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Update:

We have the new site up and running. Sort of.

We can see that the posts have moved over. Which is good.

The bad is that the posts seem to stop in Early February of last year, so that's -- less than ideal.

We're going to try to run it again next Friday with a new database dump to see if it was just some weird fluke, because this is obviously not ideal. We would do it earlier, but there are very few available times that match up with when I can do it from work.

So. Yeah.

There's that. Carry on!

@silverfox said in ANNOUNCEMENT: We are moving.:

ARE WE MOVED? IS IT PARTY TIME?

No. We are having some technical difficulties. It might be a few days. The warning about anything posted after about 1:30 yesterday stands though.

Just as a heads up -- very likely anything posted past 1:30ish today will be lost when we get everything moved over.

See above re: losing things for that 24 hour timeframe.

This is yet another reminder.

Gilbert Gottfried

@bear_necessities said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

@derp What? There is a big difference between being able to play a character and being able to create a plot that is fun for everyone involved.

No, there isn't.

You create a character and a premise for a scene. That's pretty much all it takes. Every MU player does it every single day.

@sunny said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

Not everyone is able to DM, not everyone is able to run PRPs, not everyone is able to be creative on demand.

Frankly, I disagree. If you can be creative enough to RP a character, you can be creative enough to run an NPC in a plot. Not every plot requires intensive rules. Not every plot even requires rolls. It's just another form of RP. GMs just have more leeway, and a few more tools. It doesn't require any special skills that you don't already use in the normal course of RP.

“Everyone needs to just step up and run plots” is an unreasonable expectation, full stop.

Fortunately, that's not what anyone actually said. You're pushing back against a point that isn't being made.

Even assuming you're right, though, in the idea that not everyone can GM, I find it incredibly unlikely that those who can't are somehow a substantial majority of players. If you could even get 50%, you'd have most things covered, and people could go do other things.

@arkandel said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

There's a plot hole, it doesn't make sense!

Then there's some other mystery to poke at cleary.

That magic spell doesn't work that way, stupid!

It sure did this time. Find out why.

This NPC doesn't have the authority the whole premise is built around, ugh!

Then you'd better ask him why he's trying to pull off this con. You'd better hope he doesn't have this handed down from someone on high that wants to remain anonymous. That would suck for you.

You ran combat but you're not doing initiative right, learn the rules first you noob!

We're running a streamlined narrative version of the rules that the GM is more comfortable with, and the GM is fully empowered to do so. If you don't like it, we can find a way to k/o your character for this plot.

TL;DR -- there are always criticisms. People are bitchy and pedantic in MUSH and have been for 30+ years. The whining is predictable. The replies are practically canned.

@faraday said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

The overwhelming majority of players will not run plots for others, ever, just as most TTRPG players are not GMs. The fact is that running plots means opening yourself up to a fair bit of stress and drama, and requires a lot of preparation and effort. No matter how grateful you are, or what OOC badges or kudos you offer, that's a high mountain to climb for your pretendy-fun-times.

I think that's what was meant above re: 'that is a mentality that needs to change'. And it really does. GMs are not an infinite renewable resource, and are already in short supply. At some point, we're going to have to shift some definitions. For some people, 'collaborative' means that they show up and write poses. But to me, 'collaborative' means that everyone shares in some portion of the work to make the hobby run.

I don't think it's a very high mountain to climb. People need to be willing to do their share to keep the thing moving.

@zombiegenesis said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

I was thinking about how to do a Dark Souls game with the new RPG coming up and one of the things I was thinking could be cool is earning "reward points" or whatever by running plots for yourself and others that you can cash in for special gear or spells or something.

This has been done by plenty of games. Fate's Harvest has a whole Arcade for what you can spend them on.

@ZombieGenesis

Nevermind, misread where you were going. I agree, people need to step up to the plate more.

@arkandel said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

Unless something has changed, the truth of the matter is the majority of players want to participate in but not run plot. It's not really a matter of whether they are permitted to; in fact unless there are generous reward systems encouraging them to do so, it tends to not happen outside small groups of players running scenes for each other.

Nothing has changed. This is still the case.

Dwayne Haskins, QB for the Steelers. Hit by car.

@silverfox said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

First world upper middle class thing:

I cannot wait for our carpets to be replaced with vinyl plank. (As soon as Saturday or as late as the global supply chain issues.) I bought a new pet hair removal thingie on a whim and I swiped it across an arms length section of carpet I HAD JUST VACUUMED YESTERDAY. The amount of hair it picked up made me want to throw up.

Once these new floors are in the hair won't be able to camouflage in the carpet any more. It will be at the mercy of my swiffer and vacuum. I WILL BE THE MASTER OF HAIR IN MY HOME.

As someone with all hard floors and pets:

You will miss that carpet soon. Carpet keeps the hair all trapped in easy to vacuum spots.

Without carpet hair won’t just be on your carpet, it will be on your literally everything.

Good luck!

@puppybreath said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

@rucket said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

Well a more recent show taht could be a cool MU idea, or maybe a seasonal type thing on HorrorMU if that was still going would be that show From.

Yesss. I just told my partner about From as a MU concept the other day.

What is this? I have a feeling that googling 'From TV show' will not be entirely useful.

@faraday said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

@il-volpe said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

If that's not enough, everybody starts having auditory hallucinations of Bob Dylan, for pity's sake.

Yeah on BSGU we had a policy that was like: OK try not to reference glaring things like Star Wars please but don't stress.
We understand that it's utterly impossible to eradicate all cultural and historical references from the entire freaking English language.

Wheel of Time is even worse.

Siobhan sits on a bench eating her peach.

Psst. Peaches in that world are deadly poison, you might wanna reconsider...

@herja said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@macha Probably Indiana, lol. We don’t have any inspections here and it shows.

Got it in one.

@ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@aria

Being hard on myself honestly is all I know how to do.

That said, I'm exhausted too. It's probably because I'm working out 4 times a week now, mostly weekdays, along with working three jobs (two are really part-time, but still).

Just be sure to keep your servos well lubricated.

@arkandel said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

Here's a question, while we're just shooting the shit (*).

Which original TV series would actually make for a good MU*? How would you set it up?

(*) Unlike what we usually do, which is talk about important stuff like mature adults.

Babylon 5.

It spans a good section of a galaxy and dozens of worlds. There is so much that happens off-screen that it gives almost any character a chance to take part in some kind of shenanigans against the Shadows. And each character in the Main Cast is designed from the ground up to be replaceable by another character. Ivanova would have taken over for Sheridan/Sinclair, Vir for Londo, N'Tosh for G'kar, etc. All of them have backups, and then they'd have their own, new backups. Characters phase in and out for a variety of political reasons, so you can idle out without your character even having to lose face if he gets assigned to be the liaison to Minbar or whatever. Looking at you, Vir.

Plus it's got enough weird for everyone. Technomagi, sexy aliens, space jet fights.

stares blankly from a state where he's never even heard of mandatory inspections for vehicles that aren't commercial trucks