@vulgarkitten said in MU Things I Love:

Legitimate excitement over an upcoming scene, days in advance. And then being unable to sleep the night before because anticipation!

It was EVERYTHING I was hoping it would be

My kid graduated elementary school today (grade 7) and her artwork won the contest to be on the front of their yearbook. I'm proud and everything, but she's ecstatic beyond all belief and seeing her that happy and proud of herself is the RL thing I love the most.

Legitimate excitement over an upcoming scene, days in advance. And then being unable to sleep the night before because anticipation!

Typos.

You paged Somebody with 'Sure, sounds good Feel like hitting the dicks?'.
You paged Somebody with 'DOCKS. OMG DOCKS'.

Everything. Fuck everything. Stupid everything.

Arx. I just do. There is never nothing to do. NEVER. And the crafting system??? SO FUN! Finding a new place to play and being able to fit in there, be active and useful there? I love it. I will never not love it.

RIP Christina Grimmie.

Maybe not as big a name as some of the others here, but she was a gamer, a great talent, and a genuinely good person. I will miss her. All people deserve to be safe, full stop. No qualifiers necessary. This is a senseless tragedy.

What makes you say either 'hey I want to RP with this person way more' or 'hey I don't want to actively RP with this person anymore'? Can be IC, can be OOC; just curious about the spectrum.

For me, I've found my breaking point is often centered around pressure to TS. This has happened before and happened again recently to me. Char was in a long term relationship with another character and the other player made some OOC comment about not getting enough TS. Despite their apology when I called them out on it, I found myself liking the player less and less for other things I would have normally ignored and I eventually asked to end the relationship IC. I couldn't get passed the 'I'm not getting enough TS' mentality.

Something that will almost always make me want to RP more with people is probably pretty common, and that's level of interaction in a scene. Are you drawing me into something my character can contribute to? Are you asking questions that they can respond to? Are you physically doing something that they can play off of? Are you handing out plot like it's going out of style? That sort of engagement makes me want to play with that person more!

So! What's your turning point?

We have a 'RL Things I Love' and a 'RL Anger' thread to balance it out. We have a "Random Bitching" thread to discuss what we hate about MUing (all 201 pages of it) so let's have a "MU Things I Love" thread to make things even. I'll start!

MU Thing I Love: When someone does their damndest to make your character unplayable/make it unenjoyable for you to play your character, BUT you still play your character and still LOVE playing your character, and others still play with you and love your character, too.

TAKE THAT!

Vindictive happiness, rising.

What makes YOU go 'yay' when MUing?

@Arkandel And the opposite of that 'hey do you mind if we FTB on this sexy times stuff?' SHAME that chick is such a prude. It's just a game. You're damned if you do, and you're damned if you don't, depending on the person.

@reimesu I don't think we're looking at any one person. Just the content. It's not a defense of Cobalt, per se (I have nothing against Cobalt, afaik I don't know them that well?), just a defense of the ideal in general.

@reimesu said in Ruiz:

@hobos

But let's be fair, just that pre-banning of @Ganymede for...what? is enough to make me wonder what other bad decisions are being made. And Macha's logs showed that a) she was being slut-shamed and b) it was a consensual log that she was being shamed for and is still being shamed for.

Pretty sure that the bad decisions aren't the ones being made here.

See, the above is good. It's proof you can point to and go, I believe this supports my conjecture that xyz. But I'm agreeing with @hobos that coming in saying 'I think X is plausible because Y, but I'm not offering any tangible proof of Y' is exactly the thing that this board used to do that was damaging. And that did seem like what @Derp was doing. It was a bit disheartening to see.

Eta: do I think that makes it okay for people to come and do the equivalent of 'nyah nyah, told ya so!'? No. But that's just distraction from the heart of the matter.

@Macha as someone who has been dragged through the mud by much of the same crew, I'll offer some unsolicited advice which you can choose to ignore or not, but it's meant well.

Ignore them. Let it go, as hard as that is. These people are not your people. It may feel like you need to convince them; you don't. It may also feel like the end of your world/MUing experience; it's not.

Eventually, these things have a way of coming to light. It happened for me. And when it does happen, they won't say anything about it because it's embarrassing to admit they've been the abuser/enabler all along.

And that sucks in the moment, but it gets better faster when you just move past it and let it die.

@TheBigD It's not as comprehensive, but there's https://mustard.mythicus.net/games

I've just heard word from Melkir's wife that his ashes will be on board the Enterprise flight, alongside luminaries like Nichelle Nichols, James Doohan and DeForest Kelley. He would have loved nothing more.

https://www.celestis.com/launch-schedule/enterprise-flight/#mission-act-now

I know he ran Shadowrun Seattle, if anyone ever played there.

I feel like shouting in the dark right now.

A long time member, @Melkir of the MU community passed away this morning of a heart attack, after a very long struggle with health issues. I met him on Arx, and had the joy of playing Monique alongside his Etienne. He also played Theodoric there. He was one of the most amazing people I've ever met in this hobby, and he made everything bearable. I know my world isn't going to be the same without him in it. Words don't do it justice.

@Macha Won't lie, this hit me really hard. I was hoping he would overcome those demons. Their parents did a number on all the Carter kids.

@Ganymede said in The All-New Down With OPP Thread:

@Too-Old-For-This said in The All-New Down With OPP Thread:

As a female player, I highly recommend everyone 'covertly' play a female character at least once. The experience is wild. And not in a good way.

Except for me, of course, but I get wicked action as a dude.

Well sure, if you're using John Cena as a PB. Who wouldn't?

@Macha if you get really stuck you can usually find a youtube walk through of someone putting one together. The instructions really are that terrible.