Eddie is certainly doing a good job of making the original accusations seem very likely to be spot on.

@kalakh I had somebody pull the ‘some people expressed concern to me’ line on me as late as last week.

There is only one appropriate answer. If these people will not stand up themselves and voice their concerns, or at the very least allow their names to be used, then their complaint is invalid.

People with concerns should go to staff and make themselves known. At the very least they should allow the person they pick to talk to staff to identify them. Because it’s bloody easy to pull ‘some people agree with me, actually everyone does’ out of your arse, and there is no way to verify that these people even exist.

Being a disabled person who can only leave the house with a helper and isn’t even able to drive a car themselves – and still being able to be part of a community of people and have a social life.

That’s what Mushing is for me.

Agreed. Tone policing is essentially a tool to silence those whose polite protests got them nothing, in order to maintain the status quo.

I had one of those sleepless nights where old stuff finishes ruminating in your mind and finally bubbles to the surface. Now to unload it so I can go on to other ruminations.

Red flags. I’ve had a few experiences in this hobby with people who I would, without being a medical professional, definitely armchair diagnose as malignant narcissists at worst – and players who use and discard other players like NPCs at best.

If somebody says this to you in a private conversation, run.

“I have a black belt in charm.”
“I am/we are the darlings/power couple of the game.”
“I can win anyone over.”
“Many players are jealous of my success but I know you’re different.”
“I play for me, others will have to find their own fun.”

And other things like them, I’m sure.

These statements aren’t all one hundred per cent wrong: We are all responsible for finding our own fun instead of having it served up on a plate, for example.

But they’re also all direct quotes from people who – well, let’s just say that I don’t need to talk to any of those people again.

On popular request: The story of the girl who thought she was marrying my partner.

So, this was back in the 1990s – 'round 96 if I remember correctly. The date matters because cybersecurity and whatnot really wasn’t a big thing yet. Partner and I both played on LegendMUD.

Partner hung out a lot with a chick from Detroit and her friends. I had my crowd I went stabbing things with so nothing unusual there.

One day, a large care package arrived. Chocolate, a vinyl with ‘our song’, Red Sox kit (partner has no interest in hockey), scented candles.

In retrospect, this is where we should have started to question but, we weren’t really sure what to think.

Then she announced to partner that she’d bought the plane tickets and was arriving in a couple of weeks. Couldn’t wait to get married!

That, of course, rang all the alarm bells and set off an investigation on the game – where I was a builder at the time so I had a pretty decent rapport with the admins.

Partner had complained a few times that they lost gear or logged into the game somewhere else than expected. They’re a forgetful type though, so…

So the admins looked through paging history and private correspondence. And it turned out that some other guy from Denmark had been logging the character in and, to be blunt, convinced this American girl to come to Denmark to marry him.

This is where the obvious question is, how the hell can I trust partner to not be the culprit? Well. To be just as blunt again – partner’s English levels aren’t up to what those pages and letters contained.

Needless to say there was quite an uproar. Girl accused partner of abuse and gaslighting – other guy denied everything – and obviously, the trip to Europe was cancelled, more so when girl found out that partner and I were in fact already married.

https://twitter.com/lbheuschkel/status/1536026867471466496

Have to link the video rather than a picture. Those are my girls, running around for the joy of life.

Not just youth. Also standards.

When I was 25 and had all night and nothing to compare with, I would jump into anything. Even the most atrocious, brain-numbing roleplay was good roleplay.

Now I’m 51 and I don’t have all night and I’m not going to waste time and energy on stuff that’s boring the hell out of me while hoping that a miracle happens.

I don’t know most of you but I’ll join the celebration of @Faraday and @Tat for being very helpful around coding and developing code – and to @Ren for saving me every time I try.

@bear_necessities said in Macha Awareness (And Unappreciation) thread:

That dude gives me major Ruiz from GH vibes and my gut is very rarely ever wrong.

Freaking out about private logs getting shared is definitely Ruiz’ MO. It lets others see how much he lies.

@junipersky said in MU Peeves Thread:

@L-B-Heuschkel

Maybe over the summer? I make no promises. I’m too scattered these days for slow-multi-day scenes. So it would have to be in your time zone.

I know that feeling well. I’m struggling a lot with it as well at the time being, due to an upcoming family event that I really wish I could dodge. We’ll make it work – and if we don’t manage to make it work, at least you know that you’re wanted around!

@junipersky said in MU Peeves Thread:

Ankh-Morpork is closed and I’m still so sad about it.

We did have some fun scenes there. You should come back and play with me on Keys.

I heart my own scenes simply to remind myself that I have downloaded this log.

@farfalla People do look at me funny when my Danish character starts ranting to himself in Danish.

But then, I don’t expect them to understand it and respond to it, either.

The problem here, for Europeans and others outside of US timezones, is that if scenes move while we sleep – then the risk is very great that we essentially get reduced to sidelined NPCs. Sure, we’re welcome to pose if we can get a word in but everything happens while we sleep. At best, you get to join events and see the group take off while you go to bed.

Async has problems of its own for sure, but at least it allows those of us who can’t sit up past midnight every night to actually play.

Tempted to suggest adding on a ‘Glacial’ tag – meaning less than one pose round per day. Those scenes happen to me too – when agreed on with the others – but it would make it clear that when a scene is Async, that does not mean ‘take a week to respond’.

@Paradox We do that on Keys, yeah. Async is generally expected to be about a pose round a day or less as agreed on. Distracted, on the other hand, it’s work slow friendly but not days between rounds.

@KarmaBum said in MU Peeves Thread:

@shit-piss-love i cannae unnerstan wut yer typin owt n druther nae try n figger it owt, druther jest arpee wiv summin elth

Augh. Decades ago, we had a player on LegendMUD who insisted on writing like that – also OOC.

Portal for most things about scenes.
Client for channels, pages, and handling fs3 combat.

Async. With chronic fatigue and shitty health, I am not always up for sitting up for hours at a time. Living in Europe, I’d have to sit up for hours at a time in the middle of the night which is also not an option.