...I think I might have been a little too optimistic in regards of my RP-ing form.
Since I wish not to be smacked around by Spazz's ire, I think I'll just remove myself from the FG for some time while I focus on other stuff. That way, perhaps I'll be able to return clear-minded.
Of course, there's a possibility that I will be simply weak and return soon after, but that would be my characters' swapping. Which is bad.
So yeah. Lose-lose/kinda-win here.
Right. A few things:
1. This is the fourth or fifth time you've said this. No matter how often you say it, you will not get people to back down on these relatively minor criticisms, especially when said criticisms are brought up relate to people's ability to enjoy interacting with your characters at all.
2. Don't think I don't see that tone, because I do. "My ire"? Excuse me. And I, for one, am quite frankly tired with you doing this every time some sort of criticism is levied at you, however minor. Deadbeat can make all the scary pink posts he likes, but we are tired of the drama over things that don't need drama. We've had more than enough of that. Every time, Ferg. Not every damn thing is worth going on hiatus over.
3. This is an issue we have all asked you to work on for a long time now. Yet you still get bent out of shape, no matter how gently pointers are given.
So. I am calling your bluff. Go take a break. Take it until you think you can take criticism without resorting to this every single time.
edited 26th Jan '14 12:50:42 PM by GameSpazzer
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon AlchemistRefer to Spazz's question in the FG whether my guy will disappear like they usually do after a brief while.
I assured that no, that won't happen, but I find it increasingly difficult to keep up with making him some personality. I'd have to start over and I feel that's the loser's way out.
To avoid changing characters, I'll simply take a break from the FG.
@Spazz: I'll get back to your commentary in a moment.
edited 26th Jan '14 12:17:22 PM by FergardStratoavis
Are you sure? Because I thought you were on break.
You are not a "victim". You are the one who does this stuff. We have been extraordinarily patient, and yet everything brought up that isn't positive is seen as an attack. You aren't being attacked. Not even close. Trevor was attacked for the paedoshit. TAR was attacked for thinking lolcats were funny. You are being critiqued, and you see it as anything but every time.
edited 26th Jan '14 12:26:01 PM by GameSpazzer
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon AlchemistPointless sarcasm is pointless, Spazz.
Now, back to my earlier counterargument.
1. I don't wish for people to back down on these criticisms. Frankly, I'm insulted you assume that I'd throw a temper tantrum over minor things like these. I well understand that it strips off people's enjoyment of interacting with my characters, yes, but it's not as easy as you make it to be. I for a fact try to work this out eventually, but if I'm finding a brick wall, it's perhaps easier to retreat and get your bearings together.
2. Yes, your ire. You run this joint, Spazz. That's not the main point of this one though. Why do you assume that I seek needless drama? I honestly don't see how this drama is done by me when I state(for n-th time, I admit) that I'll make a small break. If anything, you're the one who accentuated the thing by stating first how it makes you, for lack of a better word, uncomfortable.
3. I cannot argue here, however...
4. Falsely chickening out every time criticism is laid down upon me? Excuse me? I've been addressed multiple times about most various of things: Lilith Spree, meta-bombs, you name it. Each of these issues was fixed after criticism and a number of pointers. Assuming I don't fix my mistakes is hurtful.
5. For that matter, don't put words in my mouth either. Victim? No. If anything, I'm the one responsible for, as noted, stripping people off enjoyment. Please don't turn this upside down. I can recognize the critique(though it doesn't mean I can adjust myself to it post-haste).
If you don't mind, I'd hear out other people present if possible.
1. Then what do you call this now?
2. Then what do you call this now? And god forbid we be made uncomfortable for you getting bent out of shape and threatening to leave for the umpteenth time. The irony here is fantastic.
4. That's not what we meant and you know it. By getting bent out of shape, not chickening out, we mean what you are doing right now. Look at your posts. Read them. See if this is warranted. If you don't get bent out of shape about something as simple as this
, what do you call this now?
5. Then what do you call this now?
Seriously. Take a break for a week or so. Calm down until you can read posts like the one linked without threatening to quit because "the person who runs the show" might express "ire". This is getting old, Ferg.
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon Alchemist'Kay, I'll pinch-hit.
Ferg, you're being needlessly melodramatic about this.
If your response to everything Spaz tells you is to passive-aggressively pick apart everything you thought was mean, it doesn't convince us that you're taking this criticism well.
Past experience shows that either you can't commit to these hiatuses you tell us you keep going on, or these "short breaks" are really really short breaks.
What they all said. If you feel as though the formatting of the game is holding you back or that you can't commit to it, maybe you should just stick to the arena or something. I say this not to insult you or tell you to leave (you know I do the arena too), but to try and help you be comfortable. The game is character-driven, so if that aspect is not doable for you, maybe it's time for a change. Please, man, take your feelings out of this and look at it from a logistical perspective.
make it through this year if it kills you yet | 2001-2019You told people to leave over things of similar weight, Spazz.
But yeah, I guess you're right. I really do need a break, a breaky kind of break.
@FG: Ta-ta.
Well, I guess now I need to slap myself every time I want to go there.
Though it intrigues me how no criticism was involved until after I stated my decision. Kinda funny.
@Mobile: Arena is a viable alternative, yeah, but nowadays it's either deserted or people are absent whenever I'm around. Confound them timezones.
The thing is, as stated multiple times, my inability to stay consistent with my characters. Let me just think things over and it should be fine. Exams help in that regard.
edited 26th Jan '14 1:04:42 PM by FergardStratoavis
God damn it, Ferg. You are approaching Knight critical mass, here.
The characters thing is no longer the issue here. Your attitude in regards to criticism is, and it is now a serious problem.
Do you want to be told to permanently leave? Because this actually is grounds for eviction by now. Being dead serious here. Calm down. Do not reply. Stop posting. Come back when you have hopefully calmed down a week from now.
edited 26th Jan '14 1:07:50 PM by GameSpazzer
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon AlchemistDoing research whatsits.
Anonymous Friend will now be appearing in LP videos again since I'm painfully bored and we actually bounce pretty good jokes off one another anyway, as long as he keeps the 4chan-isms out of the videos. Which I actually have faith in this time, since he hasn't been on 4chan is years and has cleaned up his act quite a bit.
I would ask you guys to cameo, but as shown with the Jam and Rivux experiments, Skype isn't quite Screencast-compatible.
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon AlchemistBugger.
I won't be on much today like I'd planned. Which is annoying because of the FG position and frozen RP.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?

trip no
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