Character likeness
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@sunny
Thank you for unwinding my brain
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You're okay. Welcome back. It takes some getting re-used to.
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During the first decade of my MUing it was 4. All words, all the time. The places I played just didn't do pictures at all.
Now it seems like everywhere does. It's made me lazy. I can't even remember the last time I read someone's description. 1 and 3. Reuse a desc from a previous character that's close enough.
When I picture RP in my head everyone is basically a faceless blob anyways no matter what the pb or words say.
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1 and 3. I like pictures. It's so much easier for me, instead of trying to painstakingly describe the curve of someone's nose, to just toss up an image and say "She looks like this."
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I always do words first and foremost.
If I - or more often, someone else - finds a picture? I'll stick that on the wiki for wherever I am at the time. Sometimes, if it's the right picture for one of the characters I port around the place, the picture will be ported with them. It's like the old 'who would play your character if this MU* was a film', reinvented for the modern age. I never was any good at it, but some actors and roles are just too perfect to pass up.
The usual suspect was Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty before he was Tom Hiddleston, but Haughty Loki fits him so beautifully I can't not.
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I used to care a lot, but now honestly I don't. I am exceptionally unlikely to even look at your character object anyway (got it trained out of me by a place that broadcast who was looking at who to the entire room). So put what you want me to see on your wiki!
People descing their pc in their poses used to irritate me, but thanks to aforementioned PUBLIC BROADCAST LOOK place, I got used to and appreciated people doing that there, so that no longer annoys me.
I tend to have minds-eye pictures in my head of the PCs that i interact with anyway, and sometimes they do not match up with the PB. As that person won't ever know that, I think that people should do what make THEM happy in writing up the desc or wiki for their own PC, not so much trying to make other people happy.
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@mietze said in Character likeness:
People descing their pc in their poses used to irritate me, but thanks to aforementioned PUBLIC BROADCAST LOOK place, I got used to and appreciated people doing that there, so that no longer annoys me.
I do like descing in poses when scene starts or someone enters a scene. I don't like to constantly look at their desc to see it changed with multi-descer or something. Though for anything triggering off adesc (John has looked at you or worse, public room broadcast), I got used to the old ... think eval(*john,desc) to get someone's desc without trigginer looks and broadcasts.
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public broadcast look sounds like my worst mush nightmare.
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I think its just getting used to a change. Like I enjoyed the screen scroll beautifully written descs and elaborate wardrobe codes, but I think things have evolved. I was suspicious of wikis too at first but now I'm glad for the most part they're standard. IME a short description or even a link isn't a predictor of rp style either for better or worse.
So I'm less likely to be judgey over that and perhaps a little more over people like not acknowledging anyone else in the room, ooc behavior (like complaining how useless the event/scene is even though they're there), ect.
Be pleasant ooc, willing to engage, ect and im happy to deal with typos, slowness, and different approaches to descing if the rp is decent! And I will prefer those to an elaborate desc and perfect wiki but a rude, snobby, or totally unwilling to engage person!
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@carma said in Character likeness:
Also, supporting artists feels altruistic.
It's altruistic, absolutely. But it ain't cheap.
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@sunny said in Character likeness:
public broadcast look sounds like my worst mush nightmare.
I was checking out a MU a friend of mine recommended once that both notified everyone of +finger/+info checks and also showed who'd last +finger'd them in their profile that anyone could see. It was very strange and I can't fathom the motivation behind this code. People be weird, tho.
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I desc my characters, but I also like having that picture around, because I am constantly worried my words will not give the full image.
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@three-eyed-crow NOPE NOPE NOPE
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