@Pavel Yeah they don’t work. I think it’s still relatively easy to spot something that was written by an AI, but there’s no definitive way to really prove it, which sucks when you know a student did it but there’s no way to call them on it.

@Warma-Sheen said in Inuki Ban Thread:

What was said was, “What I’ve experienced here has given me insight as to why some people have chosen to do ‘this thing’.”

I feel like that’s an extremely generous interpretation of what she was going for there.

I think there’s a real difference between “I am having thoughts of self harm” posts and “if I kill myself its your fault” posts. And I’m fine with the latter being a ban-worthy offense.

Didn’t she have at least one other account too where she pretended it wasn’t her but it was definitely her?

Edited to add: I think it was chookitypok right?

MORE EDITS: Nevermind, she’s that on Ares not here.

Anyone who doesn’t cry over spilled milk hasn’t spent 45 minutes pumping it.

Chance Perdomo. I’m so sad.

Fucking old townie racists that insist on bringing up the old (replaced) racist mascot again and again, start threatening people who point out that it’s racist and they need to stop, and then threaten and deadname the high schoolers who chime in to tell them to knock it off.

This is a weird critique post because I do like the game, but:

-I basically can’t play it due to the whole ‘idle out on grid and bad things happen’ bit. I have kids and I work and so I have constant sudden interruptions even if I have carved out some time to play. And yes, sometimes (too often) those things are so sudden that I don’t even have time to hit the pause button (that I am glad was installed). I have been EXTREMELY lucky that most people are cool and seem to understand that part sucks and have returned me to the hotel room each and every time, but it instills an anxiousness in me OOCly that I really, really dislike. It takes me out of the game. It bleeds into RL in a way I really hate because after dealing with an emergency or any sudden, stressful situation I have to be like oh fuck, I need to run to log into this game and hope something hasn’t happened that I’d need to deal with IC while I was RLing and sit there and hit the buttons and wait to get back to the hotel so I can just sign off.

-The game is also heavily, HEAVILY skewed to combat. I don’t know why anyone wouldn’t ever make a fighter Misfit that can travel fast and climb. You are at an extreme disadvantage without any of that and might not even realize it until you hit the grid after chargen and see what your weaknesses are. That can be fun to play! It can also get really frustrating when you find you can’t engage with a lot of the systems or areas of the grid because of a certain way you answered a question in chargen without realizing it.

-While people admire the lack of OOC on the game I find it disorienting and confusing. I was one of the every day RPers early on, but two things turned me off hard for quite awhile–one was a very weird IC (?) drama situation that I am still, to this day, not sure if it was totally IC or some OOC that appeared to cause at least one person to leave the game. Or maybe change characters? Because there’s no OOC there’s zero way to know, but it was all incredibly uncomfortable and not in a way I think the game was designed to be. Was someone being an OOC creep? Were people OOC bullying? Was it all IC?? I still have absolutely no idea.

-Unless you’re online when changes are made or game problems happen, you have no idea about them. I would love if there was at least a forum on the site (if there is one I haven’t found it) where game updates or things like that could be posted. I don’t want to have to sign up for Discord to be in the know. I would love to have a place to post feedback that isn’t here!

-The second thing that made me wander away was the Quills. I love the idea of the Quills and it really fit my character concept. I ended up hating it because it felt like every time I signed on I was getting assigned chores/homework. Go to this event not to have fun and RP in it, but so you can write it up later. Here’s an actual list of things we want you to write articles about. Write something every 2 weeks or you don’t get paid. It very quickly started to feel more like work than fun. It’s no wonder this always appears to be the least populated group on the game.

-RP on the game is at a breakneck pace which is both a great and a bad thing. It is hands down the easiest game to find wonderful RP all day every day that I have ever played. If I sign on even for five minutes I have two people trying to scene with me just moving room to room. That’s great for people who have that sort of time–I would have loved it if I were an unmarried, child-free college student. But I guess Ares has lulled me into lazily wanting distracted scenes, which is just not be a thing that can happen on this game. A total plus for people who aren’t switching screens or getting distracted every so often, but not so great for anyone else.

Again, it’s a great game with responsive staffers and lots of RP, but there are some roadblocks that I just can’t seem to get past even though I keep trying. A lot of them are absolutely “me” things where this is a game I want to like that doesn’t fit for someone with a busy RL. But I do think some sort of forum on the site would help with some of the other things (has anyone ever been banned? Are there problematic behaviors to watch out for? Game Updates, feedback, etc.).

@Tez It seems like later players were able to run with that second secret (I’m sure they were able to uncover more about it than I ever did), so it was definitely a good swap!

Sabella’s first secret was agreed to be one of the worst on the game by just about anyone who ever heard about it because it didn’t make a lot of sense. It was that she knew the Black Rose Mummers were actually the thieves guild and she wanted to become one of them because she thought they were so cool and something something get them to work for Grayson? This on the surface seemed a somewhat interesting thread, if incredibly unlikey (the cons outweighed the pros like crazy), until you realized that the people running the group also hated all nobility. Like actively sought to bring it down and hated that she was trying to be an actress which made my first month there very, very difficult because it was me trying to scene with people who would inevitably just tell me how stupid I was, how awful Grayson was, how they weren’t ever going to let me into the play actions, and it was a disaster that made me dread RPing. An early thing that I think was dropped was that the Mummers would actively recruit children from the Tragedy to be their informants and get them placed as wards with noble families but if that ever went anywhere I wasn’t apart of it because again, totally stonewalled due to being a princess that was barely tolerated to be hanging around.

Add to that early on at the one Mummers meeting I was ever invited to, Sapphire tried to kill everyone and I ended up being like why would she EVER want to be associated with this group?? Like she never went into the Lowers past the park after that happened because she was traumatized by it.

So her secret was changed to that she saw the good in everyone, which was much cooler and fit the PC far better.

Korka was the reincarnation of Caithness and that was VERY fun to play. She didn’t like what the Whispers became and was always annoyed that she had Caithness at the edge of her mind. Did she become an inquisitor because she wanted to or because stupid Caithness wanted to keep defending the Compact? Delving into that with @Herja was probably the most fun I had on the game.

Gretchen was also a great character who the Leer was in love with or something. He’s send her notes and she’d provide the smiling shadows with poisons. She was a ton of fun to play though with Tessa dying nearly immediately after I picked her up, I was the only active Moore for awhile and it was very isolating. She had an alternate identity: Maggie Moins who ran the black market for rare goods in the Shadow Court and I like to think she didn’t end up dying due to the frost elves that got the other Moores but spent her days making a fortune as Maggie selling her snake oil to the public and magic items on the side, taking all those nobles that looked down on her and her family for all they were worth.

Adora was a smiling shadow. I’m sure that shocks everyone since she was such a nice carpenter. But that org was dead, dead when I was there (if you did a last 20 on the channel it took you to the start or Arx and that was two years in). No one ever talked to me or reached out and I never even knew where the hideout was. She was a ton of fun to play because it was during the age where a bunch of nobles loved being insulted by commoners and she was always game. Also she was great at making stuff so a good creative outlet for crafting. She liked to send people things unasked for and then demand a ludicrous payment. 9 times out of 10 they’d just pay and it was hilarious.

My biggest regret was not having the time for Sabella to convince the other highlords to take power away from the Crown. The assembly of peers was mostly for show where the other Houses could vote, but then Alaric basically did what he wanted regardless. I REALLY wanted to make it so the Crown was just one vote that only counted just as much as the other Houses and would’ve traded the other highlords being okay with Pravus becoming a Great House for it. I even had clues saying that they used to have that sort of power! But then Liara was made highlord and she had zero interest in pursuing that and the Pravus thing exploded. But it was some fun politicking RP while it lasted!

@bear_necessities said in MU Peeves Thread:

Me: Hey wanna grab a scene sometime? I want to rp with you!
Them: yeah!

3 days later
Me: oh that person never asked me to rp, they were probably being nice, oh maybe that’s the brain weasels and i should just ask them, but they know I want to rp so why aren’t they asking me?
3 more days later:
Me: it’s too late to ask now and if they wanted to scene with me they would’ve asked, right? right.

And then it’s 3 weeks and I haven’t logged into the game and my anxiety is on HIGH ALERT and i’ll just play My Time at Sandrock because that seems really easier than asking people to play with me.

How–how are you in my head. I am in this EXACT situation right now. And I know I should just be like ‘hey would you be okay with me starting a scene finally?’ but since the original conversation they have started other scenes with other people and I’m convinced now they are clearly too busy so I should not bother them.

Why do we do this.

@Gashlycrumb My father in law has scars all over his legs from being attacked by a flock of geese when he was 9 years old. Geese are fucking terrifying!

I get that everyone is very excited to be able to AI generate Henry Cavill their favorite actor as their PC, but can we please keep everything safe for work on actual character pages? Generate all the naked/nearly naked pics you want sure, but please share them on Discord or something and don’t post them to your character page.

My kids’ new go to is “It isn’t the nineteen hundreds anymore!” and I hate it.

@sao What stands out to me about him is that whenever I’d post a Grayson newsletter the only thing he ever had to say about it–and he did it almost every time–was to point out some typo or complain about something in it. And it really made me wonder why I bothered at all.

He did ask me to a threesome IC once and I was like lol no. I am not even slightly interested in that. And then he basically stopped RPing with me.

@Faraday The scene once I close it, is private. But unlike on a grid where I can sit by my lonesome for hours at a time and when I disconnect it’s gone like it never happened on Ares even if I don’t pose a set (and I’ve never seen this happen, if someone starts a scene generally it seems like they always pose and wait) it will sit there on the active scenes list for days at a time just showing me sitting there until I give up and close it. So instead of a few hours of no one coming to RP with me, it can be some very public days.

I think that’s what’s trying to be expressed here (though I could be wrong and am just speaking for myself).

It’s one of the reasons I will always try to join an open scene if I see it because boy do I know how that person must feel hoping someone else comes in.

@Faraday Both things are definitely discouraging! I guess the difference for me, in Ares, is that I’ve posed and a scene has started so there’s now a record of it and people just don’t like my set or don’t notice or hate me or whatever and don’t join so that’s more discouraging to me than if I sat in a room where I hadn’t posed and all that showed is I was there and if I wanted I could just leave and no one would know it ever happened.

I was definitely very glad when being able to delete scenes that had one pose in it came around because the game would be like HEY REMEMBER THIS!! And I was like please no. Just delete. And it’d keep doing that until it deleted.

There are other things I definitely prefer about Ares but boy does it seem like you’re putting yourself out there more, to me.

@Faraday As someone who has opened my fair share of scenes and thrown out a pose and had it sit unjoined for days it IS very discouraging. Sure in a grid room you can be sad you’re in pub zero and everyone joined pub two, but in that case you just leave the room and that’s that.

Some games don’t seem to allow you to delete scenes so not only do you then close out your lonely scene, the game will remind you it happened as it encourages you to share that disappointment for awhile until it finally deletes.

All my PCs do end up dying in a pool with no ladder.