@hellfrog

how many people? sure.

@Faraday said in Bad Stuff Happening IC:

I don’t know if it was just so alien to them that someone would willingly set their own character up for humiliation, or if they just genuinely thought I was dumb because my character did something stupid or what.

I don’t have any like professional psychology background or anything outside of personal experience to reinforce this opinion but I honestly think it’s projection. I think a lot of players have a very strong image of their own characters in their minds as someone who is strong/unflappable/cool, someone who can maybe suffer setbacks but not actual outright embarrassment, because it’s part of the power fantasy they play for. so having something happen to embarrass a character in their minds just doesn’t fit with that narrative and makes them upset.

also, separate but related, it’s kind of an unspoken problem how many players really do just suffer like insanely uncomfortable amounts of bleed.

@Roz

if the embarrassment feels like the other player’s intentions were to embarrass me as well on like an OOC level, I am 100% with them. but one of my fondest memories of the hobby was having my character unexpectedly embarrassed in front of others in a way that revealed something to me about him and their character, that we kept playing into and had so much fun with later.

it absolutely comes back to trust, though. I knew that player was trying to make a compelling twist in the story, not be cruel or petty to me.

yeah, I think the common denominator in all our opinions regardless of how we voted is going to be: we want a fun story, and a hugely important factor in what makes it fun is that it feels fair even if it’s a loss.

yesssss…ruin my character’s lives

bring all their dreams to naught

FILL THEIR MOUTHS WITH ASHES

@somasatori said in Celebrities We've Lost 2025:

Edit: Evidently, they were murdered by their son.

People Mag willing to just jump on that conclusion within hours seems pretty irresponsible unless their sources are like…the son himself, so. still taking that with a small grain of salt. enormously tragic either way, those two were absolute legends and it makes me heartsick.

@Lemon-Fox said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

@dvoraen You could app a character in? 2000 bonus xp right now.

it does line up with my own anecdotal experience to a degree, though I do need to qualify that with, it’s pretty split along political lines in my family and their homeschooling communities. because of course it is.

@somasatori said in Tough Calls:

To me, it seemed like this particular person was really focused on playing a comic relief character as his whole shtick.

“comic relief” stemming from a grossly inaccurate caricature of a severe impairment. they were basically asking for staffer permission/endorsement to mock a person with disabilities. the yikes factor is pretty high on this one for me.

@somasatori said in Tough Calls:

ah yes, brain damage. what a laugh riot

I gotta be honest, that alone would probably be enough for me to tell someone to take a while to reflect and grow somewhere else before trying to play a game I ran again.

I knew someone personally before and after a traumatic head injury and how it changed their entire life is still one of the most tragic and depressing things I’ve ever seen.

@Jumpscare said in Tough Calls:

PEOPHIN
It feels like the only true option I’ve been given is “make a new character”. When I keep asking about being less disruptive, I’m not getting a definitive answer on what exactly that means, so I am confused, admittingly.

I would prefer to play a dumb (likely brain damaged) and loud character who rushes headfirst into things, who is obnoxious and meant from a OOC perspective to be taken as a joke, while still having serious moments as it happens in rp. Is there a way for that to be okay?

@Cobalt said in Empty Night - A Dresdenverse Game:

How difficult would it be to get into the game without having read them?

Dresdenverse is generic urban fantasy with a very light veil that is self-enforcing. there are some very specific setting things that are important to know (vampires come in a bunch of different varieties, magic users are policed by a ruling council, etc) but glancing at the website they seem to cover the basics pretty well.

since the game does away with the characters and most of the plots from the books I’d say you could jump right in.

@hellfrog said in Warma-Sheen:

this guy has more than once joined a game just to cheat, right out of the gate, with a side of negging the game runner from the fake alt for absolutely no reason. ‘your game sux, no one has reached out or been nice to me except Me’

not to mention some of his absolutely rancid takes here and back on MSB, most of which was consistently dismissing victims of harassment and insulting people trying to support them.

sincerely sorry to the people who came to his defense over the Empire thing, I don’t think it makes anything y’all were saying in general less valid, but the dude is a tool and didn’t deserve the benefit of the doubt.

@MisterBoring said in Warma-Sheen:

(Referring to the character list where Saulot claims to have been the same PC on TR as Warma.)

the Reach was open for a long time and names got recycled a lot, so…not to speak out for someone I know nothing about and doesn’t sound worth defending anyway, but I’m gonna guess no.

ask me about the nightmare experience that was apping in as a “Connor” there once and enduring a week of harassment from people who thought the last one was coming back, lol.

@Pavel

I reFUSE. it’s made from nuts!!! come on

@Jihgfed said in Intro to MU*ing Event:

And it looks like we have more votes for “mooing” than against, so there we go, now I’ll be able to feel a little less silly saying it onstage (though still silly). Thanks!

I feel like such a yokel for it but I’d always said “Muh.”

it made sense to me! there was only one “oo” codebase, but now I’m questioning everything. do y’all say “moods” and “mooshes”?!

@Faraday said in Banning Bad, Actually?:

Various folks in the thread have made statements that indicate they don’t leave grace to ensure it’s more than an isolated incident. That even a single remark they deemed “rude” was enough to warrant a ban. I’m too tired to go and find the exact quotes, but it was pretty clear to me.

I’ll admit that this is true, depending on the issue. I’m actually with you more than I’ve made room to say, there are situations that I would have more grace for, but on the other hand others I definitely have less, and (omg shocking, I know) strangers acting like they are disproportionately entitled to my or other people’s free time is just one of those things.

there’s a line where just leaving a player hanging with no explanation becomes just as obnoxious, of course, but. it’s not measured in days, for me. there’s just not any imaginary fun time thing that’s that important.

I’m not going to sit here and argue with you about it, like I just said. if you didn’t think he was in the wrong, okay.

@Ominous said in Banning Bad, Actually?:

I just didn’t think Warma Sheen was being a shit in the text provided.

you’re in the minority there for a reason that I’m not going to spend pages and pages spelling out for you. how much of a shit we’d all probably disagree on but it’s generally just bad form to get upset (“made me feel a certain kind of way” does not translate to anxiety, it translates to frustration, as he explained himself. it’s just a passive aggressive way of saying “it pissed me off”) about tiny delays.

if you don’t get why that’s bothersome, you’re irritating more people than you’re probably aware of.