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.

@hellfrog That’s a hard lesson to learn, especially for us nerds with wonky brains. “If not friend, why friend shaped” might be a meme but it definitely resonates in some of my previous interactions on MUs (and in RL as well, let’s be real).

I have thankfully had the privilege of building some OOC bonds, but 99.999999% of people are like… colleagues. We work at the same RP mine, we might have a group project together, but we’re not going to the pub after the RP is done and I’m not going to write you a Christmas card.

It’s a really hard distinction to draw, especially when young.

@hellfrog said in Warma-Sheen:

I just wanted to know what the mindset is that makes someone sock puppet on a new game instead of, idk, trying to rp.

While I obviously can’t speak to anyone’s inner world without having many a chat with them, I can speak to mine back when I did this kind of thing in my very, very, very younger days: I wanted to Be The Best. Probably from a lack of validation at home, I sought reinforcement and attention elsewhere, to that end I wanted to be the richest character, or the combattiest character, or the bestest starfighter pilot or whatever. (ETA: This also included MUCH… ‘creative storytelling’ in my real life. Nothing majorly harmful, but very “I have a girlfriend in Canada” kind of vibe.)

Admittedly, these were all on code-heavy, RP-required-but-lite MUDs… but I imagine the same holds true in many other circumstances. Lack of validation and an inability to intrinsically motivate.

I’d absolutely follow the advice lain herein, but I would add: The game is your space. You can certainly consider it a shared space, but nobody else is entitled to be there. So don’t hesitate to pull the trigger, even if you’re tempted to offer chances. You have a right to peace of mind, they have the privilege of joining you.

ETA: Double-agree with @Pyrephox’s suggestion to avoid crowdsourcing. Not only would you be likely getting woefully outdated information, but you’d be at the mercy of our collective memory and our collective grudges. If they’re still a problem, they’ll reveal that in due time, if they’re not, then bully for all involved.

When I was young, I had an imaginary friend, as I imagine most of us did. I would blame that imaginary friend for things as I grew older – I knew this person didn’t exist, but I wanted to get out of trouble. My mother, eventually, came up with an ingenious solution to the problem: I would be punished for things that the imaginary friend did.

Suddenly, the imaginary friend disappeared.

That excuse didn’t work coughcoughcoUGH years ago, it doesn’t work now. Even if it’s true, it’s absolutely still your fault – so minor kudos for accepting those lumps.

@Cobalt said in Warma-Sheen:

@Rathenhope said in Warma-Sheen:

All fair, I wasn’t aware that TR reused names. A few coincidences does not make a pattern, so I retract!

I absolutely understand the idea they might be the same person. This recycling of names is so foreign to how roster and ares games work. It’s not something done in modern day MU*ing.

Recycling names might not be (it still happens, though increasingly rarely which is annoying), but with more roster games coming about one really should keep the idea of multiple players of the same character in mind when making accusations.

Yeah, on The Reach if you went idle or your character died it’d be frozen and appended with your dbref. So Pavel would become Pavel_74656, and someone else could and would take the name Pavel.

Kelvin’s not that unusual a name that only one person would think to use it.

@Cobalt Could be Tremere. But that’d just confuse the non-WoDites.

@Cobalt said in Warma-Sheen:

And no, fuck him.

Times like these remind me why I like you.

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@dvoraen said in Prove Tez Wrong:

You must now provide a labelled diagram of Tez the Teapot.

Well. Tez the little teapot’s short and stout. Here is their handle, here is their spout. When they get all steamed up you’ll hear them shout. Tip them over, pour them out.