Today’s peeve is:

If you have played somewhere for years and you’re not happy with it anymore, by all means, I will listen to you vent. I get it.

If you just joined a game and all you want to do is bitch about it…

maybe…

simply do not play there?

If it helps people orient themselves in the scene and approach others, IDGAF about walking in and introductions.

What I hate is when I set and then the person poses in and doesn’t interact with me. Get the fuck out with that what are you even here in this scene for, why did I set for you, stop being the worst.

The facts are what they are and they’re never going to change. It’s a Star Wars game! They’re doing stuff. Some is ok. Some is really stupid. The good guys and/or bad guys have the upper hand this week. There’s some spaceships and some guns. If you are unlucky enough to have an issue with someone, especially a harassment issue, no one will help you.

That’s the only thing to say about this place. It does not matter what the theme posts are. It never did. I think it’s ok if we don’t give them free publicity for every single bbpost.

Today someone AMBUSHED ME (idk if you’re on the forums but you know who you are if you read this) with a link to a website for a game I played around 2012-2018. It was run by a head wiz who became a close IRL friend and who passed away in 2019. I had no idea the site was even still up.

What a kick in the feels. All the old logs are there, and our snapshots of funny ooc moments, and our pictures and playlists. There are lots of captures of jokes and stories and fun moments of my friend who’s no longer with us, and other friends as well, some I still talk to, some I don’t.

I am so grateful and I am so sad. MUSH is such a strange medium in the way it can feel so all-encompassing at the time, and then enough time goes by and it’s just a little snapshot of how things were, and who you were then, and all the fun times you had writing stories with other people way too late into the night.

Really, really grateful and sad.

I feel like the gist here is “Social rp is fine if it doesn’t suck” which… I mean yeah, that’s true of any form of rp, isn’t it?

This thread has everything. False dichotomies. Hyperbole. Hot takes on literature. Viking hygiene. MU RP is Dying️. Class struggle. Book recommendations. Furries.

Playing a young/teen character is less about nailing the slang du jour and more about being vulnerable, inexperienced, confident about things you have no real clue about, unconfident about things that really are okay, feeling Big Emotions and maybe not knowing what to do with them, and discovering Nietzsche and then explaining it to people 25 years older than you.

I think it’s tricky for players because believable teens get so much “wrong” as they flail into adulthood (and players don’t like to be wrong), not so much because it’s hard to know when not to say yeet.

Not a peeve and I have full respect for demanding RL, and RL coming first.

But

I miss Scraps.

I don’t like it when I’m meeting a new character and their way of engaging with me is that they will magically solve all of my IC problems. Like I see you are doing a task? I will do the task for you right now. You mention you can’t find a Whatever lately? I happen to have three Whatevers right here with me at this moment.

It’s not the worst trait. I just don’t like it.

IMO dealing with points, levels, ranks, tokens, achievements, etc are just levels of bureaucracy that take ST time from actually doing the things that points, levels, ranks, tokens, and achievements are meant to unlock.

The intersection of sad and funny is where I thrive.

@Jax I mean, there WERE some very fine JexCo Products to be had.

@SockMonkey RL do be RL’in, always and forever. I hope life is treating you kindly and that things are going well for you!

I feel like I wasn’t on a lot of the same games as the majority of people, but here’s my playlist:

African Tails MUCK, TLK MUCK, Redwall, various other MUCKs, Elendor: I started in 1998, so character names from this era are long forgotten by now. I made a million characters and all of them were Very Cool with wicked scars and dead families and stuff.

Fort Bloodshed: John
Firefly Into the Black: Hezekiah
Blood of Dragons: Talbard, very briefly, but someone else was him after me and that went in a whole other direction
Serenity MUSH: Fael
Masquerade: Joel
Battlestar… something: Jonah Quill, but I cannot remember what Battlestar game this was. @Third-Eye knows, she was my boss, lol
Star Wars Age of Alliances: hahaha YAY, AOA. GOOD OLD AOA. Hex Ashkuri, Oran Arcantael/Malik Ren, a few others
Arx: Savio, Ezra (not the shady Ezra that got banned)
Liberation: Asher, Arden (neither for very long)
Shattered: Ikua, Sol, Mothman

Ares handle is @Hex.

https://gizmodo.com/googles-veo-3-is-already-deepfaking-all-of-youtubes-most-smooth-brained-content-2000606144

cool cool cool this isn’t problematic at all

Somebody tell the When Is Good people that they’re single handedly propping up this entire community on their pillar of weirdly free neon green scheduling tool

@Raistlin said in AI Megathread:

they’re real people trying their best to engage meaningfully with others. The poses still come from a human with emotions, motivations, and a genuine desire to connect, regardless of what tools they used to craft them.

No, that’s not genuine. That is literally disingenuous, particularly when it is undisclosed to other participants.

Engaging meaningfully requires thought, creation, intentionality, and vulnerability, not throwing half an idea into the word blender to come out with whatever sounds slick in the algorithm today.

As @Flitcraft said, if they can’t spend the time and effort to write something, why should I spend time and effort interacting with it?

@Kestrel I would upvote this more than once if I could

The AI problem is now so bad that people are trying to defeat it with… more AI. I don’t even know. What is life.

What I do know is that if someone fed my poses into ChatGPT or similar, I’d be pretty pissed off about it.