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I feel, and this is just as much a vibe-based thing as the rest of our classification journey, that the MUD/MUSH/RPI division is more about the community in and around a game than the game itself. Each different category is more about how one approaches the art of playing a game than anything tangible in terms of code. A MUDder, an RPI afficionado, and a MUSH ruiner would see a game like Arx, for instance, and have three different approaches to playing it that likely all work to some extent while the game itself doesn’t change.

@Purplelamia said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:

There was another one after that talked about it closing, then about the headwiz saying he got a lot of feedback not to close

I wonder if this would be more the case of people not wanting to lose the option to play there again, particularly given it doesn’t cost them anything to maintain, but don’t have the time or actual interest to play there. Like a kind of “you can’t close my favourite bar that I haven’t been to in years, what if I want that gallon of ‘Wicked Jizz’ cocktail for five bucks like I had when I was 21?”

@Tez said in Hello, Survey, and Looking for Recs:

Now, questions for us:

The largest sentiment gap is by preferred game style – MUD fans average 3.53 while MUSH fans average 2.85 (49.2% vs 19.5% happy) (Table 10, Figure 10).

Why so unhappy, fam?

We have WoD. MUDders don’t. >_>

@Colette said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:

I’m here to satisfy my own curiosity

@Prototart said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:

@helvetica

sorry i got het up

Please, continue to be so.

@Gashlycrumb c. 1997, if I’m remembering correctly.

@catzilla said in MU Peeves Thread:

With the super incest magic family?

You know, if I had a dollar for every time there was a super incest magic family in our RP spaces…

@RedJellyBean If it’s the person I’m thinking of, I believe so. The so-called “only officially sanctioned A Song of Ice and Fire MU.” I’m likely paraphrasing, but you get the gist of the smugness.

@Prototart Careful, you’ll summon her. Like a Ghost of MUing Past.

Somewhere, Shakespeare is furious he didn’t think to set King Lear on a MUSH

@Roz Then maybe it’s also common sense to understand hyperbole as well, especially when that hyperbole immediately follows from “your generalisation hasn’t been my experience, and people are entitled prats.”

@Roz said in "My Guy Syndrome":

@Pavel said in "My Guy Syndrome":

@Roz said in "My Guy Syndrome":

@Faraday said in "My Guy Syndrome":

Collaboration doesn’t mean always saying “yes” to everything. It means trying your best to find a mutually-fun solution, but also recognizing that sometimes people want opposite things and someone’s not going to get their idea of fun.

i really don’t think anyone was likely intending citing this to mean they think everyone should literally be saying yes to everything every single time

Here? Maybe not. Elsewhere? It’s absolutely been a thing.

it’s useless to try and account for every extremist view of a given perspective; they exist for every opinion. i was indeed talking about the conversation happening here

Yes, let us simply discount and ignore any experience that doesn’t fit within our own.

@bear_necessities said in "My Guy Syndrome":

That being said your characters “don’t just write themselves” and I do think you have to be consciously aware if your decisions would make for good RP.

Agreed. When I say that my characters write themselves I typically mean that I’ve set up internal consistency and logic that would be difficult to reasonably violate, but it’s my responsibility therefore to set up that logic and consistency in a way that produces positive outcomes for the other players.

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It’s a collaborative writing exercise, as has been stated already, but collaboration requires compromise on occasion as well as acceptance that not everything is for me. My high-powered executive wouldn’t be at the biker bar, but if I want to play with the bikers, then we can discuss and compromise to come up with an alternative location at a different time.

As for how to deal with it on a game, when it becomes exceedingly disruptive or problematic? Execution. Guillotines optional.

@Roz said in "My Guy Syndrome":

@Faraday said in "My Guy Syndrome":

Collaboration doesn’t mean always saying “yes” to everything. It means trying your best to find a mutually-fun solution, but also recognizing that sometimes people want opposite things and someone’s not going to get their idea of fun.

i really don’t think anyone was likely intending citing this to mean they think everyone should literally be saying yes to everything every single time

Here? Maybe not. Elsewhere? It’s absolutely been a thing.

@Trashcan said in Long or Short? Application Process!:

@Babs said in Long or Short? Application Process!:

Just reuse the same description. Chances are no one will notice.

Chances are no one will say anything to you.

If there’s a wiki or a place to stick a character image, chances are nobody will even read your description. (yes, yes, sans several very loud exceptions)

@Noraaa There’s a button that says “Reply” at the top. Use that one. Reply at the bottom is to reply to that specific post.

Honestly, these days, as far as backgrounds or mechanical explanatory notes or whatever other stuff a game might want… just give me a questionnaire.

@MisterBoring said in Long or Short? Application Process!:

@Pavel said in Long or Short? Application Process!:

Such games should, then, have those requirements explicitly detailed somewhere. What mechanics need explanation, what needs to be explained, and why, etc.

Agreed.

Heck, that probably could be its own conversation about information silos, documentation, and reasonable expectations.

Which isn’t something I deal with at work RL at all.

cough