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So, I think it's safe to say that the answer to your question is...

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Nein!

@Arkandel said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

It's far easier if the delicious stuff isn't there at all to begin with.

Oh hell yes. I love bread. Therefore I don't keep any in the house. I love Doritos and Cheetos especially but also anything crunchy. Therefore I don't keep any in the house. Once in a while I'll buy stuff as a treat knowing that when I do, they won't last long. But definitely just don't keep it in the house.

@Derp To quote @Ghost, saying someone has engaged in bullying is not calling them a bully. Using the same reasoning, saying someone is being hypocritical is not calling them a hypocrite.

Please be consistent in your warnings even when they come from those engaging in sycophantic behavior.

@kay said in San Francisco: Paris of the West:

@darc Make it 99 - a Mage should never be quite 100, after all.

Mages = luftballons?

And if Wolverine and Hercules can get it on in canon, it's time to just stop worrying about whether an FC has been 'turned gay'. Just consider it an Alt U version and get over it. It's not like there's a ton of gay, lesbian, trans, etc FCs to choose from to begin with.

@Lotherio Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the curtain on the right.

@Derp said in What Would it Take to Repair the Community?:

Let me answer, clearly.

Those people are no longer current users of this forum, and they can't "defend themselves" due to clear consequences from their own actions after warnings.

So broad, personal attacks are fine so long as the target is banned?

@Jaunt said:

But, non-constructive feedback is calling us racists, elitists, bigots, idiots, and whatever else just because our site caters to a specific niche. It's inane. I've been happy to explain our position, and politely so, when I'm not approached with vitriol.

Funny how not a single person has done that. Any insults you've received - over the top or not - has not been because of your site but because of how you portray yourselves here. Your site has prompted debate. Your site's posters have prompted flame wars.

It's an important distinction and one you obviously fail to grasp.

How shocking.

Narrator:

Some people just don't know when to shut the fuck up.

/Narrator

“My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine.”

― Tallulah Bankhead

So after the WoD game I was on kind of died (for all intents and purposes), I looked around for another game and logged on here as a guest.

Almost instantly, several people greeted me. Something that doesn't happen on the existing WoD games I checked out. They offered helped and when I asked about the possibility of playing there without having read the books, one of them sent me to a wiki page with a list of links that would catch me up quickly. The same list Sunny posted here.

Yes, it was her as I found out when I asked. We talked and it turned out her IC brother was a perfect fit for me. I've had a ton of fun so far and most of it hasn't been with her. The players are friendly and eager to RP even with strangers. Another thing that seems anathema to WoD games lately.

So play here. It's fun.

@HelloRaptor said:

Or whatever. Then you'd just have the one command, and people could be unfindable, and tada everybody's happy. Right?

Nope. So far, the unfindable flag has only been discussed to keep people who are harassing someone from finding them. There's another reason to see who is where on the grid.

Keeping people from going somewhere that contains a person they want to avoid. On various games I've played, there's sometimes been a person or two who I want to have absolutely nothing to do with because of OOC reasons. If I see that person in a scene, I won't join it.

And if someone is being harassed to the point they think they need to be unfindable from someone, I'd think they'd want to avoid that person as well which would be much more difficult if the harasser was unfindable.

Without an OOC Masq, there's really no reason for the flag. If you're being harassed, report them. If it's not at that level, page lock them. Once I found someone's inane drivel so constantly annoying that I went so far as to gag them completely in my client. As has been said previously, there are other ways of dealing with the rare idiot. We don't need to throw the baby out with the bath water.

@auspice said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

So I don't wanna be like 'Hey. so, I know you're like, insanely busy nowadays, but.......'

Which is why you should instead be like 'Hey, I need to talk to someone in HR but so-and-so is someone I'm not comfortable with so don't want to send an email about it that he can see. It could cause tension.'

Double post because I decided to elaborate a bit. First, let me say I've never seen the show and didn't even know they were books till I apped. So it's no bar to playing.

It's been one IC week. In that time the 100 Landed, set up camp, and explored. Some got captured by Grounders. Others rescued them and captured a couple Grounders in turn. There's been a ton of social/political interaction between character who like each other and even more between characters that don't.

You should play here. I also gotta say that between KD, BITN and now 100, I've been having a surprisingly good time playing mortals. Who'd have thought it.

I'm kind of wondering why in the world would you open the game up to alts at this time? You close apps for new players because there's too many people then 2 weeks later, potentially double the number of characters by allowing alts.

Learn to say no. It's your health. You're your best advocate.

I'm going to prescribe you X.
No, it doesn't agree with me.
The initial side effects...
No.
I've really had some good results with...
No.

If you can document your reasons, such as you were on it from this date to this date and this dosage, etc even better. You'll be taken more seriously. Women especially.

@Songtress said in Threads of Pern:

I really don't know why anne thought that was good idea..

Because it was 50 years ago and she was a middle aged, Irish Catholic woman. It's why I give her a pass for her extremely ignorant and very strange ideas about gays. Despite them, her (admittedly few and secondary if not tertiary) gay characters were generally portrayed in a positive light. For her time and circumstances, she was pretty progressive.

Are you paying anything for it?

If so, immediately.

If not, what's it really matter? You could also make the active players new staff and give the place to them.

@derp said in Who are you?:

I plan on getting tattoos, but I worry that having to wear cloth over them is going to screw them up.

It won't. In fact, they'll last longer in better shape away from constant exposure to the sun.

Get them on a Friday so you have the weekend to care for them well though it's not necessary. My last one, two weeks ago or so, I got on a Tuesday but dress code is business casual. You'll need to keep it well moisturized so I had a small bottle in my pocket and added a layer on my breaks and lunch.

You should be fine regardless of when you get it done. Just read up on aftercare and be liberal with moisturizer. (Ice packs are great for the inevitable itching. Don't scratch!)

@gasket said in Star Wars: Insurgency:

There's no equalizing the playing field for Luke Skywalker vs. your 'OC X-Wing pilot' because they will never be the same thing, not even by your own description of them.

There's a certain validity to this. Luke is the one who pulled the trigger and blew up the Death Star. There's never going to be someone else who did that. He'll always have that under his belt. And Leia will always be Leia, Han will be Han, etc. No escaping that.

Superman will always be Superman. And while the analogy to the supers genre isn't exact, @Auspice , there's a huge difference between the popular superhero FCs like Captain America and, say, Moonknight. I've personally never had any desire to play any of them. Maybe Han. But I think turning him gay wouldn't work well.

All I can say is that FC or not, famous established background or not, once a PC hits the grid, they will have the same opportunities to be involved and make a difference.

@Ghost Fair. I played on a Star Wars game where staff had every single FC doing Great Things and all the rest of us were spear carriers whose sole purpose was to be there in the background and 'oo' and 'ah' at how wonderful they were. I'll be damned if my own OC is going to do that and I don't think the other staffers without FCs will either. We look forward to Insurgency being 1 out of 72.

I personally invite all skeptics to come give us a chance and flame us here if we end up being one of the 72. But. If you think it's happening, please let us know and give us the chance to correct things. Different perspectives, forest for the trees, etc.

Caveat: this is alpha. The game went up ONLY 3 weeks ago. @ixokai is an amazing coder and the builders were truly inspired. We're moving remarkably fast but we're still changing things as we discover they're not working (notably in the mechanics of the Force). On the other hand, it's the perfect time to get in on the ground floor and help influence what's happening. Sheets are not final since we're tweaking things and RP before approval is doable so you can flesh out your PCs once you have the basics set.