@Pavel As a former Producer, it’s interning sans benefits.

@Gashlycrumb In all my years of gaming only one ST had the ignorance and nerve to attempt correcting me by telling me what my character would feel and how they would react. My character I’d been playing 8 years at that point, long before Lib. Then she ultimately would rather ban me and my partner than answer anything in a direct way, while simultaneously spamming the game with posts about how players are never to be trusted.

Trembling despot.

God I don’t miss this hobby.

@Artemis This was a habit of one of the worst players I ever met, whom simultaneously constantly talked about what an advocate and ally she is. Very handy for fingering her stealth alts. She also talked about her terrible marriage and sought comfort in others OOC. Talk about a messed up cluster of wrong coping mechanisms. She’s still out there, too. Deeply institutionalized.

@Aria David Kaff AKA Viv Savage, keyboardist for Spinal Tap. That one stung. Rest well, king.

@Pyrephox “You can’t solve an OOC problem with an IC solution.”

From your lips to God’s ears. Perfectly crystallized.

@Cygnus Lovingly, respectfully, given the game we all have in common, no. 🫠

@MisterBoring The people stressed are the ones trying to maintain their ethics. But I respect and exhort that. What’s the alternative, spreading cheeks for our AI masters?

How can I solve a problem in a complicated way that’s already been solved two simple ways 40 years ago?

@Gashlycrumb “If I die, don’t eat me.” ~ Gashlycrumb, 2025

@Pavel This times 1,000!

@Evilgrayson Role players are bonkers. RPG players are bonkers. WoD fans are bonkers. Add the anonymity of nick names and you wind up with an abusers paradise.

Staff are simply blind to too much (the nature of MU*), and can only react, because nobody wants them proactively violating privacy. When there’s a proper shadow society being maintained OOC, more organized and longstanding than a game, good luck.

It took me about 15 years to figure out this mix is bad for me. I’m sorry for your experience, truly. I was gutted my last time MUSHing, and called it quits. The circumstances bore comical similarities to your tale. Hugs for y’all.

@Pavel Let’s name the phenomenon Dead Telnet Theory.

Rest in peace, queen.

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/03/nx-s1-5385844/laugh-in-comedian-ruth-buzzi-dies

@Gashlycrumb On the other hand I met you on GoB and you were such a lovely person in my life during a time when few could show understanding. So yes there was lots of pain and stupidity but there was also light and smiles.

@TNP I will give my kitty many extra hugs and kisses today to honor the love your little one gave you. My heart broke reading all this, just know there’s so much more love and friends waiting for you in this world.

@Kestrel “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” Hunter S. Thompson.

Time to inhabit that energy. Act locally, speak globally, lead with love and stay strong and true.

@Raistlin As a jaded old crum bum, sincerely wishing y’all the best!️

@Pavel “No” buttholes?
Skill issue.

@Mushling-0 The only thing crazier than Polk paying to be tolerated is that he’s done it twice in the 2 years I’ve known about him. The only thing crazier than that is that it worked twice.