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goodguy5

14:00

I really dislike "What to do?" on the end

doppelgreener

@goodguy5 that is a point yeah :/

Helwar

@goodguy5 Why? Honest question

doppelgreener

@Helwar What to do is arbitrary, to which things like "leave and migrate to Turkmenistan" is theoretically an answer (although an absolutely silly one that would be removed). What to do so as to obtain a specific goal is more specific. Sans the specific goal we imply something like "make the group function effectively and not be weird like this", which is probably good enough and what they want.

Rubiksmoose

@doppelgreener Do you think it might be good to clean up the comments a smidge? there are a bunch talking about the duplicate and a couple talking about things that have since been clarified.

doppelgreener

@Baskakov_Dmitriy I agree. Good Subjective says we should look for answers that cite comparable experience of how a particular solution works out in practice, which means best case we want an answer that says "we had a group of teenagers doing this and we did this to resolve it and here's how it worked out in practice."

where the experience can be one's own they can describe, or someone else's in a form they can provide a reference to (like a blog post).

SPavel

14:06

@Baskakov_Dmitriy I read that as "a psychopath and also a D&D player" and didn't even question it

Helwar

@doppelgreener Thanks! :) I sometimes used the "what to do?" or "how to procede?" at the end of the question but try to clarify it before, that's why I didn't think of it as a bad practice. I will be careful with that in the future then :)

doppelgreener

@Rubiksmoose I have cleaned up the comments a smidge, where "a smidge" here turns out to mean "with a flamethrower". Only two stuck around, wow.

Baskakov_Dmitriy

I have translated this to my psychologist friend who is also a D&D player/GM. She doesn't speak English, so if she gets an answer for this, I will have to translate it to English. She is unlikely to make an account, as she cannot really use the site because of her lack of English language skills, so is it OK for me to post this answer then?

Rubiksmoose

@Helwar I think you would have to try really hard to be too clear or too specific with your wording.

doppelgreener

@Helwar It's sometimes workable to just ask "what do I do?", but it helps if it's "how do I achieve this specific outcome?". It helps us know what you want to get out of the situation exactly and helps make answers more laser-focused on that outcome.

SPavel

14:09

@Baskakov_Dmitriy If people can cite Crawford tweets, you can cite your friend :P

Helwar

Yeah I understand what you mean, it's logic once you say it :)

doppelgreener

@Baskakov_Dmitriy Yes.

Rubiksmoose

@doppelgreener woohoo! burn baby burn.

SPavel

@Rubiksmoose Burning babies conventionally shifts your alignment towards Evil

But in light of @kviiri's alignment grid, it may instead affect your Yaw

JohnP

Hey, got a question to which I probably already know the answer. I have a ton of old lead figures, including some of the multi part dragon scene kits. Is fleabay about the best route to sell them? Or are there other avenues around?

SPavel

14:13

@JohnP Craigslist

Rubiksmoose

@SPavel I think my SE alignment could probably be classified as Lawful Evil then.

lol

SPavel

@Rubiksmoose You burn babies, consistently?

Rubiksmoose

@SPavel Only comment babies. And only when they deserve it. :)

SPavel

This is a Sarcastic Fringehead. You’d think that the actual creature couldn’t possibly live up to such a spectacular name. Oh it does. 😬 https://t.co/ozomBYglgZ

Tweeted by Nnedi on May 14, 2018 at 5:00 AM

JohnP

@SPavel Heh. That's how I picked them up in the first place! :p

SPavel

14:15

@JohnP Ashes to ashes

Rubiksmoose

@Baskakov_Dmitriy in the US 8th graders are 13-14 years old.

doppelgreener

More thorough guidance on that point:
- You can collaborate on your own answers with other people, including more or less just posting on their behalf.
- Please do make it clear you're speaking on behalf of a psychologist and D&D player. That's an awesome credible source.
- It would be good to make it clear where you're speaking on their behalf, and where you're speaking for yourself. (This might just mean "this whole answer is hers. Here's some further notes by me.) It's up to you whether you want to quote her translated, or just write it as normal prose without a quote block. It's fine if…

SPavel

@Rubiksmoose The real pro move is to time your kid's birth so that they are maximum age to start school (birthday is 1 day after the school year starts). Having 1 extra year of development on everyone else will ensure that your child crushes it.

Rubiksmoose

@SPavel Gotta give your child every agevantage that you can ;)

doppelgreener

@SPavel also, teach your child to leverage all advantages available to absolutely crush and destroy their peers, even when there's not a competition. it will prepare them for D&D. where they can crush and destroy their fellow players' characters, even when there's not a competition. [/terrible parenting advice do not follow]

SPavel

14:21

@Rubiksmoose Note that power armor is typically frowned upon in adolescent phys ed classes

@doppelgreener >when there is not a competition

what do you mean

Baskakov_Dmitriy

Thanks! It would actually still make sense to know the exact set-up. IMO, it is different if a group consists of three 13-year-old guys and one 15-year-old girl, or if one guy is a 13-year-old and the rest, e.g. 3 more guys and the girl, are 15-year-olds, etc.

SPavel

life is a competition, so you should not make your child so powerful that you cannot control him

(him, because being a woman is a disadvantage in modern society, so it's more optimal to have a son)

(also if you are not English-speaking Caucasian, see what you can do about that)

Rubiksmoose

@Baskakov_Dmitriy absolutely. I was just giving some immediate guess info in case it helped getting your answer ready. Technically our 8th grader should be attending classes right now which may be the cause for the radio silence.

(at least in 2/3 of the US)

@SPavel I'll just make my future imaginary child into a doppelganger so they always fit in! No way this can go wrong!

doppelgreener

@SPavel i don't know, it's just something i've heard is possible.

SPavel

@Rubiksmoose No, changing for others is a sign of weakness

You should make your child a wizard so he can change others into himself

Rubiksmoose

14:26

@SPavel This is something I actually had to consider for my superhero campaign lol. So, can confirm, that even in my bubble universe of Halcyon City this is still frowned upon. (sucks to be you people whose powers depend on mechanical things).

SPavel

@doppelgreener You must have heard it from communists or hippies

@Rubiksmoose If your powers depend on mechanical things, you should have implanted them into your body a long time ago, or better yet, implanted your brain inside a cyborg body

There's no better team-up than a hormone-fueled teenage brain, and a nuclear-capable autonomous weapons platform

Rubiksmoose

@SPavel These are teenagers. Brain transplants are at least a precollege transformation thing. lol

@SPavel That almost describes the state of US politics right now...

Baskakov_Dmitriy

@Rubiksmoose Indeed, but we got a response from 3 minutes ago... rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/122539/…

SPavel

@Rubiksmoose Little Rocket Man, PL10 supervillain

Rubiksmoose

@Baskakov_Dmitriy Smartphones are a wonderful thing eh?

@Baskakov_Dmitriy Also added twist that DM's hormones are also raging. It is honestly really good that OP is seeing this as an issue not only in the group but in themselves.

signs of a good DM looking out for the group IMO.

SPavel

14:36

Raging hormones: Your character has disadvantage on all rolls as self-consciousness consumes him

Baskakov_Dmitriy

@Rubiksmoose Yes, have also noticed that.

Yuuki

> Rocket Man: Your character automatically succeeds on all checks related to igniting fuses when alone.

Rubiksmoose

@Yuuki XD

SPavel

@Yuuki hey hey this is a family friendly chat

Yuuki

... I don't know what you guys are thinking, but I was referencing this:

Elton John - Rocket Man (HQ)

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Rubiksmoose

14:52

@Yuuki I think he was jokingly interpreting "igniting fuses while alone" as a humorous euphemism for certain activities.

Yuuki

Listening to "Rocket Man" and "Starman" again, I noticed that '70s/'80s music had this weird habit of ending with constant repetition and fading off into the distance.

Rubiksmoose

@Yuuki on another note I think you did a great job grabbing that from the song lol I recognized the line right away.

@Yuuki I always kind of disliked this.

Yuuki

@Rubiksmoose It's especially noticeable with Clapton's Layla which for all intense porpoises ends like 3 minutes before it actually does.

For the remaining 3 minutes, it's just mellow guitar.

And it's like the same three or four bars repeated. For three minutes.

Rubiksmoose

@Yuuki Yup. I always skip to next song way before 3 minutes of that.

Some really really good songs do it too. Including that one.

doppelgreener

@Yuuki I've noticed that, too.

@Yuuki ouch

is it these four bars?

Axis of Awesome - 4 Four Chord Song (with song titles)

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:)

Yuuki

15:14

Having taken music theory, it's really hard to write anything that's not I-IV-V, has satisfying resolution, and has separate parts that sound good alone.

Granted, I only took music theory for one year but that's beside the point.

I am beyond tempted to comment "maybe we found love right where we are" on this question.

SPavel

I don't get it

Yuuki

Thinking Out Loud

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> I'm thinking out loud / That maybe we found love right where we are

KorvinStarmast

@doppelgreener Part of my answer to the teenagers is along the lines of the Serenity prayer: grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference Trying to shoehorn two of the adult cases where guy/gal drama occurred ... hmmm ... that needs pondering

SPavel

@Yuuki I didn't know Excel played music

doppelgreener

right, but there's a difference when that's coming from a voice of experience compared to when that's coming from no apparent experience

goodguy5

15:23

@KorvinStarmast reading over your girl-problems answer.

"Create friction you don't want"

But the whole problem is that they WANT to create friction!!!

Yuuki

@SPavel It is in fact very good at it. You could say that it's excellent.

KorvinStarmast

@goodguy5 While that's a bit humorous, I don't think I can advocate such things.

doppelgreener

Like for any given situation: "There's not much you can do. You'll have to accept it. You can manage it, here's how." -- that advice sounds majorly different depending on whether the person has been there & done that vs not.

because if they haven't been there and done that, all bets are off that the advice is any good.

since you appear to have at least somewhat been there and done that, discussing your being there & having done that will be really important & valuable.

goodguy5

@KorvinStarmast I certainly got a chuckle

KorvinStarmast

@doppelgreener Yeah, I agree that a little more meat on that bone would be good. I'll let that set for a bit and come back .... I need to be sensitive to the context; teenagers and adults seem to have a different level of social agility ... and the power dynamics are swingy as hell.

doppelgreener

15:26

cool

KorvinStarmast

I am hoping that people who began to play as 11 and 12 year olds may be able to chime in. I was a junior in high school before I started ... and it was not until I was on college that I was in coed groups.

Somewhat different contexts.

doppelgreener

comparable experience is much better than not citing any though

KorvinStarmast

Yeah ... that's true

goodguy5

everyone should just watch Stranger Things season 1

The answers are all there

Rubiksmoose

@goodguy5 Do we have to watch it in reverse or while listening to Dark Side of the Moon?

goodguy5

15:31

@Rubiksmoose both

but dark side should also be played in reverse

Rubiksmoose

@goodguy5 Sounds like some alcohol is also probably a necessary component to this as well then lol

goodguy5

um.... they're teenagers. they can't have alcohol

be a role model, for crying out loud

SPavel

@goodguy5 Urban legend: if you play Dark Side of the Moon in reverse, it tells you how to DM for a group of 13-year-olds

doppelgreener

@KorvinStarmast part of the equation is also that you as a well-established user help to set the example for other users who are figuring out how the site works. ensuring your posts embody good quality standards is valuable guidance.

@goodguy5 i agree with this regardless of whatever context this is in

goodguy5

friends. a girl gets introduced. power dynamics. D&D

it's all there

SPavel

15:35

@doppelgreener I disagree, I found it not very engaging

goodguy5

Then you were watching a different show (imo)

SPavel

I guess you have to have internalized 80s flyover state culture to 'get it'

Yuuki

@SPavel Well yeah, they're kids. Nobody's getting married for at least another five years minimum.

goodguy5

ha!

ha!. ba dum tiss

doppelgreener

@SPavel fair enough :)

(but you did watch it 8D)

Rubiksmoose

15:36

@Yuuki beautiful.

SPavel

@doppelgreener I watched the first episode and it was not that great

doppelgreener

Ok, no problem

... technically counts

Rubiksmoose

I always try to go for 3 episodes before pronouncing final judgement on something. But that is a lot easier with 20 minute anime than 1+ hour shows.

SPavel

Cyborg Strahd, Technical Count

goodguy5

@Rubiksmoose Rurouni Kenshin?

doppelgreener

15:38

@SPavel A friend of mine enjoyed that show because of the major nostalgia factor they experienced. (And it's part of a bunch of nostalgia-driven 80's shows depicting a past that never actually existed.) Another enjoyed stories like this because the life lead by the characters was wholly unlike their own, because they didn't grow up in a culture like that at all. I just enjoyed the story. 8)

SPavel

@Rubiksmoose Too many shows think they can get away with a bad first half-season

Ironically, the first half season of Korra was probably the best part of it

doppelgreener

I'm a 90's kid, so nothing on there is quite how my childhood went.

Rubiksmoose

@goodguy5 Many anime have fallen to the 3 episode rule. Though I never watched RK.

doppelgreener

I am that generation that experienced pre-internet for just a few years before the internet happened.

goodguy5

@Rubiksmoose one of my favorites.

Yuuki

15:39

@SPavel Conversely, too many shows think they can get away with a good first half-season.

goodguy5

Even got my wife to watch it. She liked it so much, she made me order the Manga.

She's never read a Manga before in her life.

Rubiksmoose

@doppelgreener Nor mine. Being the child of a pastor in the 90s lets just say D&D was not something that was on the table (heh).

SPavel

I've gotten into Re:Zero lately

doppelgreener

@Rubiksmoose ooer. yeah, understandable.

goodguy5

@SPavel is that a thing or are you saying you haven't gotten into anything?

Rubiksmoose

15:40

@goodguy5 Oh neat. I know it is a classic. Maybe I'll have to add it to my backlog once I'm out of superhero research mode.

Yuuki

Ugh, even though I realize that they had real concerns and problems, part of me will never forgive the Writers' Strike for killing Heroes so thoroughly.

SPavel

The protagonist is annoying but I like that they treat the premise seriously

Rubiksmoose

@Yuuki hey but it gave us Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. So that is something.

Yuuki

@Rubiksmoose Yeah, but imagine if Heroes went on for more than one season...

SPavel

@goodguy5 It's an anime about a guy who gets sucked into a parallel fantasy world, is immediately mugged, and every time he dies, he appears in the same alleyway and gets mugged again

goodguy5

15:41

@SPavel that sounds awful

for him

Yuuki

@SPavel To be honest, I'm extremely tired of that genre/premise.

SPavel

@Yuuki They do it well, the "alternate world" thing is just used as an excuse for him not knowing anything about the world

goodguy5

@Yuuki you're tired of it, imagine how the character feels

SPavel

@goodguy5 It is pretty awful, dying is typically very painful

Which the show does not gloss over

Yuuki

These days, any summary that includes "into another world" or some permutation of that automatically turns me off.

goodguy5

15:42

more markov generators.

also I liked yu yu hakisho... though I'm pretty sure it's not a good show

Mike Q

@SPavel Let me guess, the main character is some sort of shut-in gamer type, and their knowledge of gaming tropes becomes relevant in the alternate world

SPavel

@Yuuki If it helps, other than this curse, the character has no special powers or abilities

@MikeQ No, his knowledge of gaming tropes immediately gets him killed

Yuuki

@MikeQ Or someone with inexplicably detailed knowledge of chemistry, physics, and general applied sciences.

glares at literally the entire isekai genre

Rubiksmoose

@goodguy5 YYH survived the 3 episode rule but not enough to get me all the way through it. Hunter x Hunter though was sooo good.

SPavel

Despite being billed as a NEET, the main character is relatively socially adept, keeps an exercise routine, and has a moral compass

goodguy5

15:44

alright, I need to get some work done

SPavel

@Rubiksmoose HxH was good until the ants

Rubiksmoose

@SPavel I definitely agree.

And so has everybody else I've introduced to the show.

Yuuki

@SPavel So they gave him a label to appeal to certain audiences despite emphatically not fitting that label at all?

SPavel

@Yuuki Seems that way

Although the show does demonstrate that he has no marketable skills whatsoever

Yuuki

I blame SAO for all of this.

Rubiksmoose

15:46

@Yuuki I think that is fair.

SPavel

Re:Zero is way better than SAO

Yuuki

That's not my point, I'm saying that SAO is to blame for this genre surge.

SPavel

For one, the female lead is typically the one that solves problems, the male lead's main contributions are calling for help & stalling

Mike Q

@SPavel That's not saying much. Dog breath is better than SAO.

Yuuki

The macaroni art I made in kindergarten was better than SAO.

It definitely had better character arcs.

SPavel

15:48

Though, full disclosure, I watched SAO until the end of the GGO arc

The "in-game and out-of-game villains team up" bit was actually decently entertaining IMO

But after they stopped that guy, there is no more tension and it becomes "show about a guy who is very good at MMOs, and his girlfriend who exists to be rescued"

Yuuki

One of my weirdest nit-picks with SAO is the idea that it was described as one of the biggest game releases in history, reaching such incredibly high day one sales numbers of... 100,000.

:/

SPavel

@Yuuki That's pretty high for a game that requires bonkers expensive borderline experimental hardware

Yuuki

Despite the advanced technology, I'm not certain that was bonkers expensive.

KorvinStarmast

@doppelgreener yeah;

Yuuki

For one, almost no console in the past decade sells at a profit. They're always sold at a loss.

SPavel

15:55

@Yuuki Ask Sega about how well launching with 1 game works

Yuuki

@SPavel The Dreamcast's launch line-up looks about the same in acclaim as the Xbox 360's.

goodguy5

Dreamcast was ahead of its time

some of my favorite games

Namely, Armada and PowerStone 2

SPavel

@Yuuki Yes, but Microsoft has infinite money

Yuuki

Incidentally, I have no clue how threat management works in SAO. I guess it's D&D-like in that there's no threat system and the monsters target whomever?

SPavel

@Yuuki I think the game is supposed to have sophisticated enough AI that this is the case

Mike Q

16:04

@Yuuki The monsters target whomever the protagonist needs to save, because by rescuing incompetent people, he makes up for the lack of a personality

Yuuki

Faction-only classes is also dumb (see WoW's first expansion immediately making the faction-locked paladin and shaman classes available to the other side).

It's hard enough to balance classes against each other without having to account for factions.

nitsua60

Ooh, Campaign Cartographer made the Bundle of Holding. That's tempting.... (I've been meaning to look into it for a year or so.)

Yuuki

As a Paladin, what methods excluding multi-classing could I use to acquire Healing Word?

GreySage

@Yuuki Magic Initiate Feat?

Mike Q

@Yuuki vtc dupe chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/44414403#44414403

GreySage

16:16

2 cantrips + 1 1st level spell (castable once/long rest)

KorvinStarmast

@doppelgreener Having to make "family friendly" my update was necessary ...

@doppelgreener Added one success story in dealing with at the table flirting ...

I don't want to drag in the tales of disaster ...

doppelgreener

@KorvinStarmast no need to speak to all of your experience, or to be detailed about everything that did happen, of course. (but situations where something hasn't worked out is also valuable, because it's a learning opportunity.)

i haven't read the update yet, that's without context of having read it ^

KorvinStarmast

@doppelgreener I am trying not to harsh our young gamer's groove. :) I want the tone of the answer to be positive.

KorvinStarmast

16:34

@doppelgreener Mission Accomplished, question stays open, and how has two answers.

SPavel

16:47

Some great class names

Yuuki

@SPavel "Peter Y Liu"? I thought only one person could be the governor?

SPavel

@Yuuki wot

Yuuki

"Y" is Spanish for "and".

"Peter Y Liu" would translate to "Peter And Liu".

SPavel

@Yuuki It would not be capitalized

Yuuki

I've seen it capitalized before.

GreySage

17:06

@SPavel In a normal sentence you are correct, but many documents do not use regular sentence structure and capitalization.

SPavel

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. Y capitalized in the middle of a sentence. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

goodguy5

it's a person and their symbiote.
Like Jadzea Dax
or Kurzon Dax
(sp? on both)

SPavel

17:36

When your backstory retcon game is 💯

Sdjz

17:51

@Rubiksmoose Let's avoid further comment discussion. Can you explain here? I'll just delete the comment anyway

Rubiksmoose

@Sdjz Nope I just understood what you said and agree.

Comment deleted. Thanks for pointing it out.

Sdjz

@Rubiksmoose ah ok, let's cleanup everything to avoid confusion

way ahead of me I see :)

Rubiksmoose

@Sdjz hiding my shameful lack of reading comprehension lol

Only the mods can see my shame now!

SPavel

Your comments are running from the battlefield! A shamefur dispray!

Rubiksmoose

@Sdjz Guessing they meant to say attunement slots.

Sdjz

18:00

@Rubiksmoose Hm yes I suppose that does make sense

Rubiksmoose

Not entirely certain why that is especially relevant here but there you have it.

Sdjz

@Rubiksmoose You were right

Rubiksmoose

It was bound to happen sometime.

doppelgreener

18:27

@SPavel amazing

"I roll to find out if the bear is actually a dog"

d6

Dice Service

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doppelgreener

I mean, uh, the dog is a bear

d6

Dice Service

•

SPavel

Is 3 "success with complications"

And the complication is that it takes 2 years

doppelgreener

Nah it needs opposition to see if it happens

SPavel

18:33

d6

Dice Service

•

SPavel

Ooh, a tie

goodguy5

d8

Dice Service

5

goodguy5

simply change the conditions of the test

doppelgreener

18:35

The thing didn't happen then. I guess that dog is just an ordinary dog.

... for now

Rubiksmoose

What can I do about the guys being distracted by a new girl in D&D group?

This is probably the worst advice I have ever seen in an SE answer.

"Teenagers, curious what the right thing to do is? Just listen to your body!"

2

goodguy5

queue that space guy meme "Aliens"
but instead "Babies"

also: "be with a woman"

SPavel

@goodguy5 Babies! So many babies! FOUR HUNDRED BABIES

goodguy5

at best, she's a "girl"

hahaha

I was just telling someone about that recently

Yuuki

@SPavel KENYANS

SPavel

18:47

@Yuuki AAAAAAAAA

goodguy5

huh....

SPavel

Wow, linked question has 100 upvotes

goodguy5

that psychopath guy

SPavel

@goodguy5 Which?

goodguy5

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Q: My party member is displaying disturbing behavior, what do I do?

As the DM, I am becoming more and more deeply disturbed with one of our party members. Here’s a list of things he keeps doing. attacking party members tried to rape a widow (asked if he needed to role dexterity) murders animals in cruel ways seeks out prostitues chooses to have his character ma...

problem-players

SPavel

18:50

Um, ok

I feel like at a certain point, there is nothing more the Stack can do

goodguy5

I also feel like this guy needs better friends

doppelgreener

@goodguy5 that's messed up.

goodguy5

I'm legitimately concerned

GreySage

@Rubiksmoose I barely managed to read that answer before it got deleted

goodguy5

@Rubiksmoose
gril != girl

SPavel

18:52

@GreySage It's not like you would have missed much

GreySage

@SPavel It was pretty entertaining

KorvinStarmast

I note that the hedgehog defense was rapidly deployed.

SPavel

In Laconic, the RPG, that poster would have been penalized for every word in his answer beyond two, because he could have just said "get laid" and it would have covered his answer in its entirety

goodguy5

should we invite hobo here?

Rubiksmoose

@goodguy5 says who?!

goodguy5

18:54

maybe this is a better series of questions for [chat]

Rubiksmoose

@Rubiksmoose no, he tried both — Hobo_warrior 57 secs ago

THIS

goodguy5

and a counselor

SPavel

@Rubiksmoose h o l y c a n n o l i

GreySage

@goodguy5 I think "Get better friends" would be some seriously good advice for this guy

goodguy5

on the bright side, it seems like the "there's a girl in the group and it's messing things up" will be solved if this guy is around... as she won't come back, or ever try gaming again

GreySage

18:56

Although it sounds like the trouble-making player is more a teenaged jerk than psychopath

goodguy5

@GreySage the line is thin

SPavel

@GreySage Sexual assault goes beyond teenaged jerk

KorvinStarmast

Or maybe someone is doing a great job trolling? We'll see.

Rubiksmoose

@SPavel +1000

goodguy5

I'm very curious if this behavior started when the girl joined

and the guy is trying to make the girl leave by being a cretin

GreySage

18:57

@goodguy5 That would be useful to know

KorvinStarmast

I am curious as to any of this is actually happening IRL ...

goodguy5

I have nothing better to do than assume it is.

Rubiksmoose

@KorvinStarmast From OP's comment the groping was

SPavel

@goodguy5 Are you not at work

Rubiksmoose

@KorvinStarmast Or are you doubting OP's account? (honest question not trying to cast aspersions)

goodguy5

18:58

wait, do you mean "happening IRL"
as in "this is real and not a troll"

or as in "over the internet andor in character"

@SPavel am indeed

again though, is this a conversation to have in chat?

KorvinStarmast

@goodguy5 @Rubiksmoose Step back a second, and look at this from a wider angle. Watch the time tags on the first post, and then the next two questions in quick succession. My troll alarms are beginning to sound (and I of course may be a cynical old fart ...)

Rubiksmoose

@KorvinStarmast OK I was just checking what you were saying.

KorvinStarmast

Let's just say that I smell a rat. It's OK if I am wrong.

doppelgreener

@KorvinStarmast I'll check on this. Please assume it's an honest user for the moment.

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