wankgate | 251: back in my day wank meant something

Am in the game and I think players are actually just using the activity page to keep a log of what they were up to that month. The mods aren't asking for that level of detail.

bruh what are you talking about

the activity page has a billion caveats about what actually counts as being active and engaged beyond the actual requirements listed which is stupid an unnecessary unless for the explicit purposes of constantly making people feel like their activity isn't good enough

???? I'm talking about the actual paragraphs people voluntarily write for ac.

Okay I just went to the activity check page and a lot of that language is new. Eh, I don't care for it but also don't really care.

Saying that it's for "the explicit purposes of constantly making people feel like their activity isn't good enough" though?

lol.

they literally are though?

"When we ask for "enthusiastic participation" in rule 3, we want to see players "writing out scenes instead of merely handwaving." Enthusiastically engaged players maintain a range of CR with castmates and non-castmates alike by threading (not just plotting or handwaving) with one another most months. These players write and finish meaningful threads that change their character's relationships with their CR over time, influencing one another to action and reaction."

imagine not trusting your players to do this and having to put it in the activity rules

It's cause Tifa thinks they're the only one who knows how to RP correctly

she does, but the rules don't sound like they were written by her.

because pel thinks he's really doing something big and trying to tonally change the game and ooc culture

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

so bizarre that it's pel either supporting or outright spearheading this, because he historically goes through extreme bursts of activity/disappearance, and he would not be able to sustain these requirements himself long term.

Was the game even in need of this tonal shift?

so why would he volunteer to be a damn mod, is he that clueless

he'll probably burn out and dramatically drop just like prox did

prox and a bunch of other rubi players fucked off to saltburnt so idk that they're rp burnt out

was there some drama reason all those people left, or is saltburnt just the new hotness?

new hotness. rubi and salt are both la flake containment wards.

we get it milk, you're still mad about the vvitch opla cast

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probably, like all flakes, he believes his rl circumstances and energy for the hobby have finally changed and this time is when he manages to honor all of his commitments, just you wait.

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

What are the Pel deets from CDC?

wym. those are the deets. he's like that in every game

rubi is my first time pel experience afaik so i don't actually know his history

he's just a very negative person. ime he's not going to gossip or godmod or start ship drama but he's unpleasant to talk to, seeks out negative cr so his characters can be mouthpieces for him to be a dick through, and complains and bitches constantly about games not being run how he thinks they should be run. he's come up on wg before and there's never "wank", he just sucks all the air out of a room. bad call to give him mod powers.

ngl i've been on pel's plurk for years, he is a negative person but i've never seen rp or game complaints. where's he doing all this bitching?

typically to mods and in feedback or ooc posts. i'll give him that, he's forthright and doesn't do the whole death by a thousand grapevines. he also often makes good arguments or suggestions in theory, but fails to grasp the impossibilities of implementing his ideas in practice. that's part of why his modding initiatives have largely failed in the past: he gets bogged down in details he can't manage and that everyone else just hates dealing with, because fundamentally everyone dislikes the bureaucracy elements of rp much more than they do dealing with the pockets of dissatisfaction they'd address.

take this AC tone shift, which i admit i'd also peg on pel: you can see what he's trying to do there, by exterminating the malady of people who talk about rp far more than they do it. we've all dealt with that one castmate or quest partner who always got gung ho in the plotting stage, then never turned up, and minimal threading materialized. we've all rolled our eyes and wished they'd drop already, so someone who actually wants to rp could step in. but the 0.01% of more happiness i'd get from having that no longer be an issue doesn't balance the pain in the neck of making sure every month that i meet an ultra specific (yet at the same time vague) metric.

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