@Birdie Something you said here kind of triggered me in a way.

It’s ok to be monogamous. It doesn’t have to have anything to do with self-esteem. Some people are just not built for polygamy and that is perfectly ok. Don’t feel like you’ve done /anything/ wrong by not wanting to be in a polygamous relationship.

Don’t ask, don’t tell, I don’t know if I could even go that far with some characters, and I know I couldn’t RL so please, don’t feel like you’ve done anything wrong.

You set up a line, a boundary, and /they/ pushed it, broke it, and hop scotched right across it. That is not your fault, they disrespected your boundaries and your choices.

Very not cool of them.

How much energy would a goldfish release if it were to explode via nuclear fission.

I am sorry that you feel that way…

is NOT a fucking apology.

Please, it’s ok if you have to go AFK, but if it’s going to be like, an hour… let me know before hand if you could? That’d be swell.

@kalakh Lack of consolidation.

A healthy community is one that has a wide variety of people and opinions with a few common ones that bring them together so that this thing in the community can be enjoyed.

It is impossible for everyone to agree on everything all the time. Human nature and opinions being what they are there are going to be differences. What makes them healthy differences though is when people can speak about those differences in a non-toxic way that doesn’t deride someone for not sharing an opinion.

It is ok to have different opinions on things within the community, to respect that my opinion might be different from someone else’s, but that’s a hard thing to do these days. Everything is divisive.

Everything.

Of course when someone’s opinion is factually untrue, or is painfully detrimental to others, and promotes hostility and violence towards others… then a line needs to be drawn and something done.

I would not claim to know how to do that, but as has happened, obviously people reacted to those lines differently, and find those lines in other places.

So what do we do? Try and speak with like-minded individuals I guess, so that everyone’s pretendy fun times isn’t messed up.

@GF

I’ve lurked and lurked off and on for a long while on WORA and MSB as my interest in MU*'s has waxed and waned, never posting to either really.

When I recently came back to MU*'s and saw what was going on on MSB I was surprised and shocked. There’s been opinions said by a lot of people that I disagreed with on both sides but I didn’t see the point in banning anyone. The whole point of WORA and I thought MSB was to just let the air out, educate, make your own decisions about anonymous people on the interwebs (which we all know what usually descends from that).

I am glad Derp put up the post about this place, cuz I would have never known otherwise as I don’t do discord.

My personal take is that shit takes care of itself in a public forum. Those who know about this place will come post, or lurk, or otherwise follow and it’s not like MSB ever had as much ‘power’ as it thought it did to begin with.

@Roz said in Bannings:

Even if I want to yell at someone about how they’re being a total shitty asshole, I want to yell at them with the right pronouns.

Cuz that just makes it /better/, they absolutely /know/ that you’re yelling and being angry with /them/ and not just some nebulous pronouns

@tsar said in Bannings:

@shit-piss-love said in Bannings:

but you don’t seem like you have malice.

[blah blah blah] or posing in past tense yet.

I hate you so much right now.

So much.

For even reminding me this is a thing people do/did.

I’ve had Covid twice.

The first time was when we weren’t sure it had hit the country yet (it had) and I worked delivery. The whole hub got it but we didn’t know what it was. Had a fever so high I was hallucinating for 3 days straight before it broke.

Second time was in January of this year, just in time so that I couldn’t go to the Las Vegas Open for WH40K that I’d spent literally thousands of dollars on.

Not happy.

That time I’d had my shots so it was like, some mild coughing. Not bad at all…

But I missed biggest pro WH40K event near me

Youtube is somehow got it in its head that I want to read right-wing nutjobs because I am interested in global finance…

Yeesh this is horrible.

I play the gamut in characters but they always have flaws to match their strengths. It doesn’t need to be a perfect balance, but I don’t believe perfection is achievable, and trying to do so just makes things super awkward.

I play characters who are sometimes special snowflakes and go against the grain, I play characters who are the stereotypical ‘book’ idea of a concept, really just depends on my mood.

I have never, ever, had a personal association with my character there.

They aren’t me.

I would be very weirded out that someone thought that about me.

The only association I have with my character is that as their creator, and the person who decides what they do, when they do fucked up things… that’s on me. I made that choice. The idea that I didn’t choose to do something, that the character would do that somehow makes it right?

Nope.

Sure, the character might do something a certain way, but I wrote the character, and I can just as easily have them not do the thing that ruins things for others. Maybe the sociopath had a conscience for half a second, if it’s better for the RP and enjoyment of the game for others.

Decisive I know.

I had a knee-jerk reaction to someone saying I was ‘victim blaming’ and lashed out a bit.

That bought into the attempted manipulation, and I apologize for that failure.

So I am erasing my former statement and saying this:

Being asked how you (The royal you, not the specific you) would prefer to handle a scene in advance, is not a crime. It is not someone abusing you in any way shape or form.

You are not a /victim/ for being asked how you would like to RP.

Especially when it is done without any lewd or crude comments.

For all those here whom I may end up RP’ing with some day, I am not going to stop making sure my RP partners are comfortable with the direction and tone of RP.

I owe them that.

I am truly saddened that there are people who believe that this is somehow… wrong.

@Selira So you’d get squicked, when heavily flirting, going to a private location, with the flirting ramping up towards petting, if someone wanted to make sure you were A) ok with RP going in that direction and B) if it did go in that direction, making sure you were comfortable.

Can’t.

Win.

To be fair, I have altitis, so coming up with new pc’s, of any variety, is exceptionally easy for me.

So when I create my NPC’s that are as fleshed out as any character, it’s because it’s how my brain works. I would always say for anyone to do what works for them. Those who run stories have their own methods, we’re all unique, do what makes it great/easy for you to run stories people have fun with.

@Warma-Sheen said in Liberation MUSH:

@Mourne said in Liberation MUSH:

@MisterBoring Because dice are superior to pips and rock paper scissors

Wrong.

(Apparently, there’s no imperative to support our left-field opinions with any sort of supporting evidence or argument, so that makes this an easy one.)

Objection: Presumes facts not in evidence.

@Faraday In every single FS3 game I’ve played, the game runners did none of that.

You could have it be determined completely randomly, or, you could have it be that the controller has to set what they are going to throw before hand.

I create my NPC’s as if they were PC’s. They all have their own motivations, drives, goals, but, I am horrifically silly about the level of detail I can put into things.

Also, an NPC to me, is very different than a nameless mook.

Not all nameless mook’s are baddies. Sometimes they’re the poor unfortunate scenery involved in the thing.

NPC’s are special. They’re a type of PC, even if it’s a ‘Non’ type.

@KarmaBum said in What we can learn from video game tutorials:

@Mourne Have you seen what @Jumpscare has been up to with Silent Heaven?

I have actually, I am not sure it’s a game for me, but the technical aspects have really helped get my creative juices going for converting systems.