MU Peeves Thread
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@Herja said in MU Peeves Thread:
I think also normalizing playing multiple games for players that need more activity than one game staff can fulfill would help as well.
I wish there were actually enough games for people to be playing multiple ones
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@bear_necessities Yeah, same.
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@mietze said in MU Peeves Thread:
I think it should be okay for activity lulls.
I agree with everything you said, especially the bit about entitlement, but I also think it should be okay to not be okay with activity lulls. If a given player canāt maintain a sceneās given energy during a lull, then that sucks for everyone but isnāt necessarily a moral failure; and I hope that person finds someone they can RP with at the speed their creative process requires them to hold.
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@GF said in MU Peeves Thread:
but I also think it should be okay to not be okay with activity lulls.
I agree with this. Iāve quit games when the GM goes on a break - not because they are not ENTITLED to a break, but because the way the game was created meant there was nothing to do while the GM was on a break. After a certain length of time, I get bored, wander away, and thatās ok.
I think the problem is in games where thereās a lull in GM activity after maybe a big push to tell a lot of story and despite there being stuff to do outside of the GM activity, everyone screams THE GAME IS DYING RUNNNN!!! Or people start being assholes. Or people start demanding shit happen. Or whatever number of things people end up doing in this situation.
And sometimes, you can give people enough shit to do or play with while youāre gone and theyāll still wander off and thereās nothing you can do. Itās OK, it just means less and less people want to make games because of all the WORK that is involved in it and the knowledge that if they donāt WORK all the time on the game, itās more likely than not to fail during a hiatus.
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I just wish I could get people to stop trying to manufacture IC urgency that doesnāt match up to OOC timelines. Like, say I have a GMed scene scheduled to potentially resolve a thing 2 weeks from tomorrow. I do not want to spend every night up to that 2 weeks away GMed scene RPing the imminence of the GMed scene. Just. Fucking. IDK, people, learn to chill.
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@GF I think people should be able to leave a game at any time, for any reason, and as long as theyāre not a flailing asshat about it, it should be no harm, no foul. If someone cannot depart without getting a dig in, when the reason is all about personal prefs rather than something wrong/wonky of the game itself or a concern about conduct, then honestly, I think thatās asshat territory. Everyone has their needs/base levels. I have left lots of games that were a mismatch in activity levels or style, for me. There would be no reason for me to complain or catastrophize about it to staff, especially if I wanted /more/ when it was very clear they needed to dial it back. I just donāt have a lot of patience for the nitpick/neg-plucking these days.
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Alternatively, no one should be expected to provide content ā and everyone should be.
Thatās the approach weāve taken on Keys and while I donāt want to sit here and harp on how awesome we all are (obviously our players are the best ever), it was somewhat of an experiment and it seems to have paid off.
We donāt have storytelling staff. Everyone is the storytelling staff. We donāt have a metaplot as much as we have a framework story within which anyone can create a setting and a storyline and run it. Some players never run anything. Others run a story now and then. Some run stuff all the time. But the very important thing there is that people do not burn out.
Because no one can run content all the time. Even if, like me, they do very little but sit in front of a computer all day, people need creative breaks. And assuming otherwise is indeed the worst kind of entitlement.
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Fun fact, my work computer has gifs blocked so I couldnāt tell you what that picture is.
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@junipersky If youāre talking about the one you just postedā¦ popcorn
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@junipersky I am laughing so hard right now and I am in the office, with not enough noise around me to mask my hilarity.
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@junipersky so you? have no idea you just posted an ass eating gif? ilu
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@junipersky Thisā¦escalated.
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@junipersky said in MU Peeves Thread:
Fun fact, my work computer has gifs blocked so I couldnāt tell you what that picture is.
Fucking lol
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@tsar I mean everyone looks like theyāre enjoying themselves.
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@helvetica yup
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Have since looked on my phone and I see NO TONGUE ACTION. Just lips and butt. So butt kiss = butt kiss only.
All yāall with your dirty minds.
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@junipersky There is chewing.
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@junipersky No one said they were doing it well!
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When you have to take a mental health break from a game because your life is in a bad enough place you donāt know if you have the fortitude to deal with the gameās atmosphere and then youāre in the shower the next morning asking yourself, Isnāt the fact that you need fortitude to deal with the game kind of a red flag?
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@GF Itās something many of us forget at times. At the very least a game needs to be an overall plus in our lives, bringing with it more positives than negatives.
That applies to MU*, video games, forumsā¦ anything.
