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    • CoinC
      Coin
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      Losing players and not knowing why. Like, it’d be nice to just know if it’s personal, if the game isn’t jiving, if if if if if…

      Also, the MU player trauma that makes them not talk to staff. Holy shit. It is really hard to convince people you want to help them out and aren’t annoyed or mad that they misunderstood or misinterpreted a scene set or something like that. Players will 100% delete a 500-word pose to write a “standing in the background” pose just to not incur some imaginary wrath.

      Some people have been treated like shit and it shows, fuck.

      In Occam I trust.

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      • CobaltC
        Cobalt
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        Banning all talk of RL violence on a public channel is an inappropriate kneejerk reaction, right? Right.

        Fuming

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        • PavelP
          Pavel @Cobalt
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          @Cobalt eeeeeh

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            GF @Cobalt
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            @Cobalt I guess it depends on the context. Without knowing anything about the situation, I’m guessing someone was talking about an incident that made the news which affects them personally and was forbidden from doing so because talking about things that affect you violates a prohibition against politics?

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            • CobaltC
              Cobalt @GF
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              @GF said in MU Peeves Thread:

              @Cobalt I guess it depends on the context. Without knowing anything about the situation, I’m guessing someone was talking about an incident that made the news which affects them personally and was forbidden from doing so because talking about things that affect you violates a prohibition against politics?

              No, actually. Testosterone leaden non sequiturs.

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              • JumpscareJ
                Jumpscare @Coin
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                @Coin said in MU Peeves Thread:

                Losing players and not knowing why.

                This time of year is a common time to lose players. It’s getting warmer outside. Between now and April is when people remember the joy of touching grass and ditch some of their internet interests.

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                  Bessarion @Cobalt
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                  @Cobalt I hate it when grunt grunt sweat dudes swing their dicks around.

                  I am/was tek. If this means something to you, do as you see fit with this knowledge.

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                  • CoinC
                    Coin @Jumpscare
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                    @Jumpscare said in MU Peeves Thread:

                    @Coin said in MU Peeves Thread:

                    Losing players and not knowing why.

                    This time of year is a common time to lose players. It’s getting warmer outside. Between now and April is when people remember the joy of touching grass and ditch some of their internet interests.

                    Nah, I think it has more to do with their friends dragging them away to play elsewhere.

                    In Occam I trust.

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                      Pyrephox Administrators @Coin
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                      @Coin said in MU Peeves Thread:

                      @Jumpscare said in MU Peeves Thread:

                      @Coin said in MU Peeves Thread:

                      Losing players and not knowing why.

                      This time of year is a common time to lose players. It’s getting warmer outside. Between now and April is when people remember the joy of touching grass and ditch some of their internet interests.

                      Nah, I think it has more to do with their friends dragging them away to play elsewhere.

                      A lot of high-hype video games are coming out around this time of year, which also might play into it.

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                      • PavelP
                        Pavel @Bessarion
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                        @Bessarion said in MU Peeves Thread:

                        @Cobalt I hate it when grunt grunt sweat dudes swing their dicks around.

                        Speak for yourself, honey.

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                        • KarmaBumK
                          KarmaBum @Coin
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                          @Coin A few new games have come along in the past month or two that are pulling in people. A lotta people who were just kinda “still logging in” to old stomping grounds may be enjoying the new variety.

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                          • SpaceKhomeiniS
                            SpaceKhomeini @Coin
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                            @Coin said in MU Peeves Thread:

                            Losing players and not knowing why. Like, it’d be nice to just know if it’s personal, if the game isn’t jiving, if if if if if…

                            Also, the MU player trauma that makes them not talk to staff. Holy shit. It is really hard to convince people you want to help them out and aren’t annoyed or mad that they misunderstood or misinterpreted a scene set or something like that. Players will 100% delete a 500-word pose to write a “standing in the background” pose just to not incur some imaginary wrath.

                            Some people have been treated like shit and it shows, fuck.

                            I feel like I may in fact be one of those people, at times.

                            I can also point to a handful of experiences in the past that trained me this way but again I think it all just goes back to “If I don’t know you I don’t really want to fuck with you.”

                            I woke up feeling so good, I think I’d better call in sick/ I need a personal trainer to help me hold my drink
                            I plan to be spontaneous next time we meet/I’m putting off procrastinating until next week
                            I’ll get onto it when I give a shit

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                            • ArtemisA
                              Artemis
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                              It’s annoying when I’ve just quit my longest standing MU and want to join and be involved with others, but the investment is difficult to build up and my mental state derails me half the time. There are so many new and awesome games out right now, that I want to support, while I’m simultaneously trying to work on my own and torn as to where to focus my attention, so I end up getting way less done than I’d like. Just kind of feeling like a flake rn.

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                              • PavelP
                                Pavel @Artemis
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                                @Artemis said in MU Peeves Thread:

                                Just kind of feeling like a flake rn.

                                My pal, that’s all of us most of the time. You’re absolutely not alone, and anyone who chides you for it is both an imbecile and a hypocrit.

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                                • ArtemisA
                                  Artemis @Pavel
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                                  @Pavel I appreciate you.

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                                  • PavelP
                                    Pavel @Artemis
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                                    @Artemis said in MU Peeves Thread:

                                    @Pavel I appreciate you.

                                    terrible really

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                                    • WuffW
                                      Wuff
                                      last edited by Wuff

                                      Logging into an Ares game and seeing what looks like new activity in web. But it’s just your own poses because you’re not logged in as that alt.

                                      It’s an async scene so giving folks time is expected. But ma hopes were up.

                                      patience

                                      Edit: And switching to that alt just does the same thing with the alt you were just on.

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                                      • GashlycrumbG
                                        Gashlycrumb @Coin
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                                        @Coin said in MU Peeves Thread:

                                        Losing players and not knowing why. Like, it’d be nice to just know if it’s personal, if the game isn’t jiving, if if if if if…

                                        Also, the MU player trauma that makes them not talk to staff. Holy shit. It is really hard to convince people you want to help them out and aren’t annoyed or mad that they misunderstood or misinterpreted a scene set or something like that. Players will 100% delete a 500-word pose to write a “standing in the background” pose just to not incur some imaginary wrath.

                                        Some people have been treated like shit and it shows, fuck.

                                        Yeah. My reaction to the ‘Staffing, privilege or punishment?’ question was that it’s neither, it’s housekeeping chores and a more intense manner of playing an RPG. But this trauma-response thing in players is an element that turns the online equivalent of GMing a game and vacuuming up the crumbs into something between a difficult task and an impossible seething morass.

                                        "This is Liberty Hall; you can spit on the mat and call the cat a bastard!"
                                        – A. Bertram Chandler

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                                          Pan @Gashlycrumb
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                                          @Gashlycrumb said in MU Peeves Thread:

                                          @Coin said in MU Peeves Thread:

                                          Losing players and not knowing why. Like, it’d be nice to just know if it’s personal, if the game isn’t jiving, if if if if if…

                                          Also, the MU player trauma that makes them not talk to staff. Holy shit. It is really hard to convince people you want to help them out and aren’t annoyed or mad that they misunderstood or misinterpreted a scene set or something like that. Players will 100% delete a 500-word pose to write a “standing in the background” pose just to not incur some imaginary wrath.

                                          Some people have been treated like shit and it shows, fuck.

                                          Yeah. My reaction to the ‘Staffing, privilege or punishment?’ question was that it’s neither, it’s housekeeping chores and a more intense manner of playing an RPG. But this trauma-response thing in players is an element that turns the online equivalent of GMing a game and vacuuming up the crumbs into something between a difficult task and an impossible seething morass.

                                          I think it can work out if you show you aren’t the staffers of the past. Consistently. We’re all spending a lot of time and effort as players and staffers and it blows to figure out you’re wasting your time as either. As a player being tossed aside like the time and effort that’s put in isn’t worth a thing is what to me makes dealing with anything in this hobby a chore.

                                          A lot of staff seem to have issues with problem players too and it takes a lot as a player to prove you aren’t a problem player. So it cuts both ways.

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                                            YetiBeard @Pan
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                                            @Pan

                                            I’m not really sure it takes a lot as a player to prove you’re not a problem. I think that’s maybe a bit too broad a statement.

                                            While I get the desire to show that you are a reasonable person and healthy member of the game, the bar for not being a problem is really just not being a problem.

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