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Cindy McCain
Gallente GoonFleet GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2009.07.10 22:54:00 -
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If you've read this far and feel insulted at my last statement, don't. You're probably not part of it. I tread lightly for this next part, because I know blanket statements are stupid. But the public perception of the SomethingAwful community (from an outside perspective) is basically this:
Its a community that I believe started with an honestly witty and comedic premise, then mutated into something totally different. When you get such a large community based around "comedy", people will naturally get a bit competitive and try to become the funniest one of them all. They then start believing 'any response is a good response' and slowly the truly hilarious stuff got buried under mountains of what I deem trolling. There are hundreds maybe thousands of people in SA who believe comedy lies in insulting or "poking fun at" anything and everything. This gets a response, which may not always be positive. In defense people start saying "its only the Internet man, dont be so serious", which slowly begins to mutate into "nothing should ever be taken seriously on the Internet, because its not real".
This one phrase is the catalyst for everything that is wrong with the SA community, and the Internet at large. Its used as a carte blanche to act like a ****** towards other individuals across the Internet. This has continued for long enough to become the prevailing image of SA, which has then resulted in further multiplication of members like that. Now they have majority rule. To feel insulted by "internet jokes" is against the status quo, and the very borders of the SA community itself. Anyone who steps outside of it will be ridiculed into submission of one form or another. Going against it at this point is pretty much impossible. There are no reprocussions of behaving this way because the community pretty much encourages it, and being a jackass doesn't break any known Internet law.. so within the safety net of privately hosted forums, and carte blanche statements, something awful truly exists.
Even if lowtax wanted to change the community, which I don't think he would given his fame and phat $, the only way to do it would be by destroying it and removing the communal meeting place of Internet delinquency.
Whoa there Digi, thems some mighty fine rhetorics! But what does this gots ta do with EVE?????
To put it bluntly, if people wanted to pay real money to be unfunny internet clowns towards each other, they'd be giving it to lowtax and not CCP. People come to EVE because they want to play an internet space game, not troll some forums. Ok?
The LARGE majority of GoonSwarm has done this quite well. To argue this would be silly. The EVE community is tight, and thus passionate about making this the best MMO in existance. Some have been around for nearly five years, which is about four years of when it wasn't even a thoroughly "playable" game. We aren't attacking you because we despite newbies, or your internet spaceships might kill our internet spaceships in the far future. The tasteless remarks made about Smoske's tragic death was done by a small group of people within your ranks who are still playing the game as a forum, and not any forum, but your SA forum. They did it to get a reaction and achieved quite well in doing so, as a result they thought they were being the funniest cretins alive.
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Cindy McCain
Gallente GoonFleet GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2009.07.10 22:55:00 -
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Where things went really wrong..
..was when the rest of the Goons defended these people out of some misguided attempt to preserve freedom of speech, and to a larger extent.. out of sheer habit and fear of prosecution (defining borders of your community = dont take it seriously man! its just a game!).
That is the exact moment in time where you failed; failed to respect our community, failed to realize there may be consequences for doing so, failed to police yourselves.
So now what?
Now you're being prosecuted for the actions of a very few people, who unfortunately for GoonSwarm, have a commanding position within the corporation. For it to end, you'll have to learn this isn't SA Clone #2657 the hard way. We will keep teaching you the meaning of consequence for as long as you give us a reason. And you will learn, my God you will learn - either by disassociating yourselves from the trash that started this (which you've begun already) or finding your own path in EVE outside of GS.
You can think of BoB as parents, scolding children for unruly behaviour. You can think of the community as Borg, forcing assimilation upon you under penalty of death. Pick and choose they are free metaphors, I really don't care. But what you're fighting against is nothing short of omnipotence itself. Only a cause delivered by the Divine can motivate the most bored and jaded vets of EVE to camp your stupid shuttles 24/7.
And thats what this war is, a Holy War. We put a Jihad on you, and you'll find that even the thickest roleplay variations of this war (which I may be spewing now actually!) are quite hurty. You're going to go through days, weeks, and most likely months of ingame pressure and constraint. Until one day, you finally realize its not a place to pew pew and irritate the crap out of everyone who doesn't suckle on lowtax's teats and condemn anyone who even thinks of pulling another stupidly unfunny stunt. Then, and only then will the cancer be gone.
/runs off to buy a stock of Uranium and Plutonium charges :D
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Saravos
Amarr GoonFleet GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2009.07.10 22:57:00 -
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so you are saying you like cats i have to disagree but you are entitled to your opinion
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Zarithas
Caldari GoonFleet GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2009.07.10 23:06:00 -
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Quote: i'm M0jo, my ship is the white tiger and i have been a hunter for as long as i can remeber my past is a blure i have no famly that i know of but my foster foter orien...but he has been killed...and the killer called him self...my brother...i now hunt this so called brother... and one day i will fined him and kill him... If you need a hunter call me... for no one gets away from the white tiger member impass is my home
Good luck on your hunt, brave tiger. o7
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riana maldun
Minmatar Titan Industries Technology Team Shadow of xXDEATHXx
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Posted - 2009.07.11 00:30:00 -
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m0jo
Minmatar Chemical Dependency
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Posted - 2009.07.11 00:51:00 -
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Dutch rudder
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Lord Vega
Gallente TAU CETI CENTER
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Posted - 2009.07.11 01:27:00 -
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Originally by: Cindy McCain
Text wall of China
you are very naive if you think anyone but the RP'ers in providence will read this... whatever you wrote, you doomed it by tagging it with GS.
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An Anarchyyt
Gallente Battlestars GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2009.07.11 02:00:00 -
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THIS IS SO FUNNY I AM LAUGHING SO MUCH RIGHT NOW LET ME SHOW YOU HAHAHA
Originally by: CCP Wrangler Second, a gentile is a non jewish person
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Flinx Evenstar
Minmatar North Eastern Swat Pandemic Legion
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Posted - 2009.07.11 02:09:00 -
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Originally by: m0jo You guys actually think its over with kenny. The resolve of BoB is much more than you can imagine tbh.
Sorry had to post, way too many goon giving each other dutch rudders.
*Silence* *Soon*
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Xicho
Caldari Insidious Existence RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2009.07.11 02:13:00 -
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Holy **** Cindy, can I get a spark notes version? |
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Slap Chop
Minmatar Battlestars GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2009.07.11 02:24:00 -
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yo wtf?
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