HOW'S THE GAME?

[paradisamods]

HOW'S THE GAME?

It's been awhile! It's time for another round of Game Discussion, also known as "How's The Game?"

Here we come together to discuss the game, its plots, the settings, and just about anything we can think of that we'd like to talk about, expand upon, improve, change, etc.

This is not an HMD for players and their characters; this should be about the game's function as a whole and not the people in it. If there is something you feel is absolutely necessary to address that involves a specific person, please IM a mod first to discuss it. We can be reached at terraqueous orb (Kayla), end title (Fudgey) or a great fanfare (Jenn). (Though Jenn is on hiatus right now because her laptop is broken, so Kayla or Fudgey would be best for right now!)

Anonymous will be left off for this round (see first section).

Here are the sections that we've come up with. Add your own and we'll edit it into the list.

Anonymous: Why is it turned off?
What do the mods/helpers do, anyways?
How is my activity being monitored?
Activity check changes
Applications/turnover rate
 → Test Drive Comm
Abilities on the application
Villains & Heroes
 → Recent Villain Activity
 → Upcoming Villain Activities/Plots
Death
World Plot/Paradisa Lore
 → Concrete Resolutions, etc.
Canon Updates
Mini-plot Planning
Changes since last HTG
Plots in General
Regular Plots?

How's The Game will now be held quarterly, in order to avoid excessively long stretches in which there is no outlet for discussion.

Comments

[liadrin.livejournal.com]

No, I've seen it, too, and it's really upsetting to think about. I suppose it depends on the character and situation-- as said before, if a character is played as someone who is gay/bi/het and then forsakes that for a different interaction, I will probably look for a lot of strong IC interaction and reasoning for things to go that route-- but ultimately? It's a game. It's RP. We're here to have fun and play together, and it's not really my business how someone chooses to play unless it directly affects me.

I'm not happy to read all this ship-hate, but there's no way to discourage people from offering their opinions. All we can really do is offer support where it is needed, and encourage those being questioned as best as we can.

[dupable.livejournal.com]

There's definitely no way to discourage it, and... if someone doesn't like a ship they don't like a ship. If they don't like slash or femslash, then they don't like that either, and it's okay for that not to be your thing. It's just always sad to see other people's fun stepped on, and a little upsetting to see the way some of the opinions are being offered up. My hope is more that people can be a little more careful about how they say things in the future, since it's not bad to say you don't like a pairing or not agree with how it's played out. It's just the way I've seen a few people speak out against them mostly.

[end-0f-line.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I am definitely NOT happy when I keep seeing it come up, considering the reasoning the ones who do bring it up seem to have. :/ It's not a healthy attitude, and definitely not an appropriate one for a game.