Don't Play in the Arm of the Dragon.

Lyse, I never meant to imply that you were the one that said that m2s had Nyr's cock on his breath, but the fact that you devalued my opinion ('well, you're just saying that because you're his girlfriend!') for suggesting that someone with a slightly more pro-staff bent might actually have something to contribute other than mindlessly praising Nyr made me think you were in that same camp.

Sorry for beating a dead horse again, but that's my reason for tossing you on that same pile.

Edited to make use of the quote function, just for you.

I spent a bunch of time replying to this only to lose it all while trying to grab quotes, so apparently I actually can't do that. Such is life. Here's the gist of it though: I was talking about the entire way you addressed prince, were condescending towards his stance, and gave flippant replies to purpurpurg and prince both that misconstrued what they were saying.  "so he's wishy-washy?" and "Ooooh ok. He's choosing to defend the undefendable even though he doesn't necessarily agree with what he's saying himself?"

It looks like you're just trying to discredit friday just becuase you disagree. That has nothing to do with simply asking friday to clarify himself, it's just malicious.  Maybe it was an attempt at humor? Either way they didn't say anything close to how you summarized it.

Also saying Prince is contradicting himself but refusing to point it out is also strange, when you're so adamant about getting friday to clarify his own opinions. That's pretty much it.

Maybe it's for the best because I drove home last night and really thought about this. I see where it all broke down and I think I know why.

I'm going to try this another way. Yes, looking back at it, I can see how my repeated questioning could be viewed as "Grrrrr", but that wasn't my intention.

The problem here is this pro-arm vs pro shadow thing, or whatever derogatory name this board is called cheaters-board, whiner-board whatever. It's causing mistrust and the mistrust is giving a certain tone to our posts. I've never been a believer in an us versus them on this. Why? Whether you agree or not, we're all pro arm. We're the flip side of the same coin, the difference is you still play and some of us don't. Personally, I'm not going to attack you because you still play or him or anybody. I can't say that enough.

This isn't the GDB, we can all agree to that and people do come here to air their grievances, some of which are justified and some of which aren't. I just feel, if you're going to back staff actions on whatever, at least back it up with more than the standard GDB responses. Because this isn't a vacuum like the GDB sort of is. I even get that there might be some kind of punitive blowback for you to post here under your GDB screen name and maybe I'm being a little naive in thinking there wouldn't be (or at least there shouldn't be for taking their side on certain things). None of us can explain why staff does some of the things they do because we're not staff, but some of you come here and make it seem like you know more than the average player does. So all that's left is to discuss it, we can be right or we can be wrong about what we think is going on, but really that's all we got. 

lol Nyr called me Dmango in a request. Guess my proxy didn't work.

For the record I'm Asan, the guy who posted this thread. Sorry for being dishonest with the multiple accounts but I felt it was the only way to express frustration against these terrible administrators and still potentially derive enjoyment from this game. . . I don't get any enjoyment anymore. If anyone's going to call me out, that's your right. I don't think this open secret diminishes any of the failures that Nyr and his sycophants floundered through under my delicate stimulation.

Lol, red suppository of realization.

I have never made any account except the one I am locked out of. I'm not sure why, but the idea of trying to play incognito just makes me feel weirdly queasy. It's like, I don't feel as though I must conceal my identity to play a game.

People who say they don't understand why this board is here haven't played the game long enough - I played the game in harmony for years before a certain staff member I had disagreed with made lead admin. That's all it takes to change your entire perception of the game.

And I get why people like RGS and whoever come to "defend" Armageddon. I won't reduce their actions to merely attempts to curry favor - though, let's be honest, they will never reveal or fully speak their minds because of fear of retribution or snubbing - but it has more to do with the fact that they /are/ currently playing the game and have invested a great deal of time into it. So, by virtue of those facts alone, you won't hear much genuine criticism unless it comes in the form of a Malkensque outburst that is swiftly apologized for and "made up for" my spending an inordinate amount of time insulting, attacking, acting obnoxiously/belligerently to posters here, again, just to make up for a critical outburst against the staff.

Basically, that sums up the mentality of many long term players. Calling it cultish is probably a bit much though I have used that as a descriptor before - exceptionally cliquish is more apt.

This board serves a good purpose considering the number of people who enjoyed Armageddon for a decade or more but now, mainly due to pettiness, staff grudges, poor administrative decisions, snarkiness, and outright ugliness... Have chosen to stop playing. Or play using a pseudonym. Or still play but desire a place to voice criticisms because, let's be real here, you CANNOT actually speak critically against the staff in many situations, especially not publicly.

It's probably true that many here believe ArmageddonMUD to be a broken game that is absolutely not worth playing. I happen to think it is worth playing, but it is not worth playing when the people running the show hold grudges and will block or curtail plot attempts simply because /they do not like you/.

I don't mean to post here in an attempt to discourage people from playing ArmageddonMUD or to deride them if they continue; instead, hopefully posts by many here help shape the culture in a way that, in part, encourages players to refuse to accept anything but professional, mature interactions with the staff.

While many people have burned bridges by posting critiques of the game here - and you better believe than many posters here have gotten carried away at times - I bet you fiddy fucking dollars that, for the past considerable amount of time, staff members have went out of their way to avoid as much overt ugliness that seemed to trend for a while.

Because guess what, as a result of this board, if you act like an immature, hateful, ego tripping Internet tough guy because you feel as though you have somehow earned the right to treat people like this... Then they will post it here so the entire player base can see what an unbelievably unprofessional ass clown you're acting like.

MoF will say some shit about martyr complexes, but previously, there was no public place for criticism of staff actions or the game or any of that shit. And if some people not being able to play openly anymore is what it takes for such a place to act like a catalyst of sorts, then so be it.

It's incredibly naive to believe ArmagddonMUD has not changed as a result of jcarter's shadowboards.

you people are the worst people