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It's also not like there aren't weirdly calcified ideas about RP norms within sub-genres. Pern players who've only played Pern have different ideas of the "typical RP experience" than WoD players who've only played WoD, and so forth.

ETA: My RP experience on MUDs was pretty bad, but that's on the games I played, not the genre. I think I had more trouble wrapping my mind around the fact that there weren't coded objects than I did posing, when I tried MUSHing. You could say you were sitting in a chair if there wasn't a chair, zomg.

@kanye-qwest
There's this person on my floor who microwaves fish for lunch constantly. They will occupy a special circle of hell one day.

I do kinda wish you got like 1 or 2 free shares a week. Maybe based on your Mental stats and investigation skill. I know with training it helps a great deal, and clue sharing isn't even something you can burn on retainers, so it'd be purely RP/sharing oriented.

@Jeshin
It's way less about comfort (dude, it's your website, it certainly doesn't offend my sensibilities) than it is about my suspicion that this is going to lead to a lot of long, repetitive conversations with every MUSH or MOO or MUD who might ask to be listed. I'm not worrying about MUSHes being wronged, I'm just betting this is going to get extremely silly and isn't as good a measure as you might've originally thought.

But it will get silly for you, not me, so that's OK.

@The-Tree-of-Woe said:

@DamnitJim There was a real fear that the UK would intervene on the Confederacy's behalf, both because of trade revenues and to gain another foothold on the continent. Whether that was realistic or not is debatable, but the British earned a reputation as opportunists for a reason. You can hear it in a lot of the war songs/marching songs of the period.

When we studied the Civil War in AP History in high school, we debated how much this had to do with the timing of the Emancipation Proclamation (among other things, like the language in it that specifically avoids freeing slaves in loyal Northern states. I enjoyed this class.). I don't think it was the only reason for it, of course, and I don't think the political situation in Britain at the time would've made siding with the Confederacy at all tenable. But it was certainly interesting.

@friendlybee
Yeah, I mean, if you look at the member list, the majority of users registered lurk and don't post a ton, which is most forums. I think it's interesting to read what someone uninvolved in the same fight 20 times thinks, because it's probably not wrapped up in petty grudges against that asshole who upvoted a post where somebody was mean about me that time or whatever.

This whole thing makes me miss the downvote yet again because there was a way to register that you thought something was stupid without posting (and I never liked it being anonymous I like when people know I think they're stupid). But posters could NOT deal with being downvoted so...idk.

@ThatGuyThere said:

@Alzie
Hate to break it to you but if someone has been gone and unplayed for seven months there death has the exact same impact as a nameless npc no matter how important they may have been..

I don't think this is true. PCs who had pre-existing relationships with a PC who dies off-screen will generally RP about it, and take more active steps to investigate it if warranted, because there's more of a feeling of investment. Even if it's seven-months gone investment, at least that's kind of a person you can pretend to have some knowledge of. NPCs who die get much more sporadic attention, in my experience, even if the ST wants their death to be important to an ongoing plot and to affect people.

@zombiegenesis
See, I rewatch Star Trek eps quite often on Netflix. TNG had very good writing much of the time (I do really miss the 'random sci-fi spec script' quality of that series). And generally solid to great acting (Patrick freakin' Stewart). I can get that whenever I want. This is maybe the thing I appreciate most about streaming. I don't have to wish for the latest inferior copy of a thing. I can just have the thing itself.

The Orville just doesn't do it for me (and I dislike Seth MacFarlane as a writer in general, a barrier for entry which is just not going away).

I don't even so much want downvotes back (dear God the wangsting, and I'm sure it'd create more mod problems) as I miss a mild form of 'this is incorrect' between just putting a user on ignore (which is what I've taken to doing when a poster makes the same nonsense asshole post over and over again) and joining in dogpiling.

@Sunny
"Unethical" seems like a weirdly hyperbolic way to describe the decision to award XP for PrP-running. I dislike throwing the term around in MU* situations anyway, but there are things that staffers do that actually can be described as breaches of personal ethics. This is just...one clearly quantifiable thing that XP can be given out for. Whether it's a particularly good idea to award STs for it, idk. I agree with the notion that people who will ST will ST anyway, and I don't think there's a way to motivate it mechanically. But talking about differences of opinion about game policies that can be clearly-worded and clearly-enforced strikes me as wrong-headed.

@Glitch said:

@Tempest

For another high fantasy tale, I liked Codex Alera by Jim Butcher.

I liked these much more than the Dresden Files books, and I liked the Dresden Files books well enough (they play into my weakness for detective fiction).

Someone ages ago was talking about making a Codex Alera game, and I still hope it materializes one day.

@coin
One of my favorite authors (who's done devastatingly lyrical non-fiction along with his fiction work) is Luis Alberto Urrea. He mixes stark description with almost-poetry in ways which I will never match, but which def make me better.

It's different because it's rude. Not as rude as stalking someone as they play on other games, or via Skype or IM or Facebook (Jesus fucking Christ when did this become behavior that anyone had to tolerate?), but still rude.

@scar said in RL Anger:

Only thing is, the communal bathroom (lights off) has been taken over not only by every makeup and beauty product known to man, but a full breakfast with steaming hot coffee. I’m talking every available surface space including the lip of the bathtub, toilet seat, countertop completely taken over.

This is far from the most annoying part but I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS.

I am a different kind of human from the human in this story.

I don't concern myself much with the Arx economy because it seems so ephemeral right now, and I kind of expect MU/MMO economies to be bloated and broken to some degree. I am kinda eyeing it apprehensively with an eye to how it'll impact whatever domain systems are put into place, though. Is your House going to be impoverished and your peasants miserable because you aren't sufficiently grinding the mini-game? I doubt it, as that's not the ooc mentality I've encountered from staff, but I feel a little guilty on the weeks I can't invest grind on my noble as it is, with the impacts as only what they are.

People Don't Like Things They Aren't Used To (TM).

@thenomain
MAXIMUM DEREK

@tinuviel said in What drew you to MU*?:

It's free.

I don't know if this is what keeps me on MUs but it's definitely the reason I never got sucked into MMOs.

As for MUs, I enjoy the dynamism you get in real-time rp and the persistent, shared environment. For text I still don't think anything does what this style of game does as well.

@surreality said:

Most of the games discussed here absolutely have permanent death (more, I would say, on average, than MUDs do, apparently, from the discussion here about respawns). Coded combat? Some do, most don't. Automated dice rolls? Almost every game has them; whether they're a requirement or not varies, many games do require them. (Note: the people you're arguing with coded the ones in the broadest use at the moment, so far as I know.) Some have automation for travel, for healing, hell, Firan apparently had code to tell you when you needed to pee or take a bath. If that isn't automation to the point of absurdity, I don't know what is.

This. @Jeshin and @Crayon's posts don't bother me like they seem to bother other posters, but they do seem to come from a place of dumbness about the medium the people they're talking to play in. Every MUSH I've played on ever has permadeath as you define it. The ones I prefer have dicerolls. I've played on several with combat that was coded to varying degrees. These things aren't revolutionary to the posters here, or to the games they play on. Some like them and others don't, and there've been threads discussing them, in varying degrees of depth, for as long as this board and its previous incarnations have existed. It seems far less like "MUD vs. MUSH" than it does "Our Preferred Type of MUD and What MUSHes Are As We Define Them."

@sockmonkey
Michael B Jordan has had an amazeballs career, but he'll always be Wallace to me.