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RE: Pre-Banned Playersposted in Helping Hands
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RE: Warma-Sheenposted in Rough and Rowdy
Yeesh. I’m not sure what happened here. A lot of stuff is being thrown my way, not much of it true.
I think someone else already said, but I’m not Saulot. Apologies to him.
The only time there’s been an accusation of cheating that was even close to true was on City of Glass. Another player who I knew RL and was close with at the time had my password and logged on my character to a social scene. I got a message from them with a crap ton of apologies and excuses telling me what happened, but the end result was my character and hers were banned from that game. There’s no way to excuse that. I knew she had my password and would sometimes go onto my character, I didn’t change it. At the time I didn’t think it was a big deal and I didn’t think she’d do something like go into a scene with my character, but that’s on me and my poor choices and I never said otherwise.
On Empire, I have no connection to Sophia’s player and can only guess that Ada is just trying to dump on me since I dumped on her. I mean, I don’t know how to prove I’m not someone else. Same as I’m not Saulot. From what I got from Sophia, she wasn’t enjoying the game much, but we had a got along and I asked her for RP when no one else did. So if I was the only one she RPed with much, I wouldn’t know, but I wouldn’t be surprised. We got on well because I got her involved with stuff - the same way I did with multiple other characters on the game, but that’s about the extent of that. When I got banned, she quit. Not sure how that equates to us being the same person, but that’s a stretch and a half.
As Hollywood on TR, I was banned because I kept pestering Troy about trying to get other staffers to quit talking crap about my character on staff channels. She told me to stop bothering her and I didn’t. It wasn’t until after I was banned did some accusations about cheating get thrown out after the fact from which I never got a chance to address/defend and only heard about 3rd hand, which I think were about looking at my own jobs as a staffer, to which, if that was a thing, wasn’t more than occasional typos of the many, many, many jobs that I handled there.
About the rest, I mean… Clearly, I’m not liked. And that is what it is. I’ve been here long enough to know people love to go for blood. I’m not everyone’s cup of tea. My perspectives are different from a lot of people. I’ve ranted about that before, no need to rehash. I can’t change what I said or did 15 years ago, obviously, but try to do better. That doesn’t mean I’m gonna get it right every time. But I do try to not repeat mistakes.
My characters have had a lot of fun times in a lot of good scenes and rarely were involved in any drama. It was ooc that I had some clashes and that was my fault, obviously, cause I’m the common denominator.
But if I’ve made any of your game/character experience less fun, I do apologize.
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RE: Empty Night - A Dresdenverse Gameposted in Game Ads
This is not meant as a ding against staff but as a gentle correction.
The peoples who speak Sahaptin are further East than Seattle. The tribes in that area are generally Salish, such as the Klallam tribes or the Swinomish. It would be more representative of the tribes in the area to have Salish as a language rather than Sahaptin (if that was the goal and not one added b/c someone requested it for a character from Eastern WA that moved to Seattle).
Sources outside of myself:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahaptin_language
https://www.washingtontribes.org/the-tribes-of-washington/
ETA: Didn’t realize I c/p the same link twice, whoops.
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RE: Warma-Sheenposted in Rough and Rowdy
@Wizz said in Warma-Sheen:
@hellfrog said in Warma-Sheen:
this guy has more than once joined a game just to cheat, right out of the gate, with a side of negging the game runner from the fake alt for absolutely no reason. ‘your game sux, no one has reached out or been nice to me except Me’
not to mention some of his absolutely rancid takes here and back on MSB, most of which was consistently dismissing victims of harassment and insulting people trying to support them.
sincerely sorry to the people who came to his defense over the Empire thing, I don’t think it makes anything y’all were saying in general less valid, but the dude is a tool and didn’t deserve the benefit of the doubt.
Thanks for the clarification.
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RE: Warma-Sheenposted in Rough and Rowdy
I am glad WM isn’t Saulot.
Most of my memories of WM, like stated already, was them defending/agreeing with people like Derp, jujube/inuki/pika, and others.
I also have never understood cheating in games, ESPECIALLY RP games, even more especially on non-PvP games like CoG.
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RE: Doodlesposted in No Escape from Reality
@Cobalt Yeah, of course. That is kind of you to say. I’m glad you like it.
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RE: Doodlesposted in No Escape from Reality
@Ashkuri omg that is beautiful! Can I put it on her page on EmpireMUSH?
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RE: Warma-Sheenposted in Rough and Rowdy
@Cobalt said in Warma-Sheen:
@Rathenhope said in Warma-Sheen:
All fair, I wasn’t aware that TR reused names. A few coincidences does not make a pattern, so I retract!
I absolutely understand the idea they might be the same person. This recycling of names is so foreign to how roster and ares games work. It’s not something done in modern day MU*ing.
Recycling names might not be (it still happens, though increasingly rarely which is annoying), but with more roster games coming about one really should keep the idea of multiple players of the same character in mind when making accusations.
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RE: Empty Night - A Dresdenverse Gameposted in Game Ads
@Cobalt Our intent is to make it possible to play the game just with the information on our web portal. If we didn’t achieve that, we need to add more info. We can help fill in corner case information as necessary through the chargen process and in RP via PMs.
Since we’re touching on some of the storylines from the books, there might even be a little more enjoyment with some of the things that start out similar to how they do in the books, just because they’ll be a surprise.
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RE: Empty Night - A Dresdenverse Gameposted in Game Ads
@Cobalt said in Empty Night - A Dresdenverse Game:
How difficult would it be to get into the game without having read them?
Dresdenverse is generic urban fantasy with a very light veil that is self-enforcing. there are some very specific setting things that are important to know (vampires come in a bunch of different varieties, magic users are policed by a ruling council, etc) but glancing at the website they seem to cover the basics pretty well.
since the game does away with the characters and most of the plots from the books I’d say you could jump right in.
