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Yeah, uh, even before the other perspective came out I was sitting here thinking that screenshots of you complaining about someone doesn’t prove anything.
I complain about people with my friends. But if I’m going to accuse them of being a shitstain in public I’m bringing RECEIPTS.
Do you have anything more substantial for those of us in the peanut gallery?
So… who was whom on Sheltering Skies? Because I still have popcorn, damnit.
@Muscle-Car Tell me, though, honestly. Are we pronouncing both Ws as Vs (as is the German way) or just the one? So is it tvatvurst or twatvurst?
@Aria Yeah, I can definitely see that happening. So as with any rule enforcement, one should probably initially assume cock-up over conspiracy and chat before banning.
@Roadspike said in Numetal/Retromux:
@sao I was trying to come up with a situation too, but I couldn’t. I did want to leave the door open, because there are very few things I want to be an absolutist about.
I could imagine something like the delirium situation @MisterBoring mentioned, or it being a month or two in between creating a character you never played and creating a new character because you forgot about the first one, or getting so excited about the concept that you forgot that there were no alts allowed and submitted a new character.
But the response to Staff going, “Um… hold on a sec” would be very telling, and would decide if I went scorched earth or just nuked all but one character and gave them a warning.
I can’t really think of a situation where someone would accidentally make a character (aside from the one MisterBoring outlined), but I can imagine someone accidentally breaking a no alts rule by incorrectly assuming that a game regularly conducts idle purges if, hey, turns out they don’t.
I mean, I know that I’ve made characters on a game, not really had them jive before, and then go back to the place a year or more later with a new concept, in a new sphere, with a different group of friends. Granted, I also did check if my old login still worked, but that was more out of idle curiosity than anything else and hey! It turned out that said character had in fact been deleted, so my assumption was correct. But I’ve also made a handful of characters that I ditched so quickly that my recollection of them was, “Ohh, god. What was her name. Uhhh, she was a Daeva, that I made with my friend Matt, and her name started with an I… she was a lawyer… or something?” on a game that I know didn’t purge their database literally ever because I had friends who staffed there.
So I think an easy workaround for what I’m describing and even what happened to MisterBoring is effectively what that staffer in MisterBoring’s case did–check and see if said alt has been played actively or logged in recently. If the answer is ‘no’, then it’s probably a case of assuming idle purges like Ares games do or a foggy memory. If the answer is ‘yes’, then you’ve likely got a deliberate rule breaker and do what you will.
Don’t know what I just spent an hour reading but it’s helped me deal with waking up at 330am and kill some time lol.
@Pavel said in Numetal/Retromux:
Hey @LeeRoyBatty, when can we run a FATAL game?
I have several better ideas, but gotta kidnap that coder…
@Pavel said in Numetal/Retromux:
@Alamias No excuse, please commit seppuku by dawn tomorrow, thank you.
I can only assume this means L5R, which is on the list, so go go go? A discussion to be had elsewhere.
@labsunlimited said in Numetal/Retromux:
We all have to share the spotlight on a MU* or this kind of thing happens. I sometimes wonder if WOD could have been better if the mechanics and narrative were better suited to that, like the 2013 MET LARP ruleset, since that’s designed for games of like 15-20 people over 3-5 in tabletop.
I’m on record somewhere agreeing with this, it could stand a test run somewhere if nobody has tried it yet.
@Jumpscare said in Numetal/Retromux:
@dvoraen said in Numetal/Retromux:
I couldn’t think of how to do an inverse to “Hog Pit.”
First you ban someone who replied to a do-not-interact request with “message received.” The rest just happens organically.
First, we need to foolishly hand over the keys to a robot cat lawyer.
@Roadspike said in Numetal/Retromux:
But the response to Staff going, “Um… hold on a sec” would be very telling, and would decide if I went scorched earth or just nuked all but one character and gave them a warning.
My response in my situation was literally:
@sao I was trying to come up with a situation too, but I couldn’t. I did want to leave the door open, because there are very few things I want to be an absolutist about.
I could imagine something like the delirium situation @MisterBoring mentioned, or it being a month or two in between creating a character you never played and creating a new character because you forgot about the first one, or getting so excited about the concept that you forgot that there were no alts allowed and submitted a new character.
But the response to Staff going, “Um… hold on a sec” would be very telling, and would decide if I went scorched earth or just nuked all but one character and gave them a warning.
