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      icanbeyourmuse
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      I’m really bad for just leaving a game with no word. Except, maybe, to someone I talk to a lot or my leaving could affect peoples stories. Sorry to those that don’t like it. If it helps, I generally leave a game because I stopped having fun or what I feel is ‘bad’ outweighs the stuff I feel are ‘good’ about a game.

      Though, I’m not a fan of saying a person is ‘forever awful’. Yeah, some people stay crap people but from /my/ experience it is not hard to show people you’ve changed as a player, unless a REALLY long history of unpleasantness. As a staff sort it seems considerably harder to redeem yourself.

      If you’re using here as a place to judge things as being hard to show you’ve changed I wouldn’t. The purpose of this board, and its predecessors (though on different levels) is to vent. It 100% can be used for catching predators and such too.

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      • RozR
        Roz
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        Meta peeve because it’s more about the forum, but.

        Being snarky on ad posts. Just, man. It’s usually the first time people are putting something out there. It really doesn’t do the community any favors – especially with the constant worries about the hobby dying – to put out an immediate response of snark.

        she/her | playlist

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        • ArtemisA
          Artemis @Roz
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          @Roz I’m glad somebody said it. I wish them and their game the best.

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            jujube
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            MU*s that expect you to write a thesis dissertation worth of text as part of your character application to play a fun pretendy time supernatural character.

            I thought we got rid of that in the 90s.

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              icanbeyourmuse @jujube
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              @jujube said in MU Peeves Thread:

              MU*s that expect you to write a thesis dissertation worth of text as part of your character application to play a fun pretendy time supernatural character.

              I thought we got rid of that in the 90s.

              That is a bit better than the Blood of Dragons game that you basically had to apply like 3 times. An email, then like a summary of your idea, then the actual application. Basically, I never finished because it was a chore. I’m rather curious to what game you are applying on because I might want to avoid it if I have to write a forever long thing just to play something I think would be fun.

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                junipersky Administrators
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                This is Alpha.

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                • KarmaBumK
                  KarmaBum @junipersky
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                  @junipersky i see what you did there 😄

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                  • juniperskyJ
                    junipersky Administrators @KarmaBum
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                    @KarmaBum

                    I just line how she looks like an angry demon angel grumpy cuddly baby.

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                    • SpaceKhomeiniS
                      SpaceKhomeini @junipersky
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                      @junipersky

                      I was about to join the tortiecat posting war but this is the wrong thread for that.

                      I woke up feeling so good, I think I’d better call in sick/ I need a personal trainer to help me hold my drink
                      I plan to be spontaneous next time we meet/I’m putting off procrastinating until next week
                      I’ll get onto it when I give a shit

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                        Bessarion @icanbeyourmuse
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                        @icanbeyourmuse So much work for a game in which you can’t really do anything other than have tea parties and watch Bal and Nym play princess

                        I am/was tek. If this means something to you, do as you see fit with this knowledge.

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                        • PavelP
                          Pavel @Bessarion
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                          @Bessarion said in MU Peeves Thread:

                          @icanbeyourmuse So much work for a game in which you can’t really do anything other than have tea parties and watch Bal and Nym play princess

                          Isn’t that the game run by the “anyone else is wrong, and we’ll sue you because GRRM said ours was the only one allowed” people? I sometimes get my PHBs mixed up.

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                            Bessarion @Pavel
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                            @Pavel that’s the one. And if you look at his “permission” letter, it’s more like “if you… really want to do that, I guess you can go ahead?”

                            I am/was tek. If this means something to you, do as you see fit with this knowledge.

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                            • Third EyeT
                              Third Eye
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                              Blood of Dragons is another one of those places where, if I think about how long it’s been up and running, the brain boggles. But there’s no accounting for taste when it comes to paying server bills.

                              I want something else to get me through this
                              Semi-charmed kinda life, baby, baby
                              I want something else, I'm not listening when you say good-bye

                              She/Her or They/Them

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                              • KarmaBumK
                                KarmaBum @Pavel
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                                @Pavel I don’t think they sue people over running other games, but they do make a big deal about being the only REAL one.

                                You might be conflating their irritating crowing about being GRRM’s BFFs with their harassing Tasteless Descs and WORA into taking down Nymeria’s desc.

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                                  IoleRae @KarmaBum
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                                  @KarmaBum

                                  They definitely threatened at least one potential game with legal action; I don’t think they actually followed through with it, but a letter was sent and everything. I would say who the screen name is of the person who got it, but I, uh, only remember their real name any more. -.- Somebody I know got it though!! They didn’t sue, but sent a ‘you must stop this’ letter.

                                  the entity previously known as Sunny

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                                  • KarmaBumK
                                    KarmaBum @IoleRae
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                                    @IoleRae Innnnnnteresting. I don’t have a memory of that, just how they would get snotty.

                                    I definitely remember her freaking the fuck out about her desc being posted. That was when the community jumped off Proboards (or Vboards or whatever we were using) and onto self-hosted stuff. IIRC, she wound up harassing the upstream provider of that host until it was easier to just take the desc down.

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                                    • CobaltC
                                      Cobalt @IoleRae
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                                      @IoleRae said in MU Peeves Thread:

                                      @KarmaBum

                                      They definitely threatened at least one potential game with legal action; I don’t think they actually followed through with it, but a letter was sent and everything. I would say who the screen name is of the person who got it, but I, uh, only remember their real name any more. -.- Somebody I know got it though!! They didn’t sue, but sent a ‘you must stop this’ letter.

                                      Wasn’t it that they tried to pursue legal action against Peverel (and maybe Rasheem?), for them refusing to take down the post of Nymeria’s desc in the ‘tasteless descs’ forum on WORA/SWOFA? Which is why the forum kept moving hosts?

                                      I can go bother Hate-o-tron and see if he remembers.

                                      Cobalt@Under the Stars
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                                      • Third EyeT
                                        Third Eye
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                                        I definitely remember some incarnation of WORA being hosted in Malaysia because of Nymeria.

                                        We were soldiers once, and young.

                                        I want something else to get me through this
                                        Semi-charmed kinda life, baby, baby
                                        I want something else, I'm not listening when you say good-bye

                                        She/Her or They/Them

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                                          Testament
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                                          Woof, the old days.

                                          No lie though, that desc was terrible.

                                          I don't know what I'm doing. Poke at Seven Nations sevennations.aresmush.com port 2021

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                                          • KarmaBumK
                                            KarmaBum @Cobalt
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                                            @Cobalt Yuuuuuup. We jumped off the freehosting stuff onto someone’s host in some random country, and she still pestered those people. I cannot recall if Peverel was hosting it at the time or just trying to help out 'cause lawyer?

                                            I very clearly remember her stupid “emeraldine silk” desc, though. All her tantrum did was burn that shit into my memory for life.

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