Controversial posts made by Miss Demeanor

@lordbelh I'm not saying nobody can be an asshole or a bitch, but its a pervasive enough attitude that its driving multiple players away. You can be gruff or blase without being an asshole. And really, is your enjoyment of the game going to lessen THAT much if people in general tone down the IC aggression and antagonism a notch? If so, you may be an asshole yourself. I'm not asking for hug town, I pretty specifically said as much in my last post. There's a HUGE middle ground between 'hug town' and 'surrounded by assholes'. That's what I'm looking for. Because right now, there's enough people that are coming across the 'surrounded by assholes' that its worth addressing.

@GirlCalledBlu I... don't get what there is to not understand. You are having fun and think everything is peachy. Other people are having a very different experience. Are you incapable of seeing outside your own perspective? Can you not grasp that someone else may not be having the same experience you are? I... kind of feel like you're being willfully ignorant here to an extreme degree so you can protect your own fun. This... isn't rocket science. More than a few people are stepping forward to say their experience on The 100 was that other characters were being overly or needlessly antagonistic and asshole behavior in the majority of their scenes. Not just one person, not just one situation or specific instance. Its an overall IC behavior that multiple people have run into more times than not.

When it was just me, I just quietly left the game. I figured it was just me. But its not just me. There's enough people having similar problems that its become a multi-page discussion on this thread. That makes it something that needs addressing. As staff, your job is to make that effort to address it, whether you have personally experienced it or not. In short, you may need to try harder to step outside your comfort zone and look carefully at the posts people put up saying they had a bad experience. Look at what they're saying. Look at what happened. These were people who left the game quietly. They didn't kick and scream, they didn't put up big angsty posts, they didn't passive-aggressively snark on anything... they just left the game after a consistent bad experience. Why wouldn't you want to look into this?

@Cobaltasaurus Not here. People are AGGRESSIVE about it. Like they WANT you to say something so they can light into you about it. And given that Florida is one of the few states that didn't really change or take away any of their government assistance programs, there's a TON of people that are on WIC, foodstamps, cash assistance, etc. There's no shame here. Just lots and lots of entitled bitches that think they shouldn't have to bother looking up what their own benefits are, that WE should just automatically know for them.

@Lithium Okay, that's fair (re: the cities). As I said, I was mostly curious about your thought process behind why you picked the four cities you did rather than a few others that are more 'popular' or more 'well-known' settings.

Out of the four, I would vote for Boston. East coast still has a lot of that Old World/New World feel to it, especially when you get to the areas that straddle the old sections of the city and the newer sections. I like the dichotomy between the slums and the high rises... and frankly, I'm an East Coast girl. ^_^

@Sunny Hence why I'm saying that maybe it should simply be relabeled as a more sandbox game than one open to everyone, since its clearly not meant for everyone.

@Cobaltasaurus I was CSM'ing the other day when I got called over to a register. One of our cashiers had gotten a couple that apparently hadn't paid attention to all the 'WIC Approved' stickers plastered all over the small grocery section we have. They tried to pick up about $165 worth of 'WIC items'... except only about $20 of it was covered under WIC. The woman starts screaming at me about how her case worker told her she could get milk and cheese and bread and fruit and how our system must be wrong. I patiently explain to her that WIC doesn't cover just anything that falls under those categories (she'd tried to to claim that the blueberry/raspberry/blackberry and melon mixes in a plastic carton should be covered by WIC) and that she has to look at the shelves the items are on for the WIC Approved stickers to determine which items she can actually get with her WIC.

End result? She wanted us to void out anything NOT covered under WIC (about 85% of the order), so I had to abort the transaction and explain to the woman that SHE would have to take the items back to the grocery section to figure out which items were covered under WIC and which ones weren't. She yelled and threatened to 'report us' because apparently its not HER job to do that (even though its very specifically her responsibility to do exactly that).

Moral of the story: WIC and Food Stamp people are TERRIBLE to cashiers (generalization, yes, but one that I can provide TONS of evidence for). They act entitled and put upon and don't ever bother to look at what they can and can't buy with their government assistance. Best bet when coming across one of these people is just to affix a smile on your face, keep an eye on what they're trying to buy, and get them through your line as quickly as possible.

Still not sold. But again, I don't care for the GMC/WoD 2E games overall. I don't find the new rules or settings to be all that interesting or enjoyable, so I have zero interest in investing the time and effort into figuring it all out. I don't even really care for the hybridization of NWoD/GMC that TR uses, but I'm already invested in the character that I still have there.

@Coin said:

@Miss-Demeanor said:

@Coin Not hard at all. Because people want the themes and setups of owod with the more streamlined and easier mechanics of nwod. How is that hard to grasp? What they put out doesn't cover what people want. So yeah, they buy it... then immediately start bitching about how its not exactly what they wanted.

Do you even consumer, bro?

Except there's been translation guides for years now that allow them to play the best part of both systems (and for those things that don't have them, it's painfully simple to do if you're at all motivated).

I like nWoD. I like the differences. It's not a matter of grasping their logic; it's a matter of trying not to roll my eyes at the constant bitching when their solution would effectively take away something other people do like.

I kinda get the feeling you took my response more seriously than intended. It was more a tongue-in-cheek commentary on the growing sense of lazy entitlement that seems to be spreading through the world of consumerism.

There are things I like and dislike about each iteration of WoD that's cropped up from the OG oWoD to the newest GMC stuff.