@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.

@Runescryer said in Good TV:

@Hella Can't wait for A Game Of You next season...

Barbie was great and Martin Tenbones looked and sounded amazing.

Agreed. Stephen Fry was also a highlight for me. But he always is.

@reimesu said in Good TV:

Only finished the first three eps, but holy shit.

The Sandman is fulfilling all of my wildest dreams.

That ENDING though.

Season 2 is when please

Wasn't sure whether to put this here or in TV, but it's got a few good chuckles.

Gandalf ROASTS the Rings of Power trailer

@Derp said in Highlights of Ares?:

@Devrex

But that's another benefit of Ares. All the communications are easy to pull back up and go 'look, we definitely agreed on this thing here and that has not been happening so I think that we should work on wrapping this up asap'.

I really REALLY love that, too. I also love that logs are share-able. I think it's amazing to be able to read the stories being told outside of your own, if people are comfortable sharing them.

I've been exploring the code and features of Ares and have come across some features that I think are really cool, that had me going 'Oh, that's useful! I wish I'd had that in X situations!' Stuff like separate windows for PMs and the web-based platform as a whole, and how everything is integrated really cohesively.

And I'm wondering if anyone else has any epiphany moments with aspects of Ares that they love, that they'd care to share; favourite features, obscure helpful features, etc.

@reimesu said in 2022: A New Year, New Dead Celebrities:

According to a tweet from George Takei, we lost Nichelle Nichols today.

All I saw at first was 'George Takei' and I nearly cried.

RIP Nichelle

Helix has graciously fixed the code issue that wasn't allowing folks to finalize their sheets/buy new gifts. Everything is up and running smoothly and there's RP to be had in Lyonesse, specifically around the Chromatic Order.

@TNP said in What Would it Take to Repair the Community?:

@Derp said in What Would it Take to Repair the Community?:

Let's not pretend that some of the BMD users have no axe to grind.

Honest question, can you blame them? Our board - and by our I mean all of the community - had their board basically hijacked out from under us. It was decided pretty much unilaterally that MSB would be something it never had been in any of its past incarnations. I've been here for all of them going back tot he original WORA before Nymeria got Tasteless Descs shut down.

I'm not sure I get the logic behind this. It kind of feels like saying a MUSH would be 'their' MUSH, just because they play on it.

There've been a ton of threads about this in the past and the general consensus (that I've seen) is that you wouldn't get to dictate rules of a MUSH just by playing on it (unless you were asked to do so, under a specific set of circumstances, I guess?) Otherwise, their game, their rules.

I don't see how MSB is different but I'd be interested in hearing that viewpoint.

@Tirit said in What Would it Take to Repair the Community?:

On a lighter note, what about the communities perceived inability to adapt to newer ideas of doing things like how to run games, and using newer technologies?

How can we appeal to a younger generation to bring them into our love for MUs?

It would be kind of cool if there was some form of promotion to capitalize on what seems like the resurgence in popularity of 'nerd culture'. Platforms like Critical Role, or things like all the new D&D-based/LotR-based TV shows and movies.