This honestly needs to be said. Most of the time shadow side outnumbers spirit side. It's a given, not going to complain, I have someone on both and yes its more fun to be shadow, you get less restrictions and as a result more options for things you can get away with doing as well. Probably why they have so many people. So with that in mind... save for wee morning hours when spirit can snag a few more in numbers, dark side wins.
What is mildly annoying is having those people go on shout and taunt and tease the spirit side... KNOWING there isn't a snowballs chance in hell they can even do anything about it at the time.
Win an even fight... then gloat... but when you double the numbers of the other side its just mean as a player to stick it to them.
Shut up. Take your win and move on. Rubbing it in the other sides faces like that literally just makes you look like an asshole.
I have a few thank yous to hand out, now that Martinaux has been promptly retired. Thank you to @Ayastia, @Swara, @Runk, @Evoran, @Taaroshi, @Krogyr, @Savas, @Rak, @Kylan, @Ardent, @Raynia for being awesome roleplayers. Thank you to Spinesreach and the Sciomancer guild for being such a warm and welcoming place. I am probably missing a few people, but I've had a few rough days and I mean no offense in that. My head is just a bit tired.
Finally, I want to give a huge, HUGE THANK YOU to @Tiur, for checking in on me and for his extremely kind words. They were needed and I appreciate them so very much. I cannot thank you enough for that.
Being called a "toxic asshole", threatened with an issue, and then snubbed because my character goes after someone who literally attacked them when they asked them and one other person not to get involved in a fight between an ally and an enemy at NoT... then proceed to attack my character after I asked them not to attack my ally. Ironically, I went there to watch the fight and make sure no one got teamed.
Your character's actions have consequences. I've been pretty good about not attacking folks outside of conflict areas even though I could've been marginally justified to do so within the bounds of "one death" and not being Open PK at the time. What I don't appreciate is someone immediately devolving into out-of-character mudslinging for my character having legitimate reasoning to go after theirs. I've come a long way in not being a dick about PK, taking a breather, and ensuring that I'm not in a gray area when I do jump people. There is no gray in this, though.
Edit: Worth noting that I'm not unreasonable either. There are legitimate ways that said person's character could've handled it IG first, such as maybe apologizing to my character. They made no attempt to do this. Just straight into OOC insults, threats, and mudslinging -- none of which is cool. If I do get an apology now, I want it for myself.
This might be a bit of an odd Love, but hear me out..
Back in 2004, an 8yo boy and a 56yo woman was murdered in my home town. Even though the police found the murder weapon and a hat with dna from the murderer, there have been no leads whatsoever since then. Early this morning, after 16 years and with the help of genealogy, a man was arrested and after a few hours of interegation, he admitted to the crimes. We still don't know why, but just knowing he is caught after all this time, that the families can finally have some peace... now that's worth a whole lot of Love. The police have never given up on this case and have worked tiredlessly to find out who did it and now, they finally caught him.
I the hard work our developers, our producer, and our volunteers are putting in to keep our game running and giving us an outlet to exist in socially in these times where we are uncertain if its safe to go out and some people have trouble not being social butterflies, while others of us *coughcoughmecoughcough* have found their own lifestyle not changing much. But I can appreciate that this might be an outlet that some have because they -can't- go out and be social in the meat space.