MU Peeves Thread
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@Prototart said in MU Peeves Thread:
@RightMeow said in MU Peeves Thread:
My peeve is that this hobby is like a teenage toxic ex to me.
wow you look great these days girl
Thanks, bestie
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@RightMeow said in MU Peeves Thread:
My peeve is that this hobby is like a teenage toxic ex to me. I want to give it time, but I don’t have time to really give it. I like the good times, but the bad times were BAD. However, I still really love and miss it. I can’t really quit it, but I can’t start it and I’m in a loop of I miss the stories and writing, but then… but then.
I love all of you though!
Having been in this hobby for so long, I must be one of the rare lucky ones that have really lucked out on not having many bad times, at least ones that I recall. But the good times were definitely fun and what draws me back to this hobby when I have time and the mental bandwidth to try to put an earnest effort into a game.
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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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@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.
He/Him. Opinions and views are solely my own unless specifically stated otherwise.
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@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.
More like trying to take the kids (players) in the messy divorce.
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@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.
what kind
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on rp being full of really good and really bad times, i’m waiting for the day i’m a calm enough person that the hobby i love feels like a completely healthy indulgence. I get so much out of it, there’s genuinely nothing to replace it, but it can also be so grating on my emotional well-being. I tend to feel pretty alone in this, or like I shouldn’t talk about it because nobody else feels things intensely like i do surely. lol anyway, i just thought about that reading some above comments.
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@Artemis I think you’re in good company, even if that’s not something people like to talk about.
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@Artemis I think lots of people want to talk about that. The community-entity makes it rough.
Like, eh. Sometimes I read Elizabeth George mysteries. I adore Barbara Havers and actively dislike(d) Inspector Linley. I enjoyed disliking him and used to want bad things to happen to him. When the worst thing ever happened to him, I felt guilty about it, and I have a new set of feelings about Linley.
If something like that happened on a MU, I’d have to be damned careful who I talked to about it. I’d fear that Linley’s player and/or friends thereof would equate me disliking Linley in the first place to me saying that Linley’s a bad character, and the player not just a bad player but a bad person.
And if it was public, people with no connection to that story at all would pop up to tell me that my level of emotional investment in the game is unhealthy, and that I should quit. This feels bad.
I say that games-of-emotional-regulation are part of why RPGs and fiction in general exist, and we should support the feels a lot more.
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Yeah.
Let’s not lie OOC in order to convince people to fuck us IC.
Okay?
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@howyadoin okay
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@howyadoin said in MU Peeves Thread:
Yeah.
Let’s not lie OOC in order to convince people to fuck us IC.
Okay?
I totally agree! But now am curious what sort of OOC lies this inspired? Maybe not necessarily the situation but like… people saying ‘hey I’m interested in this relationship with our PCs, I promise no drama!’ or…?
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@catzilla Blatantly lied OOC about compliance with a game policy others were trying to enforce to convince them it was okay to fuck.
