To confirm, this is an OC, and the character has yet to be submitted for approval or anything, but if this desc makes its way back, even with tweaks, the app will be declined with explanation.

If you’d like, @Roz, I can forward this player your rates for autographs

@Roz I didn’t know Illuminati played mushes.

Of course we they do

@Roz said in Concordia Thread:

Hey quick question who the fuck is Lucian because they’re stealing my character’s desc.

That’s what you get for not reading all of the detailed terms and conditions allowing all of your writing to get added into the aggregate learning machine that is AI.

(seriously, wtf)

Ok. I need someone to edit that into ‘You don’t have the rite’ for immediate reaction folder additions to folks with the audacity but not the knowledge.

Hey quick question who the fuck is Lucian because they’re stealing my character’s desc.

That’s what you get for not reading all of the detailed terms and conditions allowing all of your writing to get added into the aggregate learning machine that is AI.

(j/k, I don’t believe that is a roster character, I think you probably have a fan from whatever game you wrote that desc on)

(seriously, wtf)

Kind of not cool

Yes, it is true! Things are really jumping right now.

(All of this written in my own words, without the help of ChatGPT )

1. We are not closing any time soon. Quite the opposite! We have just opened several new systems, OCs have opened back up, secrets have been doled out, and Something Big is coming next week.

2. Duke and I put this game together for fun, thinking maybe a handful of people would check it out over time. The intent was certainly never to be a novel-quality masterpiece, just a little place to RP with our buddies. About an hour after opening, I think we were up to something like 50 players and went oh man, I guess we need to give people something to do while we make more rosters and wade through these OCs! I busted out ChatGPT to churn out a heckload of documentation in a short amount of time, as well as dozens of roster characters, and one vignette to give people something to interact with while we tried to get our stuff together. I know that offended people, it just never occurred to me that I would need to clearly disclose something that seemed very obvious (and temporary) to me.

3. Getting our stuff together turned out to be really hard. While I intended to go back through and rewrite all the doc (which was generated from my own writing and notes) the way I would have if I’d had the amount of time we thought we were going to, instead I ended up putting out a lot of the fires that Duke mentioned above. I am just now getting around to it, but I am glad that I used AI so that people wouldn’t have to wait endlessly for individual answers while we scrambled to keep up. I would do so again in that same situation. It’s a helpful tool, even if it is very fond of describing the resilient spirit of the tapestry of grandeur of Ignovis. I might feel bad if I were making money off of this game instead of spending money so that people can play it for free, but happily, that is not the case!

Anyway, all of this to say, we’re alive and having fun over on Concordia, the AI-generated things are gradually being replaced now that I’ve caught my breath, and the heart and soul of the game have always been human-written anyway.

If you’re still turned off, that’s ok! This was never going to be the game for everyone, and we knew that going in, but everyone is very welcome to stop by and check out our latest stuff if they’re in the mood!

Yossarion definitely rings a bell, so I checked my discord, and I have him blocked because he was a bit of a penis to me back when I was running CS. Maybe it is just something that person does.

Sorry that happened to you and try not to let people wear you down. Easier said than done, I know.

Also I totally understand how becoming a game running and getting a glimpse behind the veil can make you feel jaded about how folks treat one another. There are more folks who aren’t creeps than there are creeps.

bemoaning how shitty some players were in surprising ways and I wanna know.

This one.

Until game owners make posts saying that they’re closing the game, I don’t assume that they’re closing it. I thought we’ve learned that lesson before when game runners make a relatively innocent post in the community about needing to take a little time to destress and people immediately freak out and abandon ship.

Just like the spigot of new game FOMO excitement from the community can obliterate games and crush gamerunners’ souls beneath the feet of WhY AReN’T U DoinG IT LiKE tHe GAmE I waNteD iN My HeAD/THaT oTHer PlACe?!?!?!eleventyone!!111! I think sometimes the opposite happens too.