@junipersky unfortunately this is the nature of the whole system. It’s incredibly slow and inefficient because trying to handle the intimate details of family life through an adversarial process is really stupid. We just don’t know what else to do so we try to force square pegs through round holes.

@dvoraen I mean, I’m sure he kept them up for many years after we stopped playing. He may be Dominus but he’s still Death’s special boy.

I love rping eulogizing a dead character. Non-sarcastic. I got a lot of practice at this and discovered I really enjoy it. Real characters are best, I also did a spider funeral at one point but that was for specific IC reasons and I had fun with that too.

Yes, it is very different to choose a death versus being prepared to accept death as a consequence of dice rolls. Risk of death can make a triumph feel way more powerful. Stakes are super important for story reasons. A character who you know you are killing versus a character who might die if their attempt fails? Wildly different experience.

Honestly it is hard enough getting shit together enough to run one faction smoothly, you want MORE? i’m turning this car around, we got food at home.

I LOVE FAT BEARS

I have no earthly clue why I journal for characters but sometimes I am playing a character where I just wanna do that. Also sometimes I write bad poetry/songs because I want to do that, too. Sorry, I dunno why. This is super helpful to the discussion, I bet.

@Muse KITTY

I loev minigame. I don’t know how much it actually contributes to RP, but it definitely contributes to my fun.

I derived great joy, on Firan, from making lunch baskets of coded food and sending them to my IC sponsor to make him eat. It became a running joke. The funniest instance was when I (and therefore, my character) accidentally sent the lunch of awful quality food that I was saving for myself.

IDK, sometimes it’s just fun, OK.

@Gashlycrumb I disagree. Players playing in small groups can’t bottleneck story if staff is attentive to how story is seeded. This is not a player problem. If your IC leadership structure has the ability to prevent OOC story access, your game is not functioning correctly.

The problem there is gating plot behind a single access point. Story should not bottleneck.

@Roz yeah we REALLY should have banned some people. We put ourselves through a lot of toxic nonsense in the effort to both be fair and appear fair, and the people we should have banned and didn’t did not actually benefit.

I don’t rp with people I actively dislike because life is too short. I will totally rp with anybody I don’t know because they might be cool. I will also rp with anybody who answers when I ask for rp publicly because you get what you get and you don’t get upset.

I cannot rp with just one other person because it will get stale. More stuff needs to happen than just between two people or what am I even doing here.

My rp time is so much more limited than it used to be and sometimes that is a huge bummer in terms of connecting with anyone and if I can only rp once in a 2 week period I am probably going to privilege somebody I know I will enjoy. Because I’m only human. God where did all my hobby time go? But like, in a universe where rp is happening.

RPing with chatgpt is masturbation without the fun parts.

@Roadspike I am trying to imagine how you could accidentally make an alt.

Like… I make characters pretty easily but it’s a volitional act.

@Pyrephox IT’S WHAT MY CHARACTER WOULD DO!!1

The fact that our government is currently useless is not really an argument against regulation. Like I too am depressed by living through a goddamn authoritarian takeover as a goddamn career public servant but it has nothing to do with my opinions on what should be. It’s almost a red herring - what the law currently is has no real bearing on what is right and that is something that has been true practically forever.

Eventually the law will catch up to reality, or eventually the heat-death of the universe will render this all moot, but that doesn’t change whether those materials used to train AI were stolen in fact (they were) or whether AI is having a negative impact on art that outweighs its positive applications as a tool (it is).

@Trashcan ty for those receipts.

@helvetica Look at that PUNAM

I mean, if you could show me a pvp game that DIDN’T devolve into players being shitty OOC I would probably be fine with it. It’s just that every time I have been on a game with PVP elements, players were shitty OOC and tried to game systems to “get” other people’s characters regardless of story, whether it was trying to exploit times that people were offline in order to fuck with their stuff, using staff access to cheat their way to better stats / gear, etc., or just… being incapable of their character losing ground on anything without turning into a toddler throwing a tantrum.

If a player is toxic, PVPing them is a terrible idea anyway, btw. If someone is awful, I don’t want to play with them regardless of whose character is going to “win” the interaction.

Pvp doesn’t drive story conflict, it drives player conflict.

Characters with conflicting goals creates interesting situations. Players with conflicting goals creates butthurt. I am just too old for this shit.