maziel
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Post by maziel on Mar 2, 2023 16:51:57 GMT -5
Lots of talk about the 'end of Arm' on the Discord and other avenues of discussion. Wonder if that's true, or will it be another 10-20+ years of cruising on 20-30 population of die-hard boomers? No offence to the boomers here, of course. Personally, I want to see Arm come out of this better. I'd actually play the damn game again. But it seems that staff are just interested in heavy-handed damage control with harsh moderation and absolutely no care for apologizing or trying to rectify their mistakes. I suppose if ApocalypseMUD gets off the ground I'll play that. If it's 'the end of Arm' as in the open source it, it could be the best thing that ever happened to it. A few different communities will pop up. Old armers will slowly find their way back. Even I would throw up a server in a VM and even make some contributions, even if they're just in the forms of system admin stuff - convenient bash scripts. At least one of them will succeed. If it's the 'end of Arm, we give up and we don't condone any continuity of this universe that we all love and discuss constantly' - that would be lame.
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Post by ocotilloskewers on Mar 2, 2023 17:03:43 GMT -5
I would be genuinely happy if this deluge of shit washed the community clean and made for a pleasant paalstime again. Same here.
I think the staff have this false misconception that alot of scorned players absolutely hate the game now and would never touch it again, even if everything was perfect. I'd say that's entirely wrong.
I had fun with Arm, and I would continue having fun with Arm if they gave us some reassurances, changes, and actually shifted for the better. They would be back in the high-pop numbers in no time at all.
Worth mentioning I'm a 3 karma player and have played many sponsored leaders in the past. Never was banned or warned or anything to come here. I'm just tired of seeing all the abuse. Not just to me, but to everyone around me.
EDIT: I'm sure there's some people who will actually never come back. Don't exactly blame you.
But I'm also sure there's alot of people who'd come back if the game actually got better.
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delerak
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PK'ed by jcarter
"When you want to fool the world, tell the truth." - Otto Von Bismarck
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Post by delerak on Mar 2, 2023 17:53:15 GMT -5
this is how I feel right now.
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maziel
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Post by maziel on Mar 2, 2023 18:30:53 GMT -5
Synthesis VS reality
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mehtastic
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Post by mehtastic on Mar 2, 2023 19:16:30 GMT -5
cast 'mon un whira threl inrof' post
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mehtastic
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Post by mehtastic on Mar 3, 2023 12:49:24 GMT -5
craft post into redacted You attempt to use your mod powers responsibly, but you drop them in the dust.
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pinkerdlu
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Post by pinkerdlu on Mar 3, 2023 13:12:36 GMT -5
It should be pretty clear at this point that Halaster, Gynesis, Hestia and Katima are more than happy to continue censoring and banning the playerbase while carefully constructing the conversation on "official Armageddon" mediums in their favor. Shabago's still on the team as a far as we know, and Shalooonsh is still a player with full karma (?). Brokkr has a terrible track record, from cheating to bad game decisions and enforcing censorship in the past.
Call me pessimistic but... I don't see any conclusion where the current Armageddon staff team is redeemable.
They aren't going to replace all of the current Producers, and they aren't going to replace the entire staff team.
Producer Team: Halaster (cheater, anti-discussion)
Shabago (demoted to Storyteller assumedly, cheater, anti-discussion) Brokkr (cheater, anti-discussion)
Nessalin (retired) Nathvaan (inactive)
Northern Team: Drinn (admin)
Wychokka (retired?)
Southern Team: Oleupata (admin) Hestia (anti-discussion, victim blaming) Haldol (anti-discussion)
Great Merchant Houses: Gynesis (admin, used staff favors, anti-discussion) Aromit (PKs players as sorcerer on staff avatar) Erulyss
Independents:
Shalooonsh (resigned as admin from staff, still a player with karma despite dozens of sexual harassment accusations) Xonn Kaathe Katima (Player Clans, Bashurit) (Anti-discussion, clan staff for the Bashurit who are overpowered and followed Shalooonsh's every whim? Interesting.)
Additional Staff - Usiku, Tiernan, Zorkbob the Inhaler
Web Developer - Ataraxis
I'm sure I'm missing something. Let's not forget that no staff members have spoken up to defend the playerbase.
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bebop
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Post by bebop on Mar 3, 2023 13:15:37 GMT -5
Wychokka was a good one, but I believe he stepped down from staff shortly before this occurred.
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Post by alicatsam on Mar 3, 2023 13:20:56 GMT -5
Katima was a real piece of work to me, but she was always nice to my face. But as a player, she took joy in OOC shit-talk and conspiracies around most other women and her accusations about me were fun. She was blocked for me AGES ago. Two-faced toxicity is not something I tolerate.
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Post by Prime Minister Sinister on Mar 3, 2023 13:50:32 GMT -5
i don't think i've ever seen so many people get straight-up spicy with staff directly on the gdb itself before
looks like a lot of "give a shit" in the community has been ground into dust finally
it's been a trip witnessing just how much straw this camel could carry
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mehtastic
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Post by mehtastic on Mar 3, 2023 15:29:28 GMT -5
The tall, muscular dwarf grunts.
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Post by lechuck on Mar 3, 2023 15:35:57 GMT -5
Oof! What an improvement of the game that prepresents! Yeah! Yeah. Yeah, if I cared about currying favor for karma like a moron, I'd say just that. And otherise, well, what the fuck are you doing with a million fucking tribes and other similar places when anytone who's not retarded can tell that the thing your game needs is a city where people want to play? Eh? Hm?: Now, then, go do that. Jesus fucking Christ.
Mind you that this means nothing to anyone who has not made no effort to ensure that their sphere matters. Maybe they just have it better than we do.
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Post by lechuck on Mar 3, 2023 15:43:34 GMT -5
Don't care, in any case. ArmageddonMUD has no realistic future. Let it be overrun with satyrs if that's what it takes to prove that point. I don't care anymore. Fare thee well.
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delirium
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Post by delirium on Mar 3, 2023 17:12:22 GMT -5
I don't care anymore. Fare thee well. Yea, turns out the the amount of fucks I have to give is finite, and they burned through my last one when they went unrepentantly nuclear... again.
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baobob
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Post by baobob on Mar 3, 2023 17:24:07 GMT -5
I just want to be on whatever side LauraMars, Val, and Delirium are on. That is all.
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