Put the Australian on the Hot Seat

[ScreamingDingo 20568]

 

Hello all it is time for a great 2025.
 

The usual ask me anything, I promise to give actual responses to questions and to try and think about them

I’ve been on the server for almost 14 years now, so I have interesting opinions and viewpoints on certain things.

 

if you want to troll me to death to you can also do that it’s free potshots or genuine questions

 

[tasty_cheesecake 2298]

would u blow up the snelves again

 

also top/bottom 5 worst lore ever submitted

Edited January 3, 2025 by tasty_cheesecake

[Cheese 8899]

What's it like being upside down all the time in Australia

[framalam 837]

if you could force a full reset on any MA or FA, community, or culture in general, which would it be, why, and what direction would you rather it took?

[Jihnyny 5233]

how much you bench

what would you do to 'fix' orcs and dwarves?

whats your plan for lotc?

how was you 2024?

[wowj 9765]

when can i RP a god

[sam33497 7356]

do u still enjoy the server or is it sunk cost fallacy

[Fishy 2709]

When MArt freeze

[Gustando 1990]

I remember when I was like 15 and u were one of the first people I ever vc'd with on this server 

 

Not a question but thought that was funny

[ScreamingDingo 20568]

2 hours ago, tasty_cheesecake said:

would u blow up the snelves again

 

also top/bottom 5 worst lore ever submitted

I would blow up the snelves again, no remorse.

 

Ever submitted is crazy and will be shading a lot more people than I need to. I really enjoyed the Templar submission from recent memory, but I do not really review much player lore.

 

1 hour ago, Cheese said:

What's it like being upside down all the time in Australia

It’s the same because I am constantly upside down so it’s normal to me. When I went to Europe I had to buy a grounding harness to ensure I didn’t just float away

 

1 hour ago, framalam said:

if you could force a full reset on any MA or FA, community, or culture in general, which would it be, why, and what direction would you rather it took?

This is a crazy question, really difficult to do this without being a bit contrarian.

 

I would really force a full reset on Naztherak and drive its main focus to be on infernal climbs and setting up the playerbase to be respectful of conflict to allow for constant infighting and a “goal” figurehead for the strongest entity. Would help establish a lot of the stuff I’ve done in the background and would also allow for me to maybe do some tiefling erasure and drive forth that cursed child aspect to be more than aesthetic.

 

1 hour ago, Jihnyny said:

how much you bench

what would you do to 'fix' orcs and dwarves?

whats your plan for lotc?

how was you 2024?

not much 

 

Both of these communities need actual good role models who care to foster roleplay and aim to build it at every opportunity. These two playerbases are ones that are in dire situations the most because they can never foster any playerbase beyond war and conflict. Orcs require a full cultural reset and the dwarves need to create more noob friendly interactions and ways to actually show their renown. Blacksmithing tournaments, clan reputation systems, voting hierarchies and constant innovation through technology or voidal ways to be the very best that they could be. I’ve always liked Dwarves as a concept, but I think they absurdly miss the mark on LotC. 
 

Don’t really have much of a plan at the moment. I’m finishing off my final projects I’ve been procrastinating for the last two years and hopefully just taking a bit of a slow step back from the server. I’d like to maybe roleplay a character, but we’ll see.

 

Hoping this year will be a better one, that’s a definite thing lol.

 

1 hour ago, wowj said:

when can i RP a god

you are one

1 hour ago, sam33497 said:

do u still enjoy the server or is it sunk cost fallacy

Both.

I think the roleplay experience is something that is unique to LotC and is something that I thoroughly enjoy, but do not really have time to take part in again. I also feel that I’ve dedicated an absurd amount of time to the server and personally have not really seen any impact or legacy that would make me too delighted to leave it behind. Yet there’s a large part of me that recognises that I sit in a very strange inbetween on the server where I do not actually align with the progression and direction of the server, even as much as I try to adapt. Very bittersweet, but I think the end is nigh here for me…

 

1 hour ago, Fishy said:

When MArt freeze

When I clear Marts out of queue (and people vote on them) I’m enforcing a freeze (quote this)

 

36 minutes ago, Gustando said:

I remember when I was like 15 and u were one of the first people I ever vc'd with on this server 

 

Not a question but thought that was funny

A very rare occasion to be in a VC nowadays. Always good to remember fun times.

[Rig 17591]

We've had a long run on this server. I'd kill to go back to 2015 and go around ganking people on the roads again as Kaegaz'arai and his evil spiritual overlord Kaer'gi.

Out of all the drastic changes on this server (such as "Departments", the introduction of "Crowns", Administration scandals and the list goes on) which events out-of-characterly are the most scandalous for you?

I always thought the Ski_King3/Tahmas administrations after Pandan were the most chaotic and fraught with tension. I look back now and it's been close to seven years now from those dire times where being an Orenian was being opposed to things like that, whereas now being a neo-Orenian is yearning for those kinds of Redditor-tier totalitarian figures.

[Gaja 1314]

never interacted with you but i've legitimately only heard negative things, obviously personally I don't take that to heart since it's silly to judge someone without knowing them

do you think it's just misguided, ppl take things to heart online too much, or what?

also: favourite wrestler, favourite match, and favourite time period in wrestling?

[tasty_cheesecake 2298]

meant worst lore passed top bottom 5 but i forgot to ask it properly

 

u didnt ask me btw eli but i remember when we couped tahmas haelunor and got it unsurprisingly admin rejected. made me a savoyard for a few months until the city blew up. gods i was strong then

[Crevel 7561]

Do you believe that LotC has the capacity to survive for another decade? Is there a spark the server had in the past unique to the medium that it's lost over time? If so, do you think it's possible that it could feasibly be recovered or replaced? 

 

If the server was finally going to shut down after all these years but with a final event or event-line, what sort of ending would you want to see to conclude the server's narrative?

[ScreamingDingo 20568]

1 hour ago, world said:

We've had a long run on this server. I'd kill to go back to 2015 and go around ganking people on the roads again as Kaegaz'arai and his evil spiritual overlord Kaer'gi.

Out of all the drastic changes on this server (such as "Departments", the introduction of "Crowns", Administration scandals and the list goes on) which events out-of-characterly are the most scandalous for you?

I always thought the Ski_King3/Tahmas administrations after Pandan were the most chaotic and fraught with tension. I look back now and it's been close to seven years now from those dire times where being an Orenian was being opposed to things like that, whereas now being a neo-Orenian is yearning for those kinds of Redditor-tier totalitarian figures.

yeah, it’s always funny to think back in the day where I just powergamed playing an evil lord with all these magics and no training lol. Got away with it great aswell.

 

Hard to think of a super scandalous event that hasn’t been done to death, the fallout from the Flamboyant Saga was something that was really insane to deal with and the consequences of that. 
 

It’s always very interesting to think how Oren was extremely counter culture back in the day against the “oppressive” idiots and those who would manipulate and abuse lore for their own gain. Nowadays they want a figure that’ll do exactly that for them. Was some of the worst times to be under those administrations where favours and such were exchanged for weird OOC stuff lol.

 

 

1 hour ago, Gaja said:

never interacted with you but i've legitimately only heard negative things, obviously personally I don't take that to heart since it's silly to judge someone without knowing them

do you think it's just misguided, ppl take things to heart online too much, or what?

also: favourite wrestler, favourite match, and favourite time period in wrestling?

It’s hard to pinpoint, there’s a lot of founded criticism and anger against me and then there’s this layer of boogeymanism that has followed me for very long. I’ve always been a very divisive figure early on being from the old Oren and the White Rose specifically, where we really did go very hard on elf players and I was part of a group that was especially brutal ooc and ic. Most of the modern reasons as to why people dislike me is because I say they suck and normally talk about why their stuff is bad, which is fair enough. I don’t really sugarcoat on here because I don’t feel like I need to, which isn’t the most healthy way to do things but I do. Mind you I don’t really hate anyone on the server, most of the time

if I’ve come into contact with you and you have a strong opinion of me, it’s built on my criticism and dislike of how you conduct yourself in roleplay. (Extremely OOC orientated, manipulative, weird attachments that dismantle your character perspective). People have valid reasons to dislike me, some is quite invalid and founded upon people trying to stir the pot. But other things I get, I’ve been an ******* to people.

 

Attitude Era/Ruthless Aggression (probably 2000 onwards) was easily my favourite, very boring response but it was what I grew up with. With this though, I watched a lot of TNA in its prime and I LOVED AJ Styles. Also a big fan of Kurt Angle for his technical prowess.

also lol Shane McMahon v Kane Ambulance Match was absurd.

 

1 hour ago, tasty_cheesecake said:

meant worst lore passed top bottom 5 but i forgot to ask it properly

 

u didnt ask me btw eli but i remember when we couped tahmas haelunor and got it unsurprisingly admin rejected. made me a savoyard for a few months until the city blew up. gods i was strong then

Uhhh

 

hard to say but probably

1. Primordials (Benbo Piece)

2. Last Gen Ascended

3. Asura (OG)

4. I think it was second gen Dark

Shamanism (weird totem one)

5. First Generation Shade

 

50 minutes ago, Crevel said:

Do you believe that LotC has the capacity to survive for another decade? Is there a spark the server had in the past unique to the medium that it's lost over time? If so, do you think it's possible that it could feasibly be recovered or replaced? 

 

If the server was finally going to shut down after all these years but with a final event or event-line, what sort of ending would you want to see to conclude the server's narrative?

It’s such a weird one to think about. LotC maintains itself based on its history and the unique capacity that it works in a variety of different bubbles with no cohesion. As long as people have interest in roleplaying their OCs, I don’t think LotC would “die”. 

The “spark” is something that is super subjective and really hard for me to speak of, as that wonder I felt was something I do not know can be emulated in the modern day. But saying that, I’m sure new players are joining the server and integrating the server feeling that spark that drives us all to roleplay. One of the people who play the character Iolas I think really exemplifies this (I forget their MC Name) of a new gen who just has their heart in the game for roleplay.

 

I genuinely believe that nations have such a vital role in providing that spark and that maybe some of them have destroyed their opportunities for noob progression for a solid playerbase that’s consistent. I think it is very difficult to establish yourself in most of these nation cliques and is a big thing that prevents retention, but I don’t know how actually realistic this viewpoint is as, I’m far from being a new player.

 

For a final eventline, it’d be some ridiculous deific scramble sort of one. The idea of Iblees trying to properly reform mathic as the descendant kingdoms vie to control the aengudaemons by either creating their own gods or having them pledge to itself. All to culminate in the idea of the final mathic and full “reset”. Just to give the natural heat death of the universe vibes with not true survival.