Sometimes there’ll be a player you really like that you just kinda lose touch with after you both lose the connective tissue of the game you were on at any given time. MUSHing is a transitory hobby, I try not to get too down about it.

Then 15 years will pass.

Then you meet a player you really like a new game and you both think you’re a TOTALLY NEW FUN PERSON.

Then one day you’re talking about old games and you realize that, in fact, you played together quite a lot on that one random game 15 years ago, and the internet has now brought you back into proximity for the first time in this decade+.

Sometimes the smallness of the hobby is actually nice.

Thank you BMD mods for making it easier to rubberneck and preserve this trashfire…I mean stay informed.

NGL the thing I’m trying to wrap my head around is this pile of refuse passing as a game not having a WORA/MSB thread prior to this.

I voted no due to the potential for abuse by bad actors but get why the Magicians guy deleted his post and think the kind of reception is worth reflecting upon.

@mietze said in MU Peeves Thread:

I wish people didn’t always turn this into “if you’re not in action/plot its because you just prefer social things” that is honest far from the truth a lot of the time.

I was once told - by someone in control of plot stuff - that because I was a ‘social RPer’ and in a decent number of scenes (many of which I asked for) that I didn’t need plot involvement. It was a hell of a thing and like five years later I’m still mad about it.

I have no interest in this game and shall never be present upon it but my friend in Beelezebub I do not think this proves the point you think it does.

@Cobalt
Whatever worked or didn’t work about The Pack, I really hope the experience wasn’t too discouraging for you. Like I said lots of posts back, it DID seem like a game a lot of players responded to in positive ways, and I am really impressed with how you responded to an atmosphere that you didn’t feel good about being the gamerunner of anymore, because that was obviously really hard and Unfun to deal with this directly. I think it’s always constructive to reflect on why something didn’t work, or didn’t work for you personally, or get across what you wanted to get across, but I hope that doesn’t mean it was as wholly negative experience because you are a gamerunner lots of people like and respect and it’d be awesome to see another project from you in the MUSH space when you were excited to do it.

@Narrator
lol my dude did you just compare yourself to Jesus on a message board? Is that where we are now?

I thought about going back but end of the day I came to the same conclusion I did a while ago: I left my most active period on Arx on a really good note and that’s the experience I want as my strongest memory of the game. It’s cool to see a chapter of it get a conclusion, though, a lot of MUs don’t, and I’ll be interested to see how it ties it up.

@Selira said in Macha Awareness (And Unappreciation) thread:

I’m still pretty shocked Derp made up a multiparagraph theory wholecloth and tried so hard to sell it. Why? What was the benefit of that kind of speculation? I realize I’m speculating here, myself, but he’s more than welcome to come here and provide the answers.

That was the first moment I was sorry I was banned (apart from every time I try to find something on that mess of a board because the bad search is even worse if you aren’t logged in) because I would’ve enjoyed enthusiastically and repeatedly reporting Derp’s own post for violating his ‘you need to bring receipts’ and ‘no personal attacks’ rules.

The idea of dealing with players who think they’re a paying ‘customer’ always gets a legit, IRL, full-body shudder out of me when this comes up.

I’m also uninterested in pay-for-play MU-style RP, but I also never subbed to an MMO, which ate a lot of MUDers when they were just coming on the scene. To some degree I think I’m just not a player that appeals to, at least when it comes to this stuff.

@Yam said in MU Peeves Thread:

I’m vaguely reminded of some L&L that drew ire for taking a break for Christmas.

Oh, it’s not just that L&L game (iirc it was Concordia but I didn’t play there so this is just the haze of forum memory). It is shocking how this comes up, every single year, across the spectrum of games. People complained on the last place I staffed when a major plot arc concluded in late October/early November and staff said they weren’t starting new ones until after the holidays. IDK, my friends.

Kinda in addition to that, my experience is that if you’re passionate about Your Weird Thing, it’ll find its audience (if it’s made with some degree of competence and dedication, which are harder, but leaving that aside). It might not be the audience you expect, and you may have to tank some of your buddies being offended you didn’t make the game ‘they’ wanted, but it’s more rewarding in the end.

@Ashkuri said in Brainstorming Game Ideas:

IMO you can’t build for “what people want.” You can’t even build for what your friends might like, because even the closest of us don’t always like the same things. You can only build what you personally love, and that personal enthusiasm makes the work less “hell.”

The only thing that will motivate someone to create and put the hard work into starting a game long-term is to build what YOU want, to some degree with no eye toward whether it might be popular or not. That doesn’t mean ignoring advice, though frankly sometimes it does.

@mietze said in Web-based CharGen or in-game CharGen:

Player ooc behavior during the application process will catch more people. How do they handle being told no? How do they handle a mild wait time? How many arguments/how much showboating do they do on channels in the wait time?

How someone handles thematic correction during the App Process is incredibly telling. It’s also much easier to screen Problems out at this point than it is once they get on the grid and feel empowered because some staffer rubber-stamped them.

@Yam
Picking up a roster on Arx was like that. Creating an OC was a fairly fiddly process that I gave up on the first time. Arx seemingly wasn’t really optimized for doing that, though, and being steered toward a roster was always kinda working as intended imo. You make your choices.

Even as somebody who still plays on-client a fair amount, I wouldn’t want to do CG in a pure text interface again. It’s just so much easier on web to save things/proof things/edit things.

Also staff-side it’s way easier to make small changes if I need to, give notes to players, or see where somebody’s getting an error (either through user error or something screwy with the game).

LOL I still like to RP.

Also other things, but I don’t think it’s inhibiting my life. I go in and out of it, like most hobbies.

When it went down a friend of mine commented that it coincided with one of the Cloudflare faceplants, which makes sense as a ‘I don’t want to go through any effort to maintain this’ moment. It was just unresponsive the last time I tried to pull it up but I can’t say I’m surprised the URL got snatched up by a bad actor, given that trolls seemed to still haunt both it and BMD periodically.

@helvetica said in AI In Poses:

@hellfrog said in AI In Poses:

wow wow
wonder where they are from? what happened in the mushing world

I don’t want to ruin the plot of Serial Experiments Lain for you, but…

My crystal ball is telling me they’re from a chan, of some sort. Perhaps a chan of 4s, if you will…