@tek said in Dead Celebrity Thread:
@Thenomain said in Dead Celebrity Thread:
Leonard Cohen.
):<
Was just coming here to post this. Fuck everything forever.
Ditto.
I can think of a million people I'd rather see go before Cohen. One of them might even be president of something or other.
2016, if you go after Tom Waits, I'm goin' after you!
@Thenomain said in FATE/FUDGE RPGs?:
Aspects are the point of Fate. Without Aspects, Fate is a pretty standard and honestly bland kind of system. You might as well roll 1d6 - 1d6. Woo.
This. If you're not using Fate's aspects using any of the rest of Fate is kind of quirky. There's other simple systems out there that are better suited to the mechanical style you're aiming for.
Evil Hat's stripped-down Fate Core is called "Fate Accelerated", and it's pretty much only Aspects.
I, er, may be a fan.
Me too. I'm a bit irritated that you need to read Fate Core to really understand the contents of FAE, but of the two I'd far rather play FAE in most cases.
The current version of FATE (FATE Core) is much smarter about these, but you can, with careful planning and a bit of luck, still stack a whopping humdinger of a bonus to an action.
Which is rather the point.
FATE isn't intended for drawing room drama. It's designed for high action, high octane, high concept RP. My notional "Dream of Red Mansions" MU* would be a seriously bad fit for FATE, but a Mad Max-style post-apocalyptic wrecking machine of a game where people jump cars in other cars over still other cars to crash into a wall to jump out and start beating on people on the other side? Perfect fit.
@surreality said in RL Anger:
Yes. FUCKING GOOGLE. The people who
stealcollect all the information they can about you down to your sock size. Those people can't seem to fucking figure out that a Canadian citizen living in China can't vote in an American election and offer to help.^ This is somewhat hilarious.
Yeah, that's it sister. Laugh at my pain. 
You think it's bad for you, how 'bout we poor fuckers who have to either watch your insane electoral gibbering pass by our social media feeds or install specific software just to filter it out!?
And even THEN fuckers like Google and Wikipedia and Yahoo and too many other miscreants to count send emails or put huge blaring pop-up signs in their pages that remind you to go and vote and offer to tell you where your voting station is. (Apparently my voting station is the USPS...)
Yes. FUCKING GOOGLE. The people who steal collect all the information they can about you down to your sock size. Those people can't seem to fucking figure out that a Canadian citizen living in China can't vote in an American election and offer to help.
So you think you're tired of your circus freak show masquerading as democracy? WALK A MILE IN A NON-AMERICAN'S SHOES!
I was impressed by the whole experience thus far. When, in chargen, I hit the "backgrounds" section, my precise thoughts were: "Ah, backgrounds. My old nemesis. We meet again." Largely because in the past this is the step where nitpicking, anal retentive assholes tend to turn what should be a simple approval process into demanding instead a Ph.D.-grade thesis on the ins and outs of the setting (including huge amounts of non-documented bits).
Imagine my surprise when, upon seeing a staff member log in, I suddenly had a mail notification not ten minutes later with an approval. Not even a hint of a nit to be picked.
I like this place. Friendly players. Friendly staff. Fun setting.
In today's lesson @Derp learns the difference between "friends" and "acquaintances who use the word 'friend' too loosely". 
I remember when he spoke/performed at my high school in Germany.
Not less forgiving.
Less forgetful.
As in fuck "forgive and forget". Forgive and remember.
And until they realize that what the US Supreme Court decides is irrelevant to the overwhelming majority of the population of this planet.
Given the realities on the ground, however, I lean more to the anti-life crowd than I do the anti-choice.
What's "anti-life" mean for you?
Mostly it means using a term that pisses off a bunch of hypocrites. 
Unfortunately most anti-life advocates do not do this. Most of them are fine with the chanting and the spreading of memes on social media, but when it comes to icky, icky work (or even worse SPENDING MONEY!) they vanish like leaves in a hurricane.
The vendors of my greatest hooch ever just brought the big guns out to bear in an attempt to sell me more:
This nice young lady got in touch with me on WeChat to encourage me to join in her employer's newest promotion. She even spoke English (sort of)!
Sadly, I'm too cynical to fall for the obvious pandering, although I'll be buying more of their booze because it's just that good.
It's largely the "anti-choice" crowd that wishes to defund comprehensive sex education, access to birth control, and opposes increasing "welfare". They also tend to have a dim view of government intervention in things like paid family leave, child care subsidies, ect.
I didn't say anything at all about the anti-choice crowd. My critique of the anti-life crowd is fucking mild compared to my critique of the anti-choice crowd. (In the end I support the anti-life crowd, albeit holding my nose, while I would kick the anti-choice crowd in the collective 'nads if I could.)
Is there hypocrisy on both sides, yeah. But I think you got a switch reversed there. Most 'anti-life" people, myself included, work constantly to up the amount of support families receive so that every woman has a few legitimate choices in front of her, either in becoming pregnant in the first place, or in what they decide to do after.
Does this support extend to actually offering, say, a single mother a place to stay while raising the child? Financial support? ANYTHING at all that mitigates their immediate plight? (Hint: I've been involved in the scene and the answer was largely a huge honking "NO!!" with occasional glorious exceptions.)
Like I said, in the end I support the anti-life crowd, but I think they're largely disingenuous hypocrites. Just less harmful as hypocrites than the anti-choice crowd. Basically the lesser of two evils.
I'm guessing that "anti-choice" is clear, so I'll address the other one.
The pro-choice crowd is highly disingenuous on several fronts. One of them was addressed above: the ethical considerations are not as cut-and-dried as they make it out. (Gender selection abortion being a perfect corner case that will cut you if you ignore it.)
In addition, however, they overlook that a lot of abortions are the result of raw desperation. People simple can't afford to have the child, say. There's plenty of studies that show the unhealthy psychological effects having an abortion can sometimes have (not to mention that it isn't a physically neutral procedure either!), but this is glossed over in the rush to label it "a choice" as if it were the same as choosing which candy bar to buy in a corner store.
I suspect for the people who are damaged long-term by the trauma of having an abortion that better options exist if the people so all-fired interested in "choice" were interested in actual choices instead of focusing narrowly on abortion. For instance the large number of middle-class, white, suburban women who are "pro-choice" don't seem to be doing anything to provide, say, a support network for women who want to make the choice to keep the child but for pecuniary (or other) circumstances which intervene. Because, of course, such a support network is a long-term commitment of time, money, and actual human relationships. It's far easier to just scream about abortion rights; it takes a lot less out of you.
Given the realities on the ground, however, I lean more to the anti-life crowd than I do the anti-choice. I support them while holding my nose.
Pro-life.
They sure got the better end of the deal when it came to naming those two stances, didn't they? If you're not pro-life, what are you? Pro-death, apparently. I'm pro-people having the right to do what is best for themselves and their health; mentally, physically, emotionally, and financially. Those are choices, so I'm pro-choice. If you're not pro-choice, you're pro-people having their personal options ripped out of their hands. Let's call 'pro-life' that instead.
I personally prefer the terms "anti-life" and "anti-choice" because I think both sides are being disingenuous.
@ixokai said in Harassment in VR, there's something we can likely learn from this.:
I don't disagree with any point you have here-- in fact I agree with most-- there is a segment of Staff who think rules are important, and that Staff acting in a way that are arbitrary and not in adherence to stated policies is bad. I think this view is not-invalid, though I am inclined to lean otherwise.
You have a rule: "don't be a jerk". Or do your rules actually come out and say "we do not consider any behaviour jerky until someone says 'no'"? (If you do have that rule, you're fucking idiots.)
Or did you make the mistake of listing every possible jerky situation you could think of thus giving Mr. Creeper an implicit list of things he can do that "aren't against the rules"? (If you did that you're still fucking idiots, just of a different kind.)
Seriously, dude is causing damage to your game. TURF THE DUDE! You're not a nation state bound by a constitution.
This is the danger of having too many guidelines in your policy.
If you see someone doing something wrong, even without a direct complete, drop the fucking hammer on them. End of story. If they whine that it's not in the policy, point out that the overarching policy is "don't be a jerk" and that staff doesn't actually need a complaint if they observe someone being a jerk.
@ThatGuyThere said in RL Anger:
@surreality
If I get married, which is a pretty big if at this point. I will have the ultimate revenge wedding. All in Latin and as long as I can make it.
I have had to sit through so many this is when I get my payback.
Granted I have yet to be even close ot getting married so that about as likely and my when I become a millionaire ideas.
Two words: Shinto marriage. Old school Shinto.
