credit_not_blame: (Scorn)
Stacia, Nothing-to-See-Here ([personal profile] credit_not_blame) wrote in [community profile] piper902021-05-21 10:49 am

[bendy-timed] Let's Get It All Out [locked to New Hires except Price, Mac, and Jack Spicer]

[Not too long after some of the New Hires come back from this mess of a mission, a locked down video post appears on the secret network from everyone's favorite still-underaged-shhhh werewolf. She looks perky, in the slightly manic manner of someone gearing up for a fight.]


Since everyone got so excited about my question regarding what we were going to do with the Jorgmund scientists on the last mission, promptly turning it into a seething argument on whether or not killing is ever acceptable, I've decided to bring it up here on the Rig. Because apparently we need to have this conversation now or else we're going to have it at a completely inappropriate time and place; like on a mission where we're trying to plan out how to escape a prison that mind-fucks us.

[Because really, people? Really? Stacia clears her throat and schools her expression back into a smile.]

I'm going to need everyone to shitpost like crazy on the public side of things, because I can't be in charge of that and in charge of moderating this, the hottest of topics.

Speaking of, guess what. I'm in charge of moderating this conversation because Lonestar likes me best. Or because I volunteered; six of one, half dozen of the other. That means that I can freeze your threads and put you in time out if you break the rules.



1) Don't be an asshole. This is my favorite rule, and I am become Asshole Arbiter. Keep a civil tongue in your head and/or civil fingers on your keyboard. I recognize that this is a topic that is very contentious and very important to a lot of people, but we have to be able to work with each other. Allow me to remind you that we have been literally enslaved by a corporation in a reality separate from our own that has implanted internal shock collars inside our bodies. The attitude of your fellow enslaved are not the biggest problem here.

2) Participate in good faith. There are a few people who have not been invited to this conversation because I don't trust them to follow this rule. While I believe that having shit-stirrers around is important, I don't have the energy to wrangle them and all of you right now. If you decide that now is the time to reveal yourself as a shit-stirrer and you just want to piss people off, you will be declared an asshole and in violation of Rule 1.

3) This is a discussion to help determine what we're doing to do moving forward, not a moral debate. Obviously if you feel that killing someone is always wrong, that will inform your argument. That's fine! But if I see anyone going on about how so-and-so is naive idiot for refusing to kill or such-and-such is a monster because they do kill, I'm gonna put you in time out. Even if I agree with you! Because see Rule 1.

4) Feel free to self-moderate! I can't be everywhere at once -- in fact, there's only one of me. If you find yourself in a debate that isn't going anywhere, feel free to excuse yourself. Or even to not respond! You will not actually die if you don't get the last word in! If someone excuses themself from an exchange with you or stops responding to you, do not follow them around to continue harassing them. See again Rule 1.

5) If I freeze your thread or put you in time-out, go shitpost until you've calmed down again. Or read over what you were posting and ask yourself what was happening that I came in and put a stop to it. Or, if you feel that I am a most unfair and power-drunk bitch, you can go and make your own discussion post. Then whether or not you're in violation of Rule 1 is not my problem anymore.
hallelujahjunction: (Basic - Lean)

[personal profile] hallelujahjunction 2021-05-23 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd put money on your AIs getting nickel-and-dimed behind the scenes. Taxes are sneaky.
zerg_rush: (15 - 08)

[personal profile] zerg_rush 2021-05-23 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I used to work for the legal government and I don't think they tax themselves, and I'm pretty sure the Sons of Korhal gets most of its support directly from the Umojan Protectorate....

[She's not challenging Dan so much as she's working through things she never thought about before, because, frankly, no one thinks about taxes as much as sovereign citizens, including actual revenue service workers.]
hallelujahjunction: (Basic - Listening with Commentary)

[personal profile] hallelujahjunction 2021-05-23 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know what any of those are, but I'm pretty sure where I'm from, even government officials got to pay sales tax, income tax and property tax. I bet you've doled out some hidden dollars back into the system in your life.
zerg_rush: (15 - 11)

[personal profile] zerg_rush 2021-05-23 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Dan, are you under the impression I got paid?

[That's cute.]
hallelujahjunction: (Surprised - ??)

[personal profile] hallelujahjunction 2021-05-23 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
...Christ, they make you do all that and they don't even pay you?
zerg_rush: (15 - 01)

[personal profile] zerg_rush 2021-05-23 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure why you think that's where the Confederacy'd draw the line.

[Kerrigan finds this pretty funny, actually.]
hallelujahjunction: (Angry - Squint)

[personal profile] hallelujahjunction 2021-05-23 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Do they at least...cover your expenses and...adjutants?

[Thanks, Kerrigan, your world somehow managed to tunnel under even Dan's rock-bottom expectations for government.]
zerg_rush: (15 - 08)

cw: mindwipes, The Confederacy Is The Worst

[personal profile] zerg_rush 2021-05-23 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Ghosts...don't incur personal expenses much. The memory wipes make it so you can't really handle a budget, anyway.

[Kerrigan realizes that this is not normal, but not how abnormal, and she shrugs. What're ya gonna do?]
Edited 2021-05-23 22:56 (UTC)
hallelujahjunction: (Basic - Done With This)

[personal profile] hallelujahjunction 2021-05-23 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds to me like you just hopped from an enslavement fire into an enslavement frying pan coming here.

[He doesn't super try to hide the horror.]
zerg_rush: (15 - 04)

[personal profile] zerg_rush 2021-05-23 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Haven't worked for the Confederacy in a decade, but yeah, this is pretty familiar. Way less competent, but familiar.

[Wow Dan you're kinda overreacting, here. It was a while back.]
hallelujahjunction: (Surprised - ??)

[personal profile] hallelujahjunction 2021-05-24 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Sorry to be horrified at enslaving people, Kerrigan!]

Well, ah...at least you didn't have as severe a learning curve as some of us.
zerg_rush: (15 - 06)

[personal profile] zerg_rush 2021-05-24 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
[Everyone back home knows what a shitshow the Confederacy is, so she's not used to people reacting with this level of horror.]

I'm just sorry anyone else had to find out what it's like.
hallelujahjunction: (Basic - Listening with Commentary)

[personal profile] hallelujahjunction 2021-05-24 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
Well. At least most of us seem made of sturdy enough stuff to resist it. They sure did manage to pick a bunch of folks with rebellious spirits.