@somasatori
People periodically talk about making a Dune or Cyberpunk or another attempt at a Wheel of Time game, they just don’t materialize. Maybe one day! I’m not sure there’s so much an aversion to IP as just…some stuff comes to be, some stuff doesn’t.
Posts made by Third Eye
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
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RE: Episodic Games & 'Down Time'
This Text-Based Gaming Blog I’ve been trying to follow’s latest feels relevant to this. Cool interview with Clockwork from The Network after it wrapped.
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
@Snackness
Upvote for solidarity. The muses are fickle. Love playing with you but sometimes you need a hard refresh before you can find them again. -
RE: MU Peeves Thread
@Kestrel said in MU Peeves Thread:
Feeling like … I can only scene with you as long as I am very polite and mindful and watch my step and am on my best behaviour.
This is death to me and any kind of interesting RP interaction. Also just…human interaction. Because when this happens it doesn’t feel like these people want courtesy or basic consideration, it feels like they want me to prioritize them at all times and edit my behavior to some moving goalpost that’ll please them and…no.
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RE: Celebrities We Lost 2024
@junipersky
Man, MacNeil/Lehrer were my news heroes when I was coming up as a little journalism student (I was that kind of kid lol). The show is still the best nightly news cast you can watch, I think. Hell of a legacy. -
The Lost Realms Discussion
@tighearna
How much and in what context is AI going to be used on your game? -
RE: MU Peeves Thread
@Snackness said in MU Peeves Thread:
@Meg It’s on MSB, and I think it’s in the Hog Pit, which means some of us can’t get to
Truly the most tragic part of my banning, not being able to link that guy who flipped out about ovulation on that isekai game.
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
@Roz said in MU Peeves Thread:
no one tell the ovulation guy about the game
When I turned 42 this year he was the first person I thought of, for better or worse.
Here to say, I’ve been around people having ovulation all my life and it’s nice to reach the age where I can definitively say it’s not a big deal.
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
Bummer, this would’ve been an April Fool’s Day gotcha I would’ve found kinda actually funny, which is a rarity.
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
On the one hand, wondering if it’s an April 1 gag.
On the other hand, really hoping it’s an April 1 gag.
The amount of time I spent searching various public game wikis for pregnancy fruit this morning is…non-zero.
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
@L-B-Heuschkel said in MU Peeves Thread:
Async is my staple and I don’t mind Glacial (those that take more than a week) either – but it’s important to be clear about what a scene is before firing it up.
Up to a point this is fine. I assure you, I do this with people I have not played with before who want async. I’m someone who does not have an issue nudging people OOC or taking a certain amount of narrative direction to fade. In part this is why I’ve done well with Ares, up to a point.
But it really feels like something happened over the course of the last two years in which async became a lot more pronounced, more tilted toward glacial, and a lot more the default assumption to heavily Ares players and this year I have been really wondering where it came from. Is the Ares population growing more unique/separate from games that don’t use the scene system and this is just what has happened with the culture of it? Are people from forums and Discord gravitating to it and bringing their habits? I do not know. I feel like I stepped out of something of an RP bubble that I’d been in for three years, then essentially took a break for a year, then stepped back into Ares RP and it really does feel like the vibe around async has changed.
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
For me there’s async and then there’s Very Async, Dude.
Like, I can do a scene over the course of two or three days. That’s fine. It doesn’t engage me in quite the same way real-time RP does but I’ve found I’ve gotten used to it, there’s still scene energy, it’s a good way to keep up with people in different timezones or with different schedules.
But that’s not what a lot of people who say ‘async’ seem to mean. What they mean increasingly seems to be scenes that take a month to play and then kind of never end and then people just wander away. I’ve dipped into reading threads about RP on Reddit that aren’t MU*-specific this year and this seems really common in the Discord RP space and…idk, my friends, is this the future? Is this the future people want?
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
@mietze said in MU Peeves Thread:
If someone repeatedly can’t come up with nonproblematic concepts that demonstrate a pattern of not showing good judgement as far as they might fit in, no matter how much time I invested in explaining/handholding/helping, ect–it was never ever worth my time. Because the minute they hit the grid, all of the characteristics they’d showed in the CG process (deliberate or otherwise cluelessness, fixation on certain problematic themes, demanding of special attention, ect) only increased once they hit the grid. And back in those days there was kind of an attitude of well once you approved them you shouldn’t take it back.
I don’t put a lot of stock in apps as an indicator of quality, but what I do find they’re good for is flagging issues a player’s going to have with theme or general ‘how they’ll relate to other PCs/staff’ in a way it’s much easier to course-correct pre-approval than post. It also feels a lot more painless to tell someone they aren’t a good fit for a game upfront than to let it become an issue later.
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
@catzilla said in MU Peeves Thread:
I like a good meowdy
Only greeting I’m responding to from now on.
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RE: Elysium /MUSH
Sometimes I’m like, ‘Wow, there are all these games I don’t know about! The internet is a rich tapestry!’
Then it is this game.
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RE: Royal Paynes
@Rinel said in City of Glass - Discussion:
@Pavel said in City of Glass - Discussion:
@NotSanni said in City of Glass - Discussion:
he was also a raging, callous fascist
This is my surprised face:
Hold on, I really like those uniforms. Who are those dudes? I don’t remember that from TNG
It’s from a TNG episode called “Cause and Effect” where the Enterprise encounters a Starfleet ship from the recent-to-them past (the ‘movie’ era where they had the red uniforms like this, you saw them in most of the TOS movie).
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RE: On PvP and permanent injuries
I’m another who’s kinda struck by the focus on physical consequences like maiming as the seemingly implicit only example of a PvP consequence. I think losing status/getting fired/losing access to IC benefits is also a consequence for behavior but idk if players think of it as meaningful unless it’s attached to a +sheet’d demerit.
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RE: How dangerous is VASpider?
Might’ve been Gamma One? Which I think was the Anomaly successor. It wasn’t a game I stuck on but it is the only place I can say I played with VASpider. I was very idle so it was not an interesting experience, but I do remember they played an Engineering character.
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
@sao said in MU Peeves Thread:
@Rinel find me a person in this hobby who doesn’t read a peeve and think ‘this is about me, isn’t it?’
Except that 95% of this thread is actually about specific stuff that it feels like this thread is always subtweeting.
Which is the nature of the beast, I guess. But it’s yet another ‘vaguebooking doesn’t actually exist/always seems intentional’ thing.
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RE: How dangerous is VASpider?
@Testament said in How dangerous is VASpider?:
Goddamn that’s an old MUSB thread. It’s seven years old?
Oh my god.
I get very ‘time is a flat circle’ about this stuff. The last WORA was something like 10 years ago? Maybe more at this point?
We’re all old.