What The Fuck???

[magicaddict]

WHAT THE FUCK????????

Guess we'd all better be really careful not to mention anything negative even in mission reports any more, if it's no longer cool for characters to be nasty about other characters in any written medium.

You know, like they are to mine all the damned time.

It was a report. A biased, non-egalitarian, single-opinion report (like all of the others were), from a character who had had a nightmare all weekend at other characters' hands. What in the world did they expect? Rainbows and fucking unicorns?

Would it have been any better had Tony posted it rather than me? I asked if he'd be up for that, and got told I was fine with it (every word of it, from the creator of the system and GM of the game in question - how d'you like those onions?), just to wait until the debrief had gone up.

I swear on my soul that I put aside any OOC feeling I had, and wrote Meek's side of things as Meek and not me. It's a bad write up. Get over it.

Gerrard gets bad IC press every time he goes out, but I don't go whining to the committee that I'm being victimised OOC. Should I start? Is that the assumption we're supposed to make now?

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[magicaddict.livejournal.com]

Changes have occurred within the society. That which I was told was categorically bad by proponents of the attitude is now not only happening, but the same people are daring to say it was their idea in the first place (I'm thinking maps, before you demand examples). That attitude no longer has blanket control over what happens in the society, and power of veto over everything peope with a different attitude come up with. Now, if they want something to happen (or want to stop something happening), they have to follow the same procedure that everyone else does, and make a case before a democratic vote of the society. In your absence, that has caused some ridiculous throwing of toys out of the pram - consider a GM team who railed against the fact they they had to compete for a campaign, rather than it just being given to them without consideration. I mean...the injustice of it all...

I was never against certain people. I was for the right of everyone to be heard equally, and judged equally. Now I've got it, and I bloody well love it. Yes, I felt paroxysms of glee at Tony's revelation that what I had been told was bad, wrong and unacceptable for a decade was what he had planned all along. It cannot have been news to all of his contemporaries. It's one of the biggest social vindications I have ever experienced (which, in itself, is a little humbling given the wider world), and I could have indulged in all kinds of crass nose rubbing. Instead, one post, that was polite (if directed) and made a good point.

It's going to be interesting times in the future. For a start, we get you back (ask anyone I have ever talked to about my opinions on the best pure roleplayer in the society. You and Caroline sit pretty). For another, I get to put forward stuff I've never been allowed to before, and that includes my own attitude towards creativity. I know, however, that any attitude I put forward is to be weighed and measured by the same codes of practice that everyone else has to follow as well. I have no fear of going to far, for I know that if I do, actions will be taken to address it, as they will be with anyone else. I also know that it is not mandatory for people to agree with me, or follow what I preach. I learned that within three years. Others still haven't got it after fifteen.

The axe isn't going to go away. It's just going to go on the shelf, within damned easy reach for when someone else implies that they are above criticism, or should get special dispensation, or should be allowed to step outside of the practices established by a majority vote of the society. How long do you think it will be before it needs to come out again?