@Jennkryst said in Kinds of Mu*s Wanted: Let me rephrase. I will be your Time TS-slut. It's still not 5 PM, so I don't have time to reciprocate. Go make me a sammich.

Hey guys? Maybe move the discussion to a thread not about dead celebrities, please?

@insomniac7809 Oh it was terrible, but I own it and I watch it like once a month. XD

I'll check it out when you've got something concrete. Still iffy on doing unique theme over FS since it would just save you a lot of work and unique tends to be harder to get and keep players for, but I'd give it a go regardless.

@Waller said in The Basketball Thread: That was so unexpected. But it was worth it, just to hear an entire barbershop full of people yell "Paul George?!" at once. The Thunder need to go into an immediate rebuild. I suspect Westbook will be converted into picks by the end of next week at the most, and pieces like Adams traded for whatever young players they can get - his contract isn't too bad but it is not great either. The Raptors need to regroup. They have some great young pieces (Siakam, OG, FVV) on good contracts and some expiring ones. I'd trade the latter soon - they won't go anywhere with this team even in the East since teams like the Sixers and Bucks far outgun them now. A possibility might be trading Lowry (who's an expiring) and maybe picks for Westbrook, depending on how the GMs feel their chances in free agency are. The Lakers won't be nearly as good as they would have been with Kawhi, let's be real, but they did build a more rounded roster. The caveat (and what they can have a legitimate beef) is that because of Kawhi they waited for too long and many of the better support cast went to other teams - if his camp just used them as leverage it was a shitty but legitimate move. For me a lot will depend on how good Boogie comes back as after a full summer's rehab and training - offensively they are a fucking juggernaut but defensively they have so many issues. As for the Clippers they look like title favorites. Their guard and small forward rotation is insane, with several great shooters who can all play defense as well - Leonard, George, Beverley, Williams, etc. They don't have paint protection worth a damn other than Zubac though but they might not need it if. That's a 49 win team which took the full Warriors to 6 games, and they just replaced two overachievers with two MVP candidates. Jerry West is basically the best team builder in sports history and it's not even close.

@Vorpal said in Comics Stuff: It's a very rare moment right now. A lot of what DC is doing right now is good. I haven't said those words since, maybe, 2009... maybe even longer. I'd say enjoy it while it lasts- Marvel is currently doing not-so-hot with their Civil War II fiasco, which is bogging down the entire line with its gloom, doom and haven't-we-done-this-already? Jesus Christ I wish Civil War II would just END. THIS WASN'T GOOD THE FIRST TIME, MARVEL.

@Sparks said in Difference between an NPC and a Staff PC?: It's not even maliciously done, but OOC knowledge will make even tiny IC hints seem much more obvious than they really are Because there are players who play against the GM, sometimes not even maliciously. If the GM has a mystery, the players, not the characters, are trying to figure it out. So many D&D modules are built around this conceit. I’ve played games where the GM is (are) working so closely with the players that this drama goes away and everyone wants to find out what the characters do. I love this kind of storyteller. (On my list: @Ganymede , Troy, and yes, even Ernst’s player once.) @Tinuviel said in Difference between an NPC and a Staff PC?: And lord help you if your NPC says something that is incorrect because the character themselves doesn't know the truth... We need a way to gently break it to people that NPCs are sometimes parts of the living world and not cartoon characters or plot dispensers. The NPCs in Haunted Memories’ Changeling sphere may not have been nuanced, but when they stabbed you in the back you weren’t surprised.

@Arkandel said in Pokemon Go: People want to sue because it's where the money is, and there's no point suing the moron - there's no profit in it. They need to sue someone bigger than that, but who? The phone maker is a hard target, as is the service provider... the app that's been making headlines and would be worried about bad press though? Nice juicy target. This reminds me of the woman who received a Darwin Award (or maybe just honorable mention) for driving into a tree because she was busy feeding her Tamagotchi while driving.

@apos said in Alternative Formats to MU: Could probably change how people enter a scene to accompany a set, to formalize the culture for whether someone is 'in' or not, compared to the whole, 'I'm here but I'm not here because I haven't made a set' thing that I find vaguely ridiculous and awkward. That's again one of those things that I think becomes much easier in a web-only game. The scene is a web page. You can access it if it's public, or if you've been invited to. You join a scene when you pose into it, and you can do so from any of your alts. The lurking state is still there - it's what you do when you're reading the existing poses on the page to see what's going on. But it's invisible to the other participants. But alas, telnet.

@Scissors said: Speaking of Trolling, we were just having coffee RP the other day when we were trolled by a faceless man, who came through the door but was only detectable by some of us. That caused a bit of IC freakout! Shakes fist at @tragedyjones (P.S. In case that wasn't clear, this refers to a a GOOD kind of trolling). Kill it with fire?

@tnp That would have the potential to be a hell of a lot of fun.

@Ganymede said in Eliminating social stats: @Thenomain said in Eliminating social stats: Hey, at least you'd be doing it in an FS3 way. @faraday can't fault you for that, can she? Can she?! Yes. Well probably, but as long as you do it the way the game is intended. e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxo3Jy3p8zo

@mietze said in Spirit Lake - Discussion: @tempest of course there are going to be upvotes for any time a staff puts hard limits in place to make things more manageable and sustainable for what they want to do. It doesn't matter if someone likes or dislikes the staff, or is super interested or not interested in the game itself. I think we are at a point where people bothering to think and carve out boundaries for themselves and not be pressured to try and be all things to all people and open themselves up for a rush of people or huge populations or every sphere if that is not something they feel they can handle is finally seen as a good thing

@auspice said in How should IC discrimination be handled?: I played a heroin addict on a game once. I made sure to be careful of who I played it around (since I know it can be triggering), but what surprised me more than people who it bothered (which I get)... ... was how lightly other people took it? Like to some it was this cutesy 'oh your character has the addict flaw? Mine does, too! To caffeine!' If you're going to play an addict, I'm going to take it lightly not because I would make light of it, but because I happen to live near the county with the highest per capita death-from-overdose rate in the country. (We made the news.) Addiction isn't funny, but I handle the grim reality with absurd laughter. To do otherwise would make me either severely depressed or violently enraged. (I've had a couple of friends long ago who died of overdoses to other drugs.)

@carex said in Let's talk about TS.: It dosen't matter if someone walks in wearing a giant, neon purple, strap-on it isn't "forcing a kink" on someone unless that viewer finds it arousing and is made uncomfortable by that arousal. In some cases, sure. But I wouldn't call this one a universal. (It's often easy enough to spot in the 'methinks thou dost protest too much' sense when this is true, but that's also not any sort of certainty.) Some people are hot for gore and mutilation for sexual gratification; someone being made uncomfortable by that isn't necessarily going to be ashamed of their own secret sexual woo from gore and mutilation, they may simply find it horrifying and gross if they don't like gore or mutilation period. There are people into racist or sexist themes in fetish play; someone being put off by that isn't necessarily put off because they are ashamed they find it also hot, but because they're not fans of racism or sexism. Even some of this is a RL vs. VR thing. If I walked into a fetish club and people were engaging in scat play, and that's allowed there, I may just be plain and simple put off by the smell and leave. Until we have smellovision in VR (OH PLEASE GODS NEVER NO PLEASE NO), that's not going to be an issue in the same way. There are fetishes for damned near everything, so the reasons for an objection are going to vary a lot.

Hey I'm pretty new to this community, I'm one of the Mudlet developers (windows/macos/linux native client). The conversation touched the topic of UIs and I thought I'd pitch in with my thoughts on this - the power of MU*'s is, obviously, in their text - but text is a steep learning curve to get into. You have to admit that few people in the world like a wall of text, reading instructions, or not getting instant gratification these days. This is where having a cool UI for your game can help you out. It gives instant gratification to the newbie to see colourful pictures and a cool interface, and it makes them stick around longer to read the reams of text they're gonna have to learn to love. We encourage games and players to create UIs for this very reason, see some sample UIs here. Many other game admins have arrived at the same conclusion - see custom clients for BatMUD, IREs, and so on. On the topic of server <-> client interaction - I agree that an out of band protocol is necessary for a modern server as it just cuts a lot of the boilerplate out, so to speak, that players will be otherwise forced to create. My preference is GMCP since it is JSON-based and JSON is a lot easier to work with, but we support a few in Mudlet and even have the ability for scripts to add support for more.

@the-tree-of-woe No worries -- I should have been more clear on that myself, and I'm glad to correct the record here in case anybody else thought I meant you, too.

@ixokai I do believe the attitude and expectations of staff sets the tone for the whole game. It's one of the reasons why I push Dystopia Rising's codes of conduct so hard -- the behavior of the people running that event was the most empathetic I have ever seen from people running a LARP and everything about the event reflected it, from the behavior of the players to the number of women and minorities who legged it out to the sticks to participate in the LARP, which was set right in the heart of lily-white Western New York (Dansville). No shit.