@Auspice said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
There's a taco place here in TX called Torchy's and every month they have a taco of the month and one month they did a chicken and waffles taco.... It was a flour tortilla topped with a waffle topped with bacon topped with a fried egg topped with a chicken tender and then syrup over top and I honestly dream of that thing sometimes.
omg that sounds so amazing
My apologies. #NotAllFakeLesbians
I’ve probably posted basically this same thing, like, forty times before, but I’ve also had a couple of concussions so it’s always new to me. Also, I will be doing adult typing and I apologize in advance.
So, @fatefan and I might, maybe, possibly, potentially try to do a game.
At one time, I was pretty hot about, just, yeah, let’s straight up make Johnathan Hickman’s X-Men The Game! But the more of it that I’ve read, and the more that I’ve thought about it and the really specific nature and details of the society existing in it - like, no, oh my god, that could just never work as a MU*.
So, I’m back to my old idea. Because, of course I am, I’m a ridiculous Wildstorm fan girl and @Phase-Face and I wrote 30 fucking pages of theme files for it.
And, here they are. They aren’t perfectly organized, but, reading over them, I think they flow well enough to be easily readable. This is, like, 95% theme stuff, with a few theme-adjacent things — like, how and in what ways you can change FCs, a stance on game continuity/retcons, rules for making FC-connected OCs, stuff like that.
The, I guess, elevator pitch is that this would be a game set in, and around, San Francisco (which would be a sanctuary city for post-humans), with a thriving, mutant city-state of half a million mutants off the coast. SF’s Manhattan, but it’s people who can fly. It’s Marvel, and it’s mostly canon, but it’s also definitely not obsessively anal about it: there are ways to make some pretty big changes to FCs. It’s also Wildstorm, but it’s Wildstorm on top of Marvel. So there’s a Stormwatch, and Halo exists, but they’re all woven into the fabric of the Marvel Universe, not just glued on or in addition to.
Because there’s so much stuff, here’s a pastebin for it:
To rebel against being clearly comprehensible and shit, I made the poll as asinine and juvenile as possible.
the wall, from solar opposites
auspice was not bullied off
https://musoapbox.net/topic/1828/helping-out
when she joined
https://musoapbox.net/topic/2504/i-owe-a-lot-of-people-some-apologies?_=1652884563698&lang=en-US
and the post that she very coincidentally quit as staff after
@ganymede said in Something Completely Different:
The recent changes to moderation levels across the board were the result of extensive discussion between mietze, Derp, and I. I am cognizant of their appearance, but it was the product of agreement between the three of us.
so why did you lie and tell people via DM that Derp would be removed
@misadventure said in Question: Code of Conduct:
@prototart Then you haven't been paying attention. What you just declared is that you, and everyone upvoting this, literally think nothing else here has ever been someone skating the edge of the rules and violating the spirit of them.
No one, ever.
yes, correct, the only person I have ever seen go to lengths to violate every spirit of a rule and then spit it back in someone’s face because they allegedly remained within the exact wording is him
@ganymede said in Something Completely Different:
Let me make this clear: none of this was ever mietze's fault. I have taken and will take full responsibility for the choices I made and the actions I took. Don't put words in my mouth.
As for the rest of what you wrote, I'm not sure what will happen. We will see.
You have, time and time and again, said outright that some things were decided on by all three of you and very knowingly implied that everything else was decided on in the same manner, except for the paroxysm of bans you issued to essentially every active female poster for justly criticized you over giving power to a rape apologist, and then insisted that nothing could be done about any of it until she was back. The only person who thinks any of this is Mietze’s fault is Mietze, and that’s because of you. Because you put all of this on her.
No one is putting words in your mouth. You are not dumb. You knew what you were doing.
hi i spent like $120 on steam but all I've been playing is the copy of katamari reroll i got for my Switch
Someone else played Claire Voyant? That is amazing
@ixokai said in FCs on Comic MUs:
To tie, "plays iconic character" to "able to run good plot" together is something I don't feel comfortable with.
Yeah there are a ton of I guess "iconic" characters that I don't necessarily see as necessarily the starting point of stuff? If that makes any sense
Like if you wanna play Flash I don't think you should be required to run stuff where Weather Wizard robs a diamond exchange (tho tbh i'd kind of hope you'd want to?)
But with... like Nick Fury or somebody like that, I do think that's a char you shouldn't take unless you WANT to run spy stuff
Xavier specifically should probably be a plot char/npc/whatever, but I also think people tend to forget how many periods in the books he wasn't around/wasn't even connected to the X-Men
You need him as a background point as why there are X-Men but you don't need him for there to actually be X-Men
(it has been a long term thought experiment between @GreenFlashlight and me to try to turn Mantra into a char that isn’t so weird and oogy)
@ganymede said in FCs on Comic MUs:
I can see how people may believe there to be a massive discussion about timelines on other games. I mean, it seems that there's an awful lot of discussion of this nature for a game like UH, for example, but I'd like to hear it from those players.
The problems I've had and the arguments I've seen figuring out wtf is going on/has happened/exists/how anything reconciles together/whatever have really all been on potpourri games but from what everybody's said I don't think my experience is a standard one
what did i miss
ps comux got taken over by claremont and ruby and liu et c gross abusive people from UH and a bunch of people left in disgust for reasons obv to anyone who remembers the uh thread and apparently they started a game and ppl i like invited me there so ¯_(ツ)_/¯
if it turns out to be a toilet or w/e ill hogpit it myself bc i love me some drama but so far my experience is a staffer paging me asking about a guy who was kind of skeevy on another game bc they don't want it to happen there, the code Wizard talking to me about buffer limits and then being psyched bc he figured out how to like max it w/o needing to take the game down for more than a couple of minutes, the lounge being like adult humans instead of cheetonerds and performative mush lesbianing, and the head being super understanding and cool w me needing to vanish for two weeks bc my mom had surgery
this vs claremont paging me how much he wanted to see my nude desc and ruby being a totally obtuse rageaholic makes me p ok with them splitting
tbh it’s like that with, like, every drug on earth, mu* people almost always just go with whatever popular mainstream media conception of something is
@roz said in FCs on Comic MUs:
okay wtf is a potpourri game
Sorry
I guess the preferred nomenclature is "crossover" but, like... to ME, personally, that'd be something like "Marvel/DC," or "Marvel/Wildstorm," or whatever - and some places are "Marvel/DC/Archie/this cartoon I liked as a kid + now this TV show I saw last night and liked and now it's a new part of the theme" so "potpourri" sounded better in my head
Okay so reading that back I'm pretty sure all of it can strip down to "I think villains whose powers, personalities and motivations let them actually socialize in non-predatory ways outside of evil lairs aren't bad"