Lizstar

Gay Murr Girl

Liz, Goblin, Part-Time Shark, VTuber, retired speedrunner, author, GDQ staff, Sega fan, "Yuri Sommelier", Walking Encyclopedia of All Things Useless, Twitch partner, general menace. Says "Murr" a lot. This is not a place of honor, views my own, etc. Avatar art by me.


Saw a forum thread on Retro Achievements about changing your name on the website. That's a thing that's not possible, due to database issues. I get that, if it's literally not possible it's not possible, though I'd love for them to try and get it working some time.

However, the people who were commenting on this were like, weirdly belligerent. "It's no longer 2002 and this isn't AIM, we don't need to change our names every 5 days"

To me, that comment is a GIANT beacon that says "I do not know any trans people" lol. Even being friends with a single trans person makes you realize how fucking important names can be, and the act of changing them. And how fucking impossible society makes that, in every single possible way.


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not possible, due to database issues

do they need someone to write a migration for them, because I doubt this statement very much unless they just mean "we baked that assumption in deep and don't have the manpower for the necessary rewrites"

edit: found the thread and Scott went into some detail and yeah, it's basically what I thought... and apparently there is work being done to unfuck the schema, so this probably isn't a permanent situation at least (though it doesn't seem to be any kind of priority). also, I'm not sure why nobody's thought of putting in an alias system (adding new tables is always safe) and just letting a single account have multiple usernames; they clearly allow multiple accounts per user, so it's not a name-squatting concern.

edit2: read to the end and oh, they're nearly there actually, most of the conversation is older than I realized. well, good.

honestly wonder how much of that is the emudeck/deckbrew contingent, the type who haven't seen or been to the website and only bother as far as the discord, and only know about retroachievements inasfar as the emudeck "package" and emuchievements plugin supports it