MU Peeves Thread

[Pyrephox]

@mietze said in MU Peeves Thread:

Now I want to add solicitation-friendly disclaimers at the end of the log to all my scenes regardless of veracity because I’m sick like that.

“Now available in Kindle Unlimited and audiobook format!”

[bear_necessities]

@mietze “CONENT WARNING!!! log contains graphic imagery of crocheting and drinking tea, full log available upon request!”

[Snackness]

@bear_necessities I WILL NOT BE SHAMED IN THIS WAY

[Polk]

Ned went to bed early after this. Page for detailed log of all the groans and creaking noises he makes while retiring.

[GF]

I wonder which I would judge myself less for: stealing a celebrity’s image to use as a PB, or using an AI-generated image that I can be pretty confident stole its contents from some artist’s work.

[mietze]

Why choose? I recommend feeding a celebrity name into it too so you get a bit of everything.

[Pavel]

I’m tempted to go full circle and not use a PB at all, in future.

[Wizz]

[Polk]

@GF If the way most image models are trained bothers you, get Adobe Firefly or another generative image AI that uses fully licensed source materials.

[SpaceKhomeini]

@GF said in MU Peeves Thread:

I wonder which I would judge myself less for: stealing a celebrity’s image to use as a PB, or using an AI-generated image that I can be pretty confident stole its contents from some artist’s work.

My still-favorite: People who choose a PB and then for some reason make them like half a foot over or under their actual height (which usually results in all the men being 6’4" and all the women being 5’2").

I’m still waiting for my big strapping Danny DeVito lumberjack. Maybe I just need to do this myself.

[Cobalt]

@GF said in MU Peeves Thread:

I wonder which I would judge myself less for: stealing a celebrity’s image to use as a PB, or using an AI-generated image that I can be pretty confident stole its contents from some artist’s work.

As a bit of a devil’s advocate here:

Not touching on the subject of AI imagery b/c that’s still a really sticky mess that I’ve not solidified my feelings on.

When it comes to using celebrities as playedbys I really feel like people get too hung up on it. Saying that you’re “stealing” a public available image is a little bit insulting. When we use celebrities as playedbys we’re not, I fucking hope, going out and finding our favorite celebrity and taking a picture of them like some sort of weird paparazzi stalker. We’re finding publicly available imagery.

We are then saying ‘this is kind of what this character we write about looks like’. We don’t make money off of it. We are not stealing royalties from the celebrity by using their image as an inspiration. Because this is a free hobby that the only money involved is hosting the servers and the domain names. Players aren’t paid for their writing, staff are not paid for providing games.

It is fair more harmless a hobby than say people who do twitch streams of tabletop RPG and use celebrity images to represent their characters. Or say steal images from artists. Or even so far as to commission a fantasy rendition of their favorite actor as their character. That to me crosses a line.

What we do in the hobby is a hobby that is creative and transformative and none of us are making money off of it.

(If you are somehow making money off of MUSHing, please tell me how.)

Like, I’m not trying to start a fight or say I don’t get your point-- I do. You don’t liked celebrities used as playedbys and that’s fine for you to have that stance. But the new byline that we’re stealing from actors by using them as a media representation of characters we write about kind of irks on me. We’re not stealing anything. There’s such thing as fair use and transformative works but also we’re not stealing b/c we’re not profiting off of them.

[tsar]

@Cobalt said in MU Peeves Thread:

(If you are somehow making money off of MUSHing, please tell me how.)

me too please DM me

[Wizz]

I mean…someone told me once that they actually make something like 2k a month writing and selling smut novellas and they got all their practice and inspiration for it from the hobby, soooo…

I used to have my pride but…at this point I wouldn’t sneeze at an extra 2k >_>

[L. B. Heuschkel]

@Wizz I’m clearly writing in the wrong genre.

That said, I think I know who that was. Werewolf erotica, yes?

[Wizz]

@L-B-Heuschkel

they never told me the specifics, lol!! I guess I shoulda asked so I could get in on that market, cuz dang

[Snackness]

@Wizz But that’s not really making money from MUSHing. That’s MUSHing plus even more work.

[Wizz]

@Snackness

pfffffff fine, you’re technically right

[Snackness]

@Wizz The best kind of right!

[Polk]

The IRE people turned MUDs into money.

[SpaceKhomeini]

@Wizz said in MU Peeves Thread:

I mean…someone told me once that they actually make something like 2k a month writing and selling smut novellas and they got all their practice and inspiration for it from the hobby, soooo…

I used to have my pride but…at this point I wouldn’t sneeze at an extra 2k >_>

I know someone who makes half a mortgage payment on selling smut on Amazon. She’s actually good at what she does.

To be fair, that’s half a mortgage payment in the Seattle metro so that’s really goddamn good.