Posts made by Meg

@Salty said in Armageddon MUD:

@Derp I think it's pretty telling that a longer term player posted on reddit about her own issues with the staffer in question (shaleahx). I have had my own issues with harassing and uncalled for sexual shit going down, from an npc animated to call my character a whore and try to rob her and then threaten to slander her to her boss, to the byn lieutenant animated to demand my character suck their cock, to the bartender npc animated to lie to her soldier boyfriend saying she was fucking someone she was interviewing for her boss, to having a flea script tagged with forced emotes and hp loss to another of my character's /and/ the soldier she was trying to sleep with in secret, to any number of random elves who had never spoken to my characters literally willing to die in the arena while publicly shouting they'd fucked characters of mine. And me? I'm neither the player the staffer in question left his pregnant wife to hook up with after their character's TSing, nor the player that a top tier staffer sent an unsolicited dick pic to. Nor the dude with cptsd after another staffer kept trying to fuck while underage. Now me? I have never personally had a problem with the staff member in question. But you would have to get up pretty early in the morning to look bad in comparison to even just the history I personally know of of misconduct there. Full stop.

can i get a big holy fuck and a match to light all these trash staffers on fire with.

when you spend a lot of time making things for people, and they really love it.

@surreality I don't disagree that it provides a different context. That isn't the point of my post.

@surreality I don't think this is constructive. I don't think it's fair to say that this thread doesn't belong in the hogpit. I mean, you did just accuse someone of sleeping with a man with a fiancee. I don't think there's any situation in which this thread gets constructive from there.

ok, @mietze or @Ganymede, can we move to hogpit. let's do that.

i will repeat this is Some Shit.

@Herja don't worry; i still haven't revealed your secrets to this day.

friends in RP, friends forever.

@Tinuviel idk. i just work here, man. i don't want to debate philosophy.

It would really suck to have your personal life spread around by other people. I do believe you that your sex life was spread around to people. Idk who, definitely not to me. But, let's be honest, you have engaged in whisper attacks before, Auspice. So do I believe that you have retaliated in return by launching your own whisper attack about surreality? Sure, I can believe that, too.

Mostly, I just wish you and surreality would put each other on block and not engage with each other. Because this seems like Some Shit.

@tek I mean, it has been done before and it will be done again. @Roz has had someone go around whispering things about her behind her back. @Kanye-Qwest has had the same person do that.

Like, people be like that, sometimes.

@Tinuviel I don't think that's necessarily always the case. I have definitely thought someone in my tribe has been wrong, and an outsider has been right. And even if I do tend to believe people I am friends with more than people I am not, there's a certain line that I won't cross in defending my friends. I won't start whisper campaigns about people behind their backs. I won't attack people's personal lives over MU* games. The worst I will do is what anyone might see me do about SaintChief (that is, calling things out on this board for people to either believe or not, in full view of whoever to defend themselves or their friends), and that's because I am not always the best person. If I were a better person, I'd move on and live a healthy life.

But even then, there's only so far anyone should take things. If I had a friend who was so hurt by someone else that all they could do was whisper personal things and bad things about them to me all the time? I'd tell them to block them and move on with their lives.

@surreality My constructive advice would be to no longer engage with these people. Block them from your view and life. I doubt the whisper campaigns will end, but you cannot do anything really about that, except trust that either people will be smart enough to approach you to find out you side of the story or that they aren't worth your time, either.

For what it is worth, I have not heard you shit-talk or disclose anything about anyone. I have also not heard any whisper campaigns about you, but I also am not friends with the type of people that would start whisper campaigns.

honestly, not so much anger as sad. going in to the first holiday season since my parents moved across the country, so i'm gonna be spending all of it alone. which isn't so great or fun, and super sad. i am a grown adult so i shouldn't be so sad but. eh.

@Jeshin said in The ethics of IC romance, TS, etc:

The ethics of IC Romance and TS is all about managing expectations. If you're going to be 100% IC, you need to be 100% IC. If this means you're cheating and you have crazy hawt seches and have some hickies, you need to RP covering them up or they get spotted. If you're going to have OOC collab you need to be upfront. OOC collab means that you are writing a story together and just like writers in a meeting you're pitching ideas and discussing story threads. This includes any negative drama you want to explore. If you want to go some IC/OOC hybrid because you're chatting and coordinating playtimes and you banter a bit. You just need to be honest. Don't mislead your RP partner. If honesty leads to hurt feelings that sucks but you're not a creeper or abuser if you don't try and obscure or manipulate. You might be an asshole, but I think there is a fundamental difference between being an ass and victimizing your RP partners.

Basically, I like this summary. I don't care if you want to cheat ICly, but then keep it IC. If you want to collab OOCly, then collab. But often, people want to build harems. So they tell everyone OOCly 'you're my one and only' whether or not the person they are RPing with asked, while ICly having a billion relationships.

@Coin said in Responsible RP Resolutions:

And I always feel like the people I do connect with and play with and click with will forget about me or think I don't like them anymore when I stop playing because I can't manage it.

I will never forget about you. I will always be sad about RL eating me so we didn't get to play more.

(As a side note, if you are ever on the same game as me again, hmu!)

ok, but like, when are you guys going to make me a mod. i was voted 'most likely to be a funny mod 2018'.

@Ghost i'm taking no counterpoints or questions at this time. thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Feel free to disagree as you want, but I do think wanting to run a game based in an era where they can exclude people of color and LBTQ+ people does have a basis in bigotry.

I'm not saying you are a bigot if you want to run that game, but I am saying I think that action is bigoted and has a basis in bigotry.

There's my hot take for the day.

it was short, i'm back. doing much better. udated; hmu if you wanna chat.

it's that time again, my friends. i am out. surr wasn't wrong with observing that i am Not Doing Great and it is spilling over into everything, especially here. so i am gonna peace out. maybe for good this time, but i make no promises.

take care. enjoy the drama but remember it is just that, internet word game drama. be kind when you can. when faced with a decision, always make the choice that will have a better story.