@Gasboy said in Seven Nations is Closing(Kind Of):

@Testament Better to have tried and failed,

But is it really a failure? @Testament ran a game, had fun for awhile, made stories. Sounds like a success to me. No game lasts forever, and I wish you the best of luck in your future games.

@RedJellyBean said in MU Peeves Thread:

Having a scene with someone and them not posing for days and giving various reasons, yet you know they’re RPing with someone else on another place the entire time, as well as other games.

Just say “hey it looks like you’ve been pretty busy and this scene is getting stale, let’s FTB and you can grab me again when you have more time?” And call it a day.

No sense in letting your brain weasels eat you alive.

I think my favorite part about all of this is how this person’s character couldn’t be a Mary Sue because he’s a MAN WRITTEN BY A MAN!!! or something. IDK, this is all ridiculous.

@Ominous I mean, why ask the question “what about this game is different from Arx” when Arx is no longer around? Even if it is a 100% complete rip-off of Arx, the comparison doesn’t matter anymore because Arx isn’t a thing and hasn’t been a thing for a few years now.

And Arx was, for all intents and purposes, an extremely successful game for several years so people found stuff to RP about clearly lol

@tsar said in Bannings:

tbh I’m amazed at the fortitude anyone has to read Ghost’s giant long posts. I hear them referenced and I go to look because I’m curious and I usually get a couple of lines in and I’m like

“Here’s a well-spoken and well-crafted argument” … proceeds to word vomit across the board nonsensically while skirting along the “very clear” rules in order to attack - but not PERSONALLY!!! attack - people who cannot defend themselves because they are banned.

You know what it would take to repair the community? Nothing. The community isn’t broken, MSB is.

This is kinda like sad and just seems borderline uncomfortable to be talking about this person so can we just not?

I just want to say since it’s apparent that Ghost is reading that it is against the SPIRIT OF THE RULE of the new MSB to continue to personally attack the banned, particularly when they cannot respond directly to those personal attacks.

I’m glad however they found their safe place to apply the rules only to those they dislike and can continue circle jerking about how great and POSITIVE they are while shitting on everyone who cannot defend themselves.

So since this is the second time in extremely recent MSB history that I’ve been either @tted at (despite being banned) or had my quote from here used as an example for how awful BMD is, I’d like to ask:

Derp, how did I hurt you? Is it because I am a woman with opinions, or is it because I called you a misogynist, or is it because of something else? I’d love to know! Pls respond on MSB, xoxoxoxo love me

@crawfish i had to take a shower after reading that, thx

My advice? Teach people how you want to RP with them. A lot of us have a strong tendancy to match the person we are writing with, but sometimes we need to give ourselves a little grace. If someone throws out novel-length poses and you only have a paragraph or two in you? Give them that. They will either a) start mimicing your shorter pose length or b) keep going!

If someone doesn’t want to Rp with you because of your pose length, they aren’t worth RPing with anyway.

@RightMeow said in MU Peeves Thread:

I think this year I’ve decided to step away from it.

I don’t think you’re alone in this, to be honest. I’m around on a couple of games but my level of activity is nowhere close to where it used to be - a pose a day, maybe. Weekends I’m rarely around to do anything. I’m filling my days with baking (I’m in my sourdough era, it’s how I know I’m old) and spending time with my kids, we’re playing so many video games together and just enjoying each other’s company. We’re going out and exploring. We’re redoing the house. I’m reading so many books.

I’m not really sad about it, though. There are times when I get nostalgic, or I miss writing with certain people, but that’s about it. I don’t really miss it like I used to. It could just be there really hasn’t been a game that’s truly excited me in a very long time, I think since HorrorMU* 2 if I’m being really honest with myself. But I think in a lot of ways it’s just that I’ve gotten older, my kids are older and it won’t be long now before they are out of the house, and I just can’t see myself growing old behind my computer when there’s so much left to do.

@Yam oh TBH I honestly missed your post hahahaha just thought it was weird those comments came on the backside of Helvetica posting a ‘come and join’ sort of reply.

Could get those comments spun off into Rough & Rowdy if people want to complain about Pern? Seems kinda sucky to slap on game gab. Not very constructive about this game in particular.

@Ashkuri idk I think there is something to be said about having your own fun in order to make fun for other people. I can’t be entertaining if I am not having fun, so I guess I make playing with me fun by having fun myself.

I’m a yes-and person. I do my best to be engaging. Like @Yam I enjoy holding the idiot ball and be funny / do a bit or something. And I always try to pass the ball, which I think is something that a lot of people say they do but aren’t really good at? Like if you give me a plot hook, I’m running to give it to the next person vs holding onto it (since I’ve already got a ball, it’s the idiot ball, that’s my ball).

@hellfrog said in Other People:

@RightMeow IS it important?

I mean, yes? People aren’t going to have fun with you if you aren’t having fun. It comes out in your poses, or in your attitude, or just in the overall tone of things.

I wish games had more consequences and that players would act appropriately when consequences happen. Games without any stakes never hit right, and that includes games where the bad things are supposed to happen regularly but only actually happen once in 2 RL years because a player consented to it.

I really honestly would not be able to tell those poses were AI generated in a scene. There’s nothing in there that I haven’t written in some form or fashion, and certainly nothing I haven’t seen 10000 times in the 20+ years I’ve been doing this hobby. I wouldn’t even SUSPECT AI was used.

@Faraday has there been a wide-spread study done regarding AI use in public school vs homeschool? This sounds more anecdotal than factual.

@Pavel I would probably throw hands for @junipersky

@Pavel said in Banning Bad, Actually?:

So we’ll have this conversation. Forever

I mean you could say that about every conversation we have on this forum, pretty sure we just go around in circles.