(02-23-2021, 04:07 AM)aerelm Wrote: a few people who were interested enough to actually approach me directly and ask me the actual state of xeno line already knew about this, as well as the official devs
The problem is, any time that I(or other people) have approached you - past or present, usually results in passive aggressive responses regarding how the line will be delayed now rather than any actual statement regarding what's currently happening. As I said before and will again, if you had just provided simple updates for people to look at, then I wouldn't have even needed to approach you about anything. Instead you engineered the situation to be a case of going months on radio silence, and the exact moment you do get asked about things you break out into a flurry of verbal assaults.
(02-23-2021, 04:07 AM)aerelm Wrote: So, while Reeves was going around the place telling people I had "dropped the xeno line"
I actually never told people whether or not the line would be finished. But if they inferred this out of the fact that I could never give them a straight answer, since I was never really given one myself beyond a certain point - then I don't see how the allegation holds up. You can cross verify this if you'd like. The end result is that I would always just tell people - "Look man, I really don't know. You'll probably have to ask the man working on this. I really don't know."
(02-23-2021, 04:07 AM)aerelm Wrote: I'm working on those ships on the side
You would have spared both yourself and me an unnecessary waste of time on what became a slinging of mud in a public discord, which has now come full circle to this, if you had just given me the same answer that you'll give everyone else here. Like why does it have to take all of this to get you to actually respond in a way that's lucid? And as convenient as it might be to make it out at "just being Reeves being Reeves lul" - you seem to underestimate just how many other people have been raising these concerns. A fact I am only aware of now after this whole confrontation took place.
(02-23-2021, 04:07 AM)aerelm Wrote: The actual reason Xeno line has taken this long is a whole chain of events that mostly has had nothing to do with Reeves
Has nothing to do with me? You weren't capable of saying anything else besides "up to you whether this gets finished or not" - so you were fully prepared to make the threat of stalling things purely because of myself. This wouldn't be an issue if it wasn't literally what you decided to say, and then keep saying just so that you could get the last word out of an argument you literally created for yourself.
So as nice as this public face you put on seems to be, I think people have seen enough to know for themselves what's what here. I'm just glad you finally gave people an answer. Lord knows that took more effort than it was worth.
ADDENDUM:
(02-23-2021, 04:07 AM)aerelm Wrote: During all this, there was some unrelated friction going on the side that involved one of Reeves' friends, which led to a fair bit of drama, and Reeves being Reeves, he sure doesn't shy away from drama. This led to multiple instances where he'd just come across some discord, see me and that friend of his typing in the same chat, and without even checking the backlog would just assume that I was having a go at his friend (even when we weren't part of the same conversation and were each just having a separate conversation with different people) and would just flip out and start cussing me out over something that... didn't exist outside of his own head. Then the next day he'd come into modeler chat and would try to be super nice and throw around some empty words of encouragement in hopes of XA ships getting finished sooner
The drama in question was basically Aerelm saying to this friend "all your work is trash because I don't like this one thing you did" - resulting in an entirely unsurprising amount of disappointment from everyone else in that server. He then ostracized himself from all these people of his own accord, nobody had actually wanted to cut him out as a friend over a disagreement on something that's subjective. And so when he does refer to me as being twofaced, he's referring to the personal opinion I held of him during that particular confrontation, and the fact that I am completely neutral when I'm representing other people and the project they expected me to keep them updated about. Yet making this statement is just an exemplification of ignorance regarding what it means to be professional and what it means to state your personal opinion.
(02-23-2021, 04:07 AM)aerelm Wrote: But that all happened to coincide with some work related stuff that made me have to put everything disco-related on hold for about 6 weeks cause I simply didn't have any spare time, but Reeves being Reeves and always thinking everything is just about him once again assumed that I've dropped the xeno line completely because of him, he just left the modelers discord soon after, so when I came back to disco stuff and resumed the xeno line he didn't know because, well... he wasn't there anymore and I certainly had no intention of getting into direct contact with him after all just to keep him in the loop (which wouldn't have achieved anything anyways). So, while Reeves was going around the place telling people I had "dropped the xeno line", the reality of the matter was I was actively working on it, just not bothering with keeping him in the loop.
You seem to say I have a habit of making things about myself, but literally every second excuse you can muster has to do with me. So which is it? Did I have nothing to do with this, or as you seem to be suggesting in your words do I have everything to do with it? You blame me for the current misunderstanding, yet actively seek to misunderstand and misrepresent the circumstances behind why I left the modelers discord. So let me do everyone this courtesy and clarify why:
1) Look here, the bars are all almost full. I assumed it was finished, and knowing aerelm would just get passive aggressive if I asked him about it - I took those progress bars at face value and left it alone.
2) I was very upset with how the community was being managed and left everything related to Discovery. The general chat, any chats I was representing the XA- in and every faction chat with the exception of one. You can verify this by literally looking at those servers, assuming you even want to rather than spin a lie.
3) I just don't like a cluttered servers list, and since I thought things were pretty much just done pending some finalization there wasn't any utility to me being there anymore, it was just spam I kept marking as read. But I see now you were just acting on spite, and as you have so eloquently brought yourself to admit have had no intention of wanting to keep me in the loop regardless. So as you said, it wouldn't have mattered whether or not I was present in your chat, for all I know it would have just netted me more in the way of verbal abuse.