May 9, 2022, 3:42 PM
@cobalt Was that Evelyn? The OD Ventrue?
The Worst Thing You Have Done in this Hobby Thread
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Thanks. I'm getting the help I need, but this individual's other victims were treated even more poorly and were even younger than I was at the time.
There's no turning over a new leaf on things that are unforgivable, and I wish this person would get out of this hobby so I'd stop having to warn people about them.
Gratitude to staffers who have believed me.
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If you don't mind telling me who this person is, I will do what I can to pre-emptively make sure they don't set foot here.
Just tell me by PM.
Thanks.
Edit: And done.
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@buttercup THAT was you?
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Yes and I am so sorry. It was the absolute most disgusting and worst. I was stupidly trying to get banned on a game that contrary to my belief at the time would let you do /anything/ apparently.
My bad.
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@buttercup In my mind, at least at the time, I don't think there's anything to apologize for. To me, anyways. I admit I giggled at the dog's name. I thought it was a joke. One in extremely poor taste, but still a joke.
I do admit to still being baffled by Shangrila. A lot of weird, not nice shit went down there. I only logged due to a friend's insistence, and when they got bored and left, I never logged there again.
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Lost my shit and forgot there was a person behind the screen. Doesn't matter why..or whatever was happening at the time..
I hurt someone. Absolutely the worst thing I've done in this hobby.
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@littlelizard said in The Worst Thing You Have Done in this Hobby Thread:
Lost my shit and forgot there was a person behind the screen. Doesn't matter why..or whatever was happening at the time..
I hurt someone. Absolutely the worst thing I've done in this hobby.
Can i just copy this answer?
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@cobalt Was that Evelyn? The OD Ventrue?
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Forgotten that just because characters are friends or lovers that doesn't mean that the player behind the screen is your friend (and obviously, not your lover either). I've allowed myself to get hurt a couple of times when I thought an OOC friendship had developed only to get dropped like a hot potato when the other player grew bored.
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Constantly ghosting the high holy fuck out of everyone the second my rabid meerkat attention span shifted to a new game, hobby or unexplainable burnout.
Too many good friends casually cast aside over the years to count. Sorry, y'all. I'm better now... but not by much.
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@tooters yes
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I can honestly say I've done that several times myself.
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@royal said in The Worst Thing You Have Done in this Hobby Thread:
Constantly ghosting the high holy fuck out of everyone the second my rabid meerkat attention span shifted to a new game, hobby or unexplainable burnout.
Too many good friends casually cast aside over the years to count. Sorry, y'all. I'm better now... but not by much.
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@royal This is the best one yet I think. Just because. Well, yeah... me too.
I think you got the common thread for many of us ghosting jerks.
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@royal said in The Worst Thing You Have Done in this Hobby Thread:
Constantly ghosting the high holy fuck out of everyone the second my rabid meerkat attention span shifted to a new game, hobby or unexplainable burnout.
Too many good friends casually cast aside over the years to count. Sorry, y'all. I'm better now... but not by much.
Also guilty here. Very much so.
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I think that happens to everybody and is largely par the course for RPGs. Doesn't seem very bad unless you insist on lying about it.
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@royal I didn't know the full story behind it. I thought it was a random PVP event. That's pretty sad.
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- 12 days later
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I don't know if this counts. Probably not. But it's probably one of the 'worst' things I've done in this hobby, and that's the story you degenerates will get from me.
During my University freshman year I got into RP online. I had played on MUDs before mind you but at that point they were basically text-based MMORPGs; kill mobs, get gear, level up. So I started playing more and more. Plus there were other video games (Daggerfall!) I was into, and those were big time timesinks as well.
Around the same time since I had already been coding for a few years (and while this was a computer science program not everyone had necessarily done any development before) it wasn't rare to hang out at my dorm room with other students, going over our assignments and whatnot. Some of them stayed later than others.
You can probably see where this is going. So a specific girl stayed around much longer after everyone else left. And we weren't even chatting about studies at that point, just about... you know, stuff in general. Life. But I wanted to play Daggerfall. Or log on and see if there were any public quests I could get to. What was going on in the White Tower since the last time I was online three hours earlier?
So she kept coming over and I kept just... thinking this was about C++ assignments even though we never really discussed code. This went on for a few weeks (probably less than that, it's just how I remember it
) until she gave up and stopped inviting herself over.No, I had no idea.
No, I did not get a clue until years later. Literally not until a common friend asked me how that had gone - she thought we had just kept it private. I do recall answering with "uh, until what went what now?".
It's what it is.
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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