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I hate betterdiscord, when I was actively developing for a game we used to make fake channel names to fuck with people who used that to see things they shouldn't on servers.

Can you imagine if Viv water was distilled water, so drinking it just washed essential nutrients from your system and killed you slowly?

Is no OOC communication a hallmark of an RPI? I know that limited OOC channels in-game is but I'm not sure out of game non-communication is a pre-requisite.

See the issue is all these staffers keep saying this will be their last post and sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't.

I'd really like more information on why the staff team felt overwhelmed. What busywork was causing animations and day to day to literally make someone have their significant other mention they've been absent for a month (less romantic). It's a pretty frequent question how a staff team the size it did was suffering burnout and issues that it was with the size of the playerbase.

Remember that time I spent over 10,000 dollars trying to develop a professional MUD and failed due to runway?

Personally I do think there is a market in text-based games because story and narrative have value. I believe that even more after moving on from RPIs and doing all those other RP communities. The issue that I had back then was I was not a coder but now I can muddle through and I did not possess enough $$$ to fund the development long enough to get to the end. I think anyone developing any type of game will tell you that $$$ to offset the time especially when you actually know what you're doing is probably the biggest hurdle. There is a reason gaming studios release games incomplete. Those years of development where they are paying these teams to work on something are years where they are losing money on that project and eventually you have to stop spending and start earning. For text-based games given the smaller audience and the fact almost all the codebases except FutureMUD and Evennia are copyrighted to free that makes it pretty hard.

I'd love for you to articulate exactly how I am stalking someone? I know you can't but it's the easiest way to demonstrate you're just mud slinging.

On the off chance shenzi  decides to reply as someone who has taken heaps of criticism.

1. If you really believe something just give the receipts. Whether they're images or logs or just the logic / feeling you were operating under at the time.
2. You can admit fault without being a hypocrite. You can say I wanted X but apparently Y was the outcome. People can have good intentions and come up short.
3. You can acknowledge something unfavorable to yourself without "losing". People turn a blind eye to stuff all the time. Hell sometimes I don't look at my bank account because I don't want to know how little money I have in it right now (damn inflation). Sometimes I don't respond to text messages because I haven't responded to them and it's been so long it's awkward. You can have been present when bad stuff happened but maybe you just focused on the good. That was other peoples drama and nothing to do with you. It doesn't make it right or wrong it just makes it the truth. People will have opinions about it but hey the truth is the truth.

I actually encourage you to respond to some of this stuff. People spend a lot of their life avoiding confrontation with other people and themselves. It's pretty helpful to work through stuff and actually answer for decisions. It helps you more than it helps others but the upside is it earns respect too.