From: pentangl@spdcc.com (Scott Moir)
Newsgroups: rec.games.mud.tiny
Subject: Ego Tripping
Summary: Ruby Begonia's Say of Ill Repute
Keywords: FLAME FLAME FLAME
Date: 11 Jan 93 21:14:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: spdcc.1993Jan11.211443.14003
Distribution: na
Organization: Ruby's Flamewar INC ;)

Okay. Let me, as a player, NON wiz person, and general player of female chars, say this:

First,I'm Deanne: dtaylor@lucy.wellesley.edu, NOT Scott Moir, so don't accuse me
of being some balding old man into TS. I'm a woman who LOVES to roleplay. 
Sigh. If anyone here feels like they want to try to prove itto themselves,
email me and I'll pass out my phone #.I can change it later, and it's your dime.

I'm a damn good player. Flame me for my ego, see if I care if you try to 
take the attention away from what I'm trying to say. ;) Most of you do that to eachother anyway. LISTEN to what I'm saying. Please.

All you wizzes and big-n-baddies are a bunch of kids with a bunch of clubhouses.
Granted, you might have a really COOL clubhouse, with all sorts of goodies, but
instead of trying to attract people to come in and take a look around, you
post a BIG note on the front that says, "Like it or Lump it". Okay. I lump it
I don't want a mud that has player's rights. I don't expect there to be any
real ones. A wiz "owns" the mud. But the muds that are the best are the muds
that have wizzes that are warm and friendly. Who care for people deeper than
any rules could make them. In otherwords, HUMAN wizzes. I'm not going
to play on a mud that has no sense of humor, or that has a twisted one.
It tends to be too much like little boys saying "OH YEA?" after a while.
I played on Space madness for a while and I got bored. Too many people
obviously kissing butt. Sorry. Sm can do what it wants. I'm not going there.
And lots more of good worthy people won't go to places like that either.
And we know that the players make the muds. Sorry, people, but the reasons
places like Furry are 80 logons at once isn't just cause of TS. TS is boring
after a while. It's cause you can talk to people and get people who LISTEN.
I don't care what places like SM do.  THat's their business. But
I *won't* play there.

By selectively creating an atomsphere, you are limiting the kinds of people
who want to play on the muds. If you post "Go to Hell if you don't like it"
then anyone who is a good roleplayer or a player who can contribute to a
diverse and "healthy" mud society isn't going to play on your mud.
You heard me. Put up any sign you want. I'm not coming in. Grin. You're going 
to attract the people who LIKE that attitude : "Like it or lump it"...
Over here, we call it hierarchical male bullshit. What do you call it?

So what, you say? Who cares if YOU don't come in, Ruby! We hear you're a furry
and you're into TS and you run a brothel on FURRY of all places! WHOO-BOY!
FLAME material, this Ruby! ;) Flame away, kiddies. Make fun of me all
you want. But again, you're not going to dilute what I say with your flames.
I play Ruby for the roleplaying thrill and the fun.

I'm a damn good roleplayer. I like TS with people that I am close to. I have
also roleplayed life, death, and magic...sex, sadness, and anxiety. VR 
is not the same as RL, true..but what IS VR unless we roleplay? And if 
roleplaying TS gives some people pleasure, then who the hell do the people
who criticise it think they are? I can tell you EXACTLY who they are.

The people who pulled the log things and made all the furry TS jokes are
the same kinds of people who seek to make friends with and impress the nearest
authority figure. They group around together, and get their jollies by
picking on a group of people they perceive as inferior. Their egos
NEED that.  Whats the matter, all you TS prudes? LIstening to your
parents too long? Sex is BAD, say mom and dad. "Oh, YES!" you chime.
Sex is BAD. Let's make fun of furries. After all, they have VIRTUAL
sex, and WE don't , and we are BETTER, right mommie? ;) We need those rude
muds to put people like that on them, to keep them out of MY face.

Aw, sorry, all you TS prudes and jokers. You don't understnad that TS is about
as inconsequential as saying, "Yozduk waves hello to you"...it's just as
INconsequential, just as SILLY as *smiling* at someone in VR!  You just have sex
hangups left over from your mommy and daddy. And do you like to belly up
to gain approval and make yourself feel better by picking on furries?
Everyone has at least thought about having TS. Isn't that the same as
doing it? It's not REAL. You're making fun of something that ISN'T REAL. 

And I Really WANT to know, dearies,  who you try to impress by walking
around pointing at the furries and laughing? I mean,  *I* laugh at furries, like
I laugh at myself and life in general. BUt I don't make my own "sly" jokes and
then jab the ribs of the next RL-impaired intellect:

[look at them furries! Rated R, people, watch out!!]

{Har har}

Nothing is worse than a furry with no life....except bimbos who have nothing
better to do than point it out.  Wonder when the clue-fall's coming?
Get a clue....anyone who muds has NO LIFE. By your lights. That includes 
me, you, and everyone.

Deanne


aka Ruby on furry and a mud /muck near you.
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