MU Peeves Thread
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@Artemis I think you’re in good company, even if that’s not something people like to talk about.
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@Artemis I think lots of people want to talk about that. The community-entity makes it rough.
Like, eh. Sometimes I read Elizabeth George mysteries. I adore Barbara Havers and actively dislike(d) Inspector Linley. I enjoyed disliking him and used to want bad things to happen to him. When the worst thing ever happened to him, I felt guilty about it, and I have a new set of feelings about Linley.
If something like that happened on a MU, I’d have to be damned careful who I talked to about it. I’d fear that Linley’s player and/or friends thereof would equate me disliking Linley in the first place to me saying that Linley’s a bad character, and the player not just a bad player but a bad person.
And if it was public, people with no connection to that story at all would pop up to tell me that my level of emotional investment in the game is unhealthy, and that I should quit. This feels bad.
I say that games-of-emotional-regulation are part of why RPGs and fiction in general exist, and we should support the feels a lot more.
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Yeah.
Let’s not lie OOC in order to convince people to fuck us IC.
Okay?
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@howyadoin okay
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@howyadoin said in MU Peeves Thread:
Yeah.
Let’s not lie OOC in order to convince people to fuck us IC.
Okay?
I totally agree! But now am curious what sort of OOC lies this inspired? Maybe not necessarily the situation but like… people saying ‘hey I’m interested in this relationship with our PCs, I promise no drama!’ or…?
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@catzilla Blatantly lied OOC about compliance with a game policy others were trying to enforce to convince them it was okay to fuck.
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@howyadoin said in MU Peeves Thread:
@catzilla Blatantly lied OOC about compliance with a game policy others were trying to enforce to convince them it was okay to fuck.
What’s the game’s ts policy? And how are they uh, enforcing compliance?
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@helvetica Kind of beside the point because the gripe is lying OOC to obtain consent where it would not have otherwise been given.
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@howyadoin Yeah and now it’s coming off as super weird and at least a little bit shady without at least some further context. Best of luck, though.
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I’m dying out here. What’s the policy?
ETA: Okay, okay, okay. A good and wise friend has pointed out to me that perhaps it makes sense to not want to say in all cases. Obviously lying to get TS is really fucking bad tho, okay?
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@Tez GDPR compliance. TS can only be between EU member states.
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@Rathenhope Wanna break some laws?
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@Tez it’s okay I’m not in the EU anymore
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@howyadoin You right. My bad. Maintain your privacy on this one, peace. The compliance stuff set off my alarm bells.
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@Rathenhope said in MU Peeves Thread:
@Tez GDPR compliance. TS can only be between EU member states.
Outside of the EU it’s just sparkling cybersex.
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To be honest I feel like TS is probably the #1 thing MU*ers lie OOCly to get, I don’t know why this peeve would strain credulity.
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@Kestrel lol I assure you, credulity remains unstrained indubitably. The second response just had the whiff of there being some kind of new and interesting sex rule
that was being broken ??? instead of like… a normal ass rule like not creeping on someone with an undisclosed alt. That’s all. -
@helvetica Aye, my read of it was similar and so was my reaction. It was less “I don’t believe you” and more “… more details please, spill all of the tea.”
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Alright alright alright.
I just didn’t want this to turn into a discussion about policy when it’s not a matter of the policy involved but of obtaining consent under false pretenses.
There is a prohibition on relationship roleplay with characters that have been in the game for less than two weeks. The rule applies even to returning players playing a new character.
“Pat” violated this policy multiple times. Fine. But in at least two of those times, “Pat” also provably lied about how long their character had been in game (when directly asked by the other players involved) in order to obtain their consent. In both, “Pat” significantly exaggerated their character’s time in the game.
“Pat” knew the rule. A character’s creation date as well as their number of days in the game are spelled out on their sheet, which “Pat” knows. It wasn’t a matter of forgetfulness or plain uncertainty.
“Pat” was caught and removed from the game.
