Sep 6, 2019, 7:15 PM

@Ganymede said in Getting Young Blood Into MU*'ing:

@Prototart said in Getting Young Blood Into MU*'ing:

And that's ignoring just, the usual social maladaptive shit that's so common on games that it's just taken for granted, the people who have no idea how to interact with anyone who isn't broken the same way they are and the way that geek social fallacies are like burned into the fabric of everything and not to be questioned

I’m going to say this in a non-repulsive way in response.

If you think you can avoid MUSH maladaptive behaviors in real life, you are either tremendously naive or stupidly optimistic. You might as well admit that you live in a box if you can honestly and introspectively believe that real life is any less dysfunctional.

it's a wildly different kind of maladaptive, it's one there's no financial incentive to put up with, and it's one that's so engrained and so tolerated that you get sneered at for even questioning it

to people who come from traditional geek milieus maybe a lot of it's shit that mostly goes unnoticed or they're just like completely inured to, but for people who don't it's this white hot flame that drives you slowly insane or sends you to the door,

i did not invite people from my church group or my whatever, my gender studies class, i invited people i work with. so i invited strippers, waitresses, bartenders, bouncers/security guys, go back like a billion years to when I had a social life and you can add a couple of people from the goth/fetish scene

literally nobody ever lasted longer than I think six months at the absolute longest