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@Kanye-Qwest said in Sunny's Playlist:

Jennyva

She is SO FUN.

@Lotherio said in How to Escape the OOC Game:

@surreality said in How to Escape the OOC Game:

Please note: I am not saying this is 'nothing' or 'not important'. If this happens, report that shit! It is a completely valid issue.

Just want to repeat this. Report it RL if you're able, but report it on game to staff.

If staff can't help or try, probably not a game for you. But it is disheartening to learn after the fact, as staff, a creeper has come onto your game and gotten away with stuff that has driven good players off.

This.

Every game my big thing happened on, as soon as it was confirmed, it was dealt with. Immediately. Then for a while I was frontloading staff with the info when I played, and these days it hasn't happened in so long it might not any more. But I have never had a staff member on any game ever when I explained what was going on NOT take immediate action to help.

So I really urge people to give the staff on the games the benefit of the doubt in situations where it's baaaaad, because you might think it sounds insane but really people if they are making a game 99.99999999999999999999999999999999% do just want to be your hero for stuff. Whoever 'you' are.

@surreality said in How to Escape the OOC Game:

@Sunny I am really sorry that happened to you. Please know that if anything like that ever happens, I will always have your back.

Hell, the (unnamed) person I am beyond furious with to the point of seeing red? I know she's been messed with as well by legitimately bad actors, and while I genuinely want nothing to do with her? If something like that ever happened to her again, I would absolutely have her back, too, zero hesitation, no question about it.

I know (and trust) you would, regardless of where we are personally at any given time. You're a good person.

@surreality

While I have not had that specific experience, I have had similar within the hobby. Very similar. I have had to get RL law enforcement involved. These statements by @surreality are true things; these are lived experiences. It's worth keeping in mind when discussing the topic.

ETA: Y'know, screw it. There was a period (which ended with me ultimately leaving the hobby for a while) where my ex husband (or someone pretending to be him) was logging into games and pretending to be somebody else to get around the protection order I had and continue to screw with me. He made a character and roleplayed with other people long-term and everything. This shit happens to people. I am pretty sure he still pokes in here and lurks every once in a while to keep tabs on me, based on things my kid has said.

@moth said in Sunny's Playlist:

@Sunny Thanks for the scene the other day.

You're welcome! More any time! I'm trying to settle into my groove and figure out what I'm doing, but I'm really really looking forward to helping out how I can.

Topic restored and updated with current stuff. Kind of funny to me, looking back over the alt list -- when I wrote this back in 2014, I still remembered everything listed here. Some of the games now? I have zero recollection of the character or the game itself. I need to remember to tell my doctor my memory is going. Ha.

@Ghost said in How to Escape the OOC Game:

I just want people to treat each other with respect and if people have to spend 6 months to a year roleplaying in some kind of Eyes Wide Shut orgy mask to lessen the importance of OOC identities as being a major point of aggression? I'm alright. With that.

I agree with your ultimate conclusion here, I really do.

@Lotherio said in How to Escape the OOC Game:

However, relative to the concept of the OOC game, its not very newbie friendly to only play with known commodities, just in my opinion.

Agreed. I think it's unhealthy for the game as a whole to not engage new/unknown folks, and something the community of any game, no matter how good they are right now lol, should be way way better about it. This is an area where everyone can pretty much always improve. I do my best to try when I remember, and I know a lot of other people do, too. Still worth bringing up and reminding us all about.

ETA: I should add 'for the first few months' of not being out, because the moment I end up around people who know me it's pretty much all over. SOMEDAY I will figure out what my tells are. Someday.

Staff: I know that IP, hey everyone, play with this PC its our old friend ... (Kidding, or I hope I'm kidding)

I wish you were kidding, lol.

@Lotherio said in How to Escape the OOC Game:

@Arkandel said in How to Escape the OOC Game:

@Rook said in How to Escape the OOC Game:

I've met several people that have made no bones about outright saying "If I dont know you, we don't RP" and then they needle for past characters/games/interaction information to place me by. I have learned to simply smile and shrug, tell them that it is their loss, and I move on.

How can that not be everyone's response?

If I have to prove myself to you just so we can play a game together what does that tell me about how much of a gift to the rest of us you think you are?

Wow.

I'd like to think I've never seen it, but I have. Not so much a direct, if someone doesn't know you they won't play with you, but I've gone places under not my name and hit brick walls with folks I know. Then if I show up next week and its me, I get an in, at least a little time of day.

This. When I identify myself as myself (as in not actively keeping it on the down low), I have a way way way way easier time finding RP than when I do not. There are a few things I don't have to deal with as well, but my experience between characters when I'm 'out' on one and not on another sort of makes me sad when I stop and actually think about it.

ETA: I should add 'for the first few months' of not being out, because the moment I end up around people who know me it's pretty much all over. SOMEDAY I will figure out what my tells are. Someday.

@Wretched said in RL things I love:

@Sunny That sounds amazing to me and is something i can hopefully get myself in the coming weeks. Or at least some damned relief, or a change of.. soemthing?

At this point, I am happy to have hope. Relief is likely months away, but I have been hopeless for a really long time. I wish you the best of luck for yours. Hope is so good.

We have a diagnosis on what's going on for me. It isn't 100% for sure, we have tests to do, but the symptoms match and make sense in context. If this is the case, there is treatment. I will get better.

Both Divinity games are definitely some of the best games I've ever played omg, I loved them so much. Love, because I play them repeatedly.

Part of being better is recognition of past errors and how they harmed people, which is often coupled with 'leave them alone'.

I suggest not giving the impression that 'change your name, change your face, sneak in past a ban' is a good idea. Even if behavior is changed, it's better to go forth and be better somewhere they did not specifically tell you you aren't welcome because of things that you did previously. Because even if you changed, the people you did things to may still be there, and they deserve to feel safe.

Anyone who has ever talked to me or played with me more than casually will recognize me in no longer than two hours. I have no ability to conceal my voice.

@Ganymede pretty sure it's longer than 20 at this point; Ashes was 2000, and Guilded Promises or w/e it was) was pre-Ashes.

@Three-Eyed-Crow

No idea at all if it takes new submissions.

@faraday

Cool. When I refer to the broader community of mushers, I am referring to the people who roleplay on mushes. And by that definition, there are thousands of people that play, and MSB is a drop in the bucket.

ETA: I mean, does Shang not count? Anyone is welcome to spend the time browsing the data; the majority of the games in question are RP-focused and so on, rather than RPIs or whatnot, based on some quick poking at it. It takes like 5 minutes to tell that the majority of them are mushes just like any other, they're just Star Wars or Greek Myth or some other setting that doesn't tend to get much traction on MSB. Seriously. mudstats.com -- everyone should go look for themselves. It's super eye-opening if you think the hobby is tiny and insular.

@faraday said in Poll: Do I enjoy this hobby more than I don't?:

@Sunny Yes, and look at what MUDConnector actually counts as "MUSH" and you'll see a variety of social hubs and the more in-between things like Arx that appeal to a wider audience. The number of actual MUSH games is a smaller percentage of that. Counting alts and people connected to more than one game, and 1600 connections is a very different thing than "thousands of players".

As I said - we have different definitions.

No. This data is literally by server type. Arx is not a mush, it runs on Evennia. Mush players are People Who Play On Mushes. There is a broader community. If this is the mushing community to you, that's fine, but I was referring to the bigger one that there is LITERALLY data to support my point.

ETA: Go look at the site I linked. Go look at the data yourself. There is a game called 'Olympus Mush' that is roleplay that I've never heard anything about. Just that front page there when I looked there were 5 mushes that are roleplaying games that have never even been whispered about here, and the list changes every few seconds.

ETA2: On that list there are 82 games running specifically on the MUSH platform. MUX is even separate. The majority of them are RP games.

Yesterday. Sorted down to 'mush' only. This is simultaneous connections. Given not every person logs in every day...

And this is ONLY the games that mudstats monitors.

ETA: This 'secret treasure trove of data' is mudstats.com

@faraday said in Poll: Do I enjoy this hobby more than I don't?:

@Sunny said in Poll: Do I enjoy this hobby more than I don't?:

there are thousands of people actually playing these games

You're clearly including MUDs/RPIs in this tally and "the hobby", and I'm not. The number of self-identified MUSHes on MUDConnector is minuscule compared to the other genres. We're a sub-community within a larger community of "online text-based games".

Did you read my whole post, or stop there?

Yes, many of them are mud/RPI players, but mushers actually are in there too, mixed in with the rest of them.

ETA: I mean of course if you define 'core mushers' as 'people who are involved on MSB', then MSB is going to be 'mushers' for you. I'd prefer to include the thousands of people who do actually play MUSHES, not RPI/MUDs in my 'core mushers' definition because they are. Yes, the percentage is smaller. It's still a percentage.