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there is no “good” Age of Heroes game
the “good” one is run by Chaucer from HAM, an abusive, self-obsessed weirdo who has spent years enabling creeps like everyone’s favorite Randian misogynist furry, Vorpal, who once tried to Power Word me in DMs using the wrong name and bullied someone off of HAM for liking a comic they hated
FWIW, the Age of Heroes that is not copying anything and appeared to have the name picked out on an aresmush.com domain before anyone knew Ages of Heroes The Bad One existed is called Superheroes MUSH now https://superheroesmush.com/
The name thing seems shittier and shittier (and more deliberate) as more stuff comes up and must’ve been a bummer as gamerunner trying to get their own project off the ground.
@Ashkuri said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
@catzilla This is the one that I referenced in my post above.
Honestly if they had just asked “hey can we use this is that cool” at the start, or said at any point “my bad, I think the AI scooped it and I didn’t know,” there wouldn’t be an issue. It’s the obfuscation and weird refusal to credit a coder with his code beyond the “idea” that frustrates me.
Totally agreed. Like, character wiki code ‘stealing’ is common and nobody bats an eye (rightfully so). So if this person was like, ‘oh I thought this was in the same guidelines, my bad’ or whatever, then no problem. Or even offering to put a ‘inspired by Trashcan’s code’ credit or something.
The double down denying is always so weird. 
@catzilla This is the one that I referenced in my post above.
Honestly if they had just asked “hey can we use this is that cool” at the start, or said at any point “my bad, I think the AI scooped it and I didn’t know,” there wouldn’t be an issue. It’s the obfuscation and weird refusal to credit a coder with his code beyond the “idea” that frustrates me.
Since there are two games with the same name and one of them is displaying some dubious behavior so far…
Can we get some links to these games? Like this url is the ‘good’ one and this one is the ‘bad’ one? 
@Ashkuri See… I knew shitfuckery was going to happen. Hence the need to delineate between the two.
This is so unnecessarily dicky one feels that the dickiness is part of the point.
There is some shady stuff going on with this Age of Heroes game.
The ‘very strange coincidence of taking someone else’s name’ is part of it. Last night we also discovered that Age of Heroes is using “Look for RP” code developed by @Trashcan, without credit or attribution. A representative of Age of Heroes in the Ares discord became defensive and buckled down on ownership, saying that this LFRP code is their coder’s and was entirely coded by her, despite several obvious and distinct indicators within the code that this isn’t true.
When we pointed this out and requested to be credited with having written the original code, Trashcan also said he’d make a plugin for this code. Within a few hours, the AOH “coder” produced an AI-coded plugin. Faraday, aware that there was some controversy over authorship of the LFRP code, notified Trashcan so we could compare the code to ours. The AOH “coder” is claiming again that it is her code and she made it from scratch, crediting him only with the “idea” for it.
Our best guess with this situation is that the AOH “coder” used AI to request a similar feature to the one Trashcan wrote, and the AI scraped his code. Then as soon as he said he’d make a plugin, this person used AI again to try to get ahead of him and quickly produce a plugin first. The plugin itself bears the hallmarks of AI coding, which Trashcan can elaborate on if anyone’s wondering why we’re certain the plugin is AI.
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.
@junipersky said in RL Peeves:
People being late for appointments but not calling or texting ahead to let us know.
I had to deal with something that might be the reverse of this last week. I had an appointment, and I try as hard as I can to be at least 10 minutes early for all of my appointments. I arrive at the office, walk up to the receptionist, and explain why I’m there, and the receptionist might as well have jumped out the window. She was incredibly rude and acted like I derailed her entire day by not being exactly on time. It was like she wasn’t prepared to have people sitting in the lobby waiting for appointments and anyone doing so was a personal attack.
And I’m just tired, boss. I thought people using AI to RP for them was bad enough. Now I got an RL friend delegating social interaction to ChatGPT too. I don’t consent to this shit. I don’t want to interact with pristine slop, I want my unique human friends back.
“I use Copilot to prep for all of our 1:1 meetings!”
If you need Copilot to walk you through a weekly 1:1 meeting with your direct reports about their work capacity, current projects, and career goals because you’re incapable of holding that conversation on your own, I think the wrong one of us is the manager here, friend.
