MU Peeves Thread
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@Gashlycrumb Surely “Heads I Win, Tails You Lose” is clearly listed as a Game Policy in the FAQ.
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@Gashlycrumb said in MU Peeves Thread:
For fuck’s sake, if you are using a published RPG, don’t make a fucking house rule that directly contradicts the published rules after some poor player made a choice based on the published rules, and then force them to live with their “IC consequences.”
gimme deeeeeeets
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@Coin I ought not to, really, as it didn’t happen to me.
Well, it did on another occasion, but like, two years ago now and on a different game. That one had only been open for like six weeks at the time, so it wasn’t so shitty. Except for the bit where the ruling wasn’t actually in direct contradiction to the rules, just eyeball-searingly stupid and accompanied by a lie that it was common to MUs and I a bad player for not knowing to ask if it was in place.
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@Gashlycrumb That’s literally the opposite of details, man. Spill!
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I don’t like playing with people’s personal NPCs.
I don’t even really like playing with metaplot NPCs if I can avoid it, but super not into meeting some character’s gramma on-camera.
Using them as a quick prop in a scene? Even giving them some depth and flavor with the occasional on-camera moment? All good.
But I get super-bored meeting random NPCs from someone’s background.
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I want to RP, but I am physically and emotionally miserable at the moment. I want to RP so bad tho.
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I’m glum about a circumstance that I can’t really talk about with anyone and it’s just one of those things where I wish I had some no-judgment RP therapist to vent at. I feel dumb about it, but then also angry and hurt and offended and sad and scared/anxious. The answer is to walk away, but I don’t want to walk away. Meh. I’ll get over it.
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@KarmaBum I rather like meeting NPCs. But I hate deals where I get the impression that the lion’s share, no, the giant fucking manticore’s share, of significant action is between metaplot NPCs, and/or where those PCs who have plot related agency are all doing it via NPC retainers.
If I wanted non-interactive situations where I can’t see what’s going on, well, there’s shitloads of teevee that fits the bill and is a lot more entertaining. If I wanted a play-by-email I’d have joined one.
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The ever present feeling that people are RPing with me because game policy says they have to include people in public spaces, but secretly they wish I would just go away.
(Which is wholly rooted in my own brain, and absolutely not anyone making me feel unwelcome.)
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@Cobalt Are you me?
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@Popes That’s the last thing we need, Pope Cobalt.
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@KarmaBum They’re all characters, so what’s the difference? Like a PCs NPCs, sure, I can vibe with that to an extent.
But staff NPCs or metalplot NPCs? Generally that’s one of the main methods on how the metaplot is delivered via interactions with whatever NPC is being used as a plot device.
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There are things I really like about Ares, but if you’ve got ‘is everyone hanging out without me’ brain weasels it sure does love to show you scrolling pages of private scenes that say yes, yes they are.
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@DrQuinn said in MU Peeves Thread:
There are things I really like about Ares, but if you’ve got ‘is everyone hanging out without me’ brain weasels it sure does love to show you scrolling pages of private scenes that say yes, yes they are.
Yeah. I kinda wish we couldn’t see who was in private scenes or how long ago they posed and whatnot.
The main draw of having a page for ‘active scenes’ is that it tells you ‘there are people rping on this game, look, see?’ Anything beyond that, like knowing how long it’s been since there was activity, or knowing who is in each particular scene feels more detrimental to the collective psychological stability of a game’s playerbase than anything. I could make a case for staff-run events so that new players and guests can see how active staff is in running stuff, but otherwise… it’s just food for the brain weasels.
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@KarmaBum is this about me???
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@farfalla said in MU Peeves Thread:
@KarmaBum is this about me???
lololol not even a little bit
It was actually 'cause I was playing with someone who uses her NPCs very well (Hera@LA2043), and it naturally triggered my cold dead heart to remember how much I hate when people don’t know how to send their NPCs off to NPCland.
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I’m just echoing some shit that’s been said already. Mostly in solidarity with the fact that this isn’t just me. I hate looking at +where and seeing people who are my friends doing stuff together without me. I know this is selfish, but my brain worms tell me ‘Of course they’re playing without you. You suck shit and should just go cry in a corner you pathetic waste of space.’
Then I go cry in a corner as a pathetic waste of space instead of doing the smart thing and asking to join in because I hate being a bother to people I like. Which just reinforces the brain worms. Which makes the cycle worse.
I gotta get better at asking for RP.
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@Popes Yeah. And Ares’ ‘Active Scenes’ page is essentially like spamming +where but on crack.
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@Yam said in MU Peeves Thread:
I’m glum about a circumstance that I can’t really talk about with anyone and it’s just one of those things where I wish I had some no-judgment RP therapist to vent at. I feel dumb about it, but then also angry and hurt and offended and sad and scared/anxious. The answer is to walk away, but I don’t want to walk away. Meh. I’ll get over it.
Me about 2-3 weeks ago. I don’t know your circumstances, but at least know you’re not the only one.
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@Coin said in MU Peeves Thread:
Yeah. I kinda wish we couldn’t see who was in private scenes or how long ago they posed and whatnot.
The main draw of having a page for ‘active scenes’ is that it tells you ‘there are people rping on this game, look, see?’ Anything beyond that, like knowing how long it’s been since there was activity, or knowing who is in each particular scene feels more detrimental to the collective psychological stability of a game’s playerbase than anything. I could make a case for staff-run events so that new players and guests can see how active staff is in running stuff, but otherwise… it’s just food for the brain weasels.
Okay I felt petty for it so now I’m glad someone else said it.
I have tried to get into Ares games a couple times now and the giant list of private scenes has, and I am using no hyperbole here, taken the wind out of my sails psychologically on both occasions. It makes the game feel impenetrable to me, as if putting all of the RP I’m not involved in on display makes it feel like my part in it is going to be insignificant. I can easily pick apart this in a number of ways that make it feel uncomfortable to complain about, but it’s there.