251: back in my day wank meant something

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da

[(Anonymous)]

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.

+2

[(Anonymous)]

you've hit the nail on the head. he isn't a real wanker and he's never done anything bad to me personally, but after seeing the way he browbeat the mods of my game when they didn't jump to implement all his suggestions of how to change the game setting to his liking, i'd give strong pause to allowing him in any game i modded.

another da

[(Anonymous)]

so, more likely rubi shuts down because of his bullshit or more likely the other mods remove him from the team (if not the game as a whole)? or does he burn out and drop like another anon suggested, place bets now wg

Re: another da

[(Anonymous)]

it's honestly down to how long he can last. he will for sure burn out and drop, question is if he manages to take the game with him before that. that'd depend on how fragile the game is to begin with, how resistant to change and how bored with the setting. i'm not in it currently, so i can't say. the reality is, rubi never had the kind of amazing plotlines or events that would build a loyal playerbase. there's nothing special about it to guarantee that players would stick it out for the premise, if the vibe soured.

[(Anonymous)]

what game?

Re: +2

[(Anonymous)]

didn't he also mod that overly complicated time travel game, and also created a complicated and boring last voyages ripoff after whining for months that tlv was unrealistic

i don't remember the time travel game's name, only that it got wank about wwi being "too recent" for an rp setting

Re: +2

[(Anonymous)]

he was part of a clique that was bigmad about anybody playing tlv as touchy-feelsy redemption through the power of friendship instead of grim n' gritty punishment for past sins. they'd fixate hard on anyone they decided was playing the game wrong.

Re: +2

[(Anonymous)]

...isn't the entire point of tlv that characters are redeemed?

Re: +2

[(Anonymous)]

Was it called return journey? That games mod page doesn't have his name on it but iirc that was a tlv spinoff

[(Anonymous)]

ok well

1. sounds like he wasnt a mod??

2. lmao tlv

id appreciate deets on the game he actually modded tho

[(Anonymous)]

Agoge is the name, someone posted it below, their mod contact page is still unscreened

Re: +2

[(Anonymous)]

agoge?

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

yeah, he's not toxic, he's exhaustive.

[(Anonymous)]

speaking of pel, i was told by a friend of mine this afternoon that a few days ago he removed everyone on his plurk who has brought crit and feedback to the mods, either publicly or privately. i have never been on his plurk, but what a sensitive little bitch baby.

[(Anonymous)]

… how does your friend know who brought crit privately

[(Anonymous)]

this may shock you but people can indeed tell people the things they have done privately

[(Anonymous)]

uh huh and “my friend” doesn’t sound like a suspicious distancing tactic at all

[(Anonymous)]

i wondered what happened lol. how do people like this survive in the real world.

[(Anonymous)]

we may never know

[(Anonymous)]

they don't

da

[(Anonymous)]

i have raised questions about and politely criticized mod choices in the game plurk before and pel hasn’t removed me from his friends list or axed all of our cr.

[(Anonymous)]

he's probably just getting pissier about it now

sa

[(Anonymous)]

and just checking his list now i see several names of other players who have criticized mod choices publicly and privately. honestly you guys will just believe anything that confirms your preexisting biases about anything about this game, without bothering to check easily verifiable facts first.

[(Anonymous)]

This sounds true and not like someone exaggerating or outright lying bc of a grudge at all

da

[(Anonymous)]

he did remove some people who had recently spoken up with concerns about the game

i'm not pel's biggest fan either but imo it's a good move on his part to curate his space if he can't stay impartial