From lina@sandwich.net Tue Apr 2 18:38:48 2002 Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 18:38:29 -0800 (PST) From: Todd Harper To: LARMIE TAYLOR Subject: Re: Your characters... If that's how things must be, then that's how things must be. I appreciate you giving me the opportunity to @dec him, but the only thing of his I would want (his background) I have stored elsewhere. Presumably, this applies to Trelawney also. I find it kind of disturbing that I'm being banned from HPM for saying things in my own livejournal. I don't have much else to say about that. How you gather information and act on it is your business, not mine. But I would hope that other HPM players wouldn't be treated the same. It does feel a bit like an invasion of privacy, though I do admit the fact that it is the internet and it is a public posting, which may invite this. As for claiming anything "bad" about HPM, I don't remember doing anything of the sort and I don't think I'd be doing anything of the sort in the future. This was a case of two people's communication issues getting blown incredibly out of proportion. I don't think HPM is feature-centric; on the contrary, I think the staff have made an effort to include NFCs in many MU* events. I chose to post in my own journal my gut feelings, reactions, and emotional responses in an attempt to get them in the air and look at them critically. My friends list consists of mostly non-MU*ers, and people whose opinions I value greatly. It was, circuituitously, an attempt at making amends and find some way to keep playing. I don't make any apologies for posting my own thoughts there. It's unfortunate that you felt this was my way of saying "Screw HPM, it sucks", but that's how communication goes, I suppose. It's my perogative to say how I feel, and yours to act as you wish on that information. It's not the purpose of this mail to "change your mind" or incense you. I appreciate the opportunity of being allowed to play on HPM, which was a lot of fun while it lasted. I am not leaving with a negative impression of the MUSH, but rather of the circumstances that let things get this bad. Best wishes for the future, >Todd Harper (Asa) On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, LARMIE TAYLOR wrote: > I suggest that you log in tonight to decompile your things. I've been > wanting to discuss things with you, but from the tone of both your weblog > posts, you've already made up your mind regarding HPM. I find it ironic > that, while accusing us of being feature-centric (which is bullshit, but > it's the easiest excuse and justification that you can make on any public > forum to garner knee-jerk sympathy), you yourself actually played a > feature on our game. > > You have a martyr/victim complex. I'm sorry, I don't feel inclined for > myself or the MUSH to be involved in your little 'Let's sacrifice Asa's > player on the altar of MUSH politics' game so that you can be the helpless > little victim who gets lots of sympathy. You like to slag people behind > their backs. You do it in your weblogs, you do it on-channel when players > aren't around. > > However, to your mind, everybody else _does this to you_, and if they > disagree with _your_ assessments, then it's eelitism, favouring features, > and MUSH politics. GOtta love those buzzwords. So go ahead, slag us more, > if you like. It's ridiculous, since you're the one griping about > immaturity, but people with issues do like to project them onto others. > > I suggest that you log on Asa tonight and @decompile him. While I had > actually hoped to try to resolve all of the issues by asking all the > parties to siddown together while we mediate something satisfactory for > everyone, your ranting off-MUSH has just shown me that you're not at all > interested in compromise. > > If you choose not to log on tonight, then I'll assume that you don't care > to @decompile him. You've been online every evening to rant, so I assume > that you have enough time to collect your things and go. > > FS' player. > [*]===----------------------------------------------------===[*] Copy Rezo: "Tell me. What is it you see? That lets you go on." Lina: "I see... a flower whose name I don't know yet." - From "Slayers", episode 26 [*]===----------------------------------------------------===[*] Todd Harper: lina@sandwich.net The World Inverse - http://lina.inverse.org Slayers Universe - http://www.inverse.org [*]===----------------------------------------------------===[*]