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ardik
TunkbwahCorp
GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2008.05.01 21:20:00 -
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Most excellent BRUCEs:
This will be my last address to you as Executor.
May as well get that out of the way as early in the address as possible. For almost exactly two years now (counting from the date we began actual recruitment for BRUCE, not from the date it was really founded), BRUCE has been at the core of my thoughts, at the center of my actions, foremost in my concerns. In that entire two years, I have taken exactly one week off from posting, piloting, praising and prodding - I got married.
I am, I must admit, tired. Lately the question has been asked - and rightfully so - why we have been sitting back, reacting slowly, not taking the offensive, etc. The question is a fair one, and the answer is simple: your leader is spent. BRUCE continues on, though, and your successor will be announced in the next day or two, and this person will no doubt lead a great charge to recapture that which has been lost, and restore BRUCE to road of glory it was trodding down.
FOOM will be taking another road; the corporation, like its leader, must now take another path. Rest assured that we will never turn our guns towards BRUCE, and that our future may very well cross paths with yours again. You may safely assume that wherever FOOM travels, the name of BRUCE is still defended. Quite a few members of FOOM may wish to remain when we depart; I have no doubt that the corporations of this alliance will welcome them to their new homes. It may be that a few of you wish to follow where FOOM is going, but our path for the future is going back to Empire, and there, to settle some very old scores and bathe in blood of long-remembered debts. It is not a road for any but the aggressive and violent BRUCE, and even then, we will be taking very few with us. I would encourage you to stay.
BRUCE has long been accused of being a cult of personality. While this is a flattering notion to me, I reject it. BRUCE is a cult of a different sort - a cult of ideology. That ideology - that miners, traders, missioners, and pvp'rs stand shoulder to shoulder, that we help each other because we should, and that a culture of NOT being vile whenever you can - lives on. The idea of the BRUCE: studied, cautious, clever, quick to avenge and long to ally, lives on. The founding principles of BRUCE live on in you, the member. Every time a pilot stands up for themselves, every time a pilot gives a ship to another because they need one, every time a favor is done just because it could be - BRUCE becomes more of a cult of ideology. BRUCE is far greater than one man; certainly far greater than this one.
Hard times are ahead. I am not the one to lead you through it. The road, though, is clear, and the direction will be given. Know your Reps still watch out for you, and that the new Executor will have all the charisma, character, and cleverness you have come to know. I fully expect that BRUCE will come to secure all of Fountain in due time, and PL - like 9th Fleet, like Huzzah, like ExM, like OSS, all of whom seemed insurmountable foes once - will be ground under the heel of the BRUCEian behemoth, and become yet another foe smashed under BRUCE's might. New commanders will rise; new leaders will point the way. New fleets will be generated, and new ideas followed. Greatness still stands on the horizon for BRUCE. I have no doubt that the new leader, so named, will address you all in a day or two.
But for me, the chair grows cold, the sceptre heavy, and the crown uncomfortable. My time is done. I have no doubt that FOOM and BRUCE will cross paths again, and no doubt that I will once again come to know you all, but for now, if you may forgive the misquotation:
The Parrots and their leader are all shagged out from a prolonged squawk, and we pine for the fjords.
Good luck, good hunting, and godspeed. If I may make one final request:
Make me proud, and make the BRUCE name shine.
LONG LIVE THE BRUCES! o/
-Friedrick Psitalon,
CEO, The Dead Parrot Shoppe
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Tradesman Mcgee
Caldari
Derek Knows Us
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Posted - 2008.05.01 21:25:00 -
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Long live the BRUCES!
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Captain Internet
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
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Posted - 2008.05.01 21:27:00 -
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HAIL BRUCES
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Zeitgueist
GoonFleet
GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2008.05.01 21:27:00 -
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Wait, the OSS was an insurmountable foe to someone, at some point?
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Astasia Orian
Black Eclipse Corp
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2008.05.01 21:32:00 -
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Gdi PL bruce was supposed to be our holiday reward funtime for winning the siege of delve.
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Martin VanBuren
GoonFleet
GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2008.05.01 21:32:00 -
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Edited by: Martin VanBuren on 01/05/2008 21:33:06
^^ pure pwnage ^^
edit goddammit not that post I mean just fleeing back to empire because there's 40 guys in recons in your region :twisted twisted twisted:
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Scatim Helicon
GoonFleet
GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2008.05.01 21:34:00 -
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So Freidrick completely fails to rally his alliance to effectively defend their space, loses his carrier and quits the alliance in a sulk, ripping the heart out of BRUCE just at the moment they need stability the most? BRUCE deserved better than a tl;dr post full of empty platitudes followed by him making a bolt for the door the moment things stopped going his way.
Never has a personality cult been constructed on such a flimsy house of cards. 
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Amthrianius
Keiretsu
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2008.05.01 21:36:00 -
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Damn those BRUCE's sure are a tough target to deal with.
Glad you guys are showing them that the full force of goons and PL is something to be reckoned with.
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Urban II
Amarr
The Illuminati.
Cruel Intentions
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Posted - 2008.05.01 21:38:00 -
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 Originally by: Scatim Helicon
Never has a personality cult been constructed on such a flimsy house of cards.
Someone ought to be thanking you for this slow pitch, Scatim.
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Zeitgueist
GoonFleet
GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2008.05.01 21:39:00 -
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Originally by: Scatim Helicon
Never has a personality cult been constructed on such a flimsy house of cards.
You can say this, as a member of Goonfleet? Seriously?
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sakana
North Eastern Swat
Pandemic Legion
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Posted - 2008.05.01 21:40:00 -
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This is obviously a clever hoax....
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DigitalCommunist
Obsidian Core
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Posted - 2008.05.01 21:54:00 -
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I should take over :3
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Dianeces
Minmatar
The Illuminati.
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Posted - 2008.05.01 21:58:00 -
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It's me, I'm da BRUCE in da OP.
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Kalmanaka
Caldari
Blueprint Haus
Intrepid Crossing
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Posted - 2008.05.01 21:59:00 -
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It must be true because he posted as Friedrick.
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Viper ShizzIe
The Illuminati.
Cruel Intentions
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Posted - 2008.05.01 22:04:00 -
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Nice try, 6/10 for how well it was written, though.
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Inquisitor Barbarus
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Posted - 2008.05.01 22:06:00 -
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Originally by: Dianeces
It's me, I'm da BRUCE in da OP.
Id follow you if you were !!!
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Narciss Sevar
Caldari
Sniggerdly
Pandemic Legion
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Posted - 2008.05.01 22:06:00 -
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Originally by: Viper ****zIe
Nice try, 6/10 for how well it was written, though.
It was written by friedrich.
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Viper ShizzIe
The Illuminati.
Cruel Intentions
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Posted - 2008.05.01 22:08:00 -
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Originally by: Narciss Sevar
Originally by: Viper ****zIe
Nice try, 6/10 for how well it was written, though.
It was written by friedrich.
Oh, right, forgot. Where exactly was it written, then?
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DigitalCommunist
Obsidian Core
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Posted - 2008.05.01 22:12:00 -
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Seriously, I should take over :Z
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Equin
Gallente
Merch Industrial
GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2008.05.01 22:12:00 -
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Edited by: Equin on 01/05/2008 22:12:53
Originally by: Viper ****zIe
Originally by: Narciss Sevar
Originally by: Viper ****zIe
Nice try, 6/10 for how well it was written, though.
It was written by friedrich.
Oh, right, forgot. Where exactly was it written, then?
Bruce forums.
Seriously, are you really this dumb or are you just the lamest troll ever.
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Viper ShizzIe
The Illuminati.
Cruel Intentions
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Posted - 2008.05.01 22:13:00 -
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Originally by: Equin
Originally by: Viper ****zIe
Originally by: Narciss Sevar
Originally by: Viper ****zIe
Nice try, 6/10 for how well it was written, though.
It was written by friedrich.
Oh, right, forgot. Where exactly was it written, then?
Bruce forums.
Link to the actual post, tbh.
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Honest Nonlabor
Amarr
IDLE GUNS
IDLE EMPIRE
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Posted - 2008.05.01 22:14:00 -
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Fake.
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Equin
Gallente
Merch Industrial
GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2008.05.01 22:15:00 -
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Originally by: Viper ****zIe
Originally by: Equin
Originally by: Viper ****zIe
Originally by: Narciss Sevar
Originally by: Viper ****zIe
Nice try, 6/10 for how well it was written, though.
It was written by friedrich.
Oh, right, forgot. Where exactly was it written, then?
Bruce forums.
Link to the actual post, tbh.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
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Shadoo
North Eastern Swat
Pandemic Legion
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Posted - 2008.05.01 22:24:00 -
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Best of luck on your journey Friedrich, I think you chose to exit at the right time.
Fly safe.
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ardik
TunkbwahCorp
GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2008.05.01 22:30:00 -
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Seriously though, lots of people quite liked BRUCE, for various reasons. But then you started taking in entire corps from failed alliances like ISS and RISE, and this was after bob had pillaged those corps of anything even remotely useful.
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Eltyron
North Eastern Swat
Pandemic Legion
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Posted - 2008.05.01 22:41:00 -
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I wish BRUCE the best of luck in the near future. Your alliance has a great idealogy, however in Eve 0.0, you need more than just that.
I sincerely hope the remaining leaders can keep the alliance together, and imo, that entails honesty and ego-checking. You've made your bed, and now you are being forced to sleep in it on the wrong side of the spoon. Admit and learn from your mistakes. Don't delude your members or you won't have an alliance left to hold together.
Fly safe, until you don't.
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12oz Jesus
The Dead Parrot Shoppe Inc.
Brutally Clever Empire
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Posted - 2008.05.01 22:49:00 -
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Originally by: Scatim Helicon
So Freidrick completely fails to rally his alliance to effectively defend their space, loses his carrier and quits the alliance in a sulk, ripping the heart out of BRUCE just at the moment they need stability the most? BRUCE deserved better than a tl;dr post full of empty platitudes followed by him making a bolt for the door the moment things stopped going his way.
Never has a personality cult been constructed on such a flimsy house of cards.
And what have you built lately, Scatim?
-1 to me for allowing a troll to even ellicit a response.
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Honest Nonlabor
Amarr
IDLE GUNS
IDLE EMPIRE
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Posted - 2008.05.01 22:51:00 -
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CONFIRMED.
I retract my earlier statement, he posted this on the bruce forums like....3 minutes ago....now how did the goons get the post BEFORE it was on the BRUCE forums huh?
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Melchiorre
Omen Incorporated
Brutally Clever Empire
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Posted - 2008.05.01 23:03:00 -
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Last one out, turn the lights off!
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Friedrick Psitalon
The Dead Parrot Shoppe Inc.
Brutally Clever Empire
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Posted - 2008.05.01 23:03:00 -
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Woot! First in a thread about ME!
...oh bugger. No I'm not. Oh well.
Does having a thread about me officially make me l33t or famous or something? 
In all seriousness:
I'll confirm everything in the OP. It's true, and I have no shame in it. I'm immensely proud of where BRUCE has gone - from a noob anti-pirate corp in Aeschee, growing up as a major power in Syndicate, and then controlling the lion's share of Fountain. Say what you like about how we got everywhere we did - we did it. Us, an alliance founded and run by people who've been playing for two years. (Truth - check Friedrick's start date.)
I'm personally tired and worn out. Running an alliance for two years does that to you. My successor will step up, and they'll accomplish great things, and they'll move on. BRUCE is a cult of ideology, but there's a lot more to it than that. They'll be fine when FOOM leaves - and I'm sure they'll be here to be smacked on by you folks for a long time to come, as you daily talk about how they're falling apart and noobs and not going to make it and so on....
BRUCE made it this long. They'll make it quite awhile longer. 
LONG LIVE THE BRUCES! o/
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