Yimu: The Reason I Broke Up With You Is A Million Reasons You Psychotic Wang

[Kindrift]

In preface, I did go looking for this.  Of my own will I registered an account and joined the game.  I did this because I enjoy small furry roleplay games and I enjoy learning what makes each unique, partially because I've assisted administration on a number of similar games and want to see what others do right, what I can borrow.  I had fun there, there was dirty furry pretend textual sex and gallons of juices all over my fucking pretend carpets, I've given and received come-ons not seen outside of the gulags.  I've moved on and now it's time to share what I learned.

Your primer: A MUCK is a multi-user text-only chat server that takes connections via telnet.  There's a little more information on WikiFur, but to be succinct this is a MUD without combat or much code where players can have soft roleplay with each other.  Once connected, the server (muck.yiffstar.com port 8888) displays the connection screen in ASCII text artwork.  FurryMUCK's title is flowing script, Tapestries is displayed in tall gothic font, Sociopolitical Ramifications is written in geometric 3D (or many other forms).  Yiffstar's connection screen proudly says:

YIMU ISLAND - The Yiffstar MUCK

That's it.  Nothing fancy.  Plain text, unlike every other MUCK ever made.  Great sign.  Anyway, Yiffstar MUCK is adult-only and sexually permissive, so it allows sexual scenes in every public place on the game and invites 10 year old foxgirls with D-cups and footlong dicks to slink around in public.  Not a large MUCK, the player load is around 50 characters at peak hours, half that many real players.  Its registration is instant and the rules are on the connect page (also different).  Creating a character will quickly drop you into the plaza, and that's 90% of the MUCK right there.  Find a bench and enjoy your tour.  It's the only public room in frequent use and one of very few rooms accessible from anywhere on the game without traversing a dozen other rooms.  Once there you'll notice the striking variety of characters... mostly foxes and huskies and white wolves, often with multiple tails or wings and crazy eyes and insane backstories full of pain and death and OH GOOD CHRIST YOU DON'T WANT ME TO GIVE UP MY SHROUD OF MYSTERY NO SIR.  These are usually "emo", an average description is like Harlequin's or is a three-line cursory description of "wolf" and "gay", and their average taste in music ranges from wonderful modern marvels like Coheed & Cambria to superlative jerking as Panic! at the Disco.  (God fucking forbid they find Pitchfork Media.)  They don't roleplay, even on this roleplay MUCK.  They may typefuck you if you pet their egos and put Fall Out Boy in your description.  They are pretty much the best example of the average young turk of the furry subculture, someone self-absored and going absolutely nowhere in life.  Shadow Lowell here was a pretty upstanding member of the "gay emo canid" clique.

The rest of the active population is more varied, filling out the normal old distribution with a few digimon and furry-created species (chakats, LGDs) who enjoy a much wider range of art (mostly Nekogami) and hobbies (petfucking, target shooting, tae-kwan-do).  The histories are DEEP PAIN AND POWERFUL SECRETS or missing entirely (and then you're just having sex with the neckbeard), the powers are world changing and demonic, the dragons are mentally broken and they are actually not making that up.  Some are very young, many probably there in spite of the 18+ only rule, despite token efforts to track down kids already banned from Tapestries.  Some have been around and are totally on the top of the pole, differing opinions definitely indicate mental disease also GAR GAR GAR RELIGION IS EVIL FUCKING HELL I'M SMART.  Some hold little harems of mindless attention-starved kids in sprawling incestual families, see the trademark totally original violet fur and extra tail disease spreading around and people threatening to kill when someone smiles at a family member.  Play revolves around characters with cosmic powers trying to unlock them and power up to defeat their fathers or games where everyone chases around one invincible demon while they look like huge pansies.  While there is good roleplay (even non-sexual HO SHIT) to be had and there are genuinely good people here, they are definitely a minority.  Like a straight guy at Folsom Street Fair who only likes the leather.  Like an Eric Schwartz pic with feet that resemble actual feet.  Like a day when FurAffinity is working.

The administration is courteous and competent.  The powerheads, the retards, and the completely useless fucks have been fired.  The problem is a lot of the shit from the old days is still in place, and for any decisions more complicated than telling kids to take video game chat to the out-of-character channel (NORMAL CHAT IS FOR STARING AT EACH OTHER AND HUGGING ONLY) are pretty much out of the hands of the staff.  All actual decisions and actions are monopolized by the head administrator Toumal who runs the main Yiffstar site and doesn't really give a god damn about the MUCK so long as he's getting the requisite 40 blowjobs per minute on his fat-canopied two inch dick.  Programs are broken or just stupid.  No one gets banned.  People can and do get away with murder.  People who really, desperately need to be banned and maimed and nailed to the ceilings of their dirtshacks are given little slaps on the wrists then invited to parade back onto the MUCK and continue shitting any attempts by the staff to create a decent game.  Dramawhores, scenefags, and cliques that would last maybe a week on Tapestries thrive and are invited to stay on Yiffstar MUCK.  The staff hate them, but hands are tied by the bloated head whale.  The stupidity is a real, tangible object there.  It's stifling.  It may be a good place to look for roleplay if you enjoy Kit & Kay Boodle, else Yiffstar is at best a friendlier and far more brain-damaged MUCK than the older and larger systems.  Get your typefucking there if you must.  Act like a complete spaz, hug anything that moves, subject yourself to shit with a huge grin, and you will go far. 

It is, I believe, a brand new system.  A brand new system that's appaently been up for years and has yet to (and may never) get its shit together.  Furry was over these problems by 1992.  Tapestries got their shit in gear to become NUMBAH ONE TYPESEX DESTINATION when Vanity Fair was still a new deal to furries.  Going there brings you shame when so many better alternatives to text-based furry games and dick-stroking contests exist.  It is the last resort of a last resort which I generally enjoy, it is pathetic and it is utterly devoid of good rationality and sense.  Yiffstar, you made me respect Tapestries for what it does.  You feel bad for what you do, and you should, but you are beyond forgiveness.  My wolftaur will be in the Herm Haven if you need me.

[rodox_video]

    Honestly, why is it still called yiffstar? I mean, I was kind of hoping that furries would eventually realise that the y-word is the single most painfully horrible made-up word in the history of sexuality. KILLS BONERS DEAD, IT DOES

    And on that note, what the christ do you expect? This is the typefucking spin-off of the bottom of the furry porn barrel here. The idea of it being outpaced by what are (by all accounts) monolithic decade-old institutions of sad debauchery is not too far-fetched.

[LordNagetiere]

Yiffstar has tried to stick it's foot into everything over time. It used to run an Fchan clone, got forums, still has an image archive, etc. It would be more sensible for them to just stick to being the fiction archive, and attempt to make themselves unshitty at that.

Some hold little harems of mindless attention-starved kids in sprawling incestual families, see the trademark totally original violet fur and extra tail disease spreading around and people threatening to kill when someone smiles at a family member.

One thing I will never understand. Powergamers, obsessive fetishists, whiny fags. Annoying yes, but understandable in creation and motives. The whole "Mother of: Sister to:" systems utterly boggle my mind. It's almost like they aren't allowed to be in a mutual typefuck with someone unless it's incestual. For dysfunctional families of likeminded losers, they're so very hostile to boot.

More than a bit freaky.

[Dr. Dos]

The craziest thing about Yiffstar is not the horrible art or stories or the muck or even the fact that apparently "Sonic the hedgehog" is a subspecies and not a famous character.

No, the scariest thing is the DIGG THIS button on every story.

[ProvincialTwit]

The craziest thing about Yiffstar is not the horrible art or stories or the muck or even the fact that apparently "Sonic the hedgehog" is a subspecies and not a famous character.

No, the scariest thing is the DIGG THIS button on every story.

I really really want to just flood DIGG with the most godawful examples of 'furry lit' from YS.  I mean fully totally take over the front page, hermtaurs and mixed-tenses and whatever they call it when you switch between first, second, and third person all the time in the middle of a sentence.  That would pretty much be the most hilarious use of YS possible.

[Lacuna]

I'm a little ranty tonight about the bargain basement shit that's being pulled on this game, so apologies.  I play Lacuna.

This place just keeps getting worse and worse.  Typical roleplay:

Edgar chuckles.  "Not at all.  Means I can give myself a blowjob!"  He says, chuckling.
Tokeli gives Edgar one.
Nerove looks everywhere and realizes he was better dead or as spheres
Flamey gives Edgar three
Thyl wonders why Nerove decided this way.
Tokeli's one was better than Flamey's three.
Geddiz does best by not even giving one.
Flamey nah-uhs
Tokeli... sucks Geddiz off.
Edgar moans, preing in Tokeli's mouth before he cums in Flamey's!
Flamey gulpgulpgulpgulpgulpgulpgulp

People are avoiding the plaza, where that happened.  Without the plaza, there's no MUCK, so people (myself included) are avoiding the MUCK.  Good people are leaving because this sort of crap runs rampant, and the staff keep refusing to do anything about it because it's technically not breaking any rules.  There are people who are actively ruining the game for everyone else, and staff just shrugs and gives up.  Some of these people are pretty decent when they're alone, but when you get Violet, Rachiel, Tokeli, and Nerose/Harlequin in the plaza together everything just goes unbearable.  Tokeli in his years of service has done jack shit of good on the game, nothing but a TS whore and stupid queen.  Nerose is so offensive he's practically trolling just by being there, passive aggressive, attention whore.  Violet, Twyn and Rach are okay by themselves.  The new wave of underaged children, Flamey, Edgar, Nerove, they can't spell or punctuate or do anything for shit.  They don't have characters as much as are OOC attention seekers, looking for imaginary handjobs and people who'll prop up their fragile egos.  They shit up the plaza, and there's nowhere else to go, because the MUCK is set up that way.  Everyone goes to the plaza.  No one goes anywhere else, ever.  I try to build a new place and I just sit there forever.  So these people make the plaza unbearable and chase people off the game.

Everyone with this complaint needs, NEEDS to complain to the staff.  I don't know, send #mail to Hati, bother Toumal on the Yiffstar forums.  Everyone needs to be perfectly honest about their problems and everyone needs to individually mail in a complaint.  I've been on more professional games where these sorts of complaints are taken very seriously, when people are driving good players away, the staff steps in to help.  They talk to the problem people, explain who has what problems with their behavior, help them adapt, or just kick them off.  This works.

[Pi]

Against my better judgment, I'm piping up in this thread.

Yes, I'm listed as a wizard and helpstaff. Really, though, I treat those responsibilities as "Someone's MPI crapped out?/out crapped muf someones? Neat! I get to fix something!" rather than as "I love to deal with users and their problems". In essence, I treat it as an M4 bit with x-ray vision. Does this make me a bad wizard? It just might. But until someone convinces the Fuzzball people to separate M4 from Wizardry, I'm left in this position.

Now, if someone can point out which programs are broken as alluded to in the top-level post, I'll get right on it. Otherwise stay off my fucking lawn.

[Harlequin]

What I love in people most is when their hypocrisy itself slathers itself out onto the keyboard, where their grimy little fingers, after a hard day of slapping their owner's dick against his head,  can jot down some terribly funny-no, hilarious-jokes that just won't let you stop laughing. I mean, quite honestly, some of the best wits ever are seen right here, where, unfortunately, much of this is seen, the best logic, here, the best justification for being the decrepit, slimy, fourteen year-old suicidal-but-still-fucking-teh-funny-aminal girls they try desperately to hide they are.

Yes, I'm offensive, yes, I'm an attention whore. Thank you. You've only made exactly what I'm trying to make myself out to be real.

But guess what? You don't see me swinging my <insert all-smiting, godly-powered weapon here> around with my <insert weeaboo species here> hands all against <insert lame insult> Nerose/Harlequin. Grow some balls, a tumor, or a brain, and -use- them.

Now, take into account that, personally, I have no problem with anyone who thinks like this. It gives me something to do. It makes my life that much more fun.

And yes, everyone with a problem should speak up.  Everyone who has a personality disorder and just likes to bitch, however, should learn to shut their mouth.

Lots of Love from the indifferent little dogfucker.

Nerose is so offensive he's practically trolling just by being there, passive aggressive, attention whore.

PS
 I will admit that Yimu has gone way up on the suck meter, but who can you blame but the majority of players?

[Selis]

Well, okay. So, like, Lacuna's been bugging me to post my thoughts on this, so I shall.

The problem with the MUCK isn't so much the idle bantering in and of itself, its problem is the sheer magnitude of it. Here, I'll try to sum up the experience of a new player here.


You enter the plaza, here's the description, pretty signs. Wow, look at all the players. Most of those are actually the same person, but they're suffering from MPD so they have tons of alts. But, you're new! You don't know any of this!

<OOC> Someone says, "Hi, newplayer, editplayer and wi #help should get you set up. Osay and Opose to talk like this.
Someone returns to giving one-lined textfucks to Someone2.
<OOC> Someone2 says, "Lol, it's just an alt."
Someone2 urinates on newplayer.
Someone2 gropes newplayer.
Someone fondles newplayer and solicits for sexual favors.
Someone3 has entered the plaza.
Someone3 says, "YOU ALL ARE MY ARCH NEMESIS, I WILL DESTROY YOU WITH FIRE."
Someone3 has disconnected.
Someone1-8 (3 excluded, of course.): LOLOLOL! WHAT A NUB, LOLOL!
Newplayer has disconnected whilst hanging their head in shame.

Basically, we've just got a whole clusterfuck of stupidy going on. As Lacuna said, the people can be pretty damn cool when you get them one on one. But, get them together, and they just leech off eachother.

This problem is, of course, furthered by the lack of an administration. Pi does a wonderful job, he helps me from time to time and he's always willing to fix shit. Hati's pretty cool, too; He's just one hell of a paranoid motherfucker. But, the problems all fall on these two, and a select few helpstaff that actually do their job. This is further compounded upon by the fact that all the 'underaged children' (Go go, gadget redundancy.) seem to be some of the whiniest little twats I've ever had the displeasure of setting my eyes upon.

They aren't just whiny, either. They're fucking subversive and coercive. They try their hardest to slander the people that don't stand for their bullshit. The player Poppy is a good example here. I wasn't doing anything to her, hadn't even talked to her. I leave the plaza and she starts ranting about how she can finally stick around since I've left. What the fuck is that bullshit?

In conclusion?

I say we take off, nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.




Edit: Oh, right. We've got some players running around with the tag 'RoleplayRevival!' on. Bullshit. All I see them do is pound out walls of text and hope that some semblance of a structured pose escapes through the layer of drek that surrounds their actions. Fuck it.

[Geddiz]

I'm not keen on what Yimu's become, mostly what Raily's saying, but my hate is focused more on the 'roleplay', or what passes for it, anyway; lots of dramatic twats with the already mentioned DEEP AND MYSTERIOUS PASTS emoing up the plaza. When they're not whining, they're involved in trite show-and-tells of their endless supplies of deus ex machina magic or puffing up their plumage and big-talking. When a fight breaks out, it's like an episode of DBZ sometimes, powering up higher and higher, this is a MUCK made for social interaction, so there's no constraints on combat, left to the player's discretion, and of course, nobody ever backs down.

I'm basically repeating what's already been said, but yea, it annoys me how the place has gone downhill. There was a sudden flood of Stupid like a year ago, I've all but lost hope, most of the cool people fled, I don't think there's much to salvage of what's been left behind. What was once an assortment of well-thought characters is now an unimaginative mass abuse of tired cliché stock-characters.

In short; What He Said.

[Selis]

I'd just like to ask, as an afterthought.

What the HELL is with all the digimon? Don't we have a thing against them in our AUP?

[Lacuna]

The Roleplay Revival thing just blows me away.  Really.  Thyl, Rachiel, and their kind seem to have this brilliant idea that roleplaying is nothing more than doing what you were already going to do, but doing it in a descriptive and dramatic way.  Fancy, fluffy walls text which is absolutely nothing more than mental masturbation, pseudo-intellectual play with zero substance.  Their poses are no better than the shotgun spamming everyone usually does, and they carry even less information in the same number of lines.

The AUP bars copyrighted characters.  In practice this means you can play a renamon or a pikachu, as that's just a species (I'm sure they're interpreting it all wrong), but you aren't allowed to play Renamon the renamon or Pikachu the pikachu.  Which is okay with me, you have about the same chance of meeting a really well played renamon as you do a really well played fox.

[Geddiz]

I'd just like to ask, as an afterthought.

What the HELL is with all the digimon? Don't we have a thing against them in our AUP?

I think we do have something against copyrighted characters, but there's a lot of workarounds, it's not the actual characters they're copying or something. I doubt anybody reads the AUP anyway.

EDIT: Whoops, beat to it, I'd like to add that a lot of the digimon characters seem to be the brawlers I wrote about earlier.

[koogy]

x

[rodox_video]

CRITICAL GAY

[ProvincialTwit]

Goddamn it, Railhaven.  Now they're all here.

[Kindrift]

Goddamn it, Railhaven.  Now they're all here.

You want I should ban them for not being people you've roomed with?  Sorry, boss.  You should express something now that your old favorite little pasttime has been maimed beyond recognition.  I don't see a Simpson crawling out of this trainwreck.

ETA: I REFUSE TO EDIT MY POST TO REFLECT A MORE ACCURATE ACCOUNT OF WHAT YOU TRIED TO DO THERE

[ProvincialTwit]

...what? 

Edit: also I promised to behave and stop banning people so it's up to you.  This is your social project.

Edit 2: oh, I see n...what?

[BigPointyTeeth]

I'm not even bothering to read about peoples lame personal lives. i just wanted to stop to give you props/wins/internets (whatever the *(&^ kids are calling it these days) for naming a post after a Caustic track.
I have now set a goal unto using a Polluted Axis track as a topic name.

[LordNagetiere]

The one before this he named after a PM5k track. I just never mentioned it because it would highlight how much of a poser I am.