MU Peeves Thread
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I like reading descs if they’re not horrible but I also get that they can feel like an unfun chore and hurdle in the character app process.
Also. some people just don’t feel inspired to write them in the traditional “here is a paragraph or two” manner and just want to fill in the bare essentials and necessary info. I think that’s just fine, someone’s physical presence can be conveyed in a bunch of different ways.
Like Mietze mentioned above, I’ve gotten into the habit of just posing the clothing someone is wearing in-scene which I find less maddening than screwing around with outfit code, etc.
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I also enjoy reading descs, but I’m NGL - I will start scanning and glossing over bits if they get too long. No, I don’t have an objective standard that I consider ‘too long’, so much as there being a vibe of realizing that someone’s character is the most beautiful and magnificent creature to have ever existed, and also they are stunning, and also they are the tallest (or shortest!), and also their swanlike neck and arabesque limbs and also their bulging muscles of bulgingness and…
Yeah, bro. I get the gist and none of this is interesting, thanks.
That said, while I will never stop laughing at ‘luminescent lavender orbs’, which you can pry from my dead, bitchy, 90s WoD-playing hands? I’ll forever take a florid description over an automatically generated one that hasn’t even been edited, because the process and craft of writing matters to me. It is literally how I make my living and I have very strong opinions on the subject. Give me a bad writer who is trying to be better over someone who doesn’t think writing matters every time.
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Ya’ll need descs for folks using screen readers.
As with the entire char app process, it can also be a great early warning that someone is fucking crazy.
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@Aria Anyone that uses ‘luminescent lavender orbs’ as a descriptor for eyes has Main Character Syndrome and you can’t tell me otherwise.
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@helvetica Thank you. I checked out one game where characters were not required/encouraged to have descs, just pbs, and I was like …um I guess I’ll see myself out.
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@Testament One day I will create an alt that has moldy blue cheese ball eyes. ONE DAY.
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@Artemis said in MU Peeves Thread:
@helvetica Thank you. I checked out one game where characters were not required/encouraged to have descs, just pbs, and I was like …um I guess I’ll see myself out.
Yeah, I started in the pre-PB days and frankly, I have an easier time cranking out descs than I do finding PBs and collecting/tweaking pics, etc. No disrespect to people who feel the opposite.
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And if they are - in the right circumstances - is that a bad thing?
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@ten If I wanted to be a main character, I’d play a video game. I’m here for collaboration, and I don’t view that as collaboration.
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Weirdly I can’t wrap my head around PBs or descs. I’m terrible at writing character or build descs, and don’t actually like using PBs either, so I end up with characters that are something along the lines of:
Bob has short black hair and usually wears a t-shirt and jeans.Which is about as descriptive as:
A snickerdoodle is a cookie.The most hilarious part of this is that I can write flowing descriptions of action without issue.
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@MisterBoring On TR and maybe also Fallcoast I forget, my long-standing @desc was ‘A hoopy froodette who knows where her towel is, and whose general appearance and clothing change as needed for the situation.’
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@Jennkryst That’s oddly more descriptive than most descs I’ve read.
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I’m going to stop using descs and just use ascii art of my PB.
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I wonder if games would accept a photo of a mashed potato sculpture of my PB?
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With much of the cancer stuff behind me, except for one lingering surgery that I still need to have, I want to help tell stories. . . but I am not playing anywhere to help tell stories because I haven’t had the energy to play games for the last 6 months. Blargh.
I miss GMing.
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Really enjoying the new MU I was able to join and start playing again. A very welcoming and enjoyable environment.
But it really sucks that I have to live on async scenes due to my job. Feel like I’m missing every relevant plot thread to get involved in because I can only check in a couple times a day.
It makes me wonder why I got back involved in RPing again. It’s definitely a ‘my life’ kind of issue. But I also just kind of sigh.
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Constant unremitting sex jokes just make me so tired.
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@Snackness do they make you as tired as my penis. budamcha.
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@Meg No because they keep it up for longer.
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@Snackness hey, i come and go quickly. that’s what they in the business call efficient.
