Quote Originally Posted by LittleImp View Post
I would assume that seeing a competitive culture develop publicly gives them some level of anxiety about toxicity and increasingly public expectations around performance. I can kind of emphasize with people feeling that way, but the reality is that stomping down on this type of stuff just drives it underground; It never truly gets rid of it.

Parse fixation is a double-edged sword you will always have to live with in any game where someone can do more damage than someone else and chart it.
This makes no sense. When people step into Savage (sometimes Extreme), they are expected to perform mechanics correctly. This alone is a form of measuring your abilities - you don't need a parser for it. If you fuck up a mechanic, people will see. They'll KNOW it was you. And if someone in your party decides to be toxic about it, who are you going to blame? Who are you going to complain to? No one, that's who. Because there isn't anyone to blame except yourself. You have no choice other than to get better.

Here's what you CAN do if someone is toxic towards you screwing up the mechanics - you can tell them to piss off. You can point out to them that you're still learning. Or you can just blacklist them. What're they gonna do, kick you out of the party? Oh wait yeah... that actually is something they can do! GO FIGURE!

The exact same logic applies to parsing. If someone tells you you're doing bad, you can choose to handle it the same way as someone telling you you're not doing mechanics correctly - you can use it as an opportunity to improve yourself..... or you can get butthurt over it.