MU Peeves Thread
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@Tori my experiences are different from yours and now your world view is bigger, deal with it
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@Pavel how do I downvote this
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This one isnât actually MU-sourced, to spare people the need to wonder what game is having drama, but itâs baffling enough to need to share, so.
If you have a problem with a person on game staff, messaging them to say âso when are you going to be demoted?â Verbatim. Is not actually going to fix that problem.
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@Apos said in MU Peeves Thread:
@Pavel how do I downvote this
All my posts start with a -10 score already.
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the only flow -
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If nothing else, I canât think of a purer expression of disrespect. Whoa.
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@imstillhere I looked for a good one online and didnât like them. My professional ones really are jargony and look a lot like these. The ones I think most people will be familiar with are the pages in RPG rulebooks telling you how to run combat, initiative phase, declaration, etc. The one I am talking about is the one that started when I sat down to the MU on a âstaff work dayâ for me.
@sao Oh, I wasnât refusing to define terms. I just didnât answer that question in less than an hour and a half. Largely this was because I was otherwise engaged, ie, having a life. Also because I was puzzling over how not to sound contemptuous while defining a term for some people while another set of people are telling me how offensive it is of me to suggest, even hyperbolically, that anyone in the hobby isnât already using that tool.
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fight, fight, fight
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@Gashlycrumb said in MU Peeves Thread:
Also because I was puzzling over how not to sound contemptuous while defining a term for some people while another set of people are telling me how offensive it is of me to suggest, even hyperbolically, that anyone in the hobby isnât already using that tool.
I donât think most people were saying it was offensive, just that it was wrong. Almost any way that you work is, by definition, a workflow. Is what people were pointing out.
Just because you might hate Waterfall and prefer Agile, doesnât make Waterfall not a workflow, for example.
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Honestly this conversation has led me to believe that I am enriched simply by not knowing what a workflow is, so Iâm glad to go on about my business at this point.
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@sao Remember when we were talking about chocolate flows? Can we revisit that?
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@Snackness is this what circling back feels like?
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@Snackness Please. Yes. All the chocolate.
@sao In my current position, I set up customized workflows for (large corporate scientific research) clients. Essentially, there is a standard operating procedure (SOP) for each sub-task their scientists do in order to conduct their experiments/analyses in a repeatable fashion. I arrange pieces of software that help them keep track of what options are allowed per the SOP relating to the step of the process theyâre currently on.
Basically, a workflow as I understand it is a big decision tree so that work (science) can be done consistently and repeatably by different humans.
This is understandable when one is doing science at a large lab (or even a small one, if one is publishing it). I cannot think of any possible reason to have a formal workflow when playing pretendy fun-time games. One might want to be consistent but thereâs very little need for repeatability nor is it likely anyone will get audited or investigated over any of this (one hopes!).
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@sao We tabled it, we put a pin in it, I do think itâs time to circle back and ideate.
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Structure and process is great and helpful but in my experience in something as casual as MU staffing, I think flexibility is just more valuable than a really structured development workflow.
idk it doesnât necessarily seem that useful to talk about since the very obvious Way Too Little and Way Too Much are what is going to come to mind in any discussion.
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@Gashlycrumb said in MU Peeves Thread:
ie, having a life.
not just specific to this but lol can we stop using this as something to bludgeon one another with
everyone has a life
unless you are not alive
even then you have an afterlife!!
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@tsar iâm gonna be shitposting on here as a ghost i s2g. haunting the fuck out of all of you
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@tsar unless youâre undead.
Hah, score one for the afterlifeless unliving.
