> "Vene Vidi Igni" - The unofficial "motto" of arcane casters on the Khyber server in Dungeons & Dragons Online, which they translate as "I came, I saw, I set it on fire."
I'm committed to SO's work to become more open and inclusive and friendly, and have been doing what I can to make this stack be a friendly and welcoming place.
I'd like to be able to freely ask, for example, a Pathfinder, state that I'm interested in an answer that uses the rules (RAW). I would like to get answers, not extensive debate. The site in its current state seems to polarize over such things, and I've been directing my players elsewhere with their questions as a result. This is an example, not the full scope of the problems.
Right now, RPG.SE mods consult together and present meta with a united front that feels unassailable. So naturally people think they have to argue: the reasonable discussion already happened and they weren't invited.
@BESW I had this thought, too. We could spend forever trying to nail down exactly what percentage any given person is responsible in this. That will only increase tensions and distract from what needs to be done. At some point, things went wrong, and they've never been fully addressed.
At this point, for the ability to go forward, laying blame doesn't really matter. I don't think anyone can usefully say "It wasn't my fault, so I shouldn't have to help heal the site."
(And let me tell you, setting up a Skype call between a 4,000-year-old Atlantean colony ship and a modern warship is not easy. One of the PCs had to use her plant powers to grow a modern antenna array out of the metal trees on the ship.)
@Lord_Gareth Outside of this trash, busy but pretty good. I've got an awesome RPG group. In the last few sessions we imploded a robot Elon Musk and fought giant termites that threw Force lightning.
Even honest attempts to be even-handed about a specific topic are gonna be met with reasonable suspicion if the people overseeing it are visible indifferent to fairness in other areas. By now it's fruit of the poisoned tree until the underlying conflict is at least acknowledged as more than a flight of paranoid delusion.
I already periodically delete comments and sometimes even answers from established users who are basically just grumbling at the user condescendingly & unhelpfully for not getting it, instead of answering the question. On a site like SO where there's things 100x more important for moderators to handle, that slips through the cracks and becomes rampant and drives people away.
If world wants to go fully digital, then we need a world-level repo of licenses that anyone can refer to if they need to prove they paid for using a game. Then, if someone "pulls of the site", users should be legally allowed to host the original download, even in cracked form if the software had features that prevent it to run if it can't "phone home" - the only requirement should be that you should yourself have a license to use it.
I mean I realize you probably like having the physical edition because no one can just take it away on a platform and you won't be incapable of downloading it just because say, your internet is out or something
It's a lot harder to do responsible rep when you're indulging in tokenism, because then your only [demographic] character has to represent all of that demographic for your story.
Aye. Tropes are not... inherently... bad, but even the most innocuous of tropes needs to be used mindfully. And most tropes about marginalized people are not innocuous.
Yea. But of course... we don't know your situation fully. I can only say that as a person who played things very safe until well into their twenties, I regret not being bolder.
@AncientSwordRage The overflow room is for topics some might find uncomfortable, and thus we only make users opt-in to the room with those topics. General chat is the one we expect users to just sit in, and thus topics are opt-out. The topic can be opted out either by the user leaving that room, or (perhaps preferably) the topic/conversation being ushered to the overflow room (now 'Dragons)
I can walk and read at the same time but during instances such as that it really is better not to take that kind of chance for the time it takes to cross the street, or say navigate around the clearly open manhole or something
