Royal Paynes
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I have to wonder if this sour grapes behaviour from guys who don’t know how to make their interest known like a normal person are all the same player, or if my monkey brain is doing the pattern recognition thing again.
Because I’ve seen it a few times and this whole “I’m rejecting you, come and chase me!” vibe is super gross.
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@Juniper said in City of Glass - Discussion:
are all the same player
Alas, no. It’s part and parcel of the Alpha/Sigma/Whateva Male bullshit.
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Yeah. It’s very much pick-up-artist philosophy, trying to make the other player feel desperate and insecure so that you can control them and keep them ‘on the hook’. It’s gross.
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@Pyrephox And hooo boy they hate it when you react the way @Tributary did which just makes the whole thing chef’s kiss.
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@NotSanni said in City of Glass - Discussion:
he was also a raging, callous fascist
This is my surprised face:
He/Him. Opinions and views are solely my own unless specifically stated otherwise.
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@Pavel said in City of Glass - Discussion:
@NotSanni said in City of Glass - Discussion:
he was also a raging, callous fascist
This is my surprised face:
Hold on, I really like those uniforms. Who are those dudes? I don’t remember that from TNG
bird's still the word
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nothing in that log is new or exciting. fun that you shared! definitely puts me firmly in the camp of ‘guy was bad vibes’. but man, it’s so tiring all these gross guys behave the same way.
also, i gather swimmerskins are basically mermaids from a google. what does it mean to be a darkling swimmerskin??? are you ursula?
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@Rinel said in City of Glass - Discussion:
@Pavel said in City of Glass - Discussion:
@NotSanni said in City of Glass - Discussion:
he was also a raging, callous fascist
This is my surprised face:
Hold on, I really like those uniforms. Who are those dudes? I don’t remember that from TNG
That’s Captain Fraiser Crane of the USS Seattle from the TNG Episode “Maris Goes to Hollywood”.
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The tl;dr of CtL is that you have SEEMINGS, which are big categories, and KITH, which are specialized little roles.
Darklings are the spooky seeming: all shadowy and creepy and scary looking. Fairest are the too-pretty-to-be-real seeming. Beasts are furries. And so on.
So a darkling swimmerskin could be any sort of creepy mermaid. If I had to come up with one on the fly, I’d make a mermaid with an anglerfish theme, all long limbs and too-large eyes, and a mouth full of horrifically sharp teeth. If I were making an elemental swimmerskin, it might be a mermaid whose hair is flowing water and whose tail sparkles with ice crystals. And if I were making a wizened swimmerskin, I might go with the octopus-mermaid, but diminished in some way: tons of (well, eight) dexterous arms, incredibly nimble, but small and not very good in a fight.
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@Rinel said in City of Glass - Discussion:
@Pavel said in City of Glass - Discussion:
@NotSanni said in City of Glass - Discussion:
he was also a raging, callous fascist
This is my surprised face:
Hold on, I really like those uniforms. Who are those dudes? I don’t remember that from TNG
It’s from a TNG episode called “Cause and Effect” where the Enterprise encounters a Starfleet ship from the recent-to-them past (the ‘movie’ era where they had the red uniforms like this, you saw them in most of the TOS movie).
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@Meg scawy mermaid
like those bad bitches that drowned narcissus (he didn’t fall in don’t believe the lies)
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@hellfrog wow, narcissus caused his own suffering. don’t go blaming mermaids and spreading this conspiracy theory.
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@Meg
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@Meg you can’t take this from them!
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@Meg said in City of Glass - Discussion:
nothing in that log is new or exciting. fun that you shared! definitely puts me firmly in the camp of ‘guy was bad vibes’. but man, it’s so tiring all these gross guys behave the same way.
I shared largely because I feel like reading their script has value. If you know the sort of keys to look for, you can deconstruct this behavior easily. You can watch him trying to gaslight me like he’s following a textbook on how to gaslight people.
And it’s very much of interest to me to show people that they are not alone when it comes to being targeted by creepers. He targeted me, and that was a poor choice on his part, and I cut his career at City of Glass quite short with my casual indifference towards his emotional manipulations. Because creepers aren’t targeting just you. They’re casting a wide net as they look for potential victims.
Also, it’s valuable to report things to staff when things are just starting to get weird. One of the first things I did with this guy was ask @Roz if he was being creepy or if it was just me. She then advised me to use Ares’
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@Tributary you are definitely right. sorry, i didn’t mean it to come off like-- idk, you shouldn’t have shared or that it was just fun gossip to read. i do think seeing the patterns is good for the hobby!
i was just very /tired/ of players like that when i posted.
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@Meg I’m not sure you came off that way, but I wanted to write that stuff out explicitly. Sort of to confirm how right you are. Like, this is what they do, this is their script, but there are options and there will be repercussions for them.
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@Tributary I was actually the one that had been paging him right around when the rave started and asked him to show up, completely unaware that all this other stuff was happening in the background.
He told me that his date had ditched him and I assumed he meant Lucene, because RL had eaten her. Mind you, he never mentioned any of this other stuff to me. I’d only just started talking to the guy a few days before.
I will admit, after hearing what happened and him talking to me about his char, I had vague suspicions that he was that mage player that used to use Mind on female chars all the time. I think I might be wrong, though.
