Post #109584
October 03, 2017, 10:29:27 PM
It's not snagged, so much as joined and then took it in a direction that, progressively, Justinian, Ashton, then myself have sort of just given up on. It's a lot of macho dick-waving, increasingly obvious references to video games that honestly began really obviously so at this point it's blatant 'I have Pelicans, from Halo, the award-winning first-person-shooter video game', and just generally a complete 180 from the fairly realist RP we'd aggressively pursued since Ainur.
This was not helped by Finrod dropping off the map several months ago, or others (the nominally-present-on-the-forums-insofar-as-they-signed-up Aceus Hovda and Lily Polisesul) doing the same thing on the RMB. And so we've just sort of quietly given up, which I imagine is partially motivated by schoolwork for them and mostly motivated by a jaded lack of desire to keep saying 'no, mechs are impractical tools for warfare and we certainly won't have them anytime in the near future' or 'video game things like orbital drop shock troopers, from Halo, the award-winning first-person-shooter video game, are dumb and impractical things that exist only because they sound cool and it's a fucking video game'.
Also I'm annoyed by the fact that they seem to have decided that rather than trying to be an arbiter for the rules that we laid out, I am instead just a 'ball buster' that comes up literally the moment I criticize, no matter how much or on what grounds said criticism occurs.