Posts made by il-volpe

Same here. Faraday is also very helpful. But you might want to be careful about Ares, since it seems really different to me and may limit your help, and certainly stop you from using stuff off mushcode etc.

Well, if you're already requiring justification for spends, you can do it by hand. If it's not a huge game it'd be tolerable and less time-consuming than reading logs, likely.

@Auspice

If you have a clever codebeast, perhaps:

You have a set of things you are 'Learning.' In theory most of these correspond to classes you are taking, but you can have a few more than that. You can only spend XP on shit you have been learning for x number of days.

The amount of XP you earn in a semester is the amount it takes to advance enough to get As in a full load of classes.

It's setting what's in your learning list that requires a justification, not spending XP.

I feel certain that the first time I heard 'telenuke' it was in reference to an incident where magi literally teleported impressive explosive devices into the ridiculously secure hidaways of everybody they disliked on general principles.

Not sure that they started out with the stats to do it, or the explosive materials. I think the point is more that the PCs killed not only had no defense, they had no warning, no possibility of escape, and no personal involvement in the attacker's motives, rendering their characters' deaths most boring and random from their point of view.

@Tinuviel You are right about that.

@Cobaltasaurus @HorrorHound Aww, tell us a story...

I don't know if those pictures are his work, those are just some character pages associated with the offending wikidot account: http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/pirateremi

Secondhand, evidently he was "Julian" on Phoenix Rising, or on one of the more recent-ish iterations of Metro, or maybe both. A habit of making cool-leather-jacket motorcycle-gang guy characters. Which is consistent with the one that I was guessing, based on peculiar uses of the comma, was his on MUSH of the Dead.

Evidently he dox'd another game owner once, who had reason to find that disturbing and closed the game as a result.

And there's a theory that he's High School Shower Guest.

Well, I've talked to a couple of staffers on MUSH of the Dead, and I really, really, doubt that this asshat is staff there. I understand they do suspect a former player.

An aside, this really cracked me up:

Varys says, "Generally a good idea not to piss off people who work in IT Gash, you dumb fuck."

@Lyanna You're awesome.

@Insomnia Well, the number he has isn't mine, it's the guy who owns the hosting account, and mostly pays for it. I expect nothing will come of it because of geography and phone service pricing as well as bravado.

@Lyanna Yeah. He pulled the code that made the log page and some other self-populating things work, and a bunch of random house pages.

http://mutantmush.wikidot.com/trip
http://mutantmush.wikidot.com/sin

@Insomnia Sure. I wasn't upset with him for doing that, I was just telling him it was a no-go. I expected I might have to explain to him why you can't just bounce back and forth so frequently, and possibly give him some hard-and-fast rule about how frequently is okay if he proved unable to be reasonable about it by himself like everybody else, but I didn't expect a GM act of saying, "Naw, you can't do that," would be taken as some sort of vicious assault.

@surreality The player who knew him from somewhere else isn't on, or I'd ask his other handles. Soooooon.

@Lyanna He fucked up the wiki pretty damn good, and I'm pretty cheesed off at wikidot for having default settings that let a non-admin do permanent deletions. Between the Wayback Machine and google's cache reclaiming all the content has been no real problem, and in contrast to his ravings, people like the game enough that a couple of clever players have restored the functions and templates and shit he broke. He did pretty well at targeting shit that it'd be a pain to do without.

@surreality GoB has a mini-grid for Starfall, in Dorne. This is about two days away on a boat, a week or so on horseback. We don't do travel-times, they keep people out of RP, but I did tell folks to keep it in mind and not travel back and forth all the time. This player had a PC who was hopping back and forth every 4-8 days for a couple of weeks. (This hopping creates the impression that he's around both areas most of the time, and thus he's able to Win Friends and Influence People freely in both areas, when in IC reality he'd be traveling most of the time, so this is a no-go.) I paged him and told him to stop doing it. He had an unholy shit fit and badgered me about it for three hours. As best I can understand it, he believes that by paging him asking him to stop doing something I was actually inflicting a terrible punishment upon him, and that this was terribly unfair, because there was no written rule about the matter. This vulgar tirade also included a bit I mentioned elsewhere on the forums, where he looked at the logs and found everybody who'd had two alts in one scene, which is allowed by dispensation which may or may not be recorded in the log, and told me they should be punished, not he, and also he looked for everybody who has an unactive alt (keeping all your alts active was, actually, a written rule on the wiki, but I never enforced it, don't care, and took it out then) and told me they should be punished, not he. Also, I am really bad at everything related to running a game, and also, he is a proud rules-lawyer. During the course of this I told him three times to log off, and booted him when he wouldn't, only to have him bounce back on and continue, etc. Eventually he left, probably because I stopped paying attention.

Because I am some sort of card-carrying bleeding heart, I figured I would not let him bury himself off the game in one evening, maybe his dog just died or something, and I would speak to him again. He logged in and logged off in the same second or two a couple of times. The next time I actually typed fast enough to catch him, he was rude again, and logged off. Also, I'd had a well-loved player tell me that they knew him from some other games and were creeped out to realise it was him. So I unapproved him.

He kept logging on and logging off super-quick, for weeks on end. And posted an advert for 'MUSH of the Dead' where I believe he claims to be staff.

Tonight, I happened to be quick enough to tell him to go away, and point out that he was unapproved. So he spazzed out again, and has now shouted out the address and telephone number of our host, to the OOC room, and fucked over the wiki, and was threatening to keep coming back to make my life miserable. Though when he popped back a couple of hours later I fucked up his char-bit so he can't communicate, and he disconnected and didn't come back as a guest, to my mild surprise.

ec2-54-197-231-30.compute-1.amazonaws.com

Prolly no point in mentioning them further, really.

I mean that he found the name, address and telephone number of the person who holds the account that hosts us and reported them to me to be threatening (because he thinks this person is me) and told the OOC room the telephone number and told them to call it.

And he's vandalized our wiki.

65-33-226-46.res.bhn.net

This critter doxxed the guy who hosts my game, under the impression that he is me, and tried to get players to harass me by telephoning our host.

Not sure where this sort of thing belongs, or if it's even proper soapbox use.

@FiranSurvivor said in Fanbase entitlement:

Comparing an entitled player on a MU* to a fan of a TV show is apples and oranges.

Indeed. Unless the game is utter fucking crap and undeserving of the name of 'role playing game' then players have, and are owed, a level of creative control.

@Thenomain said in Fanbase entitlement:

Prediction: This thread will be about how entitlement is bad and specific examples about how people have acted in an entitled manner. No debate about if entitlement is bad will take place.

Well, yeah. In US culture, at least, people talk about 'entitlement' as if it being bad is part of the meaning of the word. I recall my ex throwing it around during our divorce as if my 'entitlement' in believing that I not only got to keep half of the savings and shit that we had accumulated together but also all of my furniture and household crap that I had from before was not a literal fact, but me being rapacious and wrong.

In the context of games and fandom the discussion should probably just be about reasonable expectations. Obviously we're not entitled to artists' works. Yet, while George R. R. Martin is not your bitch, it's also a reasonable expectation to figure a big-name professional writer will produce a novel every year or two; the publishing industry expects it too. (Though considering Martin's history, maybe it's not reasonable to expect that of him.) If I invite you to dinner and give you nothing but a saltine smeared with a small amount of rancid butter, I have not denied you an entitlement, but I have violated your reasonable expectation of a decent meal, and I am being a dick. When artists grossly jump the shark on a series, it's probably dickish. When MU-runners shut new players out of the game or treat them with brazen hostility or deny their characters agency, it's dickish, even though nobody's entitled to a satisfying MU.

Do your damnedest to eradicate the notion that the game is a bloody 'service' at all. Hopefully you are doing it because it's your damn hobby, sir, which includes the boring bits to make it work out, but still isn't a job. You're sure not being paid, and I hope you're not doing it because MUers are a sad charity case who need your saintly volunteer efforts to bring much-needed entertainment to their tragic lives.

People will still assume you owe them a service, since that's not only a traditional model for MUSHes but also how it usually goes if a place is open to the public. But those ones develop selective illiteracy when you say that allowing or even encouraging people to pop in and play a game doesn't make you obliged to make it the game they want (at all, much less all the time) so they're just one of the boring bits of your hobby.

@Nausicaa said in Making a MU* of your own:

You can subscribe to every 'this is how to do it best' and still fail.

You can ignore almost all of them and still do okay, too, in my experience.