@Shygaming said:

It still prevents things like imprint locking and sexual assault

So this is to say that sexual assault is still a coded aspect of the game that you’re keeping?

I don’t mind child NPCs in theory, I’ve seen them done very well.

They can grow tiresome when their presence alters the vibe of things. If your PC can’t come out on our adventures, ever, because they’re babysitting… for instance.

@Kestrel If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck it probably goes just as well with an orange sauce.

@Juniper The point is less that we the previous posters use LLMs and more that we use spelling and grammar checkers that have had LLMs shoved into them.

@Third-Eye Yeah, even with Grammarly, there’s a vast difference between it catching when I type “slient” instead of “silent” or forget to capitalise Instagram, and getting it to rewrite my shit entirely. I have RP partners to tell me my writing is crap; I don’t need to pay a subscription service to do it for me.

@Kestrel You’re probably right; I’m out of the loop. I use Grammarly in my real-life writing solely for the purpose for which it was originally made, but now it has all these generative “features” that I ignore. I imagine it’s probably pretty easy to use them and still feel justified in claiming it’s just for spelling and grammar.

@Yam said:

“you can use a lil to tidy your grammar :)”

I’m okay with this solely because I’m betting even fuckin’ Word’s spellcheck has copilot’s dick in it somewhere. If you’re putting your shit into ChatGPT and getting it to rewrite it for you, that’s a no, but using a spellchecker that has been infested with AI nonsense? I’m more inclined to forgive.

@catzilla Is this the MUing equivalent of not moving out of the way of obnoxious men taking up all the room on the sidewalk?

@Tez It’s not breaking containment—it’s a gaming paradigm shift, and that’s okay.

@Third-Eye said:

the MOST clanker

@Artemis LLM aside I’m struggling to figure out wtf they’re actually advertising…

“Current Windows testing uses MonkeyTerm with a Macrocosm XML connection file” is this what it sounds like when I try to explain using a telnet client?

@Wizz True! I was mostly using the previous peeve to highlight my own peeve.

On a somewhat different note:

‘Butcher of Bosnia’: convicted war criminal Ratko Mladić dies

There does also need to be room for a character who, due to experiences in the game, has earned the ability to be a little blase or otherwise confident around weird shit. If your character has been around for a good long while and they’re still as overwhelmingly frightened by their fifteenth grue encounter as their first that’s just as tiresome, in my view.

@Tez said:

Check to see if you can block banned people now pls.

Can block banned users, still can’t block administrators or global moderators plz fix.

@Nelly said:

Another difficult topic are the characters who have quippy one-liners or otherwise unserious comments in serious scenes.

It would be one thing if it were occasional, but it’s very much the MUing equivalent of having something scan as the wrong price at the check-out line and saying “Must be free!” Like, it’s great for you in that moment but that’s just one moment in five hundred thousand that cashier has had to deal with.

I partially blame the MCU, though I can’t really say whether their quip-per-scene quota is an originator or a symptom.

@Kestrel said:

@Faraday said:

@tez Didn’t there used to be a button to hide all posts from a particular user? I was looking for it for the recent troll and I can’t find it now. (maybe I’m remembering this from another forum though and it was never here…)

I think blocking them does that, but it doesn’t prevent them from seeing your posts, which would be more useful tbh.

At least if you block them you can’t see their replies… until someone quotes them, alas.

@Faraday I know there was one on The Other Place but it broke at some point. One can still block people, thankfully.

@Juniper They just need to edit the parts out that are stupid before posting.