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Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo
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@Roadspike I mean, I wear a fedora. And I sit in a dark internal room most of the work day that could well be a basement…
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@Polk said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
I know it’s not gonna be popular, but Cujo sounds to me like your classic Geek Social Fallacy carrier. GSF #1 in particular, but with a side of #4.
https://plausiblydeniable.com/five-geek-social-fallacies/
They just want everyone to get along, so the game can thrive. They hate it when something happens that would force them to make choices, because they think having to make choices like that is wrong.
So they try to hedge, and hem, and haw, and just wish everyone would ‘get over it’ and play.
Not defending it. But possibly explaining it.
Sorry for double post! But. Wanted to add, this wouldn’t be my experience of Cujo of old. He might have changed in those years, I know I have, but similar behaviour then came from a very different motivation.
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@Narson What was that motivation? Just 'cause I’m morbidly curious…
FWIW, not a fan of AoA, and likely never will be. Even if the subject of this board weren’t an issue (which I’m sure it is), there are too many sketchy things and flying monkeys for my taste, and too many good players run off by blatant favoritism, and a slightly less blatant habit of ignoring their efforts to contribute to the game. Who could blame them? If nothing you do is ever allowed to have any effect/meaning, why stay?
Skipping ahead 15 IC years and letting the Sith Empire have the galaxy, ostensibly to get the game back to ‘Star Wars’s best vibe, rebels vs. the empire’ is just the most recent sketchy decision, and I still wonder if it’s not another attempt to create A Game of Thrones IN SPACE. I also wonder which Sith Empire staff alt decided they wanted to win the game…
But I digress. The ones who have quit have the right (and healthiest) idea.
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@kalakh Okay, I’m just gonna say that my 75 year old father wore that exact same hat to my wedding in October and he looked fucking dapper as fuck. I think it works far better on older folks.
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@Warlander said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
@Narson What was that motivation? Just 'cause I’m morbidly curious…
As I’ve said, it is about 20 years out of date, and everyone is 20 years older, but back then certainly Cujo gave the vibe that he was about Cujo. The game was a means to an end of making Cujo cool/important/the man, rather than everything being in service of the smooth running of the game.
Of course, mileage may vary a lot, I was stupidly young when AoA started up (or young and stupid), but that was my impression.
When someone shows you who they are, over and over again? Believe them.
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@Narson said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
and everyone is 20 years older
Am not. Do not suggest this.
He/Him. Opinions and views are solely my own unless specifically stated otherwise.
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@Narson Going by my own experiences, I doubt Cujo has changed much, if any.
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From my perspective, the majority of the players are great to play with.
I would not recommend the grid to new players.
There is a sex pest problem. It’s severe enough that I worry about who I play with. Although they are not the majority, they are there and it makes life difficult. Select members of staff have been publicly hostile towards players in the past.
Yes. I have been harassed.
Yes. I know other players who have been harassed.
Yes. I have notified staff.
No. I don’t feel like anything was ever done.
Yes. I have stopped making reports because I am worried about retaliation.she/her
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@Pavel said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
@Narson said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
and everyone is 20 years older
Am not. Do not suggest this.
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@TooManyCharacter said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
I would not recommend the grid to new players.
I dunno if it’s so much the case anymore, but when I tried it out about a year or so ago it also had one of the nastiest and most actively unpleasant attitudes towards actually-new people I think I’d seen in a looooong time. Not only sex pests, but there were a few players who were constantly blatantly rude on the newbie channel any time someone had a question, trying to make them sound stupid for asking. I saw it happen several times while I was there and nobody on staff stopped them in any way I could see, and those same players made the public channel pretty miserable as well.
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@Wizz This also meshes with my own experiences there, up to the present day. Hadrix Kora is a heavy contributor to the uncomfortableness on Pub, as is the general clique he belongs to that basically seems to control the game.
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Update.
Cujo has just fired the only staffer on the game that put any effort into combating sexual harassment.
It looks like two other promoted-RPAs have also been canned, reasons unknown.
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I can only nag the Evennia coders for fancy code so loudly, it doesn’t make them BEND TO MY WILL any faster.
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@Das-Auto He has fired the horse catcher.
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@Das-Auto Did this staff leaving just happen? I hopped on in curiosity to look at the bboards and didn’t see anything in the last few days worth.
That said - I did find a gem of a post where multiple people were like - why is this 15 year time jump even happen? What’s the point of this? This is dumb. And people complaining how much the time skip would age their characters on another.
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@Das-Auto said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
Update.
Cujo has just fired the only staffer on the game that put any effort into combating sexual harassment.
I suddenly feel very naive for giving eddie so much time and word space that ended up burying your announcement at the bottom of a huge thread made mostly of vitriol.
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@Das-Auto said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
Update.
Cujo has just fired the only staffer on the game that put any effort into combating sexual harassment.
It looks like two other promoted-RPAs have also been canned, reasons unknown.
This is true.
@CuriousGamer said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
@Das-Auto Did this staff leaving just happen? I hopped on in curiosity to look at the bboards and didn’t see anything in the last few days worth.
You didn’t see a bbpost about it because Cujo did not make a post about it. There is no notification to the game overall. Perhaps one will follow.
The main staff member “Z” who was removed (and who was outspoken about all this behavior being inappropriate) was staff for 5 RL years at least, maybe more.
It is not clear why the other two (people promoted to staff at the same time as Hadrix) were removed, the ‘official’ explanation is probably that they did not contribute enough and the ‘real’ explanation is probably that they are friends with Z.
It’s a bad look, for sure.
(edited to fix formatting and phrasing)
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@Das-Auto said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
Cujo has just fired the only staffer on the game that put any effort into combating sexual harassment.
It looks like two other promoted-RPAs have also been canned, reasons unknown.@kopecup said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
The main staff member “Z” who was removed (and who was outspoken about all this behavior being inappropriate) was staff for 5 RL years at least, maybe more.
It is not clear why the other two (people promoted to staff at the same time as Hadrix) were removed, the ‘official’ explanation is probably that they did not contribute enough and the ‘real’ explanation is probably that they are friends with Z.
They can remove as many people as they like, but it isn’t going to change the fact that the players which log in regularly are already aware of the toxic attitude towards the player base. It extends into the public forum frequently and has gotten substantially worse over the past year and a half.
There are sex pests that have been playing there for years. From my perspective, the majority of them have not been removed. Of those that have, it’s difficult to tell if they left on their own volition or were forced out by administrative action. I would like to say that I am surprised it took this long for a post to have this much public scrutiny, but coping with assault is difficult on its own. It’s even harder to put your story into the prying eyes of the peanut gallery.
The removal of Zephyr only continues to add to the mountain of evidence against the game’s leadership. Only one conclusion should be made:
If you play on Age of Alliances, you will not have a voice.
If administrators can be removed, you can be removed. If you are removed, you should expect to be mocked by your abusers on the game’s public channels. There is no justice.
