<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Rough and Rowdy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gloves off, but don't be a total asshole.]]></description><link>https://brandmu.day/category/7</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 02:16:14 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://brandmu.day/category/7.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:47:59 GMT</pubDate><ttl>60</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Neon Protocol]]></title><description><![CDATA[@Juniper said in Neon Protocol:

The elephant in the room is how Neon Protocol straight up looks like a scenario in AI dungeon. I was immediately repelled by it.

This – aside from terrible  AI in general, the aesthetic is very jarring with the NEON colors juxtaposed  with the “small town farmer’s market flyer” sort of AI slop.
I get that it’s trying for small town supernatural but definitely missing that mark.  Also I get that not everyone’s an artist or adept at PhotoShop but we existed for decades without it on Mu*s, we don’t need it now.
]]></description><link>https://brandmu.day/topic/669/neon-protocol</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://brandmu.day/topic/669/neon-protocol</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[pixiedustflyer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:47:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mostly Finished M&M 4E Project]]></title><description><![CDATA[I don’t play M&amp;M but I also won’t pretend this isn’t impressive as hell. Great job!
]]></description><link>https://brandmu.day/topic/668/mostly-finished-m-m-4e-project</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://brandmu.day/topic/668/mostly-finished-m-m-4e-project</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Deviant]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:16:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coded Systems vs PDF Sheets]]></title><description><![CDATA[@xCroaker I agree about the emailing. I know it’s possible, but I don’t think I would want to do it as a player or want to ask players to do it as an admin.
Your sheet looks pretty good, BTW!
]]></description><link>https://brandmu.day/topic/666/coded-systems-vs-pdf-sheets</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://brandmu.day/topic/666/coded-systems-vs-pdf-sheets</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Raistlin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 10:37:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freeform or Systems?]]></title><description><![CDATA[@Coin said in Freeform or Systems?:

That’s why any game I run promotes joint narrative storytelling; Batman doesn’t become a joke because everyone works to make Batman be Batman. I also typically do not allow villains and any PvP is strictly plot-dependent.

100%. And that’s why my personal feeling is to rely on filtering rather than stats. A player who barges through a scene flexing will usually reign it in after a quiet conversation with them explaining the issue. The ones that don’t rapidly find that nobody wants to play with them.
]]></description><link>https://brandmu.day/topic/663/freeform-or-systems</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://brandmu.day/topic/663/freeform-or-systems</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Colette]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:19:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wikibara’s allegations]]></title><description><![CDATA[@Tez said in Wikibara’s allegations:

@voiceinthevoid said in Wikibara’s allegations:

@Kestrel

Just – to be clear. You’re fine. Just want everyone to know who I am, which is Tez, with a z.

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]]></description><link>https://brandmu.day/topic/662/wikibara-s-allegations</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://brandmu.day/topic/662/wikibara-s-allegations</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[SockMonkey]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 03:45:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long or Short? Application Process!]]></title><description><![CDATA[@Trashcan said in Long or Short? Application Process!:

@Babs said in Long or Short? Application Process!:

Just reuse the same description. Chances are no one will notice.

Chances are no one will say anything to you.

THIS IS WHY. I KNOW I WILL BE SILENTLY JUDGED BY ALL YOU ASSHOLES*.
(*I say affectionately.)
]]></description><link>https://brandmu.day/topic/659/long-or-short-application-process</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://brandmu.day/topic/659/long-or-short-application-process</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[junipersky]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 05:15:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?]]></title><description><![CDATA[
These Age of Heroes people are never going to own up to lying, failing to credit where credit is due, or using AI to steal other people’s work. However it’s pretty uncool behavior in this small community, it is obvious behavior in this small community, it is rude, and it is shady.

Reminder to all of this very poor etiquette in our small community, lest it get buried under someone defending this poor, poor Chaucer fellow.
]]></description><link>https://brandmu.day/topic/658/what-s-up-with-the-two-age-of-heroes-games</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://brandmu.day/topic/658/what-s-up-with-the-two-age-of-heroes-games</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Yam]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 03:49:49 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[So, probably don't want to browse MSB right now]]></title><description><![CDATA[[image: oh-no.gif]
]]></description><link>https://brandmu.day/topic/636/so-probably-don-t-want-to-browse-msb-right-now</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://brandmu.day/topic/636/so-probably-don-t-want-to-browse-msb-right-now</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pavel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 21:38:34 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warma-Sheen]]></title><description><![CDATA[@Warma-Sheen said in Warma-Sheen:

As Hollywood on TR, I was banned because I kept pestering Troy about trying to get other staffers to quit talking crap about my character on staff channels.  She told me to stop bothering her and I didn’t.  It wasn’t until after I was banned did some accusations about cheating get thrown out after the fact from which I never got a chance to address/defend and only heard about 3rd hand, which I think were about looking at my own jobs as a staffer, to which, if that was a thing, wasn’t more than occasional typos of the many, many, many jobs that I handled there.


Troy: is that the dude who used the Shemar Moore pb?
Coin: yes.
Troy: that dude was straight up cheating.

Troy: i’m glad he remembers all those details, cuz i sure as fuck don’t. but he was a fucking menace.

Troy: ask yourself why the staffers were talking shit about his character.

Troy: the game was better for it when he left. and by left we mean got kicked out. sorry not sorry.

also, as Coin, I will say, i remember Kelvin being the most metagame-y, minmax-y, Pledge-abusing, power-gaming dude in the Changeling sphere, and this was CONCURRENT (to a degree) with VASpider’s tenure there, so keep that in mind.
cheers.
]]></description><link>https://brandmu.day/topic/625/warma-sheen</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://brandmu.day/topic/625/warma-sheen</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Coin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2025 23:38:31 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tough Calls]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oh,  it’s  a troublesome character even if you remove the ableism.
Deep in my little black heart I have this desire to app a comics game as the demon Baytor, a sort of tube with teeth that shouts “I AM BAYTOR!” a lot and does little else.
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This is a bad, bad idea, obviously bad. It might be okay if I made sure Baytor could only be found where it’s found in the comics, working as a bartender at a certain pub, completely easy to avoid, and treated it as a sort of NPC I depict while playing a reasonbly PC-written-PC primarily.
]]></description><link>https://brandmu.day/topic/623/tough-calls</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://brandmu.day/topic/623/tough-calls</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gashlycrumb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 23:11:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prove Tez Wrong]]></title><description><![CDATA[@Tez said in Prove Tez Wrong:

@Jennkryst That explains a lot about my household, including the faking coughing and ‘boo, you whore’ earlier today.

aheh aheh i’m sick 
]]></description><link>https://brandmu.day/topic/622/prove-tez-wrong</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://brandmu.day/topic/622/prove-tez-wrong</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[dvoraen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 20:31:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Missed Settings]]></title><description><![CDATA[@Jennkryst [image: thats-true-kramer.gif]
]]></description><link>https://brandmu.day/topic/606/missed-settings</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://brandmu.day/topic/606/missed-settings</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[MisterBoring]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 17:18:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Multisphere pressure]]></title><description><![CDATA[@somasatori said in Multisphere pressure:

@Warma-Sheen said in Multisphere pressure:

I suspect… that some of them are looking for a “specific” type of RP.

The other meaning of the acronym “CBT”

[image: thegoon-bigoldgoon.gif]
Also contractually obligated to make that joke.
]]></description><link>https://brandmu.day/topic/604/multisphere-pressure</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://brandmu.day/topic/604/multisphere-pressure</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Wuff]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 02:52:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nwod 2e vs owod]]></title><description><![CDATA[@catzilla
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But in all seriousness, I could elaborate on it. I just vastly prefer the theme of nWoD changeling to oWoD changeling and think it fits the mould of a pet project of mine… which is kind of a small-town Americana murder/mystery thing. I could actually read nWoD werewolf, but I don’t wanna and I like Apocalypse more!
]]></description><link>https://brandmu.day/topic/603/nwod-2e-vs-owod</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://brandmu.day/topic/603/nwod-2e-vs-owod</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Noraaa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 02:45:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI In Poses]]></title><description><![CDATA[I’m not convinced a human was involved in this. Are we sure this wasn’t just ChatGPT breaking containment again?
]]></description><link>https://brandmu.day/topic/587/ai-in-poses</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://brandmu.day/topic/587/ai-in-poses</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tez]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:34:44 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Echoes of the Past: Problem Players]]></title><description><![CDATA[@Pavel said in Echoes of the Past: Problem Players:

@Aria said in Echoes of the Past: Problem Players:

‘A close up of a man with a mustache and a suit.’

[image: fair-true.gif]

[image: correct-futurama.gif]
]]></description><link>https://brandmu.day/topic/565/echoes-of-the-past-problem-players</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://brandmu.day/topic/565/echoes-of-the-past-problem-players</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Wuff]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2025 21:47:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Re: Dies Irae]]></title><description><![CDATA[@Jumpscare
Egelman et al. (2020) and Ferreira et al. (2021) both report that negative interpersonal interactions—ranging from subtle pushback to overt incivility—can provoke frustration, stress, and defensive reactions. Both highlight the role of code review processes, organisational policies, and power imbalances in shaping negative experiences. Ferreira et al. (2021) provides detailed evidence of uncivil behaviours, including name-calling, impatience, and personal attacks, with 66.66% of non-technical emails in their sample exhibiting such features.
Behroozi et al. (2019) finds that technical interviews are perceived as arbitrary, high-pressure, and disconnected from real-world work, with systemic biases favouring younger candidates and those with more leisure time. They also report that candidates experience dismissive attitudes, lack of empathy, and adversarial interviewer behaviour, leading to feelings of humiliation and offence.
So it seems, at least in corpo-professional contexts, that process design, power dynamics, and communication styles are the primary drivers of cynical interpersonal behaviours, rather than individual predisposition. But this is just based on a very brief skim of the literature, more research must be done, etc, etc, etc.
ETA: tl;dr people=shit and if you treat coders like shit they’ll not be happy, I guess.
References:

                
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                     Egelman, C. D., Murphy-Hill, E., Kammer, E., Hodges, M. M., Green, C., Jaspan, C., &amp; Lin, J. (2020). Predicting developers’ negative feelings about code review. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering, 174–185. https://doi.org/10.1145/3377811.3380414
Ferreira, I., Cheng, J., &amp; Adams, B. (2021). The “Shut the f**k up” Phenomenon: Characterizing Incivility in Open Source Code Review Discussions. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 5(CSCW2), 1–35. https://doi.org/10.1145/3479497
Behroozi, M., Parnin, C., &amp; Barik, T. (2019). Hiring is Broken: What Do Developers Say About Technical Interviews? 2019 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1109/vlhcc.2019.8818836 
                
]]></description><link>https://brandmu.day/topic/558/re-dies-irae</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://brandmu.day/topic/558/re-dies-irae</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pavel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 01:48:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberation Drama!?]]></title><description><![CDATA[@Pavel said in Liberation Drama!?:

This is a joke.

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]]></description><link>https://brandmu.day/topic/529/liberation-drama</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://brandmu.day/topic/529/liberation-drama</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[MisterBoring]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jan 2025 18:45:22 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[ArmageddonMUD Closes After 32 Years]]></title><description><![CDATA[https://armageddonmud.boards.net/thread/1246/armageddon-mud-crumples-ground
Game owners locked the official forum but kind of like WORA/SOAPBOX/This place there was an unofficial forum discussing issues with the game. Realistically they rebooted from 20 avg to 80 avg and then in 5 months fell back to 20 avg. With dwindling numbers and systemic community issues they likely just decided it was no longer worth the effort. They publicly blamed a staff member leaking stuff but that had been happening for decades in one form or another so pinch of salt. Thread here has former staff and producers posting their thoughts.
]]></description><link>https://brandmu.day/topic/519/armageddonmud-closes-after-32-years</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://brandmu.day/topic/519/armageddonmud-closes-after-32-years</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Arik]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2024 13:27:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Realism]]></title><description><![CDATA[@Gashlycrumb said in Realism:

That deal where, of all the people who are involved in a situation, the one expected to do something is the one who is least empowered to be effective? Too realistic.
That PC who is rude as fuck, but also extremely touchy (eg. “How are you doing?” “How DARE you! Suggesting that I might be doing anything other than brilliantly is unforgivable insult!”) is also too damn realistic.

First of all, how dare you suggest I am extremely touchy.
]]></description><link>https://brandmu.day/topic/512/realism</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://brandmu.day/topic/512/realism</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennkryst]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2024 23:00:16 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your Latest Batch of (Silly) Drama]]></title><description><![CDATA[@tsar said in Your Latest Batch of (Silly) Drama:

@dvoraen I’m about to have so many snails.

Does this mean you’re playing this game and are going to catch a lot of croblings snails?
]]></description><link>https://brandmu.day/topic/511/your-latest-batch-of-silly-drama</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://brandmu.day/topic/511/your-latest-batch-of-silly-drama</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[dvoraen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2024 14:12:50 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Numetal/Retromux]]></title><description><![CDATA[@somasatori said in Numetal/Retromux:

To be fair, Jenn, I feel like the act of asking about unplayable/disallowed character types is kind of your version of MUSHing.

In the Otaku-specific instance, at the time I entered chargen they were legal.  There was some fuckery that occurred that I went over elsewhere and can go over again, sure why not.  But later.
Edit: Nagah are very much the unplayable thing I ask about, because sexy sneks.  Mummies are more a meme at this point.
]]></description><link>https://brandmu.day/topic/510/numetal-retromux</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://brandmu.day/topic/510/numetal-retromux</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennkryst]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2024 04:03:44 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comic Games Are Still Fun!]]></title><description><![CDATA[so total shocker, Scott and Ruby reacted to these posts the way that like anyone who had to deal w them at literally any point as players or staffers would expect:
trying to figure out who posts under what name, smearing them to anybody who’ll listen, probably agitating to get ppl banned, and from what i’ve heard getting super paranoid about who i could be there
to keep some rando from getting sacrificed on the altar of their personality disorders, the last time i logged in to HAM except as a guest was when i claimed raven then got kicked off for a combination of making Chaucer mad and outing a sexual predator years ago, and the last time i logged in as a guest is in this thread
believe it or not it’s just that basically nobody likes either of you or enjoys tiptoeing around your explosive tempers and fragile egos, so shit gets around
]]></description><link>https://brandmu.day/topic/487/comic-games-are-still-fun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://brandmu.day/topic/487/comic-games-are-still-fun</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Prototart]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2024 02:05:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elysium /MUSH]]></title><description><![CDATA[@Kestrel said in Elysium /MUSH:

@Artemis said in Elysium /MUSH:

“Those “Laws” state that if you feel the desire, physical and otherwise, to do something then you should be allowed to do it.”
bruh this the purge

it’s argentina

wow. that’s a potshot i’d expect from the writers at netflix. disappointing.
]]></description><link>https://brandmu.day/topic/479/elysium-mush</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://brandmu.day/topic/479/elysium-mush</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Coin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2024 23:32:18 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>