Somehow, Kissinger is still alive…

BUT!

BRB making a few alt accounts to upvote all my own posts, since all you cowards refuse to give me enough microdoses of dopamine.

(:Public:) Ax (A) is curious what Kasia/Zephyr did that was bad enough to have not only her, but those people associated with her get their alts destroyed and their primary characters (some of who were on vacation) sent to the Old Guard Lounge and @passworded? Is that the new standard of dealing with people who investigate claims of sexual harassment here? Burn them and their associates? I’m just curious
(:Public:) Cujo says, “Ax, you don’t care about any of those things.”
(:Public:) Cujo says, “If you did, you’d put in a request to talk privately.”
(:Public:) Cujo says, “But you didn’t do that, you posted it publicly because you want to make a huge show of things.”
(:Public:) Cujo sayz, “So now you’re banned from this channel, well done.”

DO NOT SPEAK OUT, OR YOU WILL BE SILENCED, etc etc. Shocker.

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

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

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

The staff just imperiously announced ‘We’re skipping ahead fifteen years so that Rey and Ben Solo can have lots of babies! If you don’t like it, leave!’

Actually, it’s Rey and Poe’s babies on Age of Kora. Poe, played by Sumi’s player.

Still a better match IMHO.

POE IS MARRIED TO FINN, AND NOTHING JJ OR DISNEY SAYS WILL CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE.

Since Derp and Ghost keep bringing it up, I’ll repeat a point I’ve made before:

People are going to keep talking about the community being hijacked, because at the end of the day, before any of this happened, any of YOU who feel the need to talk about bullies being mean - YOU could have made your own board, and made it however you wanted.

Instead, you decided to change the rules of the board we were all on and throw anyone who disagreed out. Which is the root of it all. And you know it. Because you keep bringing up how we went somewhere else and made the rules we wanted.

And it’s pretty fucked up how you keep rewriting history to justify the decision.

Another person banned for person attacks, despite making fewer personal attacks than Ghost. Maybe it was the big words?

Of course, they had to ban @Kestrel. You showed up with receipts about their hypocrisy. 12/10. Would also upvote if I could.

@kalakh said in Bannings:

The new argument that this is merely the result of wanting more moderation and people are just mad that they are being moderated (because they’re super hypocrites and are now getting theirs), sure is a take.

People wanted moderation to fork threads or move them to different boards, and to ban the rapists or that one guy who sprouts up every couple months and tries to set everything on fire. So technically yes, more moderation was wanted.

But it is an extremely bad faith reading that the logical conclusion is ‘ban everyone who dares to speak out’. Pretty against the spirit of the job that was asked to be done, you might say.

@hobos said in Bannings:

I do care that VulgarKitten lied to those people, and I feel for them, particularly one who I personally admire who was really hurt by the lies. More importantly, she is sorry about it.

If she is actually sorry about it, perhaps she should admit that and apologize, and not pretend to be a totally different, literally new person, which fits the profile of the issues in the first place?

@helvetica said in Bannings:

@kalakh said in Bannings:

VK/Hella

I didn’t know who Hella was. lmaoooooo

Yeah, she literally changed her username and started pretending to be a new person right after the banning- spree, and nobody has called her out on it.

@Tat said in Bannings:

@Roadspike said in Bannings:

@farfalla Ares logs are system-created and (to my knowledge) can’t be edited. I would probably take a regular log too, but that would mean I was playing on a non-Ares game, and ain’t nobody got time to go technologically backwards.

Yeah, they can’t be edited unless you’re a coder, because they come straight from the database and not a player’s computer.

THAT JUST PROVES THE CODER IS IN ON THE CHEMTRAIL FLOURIDE CONSPIRACY TO MAKE PEOPLE LOOK BAD BECAUSE THEY ARE AN ENEMY OF THE CLIQUE!!!111!!1!ONE!!!111ELEVEN!

@Gashlycrumb said in Lords and Ladies Game Design:

but also does not suffer any consequences for inaction

Have the commoners invent the guillotine.

@Roadspike My only thing here, and it may be addressed and I just didn’t see it, is something like a ‘you have until X day/time to reply, or this is escalating.’ If they need more time because vacation or OOC events, that’s fine it can be delayed for a short time, but this is another way to (hopefully) prevent folks from doing the ‘we never got a chance to be involved’.

This also may or may not address @MisterBoring’s followup, a big flashing sign about how the RP is going to be affected if they don’t do anything, I dunno. People still probably going to complain, but now you have a sign to yeet at them when they do.

@bear_necessities said in Lords and Ladies Game Design:

@Ominous said in Lords and Ladies Game Design:

Alice, Bob, and Carol, a trio of town guards, could be the ones to come across the zombie horde and report it to their sergeant, the commander of the town guard, or the mayor.

But what happens when Alice, Bob & Carol, a trio of town guards, come across a zombie horde and horde that information to themselves because they want the plot? IDK there’s no real perfect way to ensure everyone gets a bite of the plot cake except to just put the information out there for everyone.

They probably die trying to fight it, new mystery where did they go?

@Floof said in Games we want, but will almost certainly never have:

I have no idea how it’d work but I’ve always kind of wanted a game inspired by Ark: Survival Evolved/Ascended

So not exactly this, but I was half dabbling with a Monster Hunter or Horizon type game idea at one point. I never got far, but like… go hunt things and upgrade your SWAG and improve the village etc etc.

@Gashlycrumb said in Lords and Ladies Game Design:

The PC is supposed to be Machiavelli, but what I see is Mr. Magoo.

So Magoo, it’s Machiavellian

@Raistlin said in Lords and Ladies Game Design:

A player genuinely trying to portray a brilliant tactician might benefit from dice mechanics that help bridge the gap, while someone just going through the motions and expecting the dice to do all the heavy lifting is missing the point of collaborative storytelling.

The counterargument is the equally bad-faith ‘oops, you wrote one wrong word in your pose, which you may or may not have OOCly known would destroy the whole thing, so we’re going to pretend the character rolled a botch instead of looking at how many successes are on the dice’

Long have I wanted to do an Exalted Drams of the First Age (vibes not mechanics) L&L game.

@Pavel said in Games we want, but will almost certainly never have:

Whenever someone mentions The Magicians I get it confused with The Librarian(s) and I feel the urge to watch those movies (and the subsequent TV series) and then make a game out of it. Somehow.

This is literally just nWoD Mysterium, and it’s great.

@Raistlin said in Games we want, but will almost certainly never have:

Batman and the Turtles dealing with Gotham’s rogues gallery while maybe facing off against Shredder and the Foot Clan would be amazing

My only problem with this is that Daredevil is right there, conveniently also in NYC so the Turtles don’t need to move, the chemical spill that blinded Murdock was the Ooze that mutated the turtles, and Foot Clan and the Hand are both part of the same ominous ninja-body.

Though it is a different group of baddies, to be sure.

Double post, but obviously solution is to yeet different sphere rules, and unify them all into a singular system with 1:1 powers, so Dresden Files +strength is +strength, no matter if wuff or vamp.

Alternatively, Exalted lulz.