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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.

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.

@Floof Just reply to “We need to talk” with “Yeah, we do.”

Now they are ALSO anxious.

Star Wars theme attracts people who are into all kinds of weird NSFW rp. And more power to them, if that’s your thing and everyone is a consenting adult IC/OOC, awesome.

As a veteran of Many Years in the Star Wars trenches though: please do not allow underaged anything. Not players, not characters, nothing. I had to deal with somebody on AOA who tried to RP “underaged sex slave” content at me and I’m still not ok, and that was just the character, never mind player stuff.

I beg you, New Star Wars MU. No underaged anything.

@junipersky You should ask them though! Every single person who RPs enjoys hearing “I like your writing and want to hang out.” It’s nice to not be “needed” for some kind of function, and I think you might be surprised how receptive people are to scheduling a low key play date.

Anymore, part of what I want out of a MU is a positive player base. People who like to cooperate instead of compete, share info and introductions and plot info, chat and have fun together, and ask openly and often for RP on the appropriate channels for doing so.

A playerbase that enjoys being on the game instead of complaining about everything they hate about the game – this is ideal for me.

I came for the MU drama and stayed for the slutty zombie armies

Player feels they had agency and their choices matter = they’re typically ok with consequences

Player feels they didn’t have agency and their choices didn’t matter = they’re typically not ok with consequences

Player X decided my character looks like a certain porn star and decided to bring that to my friend, Player A. “This porn star looks like (me) amirite haha”

Is it wildly inappropriate for X to be doing that to me/to Player A, or am I being over sensitive?

I don’t want to be discussed in a porn context, what the fuck.

I am friends with so many flakes

Every time they return I am genuinely delighted to see them though. There is never, ever a time I do not want to welcome back, greet, and RP with my flake friends.

The friend part weighs a lot more than the flake part. RL is a thing, mental stuff is a thing. I’m happy for any time of theirs that I get.

I’m here for the other RP smoking

@GF I always tell people to say thank you instead of sorry, with me. They can say thank you for listening, but not sorry I bothered you.

However

You are not their therapist and you are not obligated to address what is obviously a pattern of receiving validation by pressing the “I suck” button.

This hobby is entirely about reading and writing with other human beings. That’s it, that’s the game.

I enjoy human writing. I like the quirks and uniqueness of it like a fingerprint. I have enjoyed many mush friends who can’t type for shit, their spelling is the worst, mad typos, but it’s funny and quick and witty so I love it. I like people’s weird little turns of phrase. I like people’s effort to branch out away from their own habits and ‘tells’, I like the constant creativity of it.

I hate Chat GPT.

All the mush content I see written by AI is bland and weird in a way that requires human re-editing to salvage. AI as an industry is demonstrably bad for creative people and their livelihoods. This thing has been let out of the box in the context of “It’s harmless and fun and I would never pay money anyway for that thing so what is the hurt,” and it’s starting to hurt.

But back to mus: I dunno, it just sucks? Give me your shitty human written desc, I prefer it to the shitty desc that ChatGPT averaged off the Tracey desc and 2.3 million scraped fanfictions.

I don’t wanna rp with robots.