Best posts made by Caractus

Something where people actually hang out on the grid and organically roleplay would be nice! Was that mentioned already? I bet it was. If so, I support this objective 100%.

As a black person who has recently marked their 15th year in this hobby, I find that wizzes love to reject your charbit or just straight up ban you if your char is black and they don't feel like having too many black charbits. That could be a factor.

I honestly prefer that to the long, agonizing discussions where the wizzes explain to me that my charbit is Not Thematic, Breaks Theme, or simply does not Mesh with the vision they had for the game because in this setting all the black people are somewhere over there, I guess, but not Here, and your insistence on playing one absolutely 100% is borne of gamebreaking theme destroying malice, because who would want to play a black person, anyway?

I used to dunk on Shang and other sex games but at least they don't subject you to a full background check and interview session for having the temerity to rp as a black person, and I really appreciate that.

@HelloProject

I just realized white people are proscribing the racial makeup of their games and justifying it by saying that they just want to ensure the games are Inclusive.

So... You, as a white person, are enacting Inclusivity... by telling me what to play.

????

It is also worth noting that certain forms of Pretend are allowed, but other forms are not.

I have had people calmly say they don't like roleplay with black characters to my face. All sorts of reasons are given: they find my character disturbing, they aren't into that sort of thing (as if we HAVE to Ts), they find my character theme breaking and distracting, too sexual...there's always something.

@GreenFlashlight said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

@Pandora said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

I don't hate or fear anyone for having gender dysphoria.

I doubt anyone here is judging you for your private feelings. They're upset because of the actions you take by continuing to post TERF talking points.

Based on attitudes like that, I recently concluded that people prefer Mu*ing as a small, obscure, sparsely populated hobby because they can be bigots in peace. Well, that and other things, such as the unique demographics of this hobby, the, um, Content, and so on.

We could market it to zoomers and black geeks such as myself, HELLO Project, and so on. I know lots of black people who roleplay on Twitter and Discord and could be acclimated to these kinds of games, and make Mu*ing popular and active but then....

@silverfox said in MU Things I Love:

Fun people let me get them wet, and drop totally-not-bat-poop on their heads, as well as rocks.

TY for letting me play with you.

I've grown out of worrying about people being deferential and impressed by my characters and don't mind being the recipient of bad luck like these sorts. I even encourage people to use my characters as the targets of their amusement all the time, but few accept the offer. They often seem worried I might retaliate, which is silly because I use these games to practice freewriting and do not really enmesh myself with the nature of my characters too much. They're no different from the ones in my published work.