@Arkandel said in Strange Game Dev Inquiries from surreality (condensed):
It is not. Constructive is asking them to stop and notifying an admin to take action if they think it's beyond the forum's rules.
I suppose @Ghost could have simply pointed to this post from @bored a week ago:
Several people comment how they don't play, and just kind of participate here. To me this is a hint of how little there is to actually enjoy in the hobby any more. Most games have the same problems they always have, good RP is painfully scarce, and little of what you can scrape up is worth the effort. Of course, a lot of this is due to a change in personal standards of effort/reward compared to games getting worse, although there are factors on that side too (very sandboxy games, etc).
I obviously count in the above category, except that I don't even post here that much. And when I do, it's primarily to be negative. So I probably haven't moved on as much beyond the WORA mindset as I'd like to think, which is on me. Then again, I think there's a lot of people like me; it's just a matter of the degrees to which people go to veil their vitriol in politeness.
To amend @Ghost's comment, perhaps: "Immature troglodytes like you who freely admit that they are here to be negative and cannot find any reason to continue to remain an active participant in the hobby, yet still feel compelled to arrive and take a shit on others' ideas, are the reason people get all kinds of squicked in this hobby, or on these boards, and I hope a bear shits in your mouth."
Constructively, I sincerely hope @surreality changes her mind, comes back, and finishes her work. Or, if she doesn't, that she has a splendiferous time hopefully not having to defend her work against people that, by their own admission, don't give two shits about her success or failure.