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@krmbm said in Hello MSBites! Grade your administrators.:

Also, I don't think a "vocal few" people who want the board to be made out of rainbows should have a greater voice than the "vocal few" who appreciate having a place to call a spade a flaming piece of cunty spades.

Listen, I don't know if there's something specifically wrong with your genital area (there are all sorts of antibiotics these days, best of luck) but how about not using the word cunt/cunty as an acceptable mud-slinging insult when that's actually precisely the sort of shit that will get you slain in the Hogpit.

You people wanted mods and now you've got them. As a red-blooded American, I will never understand the desire to want authority over my head, but it's not like MSB being modded will ever stop me from being the asshole that I am so it affects me in almost no way whatsoever. Why some of you are going for @Auspice's head I do not know, so far she's done nothing so egregious as to warrant this pages-long debate over her fitness to mod, but posters gonna post. I'll say this though, the same as we say about any game in any other thread - if you don't like the staff, leave.

I'm looking at the IP match to another player. Sure, it's a small world or whatever, but not that damn small.

Also, has anyone cared enough to check if between the two Shalooonsh names on Discord, one of them is spelled shalooonsh and the other is spelled shaiooonsh? Because I've definitely seen people in Discord groups make duplicates of someone's name using the capital-i-looks-like-lowercase-l trick for 'funny hijinks' like sending dick pics.

@tempest said in Interest Poke - Fallout Canada:

Yeah, you really need to focus on how ethnically diverse the setting is, when it's going to be 200 years in the future after a nuclear war devastates the entire planet.

It would make sense actually, especially from a Vault standpoint, to have a wide range of diversity. If a small group is meant to repopulate the planet, a genetic spread is vital.

@Tinuviel Be that as it may, it's turned into a back and forth based on the incident in question regarding this game, and if you don't care to continue discussing Armageddon Mud in the thread called Armageddon Mud you're of course perfectly able to ignore my post and continue on around without being condescending as if somehow it's ME that's gone off topic, thanks.

@Seraphim73 said in Historical MUSHes:

@Saulot said in Historical MUSHes:

@Seraphim73 I know I sound like a pessimist, but I don't think there is a happy medium. You gotta accept that you can't please both audiences, and will have to cater to one. I may be wrong since I haven't been mushing for long, and there may have been games that have accomplished it.

I don't disagree. I think you have to pick somewhere on the spectrum (probably like 2/3 to 3/4 of the way in one direction or the other would be my guess) and then be very, very, very clear in the Mission Statement/Welcome where you're setting the game. For The Eight Sea (thanks @tek), for instance, we specifically said "We are playing a Hollywood version of history, with similarly Hollywood interpretations of real-world religions and myths" on the front page.

As someone that gets 1-part-angry, 3-parts-sad when I see possibly-unintentional caricatures of 'historically-accurate' black people, this whole Hollywood-interpretations caveat thing has me readying the headache tablets and metaphorical Kleenex in preparation for a shit-show.

@Catsmeow said in Lords and Ladies Game:

I think everyone has moments of an amusing lack of awareness. It's human nature to not see how we are being perceived against our intention.

I hate when people apply their flaws to everyone and call it 'human nature'. Many people take pride in maintaining an acute degree of awareness with those around them. You're basically alleging that humans are hard-wired to be socially inept. I strongly disagree. I can certainly see how one might come to that conclusion if their main sources of interaction are via the internet, but not otherwise.

Tangential to the stated point of the 'community' but still relevant:

Unsanctioned, staff-absent forums/servers are a breeding ground for misinformation, sometimes well-meaning bad advice, and sometimes manipulative BS. It's bad enough when it's just one private server of one new game that's gone fucking sideways(don't ask) but the idea of a bunch of people on a bunch of games zerging with an agenda sounds like a fucking wave of headache heading our way. I've said let's wait and see and I do intend to give it the benefit of the doubt, but I also said 'let's wait and see' before Hurricane Isaac had me grilling the meat in my powerless freezer in my backyard in 109 degree New Orleans weather while standing on a ladder because my house and yard were fucking flooded.

TLDR; in case it was missed the first several times: I have not yet been presented with a realistic scenario for how this community isn't going to suck, and I would like a mildly constructive discussion of how this is going to work other than some lofty honor-system of vague, unenforceable rules.

If you're not aware, Steam now has a remote-play feature that allows one person that owns a game to play split-screen/shared-screen couch-cooperative games with people online even if they do not have the game.

I have Catastronauts, Overcooked 2, Upbreakers, For the King, Lego: The Hobbit, Toybox Turbo, and a few other games as well, so if you've got Steam and like to couch co-op without having to sit on anyone else's couch, hit me up.

@Auspice said in Intersectional MU* Community - Discussion:

@Pandora

I feel like the reasoning is supposed to be 'The people allowed on the server are so good and perfect they'd never ever do anything bad.' or something along those lines.

Nah, @Kestrel is awful but not stupid. The server is going to be full of butthurt ninnies and that's just how the internet works in general, as @mietze just pointed out. I wanna know, will there be a rule added against unsubstantiated witch-hunts before or after someone's reputation is ruined by a scorned ex-TS partner? Will there be a policy in place about reporting instances to staff and not employing vigilante justice? Will there be rules against making bait-alts to get someone to do something skeevy '4 Tha Screenshot'?

Like, make your group, but for the love of all that's good, holy, and well-thought-out, address these issues before your server full of unloaded issues goes full Katamari on some unsuspecting game.

Who you voted for is not public unless you tell someone. Whether or not you voted, and whether you lean Democrat or Republican, can be part of the public record.

@Kanye-Qwest Pretty much any RP-enforced game that isn't a MUSH.

It's funny that when I'm playing MUDs I sigh dramatically and say I want to play a political princess (don't judge me, that's my favorite thing ever) and fuck off to MUSH-land for a while.

But there's only so long before I want to control something. Build an empire, start a cult, start a war. Make a name for myself that matters not because it sounds cool, or is attached to power, but through sheer force of will, with no one's permission & on my own schedule.

Course, for me this means sucking it up and dealing with Havenites again, that's a Mu thing I do not love.

@Rinel said in Separating Art From Artist:

Most of the people upset about cancel culture, and who are affected by it, are unrepentant bigots who are being deplatformed.

When the word bigot is used against people who've done something bigoted, fair play. When the word bigot is used to describe people who disagree with the louder voices, not so much. So no, I don't disagree with what you've said at all, but I am wary of falling in line with anyone's idea of what makes a bigot in these hair-trigger times.

@Tinuviel said in MU Things I Love:

@Pandora said in MU Things I Love:

But there's only so long before I want to control something. Build an empire, start a cult, start a war. Make a name for myself that matters not because it sounds cool, or is attached to power, but through sheer force of will, with no one's permission & on my own schedule.

Write a book. Seriously. Doesn't have to be good.

It's not the same. I write; I have a decent fanfic following & sometimes I get the urge to write something original but it invariably ends up abandoned.

There's something uniquely compelling about writing that involves others; that 'repeating-that-one-line-out-loud-because-it-was-so-clever-and-people-are-ICly-quoting-you' feeling, that 'people-OOCly-paging-you-to-say-'My character can't support your cause but damn that was an amazing proclamation' feeling, that 'people-care-about-this-like-really-care-about-this' feeling.

I don't understand how people can stand to read other people's RP logs for the most part, they aren't as good as a real novel, and only really seem special to me if they involve me in some way. But I have logs from like, way back in Firan days that still make my toes curl with joy.

Geeya being blessed by Soli to not die in childbirth (she died at war instead, but that's irrelevant).
Aldrette being arrested by Nydias for not curtsying to his neonoble wife and subsequently being made HoH.
Aldrette's fiery fight with Ketarus about how she'll never amount to anything, the day before she was named proxy.

(Shoutout to Cecilia's player, I might have had my raging issues with Firan's staff but she was good for elevating a woman over the BS men in that damn clan.)

But anyway, logs of someone else doing something else - not interested unless I was there. Maybe I'm just self-centered, or maybe MU writing is less about writing something good and more about writing something that makes you and the people around you feel good.

Books are a different beast altogether, they need to be good or you're wasting your damn time.

She didn't cancel herself, she canceled her release due to fear she'd be canceled otherwise. You don't aim a gun at someone, watch them break an ankle running away, then tell the police 'she injured herself, I didn't touch her'. Or I mean, you do, and hopefully your attorney can make that work for you, but you're still a gun-wielding maniac.

I had Fraggle Rock and the Little Golden Books and a case full of Disney movies when I was really little, my mom liked cute things and so my exposure was cute things.

But then I got dumped with my grandparents for a year while my mom was finishing school.

I'd finished all the little cute books I'd brought with me, so I decided to take a look at the books on my uncle's shelf. Mutiny on the Amistad. Wuthering Heights. The Hobbit. Ender's Game. Speaker for the Dead. Several more I can't recall the names of, but these are the ones that impacted me in ways that I still feel to this day.

That summer and the following school year witnessed the birth of my obsession with all things literary, all things historical, all things sci-fi. I didn't know how to tie my shoes yet, I was eight and my hand-eye coordination was (still is) shit. But I was (still am) a pro page-turner.

Look for the positive, beautiful things that come out of this mess.
Dolphins, swans, and fish reappear in Venice's newly clear canals during the lockdown

@BetterJudgment said in SerenityMUSH - Discussion:

@Pandora said in SerenityMUSH - Discussion:

@Alzie said in SerenityMUSH – Still Flyin':

@SerenityMush said in SerenityMUSH – Still Flyin':

...Most of the staff and players who were considered part of that, are no longer around on the game.

@SerenityMush said in SerenityMUSH – Still Flyin':

Fanty's in charge now.

I can't tell if this is sarcasm, willful ignorance or a statement of the belief Fanty's specific type of corruption was A-Ok.

Tell us more.

I have the vaguest of recollections that there were accusations at some point of a staffer stealing the DB. I'm not sure why anyone would bother; SerenityMUSH is the only game I've ever seen that had a notice in the login room announcing you would get a minor OOC reward for finding and reporting the many typos the head wiz made while descing objects.

I'm confused; is this a bad thing? I like to consider myself a good writer with a professional-level grasp of spelling and grammar. But even with that said, I make typos just like most other people do from time to time. Some people are fantastic coders or story-runners, but might not be English majors, or may have dyslexia, or English as a second language.

The shitty thing to do would be to say 'I make a lot of typos, deal with it, lulz!' The polite thing to do would be to say 'I make a lot of typos, my apologies'. The above-and-beyond thing to do would be to actually reward people for helping you to rectify your mistakes.

Without further context, I fail to see how a headwiz acknowledging their shortcomings and reaching out to their community for help is anything worth scorning.

Either way though, someone stealing the DB or asking for help with typos doesn't smack of corruption, so can we get to the good stuff? Who was giving out plot in exchange for TS?? Who was giving out double-XP for PrPs to their besties? I want the tea.

@Ganymede said in RL Anger:

Just give me the damned documents.

Dear writers of Daredevil,

Here is a free line that I think your fans will love because I personally got a kick out of it and would like to see a lawyer on television use it.

@Goblin