When Gaming Gets Personal

Belegar

"Ah, good to see you follow your own rules again, professor. Nice of you to demand respect from everyone else, but not hold yourself to the same lofty standard. "

I might suggest that if you wish to speak of how people in Illyriad treat each other and cases of mistakes being made, this is not the place to do it.  Do try to stay at least on topic.

And thanks for calling the standard lofty, I do believe it is and while I do fail to live up to it, as I assume you do as well, fortunately growth comes from admitting your errors and learning from them, don't you think?

AJ

In my opinion personification of your adversaries or your character in game is not a good thing.

In my opinion it is the personification that leads into problems that AJ links in studies, players should not actually live the game but just play it. Therefore solution is not about making games healthy environment for living since game should not be your life in the first place. I have not read those studies (and I dont have time) but I'm pretty sure the results are not from casual players that have good life in general.

I promised myself I wouldn't get involved in this thread, but seems that didn't work. I have one thing to say, yes ajq messed up, but, he has tried to fix it. The reason I am defending him is not because I agree with what he's saying, I don't. But, no need for people to constantly call him out on it. Unless he has said something to offend you, personally, in which case, deal with it on PC. Hopefully he doesn't do this in the future, but if he does, IGNORE it. No one is forcing you to read the forums, no one. If it was one or two people, I would have kept quite, but I can't stand it when one person is being mocked, if that's the right word, by the majority.

Rill wrote: So like ... speed limits? I would think a dwarf would be in favor.  Personally I resent the elves and their zippy horses.

nah. one day GM Stormcrow will acquiesce to my ornithopter idea, and then the elves will get theirs.

/me cues "the ride of the valkyries"...

Rill wrote: I think what aj was saying was more along the lines of "if you travel by car, you are more likely to be involved in a car accident."  That doesn't mean that cars are "bad" or that there's anything inherently wrong with cars.  There are reasons to travel in them and reasons not to.

i read it more as "if i travel by car, i am more likely to be involved in a damaging accident if everyone is travelling at speed, so it's the community's responsibility to determine at what speed i will be comfortable and then police itself to be sure i continue to be at ease."