@helvetica I’ve never seen Schitt’s Creek but we were talking about it yesterday, in part about how funny she is in it. I’ll have to check it out this weekend.

@helvetica said in Celebrities We've Lost 2026 Edition:

Catherine O’Hara

the fuck? I JUST watched Home Alone this is sad

Potentially hot take: you shouldn’t have to write an application to pick up a roster character ever.

There’s a trend in recent Ares games where you just click ‘claim’ on a roster and it generates the password right there for you and I very much appreciate that.

If the issue is that the roster character could presumably be popular and you don’t want to give it to the first come first serve, just put up a lottery system. No application required. “If interested in Sparkle Pony, the Prince of Ponyland, put your name in the hat and we’ll randomly draw in 5 days.” Done.

web based. I never want to use a client again.

@RightMeow said in MU Peeves Thread:

I think this year I’ve decided to step away from it.

I don’t think you’re alone in this, to be honest. I’m around on a couple of games but my level of activity is nowhere close to where it used to be - a pose a day, maybe. Weekends I’m rarely around to do anything. I’m filling my days with baking (I’m in my sourdough era, it’s how I know I’m old) and spending time with my kids, we’re playing so many video games together and just enjoying each other’s company. We’re going out and exploring. We’re redoing the house. I’m reading so many books.

I’m not really sad about it, though. There are times when I get nostalgic, or I miss writing with certain people, but that’s about it. I don’t really miss it like I used to. It could just be there really hasn’t been a game that’s truly excited me in a very long time, I think since HorrorMU* 2 if I’m being really honest with myself. But I think in a lot of ways it’s just that I’ve gotten older, my kids are older and it won’t be long now before they are out of the house, and I just can’t see myself growing old behind my computer when there’s so much left to do.

@Yam oh TBH I honestly missed your post hahahaha just thought it was weird those comments came on the backside of Helvetica posting a ‘come and join’ sort of reply.

Could get those comments spun off into Rough & Rowdy if people want to complain about Pern? Seems kinda sucky to slap on game gab. Not very constructive about this game in particular.

@Ashkuri idk I think there is something to be said about having your own fun in order to make fun for other people. I can’t be entertaining if I am not having fun, so I guess I make playing with me fun by having fun myself.

I’m a yes-and person. I do my best to be engaging. Like @Yam I enjoy holding the idiot ball and be funny / do a bit or something. And I always try to pass the ball, which I think is something that a lot of people say they do but aren’t really good at? Like if you give me a plot hook, I’m running to give it to the next person vs holding onto it (since I’ve already got a ball, it’s the idiot ball, that’s my ball).

@hellfrog said in Other People:

@RightMeow IS it important?

I mean, yes? People aren’t going to have fun with you if you aren’t having fun. It comes out in your poses, or in your attitude, or just in the overall tone of things.

I wish games had more consequences and that players would act appropriately when consequences happen. Games without any stakes never hit right, and that includes games where the bad things are supposed to happen regularly but only actually happen once in 2 RL years because a player consented to it.

I really honestly would not be able to tell those poses were AI generated in a scene. There’s nothing in there that I haven’t written in some form or fashion, and certainly nothing I haven’t seen 10000 times in the 20+ years I’ve been doing this hobby. I wouldn’t even SUSPECT AI was used.

@Faraday has there been a wide-spread study done regarding AI use in public school vs homeschool? This sounds more anecdotal than factual.

@Pavel I would probably throw hands for @junipersky

@Pavel said in Banning Bad, Actually?:

So we’ll have this conversation. Forever

I mean you could say that about every conversation we have on this forum, pretty sure we just go around in circles.

@Pavel I mean isn’t that just “don’t be a dick”?

Come on people, don’t be a dick. It really isn’t that difficult lol

@Ominous said in Banning Bad, Actually?:

For those who are on the side of ban early and ban often, might I suggest running private, whitelist server for just your friends? Or maybe have a rigorous review process requiring an interview between staff and an applicant before they can CG?

respectfully, no. The amount of time it would take to “rigorously review” applicants sounds like work, and there are plenty of good people out there that want to play games. If there’s trash in the pile, I’ll just throw it out. But I am upfront about my stance and no one has to play with me if they don’t like it.

Besides, more often than not, the real trash that needs to get shown the door doesn’t show themselves as trash until they’ve wiggled into their skin well enough and ‘established’ themselves so you feel obligated to keep them around.

@Pyrephox you’ve gone mad with power, I called it

@Yam we don’t ban enough. Coming off a recent game where I had vibes that another player was a notorious creeper and was doing Weird Shit that maybe wasn’t “bannable” per policy but definitely would’ve gotten them booted if it was my game, I think we should ban liberally and often.

@KDraygo I’m probably being a little pedantic on the word usage here, because to me it just sounds like you have the authority to control someone. IMO the ability to decide you can’t play here is not the ability to control someone, it’s just making rules for their space.

Plus I mean to be honest saying a game admin has power over the players inevitably puts the game runner in a position that not a lot of us want to be in. Fuck when I ran Gray Harbor, I hope people didn’t think I had power over them, I barely had power over my own story lol

@Roadspike said in Empire Discussion Thread:

Anyone in a position of power (and staffing a game, or a forum, is that) has some measure of power over those who partake of whatever gives them that power.

I think you are wrong, and it’s going to be an ‘agree to disagree’ thing here for me. An admin or staffer may have authority over the game, but they do not have power over a person playing it.