Satanic_Hamster

Originally Posted by Cag

Oh yes please I'd LOVE it. Steam username is : rebeliopl

Thanks!!

Originally Posted by GlassGoblin

I bow before your obsession. I thought I was bad with a few hundred.

Originally Posted by HexGirl

I call bullsh*t. When they say they have exhausted every option including selling off the game, what they are probably actually saying is "We are being greedy and want more money than the game is worth, so we've turned down all offers."

Originally Posted by KritikalMass

If you saw the builds for any of my characters, you would have to assume that I don't know what the hell I'm doing. (And you're probably not far off.)

I usually skip Taunt/Confront...and even if I have the powers, I rarely use them. (This might be a side effect of being a predominantly solo player.) None of my characters have Tough or Weave. I leave Brawl and Sprint in the bottom row of my power tray, because that's what I'm used to. I take the direct attack powers with Masterminds. I prefer using full IO sets to frankenslotting, because I just can't be bothered. I've made all of three macros ever, only one of which was actually useful (that being the "target nearest Lifegiving Essence" in the DD iTrial.)

And yet, to the best of my knowledge, I have never been kicked off a team for searing incompetence. (Being a jerk, yes. That's happened a couple of times. But they had it coming.)

Originally Posted by ShaylaDominatrix

Okay Victory server
Virtue server has been doing these for a while so we can do one as well.

Originally Posted by Electric-Knight

Another confession from me...

For years, I've gotten confused when I see that the forum handle, Eldritch_Knight has just posted something, as I mistake it for my forum handle.

Originally Posted by MedievalPower

If we did it wasn't on her birthday

Originally Posted by TechnoBabel

Perhaps, but then it is quite reasonable to conclude from your summation that yes, he was actively ignoring me because he wants attention for how much he isn't paying attention to me.

I am intrigued though that, with you not even a factor in the conversation, you invite yourself into the same boat, making sure everyone knows you didn't read a post that for your part wasn't directed at you. Which means by your own explanation, you are not nice, and by implication you are a troll, which may or may not be true of him but would definitely be true of you since it's how you feel about such behavior.

And yet you do it, riding someone else's assumed coat tails into an endeavor you yourself demean. What a fascinating sense of self.

Originally Posted by _Ryxx_

>.> <.<


That was me



/shame

Originally Posted by TechnoBabel

...And then asking a question of those SAME people you dismiss as fanboys? If you don't want to listen to them, don't ask them questions. In this way I disagree with your premise.

Let me preface this by saying I don't feel any ill will towards the OP. I could be wrong but I don't presume malicious intent from his post. With that out of the way, his question that is clearly invalidated by a search for answers? Don't forget, the majority of the opening post was presuming we were organizing negative ad campaigns, and that this forum was our strongest outlet and without it any actions would likely fail.

That point of his post, however, was insisted to be that he wanted to know why NCsoft shouldn't shut the forums down early. If he isn't an NCsoft employee in charge of sunsetting these forums to silence grass roots fan action, then it isn't his concern why fans think NCsoft should or shouldn't shut down the forums (after all, the answer of those that play the game has no relevance to its happening, as they don't decide its fate, someone else does).

If, however, he IS ACTUALLY an NCsoft employee in charge of shutting down the forums to silence grass roots fan action, then it isn't his concern why fans think NCsoft should or shouldn't shut down the forums (after all, the answer of those that play the game has no relevance to its happening, as they don't decide its fate, he does).

It's a statement that will likely only serve to enflame the people its addressed to (intentionally or not), with a hostile atmosphere that deserves to be addressed. It is much like responding to a call for the poster to read the forums and understand the state of the grass roots movement, by dismissing that information as fanboys speculating wildly.

Speaking of such - was the statement in specific? That we don't know the exact time of forum shutdown so it's irrelevant what people are saying? If so that wasn't the point of the statement SatanicHamster was responding to as I read it. It was to say the OP's implied 'what if' question was about something that was already set to happen. Was the statement about fanboys more general, that reading the comments of those who frequent the forums, described as fanboys, was irrelevant? If so then he shouldn't have asked questions of those people anyway and then dismissing criticisms - that he could have found answers to his questions - is not helpful.

If that's true, he was a fool for simply asking the question in the first place - in which case that sarcastic statement is entirely misdirected.

As to the assertions:
"the advertisements of competitive games and the general negativity" - Negativity in these efforts general has been low to my estimation, people have been saying keep hope alive, keep up the work. In the letter drive people are specifically entreated to keep negativity out. As for advertising competitive games, if that is an advertising concern then don't forget, you are SENDING these people away from your company. I don't think making sure they have to find their next game to play elsewhere - stifling that outlet - is really in anyone's PR interest. There may be individual hostility, but that's not really a part of the move to save the game, that's people upset that their little place is being destroyed and venting - hardly a threat to the company.

"If they were shut down NOW, any organized attempts at generating a negative ad campaign or boycott would be severely hampered" - as pointed out much of the grass roots work is already off the forums, so this his only other assertion is also incorrect. Moreover, the grass roots work is not about negative ad campaigns or organized boycotts.

As for me, I read the OP's post as a 'better not bite the hand that feeds you...' statement that ended in a rhetorical question. Backlash happened and the OP then tried to insist the rhetorical question was actually the point, even though no one could answer it. I think he may have been trying to get people to 'just stop complaining', fearing that it would bring an early fall to forum access - which is hardly an evil goal.

In this way I don't see him as a troll, more likely someone with a concern that voiced it poorly. With that said, active consumerism is something I'm a fan of, so I'm very glad - regardless of his original thinking - to see him working making his voice known more actively.

Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man

Didn't you admit you used to pull monsters into Portal Court just a few days ago, to troll the people who were hanging out there...?

Originally Posted by Roderick

And if Satanic Hamster is petitioning someone for being a jerk, you KNOW they have to be bad. ;D

Originally Posted by Mental_Giant

It's about that time.

Originally Posted by Unknown_User

That's mean dude, for a moment I thought Jack was back.

Originally Posted by Electric-Knight

Well anyways, King of Every Queen, aka The Master, kept trying to steal from our group one of the true legends of Victory Server, Kintrollr Girl (if you have not seen Kin play, I suggest doing so before Doomsday). Anyways Kin led him to believe he was switching groups so he could become a leader in The One. Master logged and then Kin recruited on of my toons. From that point her promoted me to leader. I then held the SG hostage. I replaced the banners that said "The-One" with one that said "Chant." I deleted their power supply that they had to get someone else to craft for them. I deleted a room for every time a person hurled an insult at me. This may sound cruel, but if you knew Master, you would know why I did it.