12-19-2024, 01:47 AM_Blitz_ Wrote: I generally appreciate you, Seany, but I'ma be honest: this kind of stuff is why I don't sim anymore.

There is a serious problem in this league with our culture. I'll use the sim, since it's the one I know best but I know it happens in other areas.

It starts small; an issue that really should be fixed, but life happens. In this case, the sim is late. Somebody comments on it in the appropriate place, in this case it's GM chat, and gets a dissatisfying answer, the file is being worked on. Soon enough, whether they mean to or not, it gets spread in a way that is dissatisfying to more people, and so the complaints begin to pour in. The issue gets casually joked about and shit on. "Aha-ha, sim late" "Sim Wen" "Will there ever be a sim?!"
A solution is proposed. In the case of the sim team, it's hiring more simmers.
The complaints stop immediately, at least where the person who proposed the solution can see them. No one wants to acknowledge the hiring thread, except to jokingly suggest people for it like some sort of Hunger Games tribute. No one else has a better solution, but almost everybody wants to say there should be *A* solution out there. Just not with them.

And then the next season rolls around. Various whiners can't afford training. They inevitably blame the people who hold 5 jobs for taking all of the jobs. The simmer hiring thread is still open.

Hey man, I totally agree with you. In this thread, the general idea on what I'm complaining about seems to be the simmer. However, that was never my goal. What I wanted this to be about was HO in general who spent time arguing for no reason and telling us to "go spread the news that sim is delayed" rather than officially communicate it to the site. Is a sim delay kinda annoying? Of course! People want the fake hockey to happen! But a sim at all is better than no sim. And so many things can happen, starting with forgetting (this is charity work, not a job) and including having to fix the file, or also just IRL shit. What really pissed me off was that I was assumed to complain about the simmmers BY HO, was criticized BY HO, and all that time, instead of causing a civil war in the J GM Server, anyone with perms, whether it was the commish, an online member of HO, or a simmer, could've published a message saying "Sim delayed; simmer is fixing file", or simply "sim delayed". I think the league has a big issue on simple communication, and how I've been shittalked for attacking the simmers when that wasn't even my goal nor my intention illustrates it pretty well.