(12-03-2014, 03:33 PM)Garrett Jax Wrote: Hey Vogel. You might not have realized this neat little feature at the top right corner of your window. It's a small red box that has an 'X' on it. You see it? I suggest whenever you log onto www.discoverygc.com, that you click that box ASAP. You say you are questioning your presence here? Dude, we are all questioning your presence here. I've already told you that you won't be happy here...ever. So, do yourself and everyone else a favor and leave.
(12-02-2014, 05:57 PM)Garrett Jax Wrote: I think Saronsen could do a great job as a balance dev. And if anyone posted a complaint about his decisions, he would simply bomb their thread with infinite Spiderman memes.
I know you're sick of this gif, but as long as your snark factor is higher than 10, there's no other option to reply with.
(12-03-2014, 04:52 PM)Hidamari Wrote: I love this place and will do until its completely totally dead, ive invested too much time to just give up like some of you guys, so pass me the defibrillator and stop your yammering.
And this is the attitude that I'm talking about. There is a difference between giving up and being realistic. I'm sure plenty of people who played hard a year or two ago are perfectly happy playing casually now. You're generating activity, yes, but a tiny little irrelevant spike of activity that won't effect anything in the long run (and certainly not 'revive' the server as you seem to think is needed) at the cost of stress to yourself and everyone you come into conflict with while trying to pull up the dregs of activity required for your event. But by all means, keep doing what you're doing, but the end result is that you're going to exhaust yourself for the sake of a few ultimately meaningless interactions.
A million dollars isn't cool. You know what is cool? A basilisk.
Taking Sindrom's advice and picking a "new community punching bag," I see. Very well. I never justified anything I proposed, suggested, or railed against by merit of being a "vet." I never once called myself that. As for "pitching in," I've been trying to play in that empty server for several months now, without drawing attention to who I was. I came back here with fresh eyes and the perspective of a new player, some two versions distant, all characters and former faction relations long since wiped. And nothing I've said was invalidated by that experience. If I am bitter it is because I see something wasted, good ideas that have been trampled over the course of development, stillborn before they are even given the benefit of the most basic field tests. It's not because I had some kind of reputation or power here to protect as if it were an inheritance, because in the end I never had one. One would suppose that the very lack of a reputation meant that I had nothing to lose, and therefore had no inhibitions against questioning a status quo for the sake of truth, but evidently it just means I'm further guilty of the heinous crime of existing.
Fine. Sure. Have a good one. Try not picking another punching bag too soon and spare some poor SOB, yeah?
Whoah this is turning into a collection of hyperboles. Even being a somebody didn't really help anyways. The dev turn over rate was always soo fast one couldn't keep up with the unfortunate amount of ideas that were in stillborn mode. Comes from all this being a volunteer type thing. Most come into the staff not expecting the workload as much of the details are outside the scope of this forum. The more initiated understood this dynamic and engaged themselves in the very repetitive business pf constantly sales pitching their RP to every new dev that came along.