Giphy works.

Tenor links may not work, so you might have to have or build your own gif collection. Mebbe.

@MisterBoring But one can still add gifs with the image link button. Less handy dandy more clunky monkey, but it’s an option!

@MisterBoring Either that or the game just produces the generic “Huh?” ‘I don’t understand’ message until you type it out.

Tempted, now, to write some passive-aggressive code snippet that looks for the words ‘how do I’ on a game’s Help or Newbie channel and just pages with “have you tried fuckin’ lookin’ it up, champ?”

ETA: I’ll be nice and make it only send for characters created 30+ days ago.

One of the main considerations would be exactly what one is making OOCly interactive. Bingo is an excellent idea, as that requires nothing but luck of the draw. I’d veer away from anything that requires skill or talent; my character might be an expert poker player, for instance, but I can’t tell a royal flush from a toilet hand.

Another idea would be to harken back to the 1980s video game scene and include/manufacture the so-called “feelies”—an in character news letter, an actually written (or typed, but with a fancy font) letter from a contact, or similar. Less interactive, but still a neat little novelty that some folks in the TTRPG space use quite effectively.

@Roz said in MU Peeves Thread:

begging people to at least try a single keyword search in the extensive documentation of the thing they’re always asking about

As an extension to this, when giving help please link/direct people to the help documentation rather than/as well as providing the answer.

I wish my dreams were like that. Mine always involve having to fight entropy with my third-form science teacher Mr. Wilson.

@Wizz said in MU Peeves Thread:

isn’t the, uh…point of TS that it’s still collaborative writing, tho?

I think in cases where you’re going to be such a nutter about it (like above) it’s likely less about the collaboration and more about the power trip. But still that would require another person, yes.

@Roz said in MU Peeves Thread:

this is a weird rule for a game to have

I suppose it might make sense on a game where new characters explicitly can’t have known each other previously… but I imagine it’s more likely a case of a staffer with more than a few bad experiences crying “enough is enough.”

@Third-Eye said in MU Peeves Thread:

Gdoc porn with a friend

The last thing I want is Google giving me an AI summary of my TS.

That’s just such a dumb lie, too.

Obviously lying to get TS (or anything, but TS is particularly violating) is bad, but like… just wait two weeks my dude, it’s not hard.

@helvetica Aye, my read of it was similar and so was my reaction. It was less “I don’t believe you” and more “… more details please, spill all of the tea.”

@Rathenhope said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Tez GDPR compliance. TS can only be between EU member states.

Outside of the EU it’s just sparkling cybersex.

@Wuff A. Men. The constant battle between “I don’t want to get in the shower, it’s cold” followed by “I don’t want to get out of the shower, it’s cold.”

@Tez said in AI Megathread:

Use it as a tool alongside human judgment.

Obviously this is the correct course, but basically every institutional use that I have personally seen has been lacking in the latter section.

Which is a problem in terms of work culture, not the tool, yes but when you’re relying on the tool to make decisions that directly impact a person’s likelihood of getting a degree, or getting/keeping a job? I don’t think we should be using, much less relying on, imperfect tools for in those instances.

@howyadoin said in Arx:

Arx also had a secret system that tied most into some aspect of the metaplot or history, giving every character something they could pursue out the gate that was more or less “theirs” and could hook in to wider story arcs.

To clarify, this was a system about Character Secrets, not a system that was secret.

@catzilla said in Age Verification & Games:

@Ominous On the forum PBP and Discord game side of the RP world, I see a lot of 21-25+ minimum age.

I suppose an easy way to see if someone is 25+ is to show them various kinds of painkiller and ask which they take regularly.

@Cobalt Hi, I’m Troy McClure, you might remember me from such MUs as…

@Yam said in Age Verification & Games:

I find it concerning that they default to… handling actual IDs for pretendy funtime

Of course they are. Because it’s not about it being pretendy funtime, it’s about them very likely believing that they have a legal, moral, and/or ethical requirement to ensure their participants are adults.

@Roz said in Age Verification & Games:

@KarmaBum said in Age Verification & Games:

He’s aware of MUSHing, has seen me do it, has even chatted with me and brainstormed a few times, but he’s not going to join a hobby full of middle-aged women pretending to be sexy vampires.

the contempt is dripping off your words

Sexy psychologically damaged vampires.