MU Peeves Thread
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@Pyrephox This is the exact reason I set up async scenes or do most of RPing/GMing during the weekend.
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@shit-piss-love yes, as i acknowledged initially, it’s very frustrating when someone comes in or expects to grind a scene to a halt when they are the outlier for slowness.
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@mietze said in MU Peeves Thread:
@shit-piss-love yes, as i acknowledged initially, it’s very frustrating when someone comes in or expects to grind a scene to a halt when they are the outlier for slowness.
I apologize if I came off hot here. Usually when this topic comes up I end up watching people shit on short posing for five pages until I can’t help but write a novel in response. Cheers for the pleasant chat.
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Sweet spot for me is 7-8 minute poses. Anything past that and my ADHD goes wild and it makes it hard for me to keep paying attention to and following the scene – one of the reasons why I actually struggle a lot with Ares. I want to be able to do asynch/distracted because of my schedule, but yeah that’s not happening.
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@Pyrephox I know I’ve probably lost RP partners because of it. It is hard because at least for me, it’s not consistent. If I know a PC really well, and the content of the scene is not something I’m constantly having to look up/recheck (though that tends to be specialized, like if they’re talking about plot information that I’ve got to look up, ect), then I feel like I fit in mostly with faster-moving. But it is definitely helpful if people have consistent pose length likes to know them. It helps me gauge at least when I might need to warn. And as much as people sometimes like to say “it’s worth the wait”, I mean realistically when we have busy lives and limited time, sometimes it’s not. Not as a value judgement about anyone or anything, but just wanting to get into some meat too.
@selira I have had trouble with ares games too, not because the RP isn’t lovely, but I had assumed that I’d be okay with asynch (I don’t mind at all work-slow!) but I too lose the thread especially in larger-than-two-or-three scenes where it’s like one pose every 6 hours or more–for each person (which means a round can take close to 24). I assumed it wouldn’t be trouble for me, because I loved gdocs play back in the day but then I realized that was because usually it was a supplement to a synchronous scene. Like it would start during work or off hours, but then would be wrapped at the next live-RP opportunity, or vice versa. I think this is just how my brain works, though.
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I thought I would love async because I have very few windows of 2+ hours of time that I can spend just sitting at the computer.
But it turns out I like playing characters that enjoy conversation too much and it just doesn’t model that well at async pace.
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@Selira @mietze Not all Ares games are designed around async play.
It’s a feature Ares enables, but it’s not a requirement.I only play on Ares, and I ST in “real-time,” personally. If people can attend events when I can run them, yay! If not, see above re: I’m sorry I can’t run things on alt-timezones.
I make exceptions, and I’ll set up async scenes for people I otherwise just can’t catch - which is why it’s awesome that the feature exists!We just closed scene #40 last night on Glitch; about 5 scenes total have been async, and none were story/plot scenes.
If anything, I probably pose more reliably/faster because of Ares, since it means I don’t have to walk back to my desk to write my pose.
Edit: This post is all over the place but my point was: Ares and async aren’t the same thing. There may be Ares games out there whose pace better suits yours - whether that’s async/distracted or traditional/real-time.
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@KarmaBum said in MU Peeves Thread:
@Selira @mietze Not all Ares games are designed around async play.
It’s a feature Ares enables, but it’s not a requirement.I only play on Ares, and I ST in “real-time,” personally. If people can attend events when I can run them, yay! If not, see above re: I’m sorry I can’t run things on alt-timezones.
I make exceptions, and I’ll set up async scenes for people I otherwise just can’t catch - which is why it’s awesome that the feature exists!We just closed scene #40 last night on Glitch; about 5 scenes total have been async, and none were story/plot scenes.
If anything, I probably pose more reliably/faster because of Ares, since it means I don’t have to walk back to my desk to write my pose.
I do the same thing on Seven Nations. Every plot-related event or really, just any event that’s run, will be run live and on the game itself. If players want to run or do async-type scenes between each other, have at it! It’s no skin off my back if they play that way. I’m just happy that they’re playing in the world to begin with.
So while I like to say I have no issue at all with async-type scenes in any way or function, I’m an old fuddy-duddy when it comes to running events. I like to do it live and in real time.
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@KarmaBum Oh I know! I’ve played on some in the past where it didn’t feel that much different than a mush. But at least when I started poking around like a year or two ago, it seemed like the ones that interested me /tended/ to be more async focused. It was also the case that at the time I was also working a job where my online times were pretty rigid (not until after 5-7 PM Pacific depending on which job it was) so it might have been that since I was definitely off prime time, maybe that’s just what tended to be available.
I love pretty much everything about ares. I wish that i was better at async. But that would be the case even on a non-ares game. I can still handle ares asych 1000 times better than Arx flashbacks. It’s just a weird weird weird brain thing.
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My MU Peeve is that Ares is written in my least favorite language to work with. The interface is a huge step forward and I’m a big booster of seeing the hobby move onto better tech. I just don’t enjoy Ruby development.
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As with everything else, communication is key – and so is reading the room.
If your scene is going to be async, make sure everyone knows. If it’s going to be real-time, same.
If everyone’s taking 8 hours to write a novel, fine. If everyone else is quick-posting, match speed. I tend to alternate between novels and rapid-fire as matches the actual scene and player combination.
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I have an unrelated MU peeve!
If everyone’s indenting their poses, indent yer feckin’ pose to match it. If nobody’s indenting their poses, don’t indent yours.
This is absolutely just peeve territory, not a serious demand, but c’mon. It looks nicer.
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@Pavel I insist on maintaining my personal indenting style just because of how many people forget/refuse to indicate in the text whose pose it is, so in case I ever forget, at least you’ll have that indicator.
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Not really a peeve with MU*ers, a peeve with myself, when occasionally someone is posting meta-dialogue as narration (I don’t deeply mind this, if your writing style is your writing style go nuts) in poses.
And I’ll somehow misinterpret it as dialogue because my brain is a plate of scrambled fucking eggs and respond to it conversationally.
And then somebody will catch it a few rounds later and I feel like a complete dumbass.
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@Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:
I have an unrelated MU peeve!
If everyone’s indenting their poses, indent yer feckin’ pose to match it. If nobody’s indenting their poses, don’t indent yours.
This is absolutely just peeve territory, not a serious demand, but c’mon. It looks nicer.
Absolutely not. I don’t indent in poses.
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@Roz Gross.
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@Pavel NEVER
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Sometimes the concept of inclusivity as a virtue is my peeve.
It’s OK to have a preferred writing style, and to prefer writing with people whose writing style is compatible with yours.
I personally don’t try to match the way I write to anyone else. I write the way I like to write, the way that makes me happy. If it seems like no one else on the game is vibing that style, I leave. If some people vibe it and others don’t, I play with the ones that do.
My RP partners don’t need to write in a style identical to mine, because I can appreciate a variety. But if we’re wildly mismatched on pace, length or ethos, I don’t think it’s a virtue to force it. It doesn’t mean either party is bad, it just means play with people who spark joy, for whom you spark joy in return.
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@Kestrel said in MU Peeves Thread:
it just means play with people who spark joy, for whom you spark joy in return.
And that’s why I play with myself.
