MU Peeves Thread
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@bear_necessities said in MU Peeves Thread:
I mean isn’t that… the entire point @Polk is trying to make?
Yes, and it is a valid point. I just feel that once again, the discussion has come around to the usual old chestnut of people who can’t play live for four hours straight in EST suck and also, they are elitist snobs.
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@L-B-Heuschkel Really? My impression was everyone recognizing that some people prefer or require async, but still wished to express their own feelings and views on it. Also, I don’t see how having both is a mutually exclusive proposition.
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@glitch said in MU Peeves Thread:
@L-B-Heuschkel Really? My impression was everyone recognizing that some people prefer or require async, but still wished to express their own feelings and views on it. Also, I don’t see how having both is a mutually exclusive proposition.
It isn’t. I think for me, it’s tiresome to constantly be made to feel like I’m just not good enough because I am disabled and playing from another timezone.
People should play exactly the way they enjoy (and are capable of). But I do feel that they should own it – if someone’s preference is live scenes with five minutes’ wait tops between poses, that’s entirely legit but it doesn’t mean that games, where that is not the dominant option, are dead or bad.
Play style is personal. People are very free to not play with me if they feel that I am too slow, too ESL, or too whatever. But it’s a choice they are making for themselves. Please don’t infer that people who have different preferences are bad.
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@L-B-Heuschkel My pure point was a peeve: If I look at a game like that, as a new player, I feel like I have no entry point.
I make no judgements. I mean no disparagement at all, in any real way.
Just a peeve. My own habits. In a game where everyone’s semi-idle on the web, I wouldn’t even know how to get started.
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@L-B-Heuschkel I don’t think anyone has said or implied that. I’ve only seen people stating that primarily asynch games aren’t for them. Based on Keys’ success there is clearly an audience and a need for it, but it’s good for both pro- and non-asynchers to know what style of game it is ahead of time. I don’t have any negative perceptions about those players as people, and I haven’t seen anyone else say they do either.
It’s possible that the term “red flag” is what’s causing that perception, because that’s usually associated with a “bad” thing, but in this case I really think it’s just being used as “knowing I can’t play the pace I prefer means this won’t be a good fit for me.” In which case, everyone’s time is better served if they don’t try to make it fit.
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@L-B-Heuschkel You are literally implying that people with a preference other than yours who express that opinion are bad by putting words in their mouth about non-EST elitists.
They want to go to an ares game and not see a bunch of private scenes with a preference for live scenes. While that might not fit with your game, that doesn’t mean the option shouldn’t be available at all in ares code.
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I’m frustrated sometimes by it feeling like it’s being implied I don’t do enough to facilitate the hobby for people in other timezones.
But then I try to remember it’s not really about me personally.
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@L-B-Heuschkel yes, that’s what we’re all saying, nailed it
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@tsar I know I do what I can, and I’m content to do my best, heh.
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We have beaten this horse so badly that it’s not just dead, it’s mince meat. Seriously, every single time someone brings up this subject it somehow immediately turns to them saying non-US or people with chronic disabilities suck or shouldn’t be in the hobby. No one said that!!! It wasn’t until you @L-B-Heuschkel brought it up that it even became a thing.
Listen. Sometimes you have to realize that your problems are yours alone and not everyone else’s respond to fix. My problem is that I can’t play async scenes - I lose the thread too easily, I can’t remember what we are doing and frankly I can’t even remember who my character is. That’s my problem! It’s not anyone else’s responsibility to fix. There are currently no ares games that suite my play style and so instead of being on here like omg you guys are saying I suck!!! I’m just like well I guess I won’t play right now and that’s cool.
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the real key is just to not be able to play at all anymore, because you know, vague life reasons.
but also always remind people that you’re around.
hi guys!
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@Meg never RPing is a perfectly valid RP style
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Seeing a bunch of private scenes is just visual clutter for me, it doesn’t have to have anything to do with how much private or public RP is happening. It’s that it’s visual clutter of information that is irrelevant.
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I’m not EST but am definitely elitist and a snob. Where do I fit?
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@Meg said in MU Peeves Thread:
the real key is just to not be able to play at all anymore, because you know, vague life reasons.
but also always remind people that you’re around.
hi guys!
Okay ghost geez
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@sao said in MU Peeves Thread:
I’m not EST but am definitely elitist and a snob. Where do I fit?
If you’re on west coast best coast you can be part of the PST gang! We are the most elite and the most right
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@bear_necessities don’t none of us actually play tho? (because we’re all so cool)
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@bear_necessities said in MU Peeves Thread:
@sao said in MU Peeves Thread:
I’m not EST but am definitely elitist and a snob. Where do I fit?
If you’re on west coast best coast you can be part of the PST gang! We are the most elite and the most right
EXCUSE you. East Coast is OBVIOUSLY better. After all, we’ve got all the hurricanes!
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@Pyrephox EAST COAST BEAST COAST!