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  • This is mostly for maintenance and board-wide stuff from admin.

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    TezT

    Serves me right for seeing what would happen if I lifted the registration freeze.

  • This is a place for game runners to post about their games. Discussion on those games will happen elsewhere. Please respect this!

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    R

    @Cobalt Absolutely no apology needed. Appreciate holding us accountable.

  • Conversations and questions about current, upcoming, and advertised games and the hobby as a whole.

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    lucidmausL

    While I’m sure there are some recent articles that touch on the darker side of MU*, I always look to this one (written by Julian Dibbell) outlining an atrocious event that happened on LambdaMOO:

    TW: sexual assault - http://www.juliandibbell.com/texts/bungle_vv.html

    I’m terrible at summarizing so I won’t really try, but it does a fine job of sharing a terrible event, how it affected people, and the changes that happened after. It also touches on what it means to make a society and shape a culture in this shared hobby; for as terrible as the event is, it’s also heartening to see how things can grow and change through player influence.

  • When you want to talk about HOW to do something when running a game, bring it here: Code, Theme, Policies, Game Design.

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    SockMonkeyS

    @Gashlycrumb Also, chances are most of the people you (general not specific) have a problem with have a similar opinion of you so 1) Why would they care? 2) Why would they be surprised? People are allowed to avoid games because of Staff (whether your own issue or in support of someone else) so it seems hypocritical to not allow Staff the same option especially when they’re the one putting in the effort to run the game.

  • Please post a playlist if you feel comfortable doing so, and if you are looking for old friends -- try here! If you are looking for old enemies, consider a nap.

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    CobaltC

    Only one place these days. Maybe I’ll get spicy and try a second place.

  • Gloves off, but don't be a total asshole.

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    PavelP

    @Yam Something like “Using LLMs/AI for any contributions to the game, including but not limited to backgrounds, descriptions, wiki images, poses, etc, is a bannable offence. Being a dick if you suspect someone of using LLMs/AI is also a bannable offence.”

  • Comments, criticism, suggestions, feedback?

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    ArtemisA

    @Tez was pointed out to me that you probably meant you need their email. Anyways, i asked and theyre all set but good to know!

  • The place to put non-game things.

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    HobbieH

    @Clarion said in AI Megathread:

    Maybe in a few years it’ll be a 100% technically viable option and turn back into an ethical question

    The reliability of AI when it comes to cutting code (and to a lesser extent, just having accurate information) is coming more and more into question because the data the AI is training itself on is getting shittier and shittier.

    Note this loop:

    Vibe coded app hits Github with issues AI learns from vibe coded app Issues are seen as standard practice and implemented More issues arise because AI code isn’t perfect Go to Step 1

    I’ve been watching this continual enshittification take place as my company is forced to use AI (someone very successfully marketed to my intelligence-challenged CEO) and I’m getting more and more PRs across my desk that are full of slop. The decrease in the human element and the consistent marketing of “AI is gonna do it for you don’t even worry about it” is causing entropic damage to the AI’s ability to actually create something worth a damn.

    Six months ago, it could spit out a CloudFormation template that was mostly passable, with a couple of fixes, and now it doesn’t even understand a WAF rule statement. It used to be possible to use ChatGPT for boilerplate BASH code but now it can’t even do that.

    Can’t even use Google anymore, because the first five pages of results are AI articles that tell me less than nothing. Like, search engines give me results that are actively detrimental to what I’m trying to do.

    For someone who keeps getting told AI is going to make my job easier, boy is it making it a lot harder.

    I genuinely hope this bubble bursts with the force of a nuke because at some point in the near future an AI will introduce a genuinely serious problem that requires human resolution and there’s no humans around who have the knowledge to fix it for them.

    tl;dr if you let dumb AI learn from dumb AI, AI gets dumber.

  • Video games, tabletop, etc.

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    PavelP

    @dvoraen said in General Video Game Thread:

    @MisterBoring said in General Video Game Thread:

    @Meg & @dvoraen If you both like PEAK, I would also recommend RV There Yet?, which is basically PEAK + chainsmoking + getting an RV to the top of the mountain.

    I have watched a few people play it, but it seemed like the kind of game that would make me rage quit. lol

    It’s the ideal game for therapists to play instead of doing our notes. Lots of clinically inadvisable langage, do recommend.