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oh good

how the community has suffered for lack of a pillowfort

@surreality said in When To Stop Listening To Those Voices:

@Kanye-Qwest ...at least, thankfully, with few exceptions (eta: I'm thinkin' Vault Girl and Elsa here), we haven't seen much of this since happening in the hobby since the 90s, either. So I'm all for leaving the term and what it represented in the rear view, and am glad things are moving in that direction on the whole

alternately maybe it's as bad as it's always been but just there are less people willing to complain about it and the community's no longer as receptive to having bad behavior exposed

why are you reading my mail

@skew
it's another comic game

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

i am yet again Claire Voyant this time on Common Descent

I use mushclient, mostly bc a friend uses it & gave me preset world files for both places we're on together and all I had to do to add new ones was change the address and save it w a new name

Otherwise I'd still be using simplemu even tho it's like million year old abandon ware and reacts to trying to log stuff in a world w more than a days text by crying

I got it for I think $10 and have zero regrets it's super idk early achewood-ish and I love it but it IS s u p e r short

@gangofdolls said in criticism not allowed in ad threads is only enforcing a false positive, prove me wrong:

This board exists to call out bad behavior of which there is plenty, possibly too much in this hobby because all of the shit that goes on thrives in darkness and disconnection. So, it's shitposting. It's shitposting for an ultimately good cause even if it has to set shit on fire to clear the weeds out.

10000% yes times a million at its best every incarnation of this place was or was supposed to be about outing creeps and assholes and abusers and actions that make it harder to do that limit or lessen its value imo

@rucket said in criticism not allowed in ad threads is only enforcing a false positive, prove me wrong:

@thenomain said in criticism not allowed in ad threads is only enforcing a false positive, prove me wrong:

Is this where we've gotten to in this hobby? On the Internet? Where one person says "I hate this thing!" and everyone who doesn't hate that thing has to defend it to the death?

Yes. But things have been here for quite some time, at least online. You're not alone in noticing a circle jerk of defensive behavior in this whole situation.

i have literally no knowledge of or tbh interest in the place so this isn't a reference to anything there but 10000% theres a period where ppl will defend even the nastiest stuff bc ~well but it's NEW~ or w/e, esp if its popular, esp if its not just popular but a bandwagon cool kids place, and v often excusing stuff and defending stuff will turn into or just like from moment 1 be attacking the person w the temerity to mention the time somebody walked into the middle of the party and took a giant shit on the rug

@tinuviel said in criticism not allowed in ad threads is only enforcing a false positive, prove me wrong:

I suppose what this "wiki or not" discussion comes down to is... What are we trying to build MSB into?

Are we a community hub and resource? Are we a bitching forum with some occasionally constructive bits? Are we a cult?

tbh i think the noblest thing msb can be/is is, like, pre-rapey-Russian-propaganda-outlet wikileaks for mu*ing, bc other than word of mouth there's like no other way or place to out bad actors and bad behavior no matter how badly they need to be outed and nowhere else to like chronicle that shit and compile it, esp considering that when one person talks about it almost always ten other people they prob don't even know show up w the same story of creepiness

like, that's not all it is and its def not infallible or anything, there are ppl loved here but viewed that way by huge swaths of like everywhere else and im sure vice versa, but that's the reason i came here

also sure it doesn't ~have~ to get shuffled off to hogpit but i know ppl who don't post stuff about games bc they assume it'll have to be put there or will be put there and just like don't want to deal with hogpit, that's the assumption ppl make, that - esp for still-running games - if you have critical stuff to say you have to go to hogpit

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

i hated banner saga

get sunless sea and zubmariner and sunless skies

and donut county