Yay ranting!

[Rydia Aslin]

((Swearing edited from its original form. XD))

...Why are there so many bungholes that insist upon thinking that
politely letting a person know that they may be ejected if they do not
follow a rule means that I am threatening them, and thereupon also
insist on saying "fine, I'll play by the rules, but you'd do well not
to threaten me"?

I mean, holy crap, that's the fifth time I've heard that in two weeks.

A) I was not threatening you, you idiots. I was (POLITELY!) letting
you know that, if you continued to do the thing I'm warning you about,
you are going to be ejected. There is no threat in that, it's just a
simple truth.

B) Even if I was threatening you, what the hell are you going to do
about it? THAT attempt at being a BMF anarchist is an empty threat
on its own, you jerks, and you know it. You have no idea who I am, and
I highly doubt your ability to hunt me down over teh internets. I wear
a tinfoil hat, and it shall protect me from your mindprobes!

C) ...Along that line of thought, it's over an EJECTION. A bloody
ejection. What the heck, you break a rule, you pay the consequence by
getting (OH NOEZ!) kicked out of the dream. Why must you insist upon
trying to make yourself look untouchable by authority when it isn't
going to affect you in any way in the long run, except maybe breaking
an RP? Heck, you could come right back into the dream after the
ejection, once I go offline. It's not a ban, it's a slap on the wrist.

D) You! Yes, you, tonight! When I said 'thank you' to you, it was
because you decided to remove the thing in your description that was
objectionable, and I was glad that I wasn't going to have to get all
angry over your stubbornness and eject you. You seemed rational and
didn't appear to be wearing a dunce cap, and I didn't want to do that.
I do not LIKE having to eject folk, contrary to what some folk
believe. I do it because some people are incurable asshats who seem to
think that rules are for the (insert word for cat here) who are whipped by dream staff.
No. No, they are not, they are nice people who get along wonderfully
with us, and everything goes happy-dandy in kitsu-land. When I say
thank you, DO NOT SAY "don't thank me, rules are rules". I was being
POLITE, you misbegotten son of a beggar and a camel. Ask yourself, do
you want me to growl at you like an irritable bear in heat, or shriek
at you as a banshee possessed and whack you with the ejecthammer so
fast that you don't have time to blink? No, no you don't. Accept
civilization - either say nothing, or a 'you're welcome', and move on.

For crying out loud, all of you, grow up.

println("Rant brought to you by lack of sleep and too much homework.");
endRant();

[Kari Kianna]

My rant time.

Please, LISTEN to someone, even if you don't agree with whatever it is they're saying. Because, if you listen to them, you can better formulate a way to prove your point more effectively. When that happens, it shows you've taken their words into consideration and have expounded on those words in the way that you have viewed the situation.

This might sound like a complicated procedure, but it's not.
When you listen, you'll be heard. When people listen to one another, they don't talk circles.

Next time anyone gets into an argument, whether it be with me or with someone else, don't be so hard pressed to be right. Stop, think, learn. If you do happen to be wrong, accept it, and move on.

Say, for example, you encounter someone with a shitty memory. They said something a LONG time ago, like, months ago, and don't really recall it well. This time, they state something different, which, unfortunately, happens to be the exact opposite of what they had said months before. Situation pending, you can accept what they say now, and move on, and save yourself and everyone else, a lot of fucking stress, OR you can argue your point for weeks thereafter and cause someone to drill a hole in the wall with their fists.

I say this assuming that the situation pertains directly to a GAME or something that equals the caliber of "not important to survival".

If you argue with me about tail-rank, of course I'm not going to give a flying fuck about the situation. Of course I'm not going to do anything about it, esspecially when the solution to the problem is something only you can control (i.e. avatar tails). I can only give suggestions to save a person's game or ban them.

Yes, I'm Rah, big fucking doo. I can make a dream and put it up, but I can't impose patrons to do ANYTHING. If they don't like something, they can leave. I don't give a shit. It's a game.

People say "Fine, I guess I'll leave!" like it's really that important. I don't work for DEP and I never will. If I loose support because someone has a problem with anything in the dream, I won't care. I don't get money for making the dream, I don't get any sort of reimbursement for my time devotion to the pixels. I do it for EVERYONE else. If you think I'm treating you like shit because I have rules to up keep and a dream to keep from going into chaos, then fucking leave!

If you, for some reason, think I can't handle such a position (I'm talking to ANYONE) then please, make an offer to take the dream from my paws and impose your own rules, keep your patrons happy and at the same time and don't get walked all over. Oh, and also, be sure you know how to patch, because if one thing is off, then that simple thing screws the rest of the objects up. OH! and also, when the DS fucks up, and you have 600+ lines to go through, you'd better make sure you have a whole lotta leaisure time to fix it AND know where the fucked lines are. Another thing, don't let the webpage making process be more daunting that it should be. Ah! And staff, make sure to hire people you can trust and rely on. If someone starts a revolt, then you've just lost the dream to the uploaders (not to mention the private set of patches that appear nowhere else in Furcadia). While, you're at it, don't forget about your real life, you know, that whole sleep thing, and that school crap, OH! and don't forget to feed yourself every once in a while as you worry about someone being upset about a rule that states a three line posting minimum. Trust me, the stress and simplistic idiocy of some people will make your Rah-ship worthwhile!

And so, I'm done.

Fuckers.... -.-