@hellfrog The first example is acceptable, the second can go fuck itself.
<Snipped in edit. I explained it well enough in the original post>.

@Arkandel said in MU Peeves Thread:

@eye8urcake said in MU Peeves Thread:

No disrespect to the cool people here who do it as their ‘style’ or whatever, but I hate thoughtposting so much I’ll tap out of a scene it’s done in and quit games saturated with it.

It makes no sense to me.

Although I don’t myself do this, I can see why it’s being used - exposition (the equivalent of 'thought posting) is pretty common in novels, for example.

It can also help if you want to convey something you’d like the audience to be aware of OOC but for whatever reason isn’t convenient or significant enough to RP about. My character being intimidated by yours because they remind him of a strict teacher he had in third grade might not be something that’s going to come up in a scene but it can be a fun touch to include.

To me, that’s not ‘fun’. If my PC wouldn’t know about your PC shitting his pants about his third grade teacher, then including it is lame. It’s not a book, it doesn’t hit the same, and frankly, your PC being crazy intimidated and my PC not knowing why would create curiosity that might open up an avenue to RP that you’re slamming the door on with that kind of random (what to me is) nonsense.

Going, ‘Wow, why’s John so freaked out, I’m curious, I’m going to sniff around to find out why,’ is not only more fun to me, but it’s the point of a roleplay game. In a book, I don’t have those avenues and I can’t attempt to suss such things out on my own, so ‘I cowered at her feet, as terrified as I was when Miss Iron Panties snapped at me in the exact same tone twenty-five years ago in third grade’ makes sense.

People getting defensive about this are making me feel bad, which kind of pisses me off. It’s the peeves thread, and we’re talking about opinions.

I don’t consider any of you ‘bad writers’ because I dislike this particular style or method of posing, I just personally wouldn’t (and haven’t) enjoy (enjoyed) interacting with people who write this way, just like I dislike interacting with people who slip back and forth between present and past tense in poses. It makes me uncomfortable and I personally prefer not to wade through it.

@Runescryer Even if it’s not that creepy fuckface, it sounds like it’s a creepy fuckface and either way, needs dealing with.

@mietze She’s not going to respond, which… whatever. She dumped me decades ago, I basically even tried because a) wow, I thought she’d offed herself with a speedball forever ago and b) my adult children with children of their own were curious plus wanted medical information if possible for various reasons.

I’m really glad it’s gone well for you with your bio dad, though. Those stories turning out well actually do a bit to warm my cold, dark heart and you seem to carry more than your fair load of heavy shit to begin with so I’m extra happy that situation turned out well specifically for you.

At this point, I wouldn’t piss on any of my… (six? eight? I lost count…) parents/step-parents to put them out if they were on fire.

Beat with a shovel, maybe. Piss, nope.

@Wizz said in RL Peeves:

@mietze said in RL Peeves:

I’m very glad this happened as an adult rather than in my 20s when I so longed for it.

This is a big stressor personally with my kiddo. His bio mom’s not dead, or homeless, or missing, she just ghosted us after I took custody. But he fantasizes about reuniting with her all the time, and as weird as it sounds I really really hope that it doesn’t happen until he’s much older.

Mine bailed on us when I was like three and my dad was still a practicing alcoholic biker and I remember going up to every short, bespectacled woman with long, dark hair that I saw in a store or at a gas station or at street drags with my whole, “Are you my mother?” spiel.

The stories of me finding her again, first as a homeless 14 year-old then again at 19 are even more pathetic than that, so I’ll just leave those out but I’m definitely on your side with the whole ‘later is better’ philosophy on this in regards to your own youngster.

No disrespect to the cool people here who do it as their ‘style’ or whatever, but I hate thoughtposting so much I’ll tap out of a scene it’s done in and quit games saturated with it.

It makes no sense to me. Twitching in consternation or raising a puzzled eyebrow, etc, don’t constitute this in my opinion, and oftentimes there are ways to inject the same flavor of information with other more appropriate literary devices - or, you know, just… expressions and mannerisms such as the above.

The ‘line’ I have with it is literally the difference between ‘Jane stares daggers at Dick - what could he possibly have done to warrant such venom?!’ versus ‘Dick couldn’t get it up on demand this morning and as a result, Jane is in high dudgeon, stopping just short of publicly shaming him for his lack of turgidity in her time of abject need.’

If there’s no way I could know a thing short of reading Jane’s mind, Jane needs to fuck off with the info until such time as it can be conveyed appropriately. Passive-aggressive thoughtposting I just get overtly nasty about, and ever since I quit Twitter/doomscrolling, I have a lot of petty nastiness saved up.

Wish I could crosspost this to RL Loves or whatever our thread for that is called here, but I’m more comfortable in the pissy zone so I’ll settle for putting it here.

Sitting right here, right now, with the biomom I thought had offed herself about 30 years ago’s fucking FACEBOOK page open on my PC and trying to balls up to drop her a message since my adult children are curious about her.

Not sure if my peeve is lack of nerve or lack of alcohol, to be honest.

ETA: I finally pulled the trigger. Now I’m just agonizing that she won’t answer at all, even just to tell me to GFM.

Okay, so, I feel like an asshole right now and I’m super embarrassed to post this so I’m going to do it quick and dirty.

I was just plain rude and shitty to @Pavel in a dumb post about a dumb thing I don’t even really have feelings or investment in yesterday. One of the things I’ve been trying to learn to do over the past year is recognize when I’m just in a cunty mood so I can withdraw from people and communities I actually care about how I am perceived in, of which this is one of few for me, and… I didn’t do that.

At all.

I followed this group to this place from that other place specifically because of certain people choosing to be here, to share and contribute their thoughts and feelings and opinions and suggestions, and @Pavel is actually one of them so I would like to apologize for randomly, unfairly, and just grossly being nasty for literally zero reason.

I’d also like to thank them, and some of you others, who even bothered to put this place together despite the fact that moderators tend to take an unfair and unwarranted amount of shit from people because I do care about this place and I do not want to be one of those people who makes those volunteering their likely scant free time away from work and family and school and who all knows what else to even do such a thankless, shitty job as moderating.

I understand this is/was probably a bigger ‘issue’ to me than to @Pavel or anybody else, but I’m really fucking good at reflexively lashing out and really fucking bad about owning it as soon as I realize I’ve done it, so… here. This post.

My RL peeve is, as usual and far too often, my own fucking self. My sincere apologies and I will not do it again.

@Pavel It was oblique enough for me to feel perfectly comfortable in saying IDGAF about your admin post.

Have a good day.

@Kestrel said in RL Peeves:

Fuck Charles.

Just posting to second and bold this.

@foksthery

@Arkandel Apparently, a bunch of the shit I’m interested in online ‘extracurricularly’ is more commonly enjoyed by right-wingers and it seems like algs decide that being interested in scholarly legal publications or writing for scholarly legal publications means I want to nail my libtard neighbor to a cross or host a bbq for Jordan Peterson while Prager U for Kids is blaring in the background.

Lazy algs are fun.

@L-B-Heuschkel I did, I’m just still pissed off people are still so fucking dense as to do this at all.

Hey, asshole* in the game that looks for new names on WHO and then slides into private messages with a bunch of nonsense, followed by ‘sorry if I seem flirty’…

Just. Fucking. Don’t.

It’s easy enough to finger you* and see that your* PC has been on grid a million years yet is somehow MUCH smaller than my two day old one, that they have attained zero promotions in their organizations, and together with this low-effort ‘trawling the newbie pool for TS’ fishing expedition, the lack of effort visible in your* shit spelling, grammar and punctuation just makes it a hundred times more puzzling and infuriating that you* expect this to fucking work.

About the only redeeming quality you* showed was in not flipping the fuck out (as expected) when I told you* to fuck off with that shit, but the fact that you* get to be a slimy shit and I’m the one that has to worry about being harassed off this game by yet another incel or incel-adjacent fuckstick still pisses me off.

*Not aimed at anybody here, none of you would do this. I just needed to vent.

@BloodAngel Watching Les’ plan to set Matt up to play with the remaining members of Rush (as well as all of Primus ofc) come to such awesome fruition warmed my dark, dead little heart.

Fuck having to solve a major problem with someone who freaks the fuck out about it to the point of yelling at me whether I make suggestions or not, especially given the decades this person has spent being fucking useless at many of the shared problems we’ve had that I’ve had to sort out my own self.

This is the kind of shit that ends up on ‘Snapped’.

Grr.

That out here and most parts I can reach, everything is built around the assumption that one possesses and operates a reliable personal vehicle.

My daughter, whom we have spent the past year supporting through a major personal tragedy, is moving two states over/up in about three two weeks now and her car is dodgy as fuck, even after we’ve put all the time and money we can all pool into it.

ETA: This is her second car, after some asshole failed to yield and turned left into her at a major intersection April 1, which totalled a vehicle that was running and behaving perfectly, and was also bigger enough where that would be really nice right about now.

This shit really stresses me out.

@Kestrel

@Jennkryst said in An Arx Peeve Thread:

@Testament said in An Arx Peeve Thread:

@Jennkryst said in An Arx Peeve Thread:

Trying to bash my head against the wall and finish the OC before the deadline, but all my brain can think about is Battletech, send halp.

The real deep lore is there are Dire Wolf heavy class Battletechs buried under Cardia.

You fool. You utter buffoon!

… the Dire Wolf is a 100 ton Assault 'Mech. If you mean an actual Heavy 'Mech, the Timber Wolf is where it’s at.

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In either case, dibs.

@Jennkryst will be founding a Noble House based around the invention of every aspect of ‘how 2 medieval warmech’. There will be wooden Battletechs in 3, 2…