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.

I like a good meowdy

@Cygnus I want conflict to come from the environment and NPCs. I don’t want to worry about my character getting ganked because another player thinks it’s fun.

If I want PVP, I’ll boot up Rivals or something similar.

Conspiracy theory time.

What if Ganymede wanted to end MSB ALL ALONG?! Her RL has gotten so busy that she couldn’t control MSB with so many members as it was but didn’t want to let go of her online authoritah so she hired someone that she knew would be divisive and would let to at least half of the members would be banned or leave on their own so she wouldn’t have to do so much work but still appear cool calm collected catbot (BECAUSE THAT PERSONALITY IS SO FUNNY!) and it worked out enough because she’s cold emotionless lawyer who doesn’t have time for FEELINGS and admitting to making a mistake is a fate far worse than DEATH!

pls feel free to ignore this message, brought to you by bored people at work sitting in boring meetings and already mentally clocked out for the 4-day weekend.

@KarmaBum said in Bannings:

Also that Derp is a misogynist prick who lacks the self-awareness to realize he’s the problem, not all of us.

Derp is the embodiment of ‘she shouldn’t have been wearing that dress’.

@hellfrog What do you expect from a forum run by a dude that has said in threads regarding similar topics that “maybe she shouldn’t have gone down that alley” and other such gross things?

@Tez said in Bannings:

I’m just glad Ghost is there to lead the way to a brighter, more positive future.

But it’s not Ghost, remember?! The account has been handed back and forth and around at least 20 times now! Ghost was an amazing person who left MUing 30 years ago and needs to remind us at least monthly of his permanent departure.

All of this reads like someone who is pretty young themselves or was young in the 90s and never mentally/emotionally matured since.

Troubling either way.

“iT’s jUsT whAT my ChARACter WoULd dO!”

@dvoraen said in Stupid Memes:

@KarmaBum “Sexy fireball” makes me think of the succubi(?) that were all fiery, from Oglaf, that Mistress’s apprentice had to apply oil to.

I don’t make the rules for what my brain does.

It reminds me of the old Bloodninja texts.

https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/bloodninja

@Muscle-Car said in pvp vs pvp:

@RedRocket
“wrote a small essay about how I don’t care.”
Stand in front of a mirror and say those words out loud.

Is RedRocket Ghost or their cousin or something? Reminds me of their long posts about how they don’t care and to remind us they left the hobby 40 years ago.

@hellfrog said in Bannings:

Bless that mess.

heyo, I haven’t been in MUSHing too long but maybe some people know me. if not, hi!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNUTxvki_d0&t=110s

Current
City of Glass - Echo

Past
City of Shadows - Five
Fate’s Harvest - Max
Bump in the Night - Emma
NOLA 2 - Seven
Shadows in the Mist? - Five (This game exploded quickly so I remade the character on NOLA)
Fallcoast - Phoenix, Samara, others I forget

I might have been on other MUSHes briefly but BITN was my first.

Past but non-MUSH
Wanton Wicked (Savannah) - Eve
Tarnished Reflections - Riley, Skylar, Juliet
Fabula Rasa - Cub/Wolf, Chase Ashby/Graves, others!
New Bremen
Immortal Vigilance
Bliss & Ruin
Isle of … something! It was a WoD digichat game. I played a Corax named Finds Shiny Things
Blood Chronicles

Probably more than that too but I am old and forgetful.

@bear_necessities said in Bannings:

I just want to say since it’s apparent that Ghost is reading that it is against the SPIRIT OF THE RULE of the new MSB to continue to personally attack the banned, particularly when they cannot respond directly to those personal attacks.

I’m glad however they found their safe place to apply the rules only to those they dislike and can continue circle jerking about how great and POSITIVE they are while shitting on everyone who cannot defend themselves.

Gany said the reason for the bannings was to help with sharing ideas and communities! Because MSB didn’t have those elements before, apparently!

AND GHOST IS GOING TO SAVE US ALL FROM ALL THE BULLIES! THANK YOU GHOST!

Maybe not necessarily bring back the downvote (though if it was popular opinion to bring it back, cool). But (and maybe I’m the only one that feels/thinks like that which is cool too), I feel weird ‘upvoting’ some of the more serious posts. I wish there was something more like facebook/discord/etc where we can ‘upvote’ something but maybe ‘sad upvote’ or ‘mad upvote’ or something to differentiate between ‘this post is GREAT!’ and ‘hey this is a sad thing, here’s an internet hug’.

Friendship bad. Only enemies and lone wolves sitting in their dark corners of the tavern.