Welcome to Lijiworld. My gamer name is Liji, and this is the world of gaming that I have been living in.
On this site, I will write about my journey, coming into online gaming after I became an adult. I’ll share how I grew to love gaming and to basically treat it as a career, how I built a community called Syzygy within this place, how I went through setbacks and challenges similar to that of most entrepreneurs, how this experience and my sense of responsibility pushed me to some of the lowest points in my life, and how I got things back on track enough that I could step away with no shame in the end.
In writing this story, I will try to show anyone who isn’t a gamer a glimpse of the world of gaming. I will also try to show all gamers who haven’t been team leaders a glimpse into what can go through the mind of a dedicated team leader. It will also be my way of helping myself sort through the emotions and thoughts I had during these few years. My story will be colored by my values, my ideology, my quirks, but everything will be some shade or some PoV of actual things that happened.
Thank you for entering my world, and revisiting my history with me. Hopefully we will both be able to leave this tour with thoughts we didn’t have before, to enhance our lives outside of Lijiworld.
Guideline for writing about others:
1. Anything someone did that affected Syzygy or affected me is acceptable to write about.
2. Anything I know about someone that affects only their private lives (cheating on a lover?), will not be written about.
3. In the situation of an overlap between 1 and 2 (e.g. cheating on a lover is what put someone in an overly sensitive mood, and is why they created drama and problems for us), I will work to find a balance wherein I try to avoid private matters as much as I can, so long as it doesn’t affect my ability to tell about what happened to me and to Syzygy. If the private matters are an integral part of the story, I will also take into consideration in what way the private situation affected us: if people behaved like assholes towards us, I will work less hard to shield them; if people were simply in an unfortunate situation, I will likely be more vague about their private matters.
Syzygy guild principles (typed to each new recruit, while I was guild master):
1. Respect for everyone, strong or weak, guildies or non guildies, even ppl with annoying personalities.
2. Constant strive for self improvement, regardless of what anyone else does. So others can perform well or badly, and we ask that everyone be aware of it, but to focus more on how to be even better ourselves. So if someone stands near me and I know this person spreads badly, I’d maneuver so that I can be well away from them so no matter how much they mess up their spread it won’t affect me. Or if I feel like healers aren’t keeping me up, I’d do extra planning to make sure I don’t die. Stuff like that.
And we ask that everyone adhere to these principles on both good and horrible days irl, as well as on smooth and frustrating raid nights.
It’s easy to do this when things are good, life is good, etc. It’s a good deal harder when it’s been a bad day or many wipes or something.
But we still ask that everyone do so.
And that’s it for our two guild principles :p
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