2017 RPG Stack Exchange Moderator Election

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9:15 PM

@KorvinStarmast You may find this conversation relephant to your deleted question to me.

Sorry, I asked without thinking. Mea Culpa.

No worries. I field that sort of thing semi-regularly, and I've given it a lot of thought. It's tempting, but ultimately not the right way for me to serve the community.

Thank you for thinking of me as mod material, though. That's flattering.

Thanks, just got through the convo. Love your quote from the Bahai wisdom ...

I could use a bit of improvement on that, since our pastor is big on kindness in language.

You are certainly a leading citizen on our stack. :-)

I feel specifically that BESW's non moderatorship enables him to do a lot of things that he could not if he was a mod

|Really, what Stacks could use is more community education efforts. Consolidating the accumulated folk wisdom of meta.se and the overflow blog into a more accessible form; making basic Stack philosophies more visible, like the emergent folksonomy of tagging and the difference between up/down and close voting; all the stuff every Stack has to re-teach itself over and over again.|

@BESW That remark is sooo true.

Make what we learn in meta more accessible. Yeah. Good idea. Not sure how to do it.

9:29 PM

to a certain extent I do wish we had some place to point new users to our stacks specific proclivities that was short and covered things that the FAQs dont.

and the help/tour are largely static via SE policy

There's a certain irony that a network of sites dedicated to easily accessible, well-sorted actionable solutions to practical questions has squirreled away its own learning in so many obscure hidey-holes.

@BESW Yeah, and given the years I spent on the training side, and on "how do we know what we know" efforts, it makes me grind my teeth.

Heck, the central concept in our primary GS/BS document is based on a dead link.

I've tried to be active on the Literature beta, and the amount of re-learning the wheel I see in a community dominated by high-rep citizens and elected moderators with a great deal of experience on their own Stacks... is mind-boogleing.

@BESW Where ya sit determines what ya see. SSD had some interesting remarks on how it looks from the mod seat versus the "rest of us" seat.

Indeed.

9:41 PM

Just curious: any idea what got KRyan banned? I hope it wasn't something I did or set off. I responded to a comment of his, and a day later, I see his rep at 1. Arrgggghhhh.

Suspended, not banned. Hopefully short term.

I couldn't speculate.

I just helped to workshop a question that is right up his alley ...

He'll be back soon and the question will still be there.

Good. As I noted in a different room, I am not posting in meta for a while. Part of "why" is that I don't trust myself not to lay a little lumber on a couple of points, and that is NOT what we need right now.

That's very self-aware.

9:44 PM

Heh, as I noted in general this afternoon, I am a veteran of years of flame wars on various sites, and I enjoyed my fair turn as the flamer.

Some habits are hard to break.

Yeah, I tend to take elections as an opportunity for hand-sitting practice.

Well, since I am in the running (don't bet the over on me winning, Josh/Nits/Doppel look to be the three horse race) you could argue that I should show people great leadership, etc. My view: a wise man once said .... nothing.

Quite a few people come to meta in "broadcast only" mode.

I seen things you people wouldn't believe, Attack comments flagged on answers and questions, Passive-agressive meta questions Glittering in the downvotes by Meta.RPG.SE, All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

Josh, that looks like a song parody, but the tune escapes me.

Tears in rain monologue

"Tears in Rain", also referred to as "The C-Beams Speech", is a brief monologue delivered by replicant Roy Batty (portrayed by Rutger Hauer) in the Ridley Scott film Blade Runner. The final form, altered from the scripted lines and improvised by Hauer on the eve of filming, has entered popular culture as "perhaps the most moving death soliloquy in cinematic history" and is an often quoted piece of science fiction writing. == Script and improvisation == In the film, the dying replicant Roy Batty makes this speech to Harrison Ford's character Deckard moments after saving him from falling off a tall...

9:49 PM

Yes! That's it, I saw the movie when it came out. Thirty plus years ago

@BESW thank you for the quick link, its one of my favorite scenes in cinema for the way it ties together the film (what rutger hauers character does right before stating those lines) and the dialog itself is pretty good for sci-fi babble

It's on my Science Fiction Double Feature list, but I'm not sure what to pair it with yet.

@KorvinStarmast I HIGHLY recommend rewatching it in the FINAL CUT version

has no bad voice over

Blade Runner had a whole lot of good subtle things in it. But I hated the "directors" cut, I prefer the original theater release. The ending was all wrong in the directors cut.

technical flaws in the editing or shooting are corrected but its subtle (not like star wars special edition where whole cgi scenes are inserted)

interesting, you like the escape ending with them in the car and the helicopter shot

9:51 PM

Is that one different from the black box release on VHS?

yes

The original was Ford's voice over about knowing how long we'll live as they leave. I remember the VHS directors cut with a different ending.

Final cut was an actual directors cut (the "Directors cut" vhs and dvd release was not actually done by ridley scott

Maybe I need to take your recommendation. My son has not seen the movie, and he likes sci fi. Put that on the list.

final cut was made for the 25th anniversary

9:52 PM

(I and some friends have a thing where we watch two movies in a row, selected to reflect on each other in some way. Like, we watched Sir Ian McKellan's Richard III before watching Star Wars III, and we watched The Phantom of the Paradise after Rocky Horror.)

yeah its out there in dvd and blu ray

We got blu ray, prolly try to find a copy of that.

I need to rebuy it since I got a blu-ray player finally

though my tv is only 1080p and the distance I sit from it probably wouldnt be too noticable in the quality

@BESW thats a fun way to frame contemporary works for those without a genre background

Yeah, it's mostly about watching stuff we haven't all seen, but which our other friends wouldn't watch with us.

We once watched the Last Remake of Beau Geste (with Michael York) right after watching the old black and white one from ages ago. That was sorta funny ...

9:56 PM

Death Becomes Her (Goldie Hawn and Meryl Streep become immortal and fight over Bruce Willis) and The Hunger (Catherine Deneuve is an immortal whose lover David Bowie is getting old).

The Hunger stood up well, IMO, at the time it was released. I liked it. Not sure if it has legs, though.

We enjoyed it a lot. It's slow, but crazy.

And it's filmed beautifully.

It's one of those movies where the mood is well woven into the cinematic experience.

We also watch ridiculous things like Vamp (Grace Jones is an ancient vampire who runs a strip club into which stumbles a college buddy film plot).

That was a while back ... 80's?

9:59 PM

Yup.

IIRC after she was in a Conan Film with Scharznegger ....

And we're slowly working our way through the Star Wars film canon in Machete order, alternating Star Wars films with other films.

Forbidden Planet, IV, Legend, V, Flash Gordon, II, Richard III, III; when we come back from hiatus we'll finish it off with Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country and Episode VI.

Neat idea. Sounds like something my old high school buddies, who turned me on to old Bogart movies, would do.

We paired The Maltese Falcon with Murder By Death.

Nice! Lovely pairing, like a good redfish with a hill country white wine.

10:08 PM

At some point we're going to watch the Cornetto trilogy. Army of Darkness and Shawn of the Dead; Point Break and Hot Fuzz; They Live! and The World's End.

Give that DVD player a work out. Best wishes, I'm outta this room. Thanks for the visit. :-)