Best posts made by farfalla

It's a free game, not a government service. You don't actually have to be "fair" (whatever that means).

Anyone saying a DNC would be good enough for a stalker has never had a stalker. It's a game, staff doesn't actually have any obligation to a stranger who just logged on, they can just trust their known player and go on with their life. If you don't, the person being stalked will leave, so you're choosing to have the stalker on your game over the player who was already there being unproblematic. Have fun with that, I guess!

Shoutout to Arx staff for handling my stalker the minute I said "hey I have a stalker."

Hi hello! I just got back into gaming after... a very long time. But I'd love to catch up with old friends!

Past characters:
Harper's Tale: Zai, Celeste
StarStones: X'ver
XMM: Abigail, Eve, Parker
Firan: Jariko, Rijeka, Halla, Zarik (neither the first or the last of any)
Chontio: farfalla (staff)
Spirit Lake: Alice

Currently:
Arx: Eleanor, Tomwell

The idea that people are owed forgiveness/that forgiveness is a moral imperative, is rooted in a lot of misogyny.

No one is owed forgiveness.

That doesn't mean everyone can just be a jackass to everyone who has ever wronged them, of course, but you don't have to forgive someone just because you "should". Be civil or stop engaging, but honor your feelings.

Maybe let's stop criticizing this game someone spent time and effort making for people to play, based on essentially nothing. If it's not the theme you want, don't play there. I don't go into WoD game threads to be like "ugh I wish this was L&L instead".

This is not an issue. Even the worst case scenario is someone briefly thinks it's set in the real place. Again, this is not an issue.

Atlantis, and every other option is objectively incorrect.

I have never intentionally looked at someone's PB and I never will.
I also don't read descs and never will. I'll check someone's sheet for basic physical factors, and probably forget those immediately anyway.

I still have a strong visual idea of what's happening, it's just based on poses rather than descs. Who cares if I'm imagining it wrong half the time. It has never once caused a problem.

@reimesu I'm not misrepresenting anything. One strike is too many, and people being stalked will leave the game if told a DNC is the answer. The stalker wins, the stalked player loses. Game runners can make whatever decisions they want from that fact. If you're fine with that, okay.

For me it's as simple as harm reduction. Is more harm caused by banning someone who didn't do anything wrong, or by allowing someone abusive to stay? I think there is an objectively correct answer, clearly, but that's the call staff has to make.

@meg said in Spirit Lake: An Original Modern Fantasy Game:

I just want everyone to know, that my chick is going to be a trust-fund kid/Instagram 'model and influencer' who is named Teagan Spencer. and wait for this--

her instagram handle will be @teathyme.

MY instagram influencer is name Rumi and her handle is @rumihasit

I don't give a shit about anyone else's character playlist or scene song or whatever. I don't relate music and RP that way, and also I can only listen to new music when I'm in a particular headspace. But it also doesn't bother me to see music put at the beginning of scenes, or shared OOC, or on character wikis. I just ignore it. I guess if someone in a 1-on-1 scene wanted me to discuss it, or go listen, or reciprocate, I would be annoyed. But otherwise what is the possible harm?

@derp I mean literally, who cares? Why does it matter if someone thinks your little internet game isn't fair to random new players?

@sockmonkey CAITHY

Two random thoughts:

1. As non-GM staff on Chontio, I felt like FFG was rough. I stuck to storytelling via my NPC or staff PC characters, because man I found the advantages and stuff to be an extra layer of difficulty. I imagine experienced GMs have an easier time with it, but I was very much lol no.

2. I thought it was really interesting that even though we had no restrictions on playing a Force Sensitive character, not everyone did! In fact, I would guess that most characters did not. I have no point here, I just thought it was interesting. Maybe it was our setting and theme?

@auspice

it means BUTTERFLY okAY

Boop. Updated.

@aerianyx said in Ruins of Pern:

I was always partial to Dragonsdawn, and the story of Sallah Telgar always got to me. I really enjoyed almost all of those books, really. I think they made a profound impression on me from a very young age. I don't remember when it was I started reading them. But I think it was around eleven or twelve.

Dragonsdawn was my favorite, as well. But I was also no older than 14 the last time I read a Pern book so I dunno how much this means.

OOC rooms confuse and frighten me.

I never played a game with them until I was many years in, and was accustomed to having private rooms to idle in. I have never gotten used to them and have ultimately left games because there was no other option. Channels are for chatting. So I don't really care if there IS an OOC room, as long as I don't have to be there.

@Ghost said in Getting Young Blood Into MU*'ing:

IMO the only people who should have MU suggested to are people who are (ex.) "looking to primarily do writing online".

Maybe this is true for a lot of people, I don't know, but I've been known to joke that "I'm not in this hobby to read or write" but honestly... I mean it. I am in it for the in depth storytelling and character development. Narrative over long periods of a character's life. I don't actually enjoy writing (or reading tbh) that much, I just find that this is the setting that best allows me to do those things. Maybe it's just because I'm old and set in my ways, and discord or whatever would be just as good, I dunno. I do know I can't personally find it in table top or mmorpgs.

This isn't some moral stance about the goodness or badness of descs, I am simply saying I am never going to read them. My brain doesn't process written information that way and it's just how it's gonna be. Maybe there are people out there who have left a scene mad at me for implying something incorrect, but 99.9% of the time (on Arx, the only place I play) none of this will ever be a problem and I would guess no one has ever known that I didn't read their desc. I don't really know what to tell you, it's just ...how I play and interact with the Mu* world.