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

If you cannot trust the staffers on the game you’re on, consider leaving.

If you can trust the staffers on the game you’re on and you know that and are dealing with reactions in yourself that are not based on what is happening now, keep working on yourself.

Just try to be mindful of that and don’t blame the person trying to work with you now for shit some scumsucker did on X game 11 years ago.

Edit to add: I don’t think this is a problem now-staffers can actually fix. Coin is right that you shouldn’t be a dick but like… seriously, there is no one who can resolve someone’s anxieties about this except themselves.

Honestly, the ending times at Arx have been such a positive community experience. Even people that I’ve never really jived with - it doesn’t matter, everyone is in this together, I love watching all the big event scenes, seeing years of play hit these culminating points. Obviously nothing is perfect, but the feel of being part of a community and all of us caring about the same ending is really powerful and a great note for a game I’ve played on for a long time to go out on. Thanks to everyone for vibing.

P.S. BAT!!!

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

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.

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

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.

Some motherfucker shot my 11 month old dog with a pellet gun.

She’s stitched up but okay after a night in the doggy ER.

I’m mad as hell.

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

@eddie on the subject of “sex pests bad,” I wish the entire world were such an echo chamber.

Yes. VK lied to me. Repeatedly. She personally preyed on my willingness to set aside what she had done to my character and my org for a new player. She told me personal information I did not ask for in order to cement her status as a stranger and manipulated my willingness to help a new player get settled in efforts to keep her slate clean so that she could continue to lie, cheat, and manipulate others in order to get what she wanted. She lied about her personal health status. She lied about her time zone. She lied, and lied, and lied, and lied.

In the olden days, VK and I mutually avoided each other. This is what I usually do with people whose players I dislike. I don’t seek them out. Arx is a big game, it is very easy to simply not rp with people in spaces you don’t want to. I never sought a formal no contact because I didn’t think I needed one; if one of our characters entered a room or an event the other one of us quietly left. I don’t need staff intervention to simply be elsewhere, especially when the other player quite sensibly also is willing to be elsewhere.

When she came back, she actively sought me out and took advantage of my good nature. Because she knew it would work. I had nothing to do with whatever relationship she had or claimed to have with Apostate. I wasn’t party to whatever she was doing with Corban. I was just a player whose character was in a position that she wanted to have in her good graces.

If you have never experienced this, I am glad for you. It’s extremely unpleasant to discover.

@junipersky when I got my new cat from the shelter, there was just something about her little face in the picture that said to me that we would fit, and then I met her at the shelter and she did the thing that Roz’s cat does where you put your hand over her head and she jumps up for pets.

I took her “brother” too because they were bonded, even though I had only intended to get one kitty and I only wanted a girl, but he was washing her head and I was like well ok.

HOW ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO KNOW WHY YOU LIKE THEM THEY ARE ALL ADORABLE

@hobos I don’t accept apologies for lying that include continuing to lie. A foible, perhaps.

3 acquittals in a ROW WHAAAAAT.

@TNP not to #notalllawyers, but SOME of us think a court of law is the worst possible analogy for a hobby where no rights are at stake, only privileges.