Infantilized Aesthetics

[Genoreaper]

Did he leave entirely? His pic is gone

[InkstainedGwyn]

Did he leave entirely? His pic is gone

If you mean OP, they're still there for me. If you blacklisted them, however, you won't see their icon if you "show" a message from them, only when they're reblogged by others. Otherwise it might be just a bug. I'm not sure, even if someone deletes, whether or not their icon will disappear.

[HyoMinPark]

If you mean OP, they're still there for me. If you blacklisted them, however, you won't see their icon if you "show" a message from them, only when they're reblogged by others. Otherwise it might be just a bug. I'm not sure, even if someone deletes, whether or not their icon will disappear.

If the character they are posting with is deleted, then they will not have an icon. OP still shows up for me, so it was probably a bug for Geno, unless, as you said, he has OP on ignore.

[Iscah]

The usual house cleaning when I get bored with an idea.

I think you've seriously misunderstood how Internet discussion works. You don't just throw out an idea, let people debate it until you get bored of it, and then delete the entire thing without even responding to the people who actually wrote good, serious responses to what you were saying - or our best attempt at interpreting it, anyway, because your writing style makes it very hard to sieve out the actual meaning from what you have written.

Once you've put it up on the public forum, it's not just yours any more.

And are you so unwilling to stand by what you have written that you'd rather delete it than have it archived? Why write it in the first place?

In any case, if you do want to write this sort of thing and be understood, and not have people say they don't know what you're on about, have another look at how you phrase things.

For example:

I think the visual styling and art direction of the game has swung so far in the direction cartoonish literalism that it could be effecting the world immersion/ suspension of disbelief for some players.

What I mean by cartoonish is a lack of realism and relate ability to the fantasy world. While I understand the fantasy world is not meant to have exact parity with the real world I think loosing all association with it cheapens the experience and lessens immersion.

What I mean by literalism is the lack of visual nuance, sophistication and significance of items. Example: an axe isn’t made significant by its inherent meaning, or contextual meaning it’s quite literally just made larger (absurdly so), or it glows and flashes.

My definition of inherent & contextual meaning is an item in the game value/ significance because the community at large is aware of A) inherent: not many items exist that look like that. B) contextual: as a player I know that it took several hour to obtain that.

You start off by using a strange term ("cartoonish literalism") and then take two two whole paragraphs to define what you meant by that term. Readers have to try to pick up that "definition" and slot it back into your first sentence - and on top of that, the definition also introduces a new idea that takes another paragraph to explain. (And it certainly needs explaining, because "the inherent or contextual meaning of an axe" sounds like such a nebulous concept I don't even know what you're getting at).

Each sentence is so long, it's hard to keep track of what you were saying in the first place, even moreso when the reader has to move back and forth through four paragraphs just to understand (or rather interpret) what you were meaning in the first paragraph.

(And after repeated readings, I still can't understand exactly what you are trying to say.)



Meanwhile, a few slips in your grammar (eg. "direction [OF] cartoonish literalism"; "effecting" rather than "affecting"; "I don’t think it’s good for the anyone") make me feel like maybe you don't have a perfect grasp of writing well, or perhaps English isn't your first language - not a terrible thing in itself, but it doesn't match up with the degree of fancy words you are using. It makes it sound like you're only doing it to 'sound smart'. Whether that's the truth or not, it creates an impression to the reader that you may not be as 'intellectual' as you are trying to sound.



Next time people question what you were meaning in a post, clarify it. With simple words for those of us who can't cope with your long ones. Don't just delete the entire discussion because it didn't go the way you wanted it to, or only reply to the people that were rude to you.


Assuming there is a next time anyway. I don't think I'll be putting the effort into responding to your next topic if all you're going to do is delete it when you get bored.

[NessaWyvern]

Next time people question what you were meaning in a post, clarify it. With simple words for those of us who can't cope with your long ones. Don't just delete the entire discussion because it didn't go the way you wanted it to, or only reply to the people that were rude to you.

He was like that with the last thread he made too. People had a hard time of figuring out what he was trying to say, most of us got what he was trying to say wrong (I think, I'm still not sure). He also deleted stuff on that one as well, also referred to as "Housekeeping".