@Sage The existence of multigenerational households in a huge number of cultures in the world, as well as the fact that they really dwindled in the United States during the rise of suburbia, strongly implies that this is a cultural trend and not an evolutionary one. Be very, very careful of assuming that what you see as the norm around you exists that way for purely biological reasons, the implications aren’t great.
Posts made by Selira
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RE: RL Peeves
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
also, i’m not going to greet everyone, because i don’t like some people and it’s as simple as that.
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RE: Real life happy
I submitted my first short story to Amazon. It’s cheesy erotica, but… I already have my second ready to edit, I have my community pages built out, and the hard work of just doing the first one is done.
I’m really fucking excited for this.
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RE: The Arx Secrets Thread
Did… did it collapse into the volcano or is part of it overlooking that as a new, potential shardhaven because honestly that would be sick?
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RE: The Arx Secrets Thread
@kalakh wait is my pretty house on avarion’s peak okay
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RE: The Arx Secrets Thread
Bliss had four secrets, but they were built around two things that were incredibly public knowledge by the end:
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Her duel with Everard Telmar, the fact that she won the Telmar House Sword from him, and the fact that it was stolen from her by him dishonorably after, leaving her shoulder maimed.
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Her fame with the Nox’alfar after finishing a folly.
Those were definitely enough fuel to drive a character forward, and while I was actively playing the game, I did a lot of scheming, putting together a quiet alliance of nobles to pressure and press on Telmar, working with the Nox now and then, and just doing fun things. There was more I could have done, ways I should have been less averse, but playing a character who on the one hand was ready to burn it all down for the drama who on the other hand took Whisper House and made some major moves that set the scene for future Radiants is enough for me. She had her moment in the spotlight, and then when real life flared up, I got out of it and did my best to let others shine.
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
@helvetica this is the most evil thing I’ve read in some time
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
as a project manager, lol, lmao, this is absolutely not a universally defined term and there are dozens of ways to structure how you get things done
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RE: General Video Game Thread
World of Warcraft ramble time.
Between Dragonflight being a really solid expansion and just a great group of people, my raid group hit 25 raiders tonight. Those were the numbers we were seeing at the start of the expansion – over halfway through, that’s crazy. We have a bunch of people who jump in regularly cross-server, and we have our solid core.
Meanwhile, legitimately everyone is getting better. We don’t raid at the top level and I made it explicit we never will, but instead I try my hardest to make sure that everyone who wants to raid, who puts in the effort and has a good attitude about it, has a place with us. And I’m seeing drastic improvement and a fire lighting in people to do better just because they want to help the group. It’s awesome! And new people are coming in and seem hype to be with us.
I’m just really proud of these nerds and what we’ve made here.
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RE: IC Consequences and OOC Acceptance
@Buttercup said in IC Consequences and OOC Acceptance:
I don’t necessarily agree with character driven consequences.
Character-driven consequences are probably the most common form of consequence when your actions impact other characters. Like, what does this mean? You only accept staff rulings? If anyone else pushes back, that doesn’t count?
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RE: An Arx Peeve Thread
@RightMeow said in An Arx Peeve Thread:
WTF
I was encouraged to play with him by someone in this thread (not their fault). He is the one that I didn’t interact with. I mean it wasn’t staff driven where I should complain. He just took something IC to an OOC and I was like nope. Then he insulted me as a player and I noped again. Then he blew up about how this was all about me and how I made him feel a certain way (no it wasn’t gross). So we just agreed to not interact with each other.
Then I got another character that got tied to his in a arm’s length sort of way and I minimized my interactions to bare minimum.
I’ve been over here for YEARS thinking it was me that did something wrong against this beloved player/character/etc. Dangit.
(Note: I’m not really mad, just damn my perception was wrong on all of this I guess. LOL)
Yeah, this is the kind of stuff I’ve had to learn that you need to bring to staff attention when it happens. Even if it’s a “hey I’m not assigning blame here, I just feel weird about this,” then it can go a long way toward building an image of someone.
I totally get why you wouldn’t, and hey, maybe you even did, but I’m just pointing this one out because this is a really good example of that.
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RE: General Video Game Thread
@Cobalt this game was ridiculously fun
I’m stopping the playtest to leave the real game ready to enjoy thoroughly when it’s out, but it definitely sucked me in.
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RE: Baldur's Gate 3
@SpaceKhomeini oh my god, i see myself and i don’t like it
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RE: Staff Capacity
@Pavel Regarding point one of this, I don’t know how you get around it. Player run plots often have significant lore deviation and, in games where there is a larger metaplot, need to be basically integrated back into that plot by staff. There’s always a lingering question of ‘is this really canon’?
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
@Tez the best part is where they say that I don’t act in good faith while anonymously and passive-aggressively claiming I’m “trying to plan or schedule their rp”
Like, if you don’t want to come, just don’t come. If you want to do something else, do something else. I’m not forcing anything here. Just trying to schedule.
But clearly I’m the one acting in bad faith right now.
The kind of discouragement people get for trying to do shit is always just stunning.