@MisterBoring I heard along the grapevine that there was some behind the scenes troubles too. What exactly it was, I do not know. But, at least a small handful of staff left because of it.

This game seems to have been all but completely abandoned by staff and players.

It was fun while it lasted but seemed to suffer from revolving door of staff and then piling multiple spheres on the replacement staff.

I am friendly but I don’t have friends really or join games with groups of people. If I recognize someone from a previous game that I enjoyed RP with, I’ll wave and smile and hope to RP with them again.

As a ‘lone wolf’ type, I heavily rely on people breaking away from their friend groups to RP with me (or let me in on the RP with those groups).

Do I expect it though? No.

If I can’t find RP on a game, I’ll just leave without a fuss and find somewhere else.

What about using ChatGPT to try and improve your creative writing?

Can this be separated into a Gatty vs Gashly thread or something? The only way that this is connected to Retro anymore is that Gatty plays a werewolf there.

People like unique and interesting characters.

People don’t like players with main character syndrome.

@Cygnus, my guy/gal/person… It’s very much not the concept itself that was the issue. Heck, there is a whole bloodline in NWOD that is basically kinfolk vampires. It was the way you apparently insisted on needing to be The Chosen One in not only one but TWO spheres and seem to have thrown tantrums when people didn’t fawn over how special and amazing your character was.

Like seriously, just read over your PRP pitch and tell me how that’s not your one last attempt to show that your character’s body was SO BAD ASS and your character’s spirit was SO SPECIALS.

I particularly enjoyed the “cool” PRP they wanted to run was based entirely around their Mary Sue character to further show off how bad ass and needed they were.

@Hobbie said in pvp vs pvp:

@Jennkryst Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if this hobby dies in our lifetime but if/when it does, we hopefully all have some fond memories.

Movie theaters are going to die in our lifetime.

MUs definitely will.

But roleplay itself will live on forever.

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@RedRocket said in pvp vs pvp:

@Pax said in pvp vs pvp:

they wouldn’t be the bulk of what people are running and playing nowadays.

Oh, yes, such wildly successful games that have what, 12 active players who do maybe 3 scenes a week? That’s totally a thriving model for success you have there! No need to ever question it or try to improve! What was I thinking?! Must be the dementia!

Success is determined if everyone is having fun.

There’s this hot new phrase that all the kids are saying these days. “Quality over quantity.”

@RedRocket said in pvp vs pvp:

@catzilla

Oh well, I guess the hobby will just die with us then.
We had a good run! It was fun while it lasted.

@RedRocket said in pvp vs pvp:

I want the next generation to have that same opportunity to find themselves lost in strange new worlds.

Am I wrong? Is there some thriving hub of young people out there playing some game I’ve never heard of?

Yes. As someone stated earlier, they’re all on Discord, JCINK, tumblr, etc.

@Third-Eye said in pvp vs pvp:

@catzilla
This is another one that doesn’t really read like Ghost’s MO to me, unless he’s decided to change his personality for like the fifth time. He also never had an issue with PVE games, whatever one can say about his other annoying qualities. But I’ve been wrong before.

I also think that Ghost hates all PBs (including AI, but I could be remembering wrong). But this person has a similar energy.

10 paragraphs about the topic
“But I don’t care.”

@Muscle-Car said in pvp vs pvp:

@RedRocket
“wrote a small essay about how I don’t care.”
Stand in front of a mirror and say those words out loud.

Is RedRocket Ghost or their cousin or something? Reminds me of their long posts about how they don’t care and to remind us they left the hobby 40 years ago.

@RedRocket

If you were “Harmony” on the Discord RP ‘Shadows on the Strip’ would love to RP with you again!

@dvoraen said in Stupid Memes:

@KarmaBum “Sexy fireball” makes me think of the succubi(?) that were all fiery, from Oglaf, that Mistress’s apprentice had to apply oil to.

I don’t make the rules for what my brain does.

It reminds me of the old Bloodninja texts.

https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/bloodninja

@MisterBoring said in MU Peeves Thread:

@catzilla said in MU Peeves Thread:

Personally I’d see it as, ‘hey this is a closed scene and we don’t want other PCs randomly joining just because it’s on grid’.

Being off grid in RP Rooms doesn’t stop everybody though. Also, some games have commands that make it very apparent that the scene is closed.

It could just be me but isn’t joing an RP Room uninvited like, universally unallowed?