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KB is right. There is nothing to be gained. There is no understanding to reach. There is no communication to be had. The other night I was so profoundly disappointed in what has become of a good place that I was honestly pretty bummed out.
It is what it is. They are what they are. Let them be. And leave them there.
Hi, guys:
Any posts elsewhere will be moved to this thread.
This is not a thread for arguments or nasty debates. We will be closely monitoring and moderating this thread in a way that we usually do not.
This is a thread for grieving, sharing resources and help for people who are impacted by all of this (which is all of us, but some more than others).
I’m just glad Ghost is there to lead the way to a brighter, more positive future.
Let’s not be reductive genitalia-essentialists about gender no matter where we are in the forum.
I think it’s pretty obvious why HannahBanana has been banned, but just in case it’s not obvious, I don’t care where you are: ablelist language isn’t okay, gatekeeping sexuality isn’t okay, none of this is okay.
https://forum.aresmush.com/t/v1-0-0-released/923
I don’t know if you guys have heard about this new fangled MUSH server called Ares–
Ares has brought a lot of new life into the hobby. I’ve watched people who hadn’t even logged into a MU* in their life launch and run games. Congratulations to @Faraday, and THANK YOU!!
While users can create new threads, they cannot create new categories. I believe that’s what you mean when you say new boards, yeah? We made a conscious choice not to include a politics category when we created this forum and right now that is not changing.
Politics isn’t a team sport. It’s life or death for many of us.
It’s not that we don’t think it’s important, so we won’t make space for it; in many ways, it is TOO IMPORTANT. This is especially true given the hands-off moderation stance I’d rather see on this board. We just don’t have the time, bandwidth, expertise, capacity, etc. to be able to moderate those discussions.
I’m sorry.
@Dreampipe said in Bannings:
There are actually a fuckton of literal fascists in this hobby;
There are fascists in a lot of places, alas. Fascists in gaming is an interesting area people are working on, but the far right were early adopters of online spaces (including back in the BBS days). Their methods will only ever get a small percentage of the population, but if you have so many people you can access, you can get to a much greater proportion of that small number and…well.
As someone who is super into history, Norse mythology, Crusader Kings, punk rock, and RPGs, the amount of time I have to spend squinting at people with common interests and going “Okay, but are you a fucking Nazi?” is both alarming and exhausting.
Seconded. I’m a white dude and it’s sometimes really anxiety inducing to talk about those kinds of interests without feeling like, “guys I swear I just like the stories, I’m not a white supremacist”. Double whammy because I also like power metal.
At least a lot of them usually don’t take long to go mask-off. I remember people using SS designs in medieval games like Mordhau or Chivalry. No it’s not a pair of lightning bolts, I know what you are.
Look, I can’t lie. I would use a pair of lightning bolts because I think lightning bolts look cool.
AND THEN I WOULD BE FUCKING MORTIFIED WHEN SOMEONE TOLD ME.
Pour one out for everyone born in 1988 who is innocently making very poor choices about their usernames.
I am glad that we have largely left behind all-white games in the L&L space. I think the expectation that most people have is that you will see a diverse cast of characters. I appreciate that about Concordia, particularly where they have course-corrected with their pantheon. I think they are doing some other interesting things in that space, too.
There is maybe no perfect way to handle the issue of cultural diversity and real-world inspirations, but I still think that what they are doing is worth an upnod. You got your Targaryens, sure, and your red-heads, and your Romans–
But there is also a house that has clear East Asian influences and one with South Asian influences. I grabbed one of those from the roster because I am always dying to see something – anything, please, god – that isn’t just your standard Western French-British-Something take on fantasy. Then I ran into players who maybe had been expecting something more Western in the house, so I popped in a request to get more clarity. I wanted to know what staff’s intent actually was, and I like the answer I got.
Rather than directly copy and paste real-world cultures into the game, they’ve made a choice to draw on multiple places for inspiration to avoid generalizing, tokenizing, or fetishizing any real-world culture. In this case, yes, the house has elements of North India, but also Moorish Spain. I’m kind of curious if there’s a connecting thread of thought in that they were both extension of Islamic power at times, what with the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal Empire in North India, but I haven’t sat them down for details – and I actually enjoy classical India better so DON’T FEEL THE NEED TO DRAW THAT LINE ON MY ACCOUNT.
Right now, at this moment, all I really care about is that they are doing something different, something interesting, and something coming from a place of curiosity and thoughtfulness. I wouldn’t say that they are a perfect game, and there’s choices I wouldn’t have made, but holy fuck please I hope more fantasy L&L games in the future draw from a wider well than the tiny Western European fantasy well.
@Third-Eye said in Minigames in MUSHes:
For me, the big question with all this stuff is, why aren’t you just playing a single-player video game or MMO to get your engagement fix? They do a lot of ‘mini-game’ things better. So, what’s the appeal, for a person into this sort of thing, of not just having that open on your secondary monitor? What does it add to an experience that’s unique to a MUSH?
100% the heart of the question. I’ve been talking about this with a few other people – you know who you are – and like. I fucking love Harvest Moon games. Hours poured into HM, SoS, Stardew, all of the many variations-- Let’s just say it’s a lot. And survival games! Oh my God, Conan, I love you. ARK, you fucking beloved mess. I thought for a hot sec about how that genre might work as a MUSH, but I don’t know how you would replicate ‘die to a fucking monster, wake up, punch a tree to get a branch to make an axe’ in a satisfying way.
It’s a bad idea as a MUSH. I don’t think you can get the same dopamine, the same feedback loop, out of breaking rocks and punching trees. Video games give you sight, sound, real designed elements that work together to create a satisfying feedback loops that makes the grind provide the dopamine.
Fundamentally the thing that MUSH does well is typing words with other people. You have to find minigames that succeed with that at the core.
@dvoraen said in Minigames in MUSHes:
@Tez So what I am hearing is I should make puppy-eyes at Tehom to do this for Arx II. Over Aion knows how many months.
cries in database schema
No one should ever make puppy-eyes at any coder for anything. If I want these things, I* will make them myself.
*claude
@Muse Cooking, healing, foraging, making medicines, finding oysters and shucking them for pearls which could use in fashion or fuck up and shuck yourself to death, macro econ and trade, farming, animal breeding, makeup, wigs, hair growing, baths and perfumes, disguises, masks–
Too bad Firan sucked.
@dvoraen shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh no ai inquisition shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i’d rather talk about it from general code practices to understand rather than a blanket ai bad shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
@somasatori I’ve run into some struggles with the Evennia layers myself as I dick around with it. I’m sympathetic to the issue.
I explicitly want to avoid any value judging around the AI issue. If there was AI code, ZERO JUDGMENT ZONE. I just want to understand what happened and work through it without it becoming JUDGMENT ZONE on the AI part of it. I’m begging you, mystery person who holds the knowledge. I think it would be fascinating to understand how this actually unfolded in our hobby.
@Ashkuri This is actually fascinating to me if true. I want to hear more.
I’m obsessed w minigames. I will forever remembering Firan’s many minigames, and you’ve heard me talk about the stupid satisfaction I got going out to hunt for geese and bring home to make roast poultry so much that it made it into your OP. I just want minigames to play. Minigames that support RP. Minigames that support plots. Minigames I can play for funsies.
@Pavel said in Strike Systems:
@L-B-Heuschkel said in Strike Systems:
It’s fine to discuss politics.
Frankly, I’m sick of the idea that politics discussion needs or should be allowed a space to happen wherever we go. The internet is fucking infinite (I’m being facetious, but you know what I mean) if you can’t stop talking about political events for five fucking minutes while you’re tabbed over onto the game window you need to pull the hose-o-news out of your ear.
Is political discussion, especially political discussion outside of one’s narrow bubble, important? Absolutely yes, and it should happen frequently and diligently. Should it happen on GarouFuckers By Night or Men in Tights the MU? For all that is sacred, no.
Increasingly I disagree about this and think they are important topics which should be discussed anywhere you want to discuss them.
That said, I think there should also be a place people can turn it the fuck off when they’ve had enough. but lmao none of us are talking about strikes anymore.
