Obviously, receipts are handy but they’re not a requirement. And I’d (speaking only for myself, though with a polite nod in the direction of that Admin tag) rather not make posting every shred of evidence possible the expectation here.

@Jumpscare said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

That means that since the birth of BMD, no other game has negatively affected MU* players as broadly or as painfully as Star Wars: Age of Alliances.

A board of women, queers, and allies reacting strongly against sexual misconduct and anti-reporting prejudice… Isn’t that how we started in the first place?

For posterity, I present thus:

Tracy is a man and he is a very hansome and manly man.He likes women a lot and women like him too but men think he is compitishion.He has very long brown shiny hair everywhere and a little blue eyes that are mostly green but very hansome anywya.You can tell a lot of things from his eyes.He has a very big bulge in his jeans where the dick would be and it is not a sock because it makes all women almost orgasm with desire.Behind him is a very firm muscled ass that makes you want to slap it and play with it in lots of ways but only if your a women.If you are a man you will die if you touch it because Tracy is strong and very not Gay.If you are a women he winks and smiles at you and thinks you have a nice personality.If you are a man again he frowns at you and it makes you not hit on him or on any women when hes here.He likes lots of women very much and likes very few men but not as boyfriends.And he has a shitr which is nice and blue.I mean shirt sorry.

@hobos said in Bannings:

From what I’ve seen, you are a people with boundless empathy, but you choose who to direct that towards.

Not to really engage in the debate, here, but that’s literally the same as everyone else.

Me. I’m a good thing about mushing.

And this isn’t a throw away joke, or an ego thing, or whatever. But I’ve finally been able to arrive at the conclusion that yes, my RP is good. My events are good. My being present on a game is good. And I’m finally free to feel that I am good enough.

So there. Me. I’m a good thing about mushing.

So obviously it’s a very dark time, horrid things incoming and so forth…

But did anyone actually have The Onion buying Infowars on their 2024 bingo cards?

@Warma-Sheen said in Los Angeles 2043: A Blade Runner MUSH - Discussion:

Just because you can open a game on your own doesn’t mean you should.

You should. It might last, it might not, but at least stuff’s being made even for a moment.

@GF We’re for taco Tuesdays, no-pants Fridays, and the violent and utter overthrow of the capitalistic, white-supremacist patriarchy. And tea.

@CuriousGamer said in Macha Awareness (And Unappreciation) thread:

@Tez There seems to be a few bad actor threads now, would it make sense to put them into their own ‘Bad Actor’ kind of topic at this point? I know there’s been a couple discussions of others in the not too distant past as well.

No. We don’t need a whole section of the forum devoted to talking shit about specific people.

@untitled said in Underage Players:

because I’d be unhappy if I found out my kids were

That right there is the ultimate point. Policing children is the job of the parent, not any game they would seek to join.

Establish rules that state, outright, that the game is for adults, will contain adult themes, etc. If it is revealed from a trustworthy source that there is an underage person, remove them. That is all you can do.

These days, children on these kinds of games are very much the exception. There’s a high barrier to entry and far more free-to-play games around than there were in the early years when a lot of us first started. So don’t stress over it too much.

I entirely forget that people exist until they’re right in front of me.

@Tez It’s a Pern game. You’re probably already TSing both husband and wife without either knowing, so you talk to the staffer you’re also TSing about it and watch the marriage implode. Obviously.

Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies at 100

@Faraday said in Writing character diversity - resources:

because humans have differing experiences

Nuh uh! All sub-categories of people are monoliths, and each individual is an exemplar.

@Faraday said in Writing character diversity - resources:

I don’t think it’s a prerequisite to authenticity

And I disagree, which is fine. Though I imagine it depends on how we define authenticity. A story being compelling isn’t the same as a story being authentic, for instance.

ETA: We could have this discussion for months, but as it applies to MUing I’d say simply that one should be careful they aren’t using their diverse character to speak over, or for, the people said character represents.

When it comes to writing, I’ve always held that one can write whatever kind of character they want, but they cannot write whatever kind of story they want. A straight person can write a gay character, for instance, but can’t tell a gay story as they lack the kind of lived experience and personal connection that lends authenticity to those stories.

Translating that to MUing, though, is tricky.

@Faraday Agreed. Doubly so when we’re all writing in a dry, formal, academic style trying to meet those word counts.

@Faraday said in AI Megathread:

Unfortunately, the “AI Detector” apps/algorithms/hunches don’t work any more reliably than ChatGPT itself - which is to say you can never be sure when it’s just hallucinating crap out of whole cloth.

Which has me alarmed when the adoption of such services, or the inclusion of them in already extant anti-plagiarism services, is swiftly progressing through educational academia.

The Fado MU client exists, and has even been recently updated. I do not use it myself, so cannot guarantee its quality, functionality, etc.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pt.jdai.fado&hl=en-US

@Tez said in Towers of Licensing?:

in a ‘where did the need for this arise’ kind of way

At least with this, I can kind of see their point, unlike those weird policies that sound like “Every third Tuesday, nobody named Keith may connect to the game unless they are wearing a purple bowler hat.”

We’ve all either experienced or heard about people who build something, code something, post a log, or whatever who then quit/shitfit/get banned and start railing about how the game is still using their work.

And given Towers’ requirement for… extensive explanation and justification regarding stats, they seem more from the old school of WoD MU development.