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I mean, just for reference, the message is

%% There's no scene running here. Starting a scene will activate repose and make it easy to share the scene with the web portal. Just do scene/start if you want to start one.

Anyway, to answer the original question...

I play on both Spirit Lake, which is very OOCly transparent, and Arx, which is not. I like the way it works for both of those games. With SL, I like knowing OOCly what's going on because I feel like it fosters that collaborative environment.

On Arx, I think there's so much lore and so much of the theme is built around it and the mystery of it, I like not knowing things OOCly unless I know them ICly. I think that works very well for the IC theme.

So really.. my answer is.. it depends on the theme, and what 'feel' you want from the game.

Accidentally stumbling into some lovely RP with some amazing RPers, which takes your character in a direction you were not intending at all. And then you find out all the subtle connections between them and it's like

I actually had a bit of fun a while back trying to see what a 'future' MU could look like - essentially going browser-only. I got fairly far in the interface before the Good Old ADHD kicked in and I got bored with the project. It still lives on my hard drive, in case I ever get bored.

It's a JS frontend with GraphQL backend, the idea being that anyone could write their own clients for it if they wanted but also that the built-in frontend should be customisable and persistent (as I basically wrote a JS window manager). Each window can have a character that's tied to your login associated to it and so on.

Of course one of the big 'failure' points for it for me is that as it's in browser you're restricted on how much flashy desktop notifications you could do which is a big thing for me as a player. While you could potentially run it in desktop mode with a technology like Electron it'd be game-locked most likely and so on.

Have a GIF to see Yet Another Project That I Started And Will Probably Never Finish.

When your RP partner takes a scene off in an unexpected direction, and you both totally roll with it and get some amazing character development out of it. It's just..

I have a theory about how all of this is going to end I but I need to fill in some words here
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This is absolutely something I struggle at from both sides, so, here's my take on it.

First off, I have been incredibly slow at calling out behaviour that makes me uncomfortable in the past. To the point where I've just let it continue and instead of being honest, just ghosted an entire game because of it. So call it out early and often - to the person at first and escalate as needed if they don't listen or they argue.

On the other hand, I constantly worry that I'm the person making someone else feel uncomfortable. My two ways of handling that are either a) check in with the person or b) back off. I tend to do option b without starting with option a, because I worry that that too will make the other person uncomfortable (yay anxiety).

So I as a player am all for being called on it as soon as possible, because I would rather know. And yeah, it's not nice and it can be a bit of a gutpunch for all parties, but a) as others have said, if the person is worth talking to, they'll respect that and b) if the person on the other side is as horrifically anxious as me about it, then they'll appreciate knowing sooner rather than later.

I've looked back over that and I'm not completely sure if I articulated that at all clearly, but it'll have to do.

This entire exchange from Hogfather. I know, it's not a quote, it's dialogue. Don't care.

Susan: “All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."
*Death: REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.
Susan: "Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"
Death: YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.
Susan: "So we can believe the big ones?"
Death: YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.
Susan: "They're not the same at all!"
Death: YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET — Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.
Susan: "Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"
Death: MY POINT EXACTLY.

Also

And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.

@Arkandel said in MU Things I Love:

14 days without any flagged content on MSB.

I appreciate that, folks.

You have no idea how tempting it is to flag this post.

Current
Arx: Austen

Past
Elan Vital: Ifrit (staff), Corevas, Torath
Otherspace: Ifrit/Meldor (staff), Rathenhope, Tirax
Various Pern games through the ages: Ranmar/Rathmar? (hell if I remember the spelling)
bDv/Star Trek Foundations: Marvin (staff), Bozar

There are probably others, bit parts here and there that I've forgotten, but that's all I remember right now. Hit me up if you remember me from this obscure hobby and actually liked me! If you hated me, don't tell me. I probably already know

Scenes that tear out your heart and put it back in again, resulting in an excellent mess to try and clear up the day after.

I think that's also the first time that particular character has ever espoused what he believes to be his true place in the world so completely.

So, first off, I love Ares. I love what it's doing for MUSHing, I love how it's made RP so much more accessible to me, a GMTer with occasionally shitty connections, with its web portal and so on.

However, for me, there is sometimes a lot more I want to do with custom stuff, things that would be better suited to Evennia and a more basic starting point. (The fact that I know Python like the back of my hand is part of that as well, of course)

One of the things that I've looked at would be implementing some sort of scene/web portal thing into Evennia, but also trying to keep that grid based feel - so that one can just go sit in an interesting place on grid and see who stumbles in. But also allowing you to have private RP in a temporary copy of a room if you just want a scene in a place without people coming in.

I know people on MSB have a wide variety of opinions on the subject, so really this is me throwing open the doors. Tell me, what would be the perfect system for you? Maybe the answer is 'Ares does everything I want and more', maybe it's 'All grid all the time, down with web portals'. But I'm curious, and should I ever actually go anywhere with this project (ha), it'd be awesome to get a sense of what it is that works for people.

@Auspice No one's told me anything about anyone's sex life. I hope I can continue this streak unbroken.

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Copied from their summary. I'm not a huge fan of horror but I am really enjoying this. I would strongly advise not looking up any of the episodes as you go even if you're wondering where you might have heard that name before. I did this and accidentally spoiled some of the metaplot for myself, and discovering it as the podcast reveals it is part of the fun.

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Sooo does anyone else have the anti-routine problem? I was always told if you did things for more than 2 weeks they become a routine. For me I can maintain a new routine perfectly for 2 weeks and then I completely lose track of it and can't pick it up again.

@RightMeow So I am on my second week of ADHD medication - I'm taking Xaggatin XL (which is cheaper brand of Concerta XL, a stimulant). We're upping the dose a little every week and I've had to cut all caffeine and alcohol intake during the titration period (and probably going forwards)

For me, the first week didn't seem a lot to write home about, there was a little more 'can' in doing things, but still no way of directing my focus onto anything useful. This week has been a gear shift. I've managed to complete work tasks that have been on my plate for more than a year, with a laser-sharp focus that I've honestly not felt for a very long time. My partner and my mother both say I'm more engaged in conversations with them, and my physical fidgetiness has dropped massively. My mood has been up as well.

They last 12 hours and so I take them in the morning, with the intent that they will be fully out of my system by the time it's bedtime, and so far I've not had any sleep problems. In terms of side-effects I've had the following: minor headaches in the morning for the first 2-3 days of upping a dose, raised heart rate and blood pressure - these should go back down as your body gets used to it, but I'm still in the initial period - reduced appetite (leading to some minor weight loss). I've had a little nausea at times, though taking the meds with food helps massively, and I've noticed I can get a little irritable, more so than usual.

A little bit of a downside is that I find I get hyperfocused on everything at the moment, even things I don't necessarily want to, and breaking that can be a bit difficult, but it's going to be learning new habits.