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[Cal]

-Admins rarely ever actually play the game

-Admins almost never play the game

I wanted to address specifically this.

I also often thought this before I became administrator.

These are specifically my own thoughts on this.

1. This is not true. I play in secret mode occasionally, but rarely entire rounds nowadays.

2. Seriously, 45 minutes~ ish for classic, and a whopping hour and 30 minutes (more like hour 45 with shuttle) is a huge amount of time to dedicate as an adult. Most admins move on from regular player to being an "event dm" sort of, because it lets them hop on, have fun, make others have fun, and leave at their leisure.

3. People treat us weird. That's just the way it is. I do not feel comfortable playing characters I usually play because people treat me weird. I'm not blind, I notice.

This ranges from "I'm going to harass this admin" which has happened to me more than once, to "Oh god, an admin, I better avoid them," to "Ooh, an admin! I'm going to stick to them like glue and maybe I'll get treats/cool stuff will happen to me!"

More - We sometimes run into the incredibly awkward situations of "Someone is breaking the rules, and I'm trying to play the game. I am now compelled to deal with this even though I am just trying to relax and play." and "There's an admin playing! I'm going to make an ahelp/bug report to them, while they are playing the game."

Like, it's hard for us to play! It sucks, but that's the reality of it.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and naturally answering ahelps means I'm just not getting to play because I'm doing that instead