yesterday, I got an offer from a job I’ve been interviewing for since the beginning of August

Peeve. I’m feeling left behind by this hobby. I’m discouraged that it feels like in order to play on any of the games where my friends play, I’d have to compromise my comfort and place my trust in people who… I haven’t experienced being all that cool. And I think I feel it even more because for a minute, I had a relatively active little rp bubble before folks moved on to the next thing.

I’m just going to be real with you all. I put in a request letting them know I felt awkward about the gods being white, and my non-white noble house worshipping a white patron god. And you know what? They were like, ‘good lookin out, this is on our list of things to review.’ And it made me feel immediately more comfortable.

I don’t think this beef in the comments is in the spirit of the game runners.

newest fam member, getting her squinty eye checked out in the AM

ETA: seeing folks’ pets refills my tank, need more

Important Update

+1

Important update.

@sao said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

Man, I miss fighting with higher class reductive trolls like Derp who actually had the substantive background to make these arguments for real.

shut your foul mouth

Mention porn. Reading your char getting talked about in the logs of other folks. Love.

@bear_necessities 12 months for the whole damn game. I could see doing it in 7-8, but I think like… what if someone didn’t app the correct character right away and has to make a switch? What if they don’t find the game until it’s been going a month? What if rl happens and you have to drop off for 2 weeks? That offers some padding.

My tabletop group does a new campaign every year with the GM rotating out after their storyline is done, back in once the others have cycled through. It’s done a lot for our longevity.

ETA: I guess it could be 12 for the “season,” too.

@bear_necessities All of our attention spans have changed. There’s a lot of appeal for anthology games, though I’d lean more toward the 12 month mark to accomplish meaningful story, personally.

There plenty of reasons to leave a game.

To @bear_necessities’s take, finishing a personal storyline is also more important to me than a game’s overall storyline. (Even though in an ideal world, those are connected.)

The last few games I left, it was because… a) they got way too big, too fast for me to keep up with game happenings at the level I prefer, b) even though I liked the game, players entered my sphere who I was already trying to avoid and I protect my peace, c) “season 2” storyline just didn’t do it for me the way the original storyline did.

@Trashcan mind blown

@Wizz Yeah, I would say a week is the new norm

@Yam

I stopped hating on async when I started refusing to stay up way too late for any of you hoes courtesans.

One time @Roz’s character unironically played Wonderwall to my character on an acoustic guitar.

Be flexible. Don’t look for reasons to say no to player ideas. Look for ways to make their ideas work within the mechanics of your game world.

@Gashlycrumb said in MU Peeves Thread:

Pretend you don’t know that people can see you on +where RPing

Not to discount everything you just said because it sounds quite specific, but game admin are allowed to rp, they aren’t obligated to defend that time, and anyone who thinks otherwise can go fuck themselves.

Imo if request backlog becomes too big for the expectation a game has set for its players, that’s when you temporarily shut the door on new apps and/or get more GMs. These games are too damn big for one main staffer and a bunch of other admin who are spread thin on every other game.