Bacon: here's the thing. If you don't care about Lifesteal, then the server is going to end. The server is literally going to end. There was like 10 people on right now who just do not care. And if you don't care about anything about Lifesteal, if you can't bring yourself to care about a fun event or a little thing, then what the fuck are we supposed to do? What else can we do on this server?
i've heard this conversation numberous times before obviously, it's a defining moment for sure.
And I've really just started thinking about s7, you know, everything was really really really dire. I didn't like complaining about anything during the season, I strived to be as positive as I genuinely could be all season. But it was bad. Yeah. The inactivity was like, really bad!!
Though, I still do stand by what I said, which is that not every season has to be exceptional, etc etc, I recognise why things went down the way they did, and I'm still not here to point fingers.
Parts of the PZE events really made me upset, and it's not the fault of Zam in the slightest. The last talk with Mapicc was so. Dude. Showing up to events, which is the bare minimum, is not an act of rebellion. You are once again playing on the side that you should be opposing, which is something that people tried doing with the Abyss as well. People wanted to give in and contribute to the voiding, the same way people just,, didn't fight against PZE. People like Hannah wanted to help her out, and she declided because everyone should've seen the empire as a common enemy. Zam strived to do, say things that would make people mad at her, to actually do something about her, and yet people did absolutely zero things. Attending events, again, is not an act of rebellion.
There was this one talk that hanmape had with Zam, which i had already posted about, and I think it really makes it obvious what it's trying to represent.
The events were meant to be insufferable! They were meant to kill! They were meant to piss people off. I have, again, talked about how people should be more willing to die, and engange with conflict. The story of an underdog, or one revolved around personal conflict will always be intriguing.
How people approached the events was really just proof that. They do not care. The void arc was about proving people deserve spawn. The PZE was about the very very very same thing, all people proved was again, that they don't care.
And i know that yeah, this is Lifesteal, your plans are never going to go your way. But damn did I really wish people did more than be there for the beginning of the events, leave half way through, and then never log on again. Nothing will ever happen if you never engange!!!!
And I get it, and I've talked about burn out being the main reason, etc etc. But as I qouted Bacon there, if they can't bring themselves to care even about an event or a little thing then there's just nothing left to do, the server will end.
Do you know how happy it made me to see Redd and E online for more than two seconds? Two previously inactive members, and they were finally involved in something. It genuinely made a difference, even if it was small. Or that one 4C thing, where he got people to log on, that made a huge difference too!! And it didn't need anything grandiose.
It didn't need to be chungus few heart Roshambo that died in that void trap that day, that is true! But it made Mapicc fight. He jumped Zam for it! That was something! And it's sad that Ro logged off right after, but it achieved something!
(Or the gashtathon, and I would genuinely never expect anyone to spend 50 hours of their real life time going through the horrors for it. But come on. Like everyone logged off so incredibly fast. If not for sunweaver, genuinely nothing would've happened after.) (<- I really liked that one Yungy crashout the day before the finale iykyk)
There was this one zamwaffles conversation during the PZE,
Bacon: someone has convinced you to blame yourself for the server not being as active as they want it to be.
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