@sao said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
Pretty sure in any hobby, any undertaking done by humans on this planet, if there is a way for a person to have even imaginary authority and/or influence over other humans, there is going to be an issue with sex pests.
I mean, yeah. I don’t get this whole “man, that one genre, those people, so bad!” And it’s almost always someone who plays in that genre, too; like, you counting yourself, or are you the pristine exception, my dude? lmao
@MisterBoring said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
@Coin said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
This largely implies that World of Darkness games or Star Wars games or Lords and Ladies games don’t share the same issues and, uh, lmao.
Yeah, the issues are tied to the hobby and not a specific genre. There might be some validity to the concept that some genres attract more of them than others, but I would argue it’s probably not a giant gap.
It’s the same with “man, WoD players” or “man, comic book players”. The venn diagram of MUers who play WoD, Sci-Fi, Horror, Comic Books… might not be a circle, but the overlap is so much larger than anyone really seems to think.
@Kestrel said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
@catzilla said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
Maybe one day we’ll have a superhero game not run by abusers.
I know of one in the works, but I honestly think there is something about the genre. I largely agree with Alan Moore’s perspective on it.
Double post but what? This largely implies that World of Darkness games or Star Wars games or Lords and Ladies games don’t share the same issues and, uh, lmao.
@catzilla said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
Maybe one day we’ll have a superhero game not run by abusers.
Damn, why am I catching strays over here?
People who think staff have so much power that they have to be always polite and obsequious to players or it qualifies as abusive.
Fucking weirdos.
As with almost everything, it’s preferences, like Roz said. But there is absolutely something to be said for a game facilitating several different ways of interacting/playing.
If you have a big proclamation or press conference or whatever, and the storyteller wants it to be a scene – they can make it a scene. Plut places in there with tabletalk so people can sit around and chat with their buddies while it’s happening.
Then, the storyteller can take the salient bits of the scene, post them on a forum --the aforementioned e-mail it COULD have BEEN-- and the people who didn’t go can pretend they went and sat quietly listening, without the player having spent the time.
If you don’t LIKE the big scenes, don’t GO to the big scenes. If you do, GO.
It’s not a problem solved by one-or-the-other decision making, folks; these are issues that can be tackled inclusively.
@Warma-Sheen said in Warma-Sheen:
As Hollywood on TR, I was banned because I kept pestering Troy about trying to get other staffers to quit talking crap about my character on staff channels. She told me to stop bothering her and I didn’t. It wasn’t until after I was banned did some accusations about cheating get thrown out after the fact from which I never got a chance to address/defend and only heard about 3rd hand, which I think were about looking at my own jobs as a staffer, to which, if that was a thing, wasn’t more than occasional typos of the many, many, many jobs that I handled there.
Troy: is that the dude who used the Shemar Moore pb?
Coin: yes.
Troy: that dude was straight up cheating.
Troy: i’m glad he remembers all those details, cuz i sure as fuck don’t. but he was a fucking menace.
Troy: ask yourself why the staffers were talking shit about his character.
Troy: the game was better for it when he left. and by left we mean got kicked out. sorry not sorry.
also, as Coin, I will say, i remember Kelvin being the most metagame-y, minmax-y, Pledge-abusing, power-gaming dude in the Changeling sphere, and this was CONCURRENT (to a degree) with VASpider’s tenure there, so keep that in mind.
cheers.
@Sillylily said in MU Peeves Thread:
@bear_necessities said in MU Peeves Thread:
I’m not saying it doesn’t happen but could someone post the pose in question? I just want to see how we know it’s AI.
Same. I’ve been accused of using AI even with glaring grammar errors (I’ll spell check but I use Oxford comas, …, --, and even semicolons). My grammar will never be perfect.
it’s not great to know ppl think I’m using not human programs for my very human poses. I don’t think I’m a robot… if I am I feel like I m missing some perks.
I think assuming Oxford commas, semicolons, and mdashes are signs of AI writing is ridiculous and stupid. I am not the one who compiled a list of poses from someone and ran them through an AI “detector”, either, which is why I didn’t point any fingers.
The mere POSSIBILITY of it happenings sparked my comment that if you’re gonna do it, just let people know.
Apropos of nothing:
I think if people are gonna use AI to write their poses, they should disclose it on their character profile or +info or whatever. Give the rest of us a heads up, y’know?
Yikes.
@MisterBoring said in Consensus on Roster vs OC vs Mix:
I had another thought about this while eating ice cream today.
I think games with roster characters should have a way to filter the roster to show only available characters that have not been played yet. This would give some people who are unwilling to step into another person’s RP shoes a better view of what’s out there that they can just run with.
On Ares games, they just have a tag that says ‘previously played’.
@Coin said in MU Peeves Thread:
person: [god i love neil gaiman], he really blows my skirt up
me: [you seem to lack certain recent information]
person: If it’s some bad thing he did IRL I’m not interested. I don’t want to hang out and have a beer with the guy.
me: [damn, that’s pretty gnarly and context blind]
person: [you are ATTACKING me take it somewhere else with your toxicity!!!]
lol, this hobby has all types, istg.
sorry, i also forgot:
person: I think if I was allergic to peanut butter I would just eat it with an epi pen in my hand.
they quit, lol.
or got banned. idk. but lol.
person: [god i love neil gaiman], he really blows my skirt up
me: [you seem to lack certain recent information]
person: If it’s some bad thing he did IRL I’m not interested. I don’t want to hang out and have a beer with the guy.
me: [damn, that’s pretty gnarly and context blind]
person: [you are ATTACKING me take it somewhere else with your toxicity!!!]
lol, this hobby has all types, istg.
sorry, i also forgot:
person: I think if I was allergic to peanut butter I would just eat it with an epi pen in my hand. 
@ten said in MU Peeves Thread:
just hit the closest reply button, that’s all, @Coin. I wasn’t directing my peevish comment to anyone.
[snrks]
@ten said in MU Peeves Thread:
hey, friend, if you’re going to crib that much inspiration from a source – write some fanfic, you’ll feel better.
are you replying to jumpscare actually or did you just hit that reply button cuz it was closest?
because your comment made me think of something specific.
@ChaoticSin said in Numetal/Retromux:
[…] painted to make pika look bad. […]
she ain’t need the help, tbh
@inuki said in Numetal/Retromux:
we didn’t advertise cause we didn’t want people who were just going to talk trash. so idk why you brought us up. we were just minding our own business @catzilla
do you read context before you reply to things? asking for a friend.
@Prototart said in MU Peeves Thread:
@Artemis said in MU Peeves Thread:
@Prototart i could not play them if i wanted to because of this, it’s super ultra lame asf
I seriously hate it so much, like, number one it’s an opportunity to show your ability as a writer (the only times I’ve met somebody w a good desc who was just awful somebody else wrote that for them) and number two, just, that isn’t even true, this isn’t DC in 1980-whatever, there’s like zero consistency between artists? Like Illyana was drawn as a waif, a pinup, and a fitness model by different people all in the same miniseries.
I kind of fine the idea of ‘opportunity to show your ability as a writer’ to be needlessly judgy, tbh. And I do enough descing in my normal poses.; I find the exercise of sitting down and actively trying to write a description for my character that is just a description so mind-numbingly boring that I don’t bother. And that’s okay.
