Brightfires
Dances with a Death Mage
- Joined
- Sep 24, 2020
- Messages
- 83
- Reaction score
- 314
Am I here? ... Maybe? Sort of?
I don't know.
I have to be SOMEWHERE, I guess... But it really feels like I've mostly given up talking about game stuff over the last couple of years. I don't even post to the City MMO forum as much as I used to, much less to any of the RPG boards.
In any case, I'm pretty much another refugee from RPGNet who found this place when it was linked by someone else. I had been posting regularly on RPGN for something like eighteen years by the time I threw in the towel and left for good. It's the usual story... Even being a politically leftie, Hippy Earth Mother type I usually felt Too Unenlightened for them. I just don't have an activist's level of understanding of the current social justice climate, and that was increasingly what seemed to be required to keep from running afoul of the Mod Squad.
Even though I do still largely agree with their intentions and the direction they're coming from, feeling like I was dancing through a potential minefield every single time I posted didn't play very well with the way my particular Black Dog barks. It was stressful and really took all the fun out of interacting with people there. And then one of my posts caught one of the more... "prone to uncharitable readings", let's say... mods on a bad day and I took that as loud and clear indication that it was time to exit stage left. Writing on the wall, I guess.
I knew enough about Pundit not to go near his site, but I'm not sure I'm really cut out to be a regular here, either... Restarting my maps thread and having it turn into porn and a some poor furry getting kicked in the unmentionables isn't to blame, but it did give a certain insight into the way the Pub works. XD
I don't know.
I have to be SOMEWHERE, I guess... But it really feels like I've mostly given up talking about game stuff over the last couple of years. I don't even post to the City MMO forum as much as I used to, much less to any of the RPG boards.
In any case, I'm pretty much another refugee from RPGNet who found this place when it was linked by someone else. I had been posting regularly on RPGN for something like eighteen years by the time I threw in the towel and left for good. It's the usual story... Even being a politically leftie, Hippy Earth Mother type I usually felt Too Unenlightened for them. I just don't have an activist's level of understanding of the current social justice climate, and that was increasingly what seemed to be required to keep from running afoul of the Mod Squad.
Even though I do still largely agree with their intentions and the direction they're coming from, feeling like I was dancing through a potential minefield every single time I posted didn't play very well with the way my particular Black Dog barks. It was stressful and really took all the fun out of interacting with people there. And then one of my posts caught one of the more... "prone to uncharitable readings", let's say... mods on a bad day and I took that as loud and clear indication that it was time to exit stage left. Writing on the wall, I guess.
I knew enough about Pundit not to go near his site, but I'm not sure I'm really cut out to be a regular here, either... Restarting my maps thread and having it turn into porn and a some poor furry getting kicked in the unmentionables isn't to blame, but it did give a certain insight into the way the Pub works. XD