"MUSHing is dying" seems to be another way to say "I no longer am young or free enough to obsess about it for every waking moment, and thus the hobby must be in terminal decline because my friends and I all have adult responsibilities now."

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Talk about a dishonorable discharge.

I'm ethnically honky, but have found myself being complimented on how I've played POCs in the past. It's always kind of blown my mind, because in my mind all I've been doing is "playing a character who fits into the IC situation." But like, when I played a Sabbat vampire who was a 6'3" very dark skinned African-American man, what people seemed to be saying was "thanks for not playing a gangsta rap BlackedRaw.com stunt cock from The Hood." (Then again, this was a game with a low bar, where there was another vampire whose character concept was "angry black woman" whose channel title or alias or something was 'Black Lady.')

For a while, I had the above character while also playing a petite irony-poisoned milk-white-skinned California-girl vampire, and the ways that the same players would seek out interaction on that character over the black male character were a trip.

As far as "agency" goes in a game, I find that I'm generally satisfied if I'm playing a tree, and I fall in a forest, I make a sound.

Which can mean a lot of different things based on the game, the game OOC culture, whatever. But I think most people can make do with being a grunt in the trenches -- what will turn most people off is being a grunt in the trenches who is invisible, inaudible, and no matter what they try, leaves no trace in the minds of anyone that they were ever there.

"Still bisexual but now annoyed" is how I'm going to describe Ember on Arx from now on, because it works regardless of context or situation

@Pacha said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

@Ominous

On the subject of roster games I know there have been problems in Arx, for example, of people taking non-white characters off the roster and just rewriting them as white. Though I believe staff there have cracked down on this a lot.

I don't recall ever seeing a specifically non-cishet roster character on Arx. There are plenty of characters that specifically mention heterosexual stuff "He was always flirting with ladies" or so forth, but I can't remember ever seeing a roster character specifically written as LGBT.

Backtracking the thread a bit here, because when I read this little section of the thread (not just @Pacha's post, but the ensuing discussion) it got me thinking a bit.

I was already in the process of drawing up some ideas to add rosters to Redreef, and decided to just go for it and make one of them no-maybes-about-it transgender. Because, well, someone had to be the first, I suppose, so hopefully there will be more.

Answering questions about Arx lore and code on channels

@Roz said in [NSFW] Erotic RP Concepts:

@reversed said in [NSFW] Erotic RP Concepts:

@thesuntsar said in [NSFW] Erotic RP Concepts:

I'm not falling for this. This is going to be another thread where @reversed almost convinces me they don't know what TS is.

This time I don't know what vore is, please explain.

get OUT

Kind of the opposite of vore from what I've heard, on the streets

So far we have 1. a username taken from a 1990s first person shooter, 2. a thread about getting new blood to sign up for MU*s, and 3. a post in the RL forum about how working in "the hood" led to guns being brandished at him.

C'mon, don't even play the game this time, just sweep him aside and move on.

I don't know if this is the funniest all-time, but recently someone on Arx wrote their character out of a scene so that they could GM combat for the others. At the end of the scene they said "welp, I should damage myself too, because of the way I wrote myself out," and then misjudged how strong @harm was and accidentally killed their own character.

I had to get up from the computer because I was laughing so hard it hurt.

Started playing in it instead of learning to play the guitar or something.

More seriously, a few months of bad decisions cheered on by being much too online and abusing prescription drugs, that I still feel looming over me, years later.

@solstice shit

I've been updating this all along, but just posting on it because I'm downscaling my number of alts (and my amount of time invested into MUSHing as a hobby) and I have no idea if anyone's gonna come looking because I owe them five bucks or whatever

@silverfox don't worry it wasn't any of those characters

When your character's head gets cut off.

But it's actually cool.

@sunny said in The Desired Experience:

News flash: if you think playing a leader PC is more benefit than it is a headache for any halfway reasonable, responsible player who is capable of doing a good job? You're dead wrong. The mythical "but you get so much RP! people beat down your door!" seems to completely forget that what you get is twelve peoples' worth of TRANSACTIONAL RP (where they are getting something from you), and it uses up every shred of the time you had, leaving NOTHING for non-transactional RP, let alone PERSONAL RP (do that too much, and people start bitching about your sandwiches).

This was the situation I found myself in on one leader PC recently -- 90% of my RP was "people coming to my PC to ask if they can do something without me, or tell me they plan to do something without me, or ask me to talk to someone else about something that happened without me, or tell me about some stuff that happened without me," 10% was personal RP, 100% was RP in and around my character's house, 0% was RP that made me feel plugged in to the metaplot/game story/whatever as an active participant instead of "someone who gets told about the stuff other people do."

So I got burned out and put up a bbpost saying "I'm not doing 1-on-1 meeting scenes anymore, I just don't have time. @mail me if you want to bring something to my attention, I'll @mail you back."

So now no one asks me for RP and no one @mails me. I sure showed them!

Well this thread convinced me that I hate either RP or sandwiches, not sure which

@ganymede said in The Desired Experience:

@derp said in The Desired Experience:

So, no. This is not on staff, even if they point you toward that role. They cannot make RP for you, they cannot predict whether you will play the role in a compelling way, and they cannot force people to play together who don't want to play together.

I concur.

I recently applied for a character role that was needed. I love the character. I have a point to exist, and I know that staff has been encouraging interaction with my PC and other players' PCs. But it simply has not worked out, schedule-wise, and I have not met everyone I probably need to in order to kick-off the plot that staff has planned.

But that's not staff's fault.