Subject: Do pardon me.
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Posted on: 2015-11-15 23:42:00 UTC
I'm not trying to create a hostile environment for anybody. I just consider this series of what I hope are poorly-understood jokes by agigabyte to be creepy, and I think it ought to be mentioned. I'm assuming miscommunication here, especially since agigabyte did not yet reply to Ix's posts, not "OMG newbie is EVIL and BAD". Would you rather that I would have not said anything?
And the Library of the Damned. I'm a guest Librarian on there, who rather likes Science Fiction. I'm currently working with another person to riff The Marissa Games. I have several OCs, including one confusingly named agigabyte. You can find me under agigabyte on the Library.
Have a shovel that digs up... hang on.
*dig dig dig*
... okay, apparently it digs up X-Files. Solve them if you want.
Welcome to the PPC. Have some Bloffee - I can assure you you'll be needing it soon.
Have this bag of black-hole dark chocolate. Could you also stop destroying your gifts please? As a fellow newbie I can assure you that the stories are dead wrong.
*Uses the Retcannon to Retcon away any harmful or otherwise negative effects of the chocolate, then gives it to a Redshirt* *It chokes on the Chocolate and dies*
Please no killing the redshirts. That's, you know, kinda mean.Besides, if they get killed now, who's going to be left to die in canon?
But, um. Yeah. It's generally considered to be in poor taste to joke about killing people, so... mind toning it down?
Oh, no, I don't kill them. They aren't even creatures. They're basically programs. Albeit flawed ones who die for no reason.
Mind explaining your logic here? Memetic Mutation aside, in-universe those crew members are still sentient beings. The malevolent interactions with these members of canon using the Newbie Gifts we are attempting to bestow is, well... a bit creepy, truth be told. The gifts aren't out to get you!
Not sentient at all. These aren't crew members, they're Contrivances provided by the Plot Contrivance Corporation. Also, not malevolent. They're just dying. They die from being looked at wrong. Literally. It's rather annoying.
These jokes are Not Funny. They need to Stop. Now.
It is kinda creepy to shoot well-meaning newbie gifts. I mean, OK, if it would have been the face-eating tea, but a couple sharp feathers? A plushie? I think agigabyte kinda overreacts here. It looks like a... hostile mindset (let's go with that) to me.
So - just to be clear, here - you consider that writing attempted-humorous destruction of some (pretend) feathers, (pretend) spikes, and (pretend) SPaGhetti, eating of (pretend) chocolate, and moving-to-another-location of a (pretend) plushie is justification for the hostile environment created for this new member of the PPC community by (in no particular order) Hardic, Darkotas, Iximaz, and yourself?
hS
I was never joking about killing the Redshirts. Only them dying.
I was just trying to answer with a little humour, using his statement with'stories' about the gifts. Sorry if it looked like hostility.
For what little my input may be worth, it wasn't that the jokes concerning redshirts didn't work, it was that they didn't work in such a way that left me a little bit uneasy. Referring to sentient being (alright, (pretend) sentient beings) as glitches and so forth? I don't much like that. Besides, your jokes not being funny seems like a bit of a problem if you intend to be part of a comedy community like the PPC.
Yes, I think this glass house is a perfect environment for throwing stones, why do you ask? =]
Well, that is most definitely me told. Consider my objections with regard to the funniness of the jokes entirely withdrawn.
I wasn't making any statement as to whether the jokes were funny or not. My point was that they may be derived from another source, rather than being original to agigabyte.
hS
If I lack the context that makes a joke or reference funny, fine, I won't find it funny when it should be... but that's hardly my fault or anyone else's in the audience. And even then, there's always going to be someone in the audience who still doesn't get it or doesn't think it's funny.
I'm not trying to create a hostile environment for anybody. I just consider this series of what I hope are poorly-understood jokes by agigabyte to be creepy, and I think it ought to be mentioned. I'm assuming miscommunication here, especially since agigabyte did not yet reply to Ix's posts, not "OMG newbie is EVIL and BAD". Would you rather that I would have not said anything?
I do not assume to think in other people's stead and therefore I do not assume to know why or why not people post. They could be busy, they could be asleep, they could decide this isn't the place for them... I (usually) don't try to second-guess a person's motives.
But nevermind that. I guess I should keep my opinions to myself from now on.
I shouldn't have said (er, agreed?) that it would have been better for you to not have said anything; I'm sorry.
hS
I do hope that what needs to be learned from this will be learned from this and it could be put behind us.
*scurries back to his reading, of which there is quite a lot*
These Redshirts are what amounts to Organic Automatons. They are not crew members like on Star Trek. They're simply randomly generated programs that make the ships look populated until they die. I should've explained their nature.
automatons, they'll be fine.
Do you sell your Christmas presents? Because that's the sense I'm getting from this. Not ingratitude, exactly, but a certain level of indifference.
If you want to quibble over the semantic definitions of sentient life, fine, but fair warning: I'm really into hard SF. I'm good at this. =]
But it has no brain. Instead, it's controlled by an organic central computer A La B1 Battledroids.
Hello, and welcome aBoard! For your newbie gift, take this plate of freshly-made SPaGhetti!
If you haven't yet read them, may I point you towards the Original Series and the Constitution? They're pretty much the only required reading around these parts. Another useful resource you might use is the Wiki; if you have any questions, just look here before asking. We like it when newbies do the research. ;)
Hope you like it here! :D
*Has an OC shoot the SPaGhetti* I've heard the stories.
Read the Constitution, will read the Original Series.
Welcome to the PPC board, sir (or other title befitting your gender of preference) agigabyte! I can't say I have heard of any of those things, except /maybe/ the Library of the Damned, but it's always nice to see new faces and make new friends!
What kind of science fiction do you enjoy in particular? The classics, like Isaac Asimov? More modern works like Alien or Terminator? Or maybe you fancy giant robots?
Anywho, whether you decide to answer or not, hope you enjoy your stay!
Sir is fine.
I enjoy some classics, but look in another response for a detailed list of modern stuff.
Here's a Chocobo plushie wearing Ryu's headband, because why the hell not!
*Has a Company of Redshirts take the item back to the Flagship of my space Fleet, the GNS Archon* *All but one dies from tripping and falling*
May I ask what fandoms you're in?
For the time being, have one of my own shed feathers and a complimentary kit of Spikes!