Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Thomas Shey]

When GMing for one particular group, I don't use a camera and use "push to talk" for a reason...

I sometimes think about it. We have one player who forgets to turn his mike back on, and one couple who forgets to turn theirs off when they're having an argument.

 

[prabe]

I sometimes think about it. We have one player who forgets to turn his mike back on, and one couple who forgets to turn theirs off when they're having an argument.

The only camera that gets turned on when I'm running is the one pointed at the table with the map on it. I personally don't use PTT because I'm often doing other GM-type stuff with my hands, though I do sometimes mute my headset. I have some players at my table who clearly are on PTT, and that's fine.

 

[Reynard]

No, no, of course the corporation is always right in everything they do.

 

[Ryujin]

Good news! Yanagi Ryuken vs. MMA fighter Tsuyoshi Iwakura.

EDIT: And apparently there is also a global shortage on pixels. I blame AI data centers, they're causing global shortages on all other Internet things!

When your students have been pranking you for 20 years.

 

[Scribe]

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If I see one more "obviously generated my ChatGPT" email or issue update today I'm packing it in.

FOLKS IT DOESNT HELP MAKE YOUR CASE.

 

[Ryujin]

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If I see one more "obviously generated my ChatGPT" email or issue update today I'm packing it in.

FOLKS IT DOESNT HELP MAKE YOUR CASE.

It helps to make the case that they aren't needed in their position.

 

[Scribe]

It helps to make the case that they aren't needed in their position.

Literally just had that conversation with a PM. "You want to make yourself expendable, go nuts."

 

[gnarlygninja]

I've decided that since I once played RPGs with a really weaselly and unreasonable dude who did their best to exploit every rule and paid no attention to setting or genre, I am going to rewrite all my house rules to specifically address that kind of player and never give any player even an inch of generosity or goodwill.

I will then proceed to post about how naive everyone else is for not guarding against this behavior by punishing all players (who I assume will all turn into the aforementioned dude as soon as I make any exceptions). In fact, I don't even believe you are playing if you say your players aren't like that or at least potentially like that if not supervised like toddlers.

Needing to be supervised like toddlers is a fair description of probably 90% of the people I've played games with. Not usually because of aggressive rules exploits but more like actual toddlers. They'll stick something in an electrical outlet or eat their food before it cools down.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Kinda sad there's no six-pointed star like that in the emojis.

A Star of David as an easily accessible emoji in forum posts seems like an invitation to all sorts of problems across the internet. Even making it slightly harder to do likely has tamped things down a tiny bit.

 

[RealAlHazred]

A Star of David as an easily accessible emoji in forum posts seems like an invitation to all sorts of problems across the internet. Even making it slightly harder to do likely has tamped things down a tiny bit.

Actually, we have Star of David emojis in the available emojis . But the WordPress "Whizbang Dustyboots liked this" bits I was trying to emulate are accompanied by a star graphically more like the familiar five-pointed one I used in my attempt at levity. We don't have a star like that in the available emojis, which is absolutely fine -- I would have used it just this one time in thirty years on the Internet.