MU Peeves Thread

[Third Eye]

We only really know how Jill behaves on MUSH game channels/pages. It’s entirely possible they do their schtick in RPI environments that never register here.

That said, the Legend of Jill has been around long enough and widely circulated enough that I assume there are a lot of Jill copycats. Legacy, etc.

[Ashkuri]

This subject has come up with a few people lately, but the real peeve is how much garbage media/tv/movies I have consumed solely because my played-by was in it.

[Babs]

No shame there. DeVito is a great actor, but just isn’t the same without the lekku

[ten]

Ares games feel like those magic slate drawing pads.

[Jumpscare]

@ten said in MU Peeves Thread:

Ares games feel like those magic slate drawing pads.

You shake them too hard and your creative work disappears?

[Kestrel]

So I really like it when someone can play a compelling sociopath who’s highly manipulative and intelligent. I think this is usually a more interesting kind of foil than just Punchy McPuncherperson.

But when they get caught and then try to lie about it OOC it’s a weird … sticky feeling.

[Jumpscare]

@Kestrel

The moment where you realize, “oh, you’re not playing a character; this is actually you.”

[ten]

hey, friend, if you’re going to crib that much inspiration from a source – write some fanfic, you’ll feel better.

[MisterBoring]

From a conversation with a few people I know IRL: When people create amazing story points for their character or for the world in general only to somehow completely draw a blank when you ask them to explore that further.

“I really like how you established your character was secretly undermining the Lord of the West Rivers, can we do some more undermining plot stuff with that?”

“Wait what? I have no idea what you are talking about and am not interested in that in the least.”

“Ok. Well… ugh.”

[Coin]

@ten said in MU Peeves Thread:

hey, friend, if you’re going to crib that much inspiration from a source – write some fanfic, you’ll feel better.

are you replying to jumpscare actually or did you just hit that reply button cuz it was closest?

because your comment made me think of something specific.

[Juniper]

A super icky experience for me was finding out the reason a player was so eager to slide into my DMs was so they could pre-seed the OOC conversation with lies. Before ever being caught.

But when they did get caught, things got extra deranged. Like, straight up wholecloth invention of things that never happened in the story or in DMs.

[Twinkle]

@Juniper Honestly this is why my communication is solely inside a game unless I trust someone with my life. I do not engage on discord with people I don’t know. I keep it in the game so I can report it – and it’s why I only play on Ares games.

[ten]

edited to clarify: I AM LAZY.

just hit the closest reply button, that’s all, @Coin. I wasn’t directing my peevish comment to anyone.

[Coin]

@ten said in MU Peeves Thread:

just hit the closest reply button, that’s all, @Coin. I wasn’t directing my peevish comment to anyone.

[snrks]

[ten]

@Coin

ultimately – my tantrum was resolved with weed and a nap.

[catzilla]

Brain weasels continually getting to you when you’re trying to create a game.

[Roz]

@Gashlycrumb said in Good things in Mushing:

@Roz Yes.

Sorry, though, it’s not the thread for it. I was being implusive.

lol okay i’ll MOVE THREADS, what’s the story then??

[dvoraen]

@Gashlycrumb

[sao]

my mu peeve is that i want to rp but i am sick and whiny and my brain is full of porridge

[Gashlycrumb]

@Roz Not sure there’s a new story. I mean, yeah, I was banned from a game a few years ago for it.

Once upon a time, if you posted about the fuckery on a MU to WORA, and the staffers on that game responded by treating you shabbily or banning you, the forum readership would heap scorn and derision upon said staffer and game. This was really about the only way WORA could hurt a game. Any other complaint tended to cause new players to show up. Which is reasonable – No game is perfect, but if somebody’s bitching about its flaws, this proves that it’s good enough that at least one person is invested. Enough, even, to have an emotion.

The last five years or so, it seems to be pretty much a given that somebody will take your ‘peeve’ and insist that it’s a targeted personal insult and get hostile with you on the game. This will happen if you complain about something that happened ten years ago or something very general. Somebody put it something like, “My peeve is a one-size hospital johnny and you’re taking it like it’s a bespoke suit just for you.”

The “vote with your feet” line is a far cry from new, but shaming players for complaining became cool.

The last year or so of MSB included some real gems – It’s wrong to suggest that GMs who do things are better than those who do not, it might hurt their feelings. Why should anybody bother making and running a MU if it’s inevitable that someone will complain about it? Heck, the whole “Are friends bad?” catch-phrase appeared, as far as I know, as a straw-man response to the suggestion that GMs shouldn’t spend all their time making game for insular cliques who don’t spread the fun.

Games with stated rules “Do not post about the game, it makes the game look bad,” pass without much comment, even when they’re not ‘Blood of Dragons.’