All I really want btw is the ability to ride my horse, wear a cowboy hat, and rob trains/stagecoaches and maybe fight monsters. I’d like to be a bad guy, and not a bad guy that’s really a good guy and all the bad guys are actually good and it’s only the NPCs that are actually bad!! I just want to be bad. Let me be a bad guy. Thanks.

@Gashlycrumb tbh that’s too many words for me to read but sure yes go ahead I’ll play for at least 2 months before I flake lol

@KarmaBum said in Missed Settings:

But not historically accurate cowboys.

More like Wild Imaginary West - https://runefoundry.com/products/wild-imaginary-west-rpg?srsltid=AfmBOooAEp1NVTXF0ZeDBoSmAawCkPK1_tbzkyC8kqVi8MVvUz60WwxQ

@Gashlycrumb this is what I want, make this for me, thank you.

@Gashlycrumb every time I set out to do something in the Western world, I either go Wyoming or Colorado.

@Gashlycrumb said in Missed Settings:

Really, Westerns seem like a very easy setting to run. It’s weird that there are not more of them. And now I’m tempted to make one just 'cause.

DO IT I DARE YOU.

@Ominous It was both one of the weirdest and coolest ‘game’ moments I’ve ever had. I never LARPed before, so to see everyone in their garb and acting like their characters the whole time was so strange, but I got to meet some pretty awesome people. I’ve lost touch with the core group now mostly, but we stayed friends a long while!

Who did you play? I can’t remember my character’s name, I think it was Tourmaline. I had another alt too but fucked if I know what their name was.

ETA: Actually I looked through my email and apparently I was Madelynn.

@Gashlycrumb said in Missed Settings:

Cowboys? Do you mean a western? There’s one going.

Where?

@Muscle-Car oh man i am definitely thinking of a different game called Crossroads, sorry to disappoint. The one I played was a L&L game not a WoD one

@Ominous I PLAYED ON CROSSROADS MUSH!!! I actually went to the LARP they did <.<

I helped run a Zombie game awhile back because it really was a dream setting of mine. The reality was the constant threat of ZOMBIES EAT U combined with a lack of meaningful systems for resource gathering kinda made the whole thing get old rather quickly? Like, either you are fighting zombies, or you’re running from zombies, or you’re talking about how scared you are because you just fought / are going to fight zombies, and it’s just a rinse & repeat.

That’s the issue with a lot of themes, IMO. The setting seems cool, but there’s just nothing to do.

My missed setting? Cowboys. It’s never going to happen.

Modeus Operandi, which was one of the 3 or 4 MUDS they had on AOL at the time. It was some where in the world is Carmen Sandiago spy game and I loved it.

The platform went pay to play and there was so much uproar about it. I ended up spending a significant time RPing in chat rooms and then found “groups” that were essentially running MUSHes in chats and IMs.

Simpler times lol

@Rathenhope Admittedly did not know she was even still alive. Sad though!

@Tori you always had such a way with words and your descs were beautiful, I loved buying your stuff on arx

Was creating clothes in Arx a ‘minigame’? I liked that until it became a huge game of who can make better ASCII art and then all the clothes were just giant ASCII art objects that had no descriptions and meh. I was not very good at coloring either. But I liked it when I was delving deep into my creative side to come up with really unique descriptions for stuff.

I think Firan had animal breeding or dog breeding ??? That always seemed like fun.

@Ashkuri yeah I mean, I am mostly just on the side of the fence that we can’t really tell who is writing with LLMs and who just sucks at writing but it seems like this is a REALLY BIG DEAL when it… might not be? I’m definitely not saying that people should just RP with ChatGPT or that there isn’t something valuable in the human experience because I’m still playing MU*s to interact with you lot so clearly I want to be where the real people are. But I don’t particularly have the brain power to decide, or care, if you’re using LLMs to help you play with me as long as you’re fun to play with. And that’s me! And that’s fine! Not everyone has to think like me. Heck, I don’t even think like me a lot of the time

@Tez I mean, please don’t take this in any way other than a legitimate question, but why should someone who utilizes a tool to work around a disability need to explain how they use that tool?

@KarmaBum This. At this point, if someone is secretly an AI? Fine. As long as they bring more spice to the table than “grim man in a trench coat who sighs meaningfully,” they can beep-boop their way right into my scene.

^ I might’ve also written part of this with AI. Or not. Who knows? It doesn’t matter. Just be interesting.

@Tez are those AI because I’m pretty sure I read all of those in 1999 lol

@Ashkuri said in MU Peeves Thread:

More thought-posing and metapose than is common in mushing. People do of course metapose in RP, but the AI will churn out poses that sound like a novel or fanfic, as though the reader can and should be expected to extensively know what’s happening in a character’s mind by listening in on their unspoken thoughts and motivations. We don’t do that in MU. AI doesn’t know that.

You’ll pry my overuse of meta from my cold, dead hands!!!

IDK, it’s just the more people that complain about people using ChatGPT to write poses, without actually showing the pose in question or calling said people out, just makes me wonder if this is a REAL problem or just a real “problem”, yanno? Like I’m sure someone out there somewhere is using ChatGPT but I don’t know if it’s enough of an issue for pitchforks.

Also I ran a bunch of my poses through ChatGPT and asked if AI wrote it and it said it was debatable and so maybe I’m just secretly a robot.