I didn't know about the behind-the-scenes bashing, but I can believe it. The cliquey-ness is what gets me, along with the overemphasis on shipping. Makes it extremely hard for a new player to get much traction. With a game that small, I know you can wind up in a circle-jerk death spiral, but good lord. The mod plays more than a dozen characters, a few other people have around eight or ten. They want more people, and more characters, but when you bar someone from applying for a character because you don't ship what the mod does, you're not really being a welcoming place.
They also seem to have a scary sort of hive mind when someone's having activity problems. They band together to drive them out of the game.
It's mostly done through the monthly concrit meme. And even then, it's hard to know how many are actually involved, because crit is required to be anonymous. But usually several people write multi-paragraph comments (sometimes needing to split between comments) while no one else on the meme gets crit (or it's just an "omg i <3 u" circlejerk). And it's done month after month after month. Granted, the player usually does have activity problems, but it's a bit nuts.
The mod is a big-time SJW and is also rabidly "anti-fandom hate". Though "fandom hate" usually means it's something she doesn't agree with.
Ewwwww. I once thought of apping to Kiseki since some of my RP acquintances were there, but then I decided not to. I dodged a fucking MASSIVE bullet, it seems; I admittedly I'm kinda flaky, but a toxic and bitchy environment like that wouldn't have helped.
And yeah, it looks I was thinking of the right person (and her equally SJW buttlickers, some of them also in Kiseki). Even more reasons to not send my CLAMP charas there ever.
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(Anonymous) 2013-04-10 02:46 pm (UTC)(link)They also seem to have a scary sort of hive mind when someone's having activity problems. They band together to drive them out of the game.
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(Anonymous) 2013-04-11 11:02 am (UTC)(link)wow, links/deets?
also, isn't the mod some giant SJW as well as one of THESE Sirius/Remus rabid shippers? I thiiiink I heard about that a while ago.
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(Anonymous) 2013-04-11 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)The mod is a big-time SJW and is also rabidly "anti-fandom hate". Though "fandom hate" usually means it's something she doesn't agree with.
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(Anonymous) 2013-04-11 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)Ewwwww. I once thought of apping to Kiseki since some of my RP acquintances were there, but then I decided not to. I dodged a fucking MASSIVE bullet, it seems; I admittedly I'm kinda flaky, but a toxic and bitchy environment like that wouldn't have helped.
And yeah, it looks I was thinking of the right person (and her equally SJW buttlickers, some of them also in Kiseki). Even more reasons to not send my CLAMP charas there ever.