MU Things I Love

Ganymede · Mar 16, 2017, 4:17 AM

Jonah is the fucking shit. In a good way.

WTFE · Mar 16, 2017, 4:20 AM

@Ganymede D'aw! Love you too, sweetcheeks!

Seriously, though, while we don't always agree with each other, I've never found a reason not to respect your opinion. (And I'll swear this to be a lie under oath if challenged, but you have changed my mind on a few things over the years too.)

Ganymede · Mar 16, 2017, 4:21 AM

@WTFE said in MU Things I Love:

Seriously, though, while we don't always agree with each other, I've never found a reason not to respect your opinion. (And I'll swear this to be a lie under oath if challenged, but you have changed my mind on a few things over the years too.)

We're both Canadian, but I'm actually Chinese, bro. Sorry.

WTFE · Mar 16, 2017, 4:21 AM

@Ganymede I bet you I have as many Chinese family members as you do!

Alamias · Mar 16, 2017, 4:23 AM

@Ganymede Honestly, it is the people that have brought me back again and again. I've been doing this just as long as you, and I have taken sabbaticals which sometimes last a couple of years, but the thing that has always brought me back are the people. I have had some really great friendships develop from my time on these games. Even years later I talk to some of the people I have met.

Sadly, I've also lost track of many of the people I used to play with. Sometimes I end up finding them again on places like this, or randomly elsewhere. Hell, I even found one once at a RL Job...that was a surprise.

So, yeah, I have to second Ganymede's comments in regards to the people.

Auspice · Mar 16, 2017, 4:30 AM

@Alamias

It's always surreal to run into a MU*er IRL like that. Like not pre-determined sort of deal.

Years ago, I went to a new TT game. Half the group and the ST I knew, the other half I didn't. One guy was introducing himself and also provided his usual online handle. Which was not a common one (I don't remember what it was, but it wasn't something you'd expect to see twice). Last I'd known him, he was on the other side of the country and we hadn't talked in about a year.

But then bam, same TT group, with no way of knowing the other would be there.

Alamias · Mar 16, 2017, 4:38 AM

@Auspice Yeah, it was weird. What made it even weirder was it wasn't one, but two people. I was working at this place, and new hire came on. Started talking to her for job things, and somehow (I don't remember, this was YEARS ago) it came out that we had both MUed on a game together (and not only the same game, but our characters were heavily connected). Then come to find out her roomate also was on the same MU, and our characters were actually an item IC.

Small world sometimes...

Caryatid · Mar 16, 2017, 12:24 PM

@Ganymede That was the sweetest thing to wake up to. Thank you.

You are a great person to RP with and your characters are invariably interesting on a molecular level. If someone like you thinks I'm wise, then I will never stop trying to be so.

I always come back for the people too. Without the people, there'd be no click and rush of creative fire, when you hit on a collaboration that really, really works. When I think back to my favorite characters, I almost always am thinking about their relationships, the ones that were so damn good (or bad but good!) and the people who made that happen behind the screen.

I keep saying, if it weren't for the people around here, I'd have been a novelist decades ago.

Arkandel · Mar 16, 2017, 1:23 PM

Thanks for the kind words @Ganymede, you sex-mad robot. You've inspired me once again to write good things about people, so I hope you're happy about that. Jerk.

So let's see... @Maira has to top the list - she's imaginative and fair to a fault, continuously second-guessing herself in case she's not treating everyone well, but also to ensure everyone around her is treated right; few people care when they are not themselves the targets of unfairness.

There are people I've met over the years with whom I had unexpected rapport, by which I mean we met and clicked without knowing each other ahead of time, simply on the merit of chemistry. @surreality and @caryatid definitely fall into that category, in that our playstyles matched well and worked right out of the box without trying.

But it's more than just RP; there are some of you that I rely to play the unofficial role of moral compass for me, @Ganymede, @surreality, @Emmahsue have all gone down that pit of snakes with me when I wasn't sure if I was doing the right thing for the right reasons; I've only recently leaned on @Sunny for the same reason. Our hobby, for all that it's a game, also encompasses a community and I'd like to do right by it.

I thought about hitting the game design name-dropping here - @Misadventure would definitely top the charts there - but to be honest... we do that so often on MSB itself (and WORA before it) that it's hard to single anyone out. I feel there are a lot of talented and experienced people here volunteering their thoughts on a regular enough basis for us to take it for granted, but it shouldn't be.

Before I close this, I wanted to give a bit shoutout to @Thenomain. He's one of the people we are taking for granted and whose efforts have really made a huge difference. He's coded his heart out so many times and we - collectively - haven't given him his due until we've actually needed someone to make sure we have a game to play on, who would spend countless hours making it even possible to do so.

Thanks, nerds.

hedgehog · Mar 16, 2017, 1:34 PM

@Ganymede

GANY THINKS I'M COOL!?!?!?!?!?!

I'm honestly surprised as hell!

Thank you. You too, you ambiguously-gendered-on-the-Internet bundle of awesome and snark!

Ganymede · Mar 16, 2017, 1:48 PM

@WTFE said in MU Things I Love:

I bet you I have as many Chinese family members as you do!

You sure you want to play this game, bro? My dad had 11 brothers and sisters, and several cousins. (They were from Macao.)

Coin · Mar 16, 2017, 2:02 PM

@Ganymede didn't name me and my life is over.

But it's okay because I think we've literally only RPed together maybe three times in, uh, thrice as many years.

WTFE · Mar 16, 2017, 2:03 PM

@Ganymede said in MU Things I Love:

@WTFE said in MU Things I Love:

I bet you I have as many Chinese family members as you do!

You sure you want to play this game, bro? My dad had 11 brothers and sisters, and several cousins. (They were from Macao.)

Uh... nice weather we're having.

Tinuviel · Mar 16, 2017, 2:43 PM

@Ganymede So... they're Portuguese?

#imperialism

Ganymede · Mar 16, 2017, 2:45 PM

@Tinuviel said in MU Things I Love:

So... they're Portuguese?

Sort of. I know some of them still hold Portuguese Passports.

But it means they are Catholics.

You think the Irish Catholics have a monopoly on large families? Try Chinese Catholics.

ThatGuyThere · Mar 16, 2017, 2:48 PM

@Ganymede
It is pretty much all Catholics really. The Irish tend to have the stereotype as a left over of anti-immigration feelings in the 1850s.
I come from a family that is half German Catholic and half Irish Catholic numbers get scary large on both sides except for the immediate family in my case.

Ganymede · Mar 16, 2017, 3:07 PM

@ThatGuyThere said in MU Things I Love:

I come from a family that is half German Catholic and half Irish Catholic numbers get scary large on both sides except for the immediate family in my case.

See, I'm Chinese Catholic, and my partner is German-Irish Catholic.

We have two kids. DAS IST ALLES.

Thenomain · Mar 16, 2017, 8:39 PM

@Arkandel said in MU Things I Love:

Before I close this, I wanted to give a bit shoutout to @Thenomain. He's one of the people we are taking for granted and whose efforts have really made a huge difference. He's coded his heart out so many times and we - collectively - haven't given him his due until we've actually needed someone to make sure we have a game to play on, who would spend countless hours making it even possible to do so.

If you're going to single me out, I'd like to single out people who are not as vocal and who do not spend their social capital with reckless abandon as I do:

@Chime
@faraday
@Sparks
@Glitch
@Cobaltasaurus
@Volund
@Griatch

This is far from a complete list and is only in the order that it came to mind. I am loud and presumptuous and constantly need talked down from getting upset about things that aren't critical, things that don't need someone to die on their hill. (Except ANSI abuse. I will take this one to my grave.)

We can also thank TinyTIM, the first Mush. We can thank the first TinyMUD. We can also thank all the RPG and TV/movie companies who have not sued us or sent us C&D letters.

Really, if I leave this hobby tomorrow I will not be disappointed if nobody remembers anything I've done; I don't do this to make a name or to be thanked. It's nice, but I know as well as the rest of you that I don't usually deserve it. I do it because I want people to enjoy themselves.

I largely stopped enjoying myself in this hobby about four years ago. That what I do can help other people from hitting this point is pretty much all that keeps me going.

Keep going, you crazy creatives.

Arkandel · Mar 16, 2017, 8:40 PM

@Thenomain said in MU Things I Love:

I largely stopped enjoying myself in this hobby about four years ago. That what I do can help other people from hitting this point is pretty much all that keeps me going.

You are a weird, grumpy old man.

Thenomain · Mar 16, 2017, 8:50 PM

@Arkandel said in MU Things I Love:

@Thenomain said in MU Things I Love:

I largely stopped enjoying myself in this hobby about four years ago. That what I do can help other people from hitting this point is pretty much all that keeps me going.

You are a weird, grumpy old man.

Is it really a surprise, though? You and I have buried the hatchet (well, you buried it, I accepted embarrassingly slow), but what kinds of things do I explode over? It's largely when I think (right or wrong) that someone is pissing on someone else's ability to communicate or someone else's ability to enjoy a game.

None of us are perfect, but damn, Theno, try harder!