Obviously, receipts are handy but they’re not a requirement. And I’d (speaking only for myself, though with a polite nod in the direction of that Admin tag) rather not make posting every shred of evidence possible the expectation here.

@Jumpscare said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

That means that since the birth of BMD, no other game has negatively affected MU* players as broadly or as painfully as Star Wars: Age of Alliances.

A board of women, queers, and allies reacting strongly against sexual misconduct and anti-reporting prejudice… Isn’t that how we started in the first place?

For posterity, I present thus:

Tracy is a man and he is a very hansome and manly man.He likes women a lot and women like him too but men think he is compitishion.He has very long brown shiny hair everywhere and a little blue eyes that are mostly green but very hansome anywya.You can tell a lot of things from his eyes.He has a very big bulge in his jeans where the dick would be and it is not a sock because it makes all women almost orgasm with desire.Behind him is a very firm muscled ass that makes you want to slap it and play with it in lots of ways but only if your a women.If you are a man you will die if you touch it because Tracy is strong and very not Gay.If you are a women he winks and smiles at you and thinks you have a nice personality.If you are a man again he frowns at you and it makes you not hit on him or on any women when hes here.He likes lots of women very much and likes very few men but not as boyfriends.And he has a shitr which is nice and blue.I mean shirt sorry.

@hobos said in Bannings:

From what I’ve seen, you are a people with boundless empathy, but you choose who to direct that towards.

Not to really engage in the debate, here, but that’s literally the same as everyone else.

Me. I’m a good thing about mushing.

And this isn’t a throw away joke, or an ego thing, or whatever. But I’ve finally been able to arrive at the conclusion that yes, my RP is good. My events are good. My being present on a game is good. And I’m finally free to feel that I am good enough.

So there. Me. I’m a good thing about mushing.

So obviously it’s a very dark time, horrid things incoming and so forth…

But did anyone actually have The Onion buying Infowars on their 2024 bingo cards?

@Warma-Sheen said in Los Angeles 2043: A Blade Runner MUSH - Discussion:

Just because you can open a game on your own doesn’t mean you should.

You should. It might last, it might not, but at least stuff’s being made even for a moment.

@GF We’re for taco Tuesdays, no-pants Fridays, and the violent and utter overthrow of the capitalistic, white-supremacist patriarchy. And tea.

@CuriousGamer said in Macha Awareness (And Unappreciation) thread:

@Tez There seems to be a few bad actor threads now, would it make sense to put them into their own ‘Bad Actor’ kind of topic at this point? I know there’s been a couple discussions of others in the not too distant past as well.

No. We don’t need a whole section of the forum devoted to talking shit about specific people.

@untitled said in Underage Players:

because I’d be unhappy if I found out my kids were

That right there is the ultimate point. Policing children is the job of the parent, not any game they would seek to join.

Establish rules that state, outright, that the game is for adults, will contain adult themes, etc. If it is revealed from a trustworthy source that there is an underage person, remove them. That is all you can do.

These days, children on these kinds of games are very much the exception. There’s a high barrier to entry and far more free-to-play games around than there were in the early years when a lot of us first started. So don’t stress over it too much.

It really depends on how you’re defining “plot.”

WWIII with Aliens and Zombies is plot, sure, but so is Gilmore Girls, and the latter would generally be considered social RP.

Any RP that has follow up, consequences, ramifications, further developments, etc, could count as “plot.”

Sometimes we need to sit in a coffee shop and chill (Bar RP), sometimes we have to say “I love you,” (social RP), other times we have to say the wrong name at our wedding (plot).

@Hobbie I am glad that it has that “you didn’t save this but we’ve kept it in the buffer for you” when files weirdly decide to open in notepad instead of notepad++. Which isn’t AI, but is neat.

@dvoraen said in General Video Game Thread:

I need to know what everyone who has finished Clair Obscur — Expedition 33 felt about the story right meow.

Two thoughts:

Jesus Fucking Christ

and

Jennifer English needs a happy character please.

@Warma-Sheen said in AI Megathread:

And with the way some people react to it, there’s this elitist/shaming quality people are espousing about using it that makes it risky to even ask.

I wouldn’t say that I’m being particularly elitist about my abhorrence for AI in this instance, the same way I wouldn’t say teachers aren’t being elitist by punishing those who use AI to write their essays. The point of the exercise is to use your own skill, talent, ability, creativity, etc, etc to write something.

That said, using something like grammarly to check your spelling and make sure you haven’t used “nodded” fifteen times in the one pose? That’s fine. But using a tool to write or rewrite a significant portion of your RP is, to me, missing the whole point. And this is notwithstanding the ethical questions about sourcing, resource usage, etc that all LLM/generative AI use has.

@InkGolem said in AI Megathread:

If it enhances the experience for your scene partner, I don’t think there is any harm.

If you use “AI” in RP, I don’t want you within a thousand miles of me.

I think that, fundamentally, there are too many kinds of things to be and not enough stuff actually happening to encourage that kind of population. Vampire is, as always, the simplest as it only had (prior to closing) one faction available for play with a limited number of clans that didn’t require pre-approval. Mage, however and only as an example, has the Traditions, the Technocracy, Nephandi, and Orphans available. I don’t play a mage yet, but it’s easy to look at that, or the sheer number of available kinds of Fera, and feel as if there’s a distinct lack of focus.

In addition to this broad, depth-less array of options, the game is very much in beta. I can’t speak to the suggestion of staff ineptitude as previously described, but with the hanging potential of the one sphere I’m in having its entire history rewritten or otherwise changed is more than a little irritating even though it’s an expected part of a beta opening.

I’ve also previously mentioned the OOC Conflict policy as a cause of some modicum of concern. I’m not the kind of person to go running around trying to throw down with everyone from The Other Team, but a big part of playing antagonists is to be antagonistic and if you don’t want to allow that you absolutely need to come up with a justification for it. The suggested “the in-character reasoning, if necessary, can be that the resources required to oppose another player character directly will vastly outstrip those required to pursue any given goal” (Dies Irae MU, 2025) is a, frankly, lazy suggestion that puts the onus on the players to ignore sometimes key parts of a faction’s ethos instead of staff creating a story-driven reason for old grudges and outright wars to be set aside.

Ultimately, I believe the game needs a tighter focus and a more readily described and understood meta-story. It seems to have good bones and the very best of intentions, but right now I couldn’t recommend it.

References
Dies Irae MU. (2025). Policies. Dies Irae MU. https://diesiraemu.com/wiki/policies/

@Jynxbox Okay, I at least somewhat agree with the majority of what you’re saying, except that last part.

The game’s been open in beta for a handful of months, and the primary setting is San Diego. So that’s where the work should be done. Staff have previously indicated that they’d like to expand Tijuana at some point, but it’s not the primary focus of their efforts.

@catzilla said in Re: Dies Irae:

I’m having fun here and don’t feel like a ‘side character’.

@Faraday I knew I’d get a good metaphor out there eventually. One shouldn’t make analogies when one is on a rewatch binge.

@labsunlimited Indeed, though my inference was that this “one time account” poster may well be Polk in disguise.
ETA: Obviously I don’t know either way, but it’s just an added suggestion to take what they say with a grain of salt – even the bits I somewhat agree with.