MU Peeves Thread

Pavel

Reminder to myself that after 15+ years in this hobby, I still dislike CGen.

I don’t mind the CGen process so much, weirdly, but I hate having to learn a whole new feckin’ series of commands. Because nobody standardises this shit. Every CG is a new nightmare of spaghetti strung together over washing lines.

Ares/FS3’s commands are simple and I get to do it on a form instead of figuring out how Faraday’s brain works, so it’s A++.

sao

My peeve today:

There’s nothing like trying out a new character and getting completely subsumed into the story of a new place to make you really, highly aware of how burned out you are at your old stomping ground. The disparity in activation energy is astounding.

Not to tmi but I have pneumonia, the doctor says I need to spend the next 3 days in bed, and I still wanna RP my idiot werewolf, but I can barely even manage to get up the gumption to log in and read mail on a place that has been my primary game since September 2016.

I’m tired and I’m sorry.

Gashlycrumb

My undesirable but unfading urge to tell people that diurnal birds like pigeons and crows are diurnal, really.

Herja

My head getting that something isn’t personal and my ego not getting that memo.

Gashlycrumb

The adjacent problem of knowing its not personal and not really caring because it’s still frustrating and boring, and having to deal with the expectation that knowing its not personal should make it somehow non-frustrating and fun.

Cobalt

This may make me seem like a heartless Bitch, but boy it would be nice if people would stop telling me they are going to go cry because of MUSH drama.

It evokes more of a desire to back away from the person telling me than sympathy. And I try to be kind to people OOCly.

But for fucks sake…

Pavel

@Cobalt I might be a cruel little fucker, but at that point I’d say “Well, I think you need to take time away to recentre yourself and reflect on how you’re feeling and why.” Which is just code for fuck all the way off, and when you get there fuck off some more.

hellfrog

@Cobalt it’s only crying over mush drama if it’s from the champagne region of France, otherwise it’s sparkling emotional manipulation.

Kestrel

@Gashlycrumb said in MU Peeves Thread:

My undesirable but unfading urge to tell people that diurnal birds like pigeons and crows are diurnal, really.

I understand. I will never not be triggered by the way poison dart frogs are portrayed in pop culture.

oknow

Reminds me of the time someone accused me of causing their husband to threaten divorce (because the player spent too much time MU*ing, I think?) because I had to quit a scene before we started due to rl on my side.

I was like, well, that’s an unfortunate situation but that is not on me.

L. B. Heuschkel

@oknow said in MU Peeves Thread:

Reminds me of the time someone accused me of causing their husband to threaten divorce (because the player spent too much time MU*ing, I think?) because I had to quit a scene before we started due to rl on my side.

You too? Wonder if it was the same person. Got accused a couple of times of ruining their marriage because they were mushing too much. Was like, well, go offline and fix your marriage, then. They never did.

oknow

@L-B-Heuschkel I’m not surprised I’m not the only one they said this to if it is the same person.

This took place some time between 2006-2008 so, honestly, all I can say is I hoped they worked on their marriage or they both found spouses they were more compatible with.

L. B. Heuschkel

@oknow We can but hope. It’s probably not the same person, though – this was 2021-22 for me.

farfalla

@farfalla said in MU Peeves Thread:

When you know it’s time to retire a character, but you can’t make yourself let go.

Finally giving up a beloved character and knowing it was the right choice doesn’t make you less sad about it.

Gasboy

@Cobalt I have told some that it’s okay to go have a good cry. Get it all out. They’ll feel better. And if they aren’t feeling better afterwards, perhaps they should reconsider playing on that particular text-based game.

Sillylily

I just want to write fun stories with people. My mu peeve for the month is me…
I don’t like the timing, stupid awkward to get an ic position then be dragged off by rl. :C The brain weasles are having a field day thinking staff and players are annoyed/inconvenienced.

It bothers me that I may have forgot to do necessary steps for plots and/or actions or if I’d promised things to people and I’m keeping them waiting.

I know I have a few descriptions I owe a few people… but damned if the memory muncher hasn’t eaten the names and descriptions…

Me… get with the program…

Gashlycrumb

@Gasboy said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Cobalt I have told some that it’s okay to go have a good cry. Get it all out. They’ll feel better. And if they aren’t feeling better afterwards, perhaps they should reconsider playing on that particular text-based game.

I’m pretty sure most of us have cried, or felt like it, over MUSH crap.

But if we tell people about it, it’s “you’re my friend and I wanna talk about my feels” and not “Cobalt, you’re makin’ me cry by not making the game do what I want” stuff.

I’m peeved over past experiences where people thought I was really upset when I was just like, “Y’know, this is kinda a drag.”

Kestrel

The inevitable paranoia I constantly feel when friends talk shit about our other friends, and then I can’t help but wonder what they’re probably also saying about me.

Part RL peeve I suppose, but we are a gossipy hobby.

Narson

Watching your friends depart a game, but not yet wanting to finish your own stories, but also not knowing if you have a game left in you after this so whether you’ll get to RP with them again.

RightMeow

Hi.

I’ve cried over MU* stuff. I’ve cried because I was OOCly mistreated (see previous threads it can stay there) by people knowing how to hit the trigger. I left the game btw when that happened.

More I’ve cried over the story. I’ve had breakup scenes IC that were heart-wretching. Not because I felt OOCly like I was breaking up but because we were both writing so beautifully in the scene that it hurt. Just like watching a movie or reading a good book.

I’m not sure I ever told the other person I cried though - in either of those moments.