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.

@RightMeow

not that you indicated this wasn’t the case necessarily but this is why I vastly prefer systems that have some sort of meta currency that allows you to stack rolls in your favor/allows you to reroll them, lmao. it’s fun to roll with a failure at a pivotal moment and it can even make a much more interesting story, but dammit, sometimes you just wanna do what you’re supposed to be able to do!

all the hypothetical scenarios about jumping from like 1 to 10 in a skill immediately makes me picture the Matrix movies where they instantly upload knowledge and both

a) cracks my shit up, picturing some random dumb hyuck suddenly rolling their eyes back into their skull just so they can solve the mystery in one scene or win the arm wrestling match or whatever

b) kinda makes me wish for a game where that mechanic was explicitly part of the setting, maybe for Mysterious Reasons. sometimes characters are suddenly just inexplicably experts at something they’ve never done before, what’s happening???

@catzilla said in Freeform or Systems?:

This question/curiosity came about in the superhero and Star Wars threads. (Some) people said freeform superhero is great but a freeform Star Wars game is ICK?

I was one of the people you’re referencing from the Star Wars thread and it really does just boil down to the ground everyone else has already covered, for me.

I like light systems, I like crunchy systems. freeform is something I engaged with when I was much younger, but years of exposure to enormously unfun strangers make the thought of joining a freeform game in the year of our lord 2026 incredibly unappealing, regardless of genre.

I also just enjoy the “game” aspect of roleplaying games. interacting with cleverly designed mechanics is fun and interesting to me.

@DrQuinn

noooooooooo

almost every morning when I am trying to finish my bathroom routine and get ready for the day, this lump just plops himself right down in the sink

@Faraday said in Non-toxic PvP:

There was a conflict and now there’s some IC bad blood. All seems completely expected to me.

I can imagine this exact scenario played out with me and a buddy and it would all be completely fine if we just kept it IC.

now imagine this person is not your buddy, just some rando who doesn’t intend to plot out a fun and engaging “arch rivalry” or “enemies to friends” or whatever. it’s just someone who comes into every scene until the end of time and makes it about this and will never shut the fuck up about it or move on because their OOC ego was hurt that everyone didn’t choose their solution instead.

I’ve had to deal with people like that and I totally get it, just speaking personally. they are pretty far up there in the Most Annoying Player list.

@Jennkryst said in Numetal/Retromux:

@Wizz said in Numetal/Retromux:

y’all. go outside. for…like…a while.

being in this headspace is just Not Good, for anyone involved.

I work in food service. I mu for pretend fun times, not to put up with the same kind of shit I at least get paid for at work.

okay, I never suggested you put up with it. I am telling you your plan is just a power fantasy and that scenario would never play out the way it does in your head.

at best, you suddenly make a single dice roll (there’s…no “I automatically stab him and kill him” button), staff steps in and reiterates that they have already explicitly told you they will not run this scene. you push the issue and you’re shown the door and remembered as that uncomfortable weirdo who wouldn’t take no for an answer.

just save yourself a lot of grief? if a game is not working for you, be an adult and leave. post your reasons why here, and because you’re behaving reasonably way more people are likely to listen and consider it or approach staff with their complaints, change may happen, etc.

from an objective third party, there is no chance, zero, none, that “I stand up to staff by forcing them into a combat scenario and everyone claps!” works. please understand that I am being frank with you in hopes that it helps, not to mock you.

@Jennkryst said in Numetal/Retromux:

@Gashlycrumb No, my PC stabs Larry Leader in the face. And when staff goes ‘no this is not allowed’ go ‘I dunno, it sure looks like I got enough successes to kill Larry and take the throne’ and then when I get PK’d other people will maybe quit due to staff cheating fuckery. Or not. But whatevs.

y’all. go outside. for…like…a while.

being in this headspace is just Not Good, for anyone involved.

again:

@Ashkuri said in Numetal/Retromux:

WOD players are you guys okay??

if you’ve reached a point in a game where you are legitimately considering ham-fistedly trying to force a GM into a scene they have explicitly told you they aren’t going to run, I think it’s time to hang up the cape and put the fang caps away, lol.

@hellfrog said in Celebrities We've Lost 2026 Edition:

bye felicia

I mean he was a garbage human being with some truly repulsive political and religious beliefs…but at least he was also a shitty actor.

OK full disclosure: that post was about how I laughed.

like a disgusted, “why is this community like this” laugh…but I kind of needed the laugh?

what a time to be alive.

@Roz valid! some people just don’t like it, that’s absolutely fine. sorry if I made it seem like it wasn’t when I responded to you earlier, I was just trying to be a silly goose.