@Wuff said in Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent:

@junipersky said in Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent:

One of my student’s parents called me racist multiple times last night in the conference.

It wasn’t even one of the crazy parents. It was a perfectly nice one. So it came out of left field.

We’re meeting tomorrow with the principal as interpreter, not a district one, or worse with apps because the translator didn’t show up, and I’m hoping we can figure things out, but I also just have this pit of dread in my stomach.

Hopefully it’s put down as a learning moment for you as a teacher. Finding out you’ve been messing up something after the fact can be stressful as all hell. But if others knew and didn’t help correct mistakes, They’re the assholes.

As a former secondary school teacher (we don’t do middle school out here), though in a different country, I can also see such accusations being entirely baseless or based on misunderstanding/misreporting. Especially if you’re teaching something to do with history, or even English grammar.

@bear_necessities Doors are, historically, the greatest enemy of any RPG character.

@mietze said in Web-based CharGen or in-game CharGen:

Player ooc behavior during the application process will catch more people. How do they handle being told no? How do they handle a mild wait time? How many arguments/how much showboating do they do on channels in the wait time?

The reverse is also true, and oft-overlooked I think. It’s an excellent time for one to judge staff, beyond job progress time. What’s their communication style and does it mesh with yours? Are they sticklers for things you don’t care for? What’s the atmosphere of OOC chatter like? Etc.

Most people, in my experience and this does include myself, are more preoccupied with getting their application done over assessing whether the game, and those running it, are suitable for our needs.

@hellfrog said in Web-based CharGen or in-game CharGen:

yeah applications are to tell you about the player more than the character, I think. "Name a non-fictional woman that is smarter than you’ would be a perfect application prompt.

Faraday and Cobalt. Next question.

@MisterBoring And then you must provide evidence of RP skill with three logs from other MUs that you have, naturally, put on your lifejournal.

@helvetica said in Web-based CharGen or in-game CharGen:

A maximum word count limit for written backgrounds is the way to go.

By the same token, tell me what you want out of a background, so I know what to focus my limited time on writing. Or, better yet, give me a questionnaire to fill in.

I want the machine to do the mathening. I do the storying, the machine does the mathening. That’s why we have the machine.

@Third-Eye said in MU Peeves Thread:

I go in and out of it, like most hobbies.

@Nilli said in MU Peeves Thread:

I’m nostalgic for marathon RP and constant activity.

In my case I’m not sure if I’m nostalgic for that per se or if I’m nostalgic for the person I was and the life I had when those things were the norm.

@catzilla said in MU Peeves Thread:

I may be wrong to assume this site is anti-Nazi/etc

The only Nazi we allow is a grammar nazi, and they’re on thin fuckin’ ice.

@hellfrog So Eragon if it were simultaneously more and less interesting?

@RightMeow We could just name this one “Celebrities We’ve Lost Recently”

‘Dilbert’ creator Scott Adams dies at 68 after prostate cancer battle

https://swdarktimes.com looks… active. I dunno anything about it, but it was on the Ares list and it appears vaguely Star Wars.

@hellfrog said in Other People:

@Dreampipe ancient. dementia. unfuckable.

Why would I want to play myself?

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

he was the same cat 20 years ago that he is now

Unrelated to the topic at hand, but can we bring this kind of phrasing back, please?

@Yam said in Bad Stuff Happening IC:

I do kinda’ think we’ve blurred the lines between positive bleed and negative bleed at this point.

Bleed is a complex topic, with a wide range of definitions depending on how deep into the research rabbit hole one goes. We should, probably, use a different term to ensure consistency but we’ve never really been about consistency…

As far as this discussion is concerned, I don’t view “having an emotional reaction” as being bleed. That’s the intended purpose. You’re supposed to have an emotional reaction to RP, that’s the whole point.

Bleed, for me, is always an extreme reaction—extreme as in sitting at the extreme ends of a spectrum, not necessarily extreme in terms of outlandishness. Too far in either direction is a problem, as extremes almost always are.

ETA: To emphasise: Bleed is the feeling and the reaction. Therefore it includes the “being a butt about things.”

@MisterBoring said in Bad Stuff Happening IC:

It took me a long time to realize that the positive emotional stuff I get from RP I enjoy is also bleed

I might not use the same wording, but you’re absolutely right to associate even positive emotional stuff as potentially dangerous just as much as the negative. We so often hear of, or even feel, connections that are assumed to be stronger than they actually are simply due to the positive impact someone’s RP/storytelling has had on us.