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.

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Troy: is that the dude who used the Shemar Moore pb?
Coin: yes.
Troy: that dude was straight up cheating.

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Troy: i’m glad he remembers all those details, cuz i sure as fuck don’t. but he was a fucking menace.

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Troy: ask yourself why the staffers were talking shit about his character.

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Troy: the game was better for it when he left. and by left we mean got kicked out. sorry not sorry.

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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
double post because they came back.

dang.

@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!!!]

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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!!!]

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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.

https://brandmu.day/topic/509/retromux

@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.

@Buttercup said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Sillylily

What game?

Likely Concordia, given the limited timeline.

ohhhhh, here it comes.

i can feel it.

rearing its ugly hydra-like head.

that would-be mythical but all-too real mu-forum discussion topic…

… the dreaded …

are social stats worth having and if so is it okay to use them on other PCs?

i thought we left that one over on MSB but hell.

@Clarion

Leo was fun, but Liam was my fave.

@Aria said in Pets!:

So insomniac and I decided that we wanted to adopt another cat after seeing several posts about the local animal control facility being full (with the consequences that implies) and their primary local rescue partners also being full and unable to pull any animals.

We haven’t intentionally adopted cats from rescues since 2008. Every kitty we’ve had since then has been foisted on us by the Cat Distribution System. It’s been really weird and emotional to see one of the two cats we’ve been considering get adopted and knowing the other has a meet and greet with potential adopters today.

There’s lots of other kitties available, so I know we’ll find a match and I’m happy they’re going to good homes, but I’m not accustomed to this emotional swing of getting invested in and then sad about a furbaby I’ve never met.

Earlier this year I made noises at work about maybe wanting a second cat a couple of months down the road. Late January, one of my supervisors asks me if I’m still looking because her neighbor has a cat who needs a home (tragic backstory, too lazy to recount).

I see pictures of the cat. I can’t resist. I say ‘yes, just tell the person I need a week to get things situated at home’.

Half a week goes by and I am getting pictures, have talked to the person, everything. And then out of nowhere, two days before I’m supposed to go pick up the cat, the person says that they’ve grown attached and will be keeping it.

I was devastated.

Couple weeks later I adopted Miskatonic.

@junipersky Pretty sure the username was ‘Narrator’.

@Tez said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Coin You’re right. Sometimes I just need to scream into the void, though. I try to give people the benefit of the doubt and tell them WE KNOW YOU ARE DOING THIS so that they can course correct, but it’s a bannable offense if they keep it up.

AND EXASPERATING. I just don’t get it.

I understand.

but also if it’s a bannable offense, imo you’re under the implicit obligation of telling them you can tell, since ‘keep it up’ suggests they’ve been warned, yah?

i mean, working from the absolute very little i have to go on based on how vague all this is.

@Tez said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Tez said in MU Peeves Thread:

I am begging game-runners to stop using ChatGPT.

I AM BEGGING PLAYERS TO STOP USING CHATGPT.

at this point i’m gonna hazard the suggestion of maybe telling the people in question that you can tell they’re using ChatGPT.

maybe you can privately shame them into stopping.

cuz they probably won’t just from reading this. XD