[Clockworkers Doll]

Still trying to pretend I don't exist on Byond in general, but I felt a need to bring this up. Not necessarily related to the original discourse, but it's what your reply made me want to scream like this in a real-time autistic fit of rage.
Dev, have you ever considered that maybe people don't come forward with things about the GM because they're already so set up and used to the abuse and already know you aren't going to listen because of the way you try to understand things? Given that I'm already just up and quitting SL2, I won't make an attempt to sugar up my words in an attempt to have less of a reason to get banned for 'being rude' or what have you.

Time and time again, I tell everyone whenever they disagree with something or something wrong happens, "then go to Dev or a GM" and then get told no because they know all of you will say no or not care? Even I've asked questions about why X is tolerated or why X is happening and I basically get told that nobody comes forward. Because hey, unless you have about a mile worth of logs, then nobody fuckin' cares, aye? I can tell you about everything I've ever heard about the GMs, claims of abuse, bias, whatever, but nobody'll say anything because without any shred of evidence then it just doesn't exist and doesn't matter and so obviously fake right? Fucking. Wrong.

Hell, I can go up to a GM and say "Hey, I have no evidence of this happening because I don't want to be directly involved with some shitty ERPing lesbian player but I've had so many people say X has happened and they break rules when GMs aren't around so could you keep an eye out for them?" and then I'll just get told whatever generic answer and then nothing happens because I don't want to endanger myself nor my sanity to go and get proof that this player is breaking the rules. It's almost ingrained into the game's community that neither the GMs, nor Dev, give a real shit about the community. And the fact that you're basically saying "hey y'all overacting lil bitches lol" (a hyperbole, but that is what most people are going to take it as due to tone of voice) is showing that nobody can actually make a change. There's not even an attempt to appease everybody. Sure, why not take the same punishment to everyone, or hell let everybody vote? Instead of just sitting on your ass and saying "haha nah y'all salty".
I'm not saying you're really the one doing that type of attitude Dev, but when the hell do you ever actually play your own game or get to know anybody in your community? There's always been the fact that I've heard since the goddamn day I joined SL2 two years or so ago, that you especially don't play your game and are barely able to say the community is good or bad because all you do is come in, give asagos or say updates or whatever, and then leave. I'm not saying "lol dev isn't busy fucker he just sits in his basement and codes", because you have to be able to code everything and you probably have a job outside of the internet because living off donations is god awful. But you can't even take a day off or anything at some point to come and see how the game is doing? Come experience that "obviously fake" clique bullshit and how the only real place to get RP is at the arena. Because let me tell you, barely anybody goes and tries to RP with newbies or anyone outside of their friendgroup.

Now you can go "but kaaaaahllll i rp with people i don't know all the timmme waaaaaaaah" but you have to ask yourself. When was the last time you weren't AFKing at the arena and only replying when someone asks for a spar? When was the last time that you tried to sit in Cellsvich and RP? When really was the last time you RP'd with someone that wasn't a known player, seriously and not a "emote looks at, says nothing"? Some people go out of their way to RP with people who get no attention, and D.I./Sinclare/Vance met some really great people because of this. Saira, Airide, Franky, Tor, Gavvy, Graves, Elly, Floofie, and Gene when she was still alive on the internet. And I can admit I'm not innocent of accidentally ignoring new players either, but if people interact with me, I at least RP with them until our RP dies or they leave or if I have to leave. Social anxiety will do that to you, you know? But if you're making an attempt at it, you're genuinely doing some poor sap a favor and reaching out to someone others will ignore. Sitting at the arena with all your PVP friends dicks up your ass isn't a real way to go, and as much as GMs and Dev like to pretend it isn't real, you guys need to wake the fuck up and realise that happens everyday. Is it server-wide? No, not at all. But PVP is practically fucking required to RP with anybody at the arena, or you need to force conversation on someone and make things uncomfortable. PVP in SL2 is a fucking cancerous disease that's turned good people into shitlords, but hey, that isn't the topic I'm going so. Leaving it there? Good? Good.
But let's go back to what I was talking about earlier. I know Dyst /kinda/ plays and I know Sawrock does play, so he's kinda omitted from this. If anybody can tell me these, you can do that right ahead. Do we even know of any normal Chaos or Dev characters? I know Chaos used to have his guy, but did he /ever/ do anything but AFK? When was the last time we interacted with a GM ICly that wasn't via a GM event or generic guard AFKing/business? Because, Y'know, having a private character is fine, but the last time I suggested that to Slydria, he said him and Chaos don't do that kinda shit to know the community. So it's reasonable to say that the GM's don't play the game as much as they let on, nor as much as Dev cries that they do. Have we ever had a GM event I never got to hear any complaints about how bullshit it was? Lemme answer that! No, I've never heard of a single GM event that wasn't "shitty and bad". Time and time again I tell people not to go because they'll keep doing it anyways because they have some faith left that the event won't be a waste of time and shitty. It surely does make a lot of us feel like you don't listen when you rehash the same shit that everybody bitches about time and time again. Of course, off the topic of GMs not really knowing the community they're dealing with once more, so let's continue. It seems as though the GMs are practically basing who they like and dislike off of OOC, and then pour that into IC. Which hell, ignoring people you dislike OOCly in IC isn't that bad, it's rude but forgivable, but I've heard a few cases in the past where they're targeted more heavily because they do crazy/stupid stuff all the time, but never really offensive or ban-worthy stuff.

And, of course, there's always been dishonesty and bad business practices within the GMs. Of course, there's the fact of Dyst ignoring someone's player reports because that person was adament about trying to help the community not seem so bad with one of it's biggest issues, smacktalking behind my back in the SL2 channel about something she just made an assumption about, and having multiple events that waste people's time and/or turn out shitty to where Dyst just quits ([cough]Hot or Not & that Amiras bullshit few days back). Chaos saying he won't fire guards that never get on their guard characters and/or are just gone for extended periods of time because having a life outside of SL2 involves never being around for actual months at a time to where if I mention you to someone they go "who?" (did you think I deleted that PM? Because I didn't), and then getting shamed for a first time offence not once, not twice, but three times in GM channel (IIRC), when previously stating a few months back that y'all took that shit to Skype as to not disrupt the player and shame them (although, might I mention that was the answer to why Soapy never got in trouble via GM channel when he did?), Saw purposely misgendering a trans person because an elite player told them they were bad, Sly ignoring actual evidence of players being bad when I (and others, sometimes) send them (Remember, the German B sounds like 'SS' and making your RWBY Weiss playby's alias Weiß is bad, kiddies)... Due to my memory, I actually couldn't go on as much as I'd love to.

But if you really want to know why people don't come up to you with this kinda stuff? It's ingrained into a large portion of the community that you and the GMs will do aboslutely buttfuck nothing, and the fact you're practically saying "haha y'all overblowin this and being salty" is proof to that. Outside of the petition, I can't see anybody saying Egil needs to be not-punished-at-all and Sarah needs to be permabanned like saying, and even Bria admitted the description was rough and not as good as it should've been, but the point wasn't the description. Whoever was trolling the thing with fake signatures can suck my fucking ass. The revision of the GM team is different matter, for the most part, but hell. You wanted to fuckin' hear it? There you go. Sue me. Do what you will with whatever I said. Call me a faggot (haha jokes on you i'm a gay dude) or whatever the hell, because god knows I ain't dealin' with this no' mo'. I will not return to answer questions, and I'm probably just gonna go back to fading out of existence. But I know some people think of me as GM material, and respect my opinions and voice. SL2 is rotting, and it's not just one person's problem. The playerbase needs to group itself and the GM team needs to stop giving players a reason to believe they're getting ignored and shit on.

Make this double as my farewell post as well. As much as I know people more-or-less were neutral or didn't like my presence, I felt the need to let out all of my opinions before I left and say goodbye as well.
I only want to say sorry to Bria if I sounded rude in any case. I felt no need to try and censor myself or try to act like the perfect man.