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.

@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.

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.

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

@Tez There seems to be a few bad actor threads now, would it make sense to put them into their own ‘Bad Actor’ kind of topic at this point? I know there’s been a couple discussions of others in the not too distant past as well.

No. We don’t need a whole section of the forum devoted to talking shit about specific people.

@untitled said in Underage Players:

because I’d be unhappy if I found out my kids were

That right there is the ultimate point. Policing children is the job of the parent, not any game they would seek to join.

Establish rules that state, outright, that the game is for adults, will contain adult themes, etc. If it is revealed from a trustworthy source that there is an underage person, remove them. That is all you can do.

These days, children on these kinds of games are very much the exception. There’s a high barrier to entry and far more free-to-play games around than there were in the early years when a lot of us first started. So don’t stress over it too much.

@Evilgrayson Besides, there’s only one true version of Robin Hood’s story.

@SpaceKhomeini said in MU Peeves Thread:

start delivering pronouncements about theme as if I’m a complete fucking dumbass

Ah, the curse of prior knowledge. “I know this, so everyone knows this!”

@Coin Riiiight, I forgot they lumped all those together. The only Possessed I know anything about is the nWoD version.

@Jennkryst Are Possessed in WoD20?

Henry Kissinger, American diplomat and Nobel winner, dead at 100

I had a little peek in and the game doesn’t seem particularly active, and the wiki is almost entirely bereft of character pages. Is this a true reflection of the game at present?

Rosalynn Carter, former first lady and tireless humanitarian who advocated for mental health issues, dies at 96

@somasatori said in Pax Republica - Discussion:

@SpaceKhomeini said in Pax Republica - Discussion:

@Pavel said in Pax Republica - Discussion:

Even if certain species mature at ages humans would consider ‘under age’, I’d still suggest mandating an 18+ (for players and characters) limit.

Sure, Mission Vao might have technically been an adult at 14, but she was still child-like in many aspects and there was no romantic nor sexual content involving her. You can’t say the same for people on your game.

To sort of prove (or at least make) a point, if you Google “mission vao fan art” sooner rather than later you’re going to find something you’ll wish you hadn’t.

Very much sooner, good fuckin lord.

That’s Rule 34 for ya, unfortunately.

@Gashlycrumb said in IC Consequences and OOC Acceptance:

Probably, for most MUSH-type games, it is breaking a core-but-unwritten rule to mess with another PC’s person or stuff without involving that player

You and I have definitely been playing different games, then. Of the times it has happened to me, it did need to go through staff purely from a mechanical standpoint.

It depends entirely on the kind of consent culture the game has. Most games I’ve played in the last decade have had some version of "if you create a character here, you acknowledge that your character can and will be fucked with by other characters.’

Somewhere on the Lichtenstein/Switzerland border. Shopping would be a nightmare, you just know the package delivery service would just leave a little note on my door and I’d have to go to the depot.

This is definitely a ratio question rather than hard numbers. Ideally I’d like something like one staff member for every twenty-ish players. But that doesn’t take into account code staff, build staff, or any other specialties I can’t think of.

As far as organisation goes, I’m of two minds:

1. I’ve got a primarily WoD-based background, and having staff (and players) split off into semi-independent spheres (Vampire, Werewolf, Changeling, etc.) certainly seems to work, and it’s my preference on games where there are multiple factions of players that intersect but also have their own things going on.

However,

2. There’s something to be said for having a centralised, cohesive staff unit capable of dealing with any player regardless of affiliation, especially on games where the factions are less well-defined or seldom have their own unique things going on.

All that said, it’s not a purely numbers or organisational game. As far as I, as a player, am concerned, so long as the staff is efficacious in their work, able to take breaks without the whole thing crumbling down, and capable of operating within a prescribed ethical framework I don’t care how many there are or how they’re organised.