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The more I look at the real world, the more I'm convinced it is science fiction.
But then I tell myself that nobody could possibly make this <expletive> up...
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The more I look at the real world, the more I'm convinced it is science fiction.
But then I tell myself that nobody could possibly make this <expletive> up...
RealAlHazred
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Reminds me of the sci-fi convention game I had planned to run, where the player characters found themselves still on-planet when the teleporter has a "power blip." Turns out copies of them were made at their destination, and those are the "legal" versions of themselves. Then they have to escape the teleporter megacorporation, which strictly enforces a "no additional copies" policy with lethal force. The plan was, at the end, to see which players were playing their characters in a particularly mercenary fashion, and then use "duplicates" of those characters to split the party for the final escape/battle. Hey, they might not care one way or the other, but the megacorporation has deep pockets with which to compensate any concerned citizens willing to help them out of a jam.
"Is it possible, I wonder, to study a bird so closely, to observe and catalogue its peculiarities in such minute detail, that it becomes invisible? Is it possible that while fastidiously calibrating the span of its wings or the length of its tarsus, we somehow lose sight of its poetry? That in our pedestrian descriptions of a marbled or vermiculated plumage we forfeit a glimpse of living canvases, cascades of carefully toned browns and golds that would shame Kandinsky, misty explosions of color to rival Monet? I believe that we do. I believe that in approaching our subject with the sensibilities of statisticians and dissectionists, we distance ourselves increasingly from the marvelous and spell binding planet of imagination whose gravity drew us to our studies in the first place."
- from Watchmen's "Blood From the Shoulder of Pallas", by Alan Moore
- from Watchmen's "Blood From the Shoulder of Pallas", by Alan Moore
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^^ You nailed it, Cadence.
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So does nobody use the PM system when they have a complaint against the mods? My gast is completely flabbered right now...
I've PM'ed a mod before when I've felt something didn't feel right. I don't think they've changed anything in those few cases, but I felt listened to.
Yep. Folks who are not happy with moderation do send us PMs.
I have certainly changed my mind about things based on PM discussion. Sometimes, posters learn a thing or two if they are actually willing to listen.
However, most often, PMs come in when someone is angry about getting red text, and they just vent anger, as if being hotheaded, entitled and rude at us is going to convince us that we were wrong about whatever thing happened in the thread. "You are a dumb@ss on a power trip, and wrongity, wrong, with wrong sauce!" usually doesn't make things better.
If you are going to PM a mod, it really helps for you to stop, take a breath, and think about what could be said to change someone's view of a situation in a constructive way.
"This is not to say that we should cease to establish facts and to verify our information, but merely to suggest that unless those facts can be imbued with the flash of poetic insight then they remain dull gems; semi-precious stones scarcely worth the collecting. When we stare into the catatonic black bead of a Parakeet's eye we must teach ourselves to glimpse the cold, alien madness that Max Ernst perceived when he chose to robe his naked brides in confections of scarlet feather and the transplanted monstrous heads of exotic birds."
- from Watchmen's "Blood From the Shoulder of Pallas", by Alan Moore
- from Watchmen's "Blood From the Shoulder of Pallas", by Alan Moore
Asisreo
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When I last PM'd Umbran, it was like a legendary battle. We clashed until finally he had to submit. Now, I carry my victory with pride.
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