MU Peeves Thread
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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.
In Occam I trust.
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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.
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@shit-piss-love Yeah, it hit me like that too. Like, it’s great that there are so many people RPing, but when there’s 30+ private scenes and not one open scene that’s telling me there’s a lot of RP happening on this game that I just…don’t have access to as a new person.
I’d much rather see a list of OPEN scenes and maybe a little line saying something like ‘there’s 34 active scenes!’
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@Popes Okay, maybe we are the same person….
What color is your hair currently??? Black or purple???
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@Cobalt Blurple best colour.
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@Cobalt It brown, but soon will be gone in the biannual shearing.
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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.
hey, hey. pick me. i no longer RP, but i used to so i get things. i am also non-judgey, i swear. and i make a good therapist, i’ve been told!
these services are available for anyone. hit me up on discord @ gem#2769
eta: doctor-patient confidentiality guaranteed! by my own forgetfulness, that i’ll not remember the conversation after a couple hours.
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@Meg “your secrets are safe with my indifference”
you can put it on your business cardfr fr
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@hellfrog said in MU Peeves Thread:
@Meg “your secrets are safe with my indifference”
you can put it on your business cardI’m tempted to do just that.
I’m an archivist and sometimes end up processing the crap you left in your office when you died, and the shit on your hard drive. Part of me lives in shame because I am influencing the historical record, but it’s also standard practice: I remove your porn and any evidence of extramarital affairs and consign this information into the ‘to be forgotten’ section of my brain, where it gets disconnected from your name.
Except in the case of my own uncle, where my aunt found some CD-ROM labeled “Dom Karen” in his desk and asked if that was a kind of wine or something, and I said, “Nope, that’s probably the kind of thing that makes family memories that last a lifetime, give it over,” and got rid of it.
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Bringing back a classic. Strong accents in speech rather than saying German/French/Southern Drawl.
End up in a loop trying to translate it, then working out context. But then I need to translate it again, but now what’s the context. The dyslexia ends up with me going around in a circle, I end up frustrated and feeling like an idiot so give up.
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@Whisky If a player insists on typing an accent, then presumably they’re doing so because they think it adds verisimilitude, right? So I think you (or anyone) would be 100% justified writing poses about how you stare blankly at the other character and ask them what any of the words they just said are. Sure, it kinda has “your gran complaining that no one on the phone speaks English any more” vibes, but they’re the one deliberately misspelling words and then expecting you to guess what their misspelled words spell.
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@GF one of my favorite pieces of someone doing something for verisimilitude is the show Deadwood. They replaced all the curse words with modern day curse words, because actual old western curses would sound really tame to us, and they wanted to evoke the same feelings, vs be historically accurate.
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@GF - I do get what you mean but this works on the presumption that my character wouldn’t understand their accent though. My character may have grown up around it, but I as a player have no way of knowing what they are saying.
