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Post by JaceMachine on Mar 7, 2004 12:41:37 GMT -5
I don't fucking wanna hear your excuses anymore.
Either you WANT to play this game, and experience something that YOU'VE already claimed was WAY COOL, or you fucking get the hell out.
Ben and I were talking about this yesterday, and he is at a loss as to why you guys aren't posting. After all, he says that "It takes only 20 minutes to post."
When I started this game, I hand picked you guys, because I knew that you were all good and all enjoyed writing as well as playing RPG's. Unfortuately, you are also lazy.
You can hold AIM conversations for fucking HOURS but you can't seem to write a single post.
My apologies go to Halo & Roanoke for the fact that the other gamers I selected to play along side them are [expletive deleted].
Please speak your minds, and vote.
Whether or not this game continues is contingent upon it.
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Post by Crimson on Mar 7, 2004 14:55:22 GMT -5
I agree where the hell is everyone? I know i have not posted a bunch either but that is mostly due to the the fact that sometimes i can't because no one else has posted yet to move the story along. C'mon guys WAKE UP.
Don't make Jace go Willa-binnini
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Post by Roanoke on Mar 7, 2004 15:55:24 GMT -5
No excuses from me, really. I could say that I was waiting for someone else to move the story along, but the truth is that no one seems to be doing that other than Ben. My character was interacting with the Yankowski character last and Mr. Yankowski's was the last line of dialogue in the "A Brief Interlude" thread. I hadn't wanted to hog up the spotlight by posting too often and was kind of waiting for someone else to chime in. But, you know what? Fuck it. No one is anyway. And besides, Yankowski had replied to Roanoke, so it would only make sense that Roanoke would respond to Yankowski's statement right after he finishes saying it.
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Post by bluemojo on Mar 7, 2004 20:40:57 GMT -5
Ah, I come back hoping from some respite from lame drama, and I meet this. Thanks guys. This was supposed to be FUN. A GAME. FUN. Get it? No excuses will be proffered. I apologize for not posting for a few days. But why I can't post for 5 days at a time is my problem and my business. Yeah, it sucks, life happens, SHIT happens. If that's unacceptable, quit whining, just kick me out. Maybe I'll get some backup from the other absentees. if they show up.  |
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Post by Crimson on Mar 8, 2004 0:25:01 GMT -5
Ok now don't make me put all you angry little men in time out.
I see how it could get a bit slowed down and yes SHIT does come up. So now that everyone has gotten that out of thier system lets just move the game along.
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Post by JaceMachine on Mar 8, 2004 13:24:38 GMT -5
If one player is absent. We can work with it. If two players or more players are absent. The game basically stops. What you get then, are the people who really WANT to play, checking the site every day-- and seeing that their fellow players STILL haven't responded to their attempt at conversation. They check again, later that day. Still nothing. The next day? Surely their character would have responded to them by now! Nope. Nothing. The next day that player themselves doesn't check the site, as another one rides the bus. Then after a week of no one posting, I have to rattle cages and knock on some doors in order to get people to play-- ONLY to have the people who made personal commitments to me AND the rest of you get mad at me, as if their not posting isn't fucking with anything, and I'm being an asshole. Bluemojo is a KEY PC. He is the ONLY one with Mad Computer Skills. He is the FRONTMAN for Blitzkrieg. If mojo isn't talking, everyone notices in and out of game. Hollowpoint is a key PC. Tim asked me to create for him his character, which I happily did-- I still asked for his opinion here and there, but for the most part, this character was created by the GM with THIS PARTICULAR STORY IN MIND. What happens if Hollowpoint doesn't post? Then shit will NOT get solved. MAJOR clues WILL be missed. Why did I base two of the most important character's in the game around you two? Because I had your verbal commitments that you would post and post OFTEN. I built this game around the players and the PCs. I took the basic team template that Dave had come up with, and built the adventure around these particular characters. If this core group fails to post. The game is at a stand still. All I want, is to be able to play this game, and to come on day afterday, and see the story get somewhere. At the pace it's going, this particular tale will finish in roughly a year, or not at all. Me? I'm just hoping that you guys get as far as the part of the story where you as players are all shitting yourselves where you sit. It is BECAUSE you guys are my bestfriends that I expect so very much from you-- but I don't think that I expect more than what is possible. I'm not going to sit quiet and stew over this, keeping it to myself. You guys know that If I have a problem, I will let you know. And I am. People not posting because:
(a) They don't think about it.
(b) They don't feel like it.These two reasons are why thousands of eFed's die every week. And having successfully run an eFed for many years, I know how very important EACH OF YOU ARE TO EACH OTHER. Your posting habits directly affect your fellow players and THEIR posting habits. All I'm trying to do is keep this project afloat. If it gets to the point where I don't even feel like checking the boards cuz "nuthin's happening anyway".... well, you get the picture. All you have to do is play. Your original commitment was "two or three times a week"-- That's really not THAT hard is it? Gentlemen, I will get off my soapbox now. Obviously, I've strong opinions about this, but now you know what they are. I expect to see EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU ON THE BOARDS.  |
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Post by Hollowpoint on Mar 8, 2004 17:08:39 GMT -5
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Post by bluemojo on Mar 9, 2004 20:24:59 GMT -5
Hey. that rant was my 100th post. w00t. I'm gonna split some hairs.
1. "Takes only 20 minutes to post," my bleeding arse. Speaking just for myself, it takes AT LEAST an hour, sometimes three, to read up on everyone else's goings- on, check the maps to see where everyone is and visualize the area, draft and rewrite my post ... (However, see my question at the end.)
2. If I have a choice between going out to do something in person, and posting on the board, I'm gonna choose the former and postpone the latter every time.
3. I have a full-time job that often requires all of my mental power. Do you?
4. "I don't fucking wanna hear your excuses any more .... Get the hell out" doesn't sound like a friendly invitation to a game. If that's really how you feel, I hope you enjoy GMing a game with no players.
5. This is only a game. I realize you've spend hundreds of thousands of years preparing it, but that was your choice, and you can't hold that over anyone's head but your own.
6. You can't bully people into having fun.
To sum up: I am a little insulted by your post -- Yes, it has a lot of potential, but this GAME is not the center of the universe, and it's nowhere near the center of mine. Even so, I will redouble my efforts to post more often, but -- I'll say it again -- if I can't post enough to please you, STFU and kick me. I expect to have about 1.5 hours today between work and other commitments, and maybe a couple more hours late tonight.
Would you say that a half-assed, off-the-cuff post is better than no post at all?
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Post by The Dispatcher on Mar 9, 2004 20:56:22 GMT -5
Would you say that a half-assed, off-the-cuff post is better than no post at all? Actually, Yes. And I'm looking forward to reading such posts as well. ;D In other nuz: I apologize for being an asshole, but Webster's still hasn't gotten around to removing my picture from that entry. (I'm still petitioning though.)  |
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Post by bluemojo on Mar 9, 2004 22:10:49 GMT -5
> Would you say that a half-assed, off-the-cuff post is better than no post at all? Actually, Yes. And I'm looking forward to reading such posts as well. Cool. I'll try to keep that in mind, even though I'm a psychotic perfectionist, can't leave well enough alone, and rewrite each post 3 times before I actually post it. Also, congrats on recognizing and answering the only honest question in that post I understand, it SUCKS HARDCORE LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER D00D when you put a lot of effort and soul into something really cool, and then have to watch it die through no fault of its own. Everything has its up and down times. This game will too. People will eventually start slacking off en masse. Don't panic, find a way for the remaining group to game around it ... If things get worse, start calling people up and bitching at them, then give it a few days to sink in. in an extreme case, you could have a xenomorph leap down from the ceiling and start to eviscerate anyone who fails to react. Or a guard leap out and demand to see identification ... Shit, you know how to run an RPG campaign. What happens in your pen-and-paper groups when someone starts missing games? You gotta push 'em, but not too hard or they'll say "fuck you," ... and you gotta know when to say "fuck it, we're going on without 'em." Anyone else have any hairs they want split? I should probably go hit the RP board ... |
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Post by Crimson on Mar 10, 2004 0:57:26 GMT -5
Yeah actually there are a few hairs I want to split....
....They are hanging from my head at the moment, anyone got a razor i could borrow? ;D
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Post by Roanoke on Mar 10, 2004 5:21:18 GMT -5
My posts can actually take over an hour to fine tune as well. Like you, Dave, I am a psychotic perfectionist (though maybe not in all the same ways) and cannot post in 20 minutes to save my life. I'm always trying to find a unique way to: 1. Utilize vocabulary that's a little less used. 2. Come up with unique ways to phrase things. 3. Second guess my original idea for a post in order to keep things more interesting. 4. Etc., etc. ... Even after I have finished a post, I still go back and check it again (sometimes weeks later) to see if there is something that I can improve upon, word differently or explain more clearly. On another subject, I feel I must clarify that I wasn't ragging on anyone when I said in my last post on this thread: I hadn't wanted to hog up the spotlight by posting too often and was kind of waiting for someone else to chime in. But, you know what? Fuck it. No one is anyway. What I was trying to say there was really only a statement of fact at that particular time; that being that no one, myself included, had posted for a couple of days. I wasn't in any way trying to browbeat anyone for not posting. The last two sentences of that quote were worded poorly. Their original intended tone was actually a lot more lighthearted (kind of like a "Oh well, this is the way things are right now, so I guess I'll just post again" type of thing) than the harshness of the words would indicate. I am sorry if I ruffled anyone's feathers. |
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Post by bluemojo on Mar 10, 2004 17:23:16 GMT -5
All venom was for "Jace Jace All Up In Your Face" ... I'm not down with that style, yo.
Dammit Joel, quit playing with your split ends. ;D
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Post by Hollowpoint on Mar 10, 2004 23:01:40 GMT -5
Jace Jace all up in your face. LOL, I remember that... Don't forget Joey P in the place to be.
I would lend you my razor Joel, but only right after I am done hacking at my wrist. ;D
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