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.
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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."
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
"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!
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!
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
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Re: "anarchist shenanigans"
(Anonymous) 2023-08-17 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)"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
Re: "anarchist shenanigans"
(Anonymous) 2023-08-17 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)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
Re: "anarchist shenanigans"
(Anonymous) 2023-08-17 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)"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.
Re: "anarchist shenanigans"
(Anonymous) 2023-08-18 03:52 am (UTC)(link)Re: "anarchist shenanigans"
(Anonymous) 2023-08-18 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)Re: "anarchist shenanigans"
(Anonymous) 2023-08-18 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)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!
Re: "anarchist shenanigans"
(Anonymous) 2023-08-19 04:47 am (UTC)(link)I'm a professional writer, and I thought that was very head-up-assery too. What a hypocritical, egotistical chode!
Re: "anarchist shenanigans"
(Anonymous) 2023-08-18 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)