Obviously, receipts are handy but they’re not a requirement. And I’d (speaking only for myself, though with a polite nod in the direction of that Admin tag) rather not make posting every shred of evidence possible the expectation here.

Client: Well, I’m gay.
Me: Mhm…
Client: And… that’s okay?
Me: slow swivel in chair to look at giant Progress Pride Flag on my wall
Me: slow swivel in chair to look back at client
Client: happy tears

Being a client’s safe space to come out is a gift that keeps on giving.

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

That means that since the birth of BMD, no other game has negatively affected MU* players as broadly or as painfully as Star Wars: Age of Alliances.

A board of women, queers, and allies reacting strongly against sexual misconduct and anti-reporting prejudice… Isn’t that how we started in the first place?

For posterity, I present thus:

Tracy is a man and he is a very hansome and manly man.He likes women a lot and women like him too but men think he is compitishion.He has very long brown shiny hair everywhere and a little blue eyes that are mostly green but very hansome anywya.You can tell a lot of things from his eyes.He has a very big bulge in his jeans where the dick would be and it is not a sock because it makes all women almost orgasm with desire.Behind him is a very firm muscled ass that makes you want to slap it and play with it in lots of ways but only if your a women.If you are a man you will die if you touch it because Tracy is strong and very not Gay.If you are a women he winks and smiles at you and thinks you have a nice personality.If you are a man again he frowns at you and it makes you not hit on him or on any women when hes here.He likes lots of women very much and likes very few men but not as boyfriends.And he has a shitr which is nice and blue.I mean shirt sorry.

@hobos said in Bannings:

From what I’ve seen, you are a people with boundless empathy, but you choose who to direct that towards.

Not to really engage in the debate, here, but that’s literally the same as everyone else.

Me. I’m a good thing about mushing.

And this isn’t a throw away joke, or an ego thing, or whatever. But I’ve finally been able to arrive at the conclusion that yes, my RP is good. My events are good. My being present on a game is good. And I’m finally free to feel that I am good enough.

So there. Me. I’m a good thing about mushing.

So obviously it’s a very dark time, horrid things incoming and so forth…

But did anyone actually have The Onion buying Infowars on their 2024 bingo cards?

@Warma-Sheen said in Los Angeles 2043: A Blade Runner MUSH - Discussion:

Just because you can open a game on your own doesn’t mean you should.

You should. It might last, it might not, but at least stuff’s being made even for a moment.

@GF We’re for taco Tuesdays, no-pants Fridays, and the violent and utter overthrow of the capitalistic, white-supremacist patriarchy. And tea.

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

@Tez There seems to be a few bad actor threads now, would it make sense to put them into their own ‘Bad Actor’ kind of topic at this point? I know there’s been a couple discussions of others in the not too distant past as well.

No. We don’t need a whole section of the forum devoted to talking shit about specific people.

@somasatori said in General Video Game Thread:

I think he tends to lean heavily into the parody of “sassy gay friend serving,”

If he were the only queer character, I’d agree. But I think, at least to me and in my opinion only, he simply is a sassy gay friend/foe serving. But perhaps that’s my view only because I am the sassy gay friend who occasionally serves…

Enemies to besties, 40,000 words, slow burn…

ETA: After seeing the date of the original post is 2023… very slow burn.

@Ashkuri There are some posts in this thread that could certainly be read as if the poster is advocating for such rules. Though, I believe that @RightMeow indicated that they realise they’re possibly misreading the other posters’ intentions, but want to make their opinion clear regardless.

@Ashkuri said in RPing with Everybody (or not):

Nobody in this thread has advocated for even any hypothetical game policy in which “interaction rules” are enforced.

To be honest, I would argue that any game runner is entitled to set such a policy, even while I’d also argue that such a policy is the stupidest thing since quinoa.

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

a SW game run by sane staff

Good, sane, active. Pick two.

@Juniper Lubuntu is apparently quite good, and if you’re into tinkering then I can highly recommend a lightweight Arch install – but you do have to contend with people who smugly proclaim their particular strain (like a virus) of Arch is the best whenever you’re out there seeking help.

@MisterBoring And because Microsoft is… well… Microsoft, you may have to check/update this setting every few updates or so. I’ve definitely had to chase up stupid settings changes that updates have made counter to my desires.

While I’m very much in a similar boat and 99.9% of my time is spent on Linux of some description, I do want to offer a warning to those who are tempted to make the switch:

Many games with an online multiplayer component rely on kernel-based anti-cheating software, which often doesn’t work on Linux (it could, but many devs don’t bother enabling it… it’s a big discussion point on Linux reddit). So if you’re big into your online multiplayer games, double check whether it’ll work before you go to the effort of moving everything over.

ETA: If you want to check compatibility between your steam library and Linux’s Proton, you can link your steam (or simply enter your steam id) here: https://www.protondb.com/profile and it’ll spurt out your Steam library and ratings of compatibility (including those impacted by the aforementioned anticheat problems).

Drew Struzan, the artist who created some of the most recognizable posters for movies including “Star Wars,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Blade Runner” and “Back to the Future,” has died. He was 78.

@InkGolem People like me but older and somehow worse.