Diversity Representation in MU*ing
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@insomniac7809 said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
@HelloProject I've mentioned this before on the site, but I know one black online RPG player who only plays white because of the time a white dude saw her PB and paged her about how glad he was that there was another "street" character for his kung-fu crack-smoking gangster lesbian to play with.
The PC was a lawyer.
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@HelloProject This touches on some of the stuff that was prevalent on Shang that just... really made me not want to play there.
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idk why but I remember that somebody played DMX as, like... a were-spider, i think, on some wod place I was on when I was 14ish
@surreality said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
@HelloProject This touches on some of the stuff that was prevalent on Shang that just... really made me not want to play there.
god, there was a period where i guess there was just, a trend to do these super racist caricatures there
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@Prototart Yeah. I knew a few PoC players (players, not their characters) who had major problems because of it, too.
I know one had endless requests from people who wanted the gross because his character was black. And he was like... not human black, even, he was a supernatural creature that was literally like volcanic crust with lava fire cracks in it and whatnot, but people saw 'black' and... cue asshattery.
He'd already given up playing a PoC at the time, but even that wasn't safe.
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@Prototart said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
@Auspice said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
I for one always call in a GM to help me end my TS.
one time when i was a teenager i started a “sex scene” then called for a staffer to judge combat because i was there to kill the guy
you can imagine how smoothly this went and how many names i was not called
Critical roll for BONERKILLER.
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@KDraygo said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
@Prototart said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
@Auspice said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
I for one always call in a GM to help me end my TS.
one time when i was a teenager i started a “sex scene” then called for a staffer to judge combat because i was there to kill the guy
you can imagine how smoothly this went and how many names i was not called
Critical roll for BONERKILLER.
I dunno, snuff is a fetish...
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Yeah, like... don't tell people that story on Shang. You'd get requests.
I had -- note the past tense here -- a long-standing habit of having characters sarcastically spitball some absurd bullshit in an entry pose, like... walking in while finishing an argument on a phone, or grousing to an assistant about how they were at their wits end because they're trying to find/do some patently ridiculous thing.
On Shang, I had to stop doing that.
Because, in the prep for a party/festival thing, I posed in complaining to the person helping me about 'how the character had to insist we were not going to literally spit and roast someone to eat alive at the party' to another coworker.
At which point someone in the public space I entered started to ask if I would please please please please please do this to them and wouldn't leave me alone for two weeks begging me to do it every few hours, despite me telling them NO repeatedly.
...so, uh, yeah. Cautionary tale, y'all.
Oh fucking well.
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@surreality said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
Yeah, like... don't tell people that story on Shang. You'd get requests.
I had -- note the past tense here -- a long-standing habit of having characters sarcastically spitball some absurd bullshit in an entry pose, like... walking in while finishing an argument on a phone, or grousing to an assistant about how they were at their wits end because they're trying to find/do some patently ridiculous thing.
On Shang, I had to stop doing that.
Because, in the prep for a party/festival thing, I posed in complaining to the person helping me about 'how the character had to insist we were not going to literally spit and roast someone to eat alive at the party' to another coworker.
At which point someone in the public space I entered started to ask if I would please please please please please do this to them and wouldn't leave me alone for two weeks begging me to do it every few hours, despite me telling them NO repeatedly.
...so, uh, yeah. Cautionary tale, y'all.
This is why I no longer play characters who eat people.
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@surreality said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
At which point someone in the public space I entered started to ask if I would please please please please please do this to them and wouldn't leave me alone for two weeks begging me to do it every few hours, despite me telling them NO repeatedly.
you don’t even need to do or even just SAY anything, like, the very act of existing is enough for some people there to just - like not only obsess about you but to obsess about you in the fucking craziest and most specific of ways and scenarios
if your char has german or Scandinavian features somebody will want you to be a nazi, if your char has platforms someone will ask you to crush their nuts, if your char has literally ever been in any comic book or cartoon or video game or whatever, ever, jlee will page you literally every time you log on bc he wants you to have tits the size of a mid-size car & ass cheeks that “grind together”
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@Prototart I used to keep a couple of alts logged in to idle.
The same few dudes would always page with the random requests, and they were just going down the list and paging every mistress with this.
I know this because I'd see the same page appear on two or more screens within 20 minutes from the same person.
Once, I called them on it and said I am not inclined to RP with someone who does that, because their so-called 'interest in my fascinating concept' was obviously nonsense, if they're paging the same thing verbatim to every mistress on the game.
Dude swears with all the faux offense he can muster he isn't doing that.
...until I c+p the pages he sent to the two other windows over to him with the timestamps, at which he swears a lot and demands I never contact him again. (This is aces OK by me, after all he's the one who contacted me.)
Was the same dude so cosmically stupid that he still did the same thing (on all three windows) three days later?
YOU BET HE WAS.
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I specifically avoid games run by people who harp on about this sort of thing. Please don't do this. It really hurts your reputation.
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@BroadStreetBully said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
I specifically avoid games run by people who harp on about this sort of thing. Please don't do this. It really hurts your reputation.
Given there's over six hundred posts in this thread... what are you referencing specifically?
He/Him
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@Tinuviel the opening post. Caring about "representation" in this context is the domain of people with an ax to grind. I've had some very negative experiences with people who bring this sort of topic up and I've had very few positive ones.
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@Cassite said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
Looks like he had a pretty negative experience just now.
That's what I'm known for.
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In this helpful video, start at around minute 8 and keep listening.
This is why I support nailing down certain discussions on this board regarding diversity.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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@Ganymede said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
In this helpful video, start at around minute 8 and keep listening.
This is why I support nailing down certain discussions on this board regarding diversity.
I've seen this video, it's a great video.
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Is that the same guy who did "This is Phil Fish"? Because it sounds a lot like him.
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I love this show because of comedic takes and discussions on these very real minor cultural things.
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@Ganymede said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
In this helpful video, start at around minute 8 and keep listening.
This is why I support nailing down certain discussions on this board regarding diversity.
It strikes me when listening to that video how most of the described 'playbook' applies equally to radicals of all stripes. It's distressingly common to see people argue you should cut ties with all friends and family who do not 100% agree with your current political convictions.
What is obvious to you may not be obvious to me and vice versa.
