@Bad-at-Lurking said in MU*, Youth, and LGBT+ Identity:
Yes, yes and yes? I was around for those days. But I think my first real mu*s, as in 'use telnet to get to them' were Atlantis and Teleplay, which were also supported by dial up(!) in Silicon Valley back before the Internet was a thing.
Yeah, I wasn't including the bulletin board systems I'd dial into. Remember how excited you were to get a new modem with a higher baud rate? Good-bye 300 baud! And it seemed so fast.
I'm sick and feeling worse than a simple head cold. I'm boosted so not at all worried but getting tested for Covid is just the safe and smart thing to do.
ON NEW YEAR'S EVE? HAH! Seriously, fuck you universe. Couldn't resist twisting the knife a little.
I didn't see anything in the original post that implies they're against sex education, is intolerant of LGBT people or is, in any way, anti-sex or sexuality or that there isn't open, honest communication between them and their kids.
ETA:
@Carex said in The Dark Side of online Role-Playing:
I was trying to illustrate that maybe agreeing without putting any deeper thought into it was unwise.
Perhaps you should put some deeper thought into it.
@ganymede said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
Rather I struggle to find sympathy for people who elect not to take the vaccine and end up suffering consequences for it. And you will find me on the side of folks who are willing to say that the voluntarily unvaccinated have caused countless hospitalizations and deaths.
This. And I currently have Covid myself despite being fully vaccinated and boosted. My contempt is reserved for those willfully choosing to play Russian Roulette and causing massive problems for the rest of us.
I've never looked on another game in the same genre as competition. I want it to be interesting and do well. In fact, I'm likely to play there if it is as playing on a game you're not staffing on can be relaxing.
I haven't played any other genres in a while but, at least with supers, you have many of the same players playing on multiple supers games. Sometimes they play as different characters, sometimes the same exact one. Regardless, having a character on every supers game currently running is not unusual. Variety is the spice of life and all that.
@Ganymede said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
“We don’t know what Cincinnatians are trying to be, but Nick Lachey hails from there.”
— Daytonian.
But so does Jerry Springer. (And my sister in law who once dated him.)
@tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@derp said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Speaking of old timey diseases that I was sure we got rid of along the way, polio is apparently still here.
updates his 2022 bingo card with Biblical Pestilence and Burning Nuclear Reactor next to World War 3
I'm expecting to come down with bubonic plague any day now.
Go to the US southwest. You can catch it from prairie dogs and it pops up every so often in isolated cases. But it's usually not a big deal as it's treatable with common antibiotics.
The rage would rival that against the dying of the light.
@betternow said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
My RL gripe is that time moves ever onwards.
Avril Lavigne's "Complicated" is twenty today. This is unacceptable.
Yeah, I felt like that when they said Eminem was nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year. The only formal criteria for the performance category is that an artist has to have had their first record 25 years ago. I died inside a little.
5 minutes ago when I read that Mark Hamill was 70.
That last post was proof positive. Deliberate trolling.
Agreed. I'd never have thought there would be states without mandatory vehicle inspection for all vehicles. Just this year, my mechanic said he couldn't pass my car because one of the tires was bad. Seems I was badly out of alignment. Sure, it kind of sucked I had to go buy a new tire but it's a good thing knowing it won't blow on the highway. Even nicer knowing someone else's car in front of me passed their inspection too. Theoretically.
I was just going to reply on this topic and here it has its own thread.
I'm actually more in agreement with @Derp than not. He's not letting friends play banned concepts. Something that's restricted is not banned. Staff still allows it, you just need to get their approval first. So what does staff use to determine whether someone is allowed to play a restricted concept? Their opinion.
Does it really matter if they only met this person on that game three months ago? The person has a limited track record on that game but they seem sane. Staffer instinct? Yes. Is that really better than if the staffer knew the other player for a year elsemu*? Or for two years doing tabletop? It all comes down to the same thing: they think the person won't abuse the concept and will benefit the game. Every player is judged on the same criteria and has the same opportunity to play that concept.
Now some caveats. Is there a quota? That gets a lot more grey. Do the rules specifically say the person must have been playing for X time first? That's a violation. I could go on but I think my point is clear: if you trust the staffer to decide who gets to play something, they should be allowed to use their discretion so long as everyone has the same opportunity and it violates no existing rule.
If you don't trust staff, don't play there if it bothers you that much. If you do play there anyway, suck it up. You made your choice.
I never got my degree even though I had almost enough credits to do so. They were spread around so broadly for the simple fact that I had no idea what I wanted to do. Or rather, I knew and that was learn something about everything, especially as the mood struck me.
It wasn't till much, much later that I realized I should have been a research librarian but by then I had no interest in going back to college, especially as it requires a Masters. Fortunately, I fell into my present career and love it. Hopefully, it's something I can manage to keep doing for a few decades.
A hospital that's home to various monsters, perhaps all of the same family.
The ER that has a higher rate of fatalities that can be explained by statistics because one such monster is feeding off the life force of those who are grievously hurt enough that their death is assumed to be from what happened to them.
The coma ward where every patient is low on blood except no one checks for that on someone in a coma. There's enough patients the monster can feed off their blood indefinitely.
The psych ward which has a lower rate of violent incidents because another monster is feeding off their psychic energy, placating the insane and keeping them partially sedated. The staff just count their blessings.
The morgue where nothing appears out of the ordinary at all. Except that corpses get sewn up after autopsies without some of their organs. The coroner has an appetite that can't be satisfied by Red Robin.
It's really no different than WORA (or the internet in general) is/was. It's just a game. It's just a message forum. It's just the internet. It's just fill in the blank because it's not "real life".
People don't care how they present themselves. It's fine to come off as illiterate. It's fine to come off as a troll. They don't care that this is the only impression others can base their opinion of them on because they don't care about those people. They're not "real".
So come off as someone who failed third grade? As someone who's a bully and/or a total jackass? Whatever dude.
