@Deviant said:

The “Cons”:

No objectively good guys (Mum-Rahs and Sneks) or objectively bad guys (Wyrmies, Sabbs, etc)

@Raistlin Obligatory ‘we already have this at home’ joke.

@dvoraen said:

@Pavel said:

Sir Patrick Stewart

I couldn’t find any appropriate GIFs to convey my feelings. This man has been a notable actor for me for over thirty years. I think The Next Generation was my first exposure to his work as a performer, and some of those memories are still so vivid even after all this time.

Sir Patrick, Captain Picard, it has been an honor.

The gif you may be looking for:

@Deviant said:

It’d be nice to have at least one CoD game again.

Mummy required, so it’ll never happen.

@dvoraen said:

I still feel like I can’t manage something “professional” level in this regard to save my life.

Reminder that technically the only difference between an amateur and a professional is you pay a professional for their work; it does not by any means need to be GOOD.

@Pavel said:

it’s like the one rule we have

And we have come full circle, huzzah!

@Deviant said:

short, elevator-pitch style summary of what this game was about

So many minigames, you dont even know.

@Apos said:

Might notice I have not mentioned any half-species, and that gets into a much deeper lore topic deserving of its own pace.

Monster-Fucker Faction confirmed.

@MisterBoring said:

archaeologist type character

*Arxaeologist

How else will we know if the post is safe to shove up our asses?

@Kassien This is ridiculous and I love it

@Shygaming said:

A story can only really work when characters are allowed to react to things in believable ways.

@Jumpscare said:

When someone is killed, they don’t have to live through the trauma.

I’m built different.

@Kestrel said:

A game has a skewed gender ratio, more female than male. Because of this, male characters are in high demand by partner-seeking heterosexual female characters.

Bold of you to assume this is a ‘women will fight over men’ as opposed to ‘women who are into women and hurray for more options’.

@Roz said:

@Jennkryst said:

@Pavel said:

Code should never override a player’s agency in such a way; it is anathema to how I believe MU stories should be told.

Hyperbolic example that is hyperbolic on purpose because I think there are some things that should actually be enforced, roleplay vs rollplay (everyone take a drink!):

note the “in such a way” in that sentence. it wasn’t using an example for a general point about code vs player consent. it was talking specifically about that specific topic. that is: sexual assault of a character forced on a player.

it’s not hyperbole; it’s the literal topic of the thread.

This is fair and I missed the ‘in such a way’ bit, despite quoting it… I focused on the ‘never override’ half. Big oopsie on my part.

@Pavel said:

Code should never override a player’s agency in such a way; it is anathema to how I believe MU stories should be told.

Hyperbolic example that is hyperbolic on purpose because I think there are some things that should actually be enforced, roleplay vs rollplay (everyone take a drink!):

I dodge the attack, even though you rolled eleventy-billion successes and it cannot be dodged, getting hit affects my agency.

@Trashcan said:

I strongly hold that there is a line where something being a kink does not excuse engaging with that topic unequivocally, where it should not be shielded from society condemning engaging with that topic, and that “no actual X involved” is a terrible test for drawing that line.

I agree, and would like to curveball this into a somewhat silly scenario that gives further reason why ‘no actual X involved’ is a dumb defense. In the form of a meme. Perhaps a GIF, even.

@Coin said:

@Yam said:

Guys what the HELL happened on this haven game and is this why you’re all vaguely fucked up regarding RP? I’m told there was a huge documented thread about this elsewhere but now it’s lost to the ether forever.

IIRC the documented thread was on MU Soapbox.

If only people hadn’t lied about plans to totally keep it around as an archive after kicking everyone out.

There is a little floaty ball over the text blinker, and I hate it.

I know it’s there for accessibility reasons, to find the cursor, but it’s freaking me out.

@Gashlycrumb said:

There’s also a level of Catch-22 in it.

1:
Abelard, Bridget and Camille look out their apartment window and see a chupacabra digging through the dumpster.

Abelard screams, runs for the closet and curls up in there having a panic attack.

OOC, Bridget and Camille bitch about what an attention-whore Abelard is and how his reaction derailed the scene, as if it’s 1994 and he walked into their wedding scene, smelled a peanut, and went into anaphylactic shock.

2:
Abelard, Bridget and Camille look out their apartment window and see a chupacabra digging through the dumpster.

Abelard says, “Huh. It’s so ugly it’s cute,” and helps investigate.

OOC, Bridget and Camille bitch about how Abelard ought to be freaking the fuck out, he’s only a mortal after all.

3:
Identical to 2, except Abelard says, “HOLY FUCKING BALLS!” instead.

Not that the fearless, blase, too-cool-for-anything quipper PC isn’t a real thing and a tedious drag, but it’s also not bad to examine your reaction, see if really there’s just no pleasing you, or no pleasing you if you’re Abelard, and entertain the notion that maybe Abelard is playing his PC correctly. I’ve definitely seen both ways.

I feel like this is why we have Willpower checks.

I have, on occasion, wanted to do video essay deep dives into THE CULTURE, if for no other reason than to have it compiled and learn about some of the history (and maybe serve as advertising for the community?)

But oh god do I not know where to even start.