Numetal/Retromux
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So far, my experience with Retro has been kind of underwhelming.
The application process is… tricky.
I’m certain that the game is fun, conditional to being able to actually get to play on it.Amended: asking for help with writing an application is a fast way to get a reply from Staff - and shown the door. They’re deeply inconsistent enough in their criteria that they tacitly refuse to document it.
I’m not just underwhelmed, I’m reminded of why Polk felt so at home in that place.
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And, yet, 30 other characters managed to make it through the app process. At some point, you need to ask… is it me?
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@RedJellyBean
Oh, cool. -
Polk notoriously crashed the game though
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@Wikibara said in Numetal/Retromux:
Amended: asking for help with writing an application is a fast way to get a reply from Staff - and shown the door.
Could you expand on this with some context?
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@Pavel
I applied to play two characters - the first was a Mage, nothing out of the ordinary, the process would be slow-going; I understood, the sole staffer was swamped with what was described as eight applications in a small period of time. Totally cool, even relatable. Every day, I check in on the job. There’s some back-and-forth with the very-helpful Magewiz on the topic; mostly, it’s in fixing up the paradigm and avatar, which are usually my weak point. Progress is made, updates are posted to fit with stated criteria, the Mage is not the issue.In the interim, I apply for a Changeling; I’m familiar with the source material over the last (ha ha, I am old) thirty years, so I feel pretty confident in it. There’s no guidelines to follow, just vibes, and no help is on offer. I wing it, and my first effort falls short, because it doesn’t fit the “setting.” Which, well, it’s their game, they know it best. I get told to update it to fit the game mechanics, to ensure that I include the words, “Troll,” “Kithain,” “Dreaming,” “Fae,” “Noble,” “Glamour,” “Banality,” “Changeling.”
In the CtD20 core rulebook, the opening story that runs from page 14 to 24, uses the word “pooka” exactly twice and none of the other aforementioned words. How in the shady side of Hades someone is to compete with that narrative and somehow shoehorn in those terms, I’m certainly intrigued on that process for setting up a background.
Asking for help on their Discord in the “Help Me” section netted no actual help. There were helpful people and they did offer assets, inclusive of someone who provided me with a link to a historical website detailing the goings-on in the era and locale; given that I’d been alive and around the same time and place, it was gratefully accepted although of limited use.
A while later, I got a message from one of the admins which was also accompanied by what I thought was a spammer’s message; some routine antisemitic stuff, nothing that unusual.
As a freebie, I was blocked, which I consider a very strong positive, all things considered.
A quote from the app process comes to mind: The criteria are largely subjective, not objective.
Earlier, I had joked about a vibes-based character generation process. I feel eerily prescient now.
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@Wikibara said in Numetal/Retromux:
some routine antisemitic stuff, nothing that unusual.
Did you get this from their staff?
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@Wikibara said in Numetal/Retromux:
to ensure that I include the words, “Troll,” “Kithain,” “Dreaming,” “Fae,” “Noble,” “Glamour,” “Banality,” “Changeling.”
Missed opportunity to use them all in a single sentence.
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“A while later, I got a message from one of the admins which was also accompanied by what I thought was a spammer’s message; some routine antisemitic stuff, nothing that unusual.”
This is incredibly uncool to say without proof. You cannot just throw those kinds of accusations in there and then move on. Either you are lying and, thus, discrediting your entire argument…
or…
You are telling the truth and treating it like another nit to pick. My gut instinct is going to lean hard towards the former given the nonchalant delivery. I would recommend you either back this claim up with receipts or apologize profusely to everyone, including the Retro staff.
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@DapperPenguin said in Numetal/Retromux:
You are telling the truth and treating it like another nit to pick.
Yeah, it does sound like it’s just another nit to pick, when it should really be a full call out of a game’s staff for being racist.
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@DapperPenguin
I can see the error in how I parsed that sentence. No, I did not receive an antisemetic message from the admin in question; that message was separate and arrived about eleven minutes later. As to how connected that they are, I am not spending any time contemplating. The two events took place so close, one merged with the other, although not likely by the same hand.
