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if someone is Hungarian then 100% they are a vampire

@Tinuviel said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

@Lotherio said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

@Pandora said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

This is a great hobby plagued by some massive problems.

So, basically its sort of like real life?

Except this is optional.

technically, so is life

She Just Hasn’t Been Fucked Right But I Bet I Could Fix Her, behind only “hiiiiiii do u want to be #3 w hubby & me?? plz say yes!!!! :):):)” and tied with “can i watch”

@surreality said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

At which point someone in the public space I entered started to ask if I would please please please please please do this to them and wouldn't leave me alone for two weeks begging me to do it every few hours, despite me telling them NO repeatedly.

you don’t even need to do or even just SAY anything, like, the very act of existing is enough for some people there to just - like not only obsess about you but to obsess about you in the fucking craziest and most specific of ways and scenarios

if your char has german or Scandinavian features somebody will want you to be a nazi, if your char has platforms someone will ask you to crush their nuts, if your char has literally ever been in any comic book or cartoon or video game or whatever, ever, jlee will page you literally every time you log on bc he wants you to have tits the size of a mid-size car & ass cheeks that “grind together”

@ganymede said in Let's talk about TS.:

@aria said in Let's talk about TS.:

Does it cover everything? Well, no, not really. But I think it's general enough to get the idea across in a largely functional and effective way.

I saw a guy get tossed out of a strip club for whipping out his thing while watching a girl dance on a pole, and whacking at it fiercely. It took a couple of minutes and a lot of laughter before the bouncers came by and physically hauled him out. And this was a place where there was titties-a-plenty.

I guess my point is that I lean on common sense. If I have to tell you why it's inappropriate to lead someone by the leash on the Battlestar, I think I'm just going to talk to Faraday.

Yeah if you whip it out in a club you'll 100 percent get ejected unless it's an insanely skeevy club

and if it's a topless place they're not at all ever in any possible world going to risk getting their liquor license pulled, like, everyone you're with is gone and probably never allowed back

Really most clubs period that aren't private are gonna be the same, including fetish clubs, like, those places almost never even have doors on the bathroom stalls

tbh i think the majority of the "i can totally fuck here" people just haven't ever been to the places they think are down w somebody getting slammed on the bar

make a wod game set in Kupreanof, Alaska

it's got, like, 25 people

also refuse to ever address how a ton of vampires and whatever live there

y/w

if a game is a toilet people deserve to be able to find out before they get shit on themselves without, like, say, having to go to the length of making an account and clicking to view one particular sub forum where it's ok to say "hi this place is run by someone gross"

is my unpopular opinion

but then i p much came here to say that, so

@Pandora said in Intersectional MU* Community - Discussion:

@Prototart said in Intersectional MU* Community - Discussion:

oh good

how the community has suffered for lack of a pillowfort

This isn't even vaguely constructive, let alone mildly.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

literally nothing I've seen of the behavior and statements of the people involved gives me any reason at all to believe this'll be anything more than pillowfort 2: pillowfortier, w the same noxious blend of geek social fallacy run rampant, npd, and lets-play-pretend social justice as a mask for abusive behavior hundreds of times worse and more damaging than anything they use as a thin pretense to justify their shit

i constructively suggest we all try to get their cringey wod fanfic published as soon as we can so they wander off rather than just hope lightning strikes twice

is that better

honestly I think that the more you strip away - no grids! no descs! everything is on the wiki! - the more you basically just make it "ok then why would i want to do that instead of just be in a Discord rp" or whatever

the strength and like the marketing spin or, whatever should be that - like, it's this thing that's more solid and real and complex-in-a-good-way, that it's more feature rich and has things that really contribute to a sense that it's an actual Game World than something transient and impersonal and just, like, basically impromptu and jury rigged

nobody i ever tried to get into this was put off by mechanical stuff, it was always I guess cultural, nobody ever had a problem w +traits or descs or bgs or any of that stuff - and before it comes up basically none of them were pen and paper people, they weren't from Gaming backgrounds where you can go "well they're used to that" the closest my bf has ever been to Gaming other than when I tried to get her in was Pokemon - and sometimes I really think people just try to solve these problems that are mostly imagined or hugely overstated ones bc it's way more palatable than "maybe so many people quit mushing bc of mushers"

don’t think of it as wearing out your welcome just think of it as nerds not being cool enough to hang with you

@Tinuviel said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

@Prototart And Gulyás!

when i was in, idk, 6th grade I think I got into this gigantic fight with a boy because he brought “Hungarian goulash” to lunch and it was some weird casserole thing with noodles and that was the first time I’d ever seen what a horrible thing protestants had done to gulyás and i honestly still just deeply resent it

@Macha said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

I love goulash. I never thought it was an 'authentic' dish, or anything. I knew where it /originated/ but never thought it was the same. Like we've done with a lot of good food, here in 'Murica.

gulyás is one of our National Dishes, the actual kind is basically a soup or stew with a ton of paprika in it and usually nokedli, which are these little dumpling things, on the side

i assume the american kind started with, like, the talking hamburger helper glove

I’ve never seen american paprikash and please no one hurt me by showing it to me if there is one that uses like thousand island dressing and hot sauce or something

@Derp said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

@Prototart said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

if someone is Hungarian then 100% they are a vampire

Or a porn star. Maybe both.

porn star vampire horse-archer war criminal, my new char (do not steal)

i’ve talked about it before but my experience in trying to get non-MU* people to MU* was a total nightmare and, honestly, my experience as someone who came to this from a non-traditional background/route isn’t a ton better, i’m just too dumb to stop coming back

yeah most places tend to be insular but the bigger problem is that the geek social fallacies are, like, the fucking Ten Commandments

with somebody who’s never been part of that - i guess, nerd culture, in my experience almost nobody lasts longer than like, a couple of months tops. because the most random shit can just be a total landmine that will trigger someone to go on like the most insane screaming tirade about, like, a comic from the 70s or whatever and people who didn’t grow up in nerd culture look at that and think “what the fuck,” not “oh yeah im like that about sonic’s arms.”

i used to invite bartenders, security guys, and other dancers

i don’t invite anyone anymore

idk why but I remember that somebody played DMX as, like... a were-spider, i think, on some wod place I was on when I was 14ish

@surreality said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

@HelloProject This touches on some of the stuff that was prevalent on Shang that just... really made me not want to play there.

god, there was a period where i guess there was just, a trend to do these super racist caricatures there

is there a section on spending like 20 years in a community where basically every single main character and surge of drama and Wikileaks style drop happened because an abusive weirdo was given power and his enabling friends refused to see why everyone had a huge problem with it and not at all learning from any of that

totally unrelated to anything going on just a totally random question

@bloodangel

https://brandmuday.mythicus.net/

@ganymede said in Something Completely Different:

@prototart said in Something Completely Different:

it’s gross and it’s why this place is going to end up you, him, and the three people who upvote your posts

Okay.

Legit question, who is this for now? You made a rape apologist an admin and then banned everyone who had a problem with it, almost all of them women, and then blamed everything else on a third party who, alongside everyone else on staff, has since quit.

What do you think is going to happen here? Do you think anyone is coming back? Do you think anyone who’s been victimized somewhere is going to trust you enough to ever actually bring anything here, knowing you ruined 20 years worth of reputation rather than admit you made a mistake by elevating your misogynist friend?

You’ve been around long enough that you should realize what happens every time a sequence like that plays out.

And it’s never, not even once, been, “everything gets better because everyone calmed down, quit being such uppity bitches, and understood what they THOUGHT was reality was actually just their feminine delusions.”

@alzie said in Hog Pit as read only:

What happened here?

narcissistic injury

Target had donkey kong air fresheners

they weren't banana scented

hows that even legally allowed

@arkandel said in FCs on Comic MUs:

@kanye-qwest But there's no reason the time period can't be defined either for the entire game or the character in question.

"This is Rebirth Superman".

(In fact, to me, there's no other way that makes sense but there are so many hybrid MU* out there I guess I must be a minority)

Right? Like... pretty much every comic game I played on until I took an, idk, 6-ish year break had a theme that was just "it's (Marvel/DC), this is when it's set."

And those places always had plenty of players so I really, genuinely dunno what changed that made everybody decide you just couldn't do a comic place that anybody'd play on unless it was potpourri