Yea it’s exactly the same as getting scammed by AI, sorry. I’m being scammed. You are tricking me into interacting with AI. It doesn’t matter to me at all that my time instead of money is being wasted. It’s the same basic betrayal either way.

This is specifically re: text, not images. I’ve used AI images before - made by other people because I lack the knack for prompts, not because of moral authority or whatever. I probably won’t again, because the more this stuff becomes pervasive the less comfortable I get with it. I have taken an AI image and brought it to a flesh and blood artist and paid them to draw a character based on it, though, and I felt okay about that.

Re: text, that is the meat of the thing.

On this first night of hanukkah, I am celebrating a personal transition. I keep thinking about how, on a night when there is that famous story about oil that should have lasted for one night lasting miraculously for eight, I am leaving my job of eleven years for a better one. The oil burned a lot longer than it reasonably should have, and by the end of this year I am burned the fuck out, but now I’m escaping.

@Tez can confirm you have had to tell my dumb ass to knock shit off and I never thought of it as a warning. Just oh god I’ve embarrassed my friend by behaving badly on her game in a perceivable way.

everyone get fucked*

*unless you would rather not, really it is a personal choice

Like I can ask someone to leave my table for any reason and you can choose not to play at my table for any reason. One of the reasons I don’t staff anymore is I spend all my grace for my job and I don’t have a lot to get shit on as a volunteer anymore. So now I don’t even HAVE a table.

Never regretted a ban. Have regretted not banning.

In my experience the amount of grace I am prepared to give others is directly proportional to the grace I receive. Yet the numbers inherent in the math of staff to player ratio renders it almost impossible for this trade to feel fair.

@junipersky I am glad you’re finally through. Appeals very rarely do anything in these cases.

@junipersky unfortunately this is the nature of the whole system. It’s incredibly slow and inefficient because trying to handle the intimate details of family life through an adversarial process is really stupid. We just don’t know what else to do so we try to force square pegs through round holes.

@dvoraen I mean, I’m sure he kept them up for many years after we stopped playing. He may be Dominus but he’s still Death’s special boy.

I love rping eulogizing a dead character. Non-sarcastic. I got a lot of practice at this and discovered I really enjoy it. Real characters are best, I also did a spider funeral at one point but that was for specific IC reasons and I had fun with that too.

Yes, it is very different to choose a death versus being prepared to accept death as a consequence of dice rolls. Risk of death can make a triumph feel way more powerful. Stakes are super important for story reasons. A character who you know you are killing versus a character who might die if their attempt fails? Wildly different experience.

Honestly it is hard enough getting shit together enough to run one faction smoothly, you want MORE? i’m turning this car around, we got food at home.

I LOVE FAT BEARS

I have no earthly clue why I journal for characters but sometimes I am playing a character where I just wanna do that. Also sometimes I write bad poetry/songs because I want to do that, too. Sorry, I dunno why. This is super helpful to the discussion, I bet.

@Muse KITTY

I loev minigame. I don’t know how much it actually contributes to RP, but it definitely contributes to my fun.

I derived great joy, on Firan, from making lunch baskets of coded food and sending them to my IC sponsor to make him eat. It became a running joke. The funniest instance was when I (and therefore, my character) accidentally sent the lunch of awful quality food that I was saving for myself.

IDK, sometimes it’s just fun, OK.

@Gashlycrumb I disagree. Players playing in small groups can’t bottleneck story if staff is attentive to how story is seeded. This is not a player problem. If your IC leadership structure has the ability to prevent OOC story access, your game is not functioning correctly.

The problem there is gating plot behind a single access point. Story should not bottleneck.

@Roz yeah we REALLY should have banned some people. We put ourselves through a lot of toxic nonsense in the effort to both be fair and appear fair, and the people we should have banned and didn’t did not actually benefit.