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MU Peeves Thread
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@jujube said in MU Peeves Thread:
What game are you referring to that did that?!?
Like… most games that use a tabletop system will do one or all of those things at some point in their existence, in whole or in part.
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I got it in my head to work on an old game idea I’d pitched a while back, but I keep finding myself ruminating on whether or not it’s worth it when the hobby is so full of creeps and dramatics. I’d really like to do some storytelling and facilitate some fun experiences for folks, but I don’t know if I have the time and energy to spend trying to keep assholes from ruining it for everyone.
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As far as I go these days, I’m back in that “I’m wondering if this hobby is even for me” phase.
For one, I just can’t sit with an open client like I used to so Ares’ web portal has been a godsend but that artificially limits me to a single platform and slate of games.
For another, I find effort and focus are increasingly limited and I don’t really have it in me to go workshop another game character (let alone with backstory/shared connections) for some game that will fail-to-launch or just work out as an exercise in theme that fails to grab me.
I know I’ve said this before but I’m find it progressively more difficult to rustle up even a shred of inspiration for slice-of-life rp.
It probably doesn’t help that I’ve officially overdosed on supernatural* shenanigans/stories for the time being. To quote a wise man, there are too many damn wizards on my block.*Please note this isn’t me slinging barbs at anyone else’s tastes. If you all prefer ghosts and goblins and vampires and witches and/or really specific genre stuff, go fucking ham.
I woke up feeling so good, I think I’d better call in sick/ I need a personal trainer to help me hold my drink
I plan to be spontaneous next time we meet/I’m putting off procrastinating until next week
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I’ve ended up here and this gracefully just stepped back. Haven’t RPed in months and I’ve found other things have replaced it.
I still love the people though, so I check here ~☆daily☆~
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@shit-piss-love Run something invite only or semi-invite only.
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@Cobalt said in MU Peeves Thread:
@shit-piss-love Run something invite only or semi-invite only.
That’s not a bad idea. I keep out of OOC circles in the community but I like the people here well enough. Maybe I’d open it up to people here to start and let y’all refer others.
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@shit-piss-love said in MU Peeves Thread:
@Cobalt said in MU Peeves Thread:
@shit-piss-love Run something invite only or semi-invite only.
That’s not a bad idea. I keep out of OOC circles in the community but I like the people here well enough. Maybe I’d open it up to people here to start and let y’all refer others.
Posting anything on BMD is pretty much the same as being public, so you might want to instead make it a more private invite to the folk you jive with best on here first. BMD is a public community rather than a private one, so anyone can be accessing stuff on here.
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@Roz Good looking out, thank you.
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I had a person or two reach out in private message to me here to invite me to their games. I didn’t have the spoons for it at the time, but I fucking appreciated it. So maybe if you open a game, just send them a chat you’d like them to play there. That way it’s not public but you don’t have to have Discord or other OOC connections. This coming from someone who doesn’t discord.
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I like this. Thank you people who do this. Even if we don’t have spoons or whatever, being invited is a heck of an uplift. (well, for me.)
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@RightMeow Curious - was it a public game? I did get an invite to an invite-only game via PM once, but it wasn’t my jam, so I never joined. It would seem weird to get an invite to a public game sent to me via PM.
Like.
Why me specifically?
Are you doing this to a bunch of people?
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I think it was a little of both. It was going to be public but wasn’t yet. The reason is it’s fairly well known here that I’m nervous about new places now. I’ve had a lot of run-ins with DownWithOPP and RuizPlayer and it’s made me almost have a PSTD response to new games. Heh.
They were just letting me know it was there and the community was safe and they would make it safe for me.
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@RightMeow said in MU Peeves Thread:
@KarmaBum
I’ve had a lot of run-ins with DownWithOPP and RuizPlayer and it’s made me almost have a PSTD response to new games. Heh.Slightly off-topic and I’ve voiced this 100,000 times before, but. Just know that sometimes, a violent outburst is not unreasonable. Sometimes, dick punches are the appropriate response.
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@shit-piss-love said in MU Peeves Thread:
@Cobalt said in MU Peeves Thread:
@shit-piss-love Run something invite only or semi-invite only.
That’s not a bad idea. I keep out of OOC circles in the community but I like the people here well enough. Maybe I’d open it up to people here to start and let y’all refer others.
I just want to be the brief voice of dissent:
There are people I don’t particularly want on my game for various reasons, and who I have banned or ‘disinvited’ before they finished applying.
But they are not the majority, and I cannot overstate the joys of running a public game and meeting people who never would have made it there if we were on an invite-only system. The absolute magic of finding a whole group of players who have amazing chemistry, who are delightful OOC, who build story and theme in a way you never could’ve imagined - who you had NO IDEA existed despite decades of doing this - is truly fantastic. It’s a big part of why I build and run games.
My experience on invite-only games is that you’ll still have player problems. People who get along with A won’t get along with C just because B is friends with both. Invites don’t prevent them, IME.
It does take some thick skin and the willingness to have some hard conversations and close doors to run a game - public or private. But that’s honestly, for me at least, such a small, small part of it. The joys are really immense, too.
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@Tat said in MU Peeves Thread:
My experience on invite-only games is that you’ll still have player problems. People who get along with A won’t get along with C just because B is friends with both. Invites don’t prevent them, IME.
I remember when my dumb ass really thought that going invite-only was the solution to all the worlds ills. We were all young once, I guess.
she/they
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@Tez said in MU Peeves Thread:
@Tat said in MU Peeves Thread:
My experience on invite-only games is that you’ll still have player problems. People who get along with A won’t get along with C just because B is friends with both. Invites don’t prevent them, IME.
I remember when my dumb ass really thought that going invite-only was the solution to all the worlds ills. We were all young once, I guess.
It really only solves the ill of population size, rather than quality, which is a perfectly valid thing to want to control. We’re adults, I sure as shit don’t have the time to run a game open to any Tom, Dick, or Tez who wanders in.
He/Him. Opinions and views are solely my own unless specifically stated otherwise.
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@Pavel You didn’t have to mention tez twice!
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Feeling incredibly down over yet another nail in the coffin of my enjoyment of a place that I have loved very much for a long time. It’s not even anything horrible this time. And I stopped trying awhile ago, to be fair.
Sometimes I wonder what it is. I have only once gotten complained directly to my face about my RP (I think when people say shit behind your back it’s actually rarely about YOU and more about what they’re trying to accomplish with the person they’re whispering at), and that was from someone who couldn’t punctuate even while trying and regularly used “could of” for real. Generally people like me? And the people who really don’t it’s not like I can blame them as it’s more often than not very very mutual. But clearly whatever it is that some people have that makes them enough I don’t got. Most of the time that’s okay, since I do have a few people who are very GGG mush-wise. But sometimes it just makes me feel yuck. I’m thinking maybe even this time it’s mostly timing, and this is a hormonal thing. And I think the real problem is that i probably don’t speak up enough, which really is a me problem.
I feel like I suck, even though I know I suck less than a lot of other people, and that nobody I like thinks I suck. And that the latest twist is totally unintentional (that is somewhat part of the problem). I just need to deal. I’m not quite ready to bail. But it’s a real bummer.
It should be easy. Bug people. Demand things. Maybe throw a fit every once in awhile, since that certainly seems to work now and then. But I can’t. You’d think out of many decades of wearing big girl pants including in mushdom I’d have this down by now.
