@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.

@Wuff said in RP Safari - Pacing Styles:

I still remember when continuing a scene meant someone had to manually save a log to a txt file, then post the last couple poses on the continue so people remembered where they at.

God, when I was a kid my mom found a folder where I had like a dozen in-progress scenes from WoD games.

I don’t know why but I feel it’s worth mentioning that while it’s a new(ish) thing in MU-space it’s not new new. It’s a big component of F-List, and it’s before my time but I know there were people doing play-by-post on forums and even over email and fucking Usenet in the 90s.

@Pavel said in RP Safari - Pacing Styles:

@Prototart said in RP Safari - Pacing Styles:

I got it and I’m not even that smart.

I spent yesterday genuinely upset because of something someone on a sex game said about me, it is what it is.

@howyadoin said in RP Safari - Pacing Styles:

No one - and I mean no one’s - dick game is good enough to suffer through async.

You gotta find better dick, there was this guy who played Nightwing who We simply have different lived experiences.

@hellfrog said in Celebrities We've Lost 2026 Edition:

bye felicia

he promised undying commitment to Israel and then he he died which, sorry, sounds pretty antisemitic to me

@Faraday

I got it and I’m not even that smart.

Traditional: Normal MU shit, you and your friend or whatever just posing back and forth.

Distracted: You and your friend fucking around bc you’re both kind of busy but want to do something so you swap a pose an hour or whenever you see the activity light and have a couple of minutes to write something.

Asynch: It’s like you and a friend swapping poses over @mail because their dick game is completely and totally insane there’s a very important scene that has to happen but timelines just can’t link up right.

(you can quote this in material it’s super helpful)

I’ve never been able to get into Async because I’m super flighty and unreliable. A friend of mine who lives in Australia absolutely loves it tho, it lets her do stuff with the 90% of people who aren’t in the Pacific Theater

@junipersky said in RP Standards:

I was generally a shorter poster. 1-6 lines. If I could get by with less, I did, because I wanted to keep things snappy.

As I drew closer to the end of my Mu* career the less I could cope with people who took a half-hour + to pose their three massive paragraphs I ended up only responding to a little of.

i knew someone on shang who would take an hour and a half to do a like two page long pose that was so completely and exclusively about themselves that there was literally nothing to react to or act on

@Gashlycrumb said in Paid Role-Playing:

Once I was supposed to get paid to TS people on a pay-to-TS-people MOO.

no one will be shocked to learn i have TSed (and done peoples descs) for pay

it isn’t really a thing that exists anymore to the best of my knowledge because the entire “MU Community” is like 30 people with worsening joint pain but it’s rampant on discord, where it’s almost exclusively kids getting paid by predators, and Roblox, where it IS exclusively kids getting paid by predators

@Tez said in AI In Poses:

I might not run things through a plagiarism checker, but I literally have seen people steal descriptions from other people and reuse them on other games. (@Roz for example. Someone stole her character desc from Arx and tried to use it on Concordia. As I recall, the player was disciplined. I am not sure if they were banned.)

I have been accused of stealing a desc I wrote bc someone first saw it being used by a person who stole it.