Posts made by WTFE

@Insomnia said in Harassment in VR, there's something we can likely learn from this.:

But gaming is the work, and they just don't do it.

No. Entertainment is the work. Gaming is the medium for it. In game streaming you can entertain by being good at the game, entertain by being bad at the game but funny about it, or, apparently, by being dead sexy and playing the game.

In the end it is, however, the customer who decides what "service" it is they're willing to pay for (in dollars or in time spent with eyeballs on screen--whatever the currency).

It just makes it harder for women who just want to be gamers. Or... women online really. I'm not knocking sexuality, I'm knocking the women who use that sexuality because all it does is make it okay for other people to treat other women like that.

"I'm not knocking sexuality. I'm just knocking sexuality that doesn't go the way I want it to. And I'll try to elevate this into a 'sisterhood' thing so that it isn't obvious what's going on."

@tek said in Dead Celebrity Thread:

Jack Chick!

Already mentioned. Try to keep up with 2016 will you? I know it's hitting fast and hard this year, but still.

What, another one? Didn't all y'all just have three?

@Ganymede said in RL things I love:

@WTFE said in RL things I love:

You had debates? I thought Americans had given up debates decades ago in favour of joint press releases?

Candidates, maybe. Many actual Americans actually enjoy debating politics civilly. Unsurprisingly, I take the side of robot overlords.

I'm holding out for rule by oversized hyperintelligent ants.

You had debates? I thought Americans had given up debates decades ago in favour of joint press releases?

Canadian companies (NOT just communications ones!) are skeezy because Canadians are sheep. All it would take is people as a group living without, say, cable for a year and watch Rogers and company collapse to demands. But that would involve actually DOING something and this is not the Canadian Way.

The musical instrument collection is on hold for a while. I have two more I'm eyeing (higher-grade cousins of the grudge-fucking harmonica-flute) but that won't happen for months, if ever. Also the "musical duck call" I showed above is one that now has me interested in learning to play competently so I've actually bought a few extras for it (cases, etc.). These aren't of particular interest, however, in terms of collecting musical instruments so I won't be showing them here. They're in the collection if you absolutely must see them.

In addition, my latest round of buying playing cards is at an end with these two decks:

• Plastic 上大人 (Big Men) Deck
  
• Another Plastic 上大人 (Big Men) Deck
  

These are decks that, embarrassingly enough, come from my neck of the woods yet which I utterly failed to become aware of until I'd reached what I thought was the end of my card purchasing spree.

Now I have reached the end. Unless I've missed more, of course…

There is no visible end to the kitschy Maomorabilia that I find so endearing, though. I think I could collect this for all of eternity and still never run out. Latest joiners of the collection:

• "Little Red Book" Lighter
  
• Three Mao Lighters!
  
• Mao Lighter Detail
  

Your hatred feeds my soul.

2016 summed up in a single picture.

That's what you get for not having any savings!</sarcasm>

So it took a bit longer to get up than I thought. So I decided to do this in a separate message as a result. So sue me.

Bamboo 巴乌 (Bawu)

I'll just snip the explanation for here:

This is what you get when a 笛子 (transverse bamboo flute) mates with a harmonica. And when I say "mates" here I don't mean "a mommy flute and a daddy harmonica love each other very much"-style mating. This is the result of hate sex. Purest grudge coupling. I mean who thought of this insanity? A free reed mounted transversally in what is otherwise a flute. It sounds OK (albeit the low, low, low price I paid for mine is showing; I'm having to do a lot of bending to just bring it into tune!). I'd say it even sounds nice once you get a clear tone out of it. The problem is that it's very limited in range (one octave plus one note) and … it's just weird!

So my musical instrument collection has expanded by two today. The second one came too late in the day, however, for me to take a decent photo so I'm only going to show the one right now. I'll edit and add a new photo tomorrow for the other.

Today's addition:

• 管子 (Guanzi) or 筚篥 (Bili)
  

Or as I like to call it, the "musical duck call". (Or, now that I've held it in my hands, the "musical concussion-dealing stick"…)

You bastard! Now I have to find these!

I have never figured out what motivates MU*ers (beyond sheer bloody-mindedness, I mean). I think, however, part of the problem in motivating MU*ers is the same thing that demotivates employees so often: a lack of immediacy. We are hardwired to seek IMMEDIATE reward. Most of the +vote systems (and other such things) I've seen in games defer rewards to points in time convenient to the staff. The result is a psychological disconnection from the act(s) that generated the rewards and the actual rewards. This is at best suboptimal and at worst can be counterproductive (because the human brain is bloody-minded).

@Cadi: Sadly I may have to disappoint you. I got it off of Taobao and I'm not sure if you can get this outside of China easily. The link for me is https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=40071847610. Maybe plugging it into a Taobao broker like Panlishop?

Stick around, incidentally. I'm getting a few more Mao lighters.

I have a new piece of Maomorabilia. I felt compelled to share.
"Little Red Book" Lighter (I)

"Little Red Book" Lighter (II)

@Cadi It's in the Hog Pit. You have to be in the Pit Crew to see it.

@Lotherio said in Historical Mu* - Looking for interested Staff:

@WTFE said in Historical Mu* - Looking for interested Staff:

Harping again on my favourite hobby horse: how, precisely, with details, do you plan to reward those who play other lines of conflict than the religious ones? Talks of banning X and forbidding Y are counter-productive. Punishment is a terrible motivator. What do you plan to do to reward those who keep to the theme you want to establish? Show your work.

Aside from XP ,,, the ones making the effort to play the game, the ones politicking, the ones making alliances, the ones conflicting over the resources will make gains by affecting the direction of the story and meta. They will shape the story of the mush itself. They will contribute to its growth and direction.

You really, really, really, really, really need to read my little rant on this topic. What you are proposing as "rewards" is setting yourself up for disappointment and failure. Motivational psychology: not just a pair of polysyllabic words.

Harping again on my favourite hobby horse: how, precisely, with details, do you plan to reward those who play other lines of conflict than the religious ones? Talks of banning X and forbidding Y are counter-productive. Punishment is a terrible motivator. What do you plan to do to reward those who keep to the theme you want to establish? Show your work.

My musical instrument collection has expanded with a bunch of $2-3 ocarinas. (I use them mainly as gifts for children whose parents annoy me so they won't be in my collection for long.)

More Ocarinas!

In the relatively near future there will be an instrument that's like a Chinese flute mated with a harmonica (and this was not tender, loving mating!) and a musical duck call (protip: not its real name). You have NO idea how excited I am about that second one.