To those of us mostly in the WOD/COFD sphere, this is kind of like when Sundancer told us Polk wasn’t really that bad.

Seeing cool new characters that look like they might be fun to RP with but not wanting to instantly PM them and come off creepy/overexcited/stalkery/etc.

So even if @De-Villefort is right and all genres except for sci-fi and cyberpunk are filled with nothing but bad terrible people…

So what?

Sometimes it’s fun to play the villain. Do you think that any actor that gets the role of a villainous type absolutely hates their job while doing so? Do you think Alan Rickman or Christopher Lee cried in anguish every morning they woke up before going off to play their various famous villainous roles?

hi I’m new to the clique. what time are our weekly meetings on who to dogpile that week? I’m also signing on up bringing cups and ice.

@ten You can tell my em dashes are legit because I always use them — incorrectly.

@ham said in MU Peeves Thread:

I’m very sure this has been posted here before, but it has come up again in my RP life and it continues to frustrate me.

If someone is setting a scene for you, YOU then need to engage THEM. Don’t pose yourself doing your own thing and make them basically set twice. DEFINITELY don’t pose AVOIDING them and make them chase you.

It’s obnoxious.

I always ask people ‘do you want to set or you want me to set?’

So when they tell me to set, and I do, then they do their OWN set…

@catzilla said in Real life happy:

I like a good meowdy

@Lemon-Fox said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

@SpilledBeanz Well good on Cujo. Ugh, I’ve been jonesing to log back on, and it’s good to see him actually take a stand on something, even if it took something this awful to get him to do so. We’ll see.

sharayr always gave me a really weird vibe. Never RP’d with the other guy though.

I wouldn’t.

I have a very big feeling that it was only taken care of is because it involves obviously illegal stuff.

@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.

@Jumpscare said in MU Peeves Thread:

@hellfrog said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Yam said in MU Peeves Thread:

Peeve, the (bad) public chat comedian. Everything is a fumbled attempt at a joke and a convo killer. We are nothing but a captive audience to them, and they refuse to engage with players in any way that doesn’t center around them.

If you’re gonna’ go up there with a mic at least be funny, aaaaa.

what’s the deal with airplane food amirite

Said during a funeral scene

@ham said in MU Peeves Thread:

I’m very sure this has been posted here before, but it has come up again in my RP life and it continues to frustrate me.

If someone is setting a scene for you, YOU then need to engage THEM. Don’t pose yourself doing your own thing and make them basically set twice. DEFINITELY don’t pose AVOIDING them and make them chase you.

It’s obnoxious.

I always ask people ‘do you want to set or you want me to set?’

So when they tell me to set, and I do, then they do their OWN set…