I am PUMPED for BEAR.

@Trashcan i kind of agree with you but going to the Aushwitz place during the week between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur is a flag on the play.

I think about this sometimes because by isolating sexual assault as something we just don’t do, we protect survivors from encountering it unexpectedly, but it also means that if a survivor’s story is going to be told it’s gonna be allegorical. It does bum me out a little that there are whole topics we just have to avoid out of… the necessity of the commons, can we handle this with randos.

IDK. IDK! It’s become a cheap storytelling hack for so many shitty writers to add angst / depth / occasionally even manpain, but on the other hand overcoming your abuser is a really powerful story potentially that we can’t tap.

With that said, I agree that MUSHes generally probably can’t handle it.

Child npcs, like pet npcs, are annoying when done badly and fine when done well. I find that when they are the focus of the rp I’m usually bored unless something unusual and interesting is happening, but on the other hand sometimes really cute shit happens.

@Dreampipe it sounds like something that belongs on What We Do in the Shadows.

I think the main reason not to do it is to keep the game feeling super accessible to people who never touched the first one. I’d love to find easter eggs of my blorbos in the lore, but I actually would prefer folks who played the first one to not have any special cookies at all. Maybe I’m just gunshy of people getting mad at me for rping, but…

@Ashkuri It’s hard to put a finger sometimes on what makes rp feel flat. There needs to be something in the poses that I can stick into and respond. Humor is great, not required but great. Active verbs help. Taking an interest in what is happening / the setting / the other characters help. Buy-in – don’t no-sell the threat, let other characters matter to your rp.

Be… interesting… this is not helpful to anyone.

It helps if you become bird.

@dvoraen Yeah. We have been evacuated. My cats hate all the moving around. My father is driving me nuts.

It is a challenge.

hello, my peeve is that my town is on fire and it is a pain in the ass.

@howyadoin this person seems like a creep & liar who needs a solid dose of the banhammer but I never think OOC lying is okay with or without hardons

@Evilgrayson Fair. As an American I sometimes forget the rest of the world exists except in so far as their time zones are inconvenient to my rp.

Counterpoint: there are young people finding MUs for the first time even now and it has been an absolute fucking JOY watching them dive in and enjoy the fuck out of everything. They +comp for logs that they’ve read that don’t even mention them. Yes, even straight up just social RP.

Restorative of the soul.

16+ is baffling from a liability perspective. 16-18 protects you from nothing. What?

I don’t care if there’s magically no creeps on my game, I still don’t want to deal with having minors on it.

When I was 15, I thought games not letting minors on was AN OUTRAGE.

I was not correct. I was 15.

@Pavel i actually think night court of the freehold would be really fun to rp.

Even asking for gov’t-issued ID as a private RP server is opening yourself up to wildly unnecessary liability IMO. You don’t have the capacity to effectively check it, for one thing. There’s no way you’re secure from, as others in this thread have pointed out, the obvious hazard for identity theft.

Like, there’s so many things wrong with this it makes my head spin. I was already not going to rp on discord, but it hurts my heart to know that the next generation of RPers is doing something this potentially self-destructive and dumb in the name of protecting the children. Y’all, the children who want to get in can fake IDs and the adults you’re turning off with your overreach were never at risk.

@bear_necessities l m a o

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!

@Yam the trouble is that people like this are generally bad at comedy due to a fundamental inability to read the room.

What consistently happens to me when there is a cap is I am consistently rping and it doesn’t matter because my character is gonna be behind someone whose memory works right no matter what. Time gating xp spends is especially bad for this. I dumped 8 XP into a skill, my character was working on that this whole time - why it matter when I hit the button?

I can see why it is lame to do it mid action scene when the skill is being rolled. Otherwise? This exists just to torture people whose brains work like mine.

@Roz I ALSO HATE THEM AND SO DOES MY ADHD