@helvetica

sorry i got het up

@Pavel said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:

All of these games are ultimately descended from United Heroes, which had like 400-plus pages on MSB because it was run by an incel and staffed by a coterie of maladjusted freaks even by superhero game standards.

The first real split from UH was HAM, created by people who had absolutely no problem with how things were done on UH until one of them, Ruby, an emotionally unstable pathological liar, lost favor with the guy who ran UH. They made no changes from UH except for who was being abusive, unless you count letting Chaucer use his rambling, incoherent, hundreds-of-pages-long “theme” that centered around whatever media he had consumed that week.

(I will pause to say that I hate Ruby with a special intensity because even after a decade there are drooling quasi-humans who believe that I’m a predator because that was the only lie she could think up on the spot to deflect when I outed her e-boyfriend as a serial sexual harasser and stalker of my friends.)

From HAM, you get the Chaucer games and now - whatever, Superhero MUSH, I guess.

Nothing good will ever grow from that poison vine.

oh hi

there is no “good” Age of Heroes game

the “good” one is run by Chaucer from HAM, an abusive, self-obsessed weirdo who has spent years enabling creeps like everyone’s favorite Randian misogynist furry, Vorpal, who once tried to Power Word me in DMs using the wrong name and bullied someone off of HAM for liking a comic they hated

@Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:

@catzilla said in MU Peeves Thread:

With the super incest magic family?

You know, if I had a dollar for every time there was a super incest magic family in our RP spaces…

I miss Passions, too.

@RightMeow said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Prototart

I use to write these five paragraph purple prose descs to try and get on that page. I was successful once. Now I’m like: It’s a tree or It’s a costume - yay.

Free time has changed.

The only game I’m really on right now has an average desc length of like three sentences and mine are all still five paragraphs even tho nobody reads them. I refuse to learn lessons of any kind.

@Yam

One of the earliest like spin-offs of wora was just for bad descs and this complete lunatic who worked with George RR Martin kept sending legal threats to their hosts for violating her trademarks by making fun of her desc

@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.