New Quest: In Need of Ink

[MothballMilkshake]

I live in Aus, I work between 5-6 days a week for 8-9 hours a day, go to gym after, go to my partners' on weekends and any other number of life stuff, and I don't have any problems getting involved in the events.
If it's really that important to you, and you don't have your computer, there's usually wifi at restaurants/fast food places for your phone. I mean it's kind of slow, sometimes, but if you're desperate...

Yes it's kind of annoying that everything is US based. A similar thing was brought up on one of the women's rights news pages I follow - they are nearly always articles about American relevant things - but human beings have a habit of thinking in terms of themselves. That doesn't mean they are selfish, just that they aren't always aware 100% of the time about other people - I play dnd with a guy in Finland, and rarely think about what time it is for him because we are often online for hours at coinciding times.

If you want a culturally specific event, how about talking to the mods? Currently it seems only major events are celebrated because the majority of people are aware of what time they fall (at least in a general sense - December is Xmas, I think Thanksgiving is in...November?), so for me to ask for an event or pet release for Australia day - well, I'm gunna go out on a limb and assume it's not on most US/UK/Europeans/Etc calendars.

Also this event really isn't that much 'work'. I borrowed ten beetles, had an ice hatchling lying around, and bam. Now I click two links each day. So it really doesn't matter that the creatures will still be available somehow.

I apologise if this comes across as rude or modding or anything like that. It does just seem unreasonable that if an event is important enough to be upset over, surely it's important enough to make time for?

[ShaiNeko]

Okay, I'm from the US and I now live in Germany so I'll admit to some blindness here, but how is everything US based? Er, other than that we go off Eastern time zone.

[Raneth]

There is nothing about this event that I can tell that is "US-Based." As stated before, this is not a Christmas event.

Further, if people think of events as "work," perhaps they should re-evaluate their approach? This is just a game after all.

[slicing]

I wonder if the mod team realizes there are portions of the planet earth who are just today getting to enjoy Christmas (January 7th) and have to do it without the appropriate holiday events, for no other reason then they live in a different part of the world than the mods.

Cause TIME ZONES how do they work and your SOoL if you live in the wrong one or don't follow USA's calendar!

Honestly it's not really a big deal magistream hasn't got winter events going on for your christmas, like I can't say my christmas would've been particularly adversely affected because a website I liked didn't celebrate it on the same day as I did??? Besides, we have the arkai in January and there'd be an overlap in limited time event creatures.

I don't know, I think you've being a bit rude. Magistream can't cater to everyone's celebrations/calendars.

And for me personally I've found being in a different time zone doesn't really have an impact beyond not being on for some creature releases but that's not a big deal imo.

[NyxNoire]

So, I had a little fun with the whole "US-based events" thing, and checked all the events we've had in 2014 (went through community discussion). Then I had even more fun looking all the events up on wikipedia. Lots of quotes from the glory that is wikipedia.


New Year's - is celebrated on January 1 because the majority of the world follows the Gregorian calendar, named after Pope Gregory XIII who introduced it in 1582. Italy.

Valentine's Day -

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The day was first associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished. In 18th-century England, it evolved into an occasion in which lovers expressed their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as "valentines").

Great Britain.

April Fool's Day -

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In 1508, French poet Eloy d'Amerval referred to a poisson d’avril (April fool, literally "April fish"), a possible reference to the holiday. In 1539, Flemish poet Eduard de Dene wrote of a nobleman who sent his servants on foolish errands on 1 April. In 1686, John Aubrey referred to the holiday as "Fooles holy day", the first British reference. On 1 April 1698, several people were tricked into going to the Tower of London to "see the Lions washed".

France.

Easter - religious holiday

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The modern English term Easter, cognate with modern German Ostern, developed from an Old English word that usually appears in the form Ēastrun, -on, or -an; but also as Ēastru, -o; and Ēastre or Ēostre. The most widely, though not unanimously, accepted theory of the origin of the term is that it is derived from the name of a goddess mentioned by the 7th to 8th-century English monk Bede, who wrote that Ēosturmōnaþ (Old English 'Month of Ēostre', translated in Bede's time as "Paschal month") was an English month, corresponding to April, which he says "was once called after a goddess of theirs named Ēostre, in whose honour feasts were celebrated in that month".

In Greek and Latin, the Christian celebration was and is called Πάσχα, Pascha, a word derived from Aramaic פסחא, cognate to Hebrew פֶּסַח (Pesach). The word originally denoted the Jewish festival, known in English as Passover, commemorating the story of the Exodus. Already in the 50s of the 1st century, Paul, writing from Ephesus to the Christians in Corinth, applied the term to Christ, and it is unlikely that the Ephesian and Corinthian Christians were the first to hear Exodus 12 interpreted as speaking about the death of Jesus, not just about the Jewish Passover ritual. In most of the non-English speaking world, the feast is known by names derived from Greek and Latin Pascha.

Don't ask me to give you a country on this one.

Magistream's anniversary is self-explanatory.

We had some time-limited quests which weren't linked to any holiday or event anywhere that I can see. Although the Candle Ayoti quest did end shortly before Halloween.

Halloween -

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According to many scholars, All Hallows' Eve is a Christianized feast initially influenced by Celtic harvest festivals, with possible pagan roots, particularly the Gaelic Samhain. Other scholars maintain that it originated independently of Samhain and has solely Christian roots.

What is now Great Britain (hides from Celtic/Gaelic wrath).

Thanksgiving - and now you're going to say that this one is definitely very American. Well.. it didn't start that way at all.

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Prayers of thanks and special thanksgiving ceremonies are common among almost all religions after harvests and at other times. The Thanksgiving holiday's history in North America is rooted in English traditions dating from the Protestant Reformation. It also has aspects of a harvest festival, even though the harvest in New England occurs well before the late-November date on which the modern Thanksgiving holiday is celebrated.

Great Britain.

Christmas - religious holiday

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Christmas or Christmas Day (Old English: Crīstesmæsse, meaning "Christ's Mass") is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed most commonly on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world. A feast central to the Christian liturgical year, it is prepared for by the season of Advent or Nativity Fast and is prolonged by the Octave of Christmas and further by the season of Christmastide. Christmas Day is a public holiday in many of the world's nations, is celebrated culturally by a large number of non-Christian people, and is an integral part of the Christmas and holiday season.

Uhm.. shall we say Bethlehem?

*looks through list* The only thing that gets it celebration date because of something US, is Thanksgiving.

I'll now go hide over there while you tear this and me apart. Thank you. *bows and flees*


PS: Google the word "Christmas" and see what happens. Google has a pretty surprise for you.

[MothballMilkshake]

Maybe I should say Northern Hemisphere. (Although of course thanksgiving is based on English traditions, the English colonised the place).
Ba boop. It can be disconcerting to have wintery creatures released when it's not getting below 25 degrees even at night time, is all.

[ApprenticeCrone]

Oooh, we should get some marsupials, to represent the Southern hemisphere....
/just got some ideas

Now, if only someone would just come up with a sure-fire way to bribe the artists

[Raneth]

Maybe I should say Northern Hemisphere. (Although of course thanksgiving is based on English traditions, the English colonised the place).
Ba boop. It can be disconcerting to have wintery creatures released when it's not getting below 25 degrees even at night time, is all.

What is wintery about beetles and clouds?

Also, if you read the quest, its apparent that Foenara is dealing with an unnatural heat wave.

[ShaiNeko]

Eh, unfortunately there's not much we can do about the difference in seasons between the Northern and Southern hemispheres. We do look for ideas for events and celebrations beyond what's on most (North American/European) calendars and if anyone wants to suggest an idea or something we'd love to hear about it.

This particular event isn't tied to any holiday, though. In fact, it's part of the map release that started last year.

[MothballMilkshake]

Oooh, we should get some marsupials, to represent the Southern hemisphere....
/just got some ideas

Now, if only someone would just come up with a sure-fire way to bribe the artists

Well everything is already technically a monotreme look up bandicoots. Adorable