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Pope Benedict, just under the wire.

Welcome to 2021.
Events are being scheduled and mayhem continues to ensue.
All players welcome.

@neksinnad said in Empire State Heroes Mush:

As BB's player, I use his animal forms, ICly, mostly to punctuate conversation.

Sorry, I didn't think of how my post could sound accusatory. I only mention Beast Boy in the context of how I can't figure out what the no animal rule is meant to accomplish, since any goal I can conjure for it could be defeated by Beast Boy.

Most games have always handwaved that stuff. And done things like 'women can fly gold, brown, blue, or green,' 'men can fly bronze, brown, blue, or green' and 'you can be whatever sexuality you want' (well, up until the 2010's, some did still press that metallics had to be straight....).

It just made sense really. Dragons have their own broad, wide range of personality. There's no reason to force sexuality alongside 'em ffs.

I was one of the staffers there. Long story short, the server is majorly screwed up. Everything was fine at first, but over a period of time more and more people were unable to get a connection, even with a lot of communication between the head staffer and the host company. Eventually even I lost the ability to connect without having to retry several times and it was very hard to maintain a connection. Its supposedly an issue from a past event with the host, but no matter what the coder did they couldn't get the issue ironed out. Also, a lot of the support of the game (staff) bailed on the ship, so I didn't fight very hard toward the end. I really enjoyed the place though. It was one of the few places I played that had a active night group.

I know. When I resurrected this thread and saw the last post date I had to double check it said 2018. Then make sure it was really 2021.

Maybe started a new relationship and his priorities shifted.

@ghost That sucks... he was one of my favorite vocalists too.

His cover of Lucretia, My Reflection was spectacular.

I don't run into drama often - or maybe I just don't care enough to recognise it as such when I do. If things get weird or awkward though my immediate inclination is to ignore and play through it, hopeful that it will just go away on its own, but very rarely try to act or actively try to resolve it.

I suspect it's not an ideal policy (although I still think it's not a bad one). My concern, always, is that I'll end up contributing to the awkwardness by voicing it either directly to the other player or more so to staff, who always have more fun and pleasant things to do than deal with some interpersonal issue.

If it ever gets to the point where I do make a stink though it's because I'm running out of options. At that stage either the issue goes away or I do.

This has happened to me in the last couple days whenever I've tried to upload an avatar to my account. The uploading ends in a 502 error, and then I can't access the whole site for a minute or two (or more).

Yes and yes.

@Arkandel
Yeah like the clap.

@SG said:

I think you've found out how to do it right. Have a bit of humour going on. Basically, make a scene FUN rather than a stressfest that nobody else enjoys.

Yeah, it's all in intention, I think. I do it to entertain myself and the people I play with (he's so fun to pick on), rather than to be an actual ass. You basically made my point much more succinctly. If you play an ass with the goal of entertaining not just yourself, but other people as well...it's not generally going to be awful. If you're doing it just for yourself, or you're playing an Entirely Serious Character from an OOC perspective, probably going to have an issue.