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I will be honest, a little of this praising her is starting to feel like friends of hers brigading.
If you are going to cold message someone about a dragon with a special ID, don't be that guy that lies to a newer player, claiming you've been looking for that color combo forever when it's a common color combination. For fuck's sake.
I'm just glad the user had a friend to tell them the person was trying to scam them.
I'm just glad the user had a friend to tell them the person was trying to scam them.
I'm not a friend of hers and think she needs to step down, I just find pessi off-putting themselves atp
so how long we all think it'll take before people forget about this and duchess does it all again
Agreed but it's a damn shame that Fire's choices seem to be limited to Duchess, the flaky scammer or Pessi, drama-monger with bad politics.
From the outside it doesn't seem like anyone else is stepping up to try and oust her, but I hope there's stuff going on that we're just not seeing OOF.
I hope someone else steps up for FireDom because I rn I feel so bad for anyone that enjoys dom but wants to stay in Fire
From the outside it doesn't seem like anyone else is stepping up to try and oust her, but I hope there's stuff going on that we're just not seeing OOF.
I hope someone else steps up for FireDom because I rn I feel so bad for anyone that enjoys dom but wants to stay in Fire
I mostly meant the person above who deliberately is using tone tags to show that they mean basically because they agree with Dutchess's politics, the stealing is not a big deal and the people praising how chill she is on Twitter and that they'd be friends with her.
Your pov is rational. Their is illogical. And Pessi needs to touch a lot of grass.
Your pov is rational. Their is illogical. And Pessi needs to touch a lot of grass.
Yea, talk about rock and a hard place.
But considering that the flight's dom people have so little drive that they keep allowing this, I'm discouraging folks considering moving to fire, and refusing to touch any dom fundraisers they do from now on.
But considering that the flight's dom people have so little drive that they keep allowing this, I'm discouraging folks considering moving to fire, and refusing to touch any dom fundraisers they do from now on.
+1
Seen people similar to Duchess and they almost always come off as nice or at the very minimum, someone people look up to or can rely on at the beginning on the outside but turns out to be a self-serving, backstabbing asshole in private. If you’re close to people like that, calling them out is extremely difficult as outsiders and their other friends who don’t know any better would defend them lmao.
Seems like this is what is happening in firedom, with multiple people reporting her pattern of allegedly malingering during important push dates, NO transparency on donations and maybe even stealing them but AA not wanting to oust her. Would not be surprised if the folks defending her on AA are either friends of hers that choose to be blind to the blatant abuse of power or on copium that things would be worse without her.
As for the social media stuff, it looks like Pessi and others got baited hard by an anon bringing it up for activity around the time she’s apparently in the hospital. The content of stuff posted on social media is mainly irrelevant and I don’t think it’s necessary to even bring up those, given that theres achievement activity on her FR account during the time she’s in the hospital. I’d give her the benefit of the doubt that she’s just bored in the hospital and fiddling around on dragon pngs then but given what other ember anons had said about her convenient disappearing act around pushes... pressing X to doubt.
Seen people similar to Duchess and they almost always come off as nice or at the very minimum, someone people look up to or can rely on at the beginning on the outside but turns out to be a self-serving, backstabbing asshole in private. If you’re close to people like that, calling them out is extremely difficult as outsiders and their other friends who don’t know any better would defend them lmao.
Seems like this is what is happening in firedom, with multiple people reporting her pattern of allegedly malingering during important push dates, NO transparency on donations and maybe even stealing them but AA not wanting to oust her. Would not be surprised if the folks defending her on AA are either friends of hers that choose to be blind to the blatant abuse of power or on copium that things would be worse without her.
As for the social media stuff, it looks like Pessi and others got baited hard by an anon bringing it up for activity around the time she’s apparently in the hospital. The content of stuff posted on social media is mainly irrelevant and I don’t think it’s necessary to even bring up those, given that theres achievement activity on her FR account during the time she’s in the hospital. I’d give her the benefit of the doubt that she’s just bored in the hospital and fiddling around on dragon pngs then but given what other ember anons had said about her convenient disappearing act around pushes... pressing X to doubt.
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Considering concussion and a broken collar bone supposedly bad enough to need surgery, bored in the hospital feels very sketchy to me.
Considering concussion and a broken collar bone supposedly bad enough to need surgery, bored in the hospital feels very sketchy to me.
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Looking at the timestamps again, it seems like she’s already out of the hospital before activity on her FR account but my doubt still stands. If it’s true though, I do hope she gets well soon. It doesn’t seem like she’s in any position to work on dom stuff regardless especially with the dom donations stealing allegations. That really sucks for embers and anyone who contributed and everything here honestly puts me off from supporting firedom for a long time. :/
Looking at the timestamps again, it seems like she’s already out of the hospital before activity on her FR account but my doubt still stands. If it’s true though, I do hope she gets well soon. It doesn’t seem like she’s in any position to work on dom stuff regardless especially with the dom donations stealing allegations. That really sucks for embers and anyone who contributed and everything here honestly puts me off from supporting firedom for a long time. :/
Ember here, I stored about a thousand levels so far, but... the dom team didn't say anything in regards to prep, I've just been around the block and know when to start stashing
DA
A dom leader doesn't need to be cool, they need to be trustworthy and capable. If a dom leader has a problem with credibility and being reliable, the whole flight is fucked. Which is obviously the case here. If Fire had leadership with a modicum of reliability, a little skill with organization, and the ability to rally the troops, they'd easily be a dom powerhouse because of their size.
A bit of advice for anyone that wants to lead dom or be a well respected member of a dom team - don't fucking post on drama sites. Letting everyone know that events are delayed or that you are correcting a problem is fine. But posting regularly on a drama site, particularly with gossipy details, is not a good look. It doesn't look good for you or your flight. Not only does it say that you are willing to get down and fling some shit, it tells people in your own flight that you are involved in drama and it's perfectly fine for them to wade in.
A dom leader doesn't need to be cool, they need to be trustworthy and capable. If a dom leader has a problem with credibility and being reliable, the whole flight is fucked. Which is obviously the case here. If Fire had leadership with a modicum of reliability, a little skill with organization, and the ability to rally the troops, they'd easily be a dom powerhouse because of their size.
A bit of advice for anyone that wants to lead dom or be a well respected member of a dom team - don't fucking post on drama sites. Letting everyone know that events are delayed or that you are correcting a problem is fine. But posting regularly on a drama site, particularly with gossipy details, is not a good look. It doesn't look good for you or your flight. Not only does it say that you are willing to get down and fling some shit, it tells people in your own flight that you are involved in drama and it's perfectly fine for them to wade in.
Well it seems to be Fire's MO to repeatedly do things that cause some kind of push back.
-Jumping on Shadow's uncontested pushes last minute to get an easy win over the Super Underdogs
-Spreadsheet Shenanigans
-And now Duchess and FF screw ups
I give it until they try to do anything that isn't a simple profit push.
-Jumping on Shadow's uncontested pushes last minute to get an easy win over the Super Underdogs
-Spreadsheet Shenanigans
-And now Duchess and FF screw ups
I give it until they try to do anything that isn't a simple profit push.
Yea. And fire has none of that right now.
I mean, reading is great. You can learn things about what's going down here first. I'd prefer they keep up.
Posting isn't that big a deal either in my eyes. Just don't post that you are a dom team member, details that spill who you are, and you know... don't sign your name.
I mean, reading is great. You can learn things about what's going down here first. I'd prefer they keep up.
Posting isn't that big a deal either in my eyes. Just don't post that you are a dom team member, details that spill who you are, and you know... don't sign your name.
plead to any and all flights: someone take fire's notn week from them
Well, I regret supporting the 50/50 raffle now. Oh well, maybe I'll win something.
If a dom team doesn't have at least one person reading the various drama sources, they are missing out on valuable feedback. It's also the best way to know if a shit storm is coming. But those people shouldn't be visibly posting.
Every time a deanoned dom team member posted here, it has been a shitshow.
After this one, I'm getting the popcorn ready if it happens again.
After this one, I'm getting the popcorn ready if it happens again.
Given the recent Firedom shitshow, I figured a list like that would be helpful to Embers thinking of jumping ship and everyone else thinking of vacationing for various reasons. Especially since you can't easily dip out of a flight like you can out of a guild in most MMOs and it seems that dom orgs aren't easily displaced due to a combination of community pressure + dom bank being the way it is lmao.
Going to start of the list with:
- Fire for obvious reasons
- Lightning according to another anon here, I don't know the details of that myself so feel free to elaborate and show receipts.
- Arcane for the disorganization around dom. It's probably fine if you're a casual player but I feel like the disorganization would rear its head sooner or later. We'll see how it goes for them during their fest and AvL I guess.
Going to start of the list with:
- Fire for obvious reasons
- Lightning according to another anon here, I don't know the details of that myself so feel free to elaborate and show receipts.
- Arcane for the disorganization around dom. It's probably fine if you're a casual player but I feel like the disorganization would rear its head sooner or later. We'll see how it goes for them during their fest and AvL I guess.
god, yeah, I feel like starfall and avl being (relatively) close together really is going to be the gauntlet that reveals a lot about arcane dom, in terms of how well (or poorly) it can work in its current state
Plague isn't bad, but I can't speak for the discord; I haven't been in it for years after leaving it when Mercedes was a mod, so I have no idea how it is now.
Dom wise, Plague's pretty good.
I was in Ice for a bit, they're not as dom oriented anymore but when they go for it, they're pretty well organized. Discord is busy, and some of the mods can be pissy if you post something someone else already posted, so you like... have to dig to make sure you don't piss the mods/backseat modders off, but otherwise it's not bad.
Dom wise, Plague's pretty good.
I was in Ice for a bit, they're not as dom oriented anymore but when they go for it, they're pretty well organized. Discord is busy, and some of the mods can be pissy if you post something someone else already posted, so you like... have to dig to make sure you don't piss the mods/backseat modders off, but otherwise it's not bad.
damn, what a scummy thing to do
dying to get more specifics of this story, even if you don't want to name names.
dying to get more specifics of this story, even if you don't want to name names.
Every flight is going to have people that don't like the way the current leads are running dom. It is impossible to please everyone and getting competent reliable volunteers is harder than it seems. Let's be real. Dom is mostly broken and no one is battling. The Ice v Water battle is the first one in how long??
If you want to base flights to avoid on dom drama posted here, then you'd pretty much have to list them all. What about the droplets that called the people who were disappointed the Water/Wind push was cooperative instead of a conquest "vultures"? How many times has someone brought up Earth farting a couple of exalts and taking dom from a flight not offering a PB? Several dom teams are a volunteer or two away from dysfunction at any given point. All it takes is someone who doesn't mesh with the team and likes to argue to fuck things up. Or someone who is volunteering for the wrong reasons, whether it's ego, status, control issues, or whatever.
I wouldn't personally want to switch to Fire right now, but making a list of flights to avoid is obnoxious.
If you want to base flights to avoid on dom drama posted here, then you'd pretty much have to list them all. What about the droplets that called the people who were disappointed the Water/Wind push was cooperative instead of a conquest "vultures"? How many times has someone brought up Earth farting a couple of exalts and taking dom from a flight not offering a PB? Several dom teams are a volunteer or two away from dysfunction at any given point. All it takes is someone who doesn't mesh with the team and likes to argue to fuck things up. Or someone who is volunteering for the wrong reasons, whether it's ego, status, control issues, or whatever.
I wouldn't personally want to switch to Fire right now, but making a list of flights to avoid is obnoxious.
Da
There's a difference between not liking how dom leads do things, and recognizing and hating that everything about the way dom is done in the flight, is disorganized with zero to little communication between the leads/team and the flight, the leads/team themselves, etc. Maybe one or two of the leads frequently go incommunicado for long periods of time, then pop back in to say how sorry they are, life got away from them, etc. Maybe, at the same time as this, the leads are also very resistant to or hesitant to change. It could be any number of things really. To my mind that stuff is a greater concern than the not liking how dom leads do things. Granted it's all of a kind really but to me the concern is more about things as a whole rather than how individual leads do things. I know i for one would love to know which flights have more open and more frequent communication and ...for lack of a better way to say it, can be effing counted on to do what they initially set out to do, and to do things regularly. I don't want to be in a flight where i am constantly worrying about if x program is actually going to be running for our push on sunday, on a friday, because nobody has bothered to communicate this or ping for people!
There's a difference between not liking how dom leads do things, and recognizing and hating that everything about the way dom is done in the flight, is disorganized with zero to little communication between the leads/team and the flight, the leads/team themselves, etc. Maybe one or two of the leads frequently go incommunicado for long periods of time, then pop back in to say how sorry they are, life got away from them, etc. Maybe, at the same time as this, the leads are also very resistant to or hesitant to change. It could be any number of things really. To my mind that stuff is a greater concern than the not liking how dom leads do things. Granted it's all of a kind really but to me the concern is more about things as a whole rather than how individual leads do things. I know i for one would love to know which flights have more open and more frequent communication and ...for lack of a better way to say it, can be effing counted on to do what they initially set out to do, and to do things regularly. I don't want to be in a flight where i am constantly worrying about if x program is actually going to be running for our push on sunday, on a friday, because nobody has bothered to communicate this or ping for people!
I think Lightning has gotten better, fortunately. Kywren, one of the new orgs, is doing a great job, and they put up a strong showing in their battle with Wind.
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