MU Peeves Thread
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I always enjoyed people trying to destroy other players wiki pages as part of a flounce out. Like they don’t realise you can just restore a previous version of the page? idk. Happened a few times over the years at Haunted Memories as I recall.
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@RedJellyBean said in MU Peeves Thread:
@Prototart Didn’t she run a game? I vaguely remember all that. She’d post on WORA, pitching a fit at anyone that posted her description making fun of her.
That desc was on WORA itself, in the ‘Tasteless Descs’ subforum. The player did threaten to sue, repeatedly, which disturbed the server owner, and is why WORA was hosted in Malaysia for a while.
She still runs a game, it’s Blood of Dragons. George R. R. Martin did indeed give her and her spouse permission to make and run one. They have claimed that this means that any other one is specifically not allowed. So when I was running a Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire MUSH she had posted on hers that mine was such a criminal disrespect to GRRM that any Blood of Dragons player found to be playing Game of Bones, or even talking about it, would be banned from BoD, and possibly driven naked through the streets.
GRRM does not care, trust me.
She and her spouse co-wrote The World of Ice and Fire and you can tell which bits are hers.
She’s a bit of an embarassment to the fandom, having spent the entire run of the Game of Thrones teevee series bitching about the casting of any actor who wasn’t white. And for a while was going around telling people who disagreed to “eat n**** balls,” and then claiming it wasn’t racist because she’s Swedish and that’s the direct translation of the Swedish name for a kind of chocolate confection that people in Sweden long ago renamed to “chocolate balls” like one would expect.
Probably the real underlying situation with this couple and GRRM is that GRRM started writing this 5000+ page epic and did not make himself a concordance. But those two and the BoD players made A Wiki of Ice and Fire, and GRRM uses it.
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@RightMeow said in MU Peeves Thread:
I use to write these five paragraph purple prose descs to try and get on that page. I was successful once. Now I’m like: It’s a tree or It’s a costume - yay.
The real contest was to try to write a desc that would scroll anyone’s screen, contained as many treasured cliches like ‘sparkling orbs gaze into your soul’ as you could pack in, yet did not tell the reader anything about what the character actually looks like.
Eyes: Sparkling, soulful and impid, but of undetermined colour. Hair: Luscious and cascading, but of no particular colour or length. Skin: Flawless. Height: Graceful. Shape: Exquisite and touchable. Age: Blooming.
"This is Liberty Hall; you can spit on the mat and call the cat a bastard!"
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@Gashlycrumb Oh, you played on Firan too.
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@RightMeow Never! It was before Firan, I think. When did that place open?
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@Gashlycrumb c. 1997, if I’m remembering correctly.
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@Gashlycrumb said in MU Peeves Thread:
The real contest was to try to write a desc that would scroll anyone’s screen, contained as many treasured cliches like ‘sparkling orbs gaze into your soul’ as you could pack in, yet did not tell the reader anything about what the character actually looks like.
Eyes: Sparkling, soulful and impid, but of undetermined colour. Hair: Luscious and cascading, but of no particular colour or length. Skin: Flawless. Height: Graceful. Shape: Exquisite and touchable. Age: Blooming.
This feels like the advanced version of me complaining about how much I hate writing descs: “I don’t know. S/he has a face and stuff. It’s probably fine.”
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Now I’ve got to know which bits
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@InkGolem I’d have to read through it again to tell you, though. Noooo!
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@InkGolem The one located at the memory addresses starting at 0x7FFE4A71.
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@IoleRae “How DARE you say no to me!? You have no right to say no to interpersonal interaction with me here!”
And then there are admin who are befuddled when you say “I don’t want to do that, I don’t want to engage in any form of recreational play with that person.” It’s the same way in LARPs. It’s like all your rights as a human being go out the fucking window when you’re pretending to roleplay as a different character.
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@EyeofProvidence You had me all excited that @IoleRae had returned, but no you’re replying to a four year old post instead.
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i don’t want to be an asshole in the constructive space that brought the topic to mind, but omg i hate xp caps and cooldowns sooooooooooooooo much. they drive me nuts. the players are already limited by the rate of xp gain. all of the things that bother people about big xp dumps (a PC going from 0 to 100 in a skill in an instant) will still happen just from — PCs not talking about something on their sheet that wasn’t relevant in their scenes before.
sorry to anyone who was being perfectly pleasant and polite about this today lmao. I’M BEING PETTY. i just hate caps and cooldowns.
(to be clear: by xp caps i mean a cap on how much unspent xp you can bank, not overall game limits on how much xp a pc can spend total. and by xp cooldowns i mean being able to only spend a certain amount of xp within a given timeframe, no matter how much you have banked.)
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@Roz I ALSO HATE THEM AND SO DOES MY ADHD
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@Roz cool downs are dumb and shouldn’t be a thing
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@Roz Agreed. Both of those are dumb.
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I got all spun up and ready to fite against bank limits and cooldowns but it looks like almost everyone agrees that it’s a silly system. Welp.
