If it feels like someone is constantly on a hair trigger waiting to flip out about the smallest thing, I wish them well and get the fuck out of there. Life is too short to walk on eggshells. And as already stated, the goalposts always seem to change.
Posts made by Juniper
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
@Clarion said in MU Peeves Thread:
@Juniper Idk, but it’s nice of them to let you know you shouldn’t play with them again!
Agreed.
It’s really funny though - in real life nobody would ever just stand there and listen politely while you go on your ten minute bitching monologue. What kind of exotic paralysis is keeping my character from interrupting or walking away?
This isn’t how conversations work, people!
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
@Val said in MU Peeves Thread:
Logging off in the middle of a conversation to be sure your character gets the last word.
Don’t do that.
Posting a three paragraph rant yelling at someone and then immediately running out of the room. Why do people do this?
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
I am just not the sort of person to greet newcomers like a Labrador Retriever aggressively licking your face.
I’m more like an old tortoiseshell cat who’s in the house… somewhere. And will probably notice your presence within the hour, or when you shake the treat bag.
You guys are socialising in channels? That’s wild.
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RE: Elysium /MUSH
So, that one person constantly connected is the hopeful gamerunner that barfed out that origin story for the pedo-nexus… right?
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RE: On PvP and permanent injuries
Any time you design guidelines surrounding conflict to ensure everyone is playing nicely together, there’s going to be people who engage in a game of “I’m not touching you!” while trying their hardest to ruin the other person’s day.
Sometimes you just have to feel the vibes and know when to tell people to stop being a shit.
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RE: Royal Paynes
I have to wonder if this sour grapes behaviour from guys who don’t know how to make their interest known like a normal person are all the same player, or if my monkey brain is doing the pattern recognition thing again.
Because I’ve seen it a few times and this whole “I’m rejecting you, come and chase me!” vibe is super gross.
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RE: Silent Heaven: Small-town Horror RPG
@Rinel said in Silent Heaven: Small-town Horror RPG:
I don’t know how to play someone who doesn’t believe in magic (a permanent weakness chosen at character creation) in this setting without playing someone who is an idiot or who is denying reality to a level that’s pathological.
There are a lot of ways you can represent being Bad at Occultism without your character being an idiot! You have a lot of freedom.
Maybe you’re just really skeptical and demand proof for everything, making people fight to gain every little bit of ground to convince you of things.
Maybe you believe in the supernatural, but refuse to participate because you think it’s evil (similar to what you settled on)
Maybe you’re just really literal and lack the inventiveness to do Occult Shit without the guidance of others
Maybe you believe everything but your spirit is weak.
Maybe you can’t stop knocking over candles.
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
@Smile said in MU Peeves Thread:
Honestly, my biggest peeve is people who make decisions that get their characters in danger and rather than go along with it, they sort of like get frustrated at the consequences they get because “what else was my character going to do? Of course they were going to rage at the super evil and powerful mage! They are a rebel!”
Like the character isn’t real. You make the decisions. Own it.
“wahhhh what do you mean that people will react appropriately if I initiate conflict? People should just let me do what I want without retaliation, or they’re bullying me.”
Yes, I agree. It is really baffling when people don’t seem to realise they can guide their own experience and if they don’t like being in danger maybe they should pick fewer fights.
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
My least favourite encounter in stories/plots is the Main Character Syndrome player. The one who rushes ahead without bothering to wait for anyone’s emote and grabs the MacGuffin to take home and try to interact with the plot to the exclusion of all others. The one who gets up in front of everyone and “volunteers” to be the most important person who shall charge forth alone to solve all the problems and actually expects a pat on the back for this behavior. Basically constantly looking for a way to elevate themselves above the rest of us peons who showed up to participate.
I’m dealing with one in the current game I’m playing and I’m so fucking done with it. A decent amount of plot licking means they’re somehow constantly in the center of everything and there’s very little to do that doesn’t require going through them in some way. And they have a history of OOC aggression towards people trying to get involved in plots they’ve already licked.
Like, have friends if you want, put them first if you want, I consider this all fairly normal behaviour. But if you can’t stop acting like a monster to everyone else that’s where I draw the line. Fuck off with that shit.
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
Also dealing with cool shit and / or story being gatekept by a player who is just deeply unpleasant to be around. It’s better for everyone if I’m not inflicting my presence on someone I don’t like, but damn, it still sucks.
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
@Roz said in MU Peeves Thread:
when you get one of those “RP would be fun with you sometime if you want :)” pages from someone you’ve never RPed or interacted with before and it is just
really obvious
Is it
a) stalker you blocked last month, or
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RE: IC Consequences and OOC Acceptance
@Gashlycrumb God yes, some games are DEEP into the meta-game of making themselves seem reasonable to gamerunners as a way to win PvP scenarios. Putting on a super chill act during conflict is early stage manipul-itis - then players start designing their moves in anticipation of future staff arbitration. At that point the experience is basically dead and it’s time to get out.
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
Connection issues. My specific ISP having intermittent issues with one specific game. I’ll never be able to diagnose this.
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
Given how I laid this scenario out with A being hostile and and combative towards B, its pretty fucking weird to swoop in and rewrite it to make B the villain as if you expect me to slap my forehead and realise “egads, you’re right! James was the villain after all”.
You know Charlotte and James are interchangeable names in this scenario, right? What do you want me to do, swap this anonymized name with that other anonymized name? The only possible reason I could think of for this bizarre conversation is that you think you know who Charlotte is and have taken some sort of offense to it, so you’re leaping to her defense to vaguepost about how she’s NOT THE REAL BULLY, ACTUALLY.
Like why the actual hell are we having this conversation.