Now, questions for us:

The largest sentiment gap is by preferred game style – MUD fans average 3.53 while MUSH fans average 2.85 (49.2% vs 19.5% happy) (Table 10, Figure 10).

Why so unhappy, fam?

Thank you for doing this! It was fascinating.

I’m curious: you highlighted some areas the MUSH / RPI / MUD community varied. How strongly did you feel that difference in the data?

Also noted that you aligned MUSH and RPI results more than I expected. I’ve tend to think of RPI as a type of MUD. Do you find that RPI aligns more with MUSH or is it very much its own thing?

I’m the fucking armchair general. The armchair quarterback. I’m on r/BMD building my fantasy RP league. I’m in the office pool for March MUDness.

I’m out of metaphors.

@voiceinthevoid said in Wikibara’s allegations:

@Kestrel

– I appreciate Tek’s input in changing the name.

It’s Tez.

Just – to be clear. You’re fine. Just want everyone to know who I am, which is Tez, with a z.

Glad you guys had a good conversation.

@Kestrel said in Antisemitism allegedly:

Maybe it also really was an honest mistake to have created a whole new thread, and the intention was to reply directly to the comments in context. But I really wish this board didn’t now have a whole thread titled “Antisemitism Allegedly” about how, allegedly, allegations of antisemitism cannot be trusted. Did this need to be a topic here?

It’s possible to rename threads. V, I’d consider it. Person to person, player to player. Not mod voice.

@Faraday said in "My Guy Syndrome":

@Roz said in "My Guy Syndrome":

we’re not talking about TTRPGs, though; we’re talking about MU*s. they may take systems from TTRPGs, stats and dice and such, but the social structure of how players have to persistently interact is entirely different from a tabletop experience.

Yes, I realize MUs are not TTRPGS (obviously). I said it was because of the TTRPG influence, which I believe came over along with the “stats and dice and such”.

Seriously - have you seen “yes-and/no-but” as a commonplace principle in your MUSHing experience? Because I haven’t, even on games with a cooperative focus.

Yes, absolutely, to such a degree your question baffles me so I ask:

What do you think this looks like in practice?

@Roz brb digging up the code that does that and making it truncate at one

So SOMEONE who will REMAIN NAMELESS told me about a Discord RP ad that entertained her. It was deeply 2000s MUs. So I’ve done this deep dive on Discord RP servers, etc., to try to understand what the world is like out there.

The cultures are so different that it’s wild.

Literate RP. Semi-literate RP. I don’t think we really have those distinguishing marks because I think all RP in MU*s is assumed to be literate.

Except just now I tried to google literate vs semi-literate for definitions and apparently it has to do with length, not grammar and readability at all.

We don’t really talk about that kind of RP standards in the MU* community, do we? We talk about length, pacing, etc., but not in the same way others do. So what would you consider the RP standards to be on your game? Do you think it’s helpful to post? I don’t think anyone really ever does.

Some stuff on grid vs web scenes forked into it’s own thread here: https://brandmu.day/topic/644/grid-vs-web-scenes/10

@Trashcan said in Grid vs Web Scenes:

TEZ, THIS IS OFF TOPIC, fork me if you want.

fork u

(from https://brandmu.day/topic/643/rp-safari-pacing-styles/80)

Chud

Also banned: just watch me, a certain hunger, Sub-Zero, Hatsune Twe, kittypilled, smoke break

@MisterBoring I agree. I think that’s the only position that matters.

Well, except maybe also ‘I don’t want to RP with AI, and it’s against the rules, so people using AI are breaking the rules, ban them.’

@somasatori said in AI In Poses:

Even the staunchest “LLMs reduce the mental load/writing barrier on the player to dig into the story” advocates have to admit that would be a useless future for the hobby.

No one has to admit anything and YOU CAN’T MAKE THEM!!!

@somasatori This is inaccurate to how they would actually respond. I was actually just saying this elsewhere, but the technology changes RAPIDLY, and we are fooling ourselves to think that is what it looks like, or that what we recognize now we will recognize in six or even three months.

@somasatori Yeah. It looked like AI to me and it’s not the only game out there that looked like it had AI content to me. I don’t personally care as much about code, probably bc I’m not a coder, but the content is the heart and soul of it for me, and it sucks to see.

@Jumpscare said in AI In Poses:

@Tez said in AI In Poses:

I saw a lot of people going ‘oh no, people might think I’m AI’ on the other thread but no examples of anyone actually getting incorrectly flagged. I think these are strawmen. Have we seen it happen?

I put some of my writing for room descs into an AI detector. Almost every one was marked as AI. Then I tried some from a former builder who I know was using AI (but I hadn’t honed my personal detection methods well enough to spot it, and we’ve since removed all of her descs). And it came back as not AI. This was back in early 2024, though, so maybe detection methods have improved in almost 2 years.

I think a lot of us can say this about things we’ve written. Sometimes, especially because as a hobby we do often write a lot , and often in the areas these datasets are trained on, the way that we write CAN look sus. Lord knows we do, and have, and did raise this concern in the other thread.

But has anyone actually disciplined you for the things you’ve sincerely written, though? That’s the case I’m actually interested in, not the anxieties people have that they might accidentally get flagged as AI and banned on an off day. I just don’t think that’s happening.