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Meg

Ok, I am just posting this here to start advertising for things. It’s going to be a bit out but I want to have people picked if they are interested in advance.

I am looking for six Storytellers for the game I am making. The good:

Input on the ground floor on lore, as collaboratively as you like (contribute lots! contribute little! whatever you want; there will be a framework provided).
I would like if you are willing to be the first faction heads when the game goes to beta (also put this in con).
Crunchy systems! Cooking, foraging, crafting, magic, map editing, fun things.
L&L for those of us that like it.

The bad:

The game will not be playable on iPad/iPhone/any mobile device.
It’s going to be a Steam game; we aren’t running telnet.
AI has been used to help code, with everything reviewed by a (mostly) real coder; all artwork is paid for (or will be by beta) and all player-presented text is handwritten.

Please DM me; we can set up a time so you can see what I am working on if you want and we can discuss things.

(mods, can you just move my looking for artists post in here so I don’t clutter up the boards? Or don’t, see if I care.)

Roz

Saw this on Bluesky and thought it appropriate to share:

“A joyous fat bear week to all ”

https://bsky.app/profile/lollibeepop.bsky.social/post/3mwbbihwvo222

Wizz

@Gashlycrumb said:

The thing is that deciding not to engage with someone when you are their only GM in a GM-required game is bad practice even if they’re a problem player or even a bad person. Pre-emptively refusing to engage and thinking you dodged a bullet 'cause they snarl doesn’t seem right.

it kinda seems like you’re willing to beat this horse to death, but no one is arguing with you.

yes, it’s preferable that staff confront you directly if they don’t want you around.

are they going to? most, probably not. you’re going to have to learn to accept that.

Kestrel

I don’t know Siren. But if I were in Siren’s shoes, reading this thread, I would likely conclude I was in the right not to engage with @gashlycrumb. Not based on any moral judgement, but just based on this seeming likely to result in more emotional energy than most people want to expend OOC.

I think it’s best to focus on outcomes over intentions. Specifically:

@Pavel said:
The best approach is to leave, not to cause more problems. Either the staffer is intentionally ignoring you, or their backlog is so bad that it’s negatively impacting you. Either way, you leave and hope for better elsewhere.

Ultimately does it really matter if the motive was malicious, abusive, absent-mindedness, laziness, apathy, exhaustion, avoidance, or anything else?

I recently left a game because I didn’t want to keep waiting around for staff to follow up on stuff. Genuinely no idea if they were busy, forgetful, distracted, or actually didn’t like me. I just didn’t want to be in that dynamic of feeling like a dog waiting at the dinner table for scraps, because it makes me feel like crap.

Forget about what staff was thinking, decide what you want/expect, and pick where to spend your energy accordingly.

Pavel

@Gashlycrumb said:

Seems to me more like you just want to deny that it’s reasonable for me to have understood you the way I did.

It might have been reasonable the first time. But when I literally said

Pavel said:

You’re taking general suggestions and advice and treating them as immediate instructions.

That should have indicated to you that I was not giving you immediate instructions for a situation you are in, but instead giving advice and suggestions for a generalised genre of situations.

Multiple interpretations are frequently possible; I’m not the clearest of writers much of the time. But when I specifically correct your initial assumption, and your immediate reaction is to repeat it, that’s incredibly frustrating to deal with.

Pavel

@Gashlycrumb said:

@Pavel Okay. It came across that way to me is all, then.

Yes. Then you were told it wasn’t, and you insisted. That is what makes you frustrating to deal with. You don’t accept correction, and you assume everyone is operating with the same knowledge/belief/frame of reference as you.

That doesn’t excuse unprofessional behaviour.

Pavel

@Gashlycrumb said:

It’s immediate instructions that assume I didn’t already do that

No. No it isn’t. It’s literally not that at all. I wrote it, I know what it is.

Pavel

@Gashlycrumb said:

I am not sure why it’s being taken as a given that I’m still playing there.

It isn’t. You’re taking general suggestions and advice and treating them as immediate instructions.

@Gashlycrumb said:

What “more problems” did I cause?

I don’t know. You, yourself, said:

@Gashlycrumb said:

The player is gonna get cheesed off and it’s likely that they will, understandably, act like they’re cheesed off.

Which is what I’m going off of.

Pavel

@Meg We broke the site yesterday, so they’ve had to change things around:

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Meg

Polls messed up today for anyone else? Trying to get my votes in, but I have like, google forms and they are the polls from yesterday.

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