The game is run practically the same everywhere. The one time it wasn't is the one time we have been told, in this thread, where the behaviour was different.

So, no. The game is not at fault. The way it is run is at fault.

Don't put words in my mouth.

ETA: Secondly, suggesting that it is the game bringing out the worst in people removes agency and responsibility from the people. That is never an acceptable answer. I would be willing to believe that more assholes play the game because the game allows you to get away with being an asshole. But that is not at all the same thing.

If you're an asshole when you drink, stop fucking drinking and don't blame the booze. You're the asshole.

@macha said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Do they not know how hard it is for a woman to get taken seriously by a doctor?

Why would you see a doctor? ADHD and endometriosis aren't real problems anyway.
Don't you have laundry to be doing?

@faraday said in A healthy game culture:

That's just not what that phrase means in common parlance.

In common parlance, it's an excuse for poor behaviour by externalising the blame. "Alcohol brings out the worst in me."

@kanye-qwest said in A healthy game culture:

or pick apart things according to standards that don't exist, whatever.

Anyway, this is wildly off-topic and bordering on philosophical. We disagree, and we're not going to change minds. So let's drop it.

@arkandel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I don't know how to interpret it or what it means but

@wizz Oh, yeah, I'm operating in the fantasy world where players care about story over victory. It's never going to happen and players are going to fuck up perfectly good games every time.

@wizz Jesus, on the one hand I can't wait for schools to open again out here. On the other... I really, really don't want anything to open until it's totally 110% over.

Australia hasn't got the death toll as can be found in other places, but we don't have the population either. It's still horrifying over here.

@horrorhound said in Antagonistic PCs - how to handle them:

@ganymede said in Antagonistic PCs - how to handle them:

@derp

Well, I mean, I can’t eat a whole baby these days, I’m old, wtf.

You don't eat them whole, Jesus Christ who raised you? Chew your food, dammit.

A whole baby and a baby whole are different sentences. Who taught you to read?

One thing I'll never understand is how these screeching ninnies managed to convince people not to take the vaccine because they don't know what's in it, but to take ivermectin... which they clearly also don't know anything about.

@horrorhound said in Antagonistic PCs - how to handle them:

@tinuviel said in Antagonistic PCs - how to handle them:

@horrorhound said in Antagonistic PCs - how to handle them:

@ganymede said in Antagonistic PCs - how to handle them:

@derp

Well, I mean, I can’t eat a whole baby these days, I’m old, wtf.

You don't eat them whole, Jesus Christ who raised you? Chew your food, dammit.

A whole baby and a baby whole are different sentences. Who taught you to read?

The American Education System.

I only donated to make it $420. You're welcome.

@derp said in Attachment to old-school MU* clients:

The CLI style interface is really about the only remotely manageable way to operate a game like this from an administrative level.

I would even argue that the CLI style interface is what makes it a MU, at least from a consumer's perspective.

A car and a motorbike might have the same kind of engine powering the whole thing, and they're both vehicles, but they're very different in terms of learning how to use them, and what people think of them.

@rinel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@derp said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I say we tear down your city. Raze it to the ground and rebuild from the ground up with a newer, more sensible plan.

Do you know how hard I am working to avoid making a Hog Pit reference right now

do you understand how virtuous I am being

The Hog Pit is the newer, more sensible plan.

@mietze You're arguing against a point nobody is making. @faraday simply said it was sometimes a pain to incorporate backwards compatibility. They also said they themselves use clients still.

@tnp said in Dead Celebrities 2021 Edition:

which is actually an inaccurate translation as the Latin root doesn't imply sexual assault but kidnapping

(It's not so much an inaccurate translation as it is the word has evolved, so it was accurate when it was translated but isn't now... which is arguably making it an inaccurate translation. Carry on.)

@arkandel said in What is a MU*?:

Is it no longer a MU*?

As has been said above, what is and isn't a MU* isn't necessarily something one can point at and delineate. I know that WoW isn't a MU*. I know that Firan is was a MU*.

It's like trying to explain the difference between dogs and cats without an innate knowledge of their biology. I know what a cat is because I know what a cat is.

THERE. I PAID YOU MONEY. NOW YOU MUST BE NICE TO ME.

@l-b-heuschkel said in Attachment to old-school MU* clients:

You could walk around the grid for days and never meet a soul.

I'm fairly confident that the days of wandering the grid and confidently finding random RP are over. And have been for a while.

@derp said in RL Anger:

@tinuviel said in RL Anger:

@derp said in RL Anger:

@reimesu said in RL Anger:

@derp

Thank you for letting us do this. And thank you again for the Pomplamoose. You're almost there!

You guys are just the best! I'm getting all choked up!

If you die do we get a refund, or...?

Paid back double!

@sunny We'd definitely need a bunch of statistics to tell without bias, but it has definitely appeared to have gone from The Way everywhere to A Way in a few places.

@sahin said in RL Anger:

Needed to withdraw from my statistics class. Feeling very overwhelmed, and angry at myself for feeling like this is a way to get some breathing room.

I hope you're not in my statistics class. I don't need my tutor having more time to focus on my own ineptities.