@Livia said in MU* Wishlists:

ignoring V5

Which is the correct thing to do.

@Faraday said in Age Verification & Games:

If you are going to allow minors on an online game, you have additional responsibilities - both ethically and legally.

Lordy I remember when COPPA became a thing and the complexities of dealing with that in a safe way. Now with many polities, including Australia, banning children from accessing social media… if one of our battier MPs finds out about MUing it could very well have legal rammifications for us (Australians) here (on MUs) too.

@Faraday Personally I’d rather not give my ID over to anybody and the laws that require it are hamfisted and poorly thought out. But they’re here, and I only foresee them getting stronger.

I’m weirdly okay with services and websites having some sort of secured way of accessing, from a ‘trusted’ source, that a person is 18+. In the same way we all sort of trust the security of our banking app. So if a MU wanted to connect with, say, Yoti ID and could get a token from them that “the person you’re asking about has demonstrated to us that they are over 18” that would be a different question, and I’d encourage such a thing.

I’ve no idea how to do that in a way that isn’t easily falsified by children, but I think it should be sufficient for a MU to cover themselves from legal rammifications. “Hey, we went the mile you asked of us.”

@Prototart said in Age Verification & Games:

@Tez said in Age Verification & Games:

I’m not even talking about Discord’s age verification. I’m talking about RP servers on Discord being like ‘verify your age by sending us your ID’. I’m talking about users feeling like they need to do it.

ETA: I need to clarify. This is on top of Discord’s systemic age verification. This is an additional layer of USERS asking OTHER USERS in SHARED SERVERS to send them their ID.

Girl that is nuts there is 100% some ID theft ring running a Sonic RP server with five thousand defense contractors in it

I’m not sure what’s worse. Sonic TS, or Sonic TS with a Raytheon employee.

@Tez said in Age Verification & Games:

This is an additional layer of USERS asking OTHER USERS in SHARED SERVERS to send them their ID.

We barely trust other users to make judgement calls for our pretendy fun time games, much less giving them access to documents that can very easily (for the determined) lead to identity theft, other forms of fraud, or simple doxing.

@Prototart said in MU* Wishlists:

@Pavel said in MU* Wishlists:

@Pacha And when did you develop this taste in luxuries?

just walked into Waffle House and asked for ortolan

While I’m fairly sure you meant the bird that’s drowned in Armagnac… but my first thought was that you had ordered this kind of Ortolan.

@Pacha And when did you develop this taste in luxuries?

@Livia said in MU* Wishlists:

they’re just the ‘Night Court’ of the freehold

@hellfrog said in Staff Bits Linking Handles:

I feel like it’s possible, but we’ve never seen it happen.

I think that the people on the scale we’re talking about would have to have something fundamental to themselves or their lives change for such an evolution to happen. And that would likely coincide with their interests changing to the point that they leave MUing and go on to write books or something.

@Yam said in Staff Bits Linking Handles:

I figure the handle being prominent, right after the name on all channels with every message has probably shifted the expectations a bit, as opposed to an alt list tucked into a finger.

Ares isn’t the be all and end all, it’s one system among many and the others don’t have a handle with history attached.

@Wizz said in Staff Bits Linking Handles:

…wasn’t that literally the job

Cleaners mistake art work for rubbish, throw it out

More on topic and on the subject of staff bits and associating them with characters, I tend not to mind so much but I also typically only really invest my emotional energy in places that are run by people I already trust. If I’m on a Faraday game, for instance, I already have a rough idea of what I can expect from Faraday as far as professionalism, ethics, and so forth. So I don’t tend to worry so much if she decides to spend her downtime playing Ensign Fuggedaboudit rather than her ‘public’ character of Corporal Wordsmith.

What I do hate is when staff have characters in positions of authority. NPCs are a different thing, they’re storytelling tools, but if your personal player character is in a position of authority and you are in a position of OOC authority, I do look upon that with askance. So I can understand expanding that level of suspicion/distrust to staff in a more general sense and becoming frustrated or feeling violated when staff aren’t 100% transparent about everything all of the time.

@Yam @Faraday and @Cobalt; and if @Tez runs a demon game again I’ll be in with bells on.

@Roadspike said in Staff Bits Linking Handles:

Sure, it can be nice to go “off duty” and pretend to not be a staffer for a while playing a “hidden alt,” but it’s also disingenuous, because you are a staffer, and you’re seeing things through staffer eyes the whole time, and can bring in the weight of staff whenever you want (either through yourself or one of your fellow staffers).

While I definitely agree, there also needs to be a bit of non-staff player responsibility here too to give staffers who are not active on their staff bit a chance to actually play and relax. In my experience we’ve gotten better at that, on the whole, in the past few years but that hasn’t always been the case—hence, at least partially, the desire to have “plain clothes” alts.

@RightMeow Would starting your own game be the equivalent of having a baby to save the toxic relationship?

Because I’ve considered it rather seriously for more than a few moments of late.

@InkGolem Yeah, that’s the one to which I was referring. Sackoff was in a couple of episodes as a guest, but she didn’t host it. (At least according to the information I found while googling. I didn’t actually listen to the podcast when it aired.)

Apparently this podcast is her first time watching it all the way through.

@InkGolem Do you mean the podcast Tricia Helfer did with Marc Bernardin?

@dvoraen Perhaps. But Stat sounds similar to Cat.

@Ominous said in MU Peeves Thread:

It’s basically quantum skills.

Schrödinger’s Stat

@Coin said in MU Peeves Thread:

then even if I DON’T have a rule explicitly against it, it should largely be fine to say: ‘no, bad player, no biscuit’.

While naturally you can do basically whatever you like on your game, perhaps the first instance should be a “oh I should make this a policy from now on” moment instead of an instant boot.