MU Peeves Thread
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@Floof said in MU Peeves Thread:
Okay cool haha I wasn’t already scared to page people
Engaging with people is scary, I get that. But it’s just as scary to have a stranger page you randomly without knowing who they are or what they want.
“Hi, I’m <short description of who you are> and I <why you are paging>.”
e.g.: Hi, I’m Pavel the Camarilla Toreador and I was looking over your wiki and saw we had some RP hooks in common and wanted to see if you were interested in RP about them.
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Maybe a better example, imagine calling up someone you don’t know on the phone and asking them how their day’s been, rather than “hello, I’m <name>, I’m calling for <reason>”.
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And this is why I will let the phone ring and they can text me if they need.
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@tsar Hi, have time to chat for a sec?
And then I follow this up by not saying anything again for 30 minutes.
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@helvetica this is the most evil thing I’ve read in some time
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I think I get why people just wave instead of saying something with substance a person can respond to. I think it’s like when people set themselves as wanting RP, but when you ask them what they want to do, they say, “Oh, I’m up for whatever.” They want you to be the one to do the work of making a conversation and/or a scene happen. I’m less sure why they think that approach is a good thing in either instance, but it sure does feel like they’re related behaviors, right?
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@GF I mean, even just knowing that the purpose of a given random page is that the person would like to RP would be great! (Not as down for “make OOC conversation happen.”)
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@Roz Yeah. I get the feeling both behaviors are motivated by a fear of rejection: if you don’t ever say you want a scene because you’re trying to lead them to offer one to you, then the person you’re talking to can’t tell you no. That’s probably an incomplete understanding of what’s going on, of course.
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Just after getting over illness get punched in the face with strep throat next. Get through important battle scene shivering and bundled up but still enjoying. Now experiencing vertigo (for fun or maybe bc antibiotics).
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it’s really weird when people get nostalgic about missing a player who you remember as being a huge jerk to people all the time. it’s just like. ???
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Player who only played male characters, reminiscing: “… Yeah he was such a lovely guy, he was so nice to me.”
The Rest Of Us: “-are you serious? No, he was a dick. He was a sexist, manipulative douche who only gave plot to female characters he wanted to bang.”
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@Roz said in MU Peeves Thread:
when someone i don’t know pages “hi” and i say hi back and then they say “how’s it going” i want to scream
This is a personal pet peeve of mine as well, but I think it could be a cultural thing?
I get this all the time on Teams at work with our India based team. They send hi. I have to send hi back. They ask how I am doing, I have to say I am fine, how are you. Then they send all the stuff they need to talk to me about it.
I do not get this from our non-India-based teams. The Americans just start messages with “Do this thing” and skip the foreplay.
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@Alveraxus said in MU Peeves Thread:
@Roz said in MU Peeves Thread:
when someone i don’t know pages “hi” and i say hi back and then they say “how’s it going” i want to scream
This is a personal pet peeve of mine as well, but I think it could be a cultural thing?
I get this all the time on Teams at work with our India based team. They send hi. I have to send hi back. They ask how I am doing, I have to say I am fine, how are you. Then they send all the stuff they need to talk to me about it.
I do not get this from our non-India-based teams. The Americans just start messages with “Do this thing” and skip the foreplay.
it’s absolutely a cultural thing and i also get it from some people at work. i don’t think it’s an american vs other countries thing tho, because i do experience it from americans.
in both MUs and work i try to just head it off at the pass by saying something like “hi! what can i do for you?”
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@Roz said in MU Peeves Thread:
it’s absolutely a cultural thing and i also get it from some people at work. i don’t think it’s an american vs other countries thing tho, because i do experience it from americans.
in both MUs and work i try to just head it off at the pass by saying something like “hi! what can i do for you?”
Yeah, I’ve started doing that. And I was mostly trying to be funny, but didn’t mean to cast it as one group vs another.
Most of our US-based employees are from NY, NJ, and Philly, so…yeah. More of that than generic “American”.
