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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2019 10:25:11 GMT -5
Thx for tagging me. I'll reply later. I'm escaping Trump and moving to Canada right now. Where the beavers and moose play muds. And your post deserves to be written properly, instead of on a smart phone, while driving.
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Post by lechuck on Nov 2, 2019 10:31:07 GMT -5
At least your political compass is better calibrated than your forum-posting one.
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Post by pinkerdlu on Nov 2, 2019 16:16:51 GMT -5
Get out of my thread you filthy liberal degenerates.
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Post by faroukel on Nov 2, 2019 16:20:37 GMT -5
Stay out of my country you filthy liberal degenerates.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2019 16:32:54 GMT -5
Stay out of my country you filthy liberal degenerates. You must live in one of those backwater places my liberal, city-dweller taxes pay for.
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Post by delerak on Nov 2, 2019 17:09:19 GMT -5
Why are all big cities liberal?
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Post by lechuck on Nov 2, 2019 17:39:18 GMT -5
Because only ignorant peasants are conservative.
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Post by faroukel on Nov 2, 2019 18:51:24 GMT -5
Ya, Toronto.
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Post by faroukel on Nov 2, 2019 18:54:02 GMT -5
Big cities are liberal because they have access to the most services, and can take advantage of progressive policies the most.
Ruralites have less access, but basically pay the same for less.
There’s a whole host of other stuff, but that’s how it basically boils down in Ontario.
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Post by gloryhound on Nov 2, 2019 19:00:48 GMT -5
Stay out of my country you filthy liberal degenerates. You must live in one of those backwater places my liberal, city-dweller taxes pay for.
You must have attended university with an uncritical mind and have been successfully indoctrinated both there and/or by the leftist media with its concentrated ownership. |
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Post by faroukel on Nov 2, 2019 19:23:17 GMT -5
Quick note: I just basically hopped on the degenerate comment while waving my oh Canada flag.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2019 19:56:43 GMT -5
Next time someone posts a log of staff luring a minor in again and performing all sorts of activities with them, all I'll need to do is post something about Trump and liberalism to mitigate the damage of the scandalous exposure.
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Post by shakes on Nov 2, 2019 20:52:36 GMT -5
Why are all big cities liberal? Because city people are already dependents. They require other people to supply their jobs, their food, their water, their security, and even sewage. Imagine being so helpless you require someone else to get rid of your shit for you.  When you're that dependent, it's an easy step to those progressive policies. My own politics are more or less the proverbial "I support gay married couples being able to defend their marijuana fields with automatic weapons." And I'm an old country boy. |
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Post by mehtastic on Nov 3, 2019 6:12:58 GMT -5
Take the political bullshit elsewhere, please. Some of us are trying to imagine qwerty frantically checking the shadowboard as he tries to move his family to a new home.
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Post by mehtastic on Nov 3, 2019 6:42:19 GMT -5
Just to reiterate: @qwerty 's reaction to lechuck 's post would be unnecessary if we weren't splitting hairs between "did Armageddon Reborn affect gameplay" and "did Armageddon Reborn affect the game", a hairsplit directed by qwerty's distinction on gameplay while everyone else here is discussing narrative. Who cares what affected gameplay in the context of discussing Armageddon Reborn's effect on the narrative? The gameplay is just a set of discrete systems: the emote system, the combat system, the skill learning system, etc. It can constitute part of a "gameplay experience", of which narrative is a big part. If qwerty is referencing gameplay in the context of the gameplay experience, then yes, Armageddon Reborn affected the gameplay experience, because it had a huge impact on stalling the narrative. Did it have an impact on whether a player can log in, emote at a few people and log out? Of course not, and it would be absurd to suggest otherwise. I don't expect a narrative decision like the End of the World plot to affect coded systems. I do expect it to affect the gameplay experience someone has while playing the game. The real problem in qwerty's post, which lechuck correctly identified and qwerty failed to properly address in their ostensibly indignant reply that they were being taken out of context, is this: "I dont think we'll ever recover from it, but I dont think we should allow the damage that failed experiment caused to continue affecting things." These are conflicting statements. 1) I don't think we'll ever recover from [the failure of Armageddon Reborn] 2) I don't think we should allow the damage that [Armageddon Reborn] caused to continue affecting things Well, pick #2 and then take actions to ensure the game will recover. Reflect on why Armageddon is narratively broken and fix it instead of wallowing in Armageddon players' collective misery that nothing will ever change. And a note to add to this post: they are not conflicting statements in a grammatical/language sense, they're conflicting statements in the sense that #2 addresses a goal and #1 shoots the goal down. Armageddon players can either try to make the game better by proposing staff form a unified meta-narrative for the game, and reinforce it through supporting players who pursue that narrative with their own personal plots, and make clear their expectations for staff to do all of that... or they can do nothing and let the game continue to stagnate. In a different thread, qwerty half-jokingly mentioned the history page and how, as a player, their drunken decisions made indirect impacts on it. I want to stress here the last six entries in the history page: What are some interesting facts about this list? - They're all about gith. Staff and players need to come to grips with the fact that gith are the game's orcs, the idea of the "belligerent fantasy race" is old and tired, and understand that the fantasy genre has moved very far away from "orc bad" since Lord of the Rings. Maybe staff need to read more books. Maybe they just need to think of more creative things that could happen in their unique world that couldn't happen in any other world. It's okay to have fantastical elements in the world, but something more original would be nice. - The last entry on the page is in Year 42, Age 22, and it's currently Year 63, Age 22. That means there has been 21 IG years, or about 2.5 RL years, since something historically noteworthy happened that staff bothered to add to the website. Has nothing historically interesting happened, or are staff too lazy to add what has happened to the website? Either of these possibilities is its own unique problem. - As always, player roles in these events are heavily de-emphasized. When @qwerty says they indirectly influenced some events on the history page, I believe them. Not because they're well known for being an honest actor, but because practically all you can do is have an indirect influence on the history, if you have one at all. Staff's extreme fear of appearing to outwardly favor certain players has led them to avoid mentioning character names on the history page. And yet we know that staff do engage in heavy off-the-books favoritism in a number of ways. A mention of a historical character's efforts on the history page is a solid reward for achiever-types who are interested in plotting and a signal to others that they can do the same someday. |
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