Let’s hope that none of the bears get violent with each other. Chunk vs Grazer + her cub in 2024 was super sad.

@Kestrel said:

Some people hate bar RP, some people hate big scenes, some people hate conflict, some people hate politics. And when you put SA on the same list as social or conflict RP, it’s less like a kink list and more just general preferneces.

Totally tangential to this topic, but I’ve met people who hate anything that requires them to leave a single specific grid square.

I think this is one of those cases where a person’s inability to communicate in a healthy fashion has shot them in the foot.

So… Chunk has returned; Grazer has not. However, reading through all of the Fat Bears for this year, several of Grazer’s kids are in the running (one as part of 806 Family, and the other two, 428 Studious and 903 Gully, as solo bears).

Are we pushing Chunk to the top?

I’ll second what @pavel said. Giving people a glimpse of how you’re writing the setting and the rules of the game before they log in will definitely go a long way to letting people make educated choices about whether to give it a deeper investigation.

@voiceinthevoid Why can’t we have non-creeper vampire players who non consensually force people into diner RP? “My Tremere with the Eat Food merit dominates you into coming into Flo’s Diner and having a slice of pecan pie and casual conversation with me.”

@Pavel That’s last years list. The reveal of this years bears is in like… 20 minutes? 2 PM CST I believe.

Edit: And just noticed Tez already said that.

@Kassien Stop making me try to shoehorn more stuff into my already psychotically overwhelming schedule.

@Pavel Are Chunk and Grazer in the running again?

@voiceinthevoid said:

If people are doing SA role play ethically imo nobody will even know who doesn’t want to know.

That’s not always the case though. Even if the participants in the RP are consensual, the participants in the aftermath of that may not be.

@Evilgrayson said:

AddisonPlayer could be annoying. We butted heads on a few things, a few times. But he did a lot for the game, and a lot for other people.

Would you say your experience with AddisonPlayer is uniform to everyone that interacted with AddisonPlayer?

@Kestrel It’s gonna be okay.

Are we going to try and be a voting block this year?

@Gashlycrumb said:

I don’t know anything about Haven, but coded systems specifically for SA are obviously saying that you expect and want it to be a significant part of the game. I expect very few MUSH players want that and most would prefer the opposite.

Yeah. I don’t want coded SA or even coded sex. What I do want is coded realistic injury treatment. Did your PC get stabbed? Well, you better find someone that knows how to play Surgery Simulator…

@Wyrmsign Likely he finally upset the wrong subset of people.

@junipersky This sentence caused my IT-addled brain to glitch when I got to the word Ansible.

I was very confused as to what school was teaching children how to administrate servers through playbooks and felt sad that you had to deal with 5 year old plus computers for that class.

@Jumpscare said:

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

90% of the time, yeah, that’s it exactly.

If your setting includes the option for living PCs to become undead… maybe not?

My opinion on this is pretty simple: I don’t see a need for sex in my RP (I much prefer stories about solving mysteries, fighting bad guys, and disassembling corrupt social structures), so I definitely don’t see a need for SA in any of it.

@Roz There’s also the idea of a setting that focuses on children as the main character. That can be acceptable as long as the content isn’t horrible. Examples would be things like Kids on Bikes or Tales from the Loop. Both focus on kids as PCs, but in both cases they’re very Goonies / Stranger Things adjacent, so the worst thing that happens to the kids is minor injuries or getting chased by a robot bent on rewriting history.

I wish I had time for a game right now, as I’m craving Shadowrun something fierce, but with work and school being crazy, I barely have time for the game I do have a character on. And I definitely love playing to mechanically weirder builds (like those weird niche riggers who rig infrastructure rather than drones & vehicles).