Jul 27, 2022, 12:38 AM

@Ganymede @RightMeow @Warma-Sheen

Ah. Then no, I didn't miss that. I get that people think that part is easy.

But what it doesn't take into account is that keeping up that level of anonymity even with good behavior is exhausting. It's easy to make slips about anything that happened in the past. Relationships you've built with other people. Good times that you had.

Friendships can be tarnished based on the old identity, and so going into those circles becomes awkward because on the one hand, you like these people, but on the other -- how do you just come out and tell them that you're this other person that has all of this negative baggage associated with them?

We've seen, on this forum, blowups about people 'flying under the radar' even when they haven't done anything recent, just based on prior history and being outed.

So no, I didn't miss that going into a game under a different identity is "easy." I was countering with "it is harder than you think, exhausting, and potentially unfair if based on slim evidence given the way this hobby tends to work."

IMO it is not the lesser of two evils, and I don't condone it.