@Pacha said in MU Peeves Thread:

However, I think FS3 is just so flexible that it can adapt to any number of settings, and also, there are some experts who have got the combat on it down to such a science that most things can be “made to fit” FS3 even if it isn’t their intended/natural home.

this is specifically what I find frustrating in play – you will never forget that FS3’s being bent out of shape to accommodate something it wasn’t meant to do and that just takes away a lot of the fun for me. I enjoy the “game” part of “roleplaying game” as much as the RP.

Ares is wonderful, I am glad it’s easy to set up and run for so many people and yes, 1000000% I am happy that there are still games out there for that reason, but I think the perception a lot of people have that FS3 = Ares and how few try the other plug-ins is just personally a bummer.

almost every single Ares game, existing and in the works, using FS3 just because it’s what people have gotten used to by necessity.

love and respect FS3 for what it was intended for, and I know this probably sounds ridiculous to anyone who just doesn’t care that much about systems, but personally, it kills my enthusiasm immediately whenever I visit a game’s site for the first time and see it in the wiki for supernatural/fantasy settings. I find the “square peg, round hole” of it all really frustrating.

@somasatori said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

“The staff lost interest in this MUSH and let it fizzle out so play with them at this other one where that absolutely won’t happen again”

As a wise thinker once said: “There’s an old saying in Tennessee - I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on-- shame on you. Fool me, uh – you can’t get fooled again.”

I mean, to be fair, the game ran for a few years. that’s a pretty common lifespan. ‍️

I played pretty briefly and it seemed like a good setup, even if I didn’t much like what they wound up doing with the Jedi and Force and all that thematically.

@MeToo

what happened??

@Jumpscare

I was working on a game a few years back set in Utah about the fight against a secret society of supernatural body jumpers hidden within a large, prominent religion here but in the end figured it would be more headache than it was worth, lol.

but I still think SLC would be a fascinating setting for urban fantasy/horror.

@Solstice said in Your first game?:

In hindsight, I was really waaaaay too young to be on the wild west internet of 1996

oof, saaaame.

I am not quite sure I remember which one was first, but it was either The Lion King MU* or Heroes and Villains.

hilariously I tried to apply to Project Infinity for literal years and one of the appstaff replied to one application something like “I just want to say, your writing has improved so much” and I was too embarrassed to admit that it was because I had been like 13 when I first started trying, lol

@somasatori said in PyReach:

The one I hear the most is Changeling Kiths and Seemings no longer being attached to one another.

sidebar obvs but, why? from my (admittedly fairly limited) experience with Changeling it seems like most peeps in MU-land were basically doing that anyway, just with a kind of pricey Merit that existed in the first edition?

I still think about the hard-hitting reporting on the VOTING SCANDAL in '22 every so often and chuckle. these beautiful chonks are such a light in these dark times.

Rick Davies.

I am very tempted to just go stand in the middle of a club and yell “PLAY THE SUPERTRAMP!!” over and over, like Diedrich Baker in Evil Alien Conquerors. 🥺

@Jumpscare

ty, I desperately needed that snort-laugh this week.

I’m not sure what you use for email, but I know Gmail at least has that feature built in, I also used to use it for work. it’s been a long minute since I set it up but I am positive it’s in the help docs.

@MisterBoring said in Numetal/Retromux:

The vast majority of players in our hobby understand how to make unique special characters without trying their damnedest to drive it into everyone’s faces at 100 miles an hour.

lol. in my experience, the vast majority of players in the hobby are all guilty of this behavior to one degree or another. it’s just a matter of how much or little each community will tolerate it and what kind, and that changes from game to game.

paying the @dvoraen cat tax:

Alucard is such a friend.

the true celebrity loss in this thread is discovering @dvoraen doesn’t use dark mode to browse the forum

Mob Psycho thirded. I watched it with my son and we both looooved it, especially since Mob is more than a lil neurospicy-coded.

has anyone ever ghouled a kangaroo? serious question

@Pavel said in AI PBs:

So AI isn’t so much coming for my job as it is creating more work for my colleagues. I see.

here’s another article about it more generally. I find it kind of funny but also deeply sad considering that these are probably just…what, undiagnosed narcissists who have badly needed intervention for years? and now they’ve got Fancy Autocorrect endlessly validating them into psychosis.

@Roz said in Pets!:

@Wizz said in Pets!:

hey. hey, dummy, there’s nothing up there…

what are you talking about? there’s a cat up there!

@dvoraen said in Pets!:

@Wizz Look at that pretty kitty facey whisker facey face.

Alucard is, indeed, the most facey whisker facey face 🥰

hey. hey, dummy, there’s nothing up there…

well I tried to tell ya, ya big galoot!!

@Pavel

I’ll always remember a confrontation here years back where this one poster was just absolutely ripping a headstaffer a new b-hole, some of hands down the most contemptuous vitriol I had seen…because the guy refused to hand over the reins to an 80’s cartoon-based Transformers game instead of closing it. just wildly out of proportion and cruel stuff because they wanted to keep pretending to be a motorcycle that turns into a break-dancing robot, it was kind of amazing.