GENETICS

[BaneOfGiygas]

I gotta love how this thread has 17 posts, discussing removing cloning. Something that causes 0 problems, maybe the only problem being not getting cloned in 1 second flat.

Yet no one contributes to the thread for improving the job. Fan-Fucking-TASTIC

Disregarding the fact that this complaint provides nothing constructive or helpful in the slightest, do you want to know why some people are so eager to oust cloning? Do you want to know why genetics is such a hot-button issue that every single thread always manages to explode into ad hominem and finger-pointing, without fail?

It's because the middle ground is damn near impossible to find. People are going to bitch and moan about not getting their free revives and how everyone hates genetics if cloning is nerfed, people are going to bitch and moan about how no one clones them and how useless the cloner is if it isn't nerfed. The topic has become this swirling mass of negativity that, to be perfectly honest, even I'm having difficulty approaching from an optimistic viewpoint, and I consider myself quite the optimistic person. And I can say with a good degree of certainty that there are many people who share this viewpoint, and thus we come to the most direct solution to the perceived problem: Complete elimination of the offending mechanic.

Over the past few months, I've seen countless threads about genetics, cloning, and how shit needs to get fixed, but there's been a distinct lack of shit getting fixed, which compounds the issue further. To be perfectly clear, I'm not blaming the admins for a lack of action, since even the slightest poke or nudge to genetics/cloning seems to result in an uproar of bad shit. It's a fucking Jenga tower that's a slight breeze away from toppling over, and at this point, smashing the thing to bits and moving on is starting to become more and more appealing with every bile-filled argument that stems from these damn things.

I'll always be on the side of compromise first and foremost, but I'm just saying for the record, I wouldn't be opposed to just ousting the whole matter entirely. Partly because I'm of the belief that SS13 can live without the cloning mechanism, and partly because I'm just sick of this kind of shit.