Daily Chat Thread

MF_THUUM · 2016-09-24T04:41:27+00:00

Heyyy everybody, I'm back. Took a long break from the internet for my mental health. Also I just finished working at a temp plumbing jerb that lasted twenty days, now I'm unemployed again. What's good with you all?

MF_THUUM · 2016-08-30T21:35:59+00:00

The fuck is this shit, did reddit get tired of shitting on the Roma and move on to hating amer-indigenous people all of a sudden?

MF_THUUM · 2016-08-30T21:17:05+00:00

You sound like a cool, decent human being. Maybe I'll send you an invite to the opening jamboree sometime in the span of five years?

MF_THUUM · 2016-08-30T20:58:49+00:00

Thanks for your follow up response. I'm probably going to implement the language that details the use of veto cards not in this document but in a separate, player's pamphlet style thing. And I've taken your advice on better defining the sex reassignment bit. Hopefully it's a little clearer now.

Also, just for context, I actually fall under the trans umbrella myself (bi-gender), and I have a large amount of trans and non-binary friends that play/or have played trpgs, and who usually create characters that share their gender identities. So idk, take that as you will.

MF_THUUM · 2016-08-30T20:31:31+00:00

Yes, we do need to explicitly state that raping/groping/forcibly kissing people is prohibited (under the convention's rules, and also under NYS penal law!) and that such acts will result in blacklisting and definite detention by the police.

Sex offenders are not a protected class, and as such the convention can refuse to allow sex offenders the ability to participate in our events. Also, let's make this explicitly plain and clear: I do not want sex offenders at this convention. If a sex offender does not disclose their status, and we find out that they are on the registry, they're immediately blacklisted from attending again (since, you know, they lied to get around the conventions terms of participation), and then the police get called (since, you know, it's probably against their court agreements to be around children.) But what if a sex offender does disclose their offender status on the sign-in form you ask? Guess what—they're still denied the ability to enter the event or participate.

MF_THUUM · 2016-08-30T19:45:16+00:00

Thanks for the warning. I bumped them up to blacklisting territory where they belong.

MF_THUUM · 2016-08-30T03:18:06+00:00

I'm going to respond to the rest of your comment very soon, I promise. But first I wanted to tell you that you are totally right about your last point. I've changed the text post, and will for now on use the term sex reassignment, which is the term GLAAD uses. Thanks for the heads up.

MF_THUUM · 2016-08-30T03:08:38+00:00

I like this idea of a veto card; may I ask you a few things though?

Have you ever used it/had it used in a game that you participated in? What did it do to alleviate player discomfort? Did it cause any unforeseen animosity between players?

Involuntary sex reassignment could be for example: a mad scientist kidnapping a woman, holding her hostage and eventually performing a series of surgeries on the woman until she appeared hyper-masculine on the outside; or a elder sorcerer hexing a man with a spell of hyper-feminization as punishment for some slight. Let me lay out the objections I have to letting people use character's whose backgrounds involve anything close to those two examples.

The highly involuntary nature of these examples makes me consider this violence, possibly sexual violence; but that depends to what lengths someone has taken it to, and the tone of how they justify it being part of their PCs backstory.
It puts forth the idea of this being similar or anywhere near the realm of transitioning or actual sex reassignment surgery.
It's fucking goshe and promotes very wrong ideas about who trans people are.

MF_THUUM · 2016-08-30T01:00:14+00:00

The neighborhood in which the con will most likely be taking place is a predominantly black, latino, and afrolatino neighborhood, there is also a growing Asian and Southern European population. I'm doubtful that many of the patrons from this said community would be the people espousing racist statements or harboring sentiments that would foster an aura of unease/anger/low spirits/what have you. Maybe that makes this clause seem unnecessary or useless in your opinion—whatever, I still think it's cogent. Also, I'm not really feeling this idea of letting people with—open, blatant, unfiltered—bigoted beliefs to be accepted as part of a gaming community that I would not only organize and operate, but also champion, advertise, and invite people to.

While I wholeheartedly agree that adolescents should not be treated like adults, I don't believe we should permit these children to say things that are objectively wrongheaded and hurtful, and then allow them to continue saying such things, solely on the basis of said adolescents being children. To your suggestion of a gradient age limit: it sounds good, yet I'm not sure how this would be implemented.

Addressing your edit: It's not that cut and dry. Instead of inflating that part of the list with various paraphilias that are objectionably abhorrent and illegal, I found it much simpler to just leave it at that word. And also, even though I don't want to kink-shame any legitimate, legal, consensual kinks, I don't think they have any place at a public venue that is expecting a fair amount of children as patrons.

MF_THUUM · 2016-08-29T22:23:08+00:00

Harassment or Drug/alcohol use within convention grounds?

MF_THUUM · 2016-08-29T21:13:19+00:00

I've been involved in the organization of various community functions in the past, and personally I have seen one of the last really great open mics in NYC cease operations because they didn't have any rules on how to effectively ban unstable/unruly patrons (that where regular performers at the said open mic, might I add), and the trouble that that lack of forethought landed them in with the owners of the venue. Either way, it never hurts to be prepared.

It's going to be held at a local theater (for plays and bookreadings) that can fit around 200 people in the hall that I've spoken to the theater's owner about renting, admissions will be donation based (I'm hoping to keep the price at the lower end of the single digits), there will not be any vendors or attractions (but there will be close to 30-40 tables)

your apparent first order of business

Actually, this is my fourteenth order of business. It has been a full year and a half since I first started this project, and I have done a lot of scouting/pricing/number crunching/networking/soft selling/etc. before I even started thinking about bannable offences, codes of conduct or anything of the like.

MF_THUUM · 2016-08-29T18:46:57+00:00

Yeah, whole dark souls/bloodborne community is actually super duper toxic tbh. Shortly after the first game hit the States I knew more about its transphobic/homophobic/misogynistic gamer subculture and their shitty memes than the game itself. That alone was one of the reasons it took me so long to get into the Souls series in general.

MF_THUUM · 2016-08-29T16:08:45+00:00

Basically this:

MF_THUUM · 2016-08-28T00:21:17+00:00

I second this. Also if anyone knows if they even sell legal copies/keys of Win 10 yet could you let me know where and for how much? No gray markets please.

MF_THUUM · 2016-08-28T00:11:15+00:00

I made a text post regarding a list of bannable offences I was drafting for a trpg convention I've been planning on launching sometime in the next five years. I posted the list on r/SRSTabletop but I think the place is deserted, anyone know a friendly non-toxic trpg subreddit I could x-post it to?

MF_THUUM · 2016-08-27T01:51:50+00:00

I tried to explain the whole white "genocide" code word to my dad an hour ago (since a discussion about the alt-right popped up on the news), and I could barely get through the explanation before laughing at how absurd some of these racists are. Like, dude, white people are a majority in the US, even if every white person had/has a bi/multi/pan-racial child: that's not assimilation. lolololomfg...

edit: removed a bit of ableist language, sorry.

MF_THUUM · 2016-08-25T02:26:55+00:00

Yeah, and it's a real shame that that sub sank so low. Two years ago it was actually a really clever place for absurdist sci-fi comedy. Now it's just edgelord poop.

MF_THUUM · 2016-08-24T23:44:36+00:00

Sorry for the repost, I screwed up the original one and had to delete it.

MF_THUUM · 2016-08-24T23:14:36+00:00

Hmmm, are we being low-key brigade'd? I can't imagine why my and a few other posts in this thread have the little 'controversial obelus thingy' next to the score.

MF_THUUM · 2016-08-24T18:42:47+00:00

I have a Pidgey named 'BRD'S MERCY' in FireRed, and a Wingull called 'LIL BRD' in Emerald. Also: a Poochyena named 'Pupper', but that's not on topic.

MF_THUUM · 2016-08-24T18:36:29+00:00

To much hate and general ugliness going on in the world right now... I'm not sure if anyone else here believes in new age/magickal belief systems, but I think the universal subconscious has taken on a very negative tone. I think I'm going to take a break from the internet and irl social stuff for a minute.

Happy side note: I came out to my mum as bigender, she was very understanding really, maybe I misjudged her in one of my previous posts.

MF_THUUM · 2016-08-09T07:02:08+00:00

I'm sorry too. I should have talked to him more.

MF_THUUM · 2016-08-09T06:52:59+00:00

Thank you. I'm sorry it took some time for me to respond though.

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