Numetal/Retromux
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Hi @Jenn ,
I’m happy to affirm that Pika is no longer associated with RetroMux. She stepped down from staff shortly after I started back in November/December. Then in April there was a site outage, from what we could discover it was likely due to non-payment.
It seemed like the right time to officially part ways. We got a new host, new wiki, and removed all traces of her affiliation. It was also a good time to refocus on our intent to have a community first game, which so far has seemed pretty successful despite the rocky origin of the game.
I recognize this is my first post (yay!) but my account isn’t brand new, in fact I made it shortly after we got situated from pulling the new site together. My lack of prior posts really just sums up to the reputation this place and it’s ancestors have, which is a bit…intimidating, especially to someone relatively new to Mushing (less than three years). But I’ve been liking posts here and there, and debating chiming in. You finally got me to do it!
Hope this helps offer some reassurances on the Pika front. OH! And so no one has to fret over the ‘who is who’ game, I’m Ori, an HST and the Shifter Lead on RetroMux.
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@MayorMccheez So if there’s more freight to be unloaded, just how big is the semi hauling it, if you follow?
I just want to know how many boxes of receipts there are, in other words. (Regardless of whether your 1% doubt of identity turns out to be the case.)
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Yours is a much more believable reassurance. Thank you for that.
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I didn’t have “Pika is secretly still on the game and posting about how great it is,” on my bingo card of responses to my post, but I understand the skepticism. For the record, I’m Headcrab / Crowley on RetroMUX, and I quite like it there, so when I saw someone saying some stuff that didn’t jive with reality I tried to post. And then I realized that I didn’t actually have an account, despite occasionally peeking at threads in the past, so I made one and then posted. I tried to keep it simple and noncombative, but I think that just made my statement seem vague coming from a new account. Glad Muse was able to corroborate.
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@Captain-Howdy said in Numetal/Retromux:
I didn’t have “Pika is secretly still on the game and posting about how great it is,” on my bingo card of responses to my post, but I understand the skepticism
Yeah, you’d think it’s a crazy response but it wouldn’t even be a blip on the “weird shit we’ve seen people do” radar.
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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.
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@Cygnus Yah This player has had multiple issues across game platforms for targeting women. Yet is still accepted into this community. He has 5 alts all sit there idle. They are also fairly heavy on the bans for people that have been harassed.
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@thrax said in Numetal/Retromux:
They are also fairly heavy on the bans for people that have been harassed.
Since @Muse, @Captain-Howdy, and @MayorMccheez are all staff there, would any of you care to comment on this?
I’ve jumped onto RetroMUX as a guest bit to look at their ban announcements, and I’m curious as to who @thrax is claiming was harassed and then banned.
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@Wizz said in Numetal/Retromux:
a motorcycle that turns into a break-dancing robot, it was kind of amazing.
I agree. That is kind of amazing…
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Not my department, but I’m pretty sure no one has ever been banned for reporting harassment. I’d wager anyone claiming such is probably leaving out some pieces of a much messier story.
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@Captain-Howdy said in Numetal/Retromux:
I’d wager anyone claiming such is probably leaving out some pieces of a much messier story.
That’s always possible.
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To the playerbase of Newbetal/Retromux
An Apology to the fullest.
It is true The player behind Kahula overstepped a non contact request.
A friendship with the player behind Niall was formed onanother platform and when they extended an invite to the game, it was taken. Ethically she should not had accepted this invite, knowing that this player requested distance. However, with second chances, she did. Feeling at the time that keeping herself under cover for her own sake was better then not. Lets not mistake that the community at large already knew of his personal attacks once someone gets on his bad side. Multiple games, Multiple people - not just Kahula.She admitted to her mistake. Some understood it due to the fact that in reality she was only trying to avoid conflict even if she did, overstep this non contact. She admitted, and apologized.
When Staff came to speak to her she did not hide, nor keep information from them. The thing I wonder is how can they ban someone for avoiding conflict from someone known to be a problem. Yes she did hide herself, but is that in itsself worth a full gameban?
To top it off there were, other outside influences that were leaking into her real life from another player all together.
Chaoticsin — 7:42 PM
You were being harassed OUTSIDE the game.so… thats ok? lol this community you speak of was harassing her. She was trying her very best to circumvent it.
Did she try to involve staff when a player that was outside harassing her was trying to rejoin the game? yes she wanted to look out for others.
Chaoticsin — 7:41 PM
What I saw what this: You came back onto the game. Immediately involved staff in matters that had nothing to do with the game.I am also aware that the player of Kahula was actually given props for playing out a rather hard scene, and she herself was actually active in a good way to the game as a whole…
We all deserve chances, if someone who worked to turn a new leaf like Niall claims to have done, certainly someone who hid their presence just to avoid conflict should be able to show the community as a whole that they can do better. Ethically yes, she should had gone right to staff to tell them that someone invited her back who once held a grude. I dont know…
All I can say is this. The community at a whole suffers from a verity of disability’s, its why we escape here. Is it more harm to a game that someone hid… without takeing in the reasons why she did so.
