Empire State Heroes Mush

[Ghost]

@Auspice said in Empire State Heroes Mush:

@Ghost said in Empire State Heroes Mush:

@Auspice said in Empire State Heroes Mush:

LOOK WE ALL WANT TO DO BEDROOM STUFF TO MARISA TOMEI AUNT MAY

Whoa whoa. Watch that use of all. I kinda prefer My Cousin Vinnie or The Wrestler Marisa Tomei.

LOOK WE ALL WANT TO DO BEDROOM STUFF TO MARISA TOMEI

BETTER?!

Technically "not in the bedroom" could be a preference sooooo

[Auspice]

@Ghost said in Empire State Heroes Mush:

@Auspice said in Empire State Heroes Mush:

@Ghost said in Empire State Heroes Mush:

@Auspice said in Empire State Heroes Mush:

LOOK WE ALL WANT TO DO BEDROOM STUFF TO MARISA TOMEI AUNT MAY

Whoa whoa. Watch that use of all. I kinda prefer My Cousin Vinnie or The Wrestler Marisa Tomei.

LOOK WE ALL WANT TO DO BEDROOM STUFF TO MARISA TOMEI

BETTER?!

Technically "not in the bedroom" could be a preference sooooo

[mietze]

You would be surprised at how much people will come after you first TS and relationship play when you play an elderly pc.

Its almost always because they cant be bothered to look or read, but.

That being said I have had PCs that would totally pick a date being verbally trounced and enjoying the wit of an Olenna Tyrell PC over a naked lap dance from the hottest hott Instagram model 20something ninja/phd/warrior PC, so maybe I'm just biased.

Someone did make a remark to me that superhero places were even more sex crazed than WoD, though so I mean I can see why maybe those pcs don't get played.

But come on. Alfred would get laid more often than batman probably.

[Auspice]

@mietze said in Empire State Heroes Mush:

Someone did make a remark to me that superhero places were even more sex crazed than WoD

they are, 100%.

I can go 6+ months on a WoD place without having my PC ever get hit on.
Superhero games, playing a female char is basically like walking onto Shang with kink flags of 'ANYTHING GOES' it feels like.

[Ganymede]

@Auspice said in Empire State Heroes Mush:

Superhero games, playing a female char is basically like walking onto Shang with kink flags of 'ANYTHING GOES' it feels like.

When I played a female superhero, I didn't get propositioned once.

But when I play a murderous psychopath or grumpy-ass curmudgeon, bitches be all like:

[Auspice]

@Ganymede said in Empire State Heroes Mush:

@Auspice said in Empire State Heroes Mush:

Superhero games, playing a female char is basically like walking onto Shang with kink flags of 'ANYTHING GOES' it feels like.

When I played a female superhero, I didn't get propositioned once.

Like, c'mon, man.

Did you play or did you RP all of twice before disappearing into the sunset.

[Ganymede]

@Auspice said in Empire State Heroes Mush:

Did you play or did you RP all of twice before disappearing into the sunset.

For a couple of months, thank you.

I did have a good time, though.

[Auspice]

@Ganymede said in Empire State Heroes Mush:

@Auspice said in Empire State Heroes Mush:

Did you play or did you RP all of twice before disappearing into the sunset.

For a couple of months, thank you.

I did have a good time, though.

I mean, you DO have a pattern. >.>

But yeah, IN GENERAL, most of my female chars on MUs rarely ever get hit on. Superhero games are the exception. It's like the instant they hit the grid: pursuit begins.

[Carex]

@Wolfs said in Empire State Heroes Mush:

you may think staff owes you a detailed explanation as to why they might turn down something you want in your background or want to have access to, but the truth is they don't.

100% correct, and also 100% the wrong attitude if you want to keep your game thriving.

"Fuck the players, I'm the boss and my word is law." isn't any way to run a business and make no mistake, any form of MMO is a business.

You are trying to convince your players to invest time and effort into making the product (the game experience) for your other users to share.
They are a vital cog in the machine of your game.

Don't break the cogs.

Your players are both the consumer of your product and the workers making it.
They even work for free! It's a wonderful deal for you!
Don't piss them off.

I know it's really annoying to have to stop your day and slowly explain to them what is happening and why, but it's important.

The moment your player base starts to feel that staff is working against them and not with them, your game starts to die.

[onigiri]

Unrelated: This probably doesn't help things, but this update got me curiously reading the recent Batfamily logs for those mentions, and, instead, all of my OPP alarms got tripped. Anyone with history with him may similarly pick up the tells in his posing style to know which Batfamily FC I'm talking about (which I feel weird about saying in specific, in case I'm wrong.)

While I trust my gut, this is still conjecture, and I don't play on this game to know for sure, but... be careful, female players/characters, in case?

[TiredEwok]

@onigiri

Huh. I haven't picked up on any, but I am notoriously bad at picking up those kinds of vibes.

[Carex]

@onigiri said in Empire State Heroes Mush:

OPP alarms

What is a OPP alarm?

[Ganymede]

@Auspice

I know you don’t mean any disrespect, but you’re kind of poking at a button.

I love my PCs. I spend a great deal of time crafting them. I don’t like saying good-bye to them. Even though I did not get to play Magma as much as I wanted to — I really wanted to — I had to let her go.

I am a full-time partner, business owner, lawyer, mentor, and parent, but don’t think for a moment that I am not sometimes tempted to shirk a responsibility to play pretend with my friends.

Life’s tough enough without pointing out how my toys sometimes collect dust.

[onigiri]

@Carex Oh, he's a predatory player who's been surfacing recently among a lot of MUSHes -- generally full of pathological lying and coercive behaviours to sexually prey on women players. There's an entire terrifying Hogpit thread about him.

He's also been endemic on comic mushes, and I've recognized his writing from personal run-ins -- he harassed a lot of my friends, before running off with his typical 'I have cancer' routine.

[Carex]

@Auspice said in Empire State Heroes Mush:

most of my female chars on MUs rarely ever get hit on. Superhero games are the exception. It's like the instant they hit the grid: pursuit begins.

To be fair, you are playing a woman in a fandom targeting horny, teenage boys, based on the most sexualized art possible without becoming softcore porn.

Playing a woman on a super-hero game is a lot like going to a club hosting an incel convention.
You can't really claim to be shocked when someone creeps on you.
You knew what you were getting into when you walked in the door.
All the warning signs are there, ignore them at your own risk.

Now, you can make the argument that the fandom shouldn't be this way but until you figure out a way to solve puberty, it probably always will be.

[Carex]

@onigiri said in Empire State Heroes Mush:

There's an entire terrifying Hogpit thread about him.

Link? What is the Hogpit?

[Tempest]

@Carex said in Empire State Heroes Mush:

@onigiri said in Empire State Heroes Mush:

There's an entire terrifying Hogpit thread about him.

Link? What is the Hogpit?

My territory.

[Carex]

@Tempest said in Empire State Heroes Mush:

Link? What is the Hogpit?

My territory.

That's not a helpful answer.

[Arkandel]

@Carex said in Empire State Heroes Mush:

@onigiri said in Empire State Heroes Mush:

There's an entire terrifying Hogpit thread about him.

Link? What is the Hogpit?

You are much better off not finding out. But you will.

Edit: It's a section of this forum you need to opt-in for. The rules are different there, and flames or personal attacks are acceptable (within certain limits).

[Carex]

@Arkandel said in Empire State Heroes Mush:

You are much better off not finding out. But you will.

Honestly, I don't play MU* anymore. I want to, I enjoy them, but every time I do I end up making something then getting bored with it and moving on a few months later. Reading about other people experiencing the game is about as much effort as I can put into it right now.

It just seems like you always put in ten times more effort than you get any reward out of it.
Playing MUSHes feels like being trapped in a WB T.V. series where everything is dramatic but then resets back to normal at the end of the episode and no progress is ever made. It wears you down.