Feral Heart

Kry, do not start with me.

Before you decide to try and tear into me, read.

Multiple times over the course of my posts in the forums, I have said time and time again. Raz' behavior was deplorable in this case. Raz did NOT do a good job in handling this. But because I'm not falling in line and singing the staff's praises in reacting in the way that they did, I'm defending him? No. I'm really not. What I'm saying is people are losing their goddamn minds over something that really has not utterly destroyed the community. Maybe it has for you, but weren't you always the one telling me that FeralHeart was a cesspool of toxicity and that the people on the game weren't worth it? Now you can finally leave it behind.

Yeah, welcome to the internet, but I'd like to think that, like in life since we're all actual human beings, it means you don't have to be a shitty and petty person back all because someone was shitty to you. Perhaps if the staff had taken a principled stand that wasn't just ragequitting and throwing maps up to further provoke a situation that they KNEW was going to continue to go downhill, people might not have lost their minds. Inciting riots is not how this should have been conducted. The staff is not an entirely innocent party either.

Again, like I said, read the post. I said Raz should not have done what he did. I'm just also saying that the staff should not have done exactly what they did. Should they have retaliated? Sure. But not in such a disorganized and ridiculous way that suddenly had everyone running into the streets with furry torches and pitchforks. Because, trust me. I know a shit-ton about history. And if you actually know who this account belongs to, you know I've studied it and have a degree in it. Great things don't come out of riots. It comes out of protests and actual organized and civil social disobedience and change. The riots only happen when the peaceful protesters get attacked by the oppressive forces coming after them. The civil part that actually inspires change is not what happened here on FH. People just went freaking crazy.

I'm heading out of the forums at this point, because like a rational human being, I know this will blow over. It always does. Everyone can keep throwing their temper tantrum, and FeralHeart will either keep going, or it won't.

Hopefully y'all will mobilize this well when it comes time to do important things like vote and march and actually be socially proactive like I've felt the need to do over the past several months. Maybe I just see what matters a bit more, and I just don't think this game is THAT worth it to get riled up over. Is it full of nostalgia and memories? Sure. But I can let go of that just like anything else if the time's come for it to get shut down. And if not? I'll do what I can to work to make it better in my own way. I'm just not going to scream about how administrators are bitch-asses and how they're Hitler or Drumpf in the process. Nor am I going to do that about the staff. Or you.

It's not hard to figure out who I am addressing, and I have read.

If I may be so bold to ask how the staff should have reacted? You state that you understand history, and yet you're still calling people petty. I've left FH. Because whether or not this blows over it's now an empty shell. You continued to speak up and talk to people like they were children. Let's cut the high-horse crap, and stick to the actual topic. How what Raz is doing is wrong. No involvement with the staff's retaliation, no involvement with how people are reacting in chaos.

What Razmirz is doing is very much wrong, and shows no community care and very poor communication skills. It gives us no explanation as to the details of this program. So until there is a good explanation as to how this works, and how the system will prevent trolling and such, then people will believe what they want. Hell, because of this, people may still believe what they want. Poor communication, poor staff managing skills, and very poor execution. Telling us that this will be implemented with such little knowledge appears like a threat to a game that many people have grown up on.
So to me, when one is bringing in "look I don't accept what he is doing, but look at what everyone else has done too" dragged into a thread that should be a reaction to his actions, and pretty much his actions only, seems a bit like you're trying to pry people away from the main topic. If that makes sense? I hope so.

I was actually online for a long time yesterday, and I saw people having fun. And if any hate was getting thrown around, it was at Raz. Which, you KNOW that if the staff had been online, they would have allowed it because it wasn't directed at them or their friends. Not all of the fun was mature, and yes, people were cursing. As I also mentioned in a later post, I do think that if that conduct is going to be free and rampant, the game should come with a warning then for minors or people who are easily offended.

All of this being said, again, I'm not defending what Raz has done. I don't agree with the fact he did this behind everyone's backs. But going behind HIS back and being equally petty? That's not really a way to behave either, especially when I refuse to believe that the staff or the community was dumb enough to think he wouldn't push back upon provocation.

A friend mentioned this to me, and I also did notice this. You guys DO realize that Raz came to the community about this policy change, right? He SAID in his post, that if enough people disagreed and didn't like it, that it would change. October's meant to be a test. All of this insanity has stemmed from people freaking out over it.

As I have said before, I will say it again. I don't condone Raz' behavior. But other than rationally trying to explain why we think something isn't a great idea and hoping he'll listen is literally all we can do. At least on FeralHeart. I'm willing to ride it out. If you're not, then you can join the massive rioting clusterfuck of a Discord hate server and try to make another game. FeralHeart is unique, yeah. And I understand that this sucks.

But rioting, calling everybody names, and throwing temper tantrums is going to get LITERALLY nothing done. It's throwing eggs at a brick wall.

It sucks. I know. But raging around like a toddler and screaming curse words AGAINST Raz like someone in massive red text did above, is not going to solve anything.

As much as I didn't think some of the staff were right to have their positions, and believe me when I say, I have had personal beef with a few of them over the years.
However, I am actually defending them IN THE SENSE OF WHAT RAZ IS DOING IS WRONG!

"You guys DO realize that Raz came to the community about this policy change, right? He SAID in his post, that if enough people disagreed and didn't like it, that it would change." No. He came to the community and told us he was doing it. He gave us, what, a week warning? He would be doing this whether or not we agree or disagree. And you know what, if you understood a bit as to who Raz is, you would know that it wouldn't matter if people didn't like Mod Free October, he would have kept it regardless.

You want to blame the staff before this incident for not being fair or right for their title?
This has NOTHING to do about how "the staff are also wrong too what about that". What an utter off topic point of blame. Why is it off topic? Because this is about what RAZMIRZ has done by GOING BEHIND THEIR BACKS and coming forth with a system that is to replace staff. As he so openly stated, I will repeat, THIS PROGRAM IS TO GET RID OF STAFF! Focus on this matter. Had Razmirz kept this to staff chat, had he told and very much warned that the staff were on thin ice by him saying he will be implementing this, the reaction of the FH staff would have been different.

I 100% agree that the staff team either needed to be reconstructed or them to change, but that post made by Nynx was to show that they were aware of what needed to change and were making a point that they were trying to change. Who stopped that? Raz. Who started banning staff, AKA Nynx, for releasing the maps for people to see, and to tell them that the staff team heard them? Raz. Who ultimately pushed staff who were trying to make a change out of the picture? Raz. Who is continuing to tell the community that it was because of Nynx all of the characters are gone? Raz. Who is actually to blame for deleting the map from the system files, and all the characters? Raz, because he was the one who just couldn't ignore the maps being released and instead just HAD to delete them.

Let me repeat this for you lot. Just because the staff have faults, does not make Raz's actions justified. He went behind their backs and made the threat that their days were numbered. They had an expiration date, so they decided to show them that they listened and Raz didn't. They outed him, and rightfully so. Someone had to do it.

"All of this being said, again, I'm not defending what Raz has done. I don't agree with the fact he did this behind everyone's backs. But going behind HIS back and being equally petty?"
As for the "over reacting petty behavior" that you carelessly state- welcome to the goddamn internet. It ain't right the way they're acting, but guess what, they're people, and they're upset. In numbers, people will cause chaos and riots. If anything has told you about history, is that's what happens. You can sit on the side and call them immature or overreacting all you want, but people will not stop when this is so fresh. It's best to leave that out of the picture and focus on the real problem.
And for someone who apparently isn't "defending Raz" you're doing a mighty fine job of looking like you are.

Ah see. You have to put the .fhm file, AKA the map file, in exports. All files go in exports.

Edit: Also be sure you are putting the files in the exports folder and not the folder themselves. Meaning just put what is inside the folder, all those files into exports.

I've seen people call a casual conversation "spam". It sounds like it may have been one of the same people.

Spamming is more considered filling up the entire chat in repeated and shortly timed posts by one person. Whether that's just composed of 1 word posts, random letters/numbers, etc. I doubt this person that told you to stop spamming knows what spam is.

This rocks, Buffy. I can bookmark this and help people who need their original files now.