Obviously, receipts are handy but they’re not a requirement. And I’d (speaking only for myself, though with a polite nod in the direction of that Admin tag) rather not make posting every shred of evidence possible the expectation here.

Client: Well, I’m gay.
Me: Mhm…
Client: And… that’s okay?
Me: slow swivel in chair to look at giant Progress Pride Flag on my wall
Me: slow swivel in chair to look back at client
Client: happy tears

Being a client’s safe space to come out is a gift that keeps on giving.

I love that. More gamerunning folk should feel… allowed, for lack of a better term, to do this sort of thing.

@Jumpscare said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

That means that since the birth of BMD, no other game has negatively affected MU* players as broadly or as painfully as Star Wars: Age of Alliances.

A board of women, queers, and allies reacting strongly against sexual misconduct and anti-reporting prejudice… Isn’t that how we started in the first place?

For posterity, I present thus:

Tracy is a man and he is a very hansome and manly man.He likes women a lot and women like him too but men think he is compitishion.He has very long brown shiny hair everywhere and a little blue eyes that are mostly green but very hansome anywya.You can tell a lot of things from his eyes.He has a very big bulge in his jeans where the dick would be and it is not a sock because it makes all women almost orgasm with desire.Behind him is a very firm muscled ass that makes you want to slap it and play with it in lots of ways but only if your a women.If you are a man you will die if you touch it because Tracy is strong and very not Gay.If you are a women he winks and smiles at you and thinks you have a nice personality.If you are a man again he frowns at you and it makes you not hit on him or on any women when hes here.He likes lots of women very much and likes very few men but not as boyfriends.And he has a shitr which is nice and blue.I mean shirt sorry.

@hobos said in Bannings:

From what I’ve seen, you are a people with boundless empathy, but you choose who to direct that towards.

Not to really engage in the debate, here, but that’s literally the same as everyone else.

So obviously it’s a very dark time, horrid things incoming and so forth…

But did anyone actually have The Onion buying Infowars on their 2024 bingo cards?

Me. I’m a good thing about mushing.

And this isn’t a throw away joke, or an ego thing, or whatever. But I’ve finally been able to arrive at the conclusion that yes, my RP is good. My events are good. My being present on a game is good. And I’m finally free to feel that I am good enough.

So there. Me. I’m a good thing about mushing.

@Warma-Sheen said in Los Angeles 2043: A Blade Runner MUSH - Discussion:

Just because you can open a game on your own doesn’t mean you should.

You should. It might last, it might not, but at least stuff’s being made even for a moment.

@GF We’re for taco Tuesdays, no-pants Fridays, and the violent and utter overthrow of the capitalistic, white-supremacist patriarchy. And tea.

@Gashlycrumb said in MU Peeves Thread:

@hellfrog said in MU Peeves Thread:

@MisterBoring it’s always about specific incidents. People just don’t own up to them because they don’t want the scrutiny - for a variety of reasons, I’m sure.

All patterns are made up of specific incidents, but we can still talk about patterns.

I’m just a pile of patterns and anticipatory statistics in a waistcoat pretending to be a human.

@hellfrog said in MU Peeves Thread:

@MisterBoring it’s always about specific incidents. People just don’t own up to them because they don’t want the scrutiny - for a variety of reasons, I’m sure.

The conversation started about a specific incident, sure. But we do veer into talking about vague generalities pretty quick around here. Informed by years of actual situations, sure, but that’s literally the same as every other conversation.

@Faraday said in RP Safari - Pacing Styles:

Except that is expressly NOT what Ares is for.

I know that. You know that. But you know how people are. It’s the only one that does async stuff out of the box that isn’t clunky or involving the word ‘timestop’, so it’s what people either assume or default to.

@bear_necessities Well, there’s Towers and Retro, both WoD MUs that are seemingly reasonably active, Liberation’s still going, Heroes Assemble, it looks like City of Hope is still around or newly revived, and it even looks as though Shadowrun Denver is active.

Games is out there, yo.

@bear_necessities I do wonder whether so much of the mismatch is simply due to what people see each codebase/software suite as being for. Ares is the async system, TinyMUX is for live WoD, Evennia is for… people who want to make Arx 2?, etc. So when we check Arescentral, we get games with a high (perceived or actual) async culture because… it’s Ares, that’s what it’s for.

@bear_necessities said in RP Safari - Pacing Styles:

OK well since I’m obviously wrong, please tell me how these games promote a live scene culture.

I was commenting on your methods, not your conclusion. If all you look at is the active scene list, all you’ll see are the scenes that are currently active. Which will, by their nature, skew towards the async. They’ll be there if you look at 3am or 8pm, and active scenes won’t.

@Wizz You’ll more likely get people bitching about your survey.

@bear_necessities said in RP Safari - Pacing Styles:

To me, the active scene list on either of those games does not seem to promote a “live” scene culture.

If I go to my office right now, it does not seem to promote an active workplace culture. Because it’s three in the morning.

Looking at one snapshot of one metric is a poor way of judging something.

@MisterBoring Don’t forget the age-old “staff being held to a higher standard of conduct” argument, too. We’ll do all the classics while we’re here; we’re about due.

@MisterBoring In general? I absolutely agree.

@MisterBoring said in MU Peeves Thread:

Sure, there are plenty of staffers who are non-confrontational, so they just ignore the people that have a bad rep, which is a problem in its own right

But this is the point we’re talking about.

If staff have a problem with me or concerns about my reputation, and their reaction is to do nothing rather than pass me on to someone else or get rid of me entirely, just… ignore me? That’s 100% a them issue. If staff don’t want me there, they need to say so. There’s nothing to “talk out”; there’s a message that needs to be communicated that isn’t. It’s that simple.