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Pyewacket. Our fluffy 30 pound Norwegian Forestcat.

After several years, Pyewacket the Norwegian has decided the new couch is his…

We respond ‘yes sir’.

@GF said in Pets!:

@Pyrephox With laser eyes!

There’s a reason he gets treats when he asks for treats.

He’s like the 500 pound gorilla in the room. You shrink down and say ‘yes sir’.

Here’s a portrait view of Pye.

@dvoraen said in On the utility of Logs, Receipts, and Proof:

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At the end of the day, someone went over the line or you wouldn’t have a report in the first place. Don’t be a part of the group that went over the line.

Once upon a time, my wife started up a mush based on the movie Labyrinth. It had base ‘please have permission if you’re not 18+’ which as everyone knows people tend to ignore anyway.

So, lets fast forward a year.

Labyrinth, yes, it attracts under aged people, we don’t ask, they don’t tell.

Except one day we had a potentail creeper come on. very very good on hiding what they do. page only, in so much as gathering times to send real life information back and forth.

real life information like nude pictures of children on the mush.

Which I would not have known if i was not ‘logging everything going on’.

Which would have promptly gotten me in trouble with a federal agency, which was involved in this situation.

Which was ugly all around.

So yes, I’m all for privacy, and all for ‘not being part of the group that goes over the line’.

But sometimes in rare situations, you have to ask yourself. Who suffers the most when you refuse to go over ‘that line’?

Food for thought.

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

@DarthSmegma I don’t think it lets him off the hook for anything.

He’s a fully grown adult (We can tell since he’s been at this long enough that, even if he were a teenager at the start, he’s an adult now).

He’s responsible for his own actions.

I find it useful to understand a person’s pattern of behavior, because then you know where the threat lies.

In the case of Cujo and his game, the threat is that he’s dehumanizing every player on his game, for the sake of the game itself.

He believes keeping the game running smoothly, and growing, is more important than the well being of any player on it.

That’s immature. That’s dangerous. And it’s important to realize that.

At this point I would call his behavior as ‘All in’.

It won’t matter if the decision is right or wrong, on his or other’s viewpoints. The line has been long crossed, and the point of no return has been wiped in nuclear fire.

It’s a train wreck, but short of a restart from scratch, I think it’s a done deal.

RhostMUSH is proud to announce the new development discord.

Anyone who runs a RhostMUSH, wants to talk about mushes in general, even who wants to ask help on code, even if that code is not related to RhostMUSH, all are welcome.

https://discord.gg/7uAZj5et

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

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

The sorts of people who need to get Red Flagged are also generally the sort of people who are VERY good at manipulating, and so they will have counter receipts anyway and sometimes those are more damaging than the initial offense. So receipts are a very tricky subject.

As Jethro Gibbs would say, “trust but verify”. It doesn’t have to be public to all, but if games don’t substantiate claims, it will allow accusations to be weaponized for any type of grievance. It only takes one false accusation to be acted on to break down the trust of an entire community in all directions and destroy the environment.

Trust but verify.

This.

This is the reason why RhostMUSH has @snoop.

Yes, it can be abused.
Yes, it can be an invasion of privacy.
But system logs are the end all be all of truth.

No more ‘he said, she said.’
No more ‘it was misinterpreted.’
No more ‘s(he) is just emotional and taking it out of proporton.’
No more ‘they’re just emo and are jealous.’
No more.

Player logs can be modfied, and again goes to a he says, she says.
System logs can’t. Sure, the system admins can be douchebags and modify them themselves, but if that’s the case it’s a mud waving a red flag on ‘don’t play here’.

To be blunt, I wish more codebases had @snoop.

@Pax said in On the utility of Logs, Receipts, and Proof:

@Ashen-Shugar My dude, my guy, my french fry:

That data collection exists at an obligatory and, let’s be fair, extremely technical level doesn’t mean that overt monitoring is the ideal resolution in every scenario.

What a nuclear take.

@Pax my bud, my chum, my beaten drum:

Obligatory in a ‘need for beer’ kind of way sure, in that ‘if you want to use our services, you agree to be collected’. Where ‘opt-out’ means you don’t use the service, which, for a lot of places means ‘the internet’.

Even ‘opting out’ just means it dosn’t personalize the data, they still collect it.

It’s not a nuclear option when most places are glowing green around us.

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

@Ashen-Shugar said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

To be blunt, I wish more codebases had @snoop.

I know Penn has a command to do something to that effect. The catch is that on Age of Alliances it requires Cujo to do something about problems, and that is anathema to him. His preferred method is to avoid problems at all costs and his inaction enables the abusers. You don’t need to dole out consequences if you refuse to look at the problem.

Reminds me a lot of places ran by Elsa/Zero.

Pity that.

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

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

@shit-piss-love said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

@Wizz Whoever was looking to build their own Star Wars game may want to get in touch with Zephyr and the other booted admins. Sounds like Cujo just vetted some potential staff for you.

This is a great idea. @Jennkryst, you should consider reaching out. If nothing else, they have experience admining in the genre, and could provide valuable input for setting things up.

sets up the Staff-summoning signal

Please feed me all your coding knowledge. Or just write the code for me. OR BOTH!

(Everyone is going ‘read this and that, and they will tell you what these different strings of code mean’ while I am way earlier in the process than everyone assumes. Just ‘wait… Linux? I haven’t tried to figure out linux since (in the biggest twist of irony) AoA died the first time, over a decade ago’.)

I have a generic database with a D20 Saga system for RhostMUSH I can pass to you. Not sure what codebase you’d want, but it’s available.