MU Peeves Thread

[Pavel]

@Wizz True! I was mostly using the previous peeve to highlight my own peeve.

[Jennkryst]

@Gashlycrumb said:

There’s also a level of Catch-22 in it.

1:
Abelard, Bridget and Camille look out their apartment window and see a chupacabra digging through the dumpster.

Abelard screams, runs for the closet and curls up in there having a panic attack.

OOC, Bridget and Camille bitch about what an attention-whore Abelard is and how his reaction derailed the scene, as if it’s 1994 and he walked into their wedding scene, smelled a peanut, and went into anaphylactic shock.

2:
Abelard, Bridget and Camille look out their apartment window and see a chupacabra digging through the dumpster.

Abelard says, “Huh. It’s so ugly it’s cute,” and helps investigate.

OOC, Bridget and Camille bitch about how Abelard ought to be freaking the fuck out, he’s only a mortal after all.

3:
Identical to 2, except Abelard says, “HOLY FUCKING BALLS!” instead.

Not that the fearless, blase, too-cool-for-anything quipper PC isn’t a real thing and a tedious drag, but it’s also not bad to examine your reaction, see if really there’s just no pleasing you, or no pleasing you if you’re Abelard, and entertain the notion that maybe Abelard is playing his PC correctly. I’ve definitely seen both ways.

I feel like this is why we have Willpower checks.

[catzilla]

catzilla said:

@ham said in MU Peeves Thread:

I’m very sure this has been posted here before, but it has come up again in my RP life and it continues to frustrate me.

If someone is setting a scene for you, YOU then need to engage THEM. Don’t pose yourself doing your own thing and make them basically set twice. DEFINITELY don’t pose AVOIDING them and make them chase you.

It’s obnoxious.

I always ask people ‘do you want to set or you want me to set?’

So when they tell me to set, and I do, then they do their OWN set…

I’ve started responding to this by continuing to pose by myself until they do their part on the scene. I’ve gone through a handful of scenes now where I’ll set, roam around, then leave because they refuse to do anything. It’s interesting!

[Muscle Car]

@catzilla “Be my prop/audience so I can me,” is one of the most dispiriting behaviors possible in a co-op improv environment.

[Pavel]

@catzilla Is this the MUing equivalent of not moving out of the way of obnoxious men taking up all the room on the sidewalk?

[Kestrel]

“Hi guys, I’m a totally new player, I’m just a clueless sweet lil innocent baby, you have never met me before, I don’t know anything. However by pure happenstance, I am unusually well versed in this game’s community drama history, and I carry a massive axe to grind about it. So much so that it has given me a sense of superiority over players I’ve obviously never met before, and enough specific personal grievances to rant obsessively to a non-reciprocal, disengaged audience about it. Any resemblance in visible neuroses to a formerly banned player is purely coincidental. But whoever that identical personality might be, I’m sure they haven’t lied in this exact same manner before. Please don’t shoot the messenger, I’m new here.”

[hellfrog]

@Kestrel vulgarkitten, that you?

[Pavel]

[dvoraen]

@hellfrog Sometimes, when the moon is in the right lunar phase, I get intrusive thoughts saying “I want to see the receipts of things like that.”

And then I come to my senses because I don’t really need to lose further faith in humanity or intentionally make myself nauseous from the ick they likely contain. (To say nothing about how I have absolutely no right to ask for them, let alone be shown them.)

[Kestrel]

(Actually not about VK, it’s just these psychos all use the exact same playbook)

[Pavel]

@Kestrel If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck it probably goes just as well with an orange sauce.

[Floof]

Achievement Unlocked: App rejected because of puns! You’d think a Buffy game would have a sense of humor.

[allthecookies]

@Floof

Listen, if I were appstaff… by the first pun I would SMASH ‘Approve’. O_O

This hurts my heart.

[Cobalt]

@Floof said:

Achievement Unlocked: App rejected because of puns! You’d think a Buffy game would have a sense of humor.

MU staff have a sense of humor? Oh you sweet summer child.

[Gashlycrumb]

@Floof I was not permitted to name a Harry Potter character “Strangely Brown.”

[howyadoin]

Wow all I can think is that must’ve been one really shitty pun.

[Pavel]

@Gashlycrumb said:

@Floof I was not permitted to name a Harry Potter character “Strangely Brown.”

You’re only allowed to imply the Rowling racism.

[Gashlycrumb]

@Pavel said:

You’re only allowed to imply the Rowling racism.

I suppose I could have gone for Strangely Green. It was from Blackadder Goes Forth, and a joke about a certain flavour of British upper-class naming – it’s actually spelled Cholmondeley-Marjoribanks in the script. (That would be pronounced “Chumley Marchbanks”). It goes along with a similar gag about nicknames, Lieutenant George’s other old school chums are called Drippy and Bumfluff.

It was just deemed too silly. For a world full of absurd names and lazy puns.

This was back in the day when Harry Potter was sacrosanct and remarking that it’s “stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited” caused HP fans to accuse Ursula K. LeGuin, of all people, of being jealous of Rowling’s ‘talent’. An ordinary geek like myself going around admitting that they noticed the racism, homophobia, slavery, smart-girls-are-annoying tropes, child abuse, weird fact that all wizards are tories, and general I read this before but it was called The Books of Magic and it didn’t suck vibe could expect great outrage, like way more than one gets for suggesting that GMs have to talk to players.

[Deviant]

@Gashlycrumb I thought that it was heavily ‘inspired by’ Wizard’s Hall?

[Gashlycrumb]

@Deviant JK Rowling has claimed that she came up with the whole ‘wizard school’ idea independently of Yolen (in 1991), Pratchett (1983), Murphy (1974) and LeGuin (1968). LeGuin said that her own Roke Island wizard’s school was inspired by T.H. White having mentioned the folkloric wizard school Domdaniel in The Sword In the Stone (1938). Domdaniel is known to English speakers from One Thousand and One Arabian Nights.

But Rowling says it’s coincidence, and the other authors have, wisely, not bothered to argue.