@Warma-Sheen said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

How much worse would it be to have to experience harassment and also be swiftly booted from the game because the harasser false reported you first and was believed without question so that you got banned and couldn’t report him? No thanks.

oh my god, what a horrible hypothetical situation to imagine, surely it must happen all the time since we hear about it so often

Like. Dude. Even in just the ten years I’ve been on the various incarnations of this board, I could only count on one fucking hand the number of times we saw someone report a false report that wasn’t almost immediately dismissed with ridiculous ease because it was just the dumbass abuser themselves trying to cover their tracks.

This is such a non-problem versus the enormous issue of harassment in the community that it makes me actually angry people push so hard like this to make reporting and being believed so difficult. This is not a court of law and collecting this irrefutable body of evidence y’all always seem to want is literally the last thing on the mind of someone being stalked, abused, harassed, etc. It’s an enormously stressful and honestly embarrassing experience that can leave you too scattered, not to mention staffers like Cujo and the flying monkeys the abusers surround themselves with magically always seem to decide that it’s never enough anyway.

My son’s teacher reached out to me on a conference call with his principal today very concerned. There were some legitimate reasons, but one of their items of evidence of inappropriate behavior was a “drawing of Satan.”

His class was tasked with drawing Nutcrackers after seeing the play, and…

This is the picture, loooooooool.

It’s a goddamn Super Saiyan from Dragon Ball.

Never change, Utah. I am honestly annoyed that they escalated this in particular BUT ALSO I have been cackling like a swamp witch for a good fifteen minutes since she sent it to me. I needed that laugh so bad.

When I was a teenager playing a Final Fantasy game, instead of simply OOC fading to black during romantic scenes where sex was heavily implied, I would write these elaborate little…intermission paragraphs (???) where a “chibi” version of my character would drag a protective curtain/screen/etc across the fourth wall, and then take a little smoke break or whatever before pushing it back off stage for the post-coital pillow talk. Every time.

I HAVE NO IDEA WHY I DID THIS, I AM SO SORRY

@kalakh said in Bannings:

derp, this thread’s anger summed up in two words:

we are not a community.

We were.

Not to dismiss that anger at all, but just to speak for myself, I always considered complete and utter dipshits like Derp and Ghost to be the narcissistic and annoying outliers in an otherwise pretty decent and engaging group of people that they just happened to desperately seek to belong to. To be frank everyone who kept me coming back to the boards for five years or whatever are more or less here now.

Y’all didn’t lose the community, you lost a website and a few bad apples. Personally that’s just one big ¯_(ツ)_/¯ to me, even if it was one of the shittier ways it could have happened.

I am bummed Gany made the decisions she made, that’s certainly disappointing from someone I have had a lot of respect for, but hopefully she sees the light someday. As for the other pigs wallowing in the mud back there…I mean, nothing of value was lost imho and I always figured they were bound to drop off under the weight of their own toxicity eventually.

Hope you all can find some healing in getting away from all that.

Alucard is very camera shy and always tries to scoot off when I’m taking pictures, but I finally managed to capture this beautiful portrait featuring his magnificent whiskers, lol:

@hellfrog

The “oh I gotta do some MANLY LIFTING from my TRUCK for my WIFE” is really what makes it for me. It wasn’t enough to lie, it had to be some macho shit too.

They all just randomly came and piled on top of me.

Guess I just…live here forever now.

@KarmaBum

Seriously, though. I don’t think I have seen a more fucking weaselly response in…ever?

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

All sexual harassment claims are taken seriously though, and if deemed valid, and actively a serious burden, then expect that player to get banned.

Oh, it’s not enough that it is “valid,” a claim also has the mountain to climb of proving that is actively a serious burden.

I just…what. Actively a “serious” burden. So, what, people who aren’t harassing…enough(???) just skate on by, according to that standard.

It can’t be said often enough, fuck that dude.

@Rinel said in Predators and Roleplaying Communities:

Very few people who did not grow up as girls are fully aware of this problem.

I am not going to go into a lot of detail as I find it honestly upsetting to remember, but I did want to say that both my own experiences with older players who knew sexually explicit discussion/roleplaying with me was not appropriate given my age – which I openly admitted to anyone I regularly RPed with – were with women, or at least players that presented as women.

I am not trying to dispute ratios or anything like that, but I did feel like I should represent the fact that men typically vastly underreport sexual abuse in RL and it’s likely the case in the hobby as well.

my big guy loves to just come flop back and nap like this on my tum, it’s such a bright spot in my life

I was going to say, oh my god, the people who have an incredibly awful track record around victim-blaming actual real life victims of SA are…denying it’s SA and saying Cobalt must just be jealous. It’s incredibly on-brand for them in the most pathetic way possible, and I agree, it is genuinely sad to see.

@Jennkryst

Not to pile on you and I don’t want you to feel discouraged or attacked, but repeatedly asking someone here either to code for you or teach you to code when it’s actually a much larger investment of time and effort than you seem to be treating it – especially in pandemic times – is not gonna win any hearts and minds.

There are tons of free resources online that explain the rudiments, and if you’re honestly someone (like me!) who struggles with self-paced stuff like that, a local community college class will put you out maybe $100-200 bucks but give you life skills as well as empower you to make the place yourself. Thanks for coming to my TED talk

Got out of the shower before work and caught this cuteness, just a shame I couldn’t get a less blurry pic.

That’s Alucard with his three little surprise babies, two voids and a baby tux, snuggling and grooming.

He is such a sweet, devoted papa cat and has been since they were born, always near them and watching over them.

The whole “I am speaking for the voiceless” thing, as has been discussed ad infinitum, is frankly going to predispose me to disbelieve whatever assertion you’re championing just because of how often it’s been weaponized by bad actors here. It’s really easy and convenient to say “x people came to me and said this,” but I can’t even tell you how many other people have come to me and told me about how uncomfortable it also makes them. see what I did there?

If you’re that thirsty for justice, encourage your friends to speak up for themselves, it’ll ultimately be less exhausting and frustrating for everyone involved.

@dvoraen

you don’t need to summon me buddy, I’m always here!!

…always

lol. I was too lazy to annoy Alucard with the camera tonight but here are some recent pics of the others!!

Sweet/grumpy momma cat Oreo:

Smollest derpy tuxedo baby, Tuxie:

My demon familiar, Inky:

Just gonna put it out there that I believe the OP and the players’ experiences they’re talking about 100%. It’s been a minute since I was there and I wasn’t on AoA for very long, but that is one game with a particularly bizarre staff culture and game culture, and Hadrix just had that vibe. If you’re looking for a Star Wars experience, I’d recommend you look elsewhere.

Common peeve but I kinda wish there was a paradigm shift and live scenes stopped being such a focus on most games. I just can’t do three hour blocks anymore, for a lot of reasons, and it’s hard not to feel like I’m somehow being rude when people ask for them on channels and I can’t jump in.

@De-Villefort said in Liberation MUSH:

I think they just wanted a big lupus to knot their kinfolk alts

…what a day to have eyes

@helvetica said in MU Peeves Thread:

Sad for the staffer who had to write that superheroes don’t lactate. No matter what the story behind that ruling was, sad for them.

my year was distinctly lacking in absolutely hilarious sentences like this and I just want to thank this hobby from the bottom of my heart for finally delivering the content I crave, 10/10

Jfc, this thread makes me so sad I never thought to save my stuff online instead of on old hard drives that have long been lost to a bajillion moves.

Just know that if you are ever feeling too embarrassed about your past rp, you can always have a good chuckle over the fact that in the course of my illustrious RPing career, I played (in no particular order):

• a Lion King panther with a huge, bulging demon-possessed eye that not only blatantly broke the thin rules of that game, he was desced so badly I found it like ten years later on a website dedicated to hilariously bad descs
• a catboy Gundam pilot on that beautiful fever dream once known as Yahoo Chat
• a blatant Silver Surfer ripoff called the Golden Surfer (ugggghhhhhh) who regularly hung out with the Power Rangers
• Jecht from Final Fantasy X, who became involved in an incredibly melodramatic relationship with Beatrix from FFIX where they spent days in bed talking about all the people they murdered
• a literal slimy ball of tentacles and SHAME
• basically Eugene Hutz as a Twilight vampire