MU Peeves Thread
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@SpaceKhomeini 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.
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.”
This is not just you. In the (gags at own age) 25 years I’ve spent in this hobby, there are definitely a handful of staffers I can point to as contributing to my general skepticism and wariness.
It does not help that I have also had at least two staffers point out to me that it’s really obvious when I’m hesitant of staff on a game, assured me they weren’t like that and I could feel comfortable around them, and… then turned out to be exactly like that, but worse.
I waffle between feeling like I need to be more open, more trusting, more willing to take risks versus sitting back and wondering WTF is wrong with humans as a species that brings out this tendency to, like… “I have a modicum of authority over other people. Time to be a petty asshole!”, whether it’s staff on a game, the president of the PTA, or the night manager at a restaurant who has decided to rule over his empire of waitstaff with an iron fist.
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To be clear, I also don’t think gamerunners are under any particular obligation to make things more efficient, or do things differently either. Even about things other people might deem actionable! Hell, if they want to go on player-bashing tirades on a chan or bite people’s heads off when they get annoyed at questions or whatever, and there’s people that don’t care/silence all OOC so they don’t hear it anyway, then whatever!
I don’t know why people would expect perfection for them on any game that they don’t run themselves. So yeah, I mean to varying degrees you ARE liking it or lumping it no matter what. I don’t think this is a really a problem. It is a bummer when there’s no games that really are ones that you want to spend time on. I’ve been there and it sucks, but while I am willing to maybe give something a try due to an invitation or a friend group, if it doesn’t click it doesn’t. Most of the time it’s me just not enjoying the genre or setup, and not a quick fix thing even if I like the runners and the other players. I don’t want to yuck their yum.
I think IF a gamerunner wants feedback, they can make it clear, Have a little exit survey on the wiki or something and make it known that they INVITE people to fill it out even if they didn’t even make it past CG. Do semi-regular surveys of the current players. My experience is that very seldom has any critique (constructive or otherwise) has been that helpful unless it was clearly asked for. But you’ll sill only get a relatively low level of responses, IME. But probably you’ll get more than you would have by not inviting it at all, maybe.
Anyone can be frustrated with anyone else about anything. People feel how they feel.
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I’m really bad for just leaving a game with no word. Except, maybe, to someone I talk to a lot or my leaving could affect peoples stories. Sorry to those that don’t like it. If it helps, I generally leave a game because I stopped having fun or what I feel is ‘bad’ outweighs the stuff I feel are ‘good’ about a game.
Though, I’m not a fan of saying a person is ‘forever awful’. Yeah, some people stay crap people but from /my/ experience it is not hard to show people you’ve changed as a player, unless a REALLY long history of unpleasantness. As a staff sort it seems considerably harder to redeem yourself.
If you’re using here as a place to judge things as being hard to show you’ve changed I wouldn’t. The purpose of this board, and its predecessors (though on different levels) is to vent. It 100% can be used for catching predators and such too.
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Meta peeve because it’s more about the forum, but.
Being snarky on ad posts. Just, man. It’s usually the first time people are putting something out there. It really doesn’t do the community any favors – especially with the constant worries about the hobby dying – to put out an immediate response of snark.
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@Roz I’m glad somebody said it. I wish them and their game the best.
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MU*s that expect you to write a thesis dissertation worth of text as part of your character application to play a fun pretendy time supernatural character.
I thought we got rid of that in the 90s.
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@jujube said in MU Peeves Thread:
MU*s that expect you to write a thesis dissertation worth of text as part of your character application to play a fun pretendy time supernatural character.
I thought we got rid of that in the 90s.
That is a bit better than the Blood of Dragons game that you basically had to apply like 3 times. An email, then like a summary of your idea, then the actual application. Basically, I never finished because it was a chore. I’m rather curious to what game you are applying on because I might want to avoid it if I have to write a forever long thing just to play something I think would be fun.
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This is Alpha.
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@junipersky i see what you did there
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I just line how she looks like an angry demon angel grumpy cuddly baby.
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I was about to join the tortiecat posting war but this is the wrong thread for that.
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@icanbeyourmuse So much work for a game in which you can’t really do anything other than have tea parties and watch Bal and Nym play princess
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@Bessarion said in MU Peeves Thread:
@icanbeyourmuse So much work for a game in which you can’t really do anything other than have tea parties and watch Bal and Nym play princess
Isn’t that the game run by the “anyone else is wrong, and we’ll sue you because GRRM said ours was the only one allowed” people? I sometimes get my PHBs mixed up.
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@Pavel that’s the one. And if you look at his “permission” letter, it’s more like “if you… really want to do that, I guess you can go ahead?”
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Blood of Dragons is another one of those places where, if I think about how long it’s been up and running, the brain boggles. But there’s no accounting for taste when it comes to paying server bills.
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@Pavel I don’t think they sue people over running other games, but they do make a big deal about being the only REAL one.
You might be conflating their irritating crowing about being GRRM’s BFFs with their harassing Tasteless Descs and WORA into taking down Nymeria’s desc.
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They definitely threatened at least one potential game with legal action; I don’t think they actually followed through with it, but a letter was sent and everything. I would say who the screen name is of the person who got it, but I, uh, only remember their real name any more. -.- Somebody I know got it though!! They didn’t sue, but sent a ‘you must stop this’ letter.
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@IoleRae Innnnnnteresting. I don’t have a memory of that, just how they would get snotty.
I definitely remember her freaking the fuck out about her desc being posted. That was when the community jumped off Proboards (or Vboards or whatever we were using) and onto self-hosted stuff. IIRC, she wound up harassing the upstream provider of that host until it was easier to just take the desc down.
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@IoleRae said in MU Peeves Thread:
They definitely threatened at least one potential game with legal action; I don’t think they actually followed through with it, but a letter was sent and everything. I would say who the screen name is of the person who got it, but I, uh, only remember their real name any more. -.- Somebody I know got it though!! They didn’t sue, but sent a ‘you must stop this’ letter.
Wasn’t it that they tried to pursue legal action against Peverel (and maybe Rasheem?), for them refusing to take down the post of Nymeria’s desc in the ‘tasteless descs’ forum on WORA/SWOFA? Which is why the forum kept moving hosts?
I can go bother Hate-o-tron and see if he remembers.
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I definitely remember some incarnation of WORA being hosted in Malaysia because of Nymeria.
We were soldiers once, and young.