Posted by WALSH on June 17, 2000 at 11:48:56:
In Reply to: Something that deserves reposting: Ponderer's "This Game, This Life" posted by Oft-Arbiter(VIP) on June 16, 2000 at 14:17:17:
> Then there's IRC. You spend a lot of time here and you begin to realize that the CF playerbase(at least those that go to IRC) is a sorry bunch of people. Monstrous egos, delusions of grandeur, jealousy, cheating, and name-calling abound. Maturity sits in the corner and weaps at its lack of power. People begin hating other people. They begin to scheme, waiting for that person to name one of his chars so that they can jump on the opportunity and ridicule and degrade them for any little thing they've done in the past.
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> Read the forum and realize that not only is the playerbase immature, but they're also a whiners. Whining goes on endlessly. Whether it be because something isn't going their chars way, or because the player is trying to use some hightened form of morality to degrade a certain cabal, player, or immortal. Again, people wait for opportunities to harm another player, assassinating their char, posting a log of the char going against its "belief" system.
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> Sit back and look at this closely enough and you begin to hate the game. You begin to despise the other people that play it. You begin to wish you'd never even started partaking in these ooc forums of discussion. You begin to yearn for the blissful ignorance that is simply playing the game and leaving it at that.
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I personally have been in IRC a few times and thats it. My opinion now is that I would not be caught dead in that room. I have been playing Cf for over 4 years now and when I enter that room It hits me like a 10 ton truck full of unset cement, the fact that my fellow CFers either are no longer college kids in the lab between classes but are now 15 year olds on their study hall break in the library trying to kill or group witht the guy next to him. THe sniveling, kniving, and general immaturity that runs amuck on CF these days makes me sick to my stomach. It has for the most part made me abandon the mud I have called home from the first time I logged on. I have abandoned it on many occations to only come back and be angered again. I am angered at the fact that Imms put so much time and effort into it and a few "bad apples" really ruin it for the rest. When returning to cf you ineveitably need to roll a newbie, meaning you are going to have wade through 35 ranks putrid people wrought with immaturity and no sence of the grand scheme of CF or roleplay games.
Lately I have found myself engrossed in a sad substitution that is POSmud. I have fun, I have low expectations of the roleplay experiences as they are non-existant,and I can blow off steam generated at work. This in turn puts me out of touch with the roleplay I loved so much on cf, but when i weigh the pleasure to frustration ratio...I just cant bring myself to hero another char.
Insane ramblings from a man scorn...many many times.
WALSH