MU Peeves Thread
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@Coin said in MU Peeves Thread:
Yeah. I kinda wish we couldn’t see who was in private scenes or how long ago they posed and whatnot.
The main draw of having a page for ‘active scenes’ is that it tells you ‘there are people rping on this game, look, see?’ Anything beyond that, like knowing how long it’s been since there was activity, or knowing who is in each particular scene feels more detrimental to the collective psychological stability of a game’s playerbase than anything. I could make a case for staff-run events so that new players and guests can see how active staff is in running stuff, but otherwise… it’s just food for the brain weasels.
Okay I felt petty for it so now I’m glad someone else said it.
I have tried to get into Ares games a couple times now and the giant list of private scenes has, and I am using no hyperbole here, taken the wind out of my sails psychologically on both occasions. It makes the game feel impenetrable to me, as if putting all of the RP I’m not involved in on display makes it feel like my part in it is going to be insignificant. I can easily pick apart this in a number of ways that make it feel uncomfortable to complain about, but it’s there.
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@shit-piss-love Yeah, it hit me like that too. Like, it’s great that there are so many people RPing, but when there’s 30+ private scenes and not one open scene that’s telling me there’s a lot of RP happening on this game that I just…don’t have access to as a new person.
I’d much rather see a list of OPEN scenes and maybe a little line saying something like ‘there’s 34 active scenes!’
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@Popes Okay, maybe we are the same person….
What color is your hair currently??? Black or purple???
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@Cobalt Blurple best colour.
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@Cobalt It brown, but soon will be gone in the biannual shearing.
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@Yam said in MU Peeves Thread:
I’m glum about a circumstance that I can’t really talk about with anyone and it’s just one of those things where I wish I had some no-judgment RP therapist to vent at. I feel dumb about it, but then also angry and hurt and offended and sad and scared/anxious. The answer is to walk away, but I don’t want to walk away. Meh. I’ll get over it.
hey, hey. pick me. i no longer RP, but i used to so i get things. i am also non-judgey, i swear. and i make a good therapist, i’ve been told!
these services are available for anyone. hit me up on discord @ gem#2769
eta: doctor-patient confidentiality guaranteed! by my own forgetfulness, that i’ll not remember the conversation after a couple hours.
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@Meg “your secrets are safe with my indifference”
you can put it on your business cardfr fr
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@hellfrog said in MU Peeves Thread:
@Meg “your secrets are safe with my indifference”
you can put it on your business cardI’m tempted to do just that.
I’m an archivist and sometimes end up processing the crap you left in your office when you died, and the shit on your hard drive. Part of me lives in shame because I am influencing the historical record, but it’s also standard practice: I remove your porn and any evidence of extramarital affairs and consign this information into the ‘to be forgotten’ section of my brain, where it gets disconnected from your name.
Except in the case of my own uncle, where my aunt found some CD-ROM labeled “Dom Karen” in his desk and asked if that was a kind of wine or something, and I said, “Nope, that’s probably the kind of thing that makes family memories that last a lifetime, give it over,” and got rid of it.
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Bringing back a classic. Strong accents in speech rather than saying German/French/Southern Drawl.
End up in a loop trying to translate it, then working out context. But then I need to translate it again, but now what’s the context. The dyslexia ends up with me going around in a circle, I end up frustrated and feeling like an idiot so give up.
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@Whisky If a player insists on typing an accent, then presumably they’re doing so because they think it adds verisimilitude, right? So I think you (or anyone) would be 100% justified writing poses about how you stare blankly at the other character and ask them what any of the words they just said are. Sure, it kinda has “your gran complaining that no one on the phone speaks English any more” vibes, but they’re the one deliberately misspelling words and then expecting you to guess what their misspelled words spell.
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@GF one of my favorite pieces of someone doing something for verisimilitude is the show Deadwood. They replaced all the curse words with modern day curse words, because actual old western curses would sound really tame to us, and they wanted to evoke the same feelings, vs be historically accurate.
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@GF - I do get what you mean but this works on the presumption that my character wouldn’t understand their accent though. My character may have grown up around it, but I as a player have no way of knowing what they are saying.
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@Meg said in MU Peeves Thread:
@GF one of my favorite pieces of someone doing something for verisimilitude is the show Deadwood. They replaced all the curse words with modern day curse words, because actual old western curses would sound really tame to us, and they wanted to evoke the same feelings, vs be historically accurate.
I would actually put up with a typed accent from someone who can RP with the Shakespearean dramatic skill and textual ‘vocal’ control of any of the Deadwood players.
But nobody who’s ever done a typed accent is this, alas.
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I would love to see some examples of what y’all are talking about because this seems like some really weird gatekeeping. Like for real you cannot understand what the words typed mean?
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@shit-piss-love The one example that really stands out to me is no longer available (game long closed, site shut down). But I swear it was the written equivalent of Merida in this:
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@Meg said in MU Peeves Thread:
@Yam said in MU Peeves Thread:
I’m glum about a circumstance that I can’t really talk about with anyone and it’s just one of those things where I wish I had some no-judgment RP therapist to vent at. I feel dumb about it, but then also angry and hurt and offended and sad and scared/anxious. The answer is to walk away, but I don’t want to walk away. Meh. I’ll get over it.
hey, hey. pick me. i no longer RP, but i used to so i get things. i am also non-judgey, i swear. and i make a good therapist, i’ve been told!
no, pick me! @Tez says I give good advice
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@shit-piss-love I don’t have an example to offer, but yes… ish. I cannot just read the pose and understand it. I have to stop and parse each word. So technically I can read it, but I can’t read it just like a regular pose. I’m not talkin’ about dropping some Gs or whatever, but the heavy ones.
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@shit-piss-love i cannae unnerstan wut yer typin owt n druther nae try n figger it owt, druther jest arpee wiv summin elth
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@shit-piss-love - I’d feel horrible if someone then went to every scene they are currently in, did ctrl + F and copy pasted what I submitted to work out it was either their RPed accent in dialogue I was peeving on, or using as an example.
In my own case, the dyslexia triggers more-so when the first and last letter is replaced with a ’ as I can’t work out what it says. So then I have to copy and paste the dialogue into notepad, fill in the blanks. Re-read it.
Pretty much everything @farfalla said. I have to stop and parse each word, work it out. Well now I’ve forgotten context, so I am scrolling back up to read and just end up in a frustrated loop.
