Sometimes there’ll be a player you really like that you just kinda lose touch with after you both lose the connective tissue of the game you were on at any given time. MUSHing is a transitory hobby, I try not to get too down about it.

Then 15 years will pass.

Then you meet a player you really like a new game and you both think you’re a TOTALLY NEW FUN PERSON.

Then one day you’re talking about old games and you realize that, in fact, you played together quite a lot on that one random game 15 years ago, and the internet has now brought you back into proximity for the first time in this decade+.

Sometimes the smallness of the hobby is actually nice.

Thank you BMD mods for making it easier to rubberneck and preserve this trashfire…I mean stay informed.

NGL the thing I’m trying to wrap my head around is this pile of refuse passing as a game not having a WORA/MSB thread prior to this.

I voted no due to the potential for abuse by bad actors but get why the Magicians guy deleted his post and think the kind of reception is worth reflecting upon.

@mietze said in MU Peeves Thread:

I wish people didn’t always turn this into “if you’re not in action/plot its because you just prefer social things” that is honest far from the truth a lot of the time.

I was once told - by someone in control of plot stuff - that because I was a ‘social RPer’ and in a decent number of scenes (many of which I asked for) that I didn’t need plot involvement. It was a hell of a thing and like five years later I’m still mad about it.

@Cobalt
Whatever worked or didn’t work about The Pack, I really hope the experience wasn’t too discouraging for you. Like I said lots of posts back, it DID seem like a game a lot of players responded to in positive ways, and I am really impressed with how you responded to an atmosphere that you didn’t feel good about being the gamerunner of anymore, because that was obviously really hard and Unfun to deal with this directly. I think it’s always constructive to reflect on why something didn’t work, or didn’t work for you personally, or get across what you wanted to get across, but I hope that doesn’t mean it was as wholly negative experience because you are a gamerunner lots of people like and respect and it’d be awesome to see another project from you in the MUSH space when you were excited to do it.

@Narrator
lol my dude did you just compare yourself to Jesus on a message board? Is that where we are now?

My beast from the Black Cat Army. She is the night.

@Selira said in Macha Awareness (And Unappreciation) thread:

I’m still pretty shocked Derp made up a multiparagraph theory wholecloth and tried so hard to sell it. Why? What was the benefit of that kind of speculation? I realize I’m speculating here, myself, but he’s more than welcome to come here and provide the answers.

That was the first moment I was sorry I was banned (apart from every time I try to find something on that mess of a board because the bad search is even worse if you aren’t logged in) because I would’ve enjoyed enthusiastically and repeatedly reporting Derp’s own post for violating his ‘you need to bring receipts’ and ‘no personal attacks’ rules.

I thought about going back but end of the day I came to the same conclusion I did a while ago: I left my most active period on Arx on a really good note and that’s the experience I want as my strongest memory of the game. It’s cool to see a chapter of it get a conclusion, though, a lot of MUs don’t, and I’ll be interested to see how it ties it up.

I also liked Wynne! If you don’t play a mage she’s an extremely efficient healer/support.

Someday I’ll play Veilguard. Probably in like 2 years, given my schedule of games.

We only really know how Jill behaves on MUSH game channels/pages. It’s entirely possible they do their schtick in RPI environments that never register here.

That said, the Legend of Jill has been around long enough and widely circulated enough that I assume there are a lot of Jill copycats. Legacy, etc.

@GF said in Inuki Ban Thread:

@Third-Eye I mostly disagree about creating a rule regarding mentions of suicide and bans. Suicide is a health problem, and health problems can’t be treated as having a “one size fits all” solution. A rule that anyone who mentions suicide in this or that context may help people who need to take a step back, but it may also harm people who are genuinely reaching out to a group of friends or a community they feel safe mentioning their problems to.

FWIW I don’t think any kind of ‘rule’ is really the issue here and I don’t think Meg did, either. I’d rather mods just handle this stuff on a case-by-case basis, that toss-off remark at the end was more ‘Well if a lack of specific language is the problem, okey-dokey’. But I don’t actually think that’s what this is about. I read what Inuki wrote and, apart from a visceral and I will admit unkind reaction that is neither here nor there, I didn’t think there was ever going to be a way to engage with that person in this space about their game stuff again. That’s not the reaction other people had, if the decision had been a temp ban or clear talking-to by the mods I might’ve disagreed like some people in this thread disagree with what did happen, but I would’ve understood it.

Here’s my take and why was relieved to see this ban come down.

I don’t care what Inuki has done on games. But she sure keeps doing things on games that get talked about in forums like this and that will likely continue to be.

I think dropping something like ‘I see why people want to commit suicide when people say mean things about them online’ (…sourced things and screenshots that were specifically about stuff she did on a game, they didn’t read like personal attacks to me) is a nuclear bomb on a conversation. There is no response to it a decent person can make. You either take it at face value and stop saying…sourced things regarding what a person has done that are relevant and ongoing and what the forum is pretty much designed to air…or don’t, suggest it might be a manipulation tactic designed to nuke a conversation. Except you can’t do that, really, I don’t think, because the 1% chance something like that might be genuine is too disturbing to to give my oxygen to. I don’t feel like there’s a place to go from here.

FWIW a rule about ‘you’ll be given a ban for your own good and the good of other posters if you say a post has made you have suicidal thoughts’ is umm fine.

At the very least and most sympathetic, to me it’s an indication an environment is exacerbating someone’s issues and they are best removed from it.

It’s not my job to publicly engage in the least sympathetic reading of a person I don’t know and have never interacted with on a game. Prosper in their lands, etc.

THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR.

Thanks. That was deeply gross. I hope that person finds their better self away from this space. May they prosper in their lands etc.

Un-asked-for reminder that you can report posts, it is sure a function I am utilizing at this moment in space and time.

Kris Kristofferson

And I’ve just got to wonder what my Daddy would’ve done
If he’d seen the way they turned his dream around
I’ve got to go by what he told me, try to tell the truth
And stand your ground
DON’T LET THE BASTARDS GET YOU DOWN

@Taika said in Numetal/Retromux:

JuJubeJD + Polk. Polk pulled the plug on them a while back when they got in a fight. Interesting it’s still up.

I realize the answer to this is ‘because coder’ but my god how does this guy keep getting the ability to unplug games?