Posts made by Kanye Qwest

I got my fit bit LAST NIGHT and I am already one of those people. I am counting steps and I caught myself trying to talk to someone about them.

I am sorry, world.

@Arkandel

It's weird that I would agree with you, but I would. I sort of watched Season 1 of Daredevil because I'd just binged Jessica Jones and was craving more. Season 1 had REALLY questionable dialogue. I hated Foggy. I was Karen-ambivalent. I liked Claire.

Season 2 brought an A game I was not expecting because of that. Character development and growth for everyone! Except maybe Matt, who is stubborn and misguided and flip flops harder than a bro squad in Miami. The storylines were comic-book ridiculous, which is a given, but the emotional responses seemed so real. And their treatment of the Punisher, I just can't say enough good things about him.

@HorrorHound Pls send me novellas.

@Olsson

Best RP group I ever had was in a MMO, years ago. Honestly the whole reason I keep roleplaying is trying to hit that sweet spot of storytelling again.

What I loved the most about it was the spotlight sharing. There were 6/7 of us, and we would take turns all creating alts and brainstorming up a plot to focus on one character. Then, we'd pick another and do it again. It was great! In theory, MU* rp could lend itself to this kind of environment. I think that's the hope, anyway.

I can't even comprehend tumblr rp. Didn't they remove replies??

I wasn't looking for thanks. What I was expecting/looking for, I didn't really get, but you could say that's my fault. I had the unreasonable expectation that if I jumped through all the hoops set before me, I'd eventually be allowed to tell 'important' stories with the Sacred Theme.

But not to hijack another thread - I just think a lot of lingering hurt feelings and issues could probably also be avoided if people just tried to be a little understanding. Then, maybe, staffing wouldn't be such a burnout.

@skew said:

@Kanye-Qwest said:

@skew said:

I seriously want to have a building on fire, and for someone to pose in without waiting for a set, or without asking, or anything. Just once. That would tickle me.

If you're in a public rp room anyone can come to, isn't it sort of on you in that case to be like "Oh hey, since you just walked in - we just set this building on fire."

A few times (maybe a dozen in the 3 years I've been MUing) I've had people enter a public room and pose in before I have time to notice that a new player has entered. Like, while I'm in the middle of typing, or looking at my fingernails. I recall a player who was notorious for typing one or two sentence poses, and typing them fast. You'd get the 'enters' message, and then 30 seconds later he poses in.

I definitely feel the people who are in a scene should offer up a set, and some information, but the person entering gives them no time to do so, and doesn't ask, what can you do?

Laugh about it and let them re-pose a more reasonable entrance? Or I mean jump straight to mocking them, I guess. Either works.

Things like that are what I mean by "necessary ooc discussion." I never said I was opposed to ooc entirely, or refused to do it. I just try to avoid it as much as possible for both my sanity, scene pacing, and immersion.

I have been staff on exactly one game, and let me tell you, it was a thankless, thankless job. In fact, becoming staff led to a friend I actually really liked and cared about going off and ending that (though to be fair she seems to blow up and flake out a lot, evidenced here, so in retrospect I don't think that situation is what I thought it was at the time).

It led to a bunch of frustrations, as within any staff there are cliques, and woe betide the person who raises an objection. That led to a culture of people afraid to speak up because they would be sacrificing the work they had put into the game. In that game, if you stepped down from staff, your PCs ceased to matter, and you'd be in the negative, forever, any time it came to staff decisions.

Which is not to say I didn't have fun, of course I did. Some of the fun was even related to BEING staff. I enjoyed the things I was allowed to write/GM by myself. I enjoyed my war mission even though it killed the first PC of the season and I felt awful about THAT.

But I think people are way more judgmental of staff than they are players, disproportionately so. Maybe there are games where being staff means you get your way more often than not. That was the case for a few people, but they were the exception. Even then, I do not think most of them were purposefully trying to exploit their staff positions to 'win'. Not consciously. People are not as bad as momentary interactions can paint them to be, and I think we all know that, but it's hard to let go of a time you felt you were in the right and didn't get your way.

I have a pretty mixed rep due to that staffing, but it doesn't bother me. For instance, one player said I was the most terrible PERSON playing the game, and because of me she wouldn't even RP her character in my clan. I was that terrible. This person also said that my staffbit was a total darling because I did a tiny bit of research into her and tailored her part in a little one-off plot to give her a reward she loved. . .not realizing we were the same person.

Staffing is hard. Benefit of the doubt is the order of the day. Wall of text, here, sorry.

@skew said:

I seriously want to have a building on fire, and for someone to pose in without waiting for a set, or without asking, or anything. Just once. That would tickle me.

If you're in a public rp room anyone can come to, isn't it sort of on you in that case to be like "Oh hey, since you just walked in - we just set this building on fire."

@Roz said:

@Kanye-Qwest The term gets misused prolifically, but I do think you're right given that some of the harassment is centered on religion.

And race, and sexuality.

Yeah that's kind of the definition of a hostile work environment, I would think.

@Derp
I don't know you at all, nor do I know where you staffed, but I bet you weren't that bad! People generally aren't.

The Punisher is killing it. HA get it? But no, really, he's doing a great job. I like the angle they are taking with him.

Foggy also does not deserve this shit, but to be honest he is also giving KAREN shit. So. Everyone should apologize to everyone. Now kiss.

Hot tea is a slice of heaven anytime, but being sick sucks. Get well soon!

Ep 8 or 9, and all I have to say here is that KAREN WORKS REALLY HARD AND SHE DOES NOT DESERVE YOUR SHIT, OK.

@Roz said:

I know that the usual complaint is people who reply all unnecessarily, but: people who don't reply all. How the fuck am I supposed to know if these ads were approved when the person approving them insists on replying to one person who is not me and who no longer works here.

They were definitely approved, I'll include that correspondence for you as an attachment.

No, there was nothing attached....

HI I AM OUT OF THE OFFICE UNTIL MARCH 28TH

@Sammi
Are you staff on this game?

@Arkandel said:

@Kanye-Qwest You can be rude if you want, but does it need to be off-topic in a game's thread?

No? I've tried twice to return the focus of the conversation to BITN, but people are more interested in contributing to criticize. I'll stop engaging them.

@Sammi said:

@Kanye-Qwest said:

LOL you mad, though?

I realize that in your world you might think that people offer assistance with no expectation of gain when they're angry and that loquacity and criticism are indications of wrath. You have also stated your belief that only OOC communication (and not lack of communication) is a cause of people getting irritated with you (which is patently false). Quoting for relevance:

@Kanye-Qwest said:

All done with no OOC communication, so there's nothing to take personally.

Frankly, you shouldn't trust any of your intuitions. People don't behave the way you think they do, so stop making any assumptions and you'll fare a lot better.

I'm done trying to help you socialize better. Go off and annoy people in public places and then get all confused and huffy when they don't take kindly to it.

Thanks for the permission, bitch.