@Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:
@RightMeow Would starting your own game be the equivalent of having a baby to save the toxic relationship?
Because I’ve considered it rather seriously for more than a few moments of late.
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RE: MU Peeves Threadposted in Rough and Rowdy
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RE: MU Peeves Threadposted in Rough and Rowdy
@RightMeow Would starting your own game be the equivalent of having a baby to save the toxic relationship?
Because I’ve considered it rather seriously for more than a few moments of late.
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RE: Staff Bits Linking Handlesposted in Game Gab
@Faraday This is good to know! I’ll definitely look into it next time I try build a game.
I do enjoy all the features of Ares but that COFD plug-in got me so confused and I eventually gave up lol.
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RE: Staff Bits Linking Handlesposted in Game Gab
@bear_necessities said in Staff Bits Linking Handles:
ETA: I would also play anything @tsar made so long as it’s Janitor: the MUSH. I’m still waiting @tsar
We were janitors once!! And you threw it all away!!!
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RE: Staff Bits Linking Handlesposted in Game Gab
Staff shouldn’t necessarily have their ‘player’ Ares handle connected to a game they’re running. Maybe they don’t want their haters/creepers/etc. knowing that they’re running the Hello Kitty game. However, I do think if they create a new handle for their game, they link THAT handle to whatever PCs they are playing on their game.
People don’t necessarily need to know that Player Catzilla is running Hello Kitty Island but they should know that Staff Bit Dogzilla is linked to PCs Joe Bob and Susie Q.
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RE: Staff Bits Linking Handlesposted in Game Gab
I prefer Staff disclose their PC alts for a number of reasons.
- It’s a sign of trust. Staff is showing players who they play as, so players can hold those PCs to the same standards staff is expecting from the non-staff players.
- It can help me navigate the tricky social aspects that come up when I have an OOC issue with another PC bit. If that PC bit is a staff member, I would prefer that my request to resolve the issue be taken by a different member of staff to give the issue a third party perspective. If I have an issue with the PC of the headstaffer, then it lets me know that if I can’t resolve the issue, I need to find a new game to play.
- It gives people a good idea of how active the staffers actually are in the game.
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RE: Staff Bits Linking Handlesposted in Game Gab
@bear_necessities said in Staff Bits Linking Handles:
My two cents? If you don’t have a handle, you have something to hide, and my brows immediately raise. I feel that way about everyone, players or admin, but I give players way more grace because I know not everyone wants to slap their handle on right out of the gate and sometimes it’s nice to have a haven alt.
I also don’t link my handle, though I admittedly tend not to play on Ares games very often or very long.
If people want to know who I play, I’m generally willing to tell them – when asked directly. But I want it to be a conversation. I’ve had two different instances of two different men behaving in ways that are genuinely Not Okay that carried on over the course of actual real life years. After that, I’m just not comfortable having that sit out there publicly, oblivious to who may be accessing it. I want to know who’s asking and why. And if the answer is so they can avoid me, then that’s okay, too.
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RE: MU Peeves Threadposted in Rough and Rowdy
Growing up on this hobby has unironically given me everything from literal trauma I’ve been in therapy for, written skills that have served me exceptionally well professionally/academically, and inadvertently introduced me to the love of my life. I get it, @RightMeow. I also feel that mix of nostalgia/craving and fear/disgust/anxiety for the rollercoaster of very good times and very bad times I’ve had with it.
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RE: Staff Bits Linking Handlesposted in Game Gab
@Roz I definitely feel like everyone deserves a right to privacy and was being too overbroad. I don’t expect people to link their handles, I have played games where I don’t link my handle, and I don’t think it’s something that should be required.
I HAVE seen multiple cases of bad actors hide without handles or change their handle to hide, so that eyebrow twitch is mostly just a ugh, what if this is secretly someone I know is a bad actor?? But that generally works itself out, handle or none.
As far as staff having a handle, I prefer to play on games where I know the admin. I do think staff alts should be tagged.
Hopefully that clears things up.
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RE: Staff Bits Linking Handlesposted in Game Gab
@bear_necessities said in Staff Bits Linking Handles:
My two cents? If you don’t have a handle, you have something to hide, and my brows immediately raise. I feel that way about everyone, players or admin, but I give players way more grace because I know not everyone wants to slap their handle on right out of the gate and sometimes it’s nice to have a haven alt.
okay while i think what’s going on specifically on NP with staffers apparently being super weird about their own alts and pretend-interacting with them and stuff is very weird and offputting.
but i think the idea that someone is immediately sus for simply preferring privacy is — not it. the “what do you have to hide” argument about people’s right to privacy is consistently a bad one.
