I am sorry you are going through this. I feel you on working long hours and trying to mush, it can be hard to balance.
@kk Thank you.
It doesn't help that like most MUSHers, I do struggle with social anxiety and depression. I have that struggle with imposter syndrome etc. So it's kind of triggering to find out that yeah, actually, the shoulder demon was correct with these certain individuals.
Which is totally on me, I guess. Kinda goes back to maybe this hobby isn't for me anymore, no matter how good it has been to me in the past.
@ThoughtBubble Hey whatever you do end up doing for fun? Enjoy it, and I hope it works well for you. Sometimes reconfiguring is really healthy and you never know what you might find. Don't let the negativity bring you down and approach this as a fun life move/exploration?
Best of luck and stay safe.
As for the people who will dislike you, be unwilling to communicate why, yet tell everyone and try to get them to go along:
fuck those guys.
That's short for leave them to their shitiness, make an attempt to nudge those who have been swayed by them once, and find folks who groove on what you offer.
Or as I have been known to say "There is no pair of tits worth putting up with this shit."
@Ghost I am thinking I might put together some low key MOTW games. I have been wanting to do that for a while. Maybe if I can locate some people in my time zone, I can get something started.
@Misadventure lol, I.... think you probably have a point.
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@Ghost I am thinking I might put together some low key MOTW games. I have been wanting to do that for a while. Maybe if I can locate some people in my time zone, I can get something started.
Another thing you can do is gather some people you DO get along with and open up a tabletop game, but then have collaborative writing based on the characters in the story in between sessions. Call it a hybrid.
@ThoughtBubble I have heard plenty of people say his has happened to them. It seems so common that I actually made an explicit rule against it -- "you don't have to play with anyone you don't want to play with, but don't try to convince other people not to play with them" or something like hat.
You have observed something important and quite relevant -- many, many MUers have the brain cooties. Some types of brain cooties get along well with other types of brain cooties but conflict harshly with still other types, and most of them make people idiosyncratically abrasive and idiosyncratically sensitive, so communities with high levels of endemic brain cooties get weird even without anybody being an actual asshole.
As for the people who will dislike you, be unwilling to communicate why, yet tell everyone and try to get them to go along:
fuck those guys.
That's short for leave them to their shitiness, make an attempt to nudge those who have been swayed by them once, and find folks who groove on what you offer.
Or as I have been known to say "There is no pair of tits worth putting up with this shit."
