I just love that he called @Cobalt a “loose canon”, like she’s an 80s action movie cop.

“You’re a loose canon, Cobalt! Any more PRPs and the Mayor will be up my ass with a microscope! I need some Tums!”

@kalakh said in MU Peeves Thread:

For some reason this gave me the mental image of a fuming Klingon sitting in the shadowy corner of a medieval tavern. I don’t know why Klingon specifically, but Klingon.

[Public] Ko’Dath says, “WHY DOES NO ONE WANT TO HAVE AN HONOR DUEL WITH ME?! MY BA’LETH HUNGERS FOR BATTLE! IS IT BECAUSE I DIDN’T PAY FOR A ROUND OF BLOODWINE? MAYBE I SHOULD JUST TAKE MY K’TINGA AND GO BACK TO QO’NOS SINCE IT IS CLEAR ALL YOU DISHONORABLE CURS DO NOT WANT ME HERE!”

@Kestrel said in MU Peeves Thread:

Not a meaningful complaint. I know I’m being a silly insecure baby about it.

But I wish the person I’ve been playing with for years, who always expresses unequivocal enthusiasm and joy about our scenes, would sometimes actually initiate them, seek me out, invite me to games they’re on, so my brain weasels would stop making me doubt whether they actually want me there.

As someone who does this, I might be able to provide an explanation.

For me, I generally assume unless someone asks (either on chan or in pages) that they’re either busy or otherwise not available. That goes even more so with someone I play with regularly. My own brain worms keep telling me that they’ll get tired of me constantly playing with them, so I try to give them space and opportunities to play with others. It’s also a reason I tend not to page first – I don’t want to be That Player who just won’t leave someone the fuck alone.

Oddly enough, I don’t seem to have this problem when I just join a MU*. Maybe the excitement of hopping on to a new place and all the shiny and new things makes the brain weasels hibernate or something.

It is a problem I recognize and try to at least offer up scenes every once in a while. I do try when someone asks to come up with the setup. At the very least sceneset, if nothing else.

But with all brain animals it’s a difficult thing to constantly keep in mind and overcome on a regular basis.

Whether it’s the same for your friend or not, I don’t know.

@Jenn said in Neitherlands:

@STD

My guess, if I had to make one… It was probably because that person would rather rob a grave and eat remains than have an internship with head-staff’s NPC. But like. This is nothing more than speculation.

I know that at least in the TV show based on the books on which the games were made… Fae (which dead NPC mom was) are often targeted by human magicians. So that they can powder the bones and snort them as like, magical cocaine and mana. That is my guess.

I find these two statements to be hilarious. The idea that a player is so desperate to avoid interaction with the headwiz they would rather grind the bones of a dead NPC and snort it like magical cocaine in the vain hope that some of the magical MacGuffins will ooze off onto them tickles my funny bone in ways that are probably illegal in 48 states.

@Polk said in JKER Temporarily Banned Discussion Thread:

Bad faith posting is generally worthy of some sort of administrative action.

I’ve no dog in this hunt (and haven’t even read the thread in question), and this might be a slight tangent, but…

The impression I had was that folk here generally assume bad faith unless they personally know the person making the post. At the very least, people sure to seem to assume bad faith about anyone who comes here to defend whatever game is currently being castigated. Many times that attitude ends up being warranted, I concede that, but it is still something about this forum that really bothers me. There are accusations of bad faith in this very thread discussing bad faith! It’s recursive bad faith! Bad faith all the way down!

Now, of course, individuals are free to assume whatever vile motivations others have, but I guess I just want… confirmation? Clarification? Not sure what the right word is here…on what counts as Administratively-actionable bad faith. Clearly those defending games aren’t considered so by the admins, even if most of the vox populi sure do seem to.

@Tez said in JKER Temporarily Banned Discussion Thread:

Last night, I thought maybe that we might want to have a discussion on this as a community to see if there are additional guidelines or rules that we need to put in place. (See? Over-legislate.) This morning I think that probably I just need to be more willing to act. I take the hands-off approach to heart, so much so that Pavel teases me about it, but I don’t know! I would like to hear from you guys on this. Please do continue to discuss.

This is… honestly difficult. On one hand, the more you put rules into place, the more likely someone will be able to rule-lawyer through them. Tightening the grip ironically makes more starsystems bad actors slip through your fingers. On the other hand, there’s definitely a chilling effect if the rules aren’t clarified, so everyone knows what to expect. It’s a delicate balance, and I don’t know if anyone has ever managed to strike it.

I suppose, fundamentally, I’d err on the side of less rules. After all, if you already don’t trust the admins here to be reasonable with judgement calls, then you shouldn’t be here at all.

I hope this is the appropriate place for this.

The setting and idea seem interesting, but there’s a big sticking point in the Policies section: a requirement for an Ares handle.

Why is this so? If you want to identify specific players and make sure they are keeping in line with the alt policy, would not IP addresses be more full proof? I know I shudder in revulsion at the idea of the whole Ares handle thing (surely I can’t be the only one?) and it won’t keep anyone who is a problem from just creating a new one, right?

It’s also a point that the Ares website states explicitly that:
“Handles are an optional OOC identity…”

So making it a requirement to play on your game is directly in conflict with the stated goal of the handle in the first place.

Why is this policy there?

Encountering and reconnecting with an awesome player who you knew 19+ years ago on a completely different genre of MU*.

It just seems like complete fantastic serendipity.

And then playing with them and discovering that not only are they just as good as you remember, but are actually better. Their RP has improved!

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

@Cobalt They likely are just going to use it as a way to show you are a ‘horrible person’ since that seems to be what they have decided about everyone here.

Isn’t that the same here? With the majority assuming bad faith of anyone who tries to explain or defend themselves? I mean, there is a substantive difference in that, at least here, the admin won’t ban someone for having a differing opinion from them, but the same attitude pervades.

@Cobalt Don’t bother engaging them. The only winning move is not to play.

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

I also know that Ruiz prefers to keep their communication off-game and will frequently defer to Discord as a method of communicating.

Okay, that… is a huge red flag to me. Asking to communicate off game has never ended well in my experience.

I don’t trigger easily, but that is definitely something that as soon as it’s suggested it’s “Shields up! Red Alert!”

@Serafine said in Neitherlands:

@Meg What’s my motivation?

Not looking like an asshat.

State what you mean clearly. Pontificating with obtuse hyperbole and metaphors does not make you sound more intelligent. It makes you sound like an asshat.

Look, I’ll make it easy for you: Do you claim that @inuki blamed @Jenn for her medical problems?

Choose one:
YES/NO

@Popes

Is Liberation the one where all plots have to come top down? And there’s only predetermined characters allowed in every sphere?

Yeah, I’m not surprised that place has basically become deadlocked and slowly dying. That sort of top-down play went out in the 90s because it’s completely unworkable in MU*.

I am surprised it lasted this long, though.

@Kestrel said in MU Peeves Thread:

Not a meaningful complaint. I know I’m being a silly insecure baby about it.

But I wish the person I’ve been playing with for years, who always expresses unequivocal enthusiasm and joy about our scenes, would sometimes actually initiate them, seek me out, invite me to games they’re on, so my brain weasels would stop making me doubt whether they actually want me there.

As someone who does this, I might be able to provide an explanation.

For me, I generally assume unless someone asks (either on chan or in pages) that they’re either busy or otherwise not available. That goes even more so with someone I play with regularly. My own brain worms keep telling me that they’ll get tired of me constantly playing with them, so I try to give them space and opportunities to play with others. It’s also a reason I tend not to page first – I don’t want to be That Player who just won’t leave someone the fuck alone.

Oddly enough, I don’t seem to have this problem when I just join a MU*. Maybe the excitement of hopping on to a new place and all the shiny and new things makes the brain weasels hibernate or something.

It is a problem I recognize and try to at least offer up scenes every once in a while. I do try when someone asks to come up with the setup. At the very least sceneset, if nothing else.

But with all brain animals it’s a difficult thing to constantly keep in mind and overcome on a regular basis.

Whether it’s the same for your friend or not, I don’t know.

@kalakh said in MU Peeves Thread:

For some reason this gave me the mental image of a fuming Klingon sitting in the shadowy corner of a medieval tavern. I don’t know why Klingon specifically, but Klingon.

[Public] Ko’Dath says, “WHY DOES NO ONE WANT TO HAVE AN HONOR DUEL WITH ME?! MY BA’LETH HUNGERS FOR BATTLE! IS IT BECAUSE I DIDN’T PAY FOR A ROUND OF BLOODWINE? MAYBE I SHOULD JUST TAKE MY K’TINGA AND GO BACK TO QO’NOS SINCE IT IS CLEAR ALL YOU DISHONORABLE CURS DO NOT WANT ME HERE!”

@Jennkryst said in MU Peeves Thread:

@STD Babies are grown in bellies, and that is whee food goes once you use your mouth to eat it. Ergo, mouth babies are just as valid as butt babies, especially since this was that game with telepregger-nobody-even-needed-to-touch creeper power.

Guh.

Even assuming you’re being facetious, Firan was even stranger than I thought.

… Breeding was one of the Staff’s (multiple staffers?) personal kinks, wasn’t it?

Also: dare I ask about the telepregger ability? That’s insane enough to be some sort of oWoD thing.

@Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Jennkryst said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Tez said in MU Peeves Thread:

Firan! I got you, old man.

Well, that one’s a gimme. If you can think of a stupid policy, Firan did it first and worst.

Firanites don’t have buttholes, remember.

This is kink erasure!

Yes. That is literally why that call was made. They wanted to avoid people using buttsecks to avoid running the breeding code.

… WAT?!

… Did Firanites not have mouths, either? Seems oral sex could be used to avoid breeding code, too.

@Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Tez said in MU Peeves Thread:

Firan! I got you, old man.

Firanites don’t have buttholes, remember.

… Wat?

Encountering and reconnecting with an awesome player who you knew 19+ years ago on a completely different genre of MU*.

It just seems like complete fantastic serendipity.

And then playing with them and discovering that not only are they just as good as you remember, but are actually better. Their RP has improved!

@Muscle-Car Big McLargeHuge!

@Roz

@Aria

Wow.

This is one MU* crazy I’ve been able to avoid even rumors of. It’s like hearing about a cryptid.

I sometimes wonder how I have being in the hobby for so long, but only had the lightest brushes with most of the notorious sorts. Is it luck or do I not present the vibe Bad Actors are looking for? Either way, I am grateful.

@allthecookies said in MU Peeves Thread:

Jill guest still making the rounds!

@Aria said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Buttercup said in MU Peeves Thread:

What if Jill actually is one of the aliens, desperate to connect with humanity? But sadly all they know of human culture is volleyball and high school sports physicals.

… Dare I ask, who is this Jill the Guest?