Posts made by Sunny

I mean, I honestly don't mush for the challenge of it. Difficulty/challenge/work are just not things I want to do. Sometimes they're required to get to the good stuff, but I want this fun to be (relatively) easy for me, because everything else in my world is so damn hard.

ETA: When I want a challenge, my go-to is challenges that involve SKILL and objective success/failure metrics. Not my collaborative hobby. Not roleplay. If I have to work to portray a character, I'm at least halfway out the door already.

@SuperiorHuron

Welcome! We're glad you're here and participating and playing. Belated welcome to the hobby.

I mean, @egg has a point. These games are full of blonde haired blue eyed tall / short characters. They really are. I play one, and there's like eleventy billion others on the same game. BOTH of my PCs have blue eyes. I think. Pretty sure, it's my default go-to when I have to create my own PC.

I agree it would be nice to see a more diverse collection of characters. I think it's representative primarily of the fact that it's a predominately white hobby, which seems to ME that it would be more helpful to make it a safer space for POC players than it currently is. Does more people playing POC make it a safer/better space for the players? ETA: My 'badly' should have been more strongly implied.

I know there's a LOT of work to do, and I know/understand a fair bit of what I have to work on personally, and in a larger sense as well. But when I take a step back and I try to apply like ANY of what I know about making inclusive and safe spaces to mushing, and it falls apart. I don't know how to make this hobby better for RL POC. If the best we can do, really, is playing characters of varying skin colors, then it's the best we can do, but I feel like there should be something better than that. I just don't know what.

Is there something about our playspaces that makes this a predominately white hobby? What can we do about that? Because I think it'd be more effective to work towards making the hobby itself more diverse, rather than just encouraging whitey to play POC. So what can we do?

ETA: I think games like Arx where racism is not just not included, but strictly written out are a good step, because it offers some escapism from that? But I don't know if that's ACTUALLY helpful, or if it ends up actually being hurtful instead. I don't know, in the gaming context. I don't know how we can make these spaces better / more appealing for folks.

@Sparks

All of that makes me happy. Thank you.

@Sparks

Yeah, it was totally a lalafell. And it made me really, really happy. She had the horsebird head on.

I just saw somebody named Chicken Nugget in an mmo I play. It brings me such joy, and I'm not sure why.

The googles have failed me.

My coworker doesn't think I should have to do a particular bit of work, because it's somebody foisting their work off on me and it's not fair, which I very much appreciate. He is, as such, not doing the thing that would let me do the thing. So I am incapable of doing that work. But it still needs to get done!! Argh. I have put more effort into asking to do the work than the work would be in the first place! Just let me dooooooooo et.

@faraday

I agree completely that there's way way way way way more RP happening elsewhere, I just don't think that mushing is in decline in comparison to itself.

@Ganymede

It’s (almost) June. For whatever reason, mushing is always dying in June, September, and December. It has to have something to do with holiday schedules. I must conclude this most recent spate is early because schools let out early.

ETA: Blah blah, something to do with the expectation that when they have all day free it’s going to be all rp all the time, but daytime on games is very different than peak blah blah.

Also, mushing isn’t dying. That’s fake news.

It would also need to be headed up and managed by someone reputable, with a demonstration of understanding the consequences of advertisement, and a plan on how to handle that. Giving random strangers money to bring in players games are not prepared to receive? No thank you.

You need to tell me if you don't understand something!

...except I thought I did, and had no way of knowing I had misunderstood you until after I'd already done it incorrectly and you said so.

I hear owls.

@RightMeow

I am so happy for you and for the people you helped. Good job.

@Malkleth

That post does not sound like a person talking about a roleplaying game pretendy fun time activity. You should read this:

https://wadewilson.livejournal.com/11285.html

(particularly P1)

@mietze

The fatigue sounds similar to the fatigue I deal with when I'm in an "active" episode of my heart stuff, which is heavily exacerbated by stress. If they don't land on it naturally, bring up coronary artery spasms for your doctors to look into.