@sao said in MU Peeves Thread:

STOP VAGUEBLOGGING IT’S 2026

they made me sign an NDA

@catzilla said in MU Peeves Thread:

@allthecookies said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Coin

It hurt my brain to see the whole thing go down.

Story time?

If it’s what I think it’s about, here is my measured and fair synopsis:

Guy: “I hate everything about the setting I’m connected to, and I refuse to do anything proactive about it. I remain a fully blank slate and it’s everybody else’s problem, and also fault.”
Staffer: “jesus christ you can do things for yourself”
Guy: “You are not a nice person.”
Other guy: “This is akin to a police shooting.”

Except it went on for twenty minutes.

I liked the comic game apps that everybody wrote like Official Handbook entries but I know I’m like the only person who did; they didn’t at all make a difference in the quality of who got approved, and they scared off anybody who wasn’t super hardcore

@Pavel said in Numetal/Retromux:

@hellfrog Mage is also a problem. I don’t hear much about Changeling, but I don’t play much changeling so it’s not really in my echo chamber.

Changeling can be several different kinds of problem. Think Disney adults.

I totally disagree with the idea that WOD places are the most dysfunctional games or attract the worst people. Like, sure, the blowups tend to be super public on them, but I’ve never been on any that were as poisonous as a bad superhero game.

@catzilla

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

A lot of the time a moral victory is the only kind you can get.

@Pavel said in Numetal/Retromux:

@somasatori said in Numetal/Retromux:

What was her full, unmarried name again?

Мамочка.

активированный

@somasatori said in Numetal/Retromux:

@Ashkuri said in Numetal/Retromux:

WOD players are you guys okay??

laughs in 30 years of MUSH history

I started doing this as a pre-teen, there was never a chance.

@Ashkuri said in When is the last time you played?:

For those who haven’t RP’d in several years, what keeps you checking in/weighing in on the forum? I’m referring here to the forum parts specifically about MUSHing and RP, not the social/ooc parts like RL support, pets, books, dead people, etc.

Sometimes I like talking about this stuff, and I would tell a someone that I’ve smoked crack long before I told them about MU*s.

also a tiny guttering spark of hope that maybe one day it will be fun

@MisterBoring said in Numetal/Retromux:

@Gashlycrumb said in Numetal/Retromux:

Having to force my character to act against his own interests in order to participate was the problem.

This is a very interesting statement, because for some people, asking their characters to act against their own interests is good RP.

Just because you’re into spanking doesn’t mean you’ll be cool with somebody pulling out a scourge.

I haven’t even logged on to a real game since Dies Iraes.

@KarmaBum said in Scenes within Scenes:

@Pyrephox flippant example, as that’s usually all I have, but I see your point. Replace “throw tomato” with “smuggle in a weapon, ask a salient question, etc.”

The idea that the whole scene is impervious to characters feels like lazy storytelling.

Somebody once told me that if a story can’t survive contact with the people it’s being told to, it’s probably better just being written

I like places. Part of that is just the nostalgia that drives, I think, like 90% of MU* stuff. Part of it’s because you usually really can’t see shit happening in a booth at a club. And part of it’s because one time a friend and I got yelled at for “spamming a public scene” and it was just us doing our normal poses.

@Wuff said in RP Safari - Pacing Styles:

I still remember when continuing a scene meant someone had to manually save a log to a txt file, then post the last couple poses on the continue so people remembered where they at.

God, when I was a kid my mom found a folder where I had like a dozen in-progress scenes from WoD games.

I don’t know why but I feel it’s worth mentioning that while it’s a new(ish) thing in MU-space it’s not new new. It’s a big component of F-List, 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.

@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.

@howyadoin said in RP Safari - Pacing Styles:

No one - and I mean no one’s - dick game is good enough to suffer through async.

You gotta find better dick, there was this guy who played Nightwing who We simply have different lived experiences.

@hellfrog said in Celebrities We've Lost 2026 Edition:

bye felicia

he promised undying commitment to Israel and then he he died which, sorry, sounds pretty antisemitic to me

@Faraday

I got it and I’m not even that smart.

Traditional: Normal MU shit, you and your friend or whatever just posing back and forth.

Distracted: You and your friend fucking around bc you’re both kind of busy but want to do something so you swap a pose an hour or whenever you see the activity light and have a couple of minutes to write something.

Asynch: It’s like you and a friend swapping poses over @mail because their dick game is completely and totally insane there’s a very important scene that has to happen but timelines just can’t link up right.

(you can quote this in material it’s super helpful)

I’ve never been able to get into Async because I’m super flighty and unreliable. A friend of mine who lives in Australia absolutely loves it tho, it lets her do stuff with the 90% of people who aren’t in the Pacific Theater