Lamic Tarvalla
Celestial Apocalypse
Insurgency
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Posted - 2007.12.19 23:55:00 -
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 Originally by: Althair Erin
Originally by: Master Technique
I kind of surprised that you don't get why people are responding this way. You guys are doosh bags on the forums for a year or so, and now you are being overly and blatantly polite and decent. Its like the girl who cried wolf, except its more like the girl who cried "im not an ******* anymore". Of course no one believes you.
I'm pretty sure as soon as someone takes you seriously you will all go "omg lulz he thought we were really being nice, what an r-tard, we are such cool internet kids". I know you don't learn much about sociology over on the SA forums, but this is how it goes. You're going to have to try a lot harder than this to get anyone to believe you or respect you on these forums than wishing everyone happy holidays for a few days and acting hurt.
It's exactly this kind of lumping of all our individual pilots in with one concept that I've been trying so hard to speak out against. I don't know how to get through to the community except to do my best to represent myself as sincerely as possible.
I have never spammed this forum, used creative spelling to post banned words, cried wolf, or mocked anyone. Please do not identify me as something I am not. I am more than willing to have a perfectly reasonable conversation with any of you.
There is a fundamental problem here with identifying the character of an individual based on his corp ticker. There is no logic behind it, because what follows from that is that if you change your corporation and nothing else, you totally change your personality. So I beg you, please please please consider us on an individual basis. Judge us for our own individual statements and actions and not those of our fellows.
This is especially important because it opens up the opportunity for younger players of all corporations to communicate freely with each other if they identify themselves as such. And for older players to talk with younger players of corporations they have traditionally been opposed to and experience no malice coming from the new players.
You are right, I don't "get" Goons. I've been reading this forums for the better of 3 years. Back then I developed my opinions of Band of Brothers. They had a very smug and elites attitude back then. Even up to and during the BOB/ACSN war. Because of that I've never liked BOB. This attitude was displayed by only a handfull of BOB members. Then the Goons come up and do the same thing, Although more childish. I don't know any Goons in game or IRL. But every time I read this forum and read a post that is smug, childish, insulting, elitist, or just needless spam, and then see a "Goon swarm" corp ticker I base my opinion of all goons. It's not fair, but that's reality. Most of the EVE community I think hated BOB not because of their success but because of their forum posts. And I think the same could be said for the Goons. In fact I've even had a change of heart and hoped BOB would defeat Goons simply because of the action of a few Goon members on this forum. Now I don't care what the outcome. One well loose one well win. The losers well regroup or join other groups and the winners well take on new challenges.
Good luck with your struggle with BOB, and the battle of improving your image with the rest of the EVE community. Although I feel it may be somewhat disingenuous.
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