Sindome pet peeves
Just for fun

*Nobody is saying you are right or wrong if you do these things.

Mine is spelling out abbreviations or phone numbers.

Why are you making this difficult for the both of us?

Also...Identifying chars solely by their accents.

And then everybody else wonders why you're so lenient ICly.

- Idling IC, definitely.

- Mixers and Corpies who don't play to theme: Mixers who are too nice to everyone and don't recognize the poverty and brutality of the Mix, Corpies who are also too nice to everyone and don't recognize the strain of their position in society.

Seen this in several places throughout my year of play. And it almost never works out. And it's also a little weird in that, little girl leading big man down the street on a leash "What kinda weirdo are you." Way.

2. People who assume that the first impression of a character is the only impression they'll ever get of a character and that it's accurate. Or that character's don't sometimes change rapidly.

This is something that happened in the past with my characters. Just "Oh you're just a goodie twoshoes. You can do no harm." *tosses someone out of the skyfox* "Heheh, you don't say mister bubbles." "That's right..."

3. People who perm out to escape consequences. This is something I've been adamantly against. For roleplaying purposes, it's an utter fucking copout. Your allies are gone, get new ones. Your reputation is damaged, build it up again. These are good stories. Perming yourself out from a good story is an utter bullshit move.

I've had characters who've done something stupid and hit the booth in a blind panick to escape (insert X immediate consequence here), but never permed out willingly because of shit that's been done to me or that I've done.

4. My own personal pet peeve for myself,

-say BLAH BLAH BLAH

to prog Say blah blah blah.

whisper "say blah blah blah" to JoyBaka

I hate that I do it and when I do do it, it's almost always a sign that I'm too tired to exist sensibly.

The over abundance of players willing to engage in all manner of sexual RP and shortage of those willing to engage in the torture/violent RP inherent in CP.

Weeks and months of plotting to capture a target alive and them deciding they are immune too questioning.

People being rewarded for finding safe and sustainable RP vs those who stir the pot then get pounded into the ground.

The overall clique-ness and flavor of the week pursuit of would-be Villains (particularly lowbie's) wherein half the PC's in a sector make it there mission to pursue the one person who has been making things interesting.

Spamming my screen with your order of ten suicide bombers, you shabby broke fuck.

<3

pssst can so get some internal injuries?

We get it, some people are multi-talented, that's fine. But the fact that the vast majority of people with Artistry do this really irks me.

New players who join the game, do nothing but deliver crates/SHI then say they're bored.

Foreign characters who can't speak the language of their homeland fluently and English at the same time when they first come to Withmore. This should be an option, not a requirement.

The game almost forcing you to make younger characters because if you want to make someone older, they're still going to start with little to no skills and that makes zero sense and you'll have to come up with some contrived reason for them to have extremely basic skills. Even just a little extra UE would be nice. I think this creates a huge missed opportunity for more variety in characters.

...Nitpicky, but I wish there was a butt @naked so underwear would work correctly. I've seen some people get around this by putting it in the leg slot but that can create problems with skirts/shorts and stuff. It's especially weird since there's back and chest separated, I'm assuming for mostly tattoo purposes.

it is pretty common and bad for the economy.

People who write massive paragraphs for every naked.

The first time I'm looking at someone, I just wanna see their face and hair so I can get a good idea of what they look like. I'm usually doing this mid-conversation, and I have to scroll through an ENTIRE screen's worth of nakeds to even find it buried somewhere in there, even though the person is CLOTHED.

Like, jesus. This is mostly opinion here, but be succinct, leave some room for interpretation. People are never going to see your character EXACTLY the way you want them to. You don't need 4 lines to describe how your character's neck is muscled and has a scar, come on.

Wait...I know the bullet hole count in that poncho and your voice...it must be...

- "Okay, how about... mugging?"

- "No, too risky"

- "Extortion?"

- "Sorry, I don't have the heart for it"

- "Fine, how about some ole' classic scams?"

- "I don't want to get caught by gangers or Judges"

- "Okay... have you considered prostitution?"

- "I'm too good for that, sorry"

- "SELLING DRUGS?"

- "I don't want to piss off the gangers..."

- "Fine. Go run this package from Red to Gold. How much do you want to be paid?"

- "Uhm.. five kay?"

@villa: you got me with the last line 😂

I think some of that has been intentionally stifled by staff. I thought the same thing when I came back, and found it odd that there were lectures being given about starting your own gang, or trying some crazy concept for yourself and staff allowing you the chance to succeed or fail barring a lecture. I get much of that is in good faith, too, but It may be what leads to people not wanting to push the envelope and stay in their proverbial lane.

People who describe themselves as "beautiful" or "attractive" extensively in their nakeds and don't even have the first tier of high charisma shortdesc modifiers.

I'll tack on to that with people who describe their bodies as slamming, their skin as radiant, etc, as if all that high charisma covered was a pretty face (and theirs would be pretty except for the sleepless bags under their eyes and minor scars).

There's actually a tendency for newbies to do this with other stats, too. I'll never forget a 3-4 month old character who was described as with muscles like Hercules fucked Zangeif from Street Fighter not being able to lift a dead cat to hand to Vicki. Or a brand new immy described as having the steadiest and most dextrous hands I'd ever seen.

- Spilling my tea on myself, every time.

- People who ICly shit on/downplay NLM stars and their contributions. This even comes from NPC aliases sometimes, I assume under the auspice of "this character is doing really well so we need to provide the sour note." But like, these players spend a lot of OOC time working on things that ultimately not many people pay attention to--and that's fine, you don't have to pay attention to it, but I feel bad that they only ever seem to get negative reactions.

- People being smarter/more knowledgable than they should be, especially in regards to modern/20th century historical information.

- Being criticized for not stabbing everyone in the back, taking constant risks, screwing people over. I think most of us try to play to theme as best we can but like, at least we're here contributing.

All the other more serious gripes I have have already been covered by others or are just not appropriate for this thread. :)

TACTICS BABY

There's one right now that just BUGS me ever time it comes up because one segment is JUST about a WORD longer, and there's a word they could take out without losing punch, and it would make it look so much better.

Gah.

Idling in mid-conversation.

Apparently all my issues are about idling.

I thought this was 'Not saying anyone is wrong by doing these.'

Contain thy salt.

this thread

Also, protip 4 moosex: use speech-to-text for those big posts. Take a walk and slam down some poetic smut at a rate of a paragraph a minute. Posts be flying left and right and you can wrap up moosex in 10 minutes or your money back. 😁

We enhance your useless language parse ability by 900%.

>Misses call

>"Call me back, chummer"

>Doesn't call back for a while

>Misses next call

I'm truly not meaning to presume what situation(s) you're talking about because I have no idea, but since others have mentioned being peeved by 'people obviously googling things' elsewhere in the thread, I wanted to riff on that and just say that while I understand the annoyance sometimes, I do want to offer two things (that, in context, situation-by-situation, may or may not apply):

1) Intelligent characters should absolutely RP being intelligent about things (though not -every- thing)

2) Don't presume the player had to google something

Related peeve: Characters who almost assuredly have tanked INT but never RP like it. Anti-peeve: characters who have CLEARLY tanked INT and RP it fantastically.

Maybe there should be a prompt only when assigning to something you've never assigned any UE to before, so it doesn't prompt UE every time, but still helps avoid this?