Quote from: GeekyBugle;1105364My guess is they meant palette

Of course that's what she should have written and probably that is what she meant to write. I was just, as my UK friends would say, taking the piss out. And I found it funny that someone who has the time and energy to administer safety checklists to all her friends in all their activities and to make a video about it and post it, doesn't have the time or energy to spell check what she writes (or notice those little wavy red lines in the automatic spell checker).

Quote from: Alexander Kalinowski;1105310Yes.
 
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I do not see how she got from that to RPG Safety Tools. Since they are all actors, maybe that ramps up the drama queen factor which is where these Safety Tools ideas come from. IRL drama queens get shown the door.

Quite odd, but from watching this and reading about the system, if I ran it I would have to use pre-4th edition mechanics, they seem to make a lot more sense and be simpler to use than the 4th edition and later mechanics. I would say that "industrial espionage runs rampant" is the world we are living in right now. So the world has in a few areas at least caught up with the game.

Quote from: rawma;1105318Unless your RPGs are sociopathic cruelty masquerading as games, I can't imagine needing "safety tools". But if your RPG runs to recreating the Stanford Prison Experiment, you probably could use some ethics tools.

I agree with this, he hits the nail on the head. Of course the Stanford Prison Experiment showed just how little moral conviction most people seem to have and how easily they are subverted.

QuoteIn the study, volunteers were randomly assigned to be either "guards" or "prisoners" in a mock prison

Quotethe experiment has been criticized for unscientific methodology

QuoteVariants of the experiment have been performed by other researchers, but none of these attempts have replicated the results of the SPE.

Replicating the results would be easy. All you have to do is what happens IRL with the police and other authorities, just fail to *effectively screen out bullies (while claiming that you are screening out bullies). Or rather make sure at least a few bullies are included as guards. A few bullies will be followed like sheep by the other guards the same as we see with some police incidents where the presence of one or more cops who is a bully results in bad behavior by all or most cops that are present at an incident.

The same holds true at the game table. If you let a bully run over you (because he is the DM or a fellow player and because you are unwilling to speak or just get up and leave), then I really don't see how Safety Tools would help, the bully would still be in control. In my view, Safety Tools would only be of use in a group of 100% sheep and zero % wolves. If a wolf is present the sheep are silent and (aside from some pathetic and ineffectual bleating) go silent to their death. You don't need Safety Tools, you need  Sheep Dogs that confront the Wolves and protect the Sheep. If you are a milquetoast personality and you join a game and you become aware that there is a mean dominant personality(ies) present, but not equal numbers of noble dominant personality(ies) present, then exercise a tiny bit of common sense and run. Then find a different game.

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*Bullies in any profession are incredibly easy to spot if you spend a little time with people, most school kids can identify bullies an instant, while apparently those with many degrees using the best tests created by so called "experts" seen completely unable to complete what is a simple task.

QuoteAccording to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, police training in various academies can range from four weeks to 6 months. However, this range excludes any field training that the recruit may need to take.

If you can not identify bullies in four weeks you too incompetent to be involved in deciding who graduates from a police academy. If you had 6 months to do the job, then failing to screen out people who should not be cops, can only be malicious and intentional.

Quote from: Bren;1105376Of course that's what she should have written and probably that is what she meant to write. I was just, as my UK friends would say, taking the piss out. And I found it funny that someone who has the time and energy to administer safety checklists to all her friends in all their activities and to make a video about it and post it, doesn't have the time or energy to spell check what she writes (or notice those little wavy red lines in the automatic spell checker).

Well Grammar and spelling are tools of the patriarchy sooooo...

Quote from: GeekyBugle;1105400Well Grammar and spelling are tools of the patriarchy sooooo...

Good point.

She didn't mention the Beef-tonging Tool? Total Rookie.

Quote from: Bren;1105376I found it funny that someone who has the time and energy to administer safety checklists to all her friends in all their activities and to make a video about it and post it, doesn't have the time or energy to spell check what she writes (or notice those little wavy red lines in the automatic spell checker).

To be fair, I ignore those little red lines too. I use too many words that Word's rather limited dictionary doesn't recognize. (And I use Canadian spelling to boot.)

Quote from: Stephen Tannhauser;1105582To be fair, I ignore those little red lines too. I use too many words that Word's rather limited dictionary doesn't recognize. (And I use Canadian spelling to boot.)

  Try writing a dissertation with extensive Latin quotations in Word sometime. I think I turned it off for my own sanity's sake.

Quote from: Stephen Tannhauser;1105582To be fair, I ignore those little red lines too. I use too many words that Word's rather limited dictionary doesn't recognize. (And I use Canadian spelling to boot.)

English spelling can be tricky. I lived in England for a couple of years working for English and German subsidiaries of a US company and spell checking could be a chore. But still easier than trying to use apps with German menus or type on a German keyboard.

As far as non-US spelling, if it helps, you can always change your spelling dictionary from US-style to UK-style spelling. And when I was using a lot of French words for Honor+Intrigue I added the French dictionary to my spell checker.

Quote from: Shawn Driscoll;1105250[video=youtube;yFDbukm5zGI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFDbukm5zGI[/youtube]

OK, I had to stop this video half way through just because it all boils down to common sense, "Don't play with assholes" and "You can leave the game anytime you want."

Quote from: Stephen Tannhauser;1105582To be fair, I ignore those little red lines too. I use too many words that Word's rather limited dictionary doesn't recognize. (And I use Canadian spelling to boot.)

That's not a good excuse. Run the check and add words it doesn't recognize after you've confirmed the spelling you want it to see as correct.