MU Peeves Thread

Artemis

@Testament lol I get you! We’re sort of opposites I guess, in that my own way of absorbing visual information has been through words my entire life. ^^ But yeah, for somebody like you, or anybody who just doesn’t enjoy writing descs, I get why PBs are there and how they’re useful. It’s chill. And ultimately I think it doesn’t detract from our appreciation of well-written imagery in this hobby.

junipersky

@KarmaBum

NORMALIZE THAT IF IT ISN’T MENTIONED THEN THERE ISN’T ANYTHING REMARKABLE OR ABNORMAL ABOUT IT.

Sammich

@junipersky Does that mean if I make a completely unremarkable person I won’t need to write a desc?

Please?

junipersky

@Sammich

I mean, basically. Eye/hair/height seem necessary to ~me~ but yeah. If you want people to just avoid talking about your character’s physical appearance then I don’t see any reason to have a desc.

“This is a basic blob person.”

Sammich

@junipersky I was mostly being tongue-in-cheek, but yeah, eye hair and height defs make sense. Though ‘basic blob person’ is embarrassingly sorta how I see literally everyone, including irl <_<

I’ve got some degree of aphantasia (I don’t think it’s complete, but it’s very close to complete? It’s hard to say without really knowing what everyone else actually experiences), but my general take on PBs seems to be the complete opposite of @Testament. PBs don’t really have any value to me except for like giving some kind of impression of personality I guess, but whatever that impression is quickly gets subsumed by whatever impression I’m getting from their RP anyways. Though I definitely understand using pictures to provide inspiration when creating a character, I don’t really see the value in any continued association between picture and character once a character is created.

It was super interesting for me to realise that difference in opinion though, because I guess I just assumed (foolishly) that everyone with aphantasia would feel the same way about this stuff.

Testament

@Sammich I have a co worker who also has it and he’s a painter. We have general similarities, but there are differences whe. It comes to visual stimuli.

RightMeow

@mietze

Same. So much same.

Jumpscare

PBs frustrate me. I write a character description and then I have to go to the internet to find someone famous enough that matches the description I wrote. And then I’m typically not allowed to use pictures of anyone else.

I’m here for the words. They’re delicious and crunchy.

Pavel

I hate writing descs out of the ether. I’m good at movement and dialogue, but dull “this is what this person looks like as a huge chunk of text” bores me to tears.

I can easily write a desc with a picture to hand, though. So generally, I find a decent actor (who I like and who doesn’t have massive scandals around them) who has played a role similar to what I want my character to be. And then I use that as inspiration for the desc.

Arkandel

@Pavel I don’t like any steps that act more as hoops to jump through, including ‘having a description’ before I can join the grid.

It’s not that I can’t write a generic one; it’s trivial and takes no time. It also serves very little purpose, especially in this day and age where most characters have a wiki page somewhere with some image.

In addition to it, at least my own practice had long been to describe my character as they appear at the time when I enter a scene, as well as (where appropriate) within the RP itself. That’s more useful than a @desc that has him in an Armani suit and combed back hair but in the actual IC situation he’s all bruised up and missing a tooth.

Pavel

@Arkandel I frequently used to joke that I’d just take a pb image and convert it to ascii art for my @desc.

ETA: I generally don’t, since I imagine it’d play merry hell with screen readers.

Testament

Honestly if someone doesn’t have a desc but everything else is good, I’m not beyond approving that person and just noting “Hey just make sure you get something at some point” in the approval message.

Granted, this may be my own bias with hating writing them myself that I’m giving a gift that was never really afforded to me.

Pavel

I honestly much prefer games with a +glance code or similar. Where I can just fill in a character’s basic stats: Height, build, skin colour, hair colour, etc.

Then I just hit +glance and it lists off the brief stats of everyone in the room so I can keep that in mind as I’m posing.

Arkandel

@Testament said in MU Peeves Thread:

Granted, this may be my own bias with hating writing them myself that I’m giving a gift that was never really afforded to me.

Use the secret cheat code and just take an older @desc then change it around slightly. BOOM.

Pavel

@Arkandel said in MU Peeves Thread:

change it around slightly

That’s more than I do.

tsar

@Pavel lol same

Artemis

@Jumpscare said in MU Peeves Thread:

PBs frustrate me. I write a character description and then I have to go to the internet to find someone famous enough that matches the description I wrote. And then I’m typically not allowed to use pictures of anyone else.

I’m here for the words. They’re delicious and crunchy.

I guess this speaks to my point? If you don’t like them, you shouldn’t feel like you’re obliged to find one!
And @arkandel I disagree completely, but to each their own. As a VI player though, the whole what is even the point of a description thing feels kind of exclusionary. But I also understand you about how including outfits as part of a desc is annoying, which is why I favor games where I can describe clothes separately and wear them!
@Pavel yes, that would be awful, lol

Arkandel

@Artemis said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Jumpscare said in MU Peeves Thread:

PBs frustrate me. I write a character description and then I have to go to the internet to find someone famous enough that matches the description I wrote. And then I’m typically not allowed to use pictures of anyone else.

I’m here for the words. They’re delicious and crunchy.

I guess this speaks to my point? If you don’t like them, you shouldn’t feel like you’re obliged to find one!
And @arkandel I disagree completely, but to each their own.

But that was my point; if setting a description is mandatory then you literally are obligated to find one.

Pavel

@Arkandel said in MU Peeves Thread:

if setting a description is mandatory then you literally are obligated to find one.

… except you’re not. You can write a description without finding a picture.

Testament

An average human of average body shape. They got a face of all the usually required parts that one tends to associate with a face, which are neither unsightly or unique. They are also wearing clothing some variety depending on the weather.