Tales from Duty Finder: Some make you laugh, some make you cry. Let's vent. 2.0

[Misplaced_Marbles]

That's pretty common on my DC and the reason why I rarely fill in for statics through PF anymore. It's as if being a premade/ static puts them above that filthy PF random they just need to tolerate because their true pal was unavailable for some reason and their own mistakes get swept under the rug while anything the filthy random does is immediately adressed.
Making mistakes is fine and it should be equally fine for the static as for the substistute. If anything I tend to be much more lenient with subs because they have to get used to anything unusual the static does, they're the one not having played with the static for weeks and thus are not used to them.

Something similiar occasionally happens in PFs with complete strangers. A run was ruined by multiple mistakes from various people and whoever admits to making a mistake first is sometimes treated with an "just don't do it again, focus" attitude as if they were the only one messing up or if it was their mistake alone that caused a wipe and the others would've been salvageable while everyone else keeps silent, hoping to not get noticed.
Like a bunch of children that forgot their homwork sitting in the class room while the teacher silently waits for someone to speak up and everyone breathes in relief when someone admits to forgetting their homework because now all the attention is on them.
I don't know what's so bad or difficult about admitting to a mistake like "sorry, confused left and right" or "mb debuff timers are my mortal enemy" instead of jumping at the chance to put someone else the spotlight for screwing up.

Or perhaps they wilfully leave a spot open to get a "filthy random" in as the groups spittoon, since it's always more enjoyable to ruin some randoms experience when you have you friend to dogpile 'em with. FFXIV is full of these people.

[Avidria]

Or perhaps they wilfully leave a spot open to get a "filthy random" in as the groups spittoon, since it's always more enjoyable to ruin some randoms experience when you have you friend to dogpile 'em with. FFXIV is full of these people.

That sounds like a very bizarre and baffling way for a static to waste its own time