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That is well fucking hell!

@Arkandel

i get unhappy when things are not about me???

@SpilledBeanz As Harry Dresden said, trust but verify. That’s how I roll anyway!

Oh hey! If it isn’t the most tasteless fucking sales email I’ve seen in my life.

Subject: Business ‘Long Covid’ Discussion

Hi <firstname.lastname>,

Is your business struggling post-COVID with any of these ‘classic’ symptoms?

Projects late or overspent Resources not rising to the need Deliverables not meeting expectations Management without visibility to keep things on track

It goes on to try to sell a business management platform.

Blocked the sender’s domain for my entire place of work and reported them as malware, because fuck everything about that.

@shit-piss-love Or they could get more staff. Easier said than done, most of the time.

Our old man had a scare, including a very expensive visit to the dog ER. He needed to be monitored when we had errands to run yesterday, so we brought him with us.

The steps to the coffehouse we stopped at were still a bit scary, so the barista brought his pup cup outside. In a full latte cup.

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@Roz said in Macha Awareness (And Unappreciation) thread:

She’s not an insidious sexual predator people need serious protection from.

She absolutely is an insidious sexual predator, it just so happens her targets are typically male presenting characters, and she’s a woman, and that’s rarely taken as seriously as it should be, often including by those she’s victimized, because they don’t want to take away from “real” victims.

Her predatory behavior might be less overtly offensive than when some dude character pages a female character out of the blue to ask “u wan sum fuk”, but it’s still predatory and sexual in nature, because she refuses to take no for an answer and will keep pestering the object of her unwanted affection until they either give in, involve staff (at which point the complaining player becomes a harassment target for her and any friends she may have), or they leave the game.

If he happens to have a reason or obstacle not to give her sum fuk, it must be destroyed.

If the obstacle is another person, she will try to make the IC and OOC relationship go sour and drive the romantic partner in her way off the game. This includes telling wildly exaggerated or wholly invented stories about other players that she can’t back up with logs. She will page the object of her affections outright lies to try and get them to break up.

If it’s the object of her obsession’s player simply not wanting to give her sum fuk, either because he doesn’t like her or he’s gay or he’s just not into romantic RP?She will do everything she can to drive that player off so she can install a new player who will fuck her like he’s “MEANT” to.

If she has staff power, she has no problem using that to make players feel unsafe and unwelcome on what ever game was idiotic enough to give her a wizbit.

These behaviors are highly toxic, sexually predatory, and game breaking, and keeping track of where she’s been serves a purpose of informing folks that they may have encountered her before.

@Wizz same I laughed and I’ll use it to buy myself a drink!

@Pacha Not to dismiss your objections. If you don’t care for it, you don’t care for it.

But historically, when people ARE stuck in terrible wars and such, they do their best to find light, whimsical things to take their minds off of it.

Remember 2020’s weird obsessions, like sourdough starters?

“I can’t believe they’re RPing about sourdough starters in the middle of a pandemic”

@sao said in Good things in Mushing:

Good thing in mushing: other people reacting to a big dramatic thing you did as a big dramatic thing. ❤

AURETH SHAVED HIS HAIR?!

I’ve got health issues, yo. I won’t get into the nitty gritty but I’ve been fighting for years to get my pain levels down. I’m at the point now where I feel like more of a human being.

And god do I like myself better on my lexapro. Shit that used to make me red hot angry doesn’t bother me as much anymore. Between getting the meds right for the pain and the anxiety getting taken care of I’m in a way better place.

Now I just need to figure out how to get out of bed with my alarm instead of oversleeping all the time due to this damned autoimmune condition.

@Testament kink unlocked

Hi.

We pretty much know my feelings about DWOPP and the history there. This is why I’m a bit sad this came down this way. I know it is not personal because most (not all) don’t have an axe to grind with me. Yet, it feels a little personal and I’ll tell you why. I don’t mean this in a gaslight way, just… an explanation.

I don’t feel as they weaponized DWOPP so much as they weaponized MY trauma with it. That doesn’t sit well with me. At all. Here’s why I personally (no receipts to give it’s an opinion) think that.

The person in question had a known Ares handle that was in use before this game? Not DWOPP.
If Betsy (?) was in another relationship with someone that Rich Playboy was jealous of – it was NOT isolating behavior, like DWOPP does.
I did not see where Rich Playboy messaged B girl and said bad things about OP. Again, not a DWOPP red flag.

Now was the person creepy? Yes, perhaps. Maybe. Not sure. I have opinions but they are knee jerk. It should have been hey this person has creepy behaviors and then looked into it. When you come to a forum (any forum) people are going to grab some pitchforks around some names.

I feel like (and it’s a feel not a real) that’s what might have happened. It might not even have been intentional but their own knee jerk. The problem is like stated I don’t feel like DWOPP was weaponized, but the trauma of those who he dealt with. This sits badly with me.

It’s okay if you don’t agree, it is truly just my opinion. It’s why I asked (thank you btw) for the title to be changed.

Now autumn is here - plan your pumpkin spice (gross) stuff and let’s be kind.

@CuriousGamer said in Why is Pack closing?:

Cian/Bear was also that1ginger and Yossarian on Ares. He’s also a known associate of MacKenzie. The two are often found on games together and allies.

They’ve had a few other names as well, previously played Arx before getting banned from it for winding up staff for a laugh. Usually they just change their discord name to the new persona. But definitely one to watch out for.

@Testament DD is a great production company. I’m going to miss their E3 presentations.

@Pavel fr tho, who are these kids that don’t know what a phb is??? didn’t your parents teach you anything when you were coming up?!

get off my lawn

It’s impossible to play on a Mu* anymore for me. Asking for RP and finding RP is such a chore and then when it’s found it’s usually some weird slice-of-life stuff that people want to play, which in a lot of cases isn’t what I’m looking for.

So it’s a constant circle of building PCs, getting amped, trying to find something to do, and failing and just realizing hours/days/weeks/months/whatever of my life has been wasted.

My biggest issue with character progression is that the only way most characters progress on a game is through xp and stats.

XP and stats should not be the only way a character progresses. There should be other achievables like rank or resources or territory or a combination of all of them that allows a character to progress without simply racking up xp and spending it.

If people had more objectives to achieve besides MOAR XP, then a game wouldn’t need to give out so much xp per week to keep people interested and uber stats become much less of a problem.

But handing out scads of xp is the easy, traditional solution. It takes very little monitoring and is often completely automated. So that’s what most games do.

Not saying that is bad or wrong, just that it really puts the burden of character progression on xp if that’s all the game has.

@Tat said in What stops you from running a game?:

I see lots of people with cool ideas or themes they’d love to play in.

What are the things that keep you from actually running a game? What are the barriers?

Code and time.

People want a certain amount of stuff coded to play on a game. Coding that stuff takes time. I don’t have it.

I was coding my own engine to be able to launch a game, but I ran out of time when I inherited Liberation Mage. 🙂

Hailee Steinfeld >.>

Also whatever classifies as a “science nerd” in the theme, or total occult junkie.