@MisterBoring said in RP Safari - Pacing Styles:
@Prototart said in RP Safari - Pacing Styles:
and it’s before my time but I know there were people doing play-by-post on forums and even over email and fucking Usenet in the 90s.
I remember that stuff when I was in college, and totally remember ignoring invites to join that stuff because I was running a different tabletop group almost every night (or playing video and computer games).
Hey, get a load of Mr. “I had friends growing up” over here.
@Faraday said in RP Safari - Pacing Styles:
Making the default “Unknown” will give better fidelity when it IS set, but then most scenes will just be Unknown. So that’s not super helpful either.
Could you make it blank or unknown, if you will, and require the field to be set before it can proceed? I don’t know if that’s implementable, nor how easy it would be, nor whether it would be worthwhile.
@Prototart said in RP Safari - Pacing Styles:
@Pavel said in RP Safari - Pacing Styles:
@Prototart said in RP Safari - Pacing Styles:
I got it and I’m not even that smart.
I spent yesterday genuinely upset because of something someone on a sex game said about me, it is what it is.
If you wouldn’t go to them for advice, you needn’t accept their criticism.
@Faraday said in RP Safari - Pacing Styles:
A scene can be started and left open because people forgot about it, can be started and stopped multiple times in multiple synchronous chunks… there are lots of different ways to play.
This is also the excuse I use when someone notices just how long I’ve spent playing Rimworld.
As an aside, however, I do become mildly concerned when metrics are discussed. While they’re fine in a vacuum, they can so often become targets or indicators of performance. Which, I think we can all agree, is something to be avoided.
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@Yam said in RP Safari - Pacing Styles:
which is why I’m always baffled about why people declare no bar RP/no social fluff
They also baffle me, though I suspect for different reasons.
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@Faraday said in Grid vs Web Scenes:
Philosophically I just don’t think it’s good to force people to play in ways that they don’t want to for some imagined “good of the game”.
One day I am going to make my ShakespeareMU where every pose has to be written in iambic pentameter. Then you’ll see!
@Third-Eye I sometimes peek at https://www.mushcode.com/mushlist. YMMV as to its usefulness.
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@hellfrog said in MU Peeves Thread:
@MisterBoring it’s always about specific incidents. People just don’t own up to them because they don’t want the scrutiny - for a variety of reasons, I’m sure.
All patterns are made up of specific incidents, but we can still talk about patterns.
I’m just a pile of patterns and anticipatory statistics in a waistcoat pretending to be a human. 
@hellfrog said in MU Peeves Thread:
@MisterBoring it’s always about specific incidents. People just don’t own up to them because they don’t want the scrutiny - for a variety of reasons, I’m sure.
The conversation started about a specific incident, sure. But we do veer into talking about vague generalities pretty quick around here. Informed by years of actual situations, sure, but that’s literally the same as every other conversation.
@Faraday said in RP Safari - Pacing Styles:
Except that is expressly NOT what Ares is for.
I know that. You know that. But you know how people are. It’s the only one that does async stuff out of the box that isn’t clunky or involving the word ‘timestop’, so it’s what people either assume or default to.
@bear_necessities Well, there’s Towers and Retro, both WoD MUs that are seemingly reasonably active, Liberation’s still going, Heroes Assemble, it looks like City of Hope is still around or newly revived, and it even looks as though Shadowrun Denver is active.
Games is out there, yo.
@bear_necessities I do wonder whether so much of the mismatch is simply due to what people see each codebase/software suite as being for. Ares is the async system, TinyMUX is for live WoD, Evennia is for… people who want to make Arx 2?, etc. So when we check Arescentral, we get games with a high (perceived or actual) async culture because… it’s Ares, that’s what it’s for.
