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The Blacklake Oasis Party is a gate-kept sfw, self-improvement and emotional support group for adult English-literate men who want a break from family. This is a chapter guild that derives it's identity in part from it's enthusiasm and core values. We are enthusiasts of shmup music, Garry's Mod, Touhou, lite-mecha, retro, co-op questing, guild halls, colorful high fantasy, grim dark fantasy, and niche-punk genres. Blacklake values critical thinking, personal responsibility, preferences, in-game conflict, social consequence, social skills, gratefulness, teamwork, awareness, teaching, fun, privacy, and cyber-security. The theme is sunlight and fog.

The associated games are in the spirit of this community.

Our intentions as a community are to:

0. Group up, have fun, and stay in touch, without the use of mainstream voip.
1. Stay old school, love nostalgia, fund indie, reward creativity, and develop gambling awareness.
2. Never ask for time from a guild member's weekend and avoid asking for 9 hours from a week.
3. Escape from socioeconomic status hierarchy; enjoy alternative status and hobby merit.
4. Maintain a free-to-play/ budget hobby space prioritizing mini-pcs and laptops.
5. Teach the use of rice cookers, bread machines, crock pots, and pressure cookers.
6. Support knowledge of sleep, trust, individualism, and celebration as an axiomatic education.
7. Prepare for and celebrate anime-vrmmorpgs as a motivation for self-improvement.
8. Improve cognitive reserve and learn to delay gratification.
9. Normalize social boundaries home to cyber-security and anonymity.

These intentions are meant to solve the following problems:

0. Commiseration
1. Early decline from bad friendships, obesity, dementia, or cancer.
2. Not having enough money to afford mutual interest.
3. Not having enough time for personal growth.
4. Lack of foundation in education.
5. Unrejected excessive illiterate stoicism.
6. Small talk consisting of requests for private information.
7. Difference in schedule.
8. Inaccessibility because of low-performance games.
9. Guild progression fomo.

Time Investment:
1-3 hours a week (20-60 minutes three times a week) on a primary event.
1 hour a week (15-30 minutes two times a week) secondary event.
8-16 hours a month total for official events.

Game Invite Waves (CST)
4:20 - 4:40 PM First wave
5:20 - 5:40 PM Second wave
6:20 - 6:40 PM Third wave
7:20 - 7:40 PM Fourth wave

Mmos:
It is not recommended to associate mmos as an official event. Instead see it as a right of passage or proving ground, if not something you enjoy.

Rules in 20 words or less:
Log in at the right time, read chat, follow instructions, and try to have fun.

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Basic Rules

8 May, 2025 - Hogs | 0 Comments

These are the overall rules for this community and its other platforms

Soft Rules

Be cool
Don't lie
Be invested
Love Maids
Eat your noodles

Hard Rules

1. Main Rule: Let guild lead solve problems.
2. General Rules: Don't behave in an evil, litigious, or inappropriate manner.
3. Text Rules: No spamming, erp/dtol, or lying
4. Image Rules: No spam, porn, poop, AI, gore, only-text, propaganda, or advertisements.
5. Voice Rules: Allow leaders to explain, don't take over events.
6. Off-platform Rules: Don't get vote kicked too much. Don't double down on double standards.
7. Temporary Rule 1:
8. Temporary Rule 2:
9. Temporary Rule 3:

About the #2 rule (all situations)

General Rules: Don't behave in an evil, litigious, or inappropriate manner.

A. Evil -Morally bad or wicked - Dehumanizing and degenerating, parasitic and detrimental.
#1 Shaming of coping mechanisms or self-improvement.
#2 Condemning disassociation or silence.
#3 Demanding outrage or discomfort from others (does not apply to role-play or content creation).
Alternative to evil: Advocate for personal growth, friendship, personal coping mechanisms, and compliment honesty.

B. Litigious - Inclined to initiate lawsuits; given to the practice of contending in law; fond of litigation. - Loves needless legal consequences - Wants to criminalize our culture.
#1 Spreading misinformation about the law (to any reductive or technical failure, regardless of profession).
#2 Having a medical condition that would require a change of rights for other people, if the patient stayed in the environment. (diagnosis not necessary)
#3 Contributing to a counter-institution that vies to replace or radicalize social consequence or fun in service to a contrary cause.
Alternative to Litigiousness: Advocate for comedy, individualism, and compromise with the guild's hobbies and traditions.

C. Inappropriate - not suitable for a particular occasion, consuming or overwhelming.
#1 Too young or vulnerable, especially if in alarming context. (The vulnerable group will be removed to protect)
#2 Sexually (or chastity) framed bullying, flirting, or invitation (or with extra steps as seen in sexual awakenings, sex occultism, and witch hunts).
#3 Pressuring someone into bad priorities and into taking responsibility for what is not their fault -or- deflecting to one's own racial, sexual, religious, or political identity in order play victim and avoid blame.
Alternative to inappropriate behavior: Tell it as a joke, bros before hoes, and don't send the invite.

Vocabulary

Coping mechanism - A peaceful behavior or tool that helps you maintain your good (symbiotic and beneficial) choices.
Counter-institution - An institution is a culture without a freedom loving attitude. A counter-institution has the added trait of being reactionary.
Replace...Social Consequence - entertaining replacing social consequence with legal, financial, or security consequence (being an anti)
Radicalize...Fun - Warping or twisting the constituents of fun: curiosity, flexibility, tolerance of ambiguity, and sanctuary (being a karen).
Young - Without age verification focus is put on young behavior. Spoiled, naive, confused, and stupid. Use vrchat to age-verify.
Vulnerable - Harmed through the monitor.

Feel free to ask what a word means.

Thank you for reading!