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[(Anonymous)]

Okay, that clears up some of my questions but it still stands... The puzzle to unlock this went up around 3 months ago and just got solved and it's still not ready for the general public? I understand bureaucracy exists in the real world but this is RP. If the mods didn't want people going down to the other City right now they should have waited to implement this event. It just kills any and all hype to have this build up, get it unlocked, and then be met with oh yeah you can't use it yet anyway.

Re: WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT PEOPLE WHO WHINE ABOUT A SINGLE INSIGNIFICANT TYPO IN ***FREE*** ANIME S

[(Anonymous)]

Free is garbage, watch better sports animes

Re: Canon(s) where your opinion has changed upon revisiting it?

[(Anonymous)]

right?? i could buy it if she was more of a spencer reid-ish character who's just awkward and annoying sometimes because she doesn't totally grok the nuances of human interaction but is otherwise a relatable human being

this stupid 'beep boop i am a robot in a human disguise how do i act like a people' shit is just embarrassing

da

[(Anonymous)]

if it just got solved, how or why would it be open to the general public? it's been six days since the announcement and announcing something and then giving it some time for it to be actually useful isn't unheard of in RP. if there was no government or politics involved in the game then sure it would make sense to have it available to the playerbase straight away, but it would be weirder to ignore the fact that these exist in this game. i dont agree that it kills any hype because the mods have been building up that we're going to get more soon with the sign ups to talk to the arehtei.

i agree though that this could have been solved sooner and the document the group got for the puzzle looked ridiculous to expect them to solve. the fact we went so long without anything plotwise and what we got was something our characters could only look and stare of didnt sit well with me when it was revealed initially

[(Anonymous)]

some questions for you guys in the light of the news going around:

say you found the perfect pb for a character. oc or obscure or book or whatever. you think theyre a perfect fit for who you have in mind and to play badly.

problem is you learn the actor/actress is dead after looking them up to see what else theyve done. their death could be recent or they could have passed away for a long time ago. could have been a natural passing or been an accident or speculated to be something else.

do you use them as a pb still? do you wait for some time if they died recently? do you not use them at all if their death wasnt natural/accident?

Da

[(Anonymous)]

it started one month as a "solve by the end of the month!" plot, and then they changed their minds and wanted to stretch things out. the puzzle itself was poorly organized and the mods would not hear any of it the first time a gdoc went up. then they refused to make it open to just anyone to look into and see if they were interested? you had to friend the account and agree 100% you wanted to be in on it, and overall it was just very closed off and vague and confusing and drawn out.

on top of that, none of this was shared with the public. they just kept saying it was still going, without any details, and after already being promised things multiple times it was easy to lose interest.

NOW if we want to get involved at all we have to go through the enforcers? how many months until something comes from this? I'm not going to get invested and wait around just for the pacing to continue like this.

[(Anonymous)]

id wait a while if the death was very recent, yeah.

and i dunno on the second point. if they were violently murdered or something similar i might pick a different pb but i wouldn't JUDGE people using the pb. it'd just be a personal choice.

Re: dda

[(Anonymous)]

There's also a thread where Tsukiyama talks about Kimbley's suicide with Aiada. That really rubbed me the wrong way.

Of course, I also know now that Dal reads this since her comment on the mod post pretty much copied some of the views anons here gave in her comment, one of which I definitely know wasn't her because I wrote it. So hi Dal!

Re: dda

[(Anonymous)]

^ agreed. in the enforcers post, they dropped almost all the threads where characters were offering reasonable opinions in favor of the ones where he was just talking the same shit over and over

it really made it seem like the player just wanted to stir shit ICly

+1

[(Anonymous)]

I wouldn't judge anyone using them as a pb because I barely ever check when people have made their accounts or anything like that, but I'd feel a little sketchy about using them myself if they'd just died.

[(Anonymous)]

how much of a jackass do you have to be to put "dns" on uncredited fanart icons

[(Anonymous)]

if it's not a super recent death, who gives a fuck?
i'd only pause if it were a brutal murder or suicide or something that's big in the public conscious.

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

i'm going to say the main issue we both agree on here here is how long the mods actually took to have this piece of plot solved? and also how complicated the puzzle was for some reason. i still dont personally agree that any of us will have to go through the enforcers OOCly once our characters can use it and that for now they're just involved by name because they're the police force of the game and it makes sense to say they're guarding it, but PCs in the enforcers don't appear to getting anything out of this reveal.

but the mods have shown bad pacing and a lot of loose ends that make me scratch my head. there's still nothing being done about the broken crystal and this device could have been revealed sooner than 2-3 months of nothing but festival events.

the only special plot the enforcers seem to actually have is the one with the tunnels, if anything is actually going on with that.

Re: Da

[(Anonymous)]

They also did a poor job of explaining when it would even happen so people could even know if their character would be available.

Also if you as a player sucked at puzzles, well pretty much they pretended your character wasn't there at all.

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

Echoing what the person above of me said.

In addition I don't think the questioning of the Arehtei is being handled very well either. If the log had just gone up around the same time as the mid month announcement I wouldn't have had an issue but instead they're dragging out the plot again in the same way they did with the puzzle plot. An original lottery sign up! Great! A second confirmation sign up where they state they reserve the right to drop your thread at any time! Not so great. If they were worried about taking on too much work/npc threads they shouldn't have set the bar at 20 characters at the start. They manged the 7 or so that got to talk to her during the event just fine, they should have just reused that number.

Re: dda

[(Anonymous)]

Not Dal but is it now wrong to admit to reading rpa? After reading several of the comments here I was wondering if anyone had gone to the mods about concerns and was going to myself via the screened mod contact post--I've done it before bringing up things mentioned here or on wg.

As long as the mods are confronted with what people are upset about does it really matter who brought it forward?

Beau Swan || Life and Death: Twilight

[(Anonymous)]

No underscores please. Cool with puns.

ayrt back

[(Anonymous)]

actually i agree with you on points there. i don't see the need to have people confirm a second time they're interested in talking with an arehtei when they already signed up, but they also put themselves in this strange position by allowing the puzzle plot to be dragged out this long. i'm only guessing that they want to fit information concerning shaarnath and the state of the game inside the same post for convenience, which in that case they could have allowed the puzzle to be solved sooner.

icly it makes sense for the enforcers to be guarding the device now. but if they had hurried this along sooner then it would work better for everyone.

Re: GoT

[(Anonymous)]

No.

Just

no.

Re: Da

[(Anonymous)]

i was disappointed i couldn't get involved after months of silence on the plot end because my character just wasn't smart enough to help and knew it. :(

Re: dda

[(Anonymous)]

not dal but i don't blame them for stepping up. they had enough to question the mods with just on the first point alone. there's only one cannibal in game and getting vague mentioned in a mod announcement is really shitty especially considering the tone of the entire announcement.

Re: GoT

[(Anonymous)]

People ship different things, anon. That's why I'm here asking for anyone interested. If you're not, that's fine, too.

[(Anonymous)]

if you're talking about the stark trek dude, i could see it being bad taste to make an oc based on them right now, just because they'd died, but no, i don't see it being a problem. i don't always keep on top of who's alive/dead, and someone might die sometimes after i pick them up (heath ledger/paul walker/brittney murphy), the younger ones that you don't expect to go anytime soon. if someone made an oc with any of those three, i wouldn't find it offensive or gross. the cause of death doesn't really come into play unless you're stupid and use it in their worldbuilding. outside of that, who cares?

Re: dda

[(Anonymous)]

this isn't wankgate. it's not somewhere to dump your shit. there's actually useful resources here, so if you were to say 'hey, i read this on rpa', there shouldn't be any kind of reprisal for that. if there is, your mods are idiots.

da

[(Anonymous)]

you can just no yourself out the door, thank you. this is for people to make requests. if you're not into it, that's fine. you don't get to shame people for shit here. lots of people play that pairing, anon. there's even fanfic about it. the horror. the horror.