Hi
Is there a list of e-mail addresses for the players? Are there Facebook profiles I can see?
Thank you
How do I contact players?
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Jhiaxus
MemberOh I figured, but I was giving the anonymous the benefit of the doubt.
My email is:
Some of the other player's emails are:
fraud@fbi.gov
president@whitehouse.gov
vice.president@whitehouse.gov
spam@uce.gov
419.fcd@usss.treas.gov
webcomplaints@ora.fda.govThu Oct 28 2010 1:06 am # -
Anybody want to make an email box to let anonymous share some sensitive information?
I'm a sensitive person, anonymous, but if this is another one of those "You are going to Hell because you play role playing games" things, you could do yourself a lot of good by reading the "Confessions of a Dungeons and Dragons Addict" article posted on the internet.
By all means, your sensitive information is something I am all ears for; if you can say it to strangers in email, why not on a forum?
Thu Oct 28 2010 1:40 am # -
So then, you want us to cover the children's eyes?
Well, why don't you try to share it without being vulgar?
There are words to help voice things like coitus, people who consume defecant, and hemmorhoids which drag on the floor... what is it that makes the subject matter so inappropriate?
(examples provided to help break the ice for you, I do not condone consumption of defecant)
Thu Oct 28 2010 1:51 am # -
Jhiaxus
MemberOooo Oooo is it me? I have a good idea who anon is talking about, just seems like interesting timing as all, my guess would be ex wife, ex gf #1, or ex gf #2. Either way, if I am right, it is in bad form, since this is a gaming forum, and we just like to have fun.
Thu Oct 28 2010 2:00 am # -
Well heck, I think we all know that. *looks at A1nut accusingly*
I'm joking, I'm joking.
I'm a very accepting sort and running games for criminals does not bother me in the slightest. You have piqued my curiosity to a certain extent, though, and if you're talking about me I should tell you: flattery will get you nowhere.
The reason it piques my interest is because the game forum that you are on, for the Multiverser game system, is an "I Game"; that means, you play yourself. Intrinsically, your statement that someone is a scary criminal means that either A. someone here is lying and has better skills in some regards than they led us to believe, and shame on them, or B. we already know.
So, if you can divulge this personal information over email, why not on the forum? I'm sure everyone would like to know.
Thu Oct 28 2010 2:03 am # -
Tadeusz
MemberI did manage to scare MJ when he was running me in the Why Spy world. Something about the willingness to cut people's fingers off if necessary. I'd probably have slept the sleep of the just after it too.
Worse, I'm a Right-winger. Think Sarah Palin should be the next president, and that Obama is the least qualified individual to hold the office since...well, even Jimmy Carter had some skills on a sub, and before him.....no that's pretty much it, about half the populace got sucked in by good media and left reality behind, a long way behind in the rear view mirror.
This makes me a RAAAAAACCCCCIIIISSSSTTTT!
I accuse myself of thoughtcrime.
Thu Oct 28 2010 2:12 am # -
Tadeusz
MemberOh, yes, about the Law Review, but he had no papers in it, and none of his grades or papers have been published. Doctorate, no, that's a new one on me.
And I thought W went to Yale.
Obama voted 'present' pretty much most of the time, served as a Senator for two years, and spent most of it campaigning. He gives a good speech, if his teleprompter is on.
And ranting is the natural reaction, almost Newtonian in a social sense, to the use of the arguement 'I go to Harvaaaard, and thus I am smarter than you, and you should shut up now.' which is the preferred arguement of a certain segment of the populace. Its especially so when the evidence for actual skill seems so thin on the ground.
Thu Oct 28 2010 2:32 am # -
If you graduate from Harvard Law School you have a Juris Doctore. It's the same Doctorate I have. You aren't usually called "Doctor" unless you go beyond that to earn an LLM and then a Ph.D. in Law, because of the convention, but the degree is considered a doctoral degree.
Eric, between you and me, do you think Obama got into Harvard on "VQ Points"?
Anonymous, there is no available list of e-mail addresses. Contact is made via the forum. If you need to contact a moderator, you can contact me at referee@mjyoung.net. If you need to contact the administrators, post in the Gaming Outpost Talk forum and explain why in terms that are complete enough that Aaron will have reason to answer you--he doesn't have time for mystery posts.
As far as someone on the board being a criminal, I'd wager half the people here have had some kind of legal trouble at one time or another in life. As long as they aren't using the board to further their criminal activity, it's not really our concern. I mean, maybe someone here is a convicted sex offender, but since there really isn't any likelihood that we'll connect outside the forum that's not a serious concern. It's hard to imagine how the fact that someone here "is a criminal" matters. Further, I note that you didn't say "has a criminal record". That really suggests that there are three possibilities:
- You are informing us that someone here was convicted of a crime and served his sentence, which means he's at worst a former felon.
- You are informing us that someone was accused of a crime, and found not guilty, but it is your opinion that he should have been convicted, which means you're committing slander by publishing lies about him (or would be if you were more specific).
- You are informing us that someone did something which you believe was a crime but that he was never arrested and no charges were filed, in which case you should take what you know to the police and not attempt to slander someone based on hearsay.
--M. J. Young
Thu Oct 28 2010 5:15 am # -
That's why I addressed it to Eric. It was in a book he gave me for the Adapting series (sort of), Wolftime by Lars Walker. The gist of it is that in the not-to-distant future everyone gets "Victim Quotient Points" based on the circumstances of their birth, their race, their economic status, their physical disabilities, and so forth. You get to spend VQ points for just about anything--getting out of legal trouble, getting good grades on college courses, whatever. The theory is that if you're "downtrodden" enough then society "owes" you a break. If you have enough VQ points you could kill someone and be excused because after all, you had a hard life and it wasn't your fault.
The central character in the story is a college professor who notes that it's not worth it to report students for breaking the rules because the ones who break the rules have the VQ points to avoid any punishment, and that a lot of the students in his classes don't bother to attend because they can buy top grades with their VQ points and never have to take the tests or learn the material.
--M. J. Young
Thu Oct 28 2010 5:55 am # -
JohnA1nut
MemberGuess what, anonymous. Based solely on our conversation, I've got a pretty good idea of three things now.
1. You don't play on this forum game and never have and never will
2. Who you're talking about
3. Who you are
Kyler, are they talking about you? You can't exactly slander yourself. Maybe denouncing this person will make them go away.
(Doing Therapy)
Thu Oct 28 2010 6:01 am # -
JohnA1nut
MemberAnonymous, if you were planning to confess your own crimes, I don't think you could get into trouble. If you were planning to accuse Kyler of something, I'm sure MJ would be more than happy to put his law degree to good use and have you pay off his house for slandering his son.
Thu Oct 28 2010 2:32 pm # -
Tadeusz
MemberYes, I remember when the Starsongian jerks tried to convict MJ of a crime in their universe, and just what it felt like as the GM to have your head whipped around by the sheer speed, power, and brutal effectiveness of MJ's legal counterattack. It brought further into focus the theory that inside every lawyer is a wolf who enjoys combat.
And MJ, yes, pretty much. VQ describes it.
And its probable he didn't write too much or hardly any of his two books. So what we're left with is a big fat zero plus a cipher.
Besides, I respect MJ, in part because he graduated from Harvard, but also because he's given me abundant evidence of intellect and skill. If he'd come on this board, rather like anon, and said "I'm a Harvard grad, now shet it, you peasants." I'd be far less respectful.
What we currently have is an Establishment who have a shibboleth of certain viewpoints who argue 'If you agree with us and go to The Good School, you're smart.' These sort of people are proto-aristocrats and un-American.
OTOH, I do respect genuine elites.
One Democrat elite that I've voted for twice is Phil Bredesen, governor of Tennessee. He's been twice the D gov in a state that went crimson in 2008. He's got 70% popularity in a Republican state. He's polite, smart, ruthless, and he's got a backbone of steel. The DNC would have been far wiser to have Bredesen as President than Obama. Bredesen would be cruising to a second term by this point with popularity rankings in the sixties. The Dems would have retained control of the House, and kept the filibuster proof in the Senate.
Bredesen is an elite. Obama is nothing of the kind.
Thu Oct 28 2010 4:23 pm # -
JohnA1nut
MemberYes, I remember when the Starsongian jerks tried to convict MJ of a crime in their universe, and just what it felt like as the GM to have your head whipped around by the sheer speed, power, and brutal effectiveness of MJ's legal counterattack. It brought further into focus the theory that inside every lawyer is a wolf who enjoys combat.
How is that possible? His legal degree means very little in an alternate universe. You make the laws. In Pearl Harbor, I would have told them "I'm not answering any questions until I speak to an attorney" but who is to say that, in that world, the 5th amendment doesn't say "Police have the right to use whatever means are needed to get a confession."
Thu Oct 28 2010 4:30 pm # -
Tadeusz
MemberOh, indeed.
But part of it is if you give the player a well-rounded and fair world, then you're giving him opportunities. And some players are very good at exploiting those, or at least some of them.
I was good at being scarily intimidating. MJ at legal beagle issues.
Thu Oct 28 2010 7:19 pm #
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