About the Rules & Moderation category (Part 1)

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Sure is

Meow

And it doesn’t feel like they ever have the same, like, sense of… not so much “caring” but just, like, any kind of feeling of connection with me if I can’t spend inordinate amounts of time sitting around doing nothing with them

Are they your friends

And I already fucking spend inordinate amounts of time, much more than I should, like, on and off in text chats! But because I’m not there 6PM to 3AM in a voice chat while somebody plays a game

I mean objectively yes

How much do they pay you

Like the problem is that they’re Not My Friends in that they don’t respect me or don’t want to be friends with me the problem is that, like

They don’t respect my Time

Or rather are used to me having time that is not Respectable

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May wanna play ten botc games all at once

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And so they don’t fucking understand that when I show up I would really like to talk about the thing I showed up to talk about or other specific thing and do not want to/cannot spend five hours just sitting there waiting for them to finish a level in a pauseable video game

Yes

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And everybody has so many fucking time demands. Everybody is constantly making themselves into an obligation. Do you really want me to feel obligated to spend time with you

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Do you really thi

I don’t even wanna play one

The purrox game I’m still upset over

It kind of ruined any fun I had from winning

hmm i could probably find the worst homebrew script ever to play on

I don’t spend time talking to people I don’t want to talk to on account of talking is kind of inherently exhausting if I feel like the other person has a constant minimum level of expectation for my engagement with the conversation. And so many people just, like, don’t let you spend Just A Little Time With Them. Either they want to be Friends necessitating a minimum amount of Time Engagement Spent Talking About Nothing or they don’t want to fucking talk to you at all