MU Peeves Thread

Jumpscare

Ares games feel like those magic slate drawing pads.

You shake them too hard and your creative work disappears?

Kestrel

So I really like it when someone can play a compelling sociopath who’s highly manipulative and intelligent. I think this is usually a more interesting kind of foil than just Punchy McPuncherperson.

But when they get caught and then try to lie about it OOC it’s a weird … sticky feeling.

Jumpscare

@Kestrel

The moment where you realize, “oh, you’re not playing a character; this is actually you.”

ten

hey, friend, if you’re going to crib that much inspiration from a source – write some fanfic, you’ll feel better.

MisterBoring

From a conversation with a few people I know IRL: When people create amazing story points for their character or for the world in general only to somehow completely draw a blank when you ask them to explore that further.

“I really like how you established your character was secretly undermining the Lord of the West Rivers, can we do some more undermining plot stuff with that?”

“Wait what? I have no idea what you are talking about and am not interested in that in the least.”

“Ok. Well… ugh.”

Coin

@ten said in MU Peeves Thread:

hey, friend, if you’re going to crib that much inspiration from a source – write some fanfic, you’ll feel better.

are you replying to jumpscare actually or did you just hit that reply button cuz it was closest?

because your comment made me think of something specific.

Juniper

A super icky experience for me was finding out the reason a player was so eager to slide into my DMs was so they could pre-seed the OOC conversation with lies. Before ever being caught.

But when they did get caught, things got extra deranged. Like, straight up wholecloth invention of things that never happened in the story or in DMs.

Twinkle

@Juniper Honestly this is why my communication is solely inside a game unless I trust someone with my life. I do not engage on discord with people I don’t know. I keep it in the game so I can report it – and it’s why I only play on Ares games.

ten

edited to clarify: I AM LAZY.

just hit the closest reply button, that’s all, @Coin. I wasn’t directing my peevish comment to anyone.

Coin

@ten said in MU Peeves Thread:

just hit the closest reply button, that’s all, @Coin. I wasn’t directing my peevish comment to anyone.

[snrks]

ten

@Coin

ultimately – my tantrum was resolved with weed and a nap.

catzilla

Brain weasels continually getting to you when you’re trying to create a game.

Roz

@Gashlycrumb said in Good things in Mushing:

@Roz Yes.

Sorry, though, it’s not the thread for it. I was being implusive.

lol okay i’ll MOVE THREADS, what’s the story then??

dvoraen

@Gashlycrumb dish dish dish

sao

my mu peeve is that i want to rp but i am sick and whiny and my brain is full of porridge

Gashlycrumb

@Roz Not sure there’s a new story. I mean, yeah, I was banned from a game a few years ago for it.

Once upon a time, if you posted about the fuckery on a MU to WORA, and the staffers on that game responded by treating you shabbily or banning you, the forum readership would heap scorn and derision upon said staffer and game. This was really about the only way WORA could hurt a game. Any other complaint tended to cause new players to show up. Which is reasonable – No game is perfect, but if somebody’s bitching about its flaws, this proves that it’s good enough that at least one person is invested. Enough, even, to have an emotion.

The last five years or so, it seems to be pretty much a given that somebody will take your ‘peeve’ and insist that it’s a targeted personal insult and get hostile with you on the game. This will happen if you complain about something that happened ten years ago or something very general. Somebody put it something like, “My peeve is a one-size hospital johnny and you’re taking it like it’s a bespoke suit just for you.”

The “vote with your feet” line is a far cry from new, but shaming players for complaining became cool.

The last year or so of MSB included some real gems – It’s wrong to suggest that GMs who do things are better than those who do not, it might hurt their feelings. Why should anybody bother making and running a MU if it’s inevitable that someone will complain about it? Heck, the whole “Are friends bad?” catch-phrase appeared, as far as I know, as a straw-man response to the suggestion that GMs shouldn’t spend all their time making game for insular cliques who don’t spread the fun.

Games with stated rules “Do not post about the game, it makes the game look bad,” pass without much comment, even when they’re not ‘Blood of Dragons.’

Roz

@Gashlycrumb said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Roz Not sure there’s a new story.

I just don’t think I’ve ever seen the thing you’re talking about as if it’s commonplace (someone getting banned just for complaining). I may have seen one or two bans that involved some forum posting, but as part of a much larger picture of issues. So when I was asking for a story, it’s because I don’t really know the old ones you’re referring to, either.

Games with stated rules “Do not post about the game, it makes the game look bad,” pass without much comment, even when they’re not ‘Blood of Dragons.’

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a game with this rule. What others have been around with it?

Gashlycrumb

@Roz I don’t think getting banned at all is commonplace. Being treated shabbily may be.

Fortunately, the hobby is still big enough and broad enough that Your Milage ~~May~~ Will Vary.

My experience is that I’m playing fewer games and have fewer RP-buddies, but I hear privately about shabby crap at about the same rate or higher, and more insist on keeping it private for fear of repercussions.

Pavel

If you go back ten or so years ago, there were definitely places wherein if they discovered you had posted on WORA (or wherever), they would flay you alive, tar you, feather you, fire you into the sea, and then ban you. I can’t think of names off the top of my head because I am an old man, and ten years is a long time.

Tez

@Pavel Firan! I got you, old man. They didn’t take kindly to posting in those parts. There’s definitely been a history of admin who frowned upon people posting. I’m not entirely surprised it continues in the future, but I’d sure like to know who.

I find it very telling when people make a policy of not posting. Maybe they realized that when they post they are telling on themselves. It’s always my favorite when someone goes to post and just makes themselves look worse.