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u do unspeakable damage to nessalins ego with ur old arm clone
nessalin reels from the blow
nessalin attempts to flee
u seize the opening and attack
u do unspeakable damage to nessalins shroud with ur staff wikileaks
nessalins cries out in pain
nessalin crumples to the ground
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welcome to being the change!

Speaking of Nessalin, his staff page is a bit... brief. (I'm now looking through all the staff pages.)

Done

I actually feel a little uneasy about this. We've maintained that we don't actively harm the game, and this feels like it tests the limits of that. How can we say we want what's best for the game if we're leaking relatively concurrent information like this? Putting up a 1999 version of the game is one thing, and pretty harmless, but this feels like just a "fuck you, Armageddon" move.

I think the fundamental premise of this board is that this community ultimately wants what's best for the game, and to do what it can to oppose perceived corruption from staff and flawed ideologies that they refuse to change. For instance, overly opaque game mechanics are bad, so we offer the skill lists and such. Unprofessional behaviour from staff is bad so we provide a place to expose and discuss it. The immortal documentation doesn't really fit into that, and all it does is undermine the game and staff's ability to tell stories.

You know I'm hardly a fan of the current staff lot, but if I were one of them, seeing this kind of wiki dump would make me feel even less inclined to acknowledge our point of view and that we're sometimes right where they're wrong. This feels like it might compromise what has looked like the beginnings of a real acceptance on their part of what this community has established, and the fact that we do just want the game to return to glory.

Yes, I am aware you're trying to frame this as "If what we do could be argued to be harmful we shouldn't do it." That's a crock. Someone could easily make the argument that exposing all the staff abuse drove people away from the game when they realized it wasn't going to end because what happened to them was neither isolated nor frowned upon.

We want Armageddon to be a better game. That's not the same thing as protecting its status quo.

This does not in any way reduce the ability of staff to tell stories. It's almost entirely history, most of which they haven't even revealed to people, which makes most of the shit that happens in the staff plots seem totally random. "Oh hey, the Tuluki now have an invulnerable headcrab army! Where did that come from? If I don't find out IC THE WHOLE GAME IS POINTLESS!" Help me out here; how is finding out the headcrab army was pulled from the deepest part of some staffer's ass a barrier to current staff telling future stories?