MU Peeves Thread

Coin

hi guys, i’d just like to pop in and remind you all that i no longer RP. feel free to extrapolate from that information as you will.

also how are you guys doing? i miss you crazy weirdos.

it’s because you think everyone who uses PBs is a sexual deviant, right?

Snackness

Gashlycrumb

Am I actually the only MU staffer in the history of the hobby to use a bloody work-flow?

edited because a typo made explitive ‘bloody’ into ‘blood.’

Narson

@Gashlycrumb said in MU Peeves Thread:

Am I actually the only MU staffer in the history of the hobby to use a blood work-flow?

Is this to keep track of vampire activity? Make sure there are no bottlenecks in the system?

Gashlycrumb

@Narson No, I meant ‘bloody’ as in, a mild curse, for emphasis.

Blood is unrelated. Just a workflow.

Alveraxus

@Gashlycrumb said in MU Peeves Thread:

Am I actually the only MU staffer in the history of the hobby to use a bloody work-flow?

edited because a typo made explitive ‘bloody’ into ‘blood.’

I’ve used Visio in the past to map out projects.

But my favorite is to use concatenate to streamline building.

Pavel

I use the patented “Fuck it, good enough” method. I do work, then “fuck it, good enough” and then the work is done. That’s my workflow.

Snackness

@Gashlycrumb Well, out of the four places I’ve staffed in any meaningful way they’ve all had work-flows so…no.

Pavel

@Snackness said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Gashlycrumb Well, out of the four places I’ve staffed in any meaningful way they’ve all had work-flows so…no.

Honestly, most semi-decent (and above) staffers will have some process at work in their brains. It might not be a formalised “you must adhere to this” thing, but most folk will approach - say, an application - in a specific way. e.g. First, I will look at their sheet and ensure there’s nothing glaringly wrong with it as far as policy and mechanics go. Then I will read their backstory, then I will look over their sheet again to see how good the ludo-narrative synergy is…

Gashlycrumb

@Snackness This warms me to the cockles of my socks. Perhaps as far down as the sub-cockles. Thank you.

hellfrog

@Gashlycrumb said in MU Peeves Thread:

Am I actually the only MU staffer in the history of the hobby to use a bloody work-flow?

edited because a typo made explitive ‘bloody’ into ‘blood.’

you’re definitely the only one, i’ve never even heard of this. you should write a book or something

Tez

What are you actually talking about or looking for when you ask for workflows for staff work? Like, I’m having trouble wrapping my head around what you think is missing, perhaps because every game I’ve ever staffed had something I would think of as that. Are we talking about something different?! What is it you are looking for?! What makes you even ask the question?!?!?!

I’m so confused.

helvetica

I prefer a chocolate work-flow.

I Love Lucy Chocolate

Pavel

@helvetica You’re called Helvetica, and you like chocolate. There’s a joke about stereotypes in here somewhere.

Gashlycrumb

@Tez I mean a work flow, in the standard fashion. Probably but maybe not necessarily a written one. And certainly every game ought to have them, and yes, it seems like a ridiculous question, and yet I am repeatedly surprised to discover that people who appear to be just doing whatever catches their eye when they log on and stopping at ‘fuck it, good enough’ don’t just appear to be doing that, but are doing it, and are even unaware of the concept of a work-flow.

Yes, @hellfrog, you’re very clever and should write a book about the dumb thoughts you imagine others to have.

Ashkuri

@Gashlycrumb can you give an example

Roz

@Gashlycrumb said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Tez I mean a work flow, in the standard fashion. Probably but maybe not necessarily a written one. And certainly every game ought to have them, and yes, it seems like a ridiculous question, and yet I am repeatedly surprised to discover that people who appear to be just doing whatever catches their eye when they log on and stopping at ‘fuck it, good enough’ don’t just appear to be doing that, but are doing it, and are even unaware of the concept of a work-flow.

Checking jobs/requests and then doing the jobs you can seems like a workflow. It’s just a very simple one.

Pavel

@Gashlycrumb said in MU Peeves Thread:

I mean a work flow, in the standard fashion.

For the sake of clarity, ‘a workflow’ is a jargon term. Most people outside of the strictures of organisational development probably don’t know, nor care, what ‘a workflow’ is.

Most games and staffers follow a process or procedure rather than a ‘true workflow.’ And that’s more than enough.

sao

@Gashlycrumb you’re being real contemptuous of people not understanding the specific term you’re using while simultaneously refusing to define the term. Like, I probably know what you meant? When I staffed we used to use asana and I imagine that that has something to do with what you’re talking about? But I’ve never seen that term used before and googling it did not lead me to believe that there was a “standard” workflow that all things use, lol.

Pavel

It’s sounding like a bog-standard peeve of “I don’t like/am surprised by people who don’t work the same way I do.”