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Post by punished ppurg on Sept 20, 2019 20:00:31 GMT -5
This just in, delerak believes publicity about child erotic roleplay will bring players to Armageddon. Murder, Corruption, Pedophilia.
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Post by delerak on Sept 20, 2019 20:02:52 GMT -5
This just in, delerak believes publicity about child erotic roleplay will bring players to Armageddon. Murder, Corruption, Pedophilia. I just think it's funny is all. Where was all this criticism when you were all actively playing? Point me to a single thread? |
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Post by mehtastic on Sept 20, 2019 20:07:09 GMT -5
This just in, delerak believes publicity about child erotic roleplay will bring players to Armageddon. Murder, Corruption, Pedophilia. Broke: MCB Woke: Mmmm, CP |
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Post by mehtastic on Sept 20, 2019 20:12:52 GMT -5
This just in, delerak believes publicity about child erotic roleplay will bring players to Armageddon. Murder, Corruption, Pedophilia. I just think it's funny is all. Where was all this criticism when you were all actively playing? Point me to a single thread? Criticize the game while playing: "If you hate the game so much, why do you play?" Criticize the game after giving up on it: "Where was all this criticism when you were all actively playing?" Keep sticking your fingers in your ears. All publicity is good publicity, sure, but it's going to suck when all your new players can be found on a sex offender registry. |
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Post by punished ppurg on Sept 20, 2019 20:20:27 GMT -5
This just in, delerak believes publicity about child erotic roleplay will bring players to Armageddon. Murder, Corruption, Pedophilia. I just think it's funny is all. Where was all this criticism when you were all actively playing? Point me to a single thread?
Here we see from 2015 Kronibas's THC fueled journey into considering suing members of the community of ArmageddonMUD for sexually enticing a minor (himself). I argued that it was legal as I am clearly a pedophile. Armageddon is the only place I can get my fix. /s
It's not an equivalent argument but it meets your criteria of criticism back when we were all actively playing.
The most relevant thing to pull from that trainwreck of a thread was that the issues expressed in this reddit review in 2019 were issues that still existed and were known in 2015. They were known prior to that, too.
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Post by delerak on Sept 20, 2019 20:41:38 GMT -5
I remember that thread. It's another example of someone leaving the game and then airing the dirty laundry which is unfortunate. I played at 15 as well and never experienced anything remotely close to some of the accusations labelled around here. Armageddon never took criticism well, hence these forums. It's just ironic and hilarious to me that once you stop playing the game is the worst thing ever, but if you're active it's all good.
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Post by punished ppurg on Sept 20, 2019 20:45:41 GMT -5
That's a factually incorrect statement. A majority of the traffic that occurred on this forum during 2015 was players expressing (or venting) their frustrations in an anonymous fashion, where their criticism wouldn't lead to having their investment in the game ripped apart by vengeful and capricious staff members. It came to pass that things got so bad, people quit playing. That's a natural development. To fabricate this sort of dichotomy of "I PLAYING, THINGS GOOD" and "I NO PLAYING, THINGS BAD" is purposefully misrepresenting the discussions that have been had on this board. A lot of criticism can't be made when you have something to lose.
Also it's not ironic. Look up the definition of irony.
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Post by Jeshin on Sept 20, 2019 20:54:46 GMT -5
These boards were most active when Armageddon playerbase was larger. That would be a pretty good indication that the activity of the board is linked to the activity of the game meaning playing users. The fact some of us old quitters still post is probably different from person to person.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2019 21:01:53 GMT -5
Ironically, Kronibas has been playing the game since all these conversations. I dont know if right now, but definitely across the last few years.
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Post by punished ppurg on Sept 20, 2019 22:00:07 GMT -5
Easy solution, happy life. This is the right move. You could go on to argue that the 16 year olds are still going to pretend to be kids to scratch that kink: that's doubtlessly going to happen. It always happens. |
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Post by shakes on Sept 20, 2019 22:12:59 GMT -5
It is the right move. I would normally argue for more player choice, but when you've attracted crows to the bird feeder you've got to get the broom. Hat tip to Shabago for an incredibly well word-smithed post about it, as well as referencing the global age of consent. That SHOULD preclude any bitching, but I bet it don't.  |
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Post by punished ppurg on Sept 20, 2019 22:32:27 GMT -5
The bitching you're going to hear is from the "other side", the people who think it's insane that the tooth-pulling process of getting anything done in Armageddon was accomplished with one rowdy reddit post. The discussion wasn't had on the GDB: because it would have been unproductive on the GDB. That's the thing with these communities that reject conventional reason. They control the dialogue, they tell themselves that "13 is totally fine for the setting", and they end up looking like fools at a critical external glance.
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Post by shakes on Sept 20, 2019 22:55:11 GMT -5
Well, when people are being gits on the GDB ... it's relatively a private matter.
But you air your dirty drawers on Reddit for the world to see then it's like throwing a tantrum in the grocery store ... Mama gonna beat you with her slipper when you get home.
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Post by punished ppurg on Sept 21, 2019 1:17:26 GMT -5
Post from the reddit thread. Shaleah pulls all the stops, muddying the waters to discredit Exodus's criticism about pedophile content in Armageddon.
Let's enumerate the tried and true methods that have been used to defend this slop in the past. - "I'm a victim of sexual abuse." A vain ploy at building ethos. Why is this rhetoric being used to defend pedophilia in a MUD?
- "I've played the game for 20+ years and never seen this." Unprovable, likely a convenient lie, and meaningless. Regardless it does not negate actual observations. If one person doesn't see it, does it not exist for the others that see it?
- "In Armageddon, humans mature at 13 and are fully adults." They're still 13 year old humans; and this point of 'lore' doesn't necessarily excuse the age play 13 year old fetish content.
- "Would you be okay with 13 year olds doing drugs, drinking, stealing, and murdering? Why not having sex?" Let's fully degenerate our MUD. The OP likely wasn't okay with any of that.
- "Age is just a number!" Where have I heard that one before?
- "This is all an attempt to get people to stop playing the game." If you can't defend pedophilia, shoot the messenger in the kneecaps. Valid criticism isn't valid because I say so. (aka delerak's rule)
- "You're projecting your own perversions in YOUR mind." As if Shaleah is arguing to give the benefit of the doubt to these age play fetishist characters: she's accusing Exodus of being the true pedophile in one stroke of illogic.
- "You didn't report it to the staff. You came here and YOUR depraved mind linked pedophilia to the game." As we have clear evidence of the past decades, staff have not cared. Perhaps playing for 2 months the OP noticed this.
- "You're slandering the MUD!" It's not slander if it's true. :-) And like the OP mentioned, it's not slander. It's a legitimate review. It exposed a real, clear problem. It was not slander.
- "I won't apologize for trampling over you." Why is Shaleah trampling someone for raising their (justified) revulsion to age play fetishism in Armageddon MUD? What does she have to gain?
If you take a swift look at these ten points, and cruise through the GDB, you will see the same points of rhetoric being used when this issue is brought up in the past. It's all the same tilts using different language. And by controlling the dialogue on the GDB, until now, this has been sufficient in quashing any dissent or disagreement with the enabling of age-play fetishism in Armageddon. We've observed this methodology countless times: a player raises a perfectly legitimate complaint, a person in 'good graces' (either an oldbie, a helper, or a staffer themselves) jumps in with aggressive, flimsy rhetoric: this causes a reaction of disgust from the peanut gallery, as it should. It's rightly disgusting. And then this reaction is used as justification to lock the thread and end the conversation. Bringing up the topic again gets the person chided, "Can't you see how the community isn't mature enough to discuss this topic?"
Also keenly note how this technique doesn't work on external sites like Reddit, where the game's staff can't control the conversation. Also note how raving lunatic Shaleah looked here. The talking point of "Age is just a number!" somehow floats on the GDB; but in an open-air forum, it sounds as terrible as it should. Rightly so. I've captured this exchange because I believe Shaleah is going to wake up in the morning, realize how much she shit the bed, and delete her bloodsport responses here. She should. If I were her, I'd be ashamed.
Think of all this effort invested (wasted) in defending age-play fetishism in a desert sandbox MUD. Why?
Also something to think about. Exodus mentioned she was going to send an informative email to GoDaddy, ArmageddonMUD's web host. GoDaddy is known for strict hosting guidelines, and "proof" of age-play fetishism or pedophilic content being tolerated might be sufficient to deplatform Armageddon for a breach of the terms of service. This might have been the straw that broke the camel's back.
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Post by jkarr on Sept 21, 2019 2:28:38 GMT -5
It came to pass that things got so bad, people quit playing or got blackmailed into recusing their statements and leaving the forums/deleting their sb accounts in return for keeping their game accountsftfy and true story |
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