@dvoraen he’s had one bath in his entire life and he let me know very clearly that was NOT an experience he enjoyed, lmao

I was actually very proud of him, he didn’t scratch me or anything but he was louder than I have ever heard him be, his meows are usually very subdued

adding to the “my cats literally pick the worst places to nap” lore

legit don’t know why I keep clicking on this thread this week

@kalakh ahhhh okay, that’s fun.

I enjoyed how hassle-free it was to create a temporary room in Arx 1 and describe it as being pretty much anywhere, but there is actually something special about having a dedicated grid space. I really do miss describing and furnishing my characters’ rooms. 🥹

I thought these were “starting areas” your characters could be from to give them traits and backgrounds in CG, rather than actual separate grid spaces, and the setting was still the city of Arx?

@Pavel said:

a character who, due to experiences in the game, has earned the ability to be a little blase or otherwise confident around weird shit.

this is, to be fair, not really the peeve. I don’t mind a confident, competent character who can reassure others because they’re an experienced demon hunter or whatever, but there is a line (not always super clear but definitely there) between that and just no-selling everything. like has been mentioned, it’s very much about their reaction to other characters’ reactions too.

blasé and dismissive has just never been fun to play off of in my experience. probably doesn’t help that the kind of player who picks that combo is also usually kind of a dick OOC on top of it.

@hellfrog said:

So who is the Blood Patriarch, and can he be my boyfriend

personally excited about dhampires. gonna use Wesley Snipes as my PB and grumble about motherfuckers always trying to ice skate uphill

@howyadoin said:

Like when characters act extremely blasé about the setting no matter how horrific/creepy/suspenseful…nothing affects them ever. They’ve “seen it all”!

literally the only good version of this character is one whose player is aware of just how dumb and boring it is to play it straight and so constantly subverts it. but it seems like maybe only three people tops ever got the memo.

the most frustrating thing about it to me is that it’s essentially just an extremely selfish way to play. it’s all about fulfilling some sad power fantasy, rather than having fun with other people.

@sao said:

I actually would prefer folks who played the first one to not have any special cookies at all.

yeah, this is def what I meant specifically by “weird dynamic.” doesn’t even matter if it’s true or not, there would probably be a perception that old players are being favored in ways newer players couldn’t have access to, which breeds resentment and bad feels all around. like, I get that you’re not going to avoid that being a thing anyway to whatever degree no matter what you do, but imho it’s better to head the visible stuff off at the pass.

I don’t mind amnesiac characters or stories about them, but I do personally agree that allowing people to play their old characters would probably create a bit of a weird dynamic on the game that would be pretty hard to avoid.

@Faraday said:

People just weren’t online as much. I remember having to meter usage carefully until I got basically unlimited access through the university computer labs.

fun story: I was 14 when I had to get my first job…because I had moved across the country with my family and we didn’t have internet in our new place, so I just innocently used the dial-up number I had memorized. not understanding that this, y’know, actually costs money.

so my mom gets hit with a phone bill of almost a thousand dollars.

@Apos said:

a small minority among Sleepers (individuals have been in a magical slumber for the past thousand years and awaken with no memory)

so is the implication that these are possibly characters from Arx 1 that survived the finale? or is it pretty firmly not anybody who was ever on screen?

@Pavel said:

someone oversteps something that I didn’t know was a boundary until after they stepped over.

what’s fun is when you overstep your own boundary without realizing it and hurt your own feelings minutes later.

“oooh, this will add some emotional juice!!”

…

“oh god, shit, the juice is too juicy.”

@RightMeow said:

As the photo was deleted and there was no harm.

any HR rep worth anything would acknowledge it was the act that was the harm, and that it really didn’t matter if there wasn’t anything physical you could point to.

that is super shitty, I’m sorry. is escalating not really on the table?

not all of them are nearly this fun, BUT my favorite recent dream was that an older man and I were riding in the back of a wagon that was traveling through a dark forest at sunset. the trees were all bare and there was a sort of eerie feeling in the air, as behind us a cloud of dust started to rise from the trail.

I leaned out of the back of the wagon to try and see what was coming up on us, and it was just…a baby, like full on sprinting, supernaturally fast. I turned to the older man in a panic and he was like, “you know what would really be scary? if that baby’s eyes were glowing.”

and sure enough I turned back around and the baby’s eyes flashed on like floodlights.

I woke up just absolutely terrified and confused until I thought about it for three seconds, lol.

@Aria said in MU Peeves Thread:

Like, you can read a nearly infinite number of horny words with basically zero effort. Same with Imaglr. Or with PornHub. You can go have a wank without bothering anyone, if you go do it over there.”

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

not that I would know, Innocent and Pure Lamb of Jesus’ Pasture that I am.

a year after an extremely rough breakup with a narcissist who constantly verbally abused me, gaslit me, and was starting into physical abuse when I pulled the plug and I am still getting massively triggered sometimes when a stray thought about the way she treated me hits. I get so worked up and angry about it and it is so frustrating because it just feels like there will never be any recompense for what she did.

she lied to our mutual friends about everything, treated my son like shit, stole from me, not only money and things but something I can never replace (an album of pictures I took and developed in high school, with all the negatives). while I lost everything after giving so much to her and that relationship, she went on to marry one of our friends within the year and just moved on into his life like nothing happened.

I get that that won’t last, someone that destructive and selfish eventually will burn those bridges and have to move on to the next mark, and the people who I thought were my friends who rejected me will eventually realize who and what she is. but that doesn’t make it feel any better, it really just hurts worse, because her damage will continue to be done and what I’ve lost I can’t get back.

I’m in therapy and trying to work through it, but it just fuckin sucks.

@howyadoin said in MU Peeves Thread:

Yeah - I didn’t want to go on the “good vs. bad policy” side quest,

stop a debate about a game policy?

here?

imagine, if you will, the end: our hobby falls into Dead Internet Theory territory and eventually it’s all just LLMs endlessly baRPing.

@tsar said in Staff Bits Linking Handles:

@bear_necessities said in Staff Bits Linking Handles:

ETA: I would also play anything @tsar made so long as it’s Janitor: the MUSH. I’m still waiting @tsar

We were janitors once!! And you threw it all away!!!

…wasn’t that literally the job

sorry I have nothing to contribute, I just couldn’t leave that one be.