Note: Old stuff.
lol recoveryI'll just catch up to this mechanical talk since, apparently, there is more concrete stuff than all of D1 to actually look at. Spares me from going on a binge more so than I already was about to. Let it be known I actually deleted all this, refreshed, went back, then back back and still recovered what I deleted. Fantastic.Alright. Claims from Ex, Michi, Dolby, and Arena. Putting myself in the moment. Huh it encompasses the whole thing. Weird. Maybe if I put it above it.I've got two points I have to re-proceed from: page 9 through 25 for the first part of this game (relative to my own perception of having been keeping up) and page 30 through 44 (because I honestly thought it was to 34 and that turned out to be wrong). So this will be good practice for Champs to get the rust knocked off and get me in the right mood.
Overall the few things that have stuck out to me thus far are (in no particular order):
- The post "restricted"
- Glorious Bob
- Lauism and the counter push to peace
- Aers
- ENE
- Dolby
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Part of this is a rehash with earlier topics previously covered (essentially stuff through 9-25), but with a few additional thoughts on my own end without a full on deep dive (though I might manage that as I continue to listen to this music).
First, wrt to the post "restricted", I've already said that there's not really any reason to believe that they (all of them) are faking (at least the majority of them). My own experiences and feelings of post restricted type roles aside, it's extremely high effort to maintain, consistently, a post restriction. To pretend to have one requires dedication the more "complex" the post restriction is. I'll take Michi as the example for this here: Michi has, as it seems to me, to consistently be posting in the style of "the news". Initially it started as just repeating, more or less, what is going on and adding in "WHAT MORE WILL HAPPEN FIND OUT LATER," etc etc. That, in and of itself, doesn't require a lot of effort; however, here is where the dedication comes in when Michi starts putting forth characters and semi-short stories still in the style of the news (though through the lens of others Michi portrays in his posts). Literal dedication. So much so that if Michi is faking that posting restriction, he's enjoying it. I find it to be more likely that Michi is required to post in a news style that he is just leaning into for the fun of it. That as opposed to literal faking and doing it because why not (which takes a special person to do that, but hey, we did get all that story from Worlds Collide so I could be way off the mark here though I choose to err on the side of what seems more reasonable to me and the former is as opposed to the faking).
All the other restrictions fall below Michi in terms of complexity as far as I am concerned wrt to the likes of rhymes and poems or what not. So that entails Silver and Arena. I'm not counting Aers here. Below them I'd put Aers and Vro.
wrt to Silver and Arena, definitely takes effort to construct your own poems or rhymes. Or, if copying lyrics from elsewhere, a time investment to either mix and match to get a message you want across. To that effect, both Arena and Silver come across to me as genuinely having those kinds of restrictions. I've glanced mentions about how, wrt to Silver for instance, there was an attempt at communication the feeling of being in danger or how Arena and Silver may be lovers/neighbors or something of the such. I don't know, though I wouldn't find the idea in and of itself impossible. After all, the content they put forth is what should matter (and that's something I have not dove into despite wanting to take time to read through the thread -- but I'll choose when I want my eyes to bleed from post restricted poems that may be fluff due to it being D1 because why wouldn't it be just their opinions as opposed to anything else?). Suffice to say, I'm not batting an eye in their direction as of yet though that is by virtue of other, more interesting, things going on as opposed to their content (of their restricted posts).
I've mentioned Vro once before already (Aers too), but in terms of a post restriction -- easily fakeable. If it is one, which I have no basis to assert Vro is faking, it's at the very least not high maintenance to post pictures with words to relate what you want to say (although I should note making your own memes is more of a time investment as opposed to searching some that say stuff you want in a ball park kind of way).
Aers, on the other hand, I know at one point had mentioned making his own poems to put forth to Arena. This was back during the earliest parts of D1. I likened that to meaning Aers, too, had a post restriction though maybe not as harsh as Arena (or the others). In practice, from what posts I've seen from Aers, I haven't actually seen any kind of post restriction so I may have mistakenly thrown him into this group. And, as that may be the case as I think to his responses to me, I find that I've wasted my time here.
Anyway to close out the post restrictions, Vro still comes up as the most likely of these that could be suspect especially since he's not as active as the others are in posting. Michi, by leagues, keeps on trucking while Arena and Silver do their thing (Silver is more of a jumble to me like he has appeared in many past games I've participated with him in and the restriction doesn't help with assessing him).
But yeah, I think I'm comfortable with not viewing Michi negatively given the high effort whereas I do view Vro negatively.
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On the matter of Aers -
I still don't think he is a bad yeet. Matter of fact let me take this section in a different direction (ah HA!):
Note: I tagged it as #1 despite earlier posts. I've started a scan, the good ol fashioned way, to dredge up what he's posted and assess them one by one. So after his disappearance (due to work and the such as he said) I'm keeping track from this post (that I encountered much later) onward:
lol recovery
I'll just catch up to this mechanical talk since, apparently, there is more concrete stuff than all of D1 to actually look at. Spares me from going on a binge more so than I already was about to. Let it be known I actually deleted all this, refreshed, went back, then back back and still recovered what I deleted. Fantastic.
Alright. Claims from Ex, Michi, Dolby, and Arena. Putting myself in the moment.
Huh it encompasses the whole thing. Weird.