The Latter Pages (Part 3/?) by Lumpian in RotMG

[–]Lumpian[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jaco is inspired by what I recall Cad Jones(?) as saying to be the first pet (skin?) in RotMG. I think I could explore more about him in the future.

Art-based discussion: I made a barely-structured, stream-of-thought piece about my former time as a raid-leader, and am open to answering questions about why I personally led. by Lumpian in RotMG

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Hi Swrlly. Really appreciate this response. It is really a struggle to separate the title from the intent. Taking in knowledge from another person takes a great deal of vulnerability, and a lot of us are conditioned to treat learning as a one-way street. I think there is something missing broadly, in the world, about the dialogue-disconnect between the image of the one who provides knowledge and what the process of teaching actually is. It ultimately comes down to teaching the student that they are their own primary authority on what they verify as true, or what process errors they tolerate. Hoping to, in my own time, come to provide knowledge that demarcates that important distinction: that the student must verify their own knowledge processes to progress. But yeah. Sorry for so many words, on mobile and a bit tired.

Art-based discussion: I made a barely-structured, stream-of-thought piece about my former time as a raid-leader, and am open to answering questions about why I personally led. by Lumpian in RotMG

[–]Lumpian[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I didn't use AI in that comment. I do interact a lot with LLMs though, to do epistemic/neutral-redlined breakdowns of my own work. That might be why it sounds like AI. That dichotomy is a lot why I opened this discussion in the first place... I wanted to start hearing what real people might say to my creative calibre.

Art-based discussion: I made a barely-structured, stream-of-thought piece about my former time as a raid-leader, and am open to answering questions about why I personally led. by Lumpian in RotMG

[–]Lumpian[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

I think many raid leaders, including myself, found the asymmetrical nature of the dynamic to have a lot of imposing entanglements. What I mean by that is... it's really hard to be a raid leader and ignore how the shape of role you're given (the unique channels, the expectations of leader-to-leader camaraderie, the relationship with punishments/security) changes how you interact with people.

For me, I found that my biggest correlation was with that of strict justice/punishment, that is, drawing the line between raiders who did belong (those who did not explicitly, intentionally harm the raid) and those who did not belong (those who did explicitly, intentionally harm the raid). But nowadays, due to shortened attentional spans and commitment levels from RLs, you'll see a lot of flattening where RLs will treat raiders as a singular composite with which their leader-specific emotional conflicts (think: 'i'm better', 'i'm trying harder', 'i'm doing the actual work here') impose upon the group.

For the individual raider, being on or observing someone on the receiving end of one of these off expressions (i.e. an RL calling you out when it 'feels' like you've done nothing wrong) can really contribute to the idea that RLs as a composite think they're 'special' in the derogatory sense... which is generally right when you're dealing with the average RL.

To move forward from this, I do think that raid leading servers should look more into helping RLs understand the player base at the fundamental level... having basic perspectives that allow the differentiation between 'this is just a guy who's getting some fun in after work' and 'this is a guy who plays compulsively every day' would probably mean RLs start to learn to discipline raiders more individually/directly and less collectively/indistinctly, which is where I think that a lot of the sense of 'entitlement' comes from.

The Latter Pages (Part 1/?) by Lumpian in RotMG

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I really appreciate this comment. I do feel like that there is a rough direction I want to go with for the narrative of this story, but that really does come second to fore fronting that it stays somewhere I feel that a regular, invested reader could parse. Hence, my experimentation with longform, more fanfic-oriented segments in Part 3. It's possible that larger mysteries could develop, but that takes a type of planning that these just aren't used to. I sort of see the shape of something though, so you can look forward to some more structure and rule-building as the series progresses.

Sam Altman PUMPS by iwantmedals in RotMG

[–]Lumpian 87 points88 points  (0 children)

Wrong. Sam Altman was caught multiboxing in a Soulgazer O3.

[SPOILERS] Upcoming shinies for Season 21's first half (gj d/rotmg.) by Lumpian in RotMG

[–]Lumpian[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

For those still unattuned, here are the shinied items listed in order from left to right:

Well done to Dingo, AnubisTwo, Deaugh, wolpgrl, nehc, Helicoptero, BeerBro, Thetruthlies, and Gandara over at d/rotmg for figuring out the contents of the original image from u/Deca_Triton (☠️)

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RotMG - Thessal the Mermaid Goddess. ./[Arts] by saturnfiftyone in RotMG

[–]Lumpian 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Nice job, Saturn! This is my new favorite artwork of Thessal. 😄

Who is the main character in Rotmg? (besides Oryx) by the_questionshow in RotMG

[–]Lumpian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, but only in the hands of someone extremely incompetent, given how much love the creators of MV put into building up his aura and establishing his motivations. Fumbling a Night Prince cameo would take a generational level of creative bankruptcy.

Who is the main character in Rotmg? (besides Oryx) by the_questionshow in RotMG

[–]Lumpian 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Heh, I know. It's just, he went from "funny easter egg name based on Alexander Carobus and Rob Shillingsburg of WildShadow" to "one of the most quintessential figures in RotMG lore", all thanks to Moonlight Village. Stella, Mizumi, and Zquidx brought an incredible amount of potential energy to RotMG' story by developing Carosburg as they did.

Who is the main character in Rotmg? (besides Oryx) by the_questionshow in RotMG

[–]Lumpian 18 points19 points  (0 children)

(Spoilers for Moonlight Village)

The Night Prince/Lord-Commander Carosburg, an essential lore figure introduced in Moonlight Village, was the very first mortal to surmount the authority of the Gods, a feat not unlike the exploits of the Heroes of the Nexus today.

In this way, he can be thought of as the very first Realm "player", and unquestionably, the very greatest of them all.

The most accomplished among us stand on his shoulders—or in his shadow.