Posts made by Pavel

I entirely forget that people exist until they’re right in front of me.

@Tez It’s a Pern game. You’re probably already TSing both husband and wife without either knowing, so you talk to the staffer you’re also TSing about it and watch the marriage implode. Obviously.

Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies at 100

@Faraday said in Writing character diversity - resources:

because humans have differing experiences

Nuh uh! All sub-categories of people are monoliths, and each individual is an exemplar.

@Faraday said in Writing character diversity - resources:

I don’t think it’s a prerequisite to authenticity

And I disagree, which is fine. Though I imagine it depends on how we define authenticity. A story being compelling isn’t the same as a story being authentic, for instance.

ETA: We could have this discussion for months, but as it applies to MUing I’d say simply that one should be careful they aren’t using their diverse character to speak over, or for, the people said character represents.

When it comes to writing, I’ve always held that one can write whatever kind of character they want, but they cannot write whatever kind of story they want. A straight person can write a gay character, for instance, but can’t tell a gay story as they lack the kind of lived experience and personal connection that lends authenticity to those stories.

Translating that to MUing, though, is tricky.

@Faraday Agreed. Doubly so when we’re all writing in a dry, formal, academic style trying to meet those word counts.

@Faraday said in AI Megathread:

Unfortunately, the “AI Detector” apps/algorithms/hunches don’t work any more reliably than ChatGPT itself - which is to say you can never be sure when it’s just hallucinating crap out of whole cloth.

Which has me alarmed when the adoption of such services, or the inclusion of them in already extant anti-plagiarism services, is swiftly progressing through educational academia.

The Fado MU client exists, and has even been recently updated. I do not use it myself, so cannot guarantee its quality, functionality, etc.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pt.jdai.fado&hl=en-US

@Tez said in Towers of Licensing?:

in a ‘where did the need for this arise’ kind of way

At least with this, I can kind of see their point, unlike those weird policies that sound like “Every third Tuesday, nobody named Keith may connect to the game unless they are wearing a purple bowler hat.”

We’ve all either experienced or heard about people who build something, code something, post a log, or whatever who then quit/shitfit/get banned and start railing about how the game is still using their work.

And given Towers’ requirement for… extensive explanation and justification regarding stats, they seem more from the old school of WoD MU development.

@Evilgrayson I think you’re rather overthinking something that they are underthinking.

They’ve just put in writing what most games do/expect already, it’s just that law words seem scary. I’d probably want it to be non-transferrable or based on an existing CC license (probably CC BY-NC-SA) if I were going to be picky.

In the past, people have demanded games remove their work after falling out, so this is just Towers staff covering their ass to avoid the potential, if unlikely, legal ramifications – since you do own the copyright to your writing (if my understanding of copyright is correct, which it probably isn’t, because copyright is hard).

If you’re of a more technical mindset, one could theoretically install a terminal emulator (like termux) and then install a terminal-based client like tinyfugue or tintin++…

But that might just be a tad over the top.

@Jennkryst Fading Suns?

@Snackness In general, if you could trace a policy decision back, somehow, to fucking then that was probably at least part of the rationale.

@BurnNotice At this stage a lot of the memories are recalled only as the latent misfiring of neurons long deadened by time, apathy, and the need to remember an increasing number of passwords and names of parents of children’s friends.

@Tez said in MU Peeves Thread:

I mean when people make it a policy not to post. That’s it. It’s not complicated.

I believe the question was trying to differentiate between personal “policy” that one holds for themselves and a game’s official policy that is enforced against others.

@Jennkryst said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Tez said in MU Peeves Thread:

Firan! I got you, old man.

Well, that one’s a gimme. If you can think of a stupid policy, Firan did it first and worst.

Firanites don’t have buttholes, remember.

This is kink erasure!

Yes. That is literally why that call was made. They wanted to avoid people using buttsecks to avoid running the breeding code.

@Tez said in MU Peeves Thread:

Firan! I got you, old man.

Well, that one’s a gimme. If you can think of a stupid policy, Firan did it first and worst.

Firanites don’t have buttholes, remember.