wankgate | 251: back in my day wank meant something

eh, maybe for the rest of the night. venmo me, see you tomorrow wg.

Nowhere did I say that they weren't allowed to talk about not liking something in their own plurk. It's not about them not liking the thing, it's perfectly fine that they don't like it. It's when they insist that the people that like it (aka their friends) are stupid and wrong and have bad opinions for liking it is where I side eye. They're also allowed to make indirect passive aggressive comments about their friends, certainly, but that doesn't make it any less shitty or rude.

Already unfollowed them, thanks. I'm just using the Plurk pet peeves thread for its intended purpose.

where do you think we are right now

trashing people for liking things we don't like is called 'tuesday' on wg

+1

I don't actually mind having to tag new CR. But adding in "completed threads only" on top of all the other requirements is very silly. If someone's always dropping their threads after turning them in for a coin that's a fair discussion to be had with that player, but now you have people turning in network threads with less than ten comments and getting a reward while a log thread with 50+ comments isn't eligible if the players are still tagging it.

spoiler: it doesn't have to go away. someone opposed to your viewpoint has every right to spew it as you do yours. mute/ignore is literally the best option and is the ones that puts the onus on you, the offended party, to curate your world experience. being offended is not an actual offense, ffs. you're not traumatized by it. you can't sue for being offended at someone's opinion.

the main issue is that some people, clearly like you, who can't separate 'people not liking things i like' with 'people not liking me'. someone not liking a thing you like is not a personal attack on you. you make it personal. especially when your response is 'it needs to go away'. no, it doesn't. you need to ignore it. your opinion is not the only one that matters. it only matters to you.

well yes

but this is about someone on plurk

not wankgate on

you silly hobbit

anons at what point is a player in too many games with one specific character? does it matter how many are private vs public or the kind of ac requirements of the game? when is a character too popular to justify taking up multiple games with them? are there characters that are okay to do with this (besides ocs)? when does it cross the line of not okay and why? in your personal opinions. no wrong answers, tell me your thoughts.

ten-fifteen years ago, i'dve said five. this day and age, i say more than two games with the same character is highlandering. there's not enough games now to justify taking up more than two spots with the same char. if you want different experiences with cr, then psl. or go in memes. but pick two different game types to get your different strokes, then leave the other games for other people. (this is barring private small group games that no other version would have access to anyway)

If they have castmates, three games is the max for me and only if they're actually exceeding AC consistently in them. If they have to keep catching up at the end of the month, they should stick to one game because whether they want to admit it or not, they're a burden on their castmates who have to work around them not being active. Most people will say they don't mind to your face, but are probably already not expecting anything of you so would even be relieved if you drop.

If they're an LCW in all three than I guess it's fine. People will just start ignoring them and they can take a space no one wants.

People are allowed to dislike whatever they want.

People who shit on their friends for their harmless preferences are insufferable and shitty.

Both are true.

to me, it all comes down to whether or not they are actually active in the games. if they can keep up with and exceed the ac requirements in 3 games? cool, more power to them. but if they're barely scraping by and/or need to ask other people to boomerang in order to make ac, then they need to drop some characters.

interesting! what if the game is old like duplicity or clearly had the height of popularity already? if no one's apped that character after many years, and the player is active.

what if the character is so obscure there might be 1 or 2 other players out there, at most? or other players only seem to have this character in memes?

would any of those factors influence your thoughts? just curious because i have seen this discussion a few times and people generally drop pretty set opinions that allow for x element (private games) but not y (no one plays this character anyway). but i was hoping to start a discussion with input on variables that might be overlooked.

you seem to be focused on the unfairness to other players of said character, is your answer impacted by the idea that others might have had a chance at this character? there's still games that have been around long enough people have tried them and decided they aren't for them.

thanks anon! i tried to think of a follow up question for you and couldn't, but appreciate the input. where the anon above you seems more concerned about highlandering, you seem more concerned with holding up castmates. appreciate the insight :)

if someone is in a game for more than two years, they seem to be comfortable and in it for the long haul, active or not, so i don't really see them moving. that said, they're still active in a game, and while duplicity had a height of popularity, it's still something new people/chars are apping into, because it's still established. guaranteed play with someone. newness/age of game doesn't really matter. the availability to enter does. if me and a group of people i know want to make a game specifically designed around a canon (let's say firefly), then clearly it would involve canon characters and if we didn't have all the characters among us, i could see putting out a call for xyz to come in. but that doesn't mean the inara shouldn't play in other games if they have the energy for it. no one's fighting for their spot since it's theirs based on them being part of the core group, and 'i' built this game for me/my friends. games like that don't count as real games, because the metric for entrance is different than open games with multi-canons.

obscure characters are kind of a ymmv basis. sometimes there's a weird resurgence for canons i see when one person throws a barely seen canon char out there on memes and suddenly i see a scattered cast cropping up around that time.

most of my opinion is based on the fact that i'll see someone posting about playing their (still relevant and popular) character in game x then game y, then trying for game z and also game a and hey, game b looks fun. i think there should be an argument for game rotation. been in the game for a year/three? maybe move to a psl with close cr and open up the spot(s).

honestly, i think a lot of people are in this weird nostalgia view where they remember when they were in six games and could manage. but the landscape's changed, and now there's less games and more stress and it's like 'you could be getting all that fomo out of you by just playing in memes', because i cannot tell you how many times i see 'sorry guys, i need to drop all my threads and start anew rl sucks' plurks on my timeline from people. the same people. the ones that want all the old activity they had, but can't keep up. then they get anxious, can't tag, then burn out.

app in a game. app in two games. app in two characters if you want 'more'. but if that's not enough, then the issue isn't the games. it's fomo and need for constant distractions and it's unfair to take up spots when it feels like they're grabbing them because they're popular and they want 'all the tags', but don't actually have the follow through with it. games became disappointing to me when i was surrounded by people doing this. i'm much happier in memes. i'm leaving the game bitching to the people with the energy to bitch. i can barely eat my crackers.

I admit that highlandering isn't an issue for me as long as people are active. Like if you want to be the only Bakugou in the whole of DW and you actually tag back and are IC, then more power to you. Obviously this won't sit well for others, but for me the fun of tagging is well... tagging. Not the ghost of a castmate lingering about.

If I get 4 Bakugous and they all are flakey, I'd take the one who is active in 4 games instead.

bakugou seems to have this problem less than todoroki.

i get what they're going for but this is the most hilariously condescending and pedantic way to try and outline what RPing actually is, like are you worried people are going to try and internet litigate their activity and if so you need to chill out

but throwing an anonymous shitfit on wankgate does make it go away, I see

fuck you, it's friday

oh, it's Pel

it's depressing that he hasn't changed since CDC, but at least this time he made his own game with his own weird rules instead of doing months of entitled bitching about the mods not running their game HIS way

he didn't make his own game though

he joined this one six months ago and the existing mods were stupid enough to give him power that he shouldn't have

that's true. he was just the first character i thought of since he's (probably) familiar enough to wg

yea there's a not great one in like five games

is mugennoken that one ken or a different ken

what do we wank about on friday again? friends? furries?

i know saturday is faturday

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