@Hobbie
LOLOLOL. I also work at a Fintech, in compliance, and the direction on AI is incredibly schizophrenic. They’re like WE LOVE AI THE CEO WANTS MORE AI…but also don’t put ANY of your work into public AI, and probably not even the proprietary ChatGPT rip-off we have internally, because you’re probably gonna violate personally identifiable information agreements. I just don’t use it and am doing all right. There have been some nice internal robotics enhancements that’ve come out of this whole mess but none of them have given me any confidence this stuff will take my job anytime soon.

@Yam Something like “Using LLMs/AI for any contributions to the game, including but not limited to backgrounds, descriptions, wiki images, poses, etc, is a bannable offence. Being a dick if you suspect someone of using LLMs/AI is also a bannable offence.”

@Narson said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

I lost my login here for so long. And somehow this nonsense is still going on.

I wondered why you went all quiet.

@somasatori said in Celebrities We've Lost 2025:

@Wuff said in Celebrities We've Lost 2025:

Shang Tsung himself, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

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He was great in the Amazon “The Man in the High Castle” series

Good villain actors can make movies so memorable.

Oh, it’s a troublesome character even if you remove the ableism.

Deep in my little black heart I have this desire to app a comics game as the demon Baytor, a sort of tube with teeth that shouts “I AM BAYTOR!” a lot and does little else.

Baytor yelling "I AM BAYTOR!!: in someone's face

This is a bad, bad idea, obviously bad. It might be okay if I made sure Baytor could only be found where it’s found in the comics, working as a bartender at a certain pub, completely easy to avoid, and treated it as a sort of NPC I depict while playing a reasonbly PC-written-PC primarily.

@Cobalt said in MU Peeves Thread:

Oh, now I remember why I don’t go to new games. The overwhelming feeling that I am not welcome anywhere. (This is nothing anyone has done or said to me, this is my own brain being an asshole to me.)

scribbles note Write… specific characters… for Cobalt… got it.

@Pavel said in Warma-Sheen:

I would be punished for things that the imaginary friend did.

Suddenly, the imaginary friend disappeared.

So she not only punished you for what your friend did, but she killed them, too? Kinda fucked up.

While I’m sure there are some recent articles that touch on the darker side of MU*, I always look to this one (written by Julian Dibbell) outlining an atrocious event that happened on LambdaMOO:

TW: sexual assault - http://www.juliandibbell.com/texts/bungle_vv.html

I’m terrible at summarizing so I won’t really try, but it does a fine job of sharing a terrible event, how it affected people, and the changes that happened after. It also touches on what it means to make a society and shape a culture in this shared hobby; for as terrible as the event is, it’s also heartening to see how things can grow and change through player influence.

Ashkuri’s doodles are awesome. Characters, postcards, random drawing from an offhand comment I made as a joke. Good stuff if you get a chance to take them up on it.

@Gashlycrumb Also, chances are most of the people you (general not specific) have a problem with have a similar opinion of you so 1) Why would they care? 2) Why would they be surprised? People are allowed to avoid games because of Staff (whether your own issue or in support of someone else) so it seems hypocritical to not allow Staff the same option especially when they’re the one putting in the effort to run the game.

@somasatori In game is good!

@Cobalt Absolutely no apology needed. Appreciate holding us accountable.

@Tez said in Prove Tez Wrong:

@Jennkryst That explains a lot about my household, including the faking coughing and ‘boo, you whore’ earlier today.

aheh aheh i’m sick 😞

Only one place these days. Maybe I’ll get spicy and try a second place.

@MisterBoring I could be wrong, but there’s no indication in the forum post that it was continuing after the initial ban.

@Jennkryst a man in a brown jacket is pointing in front of a sign that says that 's true

@dvoraen said in General Video Game Thread:

@MisterBoring said in General Video Game Thread:

@Meg & @dvoraen If you both like PEAK, I would also recommend RV There Yet?, which is basically PEAK + chainsmoking + getting an RV to the top of the mountain.

I have watched a few people play it, but it seemed like the kind of game that would make me rage quit. lol

It’s the ideal game for therapists to play instead of doing our notes. Lots of clinically inadvisable langage, do recommend.

Life got hard and complicated, so I didn’t sell over half of my Arx Cat Tarot Decks. I didn’t mind, that wasn’t the point of their creation, and I’ve never been good at selling my stuff.

As of last week, however, in a small town in Kentucky, a witchy metaphysical shop has opened up, and thanks to my biological father being himself and showing off my work to strangers, I have sold twelve to the store’s proprietor and she’s just put in an order for at least ten more.

She’s commending me for the imagery and symbolism and she’s using my cards to teach her weekly tarot classes.

Whew.

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She made a display and everything!

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This is her favorite card.

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@Pavel Agreed. Self care and boundaries are important for game runners and staff too. In my experience this doesn’t get supported enough.