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Do you guys ever get TS burn out?

Frequently, when I'll get into a IC relationship with someone. We bang, they love it, then it's all that happens.

I try and get to know their friends, but they won't introduce me. I try and go out of the house with them, I try and do dates and have romantic outings but it's almost always something that the other person is just enduring until they to get back to the fucking.

I try to expand my characters social circles outside of the bedroom but usually I end up isolated and eventually I'll just stop logging in.

I think if I start playing again I might be bad at TS just to avoid the same thing happening again. I enjoy the social aspects of TS but I don't want it to be everything there is and for some reason that happens to me a lot.

Funny side note: I was once a werewolf dating a kinfolk who was really popular and everyone thought we were the cutest couple. She wanted to have kids and stuff and I was all down with that but she got pregnant then just kept having sex.

She got even more horny at the idea of being pregnant. I actually asked some of my pack mates to bang her so I could have some peace and quiet. She was "secretly" having an affair with my best friend thinking she was getting away with something and it barely made a dent in her appetites.

I ended up trying to die a heroic death so I could roll another character and rejoin my pack without being attached to her and the fucking dice just kept saving my life. Over and over and over I survived the most insane things. I ended up gaining rank for slaying Wyrm beasts and exposing corruption of the land because the game would not let me die.

I would also recommend the Netflix series Big Mouth.

The animation looks weird and is offputting on initial inspection but the show is great and broaches a lot of subjects people don't normally talk about. It's the story of kids going through puberty accompanied by Hormone Monsters who both care about them deeply and often talk them into taking the worst possible courses of action.

@Auspice said in How to Approach (nor not) a Suspected Creep:

So I ask you MSB: have you ever been in this spot? What did you do, if anything?

I played on a game with a strip club on it and I saw this often. Once, we were having bar chatter and this guy just came up to one of the girls and asked if he could suck her toes. Not go somewhere and do it, but just right there at the bar. Everyone was instantly uncomfortable with the situation and he would not take no for an answer.

Rather than deal with it OOCly where I knew he would throw a tantrum I paid the stripper for a lapdance in the VIP room and we left. He had the nerve to ask if he could come with me. Pathetic. We didn't even do anything sexual in the VIP room. We just laughed at him and talked.

Creepers gotta creep, I guess.

Back on the topic about TS:
I temped Jim Gordon once for a Batman who needed him for a plot.
In what was at best 3 weeks of time I got hit on by Batgirl, (His daughter), Montoya (Who was supposed to be gay, I think?), Volcana (The villainess who sets fire to things) and a low-level OC magic-user whose name I don't remember.

Moral of the story: If you want to score virtual women, be someone's daddy.

I was spelling "Sweet tea" as "Sweat tea" for YEARS before someone finally pointed out I was confusing the two words.
DOH!!

Also, if you look at the gas gauge on your car there is a little icon of the gas pump. That isn't to tell you it's the gas gauge. it's got a little arrow on one side of the icon to tell you where you can put the gas in at without having to get out of the car and look. It's literally GAS GOES THERE >

When you live in the country, feeding birds bread from your car while you wait and listen to the radio is fine. Do it in a large city and it can cause a traffic jam as hundreds of pigeons descend on the sidewalk and shit all over everyone's cars. My bad, L.A.! My bad!

Oh, also, when you are cooking don't pour grease down your sink. Even with dish soap or warm water. Just because it doesn't clog up your sink doesn't mean it's not a problem. Grease congeals in the sewage lines and some poor asshole has to crawl in there and flush it out. Instead put some aluminum foil in a bowl and drip the grease into it then when it cools just fold up the foil ball and throw it in the trash. It would save your city a lot of money if everyone did this.

I would like to see a games that actually have an adult rating.
I saw first hand when super-hero games started curbing TS and violence to appeal to a younger audience the popularity died.

Now when you log in to a Super-hero based game there are 20 people idle for 6 hours and a handful of people in the OOC room chatting but actual RP rarely happens and I think a lot of that is because no one builds relationships. People just go there to have play-dates where they punch NPC's with someone who might as well be a stranger.

Maybe it was just me, but the part I liked most about MUSHing in the old days was having connections. I had friends and through them they had friends and some times people would fuck and have relationships, even virtual dates. It was escapism. Some times people would argue ICly. Some times people would get jealous or cheat on each other.

There were downsides to it of course like Colossus and Quicksilver banging their sisters but for the most part that stuff was behind closed doors.

I really think when you force a politically correct rating on a game it kills the depth of the drama that can happen on it. Not just marvel either. I've seen the same things happen to WoD games. You curb sex and violence and it poisons the game.

As soon as a staff tries to stuff human nature in a box to protect the purity of "Any children who might be playing" a game about werewolves gutting people, the game starts to die.

If you look at the popularity of different styles of MUSHes the more censored the players are, the fewer players stick around. This isn't a passing trend. It's every theme, every game that does it.

In this day and age, if someone has been online long enough to find a MU*, download a telnet client and learn how to use the commands, they probably have seen a penis before.

We shouldn't have to give up having in-depth, emotionally impactful stories in order to protect the potential innocence of some kid who probably watches Futa-tentacle-hentai porn when no one is watching.

Just put it right on the log in screen. "This is an adult game. By signing in you are testifying that you are above 18 or the legal age to see adult content in your nation of origin." then if some one less than 18 logs in it's not our problem.

@Paris Don't feel bad, most Americans use words wrong all the time. English is a messed up language.
My land lord used to give her daughter "Exuberating Cream" to "Exuberant" her face and prevent pimples.

The word she was looking for was actually "Exfoliating Cream" but no one ever seemed to correct her and I wasn't about to get on her bad side by doing it. Besides, the mistake was kind of poetic. Using the face wash did seem to make her skin very happy and relaxed.

@three-eyed-crow
I guess I could just be mature enough to break up with them but it just seems so rude and insulting. Also it feels kind of silly to say, "I'm more than a penis you know!" there just never seems to be a way to do it without it being super-awkward.

@coin

Relationships aren't built on love, they are built on the capacity to look past the other person's bullshit and control your own enough to be tolerable. Love is what you give each other as a reward for doing this.

@Arkandel said in Empire State Heroes Mush:

You are much better off not finding out. But you will.

Honestly, I don't play MU* anymore. I want to, I enjoy them, but every time I do I end up making something then getting bored with it and moving on a few months later. Reading about other people experiencing the game is about as much effort as I can put into it right now.

It just seems like you always put in ten times more effort than you get any reward out of it.
Playing MUSHes feels like being trapped in a WB T.V. series where everything is dramatic but then resets back to normal at the end of the episode and no progress is ever made. It wears you down.

@mietze

There is a great comedian called Bo Burnham who wrote a song about love. Great advice. Enjoy.

Bo Burnham - Lower Your Expectations/If You Want Love

@Ghost said in Empire State Heroes Mush:

Because dicks out for SuperHarambe, yo

Sadly, no.
Maybe it was the JLA TV series that showed Grodd banging that scientist and that sorceress who was his second in command of the Legion of Doom that makes everyone assume he's hetro.

I went to ESHM as a guest. Someone in the OOC room pointed out they have a no animal PC rule so I guess Grodd is out.
I liked him. He was always fun as a behind the scenes master-mind type.

@Auspice said in Why We Don't Make New Friends Anymore (Or Creepers Do Creepy Things):

LARP houses happen.

These share all the qualities of a cult.

Isolation.
Take over the person's life.
Dictate how they live.
Keep things unstable so the cult is both the victim's only source of comfort and a constant source of pain to need that comfort.
Create a social group that pressures them to conform and never to leave.

Sounds like a LARP house is a good way to become the king of your own tiny kingdom.

@Kestrel

The nice thing about restraining orders is that when the cops come and take the nut-jobs away they can keep them in jail for 24 hours as a cool-down period. If you don't have a restraining order the cops just have to make sure the crazy person leaves the property but they can come right back as soon as the cops drive off.

Once she's in jail her family has to get involved.
This is a roundabout way of making her family work for you.
Once they realize she's going to end up in jail if she keeps this shit up, her own family becomes your personal police force, working for free, to keep her in line. Court fees are expensive. They will police her for you to avoid them.

Also, remember, once she is inside your house you can shoot her dead. Just make sure she is fully inside the residence. If you have a restraining order out on her and she breaks into your home, you have a license to kill.

Just finish the job. Shoot her at least three times at range, wait about a minute, call 911 while she bleeds out, try to sound like you're confused and in shock.

Don't let yourself feel like there is nothing you can do. If she fucks with you, you have all the power.

There is a good series called The Magicians that a lot of people are unaware of.

Seasons 1-3 are on Netflix but the 4th and final season isn't yet. You can still pirate it.

It's basically adult, American, Harry Potter with sex, drugs, 80's music, and graphic murders.
You follow the life of young people who are invited to a secret college for magicians.

The main character is every nerd ever, Quinton Coldwater, a young man with social anxiety, that retreats to a magical fantasy land in books.

He lives a heavily medicated life believing he is broken and damaged until one day he is whisked off to magic college and finds out magic is real.

However, Quinton's friend Eliot is by far the best character in the show.

@JinShei

Python programing...

No, that is clearly a course on Cobra Object-Based Programming Language.

In previous posts you were talking about how people should be aware this is a RP focused game not a combat game and the system isn't really designed around combat...

But here's the thing. Fallout was never about role play or combat.
The driving force behind everything you do in Fallout is scarcity.
You need clean water, you need ammo, you need food, you need better armor.
The townsfolk need you to fix the damn pipes with any scrap metal you can find. Some people need to survive but they have so few resources and ability they have to live as slaves just to keep breathing.

The entire game is about what people need and in a MU setting resources can be virtually limitless.
How do you address that problem?
Do you address that problem?

I thought of something today. A lot of the problems with games is that over time a few characters become so God like they just ruin it for everyone else. We can't stop people from min-maxing but there is a part of that formula that the staff can control: Time.

What if you created a game like WoD that was actually having the apocalypse?

Give it a life time of 2 years with a clock that counted down till the end of the world every time a player logged in. When the clock ran out, the Wyrm was freed and everyone died. Then, from deep in space the Technocratic Union rewound time and the clock started over. Everyone began again with new characters or the same characters with new sheets and no memories.

You could have perks like "Soul Mates" where people are fated to find each other and fall in love every time if you want but for the most part every 2 years, the game would start fresh. Maybe even 1 year if you want to create urgency.

Just a wild idea I thought I would throw out there.

I found out a while ago that there are a great many musicals on you tube and a whole subculture of animators who do animatics to the songs in musicals telling the plays.

https://youtu.be/oGs4jb1pCf8?list=PLZ2lamdAZ20A5AW-fEz2-Nk4K_a0fCxSw <-- The Count of Monte Cristo with ponies.
https://youtu.be/wCQst9ruq0w?list=PLkfQanB8u3XfLop2gGzgzWuhDIQcuaPgG <- Matilda songs.

Basically name your favorite musical and there are probably 10 versions of it on youtube.

Also, the best anime every made is only on youtube here:
https://youtu.be/V6kJKxvbgZ0?list=PLuAOJfsMefuej06Q3n4QrSSC7qYjQ-FlU - Sword Art Online: Abridged. (A parody)