161: because most of the people in this hobby are godawful writers

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GAME PET PEEVES

[(Anonymous)]

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[(Anonymous)]

That weird second-hand awkwardness when you're watching someone flounder for unfinished shipping threads while they barely scrape by in AC.

This person has been hanging on by their nails (and strategic strikes/hiatuses) for over a year now. It feels like the only person they're interested in playing with is their shipping partner, and they tag back like molasses when their partner is usually a pretty regular tagger. I'm just cringing while I watch the ship slowly fall apart on Plurk.

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[(Anonymous)]

this happened to me a couple years back. the butthurt when I finally dropped them for a ship with an active gamemate was rich and copious.

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[(Anonymous)]

I know I play the villain from our canon but why did you enable me into your game with our massive cast if not no one, including you, is willing to give me breathing room to play my character as a villain? I tried to conceal their identity and all of you dogpiled me in a plurk of how good a record our cast keeps on who enters the game, tired deception and you somehow had your character see right through that, then when i just asked if i could run a murder plot it was "too much" and would affect too many things even with a temporary death mechanic in place.

What am I even here for? Your protag fodder?

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[(Anonymous)]

yup. get out while you can.

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[(Anonymous)]

exactly, and it's time to drop

sorry anon. i know how much that sucks

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[(Anonymous)]

they only wanted a little h/c off you, not for you to actually play. ew.

do yourself a favor and get out.

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[(Anonymous)]

as a fellow villain player, you have my sympathies. just dealing with the one castmate who wants to see through everything and isn't happy with murder plot ideas is hard enough. a whole cast? i'd definitely leave immediately.

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[(Anonymous)]

Example #3,405 of why no one wants to play villains anymore.

Signed, a salty villain player.

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[(Anonymous)]

getting unsolicited interest, praise, and ideas for cr/threads/plots on plurk is very nice and I'm grateful

but it would also be nice if all that talk translated into actual tags, instead of me being on the backburner for what feels like everyone in my circle

+1

[(Anonymous)]

my life :( people talk a good game and i'm sure they mean well...

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[(Anonymous)]

When nearly everyone conveniently ignores some critical part of the event premise/rules, and calling it out would just make you look like a fun ruining asshole.

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[(Anonymous)]

i hear you, anon.

why the fuck does no one in this hobby actually read?

[(Anonymous)]

Speaking as a mod, if you see this shit going down, say something to a mod. If you feel like you need to do it anonymously, they should have some way to do that. If they don't you can use a sock if you don't want to have to worry about someone being cranky.

But point it out. More often than not, it irritates the hell out of mods, and they can either PM the players to adjust the problem or make a notice about it for the game.

We can't be everywhere and we don't see everyone. We put those premises in place for a reason. Call those people out to us and if your mods are any good at all they'll try to do something about it.

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[(Anonymous)]

Castmates who don't tell me they've dropped. Their character no longer being around is generally information my character needs to know.

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[(Anonymous)]

i am in this boat right now and it sucks. i sent the mun a pp/pm, pinged them into plurks and got nothing but radio silence. looks like they are idling out.

i mad because all i wanted was a confirmation either way if they were staying or not. wouldn't have been this salty if i had gotten a straightforward no than being blatantly ignored.

a little courtesy goes a long way because now i have to figure out the aftermath for my character. thanks castmate.

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[(Anonymous)]

for me this is second only to cast who app in, do one thread, and then vanish and decide to idle out after passing their first ac. so you end up having just too much to pretend they were never there at all, and too little to handwave the month and a half they were on the taken list but totally absent

if it's not working whatever, sorry to see you go, but making the rest of the cast dance around you is shitty

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[(Anonymous)]

When people app a character into a game and actively only play with the crew. Dude, yes, I get that your character is antisocial but part of playing a character in a game (especially one that's big and has a lot of people who want CR) is getting that character out there.

Otherwise just play in museboxes and PSLs and let someone who wants to participate in the game actually play.

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[(Anonymous)]

when people play in plot heavy, darker or even straight up horror games, are obviously only interested in sol and get pa when events and the larger game plot get in the way of their sol or shipping plans.

why are you even here?

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[(Anonymous)]

flakes who try to be a big deal or change things in the game

flakes sticking to cr and playing in the game without trying to prop their chars up as a huge deal are fine. flakes who try to make their character more present than they are thanks to the player scraping for ac month after month are the fucking worst. stop signing up for plots you know you won't go through with. stop acting like your chars should be a center of attention for an event you'll respond to two or three times and then drop. stop glory hogging your handwaved adventures and finish a fucking thread for once in your life.

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[(Anonymous)]

when you've been waiting a week for someone to tag back on an important thread and know they've been busy irl and are more than willing to be patient with them

but then you see them tagging every open post in the goddamn comm

how about you actually wrap up your current threads rather than adding more to the pile?? maybe then you'll be able to actually tag people back more than once a week.

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[(Anonymous)]

There's a player in a little tiny game that I'm in, and they're a good person, but god damn they can not write. Everything feels rushed, poorly put together, openly ignoring ICA=ICC (or getting pissed when the other people they're threading with are actually trying to react appropriately.)

And as the new shiny has worn off, they drop the character and move on to a new shiny, regardless of how it would screw up the CR with all of the other characters.

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[(Anonymous)]

People who write their characters like painfully boring cardboard cut-outs and then act like their cut-out is best friends with your character because they had one polite interaction.

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[(Anonymous)]

Character makes a network post all “I have questions about game mechanic A and general thing B!”

Person replies with “A doesn’t apply to me and I don’t know anything about B! :))))”

Why are you here then?

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[(Anonymous)]

stop assuming that the mindset of a character is the same as the player's