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I wish I had thought to archive the thread when I replied to it. Damn it! Now it's gone forever. I'll try to recap what it was, though.

So a user named GhostCollective posted a thread to FRD titled "mildly anarchist shenanigans" that started with a BIG disclaimer about how capitalism is evil and how anyone who disagrees with them is a centrist. Very passive aggressive. The disclaimer included something like "staff if you're going to ban me for this, give me a 5 day warning I have people's dragons in my nest." Then the rest of the post is a big long rant about how expensive Sandsurges are, about how it's terrible that the people with the money get the dragons first and set high prices for the hatchlings. I didn't read all of it because it was whiney and unpleasant. In the replies, GhostCollective told someone something along the lines of "it's not my fault if people start arguing about politics here."

Half of the replies were debating the Sansurge market, which were very long and very uninteresting to me, and the other half were "what did I just walk into" or "I thought this said arcanist, what the heck."

Just a few days earlier, I had a pleasant interaction with GhostCollective in DMs where they asked if they could add me as a friend. (This is definitely de-anoning me, but I'll bite the bullet for the sake of sharing this story.) I said sure, and we added each other. So, when I saw that this timebomb of a thread was posted by my new friend, I felt somewhat disgusted! So, I posted a reply, and it went something like this:

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ghostcollective I don't want to be friends with someone who brings politics to FRD right out of the gate. You're smart enough to know this is a bad idea. I daresay that you included that disclaimer at the beginning of your post and later said "it's not my fault if people fight about politics" with the intent to start a fight."

Then I blocked them. This is the part where I wished I had archived it, because that's the last time I saw the thread!

I'm a nosy shit and went searching for their clan. Found this:
"Clan Info
If I say I don't want your input because your values are not compelling to me so nothing you say could convince me to do the thing you think is good over the thing I think is good, that is not an insult. That is resource management. Insults take fewer words.
Yes, even if I say it less nicely than that. "I don't respect your opinion" is a statement about me. I can understand why you think something and still find it completely irrelevant to what I'm doing. I don't have to manage your feelings about it any more than you have to manage mine.

Not active

Nesting pair will be returned, fear not.
If you have Harpsichord the traveling dragon from the swap thread and don't want him anymore, PM wispher and I will log back in to get him. If wispher is on hiatus, my apologies to Spooner for crowding up their lair."

Absolute clown behavior smh

What an asshole.

I'm also a nosy shit and found an earlier snapshot of their clan profile on waybackmachine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230817051025/https://www1.flightrising.com/clan-profile/678844

Also found them being rather rude to someone offering sandsurges on their find a dragon thread before they put out a huge edit on their opening post about them:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230817193429/https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/drw/3265029/4
https://web.archive.org/web/20230817193840/https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/drw/3265029/1

Does this person know how art works?

"100 gems is one human dolar and im Not paying multiple of those for a single collection of pixels."

While I can understand not wanting to pay 900 gems for a single dragon (I prefer to spend my money on other things), that is 9 dollars.

So, they won't pay 9 dollars for a poster of something they find cute? They won't pay 9 dollars for a print of a famous artwork? They wouldn't pay 9 dollars to have someone create for them a 'collection of pixels' AKA artwork?

Again, it isn't about them not wanting to spend 900 gems on a dragon, but rather how they go about declining it.

Omg yes. The bit about “I will edit any lore on dragons that come into my lair….please PM me if you make any changes to lore I wrote”. You don’t get it both ways!

As a writer myself, I was more than a little offended to see this person "non-ironically offering [their] services as editor if you want your dragon lore to read like a published novel." Like they were George R.R. Martin or somebody. This brings up the question, "Who the hell do you think you are?" but I'm not asking because I don't think I want to know!

SA

Out of curiosity, I went through GhostCollective's entire lair, looking for lore to read, to check their credentials, as it were...and guess what? None of their dragons has any! (Well, except for one former traveling dragon with the standard adventure log, to which GC added their bit; it was okay, but nothing to write home about.) (pun very much intended, btw)

Long story short: if I ever need editing help with my dragon lore, I'll find someone more qualified. That's all. Bye!

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I'm a professional writer, and I thought that was very head-up-assery too. What a hypocritical, egotistical chode!

Hilarious to me that most of that just boils down to "I'm too stupid to understand how other people can be offended by my rudeness" lmao hopefully something they can grow out of instead of a permanent condition

Archived thread: https://web.archive.org/web/20230817050557/https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/frd/3265390

There aren't any replies on this archive though.

I took screenshots of the first page, but sadly don't have the other three pages. Hopefully I uploaded them correctly?

https://imgur.com/a/A83f8fw

also I uploaded these without making an account, so if someone wants to download and reupload to prevent imgur from eventually deleting them, please feel free to do so

yyyyyyikes. Sandsurges will drop in price over time just like every other breed that has ever been released. dragon market is not real-life capitalism. sandsurge is not essential. it is not the commons, privatized. it is not putting a price on stolen water. it's a fUcKiNg PiXeL & signing up for the website is free.
ghostcollective sounds like a douche. mad respect to the person publicly de-friending.
popped on to gc's profile to block. is the line about "PM wispher and I will log back in" indicating a multi or just two people who are friends? so hard to tell.
...related to previous discussion, a comment from @/hellhoundspack on gc's profile reads "cool to see other systems on here" so there's that as well x

I'd guess that it's just a friend who will let GC know if they need to log on. But it sure doesn't come off well!

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