Obviously, receipts are handy but they’re not a requirement. And I’d (speaking only for myself, though with a polite nod in the direction of that Admin tag) rather not make posting every shred of evidence possible the expectation here.

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

That means that since the birth of BMD, no other game has negatively affected MU* players as broadly or as painfully as Star Wars: Age of Alliances.

A board of women, queers, and allies reacting strongly against sexual misconduct and anti-reporting prejudice… Isn’t that how we started in the first place?

For posterity, I present thus:

Tracy is a man and he is a very hansome and manly man.He likes women a lot and women like him too but men think he is compitishion.He has very long brown shiny hair everywhere and a little blue eyes that are mostly green but very hansome anywya.You can tell a lot of things from his eyes.He has a very big bulge in his jeans where the dick would be and it is not a sock because it makes all women almost orgasm with desire.Behind him is a very firm muscled ass that makes you want to slap it and play with it in lots of ways but only if your a women.If you are a man you will die if you touch it because Tracy is strong and very not Gay.If you are a women he winks and smiles at you and thinks you have a nice personality.If you are a man again he frowns at you and it makes you not hit on him or on any women when hes here.He likes lots of women very much and likes very few men but not as boyfriends.And he has a shitr which is nice and blue.I mean shirt sorry.

@hobos said in Bannings:

From what I’ve seen, you are a people with boundless empathy, but you choose who to direct that towards.

Not to really engage in the debate, here, but that’s literally the same as everyone else.

Me. I’m a good thing about mushing.

And this isn’t a throw away joke, or an ego thing, or whatever. But I’ve finally been able to arrive at the conclusion that yes, my RP is good. My events are good. My being present on a game is good. And I’m finally free to feel that I am good enough.

So there. Me. I’m a good thing about mushing.

@Warma-Sheen said in Los Angeles 2043: A Blade Runner MUSH - Discussion:

Just because you can open a game on your own doesn’t mean you should.

You should. It might last, it might not, but at least stuff’s being made even for a moment.

@GF We’re for taco Tuesdays, no-pants Fridays, and the violent and utter overthrow of the capitalistic, white-supremacist patriarchy. And tea.

@CuriousGamer said in Macha Awareness (And Unappreciation) thread:

@Tez There seems to be a few bad actor threads now, would it make sense to put them into their own ‘Bad Actor’ kind of topic at this point? I know there’s been a couple discussions of others in the not too distant past as well.

No. We don’t need a whole section of the forum devoted to talking shit about specific people.

@untitled said in Underage Players:

because I’d be unhappy if I found out my kids were

That right there is the ultimate point. Policing children is the job of the parent, not any game they would seek to join.

Establish rules that state, outright, that the game is for adults, will contain adult themes, etc. If it is revealed from a trustworthy source that there is an underage person, remove them. That is all you can do.

These days, children on these kinds of games are very much the exception. There’s a high barrier to entry and far more free-to-play games around than there were in the early years when a lot of us first started. So don’t stress over it too much.

@Evilgrayson Besides, there’s only one true version of Robin Hood’s story.

@Tez It also counts as a +2 magical bludgeoning weapon.

@Tez I got myself one of those very very old school IBM keyboards. It’s older than… Okay not us but probably some people.

@Warma-Sheen said in Inuki Ban Thread:

I think if you really believed that was real, booting them and isolating them is doing way more harm than good.

I’m not going to comment on the rest of your post, as it’s late and my reading comprehension turns to dogshit after midnight.

But.

I disagree with this quoted section. It’s not our responsibility, be we admin or shitposter, to be an emotional support for anyone else. It’s a kindness we provide, on occasion, but on this forum it’s not our job.

To that end, when people state or imply that being here or reading things posted here is detrimental to their mental health, the most responsible thing we can do is give them useful resources that we know about, wish them well, and exclude them.

So, not every time someone mentions suicidality, but if it’s implied or stated that we, our words, our forum, etc are causing, impacting, or influencing said suicidality? Then yes.

@Warma-Sheen said in Numetal/Retromux:

Right, but the place doesn’t look like a dumpster fire.

If it’s being run, in any version of that term, by a person I dislike, then I count that as a dumpster fire. It could be the perfect game oriented precisely to my wants and needs, but if it’s run by someone I can’t trust or don’t like, then it’s a terrible game.

@Warma-Sheen said in Numetal/Retromux:

I just think that kind of thing gets missed under all the negativity.

While true, that’s a little like lamenting people not giving plaudits to the band playing while the captain of the ship is ploughing head-first into an iceberg made of poop. If the band want to have a great performance, they need to be in a better venue.

@Third-Eye I only marginally disagree with the ban because I worry that permanent banning is the only punishment being meted out. No cooling down periods, no talking tos, etc.

It’s obvious, at least to me, that Inuki wasn’t operating in good faith - which, honestly, would have been a better reason for the ban than suicidal talk - but could that have been changed with a chat?

@Meg said in Inuki Ban Thread:

i get it’s a sensitive topic, but its a thing some of us have struggled with for a long long time and ‘not talking about it’ policies that basically are pervasively silently a rule in real life isn’t great.

While I agree, I also think it can get a little burdensome (for lack of a better word) on others if it’s mentioned with any frequency. It is much the same as talking at length about struggles with a disability, illness, etc, etc. We don’t want to alienate or oppress people for whom life is a particularly darker shade of crapsack, but at the same time we don’t necessarily want to encourage too much conversation about it outside of designated areas.

Which, I’ll admit, does sound like the kind of thing a member of a majority says about every minority… but I hope it came across more about nuance than that.

@Warma-Sheen said in Numetal/Retromux:

Is it fair to paint the whole game this way if the problem is only with this one singular person, even if they are the headstaff?

Maybe, maybe not. Others have discussed.

Frankly, though, I don’t care about fairness in this kind of situation. If it looks like a dumpster fire, I will avoid it even if it allegedly smells like patchouli.

@Tez I am fully willing to suffer early onset arthritis (yes, early onset, fuck you) for the sake of clicky clacky clunky.

Ken Page, who starred in ‘Cats’ on Broadway and voiced Oogie Boogie, dies at 70

It’s really a big fuck you to theatre for now, apparently.