MU Peeves Thread

[Duke Whisky]

Outsource your descriptions to AI.

Write a character description for me for a Sci-Fi themed game for a 27 year old man who is quite tall. They have brown hair, a scar across their left eye. Their eyes are dark green and they have brown hair. A little bit of a beard so describe them similar to Charles Dance without saying his name.

“The 27-year-old man stands tall at over 6 feet, with a strong build and chiselled features. He has dark brown hair, with a hint of a beard on his jawline, giving him a rugged, yet refined look. A scar runs across his left eye, adding a hint of danger and mystery to his appearance. His dark green eyes are piercing, seeming to take in everything around him. Overall, he has the air of a confident and experienced individual, reminiscent of a seasoned leader.”

[Pavel]

@Whisky said in MU Peeves Thread:

a 27 year old man who is quite tall. They have brown hair, a scar across their left eye. Their eyes are dark green and they have brown hair. A little bit of a beard

I mean, you just wrote a description right there.

[Duke Whisky]

@Pavel - You’re welcome to use it for your next character

[Pavel]

@Whisky Hah, nah. I’ll just use my old Charles Dance inspired description.

[Artemis]

@Testament said in MU Peeves Thread:

An average human of average body shape. They got a face of all the usually required parts that one tends to associate with a face, which are neither unsightly or unique. They are also wearing clothing some variety depending on the weather.

I would like to challenge this. You might have the most average, middle of the road person in the world, but that person will still have a collection of features you can identify and put to words that is unique to them. If describing an utterly unremarkable character, I break it down into hair color/style, eyes, skin tone, body type, and movement, as every person possesses some combination of these. And if they don’t, that’s worth remarking on.
or just go with @Whisky’s idea if you can’t be bothered, that desc was good!

[Pavel]

@Artemis said in MU Peeves Thread:

I would like to challenge this.

Then you’re in charge of writing all descs.

[Artemis]

@Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Artemis said in MU Peeves Thread:

I would like to challenge this.

Then you’re in charge of writing all descs.

I’m down!

[junipersky]

Generic blob person, I’m all down for normalizing this.

[IoleRae]

I used to be able to write descs, before I took an arrow to the knee. Thank goodness for roster games, I’d be in trouble without.

[Pavel]

@IoleRae Is it something that just happens to us as we age? We get less able to write a paragraph of abstract screed, but we can still type out reams of dialogue or verbiage in our RP?

[sao]

I like writing descs.

Just of people, though. Places and things can get fucked.

[Snackness]

@Pavel I can’t do either of these things. Maybe I’m in the wrong hobby.

[helvetica]

I’m wayy more comfortable writing descs of places than I am writing them of people.

[IoleRae]

@Pavel

I think for me it might just be lazy. Anything that smells like homework, I don’t wanna do it for fun. I have far more limited time than I used to for mush pursuits (to be fair, I could make more time), so I want to spend that time doing active things. Some of the stuff I need to do (most of it, really) doesn’t really need sustained effort, so it can be done and I don’t feel like I wasted too much precious “brain on” time on it. Generating new backgrounds / descriptions…it’s not a lot of work, but it SEEMS like a lot of work.

There’s also the possible-rejection=paralysis thing, with descs being your first impression on people. I’m sure that factors in, too.

[Pavel]

@IoleRae Oooh. All very good points, something I shall need to consider more thoughtfully - and not at six am after a dozen cups of coffee.

[Tez]

I get self-conscious writing my own descs, so I like writing descs for other friends. I feel way more comfortable getting loose and writing about how hot someone else obviously is (because this is a MU*, obviously everyone’s hot, even the blob people, and yes, that decaying vampire is hot, too).

[Testament]

@Tez Either ridiculously hot, or ridiculously scarred and/or disfigured, which in of itself is also hot.

[Roz]

@Tez said in MU Peeves Thread:

I get self-conscious writing my own descs, so I like writing descs for other friends.

me. i’m the friend.

[GF]

@Tez said in MU Peeves Thread:

(because this is a MU*, obviously everyone’s hot, even the blob people, and yes, that decaying vampire is hot, too)

“You could be forgiven for not noticing the nauseating smell like rotting pork that wafts off her in your amazement at noticing her boobs are each the size of that exercise ball your one health nut coworker sits on instead of an office chair. She’s probably pretty or something but you can’t tell because you can’t even see the lower half of her face, swallowed in the Mariana Trench of her cleavage. It’s anyone’s guess how she can get her mouth on someone to bite them.”

[mietze]

I think i’m just weird.

I’ve never been offended by descs either way (though i do like the unintentionally funny ones an awful lot I admit).

I don’t really look at descs or honestly at pbs. I don’t keep up with tv or movies enough to even recognize a lot of actors except for the ones from the time that I did (which has led to some embarassing choices sometimes because i just wasn’t aware of where the picture was from). I enjoy finding pbs as part of my character development process (not as important as music but up there) but even when I find one it’s not that I think my character looks like that person, it’s…i don’t really know how to describe it. A mood, or something about them grips me (same thing with the music). I assume the same for most other people. (even though yes i find it also funny when someone picks a pb that I think really is the opposite of the description but again I assume it’s because that person had SOMETHING grab them about that actor in a role or that particular picture. It doesn’t stop the giggles sometimes though)

I do often worry about people are going to be irritated with me no matter what. If I choose an art based or an actor pb, well, gee what a lame ass person. If I put in clothing descs on the object that’s too spammy and lame. If I state anything about how my pc looks in the scene because I don’t have clothing objects or set it in the pc object description, then i’m annoying. But then I realize probably that a LOT of other people in the scene don’t really give a shit, or they’re worrying the same thing too and it’s a minor thing that people will just get over and RP with me or they won’t. Most people push past their minor irritant peeves that we all have, so it’s probably fine. I do like it now that many games seem to have a little bit of everything (basic desc, wiki desc, opportunity for pb, or changing character object descs) because this latest discussion kind of solidified for me that really setting all this stuff up is to give other players a taste of your PC, and so having several forms might be beneficial because people utilize different things to do that. maybe it will help me feel less grumbly about having to do the things that don’t really do it for me in that regard in the future.