Having been IN most of the plurks or stalked them carefully myself, the rarrr about the move wasn't about the move. And the one you're talking about it was a wellspring of frustration that came from a great deal of elements.
Basically, the plurks were about how this wasn't fun. The move was just the framing of the discussion.
Honestly? Everything you've mentioned in the first part of your comments strikes me as fun and great. I would really enjoy DOING those.
I wouldn't enjoy pressing a button, donating energy and moving. And that's what the complaints were. And I think I said multiple times in one of those plurks that no one is specifically against the move.
Honestly, I love new environments... but it was a halfassed framing that was half interactive, and mostly not. There was nothing that convinced me that this plot needed to happen RIGHT NOW as a player, even though logically the character could see the need.
Like I said up above. START IT. RUN IT. If you do it, they will come and be like OH SHINY I CAN DO THIS USE ME HERE. There's no amount of arguing that will convince people that the move is a great idea.
But it's very, very easy to SHOW people that it can be fun. And you have more than enough initiative and frankly more mod backing than anyone else in any of your efforts. Roll with it, use it, roll people into it, convince them it's fun.
And what you want will happen.
Your energy is best dedicated into ANYTHING YOU WANT. And a truly interactive RP allows that.
It's not too much pressure, honestly, it's the type of pressure... PEEK ON DOWN to my thread way down there, and I kind of outline my overall frustration with plot execution here. It's not even... anything my character could star in. It's not even something ONE WAY OR ANOTHER he'd be interested in. But as a player, it has made me sideeye so hard I might froth a bit.
There's so much that could be done BY PLAYERS, by people like you who WANT A THING, by people like Dera who WANT ANOTHER THING, by people like Izaya who just want to ROLL IN THE MIDDLE OF A THING - ANY THING THAT IT IS. That there's no reason for the gods to give simple answers to complex, engaging problems.
And that's where my beef is, and I think... that's where all the plurks came from.
And I think, honestly, some of the frustrations IN them got redirected onto you, and that sucks. It really does. And I personally apologize if any of my own comments seemed that way.
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Basically, the plurks were about how this wasn't fun. The move was just the framing of the discussion.
Honestly? Everything you've mentioned in the first part of your comments strikes me as fun and great. I would really enjoy DOING those.
I wouldn't enjoy pressing a button, donating energy and moving. And that's what the complaints were. And I think I said multiple times in one of those plurks that no one is specifically against the move.
Honestly, I love new environments... but it was a halfassed framing that was half interactive, and mostly not. There was nothing that convinced me that this plot needed to happen RIGHT NOW as a player, even though logically the character could see the need.
Like I said up above. START IT. RUN IT. If you do it, they will come and be like OH SHINY I CAN DO THIS USE ME HERE. There's no amount of arguing that will convince people that the move is a great idea.
But it's very, very easy to SHOW people that it can be fun. And you have more than enough initiative and frankly more mod backing than anyone else in any of your efforts. Roll with it, use it, roll people into it, convince them it's fun.
And what you want will happen.
Your energy is best dedicated into ANYTHING YOU WANT. And a truly interactive RP allows that.
It's not too much pressure, honestly, it's the type of pressure... PEEK ON DOWN to my thread way down there, and I kind of outline my overall frustration with plot execution here. It's not even... anything my character could star in. It's not even something ONE WAY OR ANOTHER he'd be interested in. But as a player, it has made me sideeye so hard I might froth a bit.
There's so much that could be done BY PLAYERS, by people like you who WANT A THING, by people like Dera who WANT ANOTHER THING, by people like Izaya who just want to ROLL IN THE MIDDLE OF A THING - ANY THING THAT IT IS. That there's no reason for the gods to give simple answers to complex, engaging problems.
And that's where my beef is, and I think... that's where all the plurks came from.
And I think, honestly, some of the frustrations IN them got redirected onto you, and that sucks. It really does. And I personally apologize if any of my own comments seemed that way.