I am in such a level of denial that I’ve spent the last three days saying to myself, “Maybe Biden will remember the Supreme Court said he could send in Seal Team 6 and no one could do anything about it.” I accept my denial: I know it’s a protective device to keep me from processing an amount of stress I can’t handle, and the delusion is here to help the pressure bleed off.

But in another way, this denial is almost scarier than reality because Jesus fucking Christ how is this the world where an octogenarian assassinating his political enemies to hold on to power seems preferable

@hellfrog To each her own!

Silent Hill 2.1 doesn’t suck. Not great, but it doesn’t suck. It’s fine. It’s probably even better than okay. That’s more than I expected going in.

@Mushling-0 said in Inuki Ban Thread:

Do we have to go radio silent on bad actors if they are having mental health issues? That is a complicated question and one I don’t have the answer to.

It’s context-dependent because everything is, but as I’ve said in the past and will say again, I’d be hurt and insulted if people let me get away with stuff because of my mental health problems; because that would mean they don’t respect me enough to have faith I can behave responsibly.

@SockMonkey Not at all. I haven’t watched anything with Jared Leto since the whole “mailed dirty condoms to other actors” thing.

@Warma-Sheen I went to a chicken place ten years ago and got food poisoning I won’t describe here because even now it’s upsetting to remember the physical distress it put me in.

Not every cook at the restaurant prepared the meal that made me sick. The servers had nothing to do with it, nor the cashier. Most likely the people who weren’t on shift at the time had nothing to do with it, and I’ve no idea if management did. Maybe the supplier did and maybe they didn’t.

You could argue that by not going back to that restaurant, I’m unfairly punishing the people who had nothing to do with me spending hours doing, well, never mind what I was doing. But I don’t care. I don’t owe them my business after getting briefly hospitalized from eating their food.

Same general principle applies here. I doubt anyone has gone to the hospital because of Retromux, but so what? I’m not the means tester who decides how much suffering is appropriate for a given response. If people have a bad time and don’t feel safe playing there, then they have my full and unreserved blessing to go somewhere better for them. Life is too damn short.

@DrQuinn Oh, definitely in this case the mods did the right thing. Whether the implied threat was sincere or not, it was still a death threat against a member of this community, and I think that’s unacceptable even if the death threat is against oneself. I’m only putting in my two cents about rules regarding health issues, and hopefully I’m also acknowledging that I can’t and won’t judge if the admins do not choose to accept the responsibility of another person’s continued existence just because they want to keep a board for bitching about make-believe vampire and superhero games relatively civil.

@Third-Eye I mostly disagree about creating a rule regarding mentions of suicide and bans. Suicide is a health problem, and health problems can’t be treated as having a “one size fits all” solution. A rule that anyone who mentions suicide in this or that context may help people who need to take a step back, but it may also harm people who are genuinely reaching out to a group of friends or a community they feel safe mentioning their problems to.

I think these kinds of problems have to be dealt with on a case by case basis rather than with some sweeping policy. But at the same time, I say I mostly disagree because I can see someone arguing that my position puts the forum’s moderators into the position of being de facto health care providers for people experiencing the most harrowing, intractable health problems imaginable, and I’m pretty sure none of them signed up for that job.

@inuki said in Numetal/Retromux:

I understand why people commit suicide over cyberbullying.

I am genuinely sorry you are dealing with those feelings, and I hope you reach out via whatever resources are available to you for help.

Well I guess I’m going to eat a great big plate of my feelings tonight.

@ashkuri said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

good luck to them I hope they are having fun

This, really. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve enjoyed the gossip and schadenfreude as much as anyone has! It just feels like they’ve made their choice that they want no outside input*, so fine, let them have it.

*I didn’t plan that but “outside input” is a very funny pair of words to me, what a strange combo

@RightMeow said in MU Peeves Thread:

My new desc:

Felt cute, might delete later.

I am so envious of you.

I tend to think of characters as your dating profile. The more effort you put in, the more reasons you give a person to want to go out with you (read: do scenes with you). I like that analogy because, like a dating profile, different people are looking for different things, so if you’re not interested in selling yourself like a product to other players, that is a perfectly valid choice.

@Pavel I’d probably do some kind of AI or cartoon. It would feel mean to pick a real person for such a deliberately shitty concept.

In World of Darkness games, you have a lot of options to play physical embodiments of lust. For whatever reason (can’t imagine what reasons those could be), such characters are universally described and PBed as conventionally sexy women with tits that, however large you’re imagining at this moment, I can promise you’re underestimating. The objects of lust rather than the lustful, in other words. None of that is my peeve; it’s just context.

I kind of want to find a WoD game and app whatever kind of cousin to a succubus I can get, but my PB would be some subpar dude with no fashion sense, little interest in his own hygiene, and a body pillow waifu he carries with him on those rare occasions he leaves the house. That is one hundred percent the correct take on the material, but it’s also an idea that would get exactly zero RP and would deserve to get none.

Ah, well.

@Snackness Hey! Migraine-free is awesome.

@helvetica said in RL Peeves:

I don’t know if anyone else here is in the lit mag world, but this serial plagiarizer dude is becoming like wack-a-mole. Why? Why plagiarize some sweet stranger’s poem or personal essay? There’s no money in this. It’s under various aliases, so there’s no sharing this with real life friends or family. What the actual fuck is wrong with you?

I would guess envy? A desire to get the credit for an idea you wish you’d had?

@Pacha said in MU Peeves Thread:

Peeve of the day is people relentlessly humblebragging on channels about how important they are at their job.

For some reason, the words “as an LEO” are running through my mind.

@Prototart I honestly forgot Sera. I was thinking of Nia Nal, who as far as I know is only trans in the Supergirl TV show.