Had this linked to me on Discord, made me lol:
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RE: Pax Republica - Discussion
I don’t have a horse in the Star Wars MU* race, but I do have a very vested interest in not hearing after the fact about how underage porn happened on a MU*.
(And yes, I do consider it EXTREMELY LIKELY TO OCCUR when underage characters and players are permitted on a MU* with an R-rating.)
You are setting yourself up for potentially serious consequences. So let me make it clear:
DO NOT ALLOW UNDERAGE ANYTHING
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RE: Silent Heaven: Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss
@HannahBananna said in Silent Heaven: Small-town Horror RPG:
@Pavel Thankfully if you had any of the four you’d be smart enough not to start shit with someone who’s obviously always been above you. This ain’t my way of asking. My way of asking was going onto the discord server and politely asking, like an ADULT, something you are STILL proving you’re incapable of being. This is my way of continuing to be an adult and taking away the toys of people who want to be spoiled brats. Like you. Daed.
If this is your way of being an adult, you have a very misguided definition in your mental database.
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RE: People Doing Things
@Roz said in People Doing Things:
i don’t know if most arx folks have noticed the number of code contributions @dvoraen has made to arx, but i have
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RE: On the utility of Logs, Receipts, and Proof
@Ashen-Shugar So let’s see if I can explain why I disagree with a metaphor. This is how your point comes across, to me:
I own a building. A crime happens in my building. I’m culpable for the crime because I own the building.
So I suddenly am expected to a) track what goes on in the building; b) had any control whatsoever about what happens inside the building.
That’s ridiculous, and most certainly not how it works in today’s society, otherwise companies and schools would be liable for the mass shootings that happen inside their areas. It’s an absolutely absurd take.
I reject the idea that I need to tacitly monitor everything that happens on a MU* I run because someone might do something illegal. That’s like saying I should wiretap my neighbors because they talked about where to hide a corpse, because I live in the same apartment complex. Oh no, they did something bad, clearly I need to have been more responsible to make sure it didn’t happen so I could tell the cops, to the point of being unethical and invasive in my methods!
No.
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Something I Need to Say
Preface: This is not a request for sympathy, forgiveness, or even understanding, because I have no right to ask for any of that.
To start off, I’m posting this because my brain will not shut the fuck up about it even over a week later. I’ve tried to distract myself from it, but the issue will not stop harassing me. It keeps resurfacing. I do wonder if it’s a byproduct of being on the autism spectrum and/or ADHD (and the fact I really take rejection hard), but I don’t know. All I know is that I have to get this off my chest.
I’m not going to answer questions about the details. I’m deliberately leaving out the who and where and focusing solely on the what. Some of you already know about this, because you were involved and/or can guess from my username, which I use in multiple locations (Discord and more), but I don’t want to sweep what happened under the rug and assume everything will be fine. Because it’s not, in the abstract.
Anyway, to make a long story short, I had my first experience with being disinvited from a game. I still can’t really identify what it was I said or did that led to me being approached and told I should go because of my conduct that made other people uncomfortable. There were no sexual propositions or anything of the sort, but the discussion was that my conduct on channels as a guest and during chargen had been noted, and the sum of it led to me being effectively asked to leave.
I was absolutely shocked and anxious over it, sitting in my chair reading that, because no one had voiced any explicit concerns to me saying there’s an issue until that moment, but at the end of the day what mattered was that I did something that bothered other people to the point that staff had to get involved and say this isn’t the place for you. My response was “Alright.” and that I’d take my leave, and I logged off right after.
I can only remember talking on public channels and paging three people, two of which I’ve spoken to multiple times on other games and/or Discord. One of those two explicitly asked me when I was getting my butt approved. I’ve come to the conclusion that matters have silently changed with the second of the two, and as such I needed to keep my distance from them, including Discord. So I chose to silently break contact, left DM groups, and have tried to not interact with them.
Anyway, I peeked at the game site, got the message my site was blocked from the portal, and wondered why I went there in the first place, even if it was just to hit the logout button. It was a stupid thing to do, but I still did it.
So yeah. I did something, the aftermath is bothering me still, and the worst part is I still can’t identify to myself what behavior of mine is the problem.
That’s all.
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dvoraen's disclosures
I don’t feel like copy-pasting from MSB, so I’m just going to go into recent history as I can remember it, with a few special mentions.
UPDATED - Feb 11, 2024
Current
- Concordia - Alistair (& Ser Silvertail)
Inactive
- Luminiferous Aether - Anthony
Past
- Various Wheel of Time MU*s - Svoran*
- The Fifth World - Jor
- Crossroads - Svoran*, Jaeden
- Flight of the Golden Crane - Jaram
- Kushiel’s Debut - Piers
- Arx 1.0 - Bhandn
* Everywhere I transplanted Svoran (most of them WoT games), it was for character research. “How does he think and react to X situation?” In my personal writing, Svoran is the one character where I could not get into his headspace without character research. Plus, I could not figure out how grumpy he was on average, and to whom, why the fuss, etc. I think I’ve finally figured him out, but this was a 20+ year endeavor to iron him out into his current form in my writing.
MU*ing has been a godsend with figuring out character mindsets, to the point I stopped doing character research because my writing felt more mature as far as figuring out how to write people as people, if that makes sense? But for a while, I was playing some characters from my personal fiction of Aldera to try and figure them out. The irony of this is: THEY ALL CHANGED DRASTICALLY DESPITE THE RESEARCH. (Now, they’re nothing like the “researched” versions were.) Go figure.
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RE: Cat Art! I know, I know ...
@crawfish I think I speak for a lot of people when I say this:
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I LOVE THEM
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RE: Pern Dragon Colors
I just want a tl;dr of what dragon colors and styles mean, since I haven’t read any Pern books.
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
@Pyrephox I would advise you not to force it, as someone who’s been in this position for a number things (although my depression tends to help a bit here). Point being, I was trying to force my enjoyment of games (not just MU*s, any games), and I ended up becoming increasingly dissatisfied. Months passed of this and I eventually got tired of that feeling and took the plunge to step away.
About two weeks ago I suddenly had the urge to restart one and it’s enjoyable again. Because I’m not forcing myself to sit down and do it; that’s for schoolwork.
On a MU* note, I’d all but quit from lack of drive. I wasn’t planning to start any new characters or anything, but one day virtually out of nowhere a character concept dropped into my head, latched on like a barnacle, and I find myself excited to take him for a spin when the time comes.
But again, it wasn’t because “Oh I HAVE to do this”; it’s because I let it come to me. Did I want to play games and other MU*'s while feeling in a slump? Yes. But forcing myself into something to try and enjoy it felt like work, and that’s completely counter to the idea that it’s for fun.
So yeah. Give yourself permission to take those steps away and if it comes back to you and excites you again, yay!
Latest posts made by dvoraen
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RE: General Video Game Thread
@Cobalt OKAY. WILL WE START FROM SCRATCH? Also I have Enshrouded too.
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RE: General Video Game Thread
I’ve been eyeing Manor Lords, myself. My city-builder game for now has been Farthest Frontier, which is close to 1.0 launch and just had a major update for its combat system that I haven’t explored yet.
Lightyear Frontier - Early Access. This is a life sim type game for 1-4 players with a little alien civilization mystery attached. I spent about 30-40h on just the basics before I put it down for the next update, having done virtually everything the EA launch had to offer. I have not found all the secrets, though, so I may go back to that.
Soulmask - Early Access in June; open limited-time beta on May 1. This is kind of like Conan Exiles, in that it’s a survival-tribal type of game with PVE elements. I’m not sure how to fully explain it. I wanted to like it, but I had a hard time getting into it alone, so I feel like it’s meant for multiplayer. There are PVP elements to it as well (PVE and PVP servers, for example).
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
@mietze You were not alone. I couldn’t parse it either.
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RE: Installing Arxcode?
@Tez I’ve seen some TezGPT too. For reasonable rates, I hear.
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RE: [BeipMU] Removing pose order spam from Ares games.
A random aside, but I wanted to comment on the regex patterns being displayed here. This will be pedantic.
@Roz 's pattern of
^(<.+>).*
will get the job done, but you will get false positives from it. Anything Ares sends to your client that starts with<
, has text, and ends with>
, including poses from a player, will potentially be seen by this pattern and match, getting you a potential spawn window if they should start* their pose with something like<Meanwhile...>
. Will that happen often? I imagine next to never, but I did want to bring up this slight possibility.On the other hand, @Pavel’s and @Tez’s patterns will exact-match channel names, but if you want to add more channels, you have to verbatim copy in the channel to the pattern for every one you want a spawn window for, and the opposite for those you don’t want one.
So in short, it depends on how invested you are in the outcome. Want a specific subset of channels? Go with option B where the channel names are spelled out in the pattern. Want a catch-all? Option A.
* (ETA) I forget how Ares sends poses to players on a client, since it’s been a while for me. If the first character is literally
<
(i.e., only the pose is sent and not a nospoof like the PC who sent the pose) then it will happen as I’ve outlined. -
RE: MU Peeves Thread
@somasatori This is kind of me. I rarely initiate “omg rp?” these days on public channels, because past experience has taught me I have the opposite effect on people. (This means I almost never had any replies, like dead silence. It’s eerie.)
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
@Testament said in MU Peeves Thread:
@dvoraen Yeah but that takes effort.
Takes less effort to get into the head of a character you made than one you didn’t, imo.
(I’m totally not trying to convince you to restart your char on Concordia and conquer the grid, since his brother was murdered.)
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
@Testament said in MU Peeves Thread:
A new peeve of mine is working second shift, having a slow workday, but not so slow as to really allow myself time to find a new place to look at to play.
I’m oddly missing roster games now.
No thoughts, only app.
You could always restart characters you’ve already app’d. It’d be like a roster character. That you made!