Posts made by Three-Eyed Crow

@TheBigD said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

"Okay, dude wants to play X, ban his ass because obviously he's a Y."

Where does this happen?

I remember the backstory of the Riven sword on Arx is like a lesbian love story. But IDK how many PCs would ever come into contact with this if they weren't...the Riven sword for some period of time like my old PC was.

@Roz said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

EDIT: Oh I also remember Filshiar is written to indicate leaning ace/aro.

Yeah speaking as the person who picked him up, it was clear to me he was written as non-straight. I'm sorta feeling out how to approach him but I read him as ace with some room for interpretation.

ETA: I also presume he's tried The Sex with both male and female partners based on how his history is written. Again, it's not explicit, but it's there if you're reading for it.

@Goblin said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

The heat. The fucking heat.

Even if I wanted to leave the apartment it's now 110 degrees outside.

I remember reading a very long post by Adam of Firan fame back in the early 00s about how he just COULD NOT GET playing a character of another gender and WHAT IF TS HAPPENED ZOMG.

I'm sure these people still exist but if they've shut up it's all for the good.

@HelloProject said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

I do think that there are a surprising amount of minorities in this hobby, but I think they tend to congregate around certain places, or stay under the radar. Like, Mega Man MUSH and String Theory (even though ST is invite only now) both have more minorities than the average MUSH. The concentration of trans people on Mega Man MUSH is higher than I've seen anywhere else, which is a part of the reason I've been trying to talk non-MUSHer trans friends into giving it a try.

I was just thinking something like this and looking for a way to articulate it. While I don't think MUSHing is some kind of amazing melting pot of diversity, I think there's an assumption that everyone is white that's not always or even generally true. People don't tend to mention their race unless it comes up in a really specific context, or you know them on a more than surface level.

@HelloProject
It was this A+ winner of a post.

https://musoapbox.net/topic/3249/diversity-representation-in-mu-ing/242?_=1591921257071

Which I umm am not basing any of my life decisions on.

Edited why are things hard to link It's at the bottom of the page.

@JinShei
Now I know! I'd just never seen it as a complaint for nurse costumes specifically.

@surreality
This is also the first place I've heard anyone complain about nurse costumes and would love to know where this comes from. I get that 'sexy nurse' is a trope but 'sexy everything' is a trope in Halloween costumes and doesn't seem a nurse-specific issue.

Seeing a player grow not only in terms of their RP, but so they're reaching out and mentoring other, newer players and even becoming willing to GM for people. It's so incredibly cool to see someone grow more //confident// OOCly in ways that translate IC and it feels like it makes the whole game environment a little better for it.

@surreality
Yeah, I also think a lot of us play different types of characters for different reasons. I don't see myself and why I make the PB choices I do reflected in a lot of the posts in this thread, but that's aite, we all play the characters we do for our own reasons.

@surreality said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

...awkward thought: my most recent PoC PB has blue/grey/green eyes (depends on the photo; she's Jamaican/Irish). But, uh. That doesn't make her a generic white girl last I checked?

Ha, one of mine was, too, awhile back, because I'd really liked Michael Ealy in "Almost Human" and wanted to use him somewhere. What this says about me idk (PSA: "Stumptown" is a gr8 show if you're into PI antics). I get that this is probably SUPER tangential to what @egg is talking about, though I think they're right about the preference in US media in general for light eyes and it's interesting to think about. I definitely think there's an aspect of "playing the unique thing" in the same way red hair is popular, though there are probs also coded levels to it.

@Sunny said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

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.

I think Arx is one game in a fantasy setting and, honestly, it's weird to me when fantasy settings DO reflect American (because it's somehow usually American, unless it's British) racial attitudes. Supposedly there's an in-theme reason there's such a mix of skin tones and maybe when we figure that out it'll be interesting!

It would also be weird to me if there was racism on a Star Trek game, except in a historical context, because...that's not the setting. When I was big into BSG games and had a couple of staff bits on a few of them, some of the things we had to reinforce thematically the most often were that stereotypes about gender and sexuality did not exist. It is very hard for some players to grasp this (though most often when it comes to gender, in that setting skin color-based racism wasn't really something people seemed to need to pretend was a thing).

Considerations on modern games or historical games are different, though whenever a thread about a historical game comes up there're always a lot of questions about how to approach realistic-for-the-time-period attitudes about race, gender, and sexuality.

I mean, if we're talking about opting out of sections, I don't opt out of the Politics group because I don't care about politics, I opt out of it because I don't view MSB as a place I particularly want to discuss politics (there are a GAZILLION places on the internet where I can do that with more tailored mod standards to that kind of thing and a population with different interests), and I feel negative engagement with my fellow humans rather than positive engagement every time I go in there for some reason (usually because there's some C-O-Ntroversy blowing up on the board and I don't understand why until I check the Politics group).

Do think it's good to have this in the Constructive section rather than buried in a Hogpit peeves thread that's going to freak out about a new thing in 4 hours, though.

ETA: I try to play what I think is a broad mix of character face types, in part because it helps keep them distinct in my head and I do like my character not looking like a photocopy of a dozen other MU characters. I try not to do this badly when it comes to characters outside my own basic American white girl stereotype. Do I succeed? IDK. One continues to try.

@Jeshin said in Horror MUX - Discussion:

2. The energy needed to be involved was higher than normal at least I felt it was. Not in a bad way but when a story is clicking it's moving and you need to get on a few nights a week and get in one of the Director scenes or at least a scene RPing about a directors scene. Higher maintenance because again, more is happening, more narrative resolutions are occuring than in other games.

This was really true of the WW1/WW2 game I played on, Greatest Generation, which used a kind of similar structure to Horror from what I can tell. Man when a campaign and character was clicking for me, the contracted, intense nature of the RP and knowing I'd have closure/a complete story (whether I died or not) was awesome and probably still some of the best RP I've ever had. But it was tough to play more casually or when you were going to need to be idle for even a few weeks.

Strictly from anecdotal observation from talking to Guests (so, largely useless! but) the MudConnector is still pretty widely used as a search engine for players just looking for games. It could be better maintained than it is, but I feel like there are more usability and cultural hurdles for new players than there is a real problem with not having a dedicated MU listing.

Working my way through "The Final Days" after re-reading "All the President's Men" earlier this year. Spoiler, Richard Nixon was a bit difficult to work for.

I'm trying to get back into the habit of rotating fiction to nonfiction and so on and eating through some of the "I own these but haven't read them" books on my shelves.

@Roz said in Dead Celebrities 2020:

Fred Willard

This one hit me harder than I expected it to. That guy brought me joy in everything he showed up in.

@Lotherio
Man I would play the modern rodeo game with like intrigue and competitions.

@surreality said in Tips for not wearing out your welcome:

If OOC interaction is a common issue, you may want to look for games that allow for play with minimal or no OOC interaction required. You're more likely to find that on an RPI than a MUSH, from what I gather from other conversations on the forum.

RP encouraged but not enforced MUDs were suggested.

For all that everything people say about Haven seems...umm not my thing, that kind of heavy code environment in a modern setting springs to mind.

ETA: This is an RPI since the MUDconnector links you were given before being asked to leave SL did not suffice. https://mudlistings.com/rpi-muds