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?

In this the year of our lord 2025, why are people still allowing bad actors in their game community? Why is there a concern with “we have to be fair” to people who are toxic to staff and other players, totally obnoxious, or otherwise a bad fit? It’s a mush, not a constitutional right, if they’re no good for the community then EVICT THEM.

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.

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.

@Cobalt here you go

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?

I feel like this sums up several many MUSH interactions I’ve had with people over the years

If someone says “we should RP sometime” and you actually do want to RP with them, a good response is “sounds great, what day next week works for you?”

If you just answer “we should rp sometime” with “yeah, we should!” then everyone’s going to explode into a pile of brainweasels and never get the scene going. Somebody has to ask, somebody has to pick a time, effort.

@Hobbie 10/10 would fuck your shit up again

I wanna know

@Hobbie I dunno about this. For RP it doesn’t need to make functional code, and most scenes don’t even involve enough heavy theme specifics for the AI to fail them. AI is okay at, and fast at, writing RP.

Is it great? No. Is it interesting? Not really. But it’s inoffensive for sure and it’s “good enough” for a lot of people. That’s why so many people are adamant on points like “It’s fine as long as it’s readable” and “I only used it to make my pose BETTER” and “AI is so good and so slick that if you’re such a super mega good writer you’ll get called AI by accident” and “It’s better than bar RP”

Code, it’s failing for sure. But for quick fictional scenario writing, it does get better every day, even though it’s still never going to be better than average. The issue with AI isn’t so much “it sucks major ass to read this, this is unintelligible” as it is “you’ve lied to me and cheated me out of the human connection/experience we were both supposed to opt into.”

That last part is the kicker to me, and I am comfortable banning players who are okay with that kind of cheating. I can’t thrive in the same game ecosystem as them, no matter how “good” the AI gets.

@Raistlin said in AI In Poses:

I’ve helped other people use it for characters and what not as well.

What does this mean?

@Raistlin Do you use AI in your images or writing for the MU/RP space?

@Faraday said in AI In Poses:

Are you limiting your question solely to MUs?

Yes

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

This includes the page with the connection information on the game.

How am I gonna get my 2000 xp new character signup bonus now?

Moving over here because I want to be clear this is a MU context

@Faraday I know you don’t like LLMs including their use in MUSHing, so leaving aside the work/school/academia thing for a moment, let me ask your opinion

You are running a game. No AI content is allowed, that is the rule and it’s posted.

Someone who usually writes very distinctively and with many errors suddenly shifts to sounding very same-y, vague, bland, overwhelmingly positive, and somewhat nonsensical with regard to theme, and there’s no more of those human errors. They’re churning out a ton of content that they never used to. You suspect AI. Vibes are off.

You ask them if they’ve used AI and they say ‘no that’s my writing.’ Which seems super unlikely, but rare is the confronted player who just says “ya got me.”

What happens next?
Do you allow this person to continue, even though it seems likely they’re lying and disrespecting the preferences/expectations that you as a host laid out?
Do you decide if they said “no it’s my writing” then they are simply not lying, despite all the evidence to the contrary?
Do you ask them to leave the game based on vibes? Based on something else?
Do you tell them you’re issuing a warning? What happens if they continue to use the Probably ChatGPT text despite the warning?
Something else?

I’ve run into this issue with players. I’m not trying to be snotty in tone here, genuinely I want to know what your approach as a game host would be if you suspect LLM use, don’t like LLM use, and someone is (probably) doing it anyway.

We have at this point several many posts about “I’ll never give up my dashes” and that’s good, people shouldn’t give them up. I don’t think anyone here has ever advocated giving them up. Em Dash Use is not an AI-flagging behavior for this specific group of internet citizens.

It just seems like unnecessary upset that we are constantly rehashing “what if they come for my em dashes” when the use of them is probably the only thing this community has ever unanimously agreed on.

Use the em dashes. Love them. It will be ok.

@Faraday said in AI Megathread:

People have targeted it so much

In this community? People love em-dashes in this community.