Somehow, Kissinger is still alive…

BUT!

BRB making a few alt accounts to upvote all my own posts, since all you cowards refuse to give me enough microdoses of dopamine.

(:Public:) Ax (A) is curious what Kasia/Zephyr did that was bad enough to have not only her, but those people associated with her get their alts destroyed and their primary characters (some of who were on vacation) sent to the Old Guard Lounge and @passworded? Is that the new standard of dealing with people who investigate claims of sexual harassment here? Burn them and their associates? I’m just curious
(:Public:) Cujo says, “Ax, you don’t care about any of those things.”
(:Public:) Cujo says, “If you did, you’d put in a request to talk privately.”
(:Public:) Cujo says, “But you didn’t do that, you posted it publicly because you want to make a huge show of things.”
(:Public:) Cujo sayz, “So now you’re banned from this channel, well done.”

DO NOT SPEAK OUT, OR YOU WILL BE SILENCED, etc etc. Shocker.

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

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

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

The staff just imperiously announced ‘We’re skipping ahead fifteen years so that Rey and Ben Solo can have lots of babies! If you don’t like it, leave!’

Actually, it’s Rey and Poe’s babies on Age of Kora. Poe, played by Sumi’s player.

Still a better match IMHO.

POE IS MARRIED TO FINN, AND NOTHING JJ OR DISNEY SAYS WILL CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE.

Since Derp and Ghost keep bringing it up, I’ll repeat a point I’ve made before:

People are going to keep talking about the community being hijacked, because at the end of the day, before any of this happened, any of YOU who feel the need to talk about bullies being mean - YOU could have made your own board, and made it however you wanted.

Instead, you decided to change the rules of the board we were all on and throw anyone who disagreed out. Which is the root of it all. And you know it. Because you keep bringing up how we went somewhere else and made the rules we wanted.

And it’s pretty fucked up how you keep rewriting history to justify the decision.

Another person banned for person attacks, despite making fewer personal attacks than Ghost. Maybe it was the big words?

Of course, they had to ban @Kestrel. You showed up with receipts about their hypocrisy. 12/10. Would also upvote if I could.

@kalakh said in Bannings:

The new argument that this is merely the result of wanting more moderation and people are just mad that they are being moderated (because they’re super hypocrites and are now getting theirs), sure is a take.

People wanted moderation to fork threads or move them to different boards, and to ban the rapists or that one guy who sprouts up every couple months and tries to set everything on fire. So technically yes, more moderation was wanted.

But it is an extremely bad faith reading that the logical conclusion is ‘ban everyone who dares to speak out’. Pretty against the spirit of the job that was asked to be done, you might say.

@hobos said in Bannings:

I do care that VulgarKitten lied to those people, and I feel for them, particularly one who I personally admire who was really hurt by the lies. More importantly, she is sorry about it.

If she is actually sorry about it, perhaps she should admit that and apologize, and not pretend to be a totally different, literally new person, which fits the profile of the issues in the first place?

@helvetica said in Bannings:

@kalakh said in Bannings:

VK/Hella

I didn’t know who Hella was. lmaoooooo

Yeah, she literally changed her username and started pretending to be a new person right after the banning- spree, and nobody has called her out on it.

@Tat said in Bannings:

@Roadspike said in Bannings:

@farfalla Ares logs are system-created and (to my knowledge) can’t be edited. I would probably take a regular log too, but that would mean I was playing on a non-Ares game, and ain’t nobody got time to go technologically backwards.

Yeah, they can’t be edited unless you’re a coder, because they come straight from the database and not a player’s computer.

THAT JUST PROVES THE CODER IS IN ON THE CHEMTRAIL FLOURIDE CONSPIRACY TO MAKE PEOPLE LOOK BAD BECAUSE THEY ARE AN ENEMY OF THE CLIQUE!!!111!!1!ONE!!!111ELEVEN!

@Yam said in Staff Bits Linking Handles:

We have a personality fingerprint that’s hard to smudge,

I feel attacked.

@Yam said in Staff Bits Linking Handles:

Out of curiosity I’m wondering if folk have ever had the opposite reaction of ‘ah him that motherfucker what a tool’, like maybe ‘ah him i love his themes/style/atmosphere i will check it out’.

Everything Darwin and @Wuff. They’re the two that immediately jump to mind, but there’s probably others.

@MisterBoring said in Staff Bits Linking Handles:

@InkGolem said in Staff Bits Linking Handles:

I think it absolutely should be considered best practice for staff bits to have an Ares handle linked.

I agree. How would you see this translate into non-Ares games?

Require staff list their characters in a +finger note, minimum… for extra chaos (as a joke), link to a BMD playlist featuring every character they have ever played.

Lindsey Graham

@Faraday Yeah, but it’s not like they waited until the last couple of episodes to go ‘Oh Wow, Angels!’ Head Six was around from the Miniseries, Head Baltar is revealed in… uh… somewhere in Season 2. So I still wouldn’t say ‘the only way out of the corner was divine intervention’… the divine intervention was baked in from the start.

@Prototart said in MU Peeves Thread:

@RightMeow said in MU Peeves Thread:

My peeve is that this hobby is like a teenage toxic ex to me.

wow you look great these days girl

Thanks, bestie

@Faraday Eh, BSG had religious themes from the jump, I think it was more of an issue that they did the miniseries without knowing that they would get a show, and then didn’t know they would be renewed each season.

S2 was announced before S1 aired, but S3 wasn’t announced until S2 finished. Ditto S4, which was announced as the final season in the summer of 2007, after S3 aired, but before the Writer’s Strike (which is proooobably what led to the year hiatus during the mid-season finale of S4).

I’m not going to say that it wrecked the plot. BSG certainly wasn’t as zany as Lost (which jumped the shark because ABC wanted to turn Lost into a Greys Anatomy 20 season bonanza and refused to actually allow them an end-date. The writers DID know where they wanted to end up going, but the goal kept getting pushed back - see Billiam’s 28.4 hour 5-part deept dive into Lost

Anyway TLDR; if you want to mysterybox TV, you gotta know what you want from the start, and you need to make sure the executives give you the number of seasons to get there in the end, which is a problem because capitalism hates art, etc and so on.

@chorus They had a concept of an idea of a plan, and it seems like it finally formed around Season 3. Like… spoilers for a 17 year old show I guess…

Spoiler

Buuuuut… according to the Plan (movie), the Cylon Plan (plot device) was different from Head-Six’s ‘God has a plan for you, Gaius’ (quote that Tricia Helfer really hates, thankyouverymuch). Then again, it’s easier to go back and try to slot in ‘oh we had a secret plan all along, this is what it was, and also it ended by Episode (whatever)’ after the fact.

Anyway, I also endorse BSG Reactica for watching, it’s gotten me to go back and re-watch the episodes for a fresh reminder again.

@Yam said in MU Peeves Thread:

Peeve, the (bad) public chat comedian. Everything is a fumbled attempt at a joke and a convo killer. We are nothing but a captive audience to them, and they refuse to engage with players in any way that doesn’t center around them.

If you’re gonna’ go up there with a mic at least be funny, aaaaa.

I feel attacked.

If I’m setting, it’s in media res, and it will be some blend of silly/horny.