Added bonus (or deterrent): Me.
Best posts made by L. B. Heuschkel
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RE: Getting into Writing
I have been writing all my life. I worked as a professional copy writer for a spell and now I spend most of my time alternating between writing historical fiction and mushing. Roleplaying is definitely writing -- not necessarily something that can be published, but you learn ALL THE THINGS about pacing, keeping people interesting, setting scenes and moods, and moving a plot.
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RE: Well, this sums up why I RP
@Caggles said in Well, this sums up why I RP:
To further muddy it, is this different for fiction vs non-fiction? Does a paper on covalent bonds lose validity if written by a TERF? How about different disciplines? Social sciences vs physics?
It may. Depends a lot on what the paper is about. If it's a study of iron age weaponry, probably not. Modern gender politics -- probably quite a bit.
I'm going to reiterate my stand from earlier; if a contemporary writer turns out to be a person you profoundly disagree with, you have to ask yourself if you want to give them your money. In cases where they are a shitty person but their novels are not, I can see myself continuing to buy their books; not everyone in the world agrees with me on everything, and that's just how it is.
If the shitty view is expressed in a way that may have very profound effects, though -- such as, hypothetically, modern gender studies and someone who's an express homophobe, TERF, what have you -- then I do think the talk about whether they should be doing this needs to happen, and whether one is willing to support it.
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RE: Armageddon MUD
@Derp No, actually I think we do agree -- particularly if I rush to cede that the main error of the big MMOs is indeed that they try to cater to everyone in order to get their hands into more pockets, and thus end up catering rather poorly.
There's a difference between the game catering to a particular theme and group, though, and the OOC atmosphere. If someone wants to set up a hardcore vampire vore BDSM fetishist anything-you-can-imagine-but-worse mush, let them. Nothing in that says toxic OOC environment. It may be the most supportive, caring OOC environment ever, just like the most bland and boring D&D style my little fuzzball love bear game may have an OOC atmosphere in which grooming and pedophilia is considered par for the course.
I think I was just unclear on the difference between IC and OOC. It's toxic OOC atmosphere that needs considered -- what happens IC shouldn't matter (and in a safe and non-toxic environment usually won't).
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RE: A Lack of Imagination
@Auspice Story of my life as well, that. I tag people with some tagline on Ares pages so I can keep them apart. In real life? Same, but on the cell phone. It's not that I don't care. I just literally can't tell people's names and faces apart, and I get them mixed up most embarrassingly.
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RE: Is this hobby on it's last legs?
@Sunny Lordy, how tedious. I'm glad to be new enough to this hobby to not have seen enough to set my clock by it. Just going to agree that no, the hobby is definitely not dying.
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RE: Resources for Self-Isolating People
@HelloProject 25 years for me. Getting a little tired of so-called friends going on about how their lives aren't worth living now that they can't go out three nights a week. This is any day ending in -y for me. But hey, message noted.
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RE: Is this hobby on it's last legs?
@Caryatid I remember people asking this question when the first Vampire: The Masquerade came out in the late 80s. XD
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RE: MUSH conflict... sad face?
Others have already addressed the other issues (and I am inclined to agree with Ghost as a relative newbie that there are definitely The Way Things Have Always Been Done Here in this hobby). So I'll just tack an opinion onto one thing in your post:
Since my RL job makes my availability limited, if these people don't choose of their own volition to take a break during the limited days I can play, I have to either court trouble by joining a public scene knowing they also want to join, or just skip that day and know it will be a week before I get another chance.
There are games out there, run on the Ares platform, that try to cater specifically to the fact that not everyone can be around every night in US prime time to catch all the action. Some do it deliberately, others simply have a player base in which a lot of people can't sit around all the time for various reasons.
Personally I can't because health and European time. Most people I play with are any combination of fellow Europeans, chronically ill, chronically fatigued, or just don't have much time. So we do asynchronous scenes instead, and, well, it works.
Not going to claim this play style never has drama or player politics, but there does seem to be less of it. Probably because play time is that much more precious when you have little of it, and you're not going to waste it arguing.
Just tossing that out there to help remove at least one obstacle.
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RE: Covid-19 Gallows Humor
@Kestrel What makes me mad is that it keeps clogging up my social media feed except -- this meme doesn't even have the worst one. Namely that Corona doesn't even exist, it's all 5G radiation killing people.
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RE: MU Things I Love
Players who respond to being dragged into an unexpected scene with
AMAZING I LOVE IT
leave me fuzzywarm in the morning.
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RE: The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves)
@tek Hear you so loud and clear on that one. And just in case your outburst relates to the game we're both on, hit me up anytime.
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RE: MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't)
Did I miss a memo or was this not the joke?
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RE: Dead Celebrities 2020
@Ganymede said in Dead Celebrities 2020:
My mother is horridly racist, for example. Bet your life I call her out on that shit loudly ever single damn time, IDGAF who she is.
So's mine. I don't have the strength to argue which is why I cut off all contact entirely (long story of abuse). Partner still picks up the phone at times though and good lord, the arguments. Because indeed, that shit needs to be called out every damn time.
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RE: A healthy game culture
I'm going to have to agree that if there is any one (2-3) player(s) who can ruin a game on their own, then that is management, yes.
Game runners don't need to be high visibility, leading everything by hand. In fact, when they are, the game can turn into an attention grabbing competition because players feel the only way to stay involved is to elbow into the game runners' personal circle.
They do, however, need to be trustworthy. That means some level of transparency, and a reputation for fairness. If you can't trust game admin to take your complaint seriously because they're buddies with the guy who harrassed you, then the only way to go there is far away.
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RE: Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.
@testament There's a very big difference between venting and asking for a bit of sympathy, and between your misery giving you a free pass to be an asshole.
An asshole is an asshole, no matter what issues they have.
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RE: A healthy game culture
@too-old-for-this The type of game is also an issue. The more competitive and/or pvp-oriented, the more hierarchical, the easier it is to lose track of when you are just playing your char and when you are making staff decisions that might benefit your char a wee bit more than necessary.
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RE: Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.
@testament A good take on the spoon theory, really.
Run us out of spoons, we're gonna have to throw other things.
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RE: A healthy game culture
@pyrephox A good theme page has a section about what this game offers and what it doesn't offer, yeah. Because no game is for everyone, and no game should try to be. Success is not measured in how many players you get to app in. It's measured in how much fun you and your players have. Better to be on a five person game of awesome than be continuously disappointed among hundreds.