My peeve today:

There’s nothing like trying out a new character and getting completely subsumed into the story of a new place to make you really, highly aware of how burned out you are at your old stomping ground. The disparity in activation energy is astounding.

Not to tmi but I have pneumonia, the doctor says I need to spend the next 3 days in bed, and I still wanna RP my idiot werewolf, but I can barely even manage to get up the gumption to log in and read mail on a place that has been my primary game since September 2016.

I’m tired and I’m sorry.

@eddie this ain’t a court of law, playing on a game is not a right, and you ain’t defending any innocents, pardner

But also that’s not how a court of law works

What evidence are you looking for here? Runescryer suspected someone of being DWOPP, indicated they thought it was DWOPP. Lithium came forward, says I was this person, I’m not DWOPP, how dare. Lithium definitely was the person who came forward and said I’m the person you’re saying is DWOPP and I’m not.

That doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with any gamerunner going “I don’t want to deal with these people anymore, let’s chuck them all out the door.” More gamerunners should do this.

P.S. literal laugh out loud at Macha getting banned for not leaving a thing alone when she’d been told to leave a thing alone

as previously stated, good day

I WANT TO PLAY BUT I DON’T WANT TO START OVER IN A NEW PLACE WHERE I DON’T KNOW ANYTHING

Good thing in mushing: other people reacting to a big dramatic thing you did as a big dramatic thing.

My 16 1/2 year old cat is gone and I don’t know how long it’s going to take me to be OK.

But, well, I told them I would wait for them to finish reviewing before I made any decisions, since that was their request. What they’ve demonstrated is that their review was conducted according to some bizarre internal metrics that banned @Narson for saying basically the same thing as @Meg who they rescinded the ban on, while simultaneously deciding that Ghost is a part of the community they want to keep but not @Roz or @tsar –

In short, a part of the community I will be putting behind me and not returning to.

But the attorney in me is super annoyed about the total absence of transparency and failure of standards or logic.

I am glad that the original wildly unjust ban was reversed, though.

I also dislike Lithium and all of my memories of my experiences with them are bad and I think it’s fine to defend themselves from being compared with DWOPP.

And I also read the pages and I don’t think Warren comes off as the asshole in that convo at all. And I was very prepared to believe they would, because I remember the bone-deep relief I felt when Lithium was banned from Arx (sorry, Arx out of season, I accept the penalty).

I also think it’s not a good look to decide to publicly compare someone you’re in an OOC/IC tiff with to DWOPP.

But I remain firm in my original belief that more gamerunners should look at drama between multiple players that they don’t wanna deal with and just go “bye” like this.

People who behave like this should be banned from every game and have no place to play. The community should reject them individually and en masse. And yeah i agree that it’s disappointing to see this same fucking shit playing out again with the same idiotic “but how do we know bitches ain’t lying” that happens every single fucking time.

As a public defender defending 3 different internet based child sex crimes . . . Don’t let 13 year olds in, yikes, lol.

I spread myself across several games with a feast of rp to do and then i got sick and got eaten by work and now I’m behind in every conceivable area of life lol

One of the greatest relationships I ever played was enemies to grudging allies to friends and my only regret is that both characters were our secondary “alts” so we didn’t get as much screentime (so to speak) as we could have. I paid for art of them at one point which was clearly @Tez’s character about to stab mine with a broken bottle. (sorry this is clearly me doing the tangent about myself thing, hello adhd - but here’s the art: https://64.media.tumblr.com/3d2d241f9b0da3c151dd6feca676288c/tumblr_nbcjhfqI2r1rj81qdo1_1280.jpg)

I prefer PvP that is character versus character, not player versus player. I don’t want to be combative with other players. It is not my jam.

I said 15, but if there were two or three of me, there would be room for more.

@Zz me me

@Popes they do encourage players to pitch characters they would like to see, but the staff adds them to the roster at their own pace with adapted backgrounds to fit the game’s particular theme.

I do think the current set of available characters is not the most appealing although I’m still sitting on the urge to app the everloving blue-eyed Thing if I ever get less eaten by work. The thing is that a lot of the more popular characters are played, not that they aren’t in universe, so that’s just kinda what happens when a no OC game is active, I think.

So I put in a catio outside of my bedroom window and it is basically the greatest thing I have ever done in my life.

https://imgur.com/gallery/0qnPELs

I couldn’t decide one pic to share here but if you have any interest in seeing 3 idiots explore an outdoor box. There.

In any event, all this ancient history aside, I think the important point to come out of that is @Roz’s point that players frequently say (or believe) that they are better about taking consequences than they are in practice. I feel like everyone has been frustrated by game stuff in this hobby, it’s not a question of whether you love stuff going badly for your character so much as what you do with the energy when something does hit you wrong.

Venting privately, sure ok. Get up and go for a walk. This week at one point a thing happened and I had to pause on my rp partner in a different scene and go mash my face in a cat. The problem is when those bad feelings become somebody else’s problem.

@Buttercup How many people did you page threatening to have staff overrule about IC actions that you can’t recall this occasion? Our only ooc interaction was you paging me these threats and me telling you to go right ahead and go to staff. If that’s an ic/ooc separation issue, it isn’t mine.

@Buttercup I had to request Arx staff a log of you threatening in pages to have them overrule my character about IC consequences yours earned.