[OOC] The Gamer Squad: An Ode to the Retro and New Generation (Now with 80% less Glitches!)

[Fabricant451]

Jihyo's thoughts on Smash Brothers may or may not be a reflection of my own.

That is all.

[EpicNukeGuy]

I like the VK or the jaegerpanther. Germans in wot are my specialty :3

[Dingo]

Fabricant451 said
I'd rather play Civilization with Jason,

Obligatory.

[Psyga315]

I'm about to do the impossible... or at least, what I think is impossible... I warn you all, my post will be big and may contain Elliot interacting with at least a few characters. I'm not even sure if it's allowed... Is this what they call Time-lording? I don't know... :

[VitaVitaAR]

You people do realize that your insistence on completely ignoring every new character who entered the room(with the exception of Fabricant who's character has a reason given she's ranting) is putting people off the RP, right?

What's the point of rushing this? It's not like we're not going to get to the game part or something. One person person reacted to one of my characters. I know the lights going off is kind of shocking, but seriously? No-one even says a damn thing to anything they ask or anything they say? No-one has any response to questions or sarcastic remarks or entrances or anything whatsoever?

[Psyga315]

This post was thumped by the Shillelagh of Whackingness.

And for Context's sake:

I can't really vouch for everyone else, but at least for me, I had to catch up with a ton of different posts and respond to most of them in some way, shape, or form. Even with a simple acknowledgement of "this happened". The problem might be that too much is going on to focus on each of them individually.

I agree with you that it seemed a bit rushed and that questions remained unanswered (I know my own character had his question ignored, but I just handwaved it away and said "yeah, no-brainer that he'd have energy drinks"), but like I said, I can't vouch for everyone. If I have to guess, some people tolerate different speeds... But that only vouches one part of your concern.

The reason I removed it was because I realized it wasn't directed at me.

[Dingo]

Psyga315 said
***THIS IS WHERE PSYGA ORIGINALLY ANSWERED VITA'S POST, BUT THEN HE EDITED WITH A SHILLELAGH, SO NOW MY RESPONSE IS OUT OF CONTEXT xP***

That's what I did with my guy. I figured that there was so much going on and so many other people having posted already that it would take too much backtracking to write my character into the original entrance, so I opted to just say "I was here the whole time, but I was in another room which is why I wasn't a part of the conversation" :P

[Lost Cause]

Yeah, at this point it's looking like even if I do get accepted, and I'm sceptical about that since the GM appears to have run off and hidden for whatever reason, I feel like I'm not actually going to be able to play because everyone will just ignore everything I post and demand to skip right to the virtual world stuff rather than trying to actually establish and develop their characters.

In fact, I would almost go as far as to say that might be why the GM has disappeared, since a few of you are vocally pushing for things to be skipped instead of what he wants to do with his project. It's also turning the RP into a de facto closed circle, with players acting to exclude everyone but a select few.

Sorry if that sounds like a rant but I felt I needed to air a few grievances.

[Sora1297]

NOOO, I'm here. And I said everybody was accepted.

[Sora1297]

And for starters, it wasn't the fact that people were asking to move the plot along. The fact remains that everybody was posting and there was so much to respond to, that including every last answer to every last comment, granted, would be nice, but it would also be extremely difficult. Unless you worked on a posting system where we have a set ORDER to who posts, there's always going to be somebody left behind in an interaction. If you post the answer to something, then discover that the question was answered in a new post, then what you've just said has become completely redundant.

I'm not saying you should ignore everybody, I'm saying the opposite. The trouble is, it takes a lot of time to properly get EVERYBODY to respond to EVERYBODY, so sometimes you'll get left behind. The RP will get better with that, but the questions about way games we're playing aren't really relevant to the plot. Besides, comments like the Xbone being hated on is a direct conversation between two people. It would be out of place if somebody who was using the bathroom comes in and is all like "Yeah PS4 is awesome". Its out of place and not really needed.

If it concerns your character, go ahead and reply. Things like this include character intros, group conversations, private conversations between you and somebody else, and plot events. Otherwise, there's no point in commenting on something.

[Psyga315]

Sora1297 said
NOOO, I'm here. And I said everybody was accepted.

I think what they mean is what's happening in character, in which their new characters are appearing in the RPG... and only a few of the PCs are actually acknowledging their existence.

[VitaVitaAR]

I don't think you quite understood what I mean.

I mean that, both IC and OOC, there are a fair number of players who have completely ignored anything done by newcomers. They are also refusing to address this point when it's mentioned in the OOC, and it's very off-putting. There is literally no reason the power going out means that they can't at least say something about the new people coming in, but they haven't responded any time it's brought up in the OOC even.

A "sorry, we won't do that again" would be nice, but the only response I've gotten about it was a complete non-sequiter and it was honestly kind of upsetting that any real attempt to get some kind of response has been totally ignored.

The only person who responded so far has been you, and you've had to handle plot stuff, and two people it wasn't even addressed to because they had reasons for their characters not responding.

It's really hard to write anything when nearly every person who has posted so far(save for one or two) has decided to ignore anyone new for whatever reason. It wouldn't be so bad if not for the fact that they're doing it in the OOC too.

This isn't addressed to Fabricant, who's character had a perfectly good reason to only acknowledge the newcomers a little bit. It's not addressed to Rin, who both did react and has been trying to help out. It's not at Dingo or Psyga either. Dingo's character is also a newcomer and Psyga did try to react. It's at everyone who both IC and OOC has not reacted to the newcomers or any attention to get any kind of comment or interaction.

[Sora1297]

Yeah that makes things a lot clearer. I thought you were just saying that it was a general problem that needed to be corrected.

But yeah I have to agree, looking back I've seen great stuff with those people. I would I interact more with newcomers, but I've also had to deal with plot stuff and make sure things are properly organized so that we can get the good times rolling. In an upcoming post, I actually commented on how everybody was griping about the SSB rules, but I see what you mean.

The worst part about being a GM with so many characters involved in an RP is the fact that people expect you to either have:

(A) No other RP's going on
(B) The little attention to detail when it comes to posting
(C) The ability to comment on everything going on all at once if it doesn't even concern you

Granted, I've run some really great RP's with multiple ones going on, but I do try my best to fix the little issues I find with introductions and interactions. I more or less gloss over larger scale interactions so I don't have to make 12 different paragraphs answering the same question over and over (ex. If Alex asks Paul why game they're playing, then Dave asks the same thing while I'm working on my reply, I'm only going to reply to Paul because I didn't see Dave's post, and to be fair, I'm not going to answer the same question twice just to satisfy somebody. I'll acknowledge the question has been asked by multiple people, but I won't directly turn to them and say "Yeah we're playing Mario" 18 more times, when saying it once was enough.)

That being said, I am trying my best to interact with everyone, so don't get pissed if I don't speak wth your guy all the time

[VitaVitaAR]

I understand why you haven't really been able to individually interact with new characters. I'm just asking that the people who aren't dealing with plot-related elements try and pay more attention to new characters.

[Tachi]

The fact that, unless I seriously misread the OP, this is meant to be an interaction based comedy and not an action epic makes this even more off-putting to me. As does the fact that this was brought up multiple times on the last page with basically no response. Not to mention the fact that the people in question still haven't responded.

Also, Lost Cause's sheet was posted after you accepted all those people.

[Fabricant451]

VitaVitaAR said
.This isn't addressed to Fabricant, who's character had a perfectly good reason to only acknowledge the newcomers a little bit.

I know it's not addressed to me...but inbetween the ranting I did acknowledge other characters...

[VitaVitaAR]

I know, and that's perfectly fine.

[Sora1297]

Tachi said
The fact that, unless I seriously misread the OP, this is meant to be an interaction based comedy and not an action epic makes this even more off-putting to me. As does the fact that this was brought up multiple times on the last page with basically no response. Not to mention the fact that the people in question still haven't responded.Also, Lost Cause's sheet was posted after you accepted all those people.

It is. Unfortunatly it seems like some people have just got a bit off track. Hopefully when we get to the game world, the interactions will increase and the comedy will flow smoother. If interaction still doesn't happen, then I'm gonna GM rage.

[EpicNukeGuy]

Someone...please... post.... need.... action...

[Rin]

EpicNukeGuy said
Someone...please... post.... need.... action...

...Talk to some of the other characters for now?