yesterday, I got an offer from a job I’ve been interviewing for since the beginning of August

Peeve. I’m feeling left behind by this hobby. I’m discouraged that it feels like in order to play on any of the games where my friends play, I’d have to compromise my comfort and place my trust in people who… I haven’t experienced being all that cool. And I think I feel it even more because for a minute, I had a relatively active little rp bubble before folks moved on to the next thing.

I’m just going to be real with you all. I put in a request letting them know I felt awkward about the gods being white, and my non-white noble house worshipping a white patron god. And you know what? They were like, ‘good lookin out, this is on our list of things to review.’ And it made me feel immediately more comfortable.

I don’t think this beef in the comments is in the spirit of the game runners.

newest fam member, getting her squinty eye checked out in the AM

ETA: seeing folks’ pets refills my tank, need more

Important Update

+1

Important update.

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

Man, I miss fighting with higher class reductive trolls like Derp who actually had the substantive background to make these arguments for real.

shut your foul mouth

Mention porn. Reading your char getting talked about in the logs of other folks. Love.

@Tez

@hellfrog said in Prove Tez Wrong:

@Yam said in Prove Tez Wrong:

@helvetica Lmfao ahahaha

ETA: TO BE CLEAR to everyone Tez abuses me with love, don’t worry. She’s not a forum despot.

she’s a forum little teapot

@Tez teapot size comparison, frog for scale. (Tez is small, everyone.)

@Aria Not to mention switching up your writing style? If that’s a concern for Carmen Sandiego-type roleplayers? I feel like I say the same stupid words all the time on repeat.

In my youth, I could do so many alts. Roster writing helps fulfill that itch without all the commitment (and I guess, rp crime).

It may be worth stating that this type of ban doesn’t have to be representative of who the player is as a person. As opposed to like… a sex pest ban or banning one of those people qualified to teach a masterclass on toxicity and manipulation. It’s okay for a place to just… not be right for you.

@Yam I mean, earlier in the intro to mu*ing thread it was mentioned about nuerodiverse our community is. We’d be just as well served by a masterclass on how to communicate a clear boundary instead of relying on hints and easily misinterpreted social cues. But I know that would give plenty of people panic attacks, too. This stuff is all just part of the beautiful mess.

@Yam Is this in reference to WoD culture? If so, does not apply.

I can only speak for myself in that… being admin on a game is not a customer service position and if you take out your bullshit on admin like it is one even a little bit, you run the risk of being invited to leave. That might be a difficult metric, but so is being a little asshole.

PSA: Don’t treat customer service workers poorly, either.

@Tez ngl when you told @Yam to get fucked while they were being like " ;_; forgive others," i thought wow TOO FAR

@Tez said in Prove Tez Wrong:

telling people to get fucked.

It doesn’t leave a lot of room for ambiguity regarding your tone, for sure.

@Third-Eye To quote a scholar (@Tat), CG can be as much an interview period to feel out a player and how they navigate your system, hearing the word no, etc.

I’ve banned someone during CG for being generally disruptive, becoming increasingly agitated with the system and insisting thematic areas that were explicitly not allowed should be plausible for them because they could talk in circles real good.

@Yam There is a distinction between lacking the ability to offer grace and choosing not to offer grace. I understand that you qualify some sort of moral superiority to being forgiving, but forgiveness isn’t something owed. In our hobby, admin are going to make judgment calls. If those judgment calls don’t align with your world view to this level where you’re still chewing on it, that’s when you as a player should consider playing on a different game. (This is theoretical. I don’t know if you play there. I don’t play there.)

@Ominous Would you say that Meg’s power over this poll is negatively impacting you?