(07-23-2023, 10:18 PM)Omi Wrote: I actually feel like the post might have been better received if it took a dump on unlawfuls for once. It's clear there's a lot of strong feelings about this stuff one way or another, but what resonates most strongly with me is the kind of quasi-IC vitriol that gets directed at lawfuls. You can see it clearly in this message dump here.
Quote:[15.06.2023 15:57:14] Dagger.of.Erie: ?: Ay look, a baby killer.
[15.06.2023 15:57:30] [MFE]Pasteur: Pickett: Baby killer?
[15.06.2023 15:57:39] Dagger.of.Erie: ?: The fascist.
[15.06.2023 15:57:49] Dagger.of.Erie: ?: Sorry, /Navy/.
[15.06.2023 15:58:23] Dagger.of.Erie: ?: Habit.
[15.06.2023 15:59:05] Dagger.of.Erie: ?: I'd love to fry me some fascist.
[15.06.2023 16:01:26] Dagger.of.Erie: ?: Christ how many repair materials does that baby killer have?
[15.06.2023 16:02:05] Dagger.of.Erie: ?: Yo, SLRC, you're pretty far from home, ain't you from the Taus or something?
[15.06.2023 16:02:20] Dagger.of.Erie: ?: Good ta see you out regardless.
[15.06.2023 16:02:37] SLRC-XV>Cryptomnesia: Home's right over there, actually...
[15.06.2023 16:02:42] SLRC-XV>Cryptomnesia: Just getting a sense of what's happened here.
[15.06.2023 16:02:51] Dagger.of.Erie: ?: Mmm. It's a right *****.
[15.06.2023 16:03:13] [MFE]Pasteur: And it would depend on who you ask to tell you.
[15.06.2023 16:03:21] Dagger.of.Erie: ?: House governments taking what doesn't belong to them then being offended that we take offense to it.
[15.06.2023 16:03:26] SLRC-XV>Cryptomnesia: Figured that out pretty fast.
[15.06.2023 16:03:52] Dagger.of.Erie: ?: Damn fascists the lot of em. Bretonia Jr.
[15.06.2023 16:04:35] Dagger.of.Erie: ?: Well, guess I'll help them take out the trash, powerin' weapons. Time to kill this fascist.
[15.06.2023 16:05:43] Dagger.of.Erie: ?: Shut up and die quietly.
[15.06.2023 16:07:43] Dagger.of.Erie: ?: WIth you running like a *****, maybe not.
[15.06.2023 16:07:59] Dagger.of.Erie: ?: Run away little baby killer.
[15.06.2023 16:08:11] Dagger.of.Erie: ?: Go to hell.
I don't know who this clown is, but whoever they are, I think they should either take themselves back to Twitter or cool their head a little, step back, and come back with the mentality that it's all just a game. I don't see how this is fun for anyone involved, and I don't really consider myself particularly thin-skinned either. It's just not pleasant.
I was involved in leading GRN| in one form or another for about 5 years, on and off, and I can't remember experiencing even a fraction of this kind of ""in-character"" treatment from other characters at the time. Not from BAF, not from LN, not even from CR| -- the faction that we probably had the most bad blood with. To me, it's very indicative of real-world political attitudes (to be even more blunt about it, largely American politics) slipping into the roleplay environment in a way that is very jarring and very alienating to be on the receiving end of. I cannot for one second blame lawful players for getting sick of taking another big fat L when this is the kind of context they're trying to operate in.
I think the leakage of american politics into Discovery is an issue that's worthy of its own discussion, rather than getting drowned out in a shouting match about sirius-wide intel leaks. But then it'd probably end up in a shouting match anyway, so might as well knock everything out in the one big shouting championship we've got going here.
