@theredquilt Yes to all of this! Why are they not mentioning if it will be available later to watch? Do they not care about non US beasts at all? Also, yes the pre release totally doesn’t make sense. Rhett himself said “check out the pre release if you wanna grab the tickets before everyone else” which has no benefit! There are no “good seats” to grab and I’m sure they won’t limit the total tickets, they have no reason to. And the options honestly make me livid. They’ve deliberately bunched the T-shirt along to charge higher, and I swear if they ask for shipping, I might just tell them to stuff the shirt in their own studio and charge me full price I don’t care.

The tickets aren’t limited. There is no other reason to offer them earlier than to drum up excitement or something. Which is fine I guess. Just seems silly to me.

They are offering a video-on-demand option that can be watched for 48 hours after the livestream for 18$. But that doesn’t include the after- or pre-shows. (Although if you are 1-3rd tier in the Mythical Society you can watch the pre-show there).

Even US peeps have to pay for processing and shipping for the shirt (it’s a bit less, I think around 5$ + 6$). But as a Finn, the fact I’d have to pay 6$, 15$ and quite possibly about 15$ for customs to top that of is just unfair. If the shirt was amazing and I loved it, I would probably try to get it, but now I just can’t make myself do it. I’m unemployed. Even the original price of 45$ was steep for me, so adding 36$ on top of that is basically not possible.

I also feel shitty now because I was really looking forward to GME.

I’m not NT, and I was not necessarily bothered by what Rhett said, but it was clear to me that this problem is all in his head.

Not everyone enjoys group things in the same way! Like you said, I don’t mind being on the outside of group activities. It doesn’t mean I’m a buzzkill and most people don’t mind. The few that do definitely are like Rhett ‘taking everyones personal enjoyment upon themselves to deliver’ and feel offended by someone who isn’t overtly displaying enjoyment and participating.

Good god I hope he’s not pointing this out to the ‘buzzkills’ because it is so fucking unhelpful to have someone try to force you to have fun and just makes that pushy person the ACTUAL buzzkill, making everyone uncomfortable. I had a friend of friend who would do this to me frequently when I was younger. Say if there was a conversation in a large group where I didn’t feel the need to add anything but was still really enjoying the ~vibes~ , he would turn to me and repeatedly question why I was so quiet and why I didn’t have anything to say, which would make me even quieter and want to not be there at all.

Anyway, I also hope Rhett can pull his foot out of his mouth and see that, like Link said, this is his problem, not the person he thinks is a buzzkill.

Rhett has a tendency to put his foot in his mouth but I’m trying to give him the benefit of the doubt and imagine that he meant people that don’t want to participate and make that a big deal. Someone sitting out and pouting and huffing when other people are trying to have fun would be a real buzzkill. But if he genuinely means someone who doesn’t enjoy group activity and would be a lot more happy just watching and cheering from the sidelines… Oh, Rhett, you really need to talk about that in therapy not in a car pool vlog. That’s not a personal insult to you. People are different and enjoy different things and forcing someone to do something that they don’t like is more of a buzzkill than letting them just bow out. (I am one of those people btw. I don’t like group activity and have been the person on the sidelines more often than not.)

Although, now that I really think about it I think I might have a somewhat similar reaction if I’ve arranged something (like a trip or a party… that happens rarely but it does happen). If I sense that someone is not enjoying the activities I would definitely feel responsible and do my best to make them enjoy their time. But that would also include letting them step out if that’s what they needed.