MU Peeves Thread
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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 donāt know how to send their NPCs off to NPCland.
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Iām just echoing some shit thatās been said already. Mostly in solidarity with the fact that this isnāt 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 āOf course theyāre playing without you. You suck shit and should just go cry in a corner you pathetic waste of space.ā
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 Aresā āActive Scenesā page is essentially like spamming +where but on crack.
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@Yam said in MU Peeves Thread:
Iām glum about a circumstance that I canāt really talk about with anyone and itās 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 donāt want to walk away. Meh. Iāll get over it.
Me about 2-3 weeks ago. I donāt know your circumstances, but at least know youāre not the only one.
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@Coin said in MU Peeves Thread:
Yeah. I kinda wish we couldnāt see who was in private scenes or how long ago they posed and whatnot.
The main draw of having a page for āactive scenesā is that it tells you āthere are people rping on this game, look, see?ā Anything beyond that, like knowing how long itās been since there was activity, or knowing who is in each particular scene feels more detrimental to the collective psychological stability of a gameās 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 otherwiseā¦ itās just food for the brain weasels.
Okay I felt petty for it so now Iām 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 Iām 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 itās there.
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@shit-piss-love Yeah, it hit me like that too. Like, itās great that there are so many people RPing, but when thereās 30+ private scenes and not one open scene thatās telling me thereās a lot of RP happening on this game that I justā¦donāt have access to as a new person.
Iād much rather see a list of OPEN scenes and maybe a little line saying something like āthereās 34 active scenes!ā
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@Popes Okay, maybe we are the same personā¦.
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:
Iām glum about a circumstance that I canāt really talk about with anyone and itās 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 donāt want to walk away. Meh. Iāll 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, iāve 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 iāll not remember the conversation after a couple hours.
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@Meg āyour secrets are safe with my indifferenceā
you can put it on your business cardfr fr
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@hellfrog said in MU Peeves Thread:
@Meg āyour secrets are safe with my indifferenceā
you can put it on your business cardIām tempted to do just that.
Iām 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 itās also standard practice: I remove your porn and any evidence of extramarital affairs and consign this information into the āto be forgottenā 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 āDom Karenā in his desk and asked if that was a kind of wine or something, and I said, āNope, thatās probably the kind of thing that makes family memories that last a lifetime, give it over,ā 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 whatās 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 theyāre 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 āyour gran complaining that no one on the phone speaks English any moreā vibes, but theyāre 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 wouldnāt 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.
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@Meg said in MU Peeves Thread:
@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.
I would actually put up with a typed accent from someone who can RP with the Shakespearean dramatic skill and textual āvocalā control of any of the Deadwood players.
But nobody whoās ever done a typed accent is this, alas.
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I would love to see some examples of what yāall are talking about because this seems like some really weird gatekeeping. Like for real you cannot understand what the words typed mean?
