@Ominous Would you say that Meg’s power over this poll is negatively impacting you?
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RE: Prove Tez Wrongposted in Rough and Rowdy
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RE: Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujoposted in Rough and Rowdy
@Roo said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
Why can’t we have a nice SW MUSH that is run by stable personalities, has a nice large-ish grid (As much as I think AoA’s grid is pretty expansive and nice, it’s a bit too much at times…), isn’t run by people cough Disc cough who are death on anything other than G rated stuff, while making sure that the place isn’t overrun by the Shang crowd.
Because everyone who isn’t me hates space code.
… okay, most people who aren’t me hate it, there are some folks who enjoy space trucking.
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RE: Empire Discussion Threadposted in Game Gab
Staff on games, and mods on forums, have power over the space they’re running. They have power to make the space as they want, and let who they want in and kick out who they don’t. They do control whether a person can interact with their specific space.
But this is different from having power over people.
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Prove Tez Wrongposted in Rough and Rowdy
just need to know who’d do the electric bugaloo if it was necessary
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RE: Empire Discussion Threadposted in Game Gab
@Ominous I think there’s two different meanings of the word ‘power’ at play here.
There is, of course, the authority to do something. Pyre can ban you or me or anyone from this forum (or well, collective staff can, whoever actually controls the keys to the kingdom). My boss can fire me tomorrow. Definitely all power.
But if Pyre bans me right now, she really has no power over me other than that. No influence over my life. If my boss fires me right now for not doing the work I should be doing and instead replying here, I won’t be able to buy a number of things I want to buy, and probably pay bills, and I will probably be very unhappy.
Even beyond that, my boss has a lot of influence over my life in general. He has power over me.
This is more like a peer-to-peer interaction. Your friend could stop hanging out with you tomorrow, and effectively, there was some amount of ‘power’ there in that they chose a thing and banned you from their presence, but that wasn’t them exerting power over you versus choosing who they want in their life.
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RE: General Video Game Threadposted in Other Games
@Meg & @dvoraen If you both like PEAK, I would also recommend RV There Yet?, which is basically PEAK + chainsmoking + getting an RV to the top of the mountain.
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RE: General Video Game Threadposted in Other Games
@dvoraen i’ve played PEAK! not with tez, but other friends. its a really fun game.
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RE: Empire Discussion Threadposted in Game Gab
@bear_necessities said in Empire Discussion Thread:
If Pyre banned you right now for doing absolutely nothing except responding to a post, there would undoubtedly be backlash and it probably wouldn’t hold (although half of us would say you deserved it, then another half would say Pyre’s power-tripping, and there’d be a ton of back and forth about the perception of your tone and what you SHOULD have said vs what you DID say along with a disseration-level deep dive on what you implied with your perceived tone like we are literary scholars … sound familiar?)
It’s about time for a spin off. Let’s go.
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RE: Empire Discussion Threadposted in Game Gab
@bear_necessities said in Empire Discussion Thread:
Respectfully, this is you perceiving Pyre’s power and giving them a great deal of power over you, vs them actually having power over you.
Hey @somasatori are you qualified to supervise PhD candidacies yet? I’ve got a few ideas from this thread…
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RE: Empire Discussion Threadposted in Game Gab
@Ominous said in Empire Discussion Thread:
If Pyre were to ban me right now, it would have a negative effect on me.
Respectfully, this is you perceiving Pyre’s power and giving them a great deal of power over you, vs them actually having power over you.
If Pyre banned you right now for doing absolutely nothing except responding to a post, there would undoubtedly be backlash and it probably wouldn’t hold (although half of us would say you deserved it, then another half would say Pyre’s power-tripping, and there’d be a ton of back and forth about the perception of your tone and what you SHOULD have said vs what you DID say along with a disseration-level deep dive on what you implied with your perceived tone like we are literary scholars … sound familiar?)
