Best posts made by gremlinsarevil

@mietze The ICK factor for me is... NPCs are different than PCs. Usually that means they have some plot-purpose for the wider game or they may have different stats or something.

If a staff-player wants to get some TS on with their perfectly normal PC alt (or just have some light chit chat over coffee or whatever else to get a break), that's a-ok. Not everybody can run big meaty plot scenes with all their time and needing to indulge their own personal interests is normal, should be no shame in that.

But staff breaking out the Vampire Prince to go have sexy times with a specific player or whatever else... that's gonna make a lot of people uncomfortable and best just avoided. If it does become crucial to seduce a powerful NPC, just FTB and move on.

@phase-face Isn't that kind of like The Network? https://thenetwork.mugames.org/wiki/home

@kanye-qwest that's why its important to learn to recognize one's biases and staff can recuse themselves if a situation comes up where their bias would affect how they deal with a player.

MUSHes aren't paying staff. They're volunteers and need their own fun times too. If you're on a game where you can't trust staff to fairly enforce the games rules to all players, find a different game.

@juniper the message should really be more "Don't join random discord servers out of the blue."

At least the request i got was from a contact I hadn't spoken with in 2 years and we'd definitely never spoke about any shared interests in Baymax, so immediately phishy.

If a message or link seems weird but you trust the sender, try to confirm through a second mode of communication if you're able to. And otherwise just trust your gut about if a message seems like a phishing attempt because those things are rampant.

@arkandel was anybody talking with friends about Baymax servers? It was just a message of 'hey, join my server!' And the link, but no lead up of what the server was about and why you would be interested?

Things can come from a friend that is still out of the blue.