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@howyadoin said in MU Peeves Thread:

Yeah.

Let’s not lie OOC in order to convince people to fuck us IC.

Okay?

I totally agree! But now am curious what sort of OOC lies this inspired? Maybe not necessarily the situation but like… people saying ‘hey I’m interested in this relationship with our PCs, I promise no drama!’ or…?

@Ominous On the forum PBP and Discord game side of the RP world, I see a lot of 21-25+ minimum age.

@Faraday said in Age Verification & Games:

@Juniper said in Age Verification & Games:

TBH I’m not worried about minors infesting my spaces because they’re not interested in the level of effort that is required to get invested in this stuff

I don’t think that’s true at all. My oldest plays on discord with a bunch of other teens. They are aware of MUSHing; have helped me playtest a few things on Ares. They write fanfiction. My youngest likes Dwarf Fortress and clunky RPGs grafted onto Starcraft, neither of which is that far afield from MUDs.

Agreed. Saying NO kids/teens are interested in MUSHing (or insert other old school thing here) because it’s old/outdated is like saying no kids/teens were interested in D&D in the early 2000s because it was old/outdated back then.

Plenty of minors and young adults like old school things. Are they the majority? Certainly not, but they’re out there.

@hellfrog The people who truly do change aren’t going around saying ‘hey, I was SOECentipede from Hello Kitty MU! I used to be terrible but now I’m great!’

instead they have probably either left the hobby like Pavel said or are truly such a changed person that they keep their head down, RP, have fun, and maybe make a friend or two like the rest of us.

@Faraday This is good to know! I’ll definitely look into it next time I try build a game.

I do enjoy all the features of Ares but that COFD plug-in got me so confused and I eventually gave up lol.

Staff shouldn’t necessarily have their ‘player’ Ares handle connected to a game they’re running. Maybe they don’t want their haters/creepers/etc. knowing that they’re running the Hello Kitty game. However, I do think if they create a new handle for their game, they link THAT handle to whatever PCs they are playing on their game.

People don’t necessarily need to know that Player Catzilla is running Hello Kitty Island but they should know that Staff Bit Dogzilla is linked to PCs Joe Bob and Susie Q.

@KarmaBum said in Neon Protocol:

@catzilla said in Neon Protocol:

I didn’t see this before posting. Now I’m 99% sure it’s her.

I’m almost positive it’s not the same person.

I can certainly believe that as well. Like I originally said, there’s plenty of crazies out there.

ETA For those of us not in the know who is Haruki and what is The Becoming and are they related at all.

Double post

I just checked out the Roster list. Out of the 14 PCs available, only 5 are female and one of those 5 is an old woman that is sure not to be a threat to any potential quest to collect all the peen on the game.

There’s so many crazies out there but this feels very jujube/inuki/chokitypok coded to me.

Just saying.

ETA

@helvetica said in Neon Protocol:

@bear_necessities baking in romantic threads between staff alt and roster, and centralizing staff alt to plot, is reminiscent of that Neitherlands admin

I didn’t see this before posting. Now I’m 99% sure it’s her.

@MisterBoring said in MU Peeves Thread:

@bear_necessities said in MU Peeves Thread:

IDK how to explain it better, I just feel like staff should be upfront about who their PCs are.

I agree with this. I also believe that staff should not include their PCs in the scenes they are running. In my experience it often leads to Mary Sue / Gary Stu behavior.

At the VERY MOST, I could see them using their PC like, ‘hey I found this spooky rock, can you guys go investigate it?’

But then again, a NPC could do that as well.