Controversial posts made by GamerNGeek

But it's BETTER, guys. It's an IMPROVEMENT. Never mind that we don't like it and didn't ask for it and was poorly implemented. It's NEWER. And that makes it BETTER. At least that's what the fanboy apologists will keep telling us.

@Miss-Demeanor I'll just say this last, since this IS the Announcement forum, and getting into a scrap here isn't what it's intended for. Fuck you. You're not a moderator. And on top of it, you yourself have done your share of pissing and moaning both in this thread, and other forums than the Hog Pit. So, take your opinions and your attempts to look like you're important and fuck right off.

No matter how anyone tries to spin this, an upgrade was done that was of questionable need, and worse, it was pushed live with a theme that literally prevented multiple people here from being even abe to read the forums. That is bad policy, and until or unless the administrators decide otherwise, I have the ability to state my opinion of it. If you don't like it? Quit your bitching or go elsewhere.

Of course, the whole "how dare you ask me to pay to play this" is part of, honestly, why mushing is so far behind the times. Hosting often costs money. It takes staff time. All of that is "money" in some form. And yet the players are all "why, how dare you ask me to pay money??!?!?!!?WTF?!?!? What makes you think I have money?" I've seen people talking about college students, who are apparently begging on the street corners like little Orphan Oliver, going "May I have some more, sir?" rather than buying $8.00 lattes at Starbucks except waitnotheyaren't.

You want the solution to some of mushing's woes? Look to the pay to play models on MMOs. These companies make money hand over fist, even on "free to play" MMOs. One basic idea (on the good ones) is you can either spend your time, or spend your money. Invent a virtual currency like these games do. Hand them over for time-spent. You're online, you're active? Congratulations, you earn 5 ArrPee a week. You can spend 20 to buy yourself a "Premiere character slot", which you can spend on playing something that honestly will work fine, but which we in our batshit mush culture have decided would break the universe if everyone got to play it because no one wants to be a special snowflake ever.

Orrrrrr, you can Paypal to a game account, and 1 dollar gets you 5 ArrPee. If you told me I could either have to get +votes or submit logs or WTFery else five times a week to get my 5 ArrPee, or I could just kick in 4 bucks to do the same? Fuck, I can't buy LUNCH for 4 bucks. Here. Hell, have a tip. Give me my shinies and let me burn my time having FUN. Someone who in theory can't afford 4 bucks? (And if not, how do they have a computer?) Let them earn it.

@Miss-Demeanor You know what? Once I set up my Mush Client? It works. And then I leave it alone. Ans the whole "it's only two steps" is horseshit. Clearing your browser cache is inconvenient as shit, since it clears a bunch of the things you autofill on sites. Having to inconvenience myself and re-enter data for dozens of sites because of ONE that decided it needed to break shit that already worked ISN'T COOL. If you want to upgrade things? Make sure they WORK first. That's what testing environments are for. Not pushing things to live.