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    • RE: Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo

      @Warma-Sheen said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

      How much worse would it be to have to experience harassment and also be swiftly booted from the game because the harasser false reported you first and was believed without question so that you got banned and couldn’t report him? No thanks.

      oh my god, what a horrible hypothetical situation to imagine, surely it must happen all the time since we hear about it so often

      Like. Dude. Even in just the ten years I’ve been on the various incarnations of this board, I could only count on one fucking hand the number of times we saw someone report a false report that wasn’t almost immediately dismissed with ridiculous ease because it was just the dumbass abuser themselves trying to cover their tracks.

      This is such a non-problem versus the enormous issue of harassment in the community that it makes me actually angry people push so hard like this to make reporting and being believed so difficult. This is not a court of law and collecting this irrefutable body of evidence y’all always seem to want is literally the last thing on the mind of someone being stalked, abused, harassed, etc. It’s an enormously stressful and honestly embarrassing experience that can leave you too scattered, not to mention staffers like Cujo and the flying monkeys the abusers surround themselves with magically always seem to decide that it’s never enough anyway.

      posted in Rough and Rowdy
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    • RE: Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent

      My son’s teacher reached out to me on a conference call with his principal today very concerned. There were some legitimate reasons, but one of their items of evidence of inappropriate behavior was a “drawing of Satan.”

      His class was tasked with drawing Nutcrackers after seeing the play, and…

      This is the picture, loooooooool.

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      It’s a goddamn Super Saiyan from Dragon Ball.

      Never change, Utah. I am honestly annoyed that they escalated this in particular BUT ALSO I have been cackling like a swamp witch for a good fifteen minutes since she sent it to me. I needed that laugh so bad.

      posted in No Escape from Reality
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    • RE: Pets!

      almost every morning when I am trying to finish my bathroom routine and get ready for the day, this lump just plops himself right down in the sink

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      posted in No Escape from Reality
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    • RE: Confessions

      When I was a teenager playing a Final Fantasy game, instead of simply OOC fading to black during romantic scenes where sex was heavily implied, I would write these elaborate little…intermission paragraphs (???) where a “chibi” version of my character would drag a protective curtain/screen/etc across the fourth wall, and then take a little smoke break or whatever before pushing it back off stage for the post-coital pillow talk. Every time.

      I HAVE NO IDEA WHY I DID THIS, I AM SO SORRY

      posted in Game Gab
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    • RE: Bannings

      @kalakh said in Bannings:

      derp, this thread’s anger summed up in two words:

      we are not a community.

      We were.

      Not to dismiss that anger at all, but just to speak for myself, I always considered complete and utter dipshits like Derp and Ghost to be the narcissistic and annoying outliers in an otherwise pretty decent and engaging group of people that they just happened to desperately seek to belong to. To be frank everyone who kept me coming back to the boards for five years or whatever are more or less here now.

      Y’all didn’t lose the community, you lost a website and a few bad apples. Personally that’s just one big ¯_(ツ)_/¯ to me, even if it was one of the shittier ways it could have happened.

      I am bummed Gany made the decisions she made, that’s certainly disappointing from someone I have had a lot of respect for, but hopefully she sees the light someday. As for the other pigs wallowing in the mud back there…I mean, nothing of value was lost imho and I always figured they were bound to drop off under the weight of their own toxicity eventually.

      Hope you all can find some healing in getting away from all that.

      posted in Rough and Rowdy
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    • RE: Pets!

      Alucard is very camera shy and always tries to scoot off when I’m taking pictures, but I finally managed to capture this beautiful portrait featuring his magnificent whiskers, lol:

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      posted in No Escape from Reality
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    • RE: Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo

      @hellfrog

      The “oh I gotta do some MANLY LIFTING from my TRUCK for my WIFE” is really what makes it for me. It wasn’t enough to lie, it had to be some macho shit too.

      posted in Rough and Rowdy
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    • RE: Pets!

      They all just randomly came and piled on top of me.

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      Guess I just…live here forever now. 😂

      posted in No Escape from Reality
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    • RE: Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo

      @KarmaBum

      Seriously, though. I don’t think I have seen a more fucking weaselly response in…ever?

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

      All sexual harassment claims are taken seriously though, and if deemed valid, and actively a serious burden, then expect that player to get banned.

      Oh, it’s not enough that it is “valid,” a claim also has the mountain to climb of proving that is actively a serious burden.

      I just…what. Actively a “serious” burden. So, what, people who aren’t harassing…enough(???) just skate on by, according to that standard.

      It can’t be said often enough, fuck that dude.

      posted in Rough and Rowdy
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    • RE: Pets!

      hey. hey, dummy, there’s nothing up there…

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      well I tried to tell ya, ya big galoot!!

      posted in No Escape from Reality
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    • RE: The SA In Games Thread (Good Luck)

      @Gashlycrumb said:

      Some of those early WoD MUSHes were really heavy into this sort of model-world-building.

      it’s always kinda reminded me of…remember how big Second Life was? and how some people were actually interviewed by mainstream media at the time about how they really did “live” through their avatar and game client and it was all really woo-y and glaze-eyed and weird?

      posted in Rough and Rowdy
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    • RE: The SA In Games Thread (Good Luck)

      @Roz said:

      buddy i don’t know how to tell you that the CHARACTERS are not the same thing as the PLAYERS. the CHARACTERS are not secretly into it. the CHARACTERS are experiencing a horrific nonconsensual trauma.

      it isn’t a misunderstanding. it’s such a hardcore RPI community thing, blurring the identity line and doing it deliberately, in the name of “realism and immersion” or what have you, and 1000% of the time it is crazy toxic and weird. we’ve had other visitors with this mindset on display and it really is a fundamental difference in how games have been approached for a long time.

      posted in Rough and Rowdy
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    • RE: Haven

      it’s not surprising I guess, but I definitely have a line where I nope out of a place and I find it genuinely hard not to side-eye people who don’t seem to at all. there’s also a big difference imo between games where you’ve heard there’s maybe some weird things going on behind closed doors that aren’t sanctioned by the game but not openly stopped, and games where that stuff is explicitly part of the theme and run by staff, and that’s where the side-eye grows a bit more intense.

      posted in Rough and Rowdy
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    • RE: Haven

      @Shygaming said:

      I’m not going to play defense squad for anyone here. But I do think Tyr left the hobby in a better state than he found it.

      I was just going to drop a “critical squint” gif and leave it at that but I genuinely think it’s important (to me) to express that a very unsettled/unsettling person can put a lot of work into something, years of effort even, and the result of that work does not always deserve credit. you’ve got plenty of other good codebases out there as a strong starting point; someone who enabled literal Nazis and CSAM does not belong on any kind of pedestal or, I’d even argue, deserve to have their work redistributed with the best of intentions.

      to state it more clearly, ew, fuck that guy and fuck what he made, he did not leave the hobby in a “better state.”

      posted in Rough and Rowdy
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    • RE: The SA In Games Thread (Good Luck)

      personally I feel like that content can only be addressed productively and safely in an offline tabletop environment among friends who implicitly trust each other to handle it maturely and safely.

      I think the evidence of what happens by allowing strangers to engage with it is plentiful and extremely discouraging.

      posted in Rough and Rowdy
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    • RE: Paroxysm - split off

      @Shygaming

      I refer you to my earlier statement, which was not intended to be a derailment so much as mildly helpful. this is not likely to be your crowd.

      posted in Rough and Rowdy
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    • RE: Paroxysm - split off

      this is probably not the best place to advertise or engage given our generally intense distaste for both Haven and LLMs amd the fact you’re already bobbing and weaving around some direct questions, just sayin’.

      posted in Rough and Rowdy
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    • RE: AI In Poses

      @Tez said:

      I’m not convinced a human was involved in this. Are we sure this wasn’t just ChatGPT breaking containment again?

      as sure as I am that those are just elaborately stupid PR stunts, I still think we need to nuke the servers from orbit. only option really

      posted in Rough and Rowdy
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    • RE: Pets!

      @dvoraen he’s had one bath in his entire life and he let me know very clearly that was NOT an experience he enjoyed, lmao

      I was actually very proud of him, he didn’t scratch me or anything but he was louder than I have ever heard him be, his meows are usually very subdued 😂

      posted in No Escape from Reality
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    • RE: Pets!

      adding to the “my cats literally pick the worst places to nap” lore

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      posted in No Escape from Reality
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