@Tez said in Unspeakables: The Politics Thread 2024:

@dvoraen There’s a place to put feedback related to the change. If you actually have feedback on things that are broken, they can go there. If you have any amount of searching to figure out how to fix it, that’s even better. Roz found the solution to the layout issue and posted it in that thread so I could implement it.

I do not get paid to do this. I’m not just an unpaid volunteer, I pay for the privilege of volunteering. I assumed you were joking and responded in that fashion, because the idea that you were being serious was too wild to contemplate. If I was wrong, and you were serious, then yeah, it was in piss poor taste.

To be clear, yes, I was trying to be completely facetious, because I could not for the life of me figure out what I was doing wrong for either one. The only reason I tagged you was because you probably would know the most and, tbh, I just did not have time to research it because I was posting right before my appointment for a surgery consult. (And to be fair, I did open the door to being whapped with a ‘git gud’, but my reaction to it was to sigh in all caps in my chair, but again, I didn’t treat it as serious. I just didn’t laugh or find it humorous as far as “it was not funny” was concerned.)

But yeah. I probably could’ve handled that better either way.

ETA:

@Tez Same to you Miss Upgrader! Fix my spoiler block to redact properly!

this isn’t funny

Neither is what you’re insinuating with this, particularly when you consider that the initial response to me was flippant – and also not really funny from my perspective, but I didn’t take it as malicious or intended to be insulting (nor was my response to it meant as such either) – especially since, as we clearly just saw with not knowing how to properly image link from imgur, it could’ve just been a simple matter of me simply forgetting how to do it correctly. Secondly, if I had any real issue with the forum upgrade, it would have been voiced by now and in a very different way.

That said, @Tez if that was in bad taste, I am sorry.

@Roz said in Unspeakables: The Politics Thread 2024:

@dvoraen said in Unspeakables: The Politics Thread 2024:

(@Tez WHY IS THIS NOT WORKING WITH IMGUR LINKS REEEE)

Were you doing it with just the regular Imgur URL from the URL bar or did you right click on the image and get the actual direct image link?

I think it was the imgur-provided link instead of the direct one, yeah.

@Tez Same to you Miss Upgrader! Fix my spoiler block to redact properly!

Here is me, trying to summon @Apos to dive in on this subject, for reasons that should be obvious to many of us who were on Arx. (inb4thisisnotanArxthreadreee)

For myself, I consider metaplot to be “a story that’s going on that directly affects (or will affect) the state of the world and the players.” Metaplot should not only be fluid, because of player involvement/actions, but multithreaded, because there’s no one story that meets the definition I gave, let alone the outcome(s) of that story which could spawn other metaplot(s).

I’m keeping it generalized, because I have not been a game runner, and I sure don’t make any claims to being a plotter/storyteller outside of my own head (i.e., my personal fiction that lives in there for non-MU* writing). But, that is how I see it as a player, and Arx had a great deal to do with arriving at that definition.

At risk of coming across as really callous towards, well, everyone in the United States, I’ve basically been forced to adopt this particular meme, because so many people in the US could not read the writing on the wall, amongst other potential problems* with our new… “administration”, and note the air quotes.

But first, the meme:

(@Tez WHY IS THIS NOT WORKING WITH IMGUR LINKS REEEE)

It’s not that I don’t care what happens to people, it’s that I’ve basically run out of tears to cry with, you could say. So at this point, my emotions have basically hit the computer science equivalent of an integer overflow and gone to the opposite side of the digital number line, so that’s why I read r/leopardsatemyface now. I’m still waiting for some of the diehards to realize they are going to get exactly what they voted for, just not what they think they voted for. (How about those egg and grocery price promises, errbody?)

* ||The fact that The Donald has alluded to election fraud by suggesting tampering (by Elon) with the voting machines… yeah. r/houstonwade on reddit went wild about this for a while.||

(@Tez WHY DID THE SPOILER BUTTON NOT WORK EITHER REEEE)

Kind of a stream of consciousness reply to @Faraday in her original post:

I think there should be “tiers” of blocking, but I’m not going to propose something consistent here:

No contact blocking.

• Informs the other party that they have Crossed A Line, and also alerts staff that this player is absolutely not having it.
• Would require “ARE YOU SURE?” type confirmation to make sure this is not “for the lols” and is not to be used lightly. Also carries a warning that it cannot be removed without admin intervention.
• Prohibits contact from the no-contact-blocked player in any way (as much as possible).
• Perhaps even an IP or domain block as the filter, to catch some of the (non-VPN) abusers.
• Either party trying to get around this after it’s in place could potentially auto-report to staff. Again, not to be used lightly.
• Unsure how this could work in the case of a roster character, though, since auto-removing it on rostering opens the door wide to obvious forms of deceit and abuse.

Specific player and/or handle blocking.

• Not exactly a no-contact, but “I don’t want to listen to them.”
• Basically suppresses everything from that character/handle (pages, post notifications, emits, mail, etc.), but the initiator of the block can still see if the blocked person created a post (by manually going to the forum/board, such as when the blocked person is the author of the thread).
• Optional addition to notify the blocked party that they have been blocked. To make it really clear.

Muting.

• For lesser or temporary silence, such as a specific person on a specific channel, or when you just don’t want them paging you right now (“not a good time” “but…” “DID I TYPO?”).

I didn’t realize I had this peeve until yakking with @Rucket on Discord tonight:

I have no idea what MU*s are out there anymore aside from Ares games, and the occasional peek at Evennia’s tracker.

The peeve: How am I supposed to know what else is out there?! Where are all the MU* trackers?! I’ve forgotten and/or they’ve poofed.

@kalakh said in Your Latest Batch of (Silly) Drama:

@KarmaBum said in Your Latest Batch of (Silly) Drama:

Really old drama.

I almost put this in the “Good Things” thread just as an example of things I’m so glad we decided as a group to stop doing.

https://web.archive.org/web/20040204025308/http://southern.silvertree.org/southerngoldapp.cgi

14 general questions, then 33 questions on the gold application and 26 for bronze.

Question 24 on the gold application is amazing.

24. During your first hatching that you’re running as a Junior, you hear on the grapevine that your Weyrleader is flirting with prospective candidates and promising them search and/or impression on acceptance of TS. Your Weyrwoman is his RL wife, and has no idea any of this is going on, and in fact, you know, told him on a number of occasions not to TS. What do you do?

I don’t think I’ve ever seen vaguebooking in the form of an application question before.

ELI5. In a silly-drama way, to stay on topic.

@Tez said in Your Latest Batch of (Silly) Drama:

@dvoraen I sell it on Temu, run by my cat, Temu.

You should name your next cat Ekko, because of this ad.

@Tez I have questions about what your side jobs are:

YouTube ratted you out.

@Gashlycrumb lol. This is practically an IT story waiting to happen, for security reasons.

Encouraging employees to click links in emails that lead to (random?) websites is a security risk. Period.

@TNP

@Dreampipe said in RL Peeves:

jury duty.

That’s me, too! Mine always come in December!

@Gashlycrumb

… that @hellfrog is going to rebrand and become @hellofrog. Think Hello Kitty, but amphibious.

News at 11.

@L-B-Heuschkel said in Unspeakables: The Politics Thread 2024:

I’m still waiting to wake up and realise that this was a nightmare.

Just the possibility gave me a massive uncomfortable feeling in my stomach. I’m not sure if I had an actual anxiety attack at work because of it, due to how uneasy I am over him (and more importantly, those associated with him) getting a second crack at the steering wheel.

@Jennkryst As the creator of this thread about SILLY drama, this post is worth five downvotes to you, and an injunction of all Mummy discussions lasting for a duration of 1e-5 seconds. It’ll be over before you know it.

Getting back on topic, the latest silly drama I know about is telling people on a MU* I have been possessed by my fictitious cat. Reasoning as given: “No no. I am more than okay to identify as a cat. I would get pampered, naptime whenever I want, the bed and every other thing in the living space would be mine, and I wouldn’t ever need to worry about money.”

Discuss.

@Roz said in why is nobody talking about Veilguard:

oh also, important update, since one of the rook faction backgrounds are the ANTI-SLAVER LIBERATORS i made my rook aleksei

Excuse me, did you just talk about Arx in a NON-ARX THREAD???

Anyway, more seriously I just want to know if you mean in terms of character choices and/or appearance, because in the latter case you have to supply a screenshot of Rook-Aleksei. I don’t make the rules.

@Pavel said in why is nobody talking about Veilguard:

Played it, finished it, and smooched Harding.

I agree that they sanded it down a bit too much, with very little resolution or development on several thorny pieces of lore from previous editions: the ghettos, casual anti-elven racism, Tevinter slavery, etc. But it has been a decade, and I’d wager most folk these days are after more joyous fantasy escapism than the grittier fantasy-like-reality.

I would say that a few of the key writers (such as Mary Kirby) no longer being at the studio is another reason for this. I mean, they literally announced it as Dreadwolf, then a whole lot happened in terms of staffing there before reannouncing(?) the fourth flagship game as The Veilguard.

I finished Final Fantasy XVI last night (without DLC) after waiting for the PC port to drop. I have feelings.