MUPP - Fed up with irl politics taking away your fun?
Day 1,026, 20:04
•
Published in Sweden 
•
by
•
by Valnad
There is a swedish abbreviation called MUPP which deserves international recognition. It stands for "Motståndare, upprorsmakare och partipolitiker" which can best be described as follow:
The term MUPP is used for categorizing all those players who harass others by dragging them into their own, perverted and IRL-based ideologies. Since there are those of us who actually play the game while some others mainly focus on destroying the fun in playing the game for those who actually bother playing it, this phrase has been used as a counter-weapon in situations where you - as a player - feel boxed into a corner of a debate where your opinions are no longer respected but rather mocked and made fun of.
For example, being a pacifist IRL doesn't necessarily mean that you have to be against wars in the game. Just because you don't like eSweden, it doesn't mean that you have to hate Swedes IRL.
While the vast majority of players are aware of this, there's still a quite loud and vocal minority who are constantly trying to transfer IRL terms into The New World. This often leads to misunderstandings and not seldom harassment from both sides of the discussion. In the end all it leads to is that more players lose interest in the game (since, afterall, not all players are interested in getting their citizen accounts mixed up with their IRL person or getting dragged into a neverending flame war between embittered, immature parties).
So what exactly does MUPP do?
What the MUPP word says is basically that everyone who's not interested in playing the game and sharing the fun with the other players SOD OFF. It gives you a word to use for countering any attempt of discrediting your eRep citizen by use of irrelevant IRL terminology. Simply call them mupps', and the discussion can either end with that or you'll at least send a clear message towards your harasser to stop poking you and that you really don't give a flying poop about what he/she is saying.
Spread the word!
The term MUPP is used for categorizing all those players who harass others by dragging them into their own, perverted and IRL-based ideologies. Since there are those of us who actually play the game while some others mainly focus on destroying the fun in playing the game for those who actually bother playing it, this phrase has been used as a counter-weapon in situations where you - as a player - feel boxed into a corner of a debate where your opinions are no longer respected but rather mocked and made fun of.
For example, being a pacifist IRL doesn't necessarily mean that you have to be against wars in the game. Just because you don't like eSweden, it doesn't mean that you have to hate Swedes IRL.
While the vast majority of players are aware of this, there's still a quite loud and vocal minority who are constantly trying to transfer IRL terms into The New World. This often leads to misunderstandings and not seldom harassment from both sides of the discussion. In the end all it leads to is that more players lose interest in the game (since, afterall, not all players are interested in getting their citizen accounts mixed up with their IRL person or getting dragged into a neverending flame war between embittered, immature parties).
So what exactly does MUPP do?
What the MUPP word says is basically that everyone who's not interested in playing the game and sharing the fun with the other players SOD OFF. It gives you a word to use for countering any attempt of discrediting your eRep citizen by use of irrelevant IRL terminology. Simply call them mupps', and the discussion can either end with that or you'll at least send a clear message towards your harasser to stop poking you and that you really don't give a flying poop about what he/she is saying.
Spread the word!
Facebook
Twitter
Discord
Comments
Voted For Great Justice!
Sounds awesome! Now i am a MUPP!
Amen!
voted + s
Jävla muppar.
Voted.
Voted.
Oh geeze i love obvious information.
Have you guys heard of T-rolls??? They say bad things on the net, stay away from em!!!!
[Muppets]
Its time to play the music
Its time to light the lights
Its time to meet the muppets on the Muppet Show tonight.
Its time put on makeup
Its time to dress up right
Its time to raise the curtain on the Muppet Show tonight
[Old Men]
Why do we always come here?
I guess we'll never know
Its like a kind of torture
To have to watch the show
Cry more noob
MUPP? Sounds like nöff nöff to me.
Voted!
Voted!!!
So what you are basicly doing, is bringing an IRL term into the game, and encourage people to use it against people that bring IRL terms into the game.. And because these people allegedly destroy the game for others, making them quit, you are supposed to use this term against people that bring IRL terms into the game, in order to make them quit.
Your logic, my good sir, is beyond flawed.
zuwar you are bringin a IRL language into teh game so your logik is flawed beyond recognision.
Zuwar, your attempt of discrediting me is ambitious, but you overlook what´s important. Although my method might be flawed, my point is still valid.. and very much so.
Your point may very well be valid to you, but there's no absolute right or wrong way of playing erepublik, as long as it's done within the frames of the rules.
Play the game however you want, but to tell people that don't share your opinion, especially when you're in the eSwedish government, to flat out quit the game, well I can't say much more than that I find it repulsive.
Hehehehe... I love Sweden IRL - country of my grandfather - and I´ve been enemy of the e-Sweden in the game. But this discussion started amazing. And become very crazy. Let´s play the game.
Greetings from real Brazil.
I have posted a follow-up article on this subject where I reply to the comments. Feel free to check it out.