@RightMeow said in AI In Poses:

I can’t imagine they are getting much out of the scene and I feel bad that they are robbing themselves (and others) from the authentic experience.

I started doing this when I was like 8 or 9, and I totally sucked but I don’t think even then it would’ve appealed to me to totally fake it that way. The right way to fake it is to just shamelessly imitate somebody you think is really good until somebody else thinks you’re really good and then spend the rest of your life quietly assured one day everybody will realize you’re a total fraud

@Pavel said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:

All of these games are ultimately descended from United Heroes, which had like 400-plus pages on MSB because it was run by an incel and staffed by a coterie of maladjusted freaks even by superhero game standards.

The first real split from UH was HAM, created by people who had absolutely no problem with how things were done on UH until one of them, Ruby, an emotionally unstable pathological liar, lost favor with the guy who ran UH. They made no changes from UH except for who was being abusive, unless you count letting Chaucer use his rambling, incoherent, hundreds-of-pages-long “theme” that centered around whatever media he had consumed that week.

(I will pause to say that I hate Ruby with a special intensity because even after a decade there are drooling quasi-humans who believe that I’m a predator because that was the only lie she could think up on the spot to deflect when I outed her e-boyfriend as a serial sexual harasser and stalker of my friends.)

From HAM, you get the Chaucer games and now - whatever, Superhero MUSH, I guess.

Nothing good will ever grow from that poison vine.

@Tez said in Age Verification & Games:

I’m not even talking about Discord’s age verification. I’m talking about RP servers on Discord being like ‘verify your age by sending us your ID’. I’m talking about users feeling like they need to do it.

ETA: I need to clarify. This is on top of Discord’s systemic age verification. This is an additional layer of USERS asking OTHER USERS in SHARED SERVERS to send them their ID.

Girl that is nuts there is 100% some ID theft ring running a Sonic RP server with five thousand defense contractors in it

@GF said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Prototart I can think of two off the top of my head. One is a hero, and one is Batgirl’s normie roommate, so I’ll assume no one is knocking players down in a rush to play her.

the only trans char either of us had ever seen played is Sera, Angela’s girlfriend who hasn’t appeared in, like, a decade

the entire thing is dumb and the whole “we hear you. you are valid. here are the six characters you can play.” makes it even dumber

@renaveleigh said in MU Peeves Thread:

I don’t want to ascribe malice, and, I don’t, but this is not a well-reasoned policy at all.

in the posts people made about ~continuity~ and rosters and inherited characters what i think maybe got missed about the place in question is that it’s literally a superhero fuck MUX that when i looked at it had a continuity that was literally “someone’s continuity is what they say it is, batman can be 20 and Nightwing can be 30”

it’s hard not to ascribe malice when it’s a place literally built on fucking and then sharing logs of your fucking that decided one particular kind of body was unacceptable for fucking unless it was completely hidden and unacknowledged

@Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:

If you go back ten or so years ago, there were definitely places wherein if they discovered you had posted on WORA (or wherever), they would flay you alive, tar you, feather you, fire you into the sea, and then ban you.

it isn’t that this changed it’s just that nobody ever comes to dump things anymore

everybody either silently deals with it until they can’t or just leaves bc they know exposing like even the absolute worst behaviors won’t accomplish anything and literally no one will care who didn’t already

@catzilla

That’s all well and good if you’re a normal, heathy, functional adult, but what about the rest of us

@RightMeow said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Prototart

I use to write these five paragraph purple prose descs to try and get on that page. I was successful once. Now I’m like: It’s a tree or It’s a costume - yay.

Free time has changed.

The only game I’m really on right now has an average desc length of like three sentences and mine are all still five paragraphs even tho nobody reads them. I refuse to learn lessons of any kind.

bonus post, here’s Vorpal trying to intimidate me during all the original UH stuff using my RL name, but using the wrong name

@Wizz

I’m safe until an AI can accidentally send a TS pose over Public because it’s been awake for 30 hours

@Tez said in Age Verification & Games:

I’m not even talking about Discord’s age verification. I’m talking about RP servers on Discord being like ‘verify your age by sending us your ID’. I’m talking about users feeling like they need to do it.

ETA: I need to clarify. This is on top of Discord’s systemic age verification. This is an additional layer of USERS asking OTHER USERS in SHARED SERVERS to send them their ID.

Girl that is nuts there is 100% some ID theft ring running a Sonic RP server with five thousand defense contractors in it

@RightMeow said in Age Verification & Games:

@Tez I don’t discord. I know. I know. I’m old and out of touch or something. But… they want your ID? I guess I get it, but that makes me uncomfortable. Is that normal?

They haven’t asked for mine bc my account’s so old, but I’m 100% out if they ever do. I don’t even trust them enough for to pay for Nitro, no way am I giving them my ID.

@Pavel said in MU* Wishlists:

@Pacha And when did you develop this taste in luxuries?

just walked into Waffle House and asked for ortolan

@RightMeow said in AI In Poses:

I can’t imagine they are getting much out of the scene and I feel bad that they are robbing themselves (and others) from the authentic experience.

I started doing this when I was like 8 or 9, and I totally sucked but I don’t think even then it would’ve appealed to me to totally fake it that way. The right way to fake it is to just shamelessly imitate somebody you think is really good until somebody else thinks you’re really good and then spend the rest of your life quietly assured one day everybody will realize you’re a total fraud

@chorus said in Staff Bits Linking Handles:

@renaveleigh would have been too much to ask to just not pick petty fights with players, huh?

for the kind of people who tend to run superhero games, yes, that is way too much to ask or expect or even to hope for

(tend to, coin is cool)

@Wizz

I’m safe until an AI can accidentally send a TS pose over Public because it’s been awake for 30 hours

@Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:

@RightMeow Would starting your own game be the equivalent of having a baby to save the toxic relationship?

Because I’ve considered it rather seriously for more than a few moments of late.

what kind

@RightMeow said in MU Peeves Thread:

My peeve is that this hobby is like a teenage toxic ex to me.

wow you look great these days girl

@Ominous said in MU Peeves Thread:

What if a server has a special room (OOC makes the most sense, but I could also work with the right flavor) that one has to be in to spend XP? Then people couldn’t raise skills mid-scene without very obviously ducking out to do so.

This was, like, every oWoD place in the late 90s and early 2000s.

bonus post, here’s Vorpal trying to intimidate me during all the original UH stuff using my RL name, but using the wrong name