Thanks MD & WD40! I had an account here way back, but lost the login from lack of posting. Besides, I am a poor conversationalist and often make misguided attempts at humor that fall flatter than an empty bellows
. I make a better player than talker. By the way, I'll tell you a secret WD40: nothing makes me more nervous than a trooper armed with rockets and mines! :)
Scrum & Mawk: first of all, you're 100% right. I don't always have the best attitude. When I repeatedly die in the same way, I get frustrated just like anyone else, but that's not my permenant demeanor. Can you honestly say that it is? Most of my chat consist of the said pathetic attempts at humor that may elicit a pained "lol." Even when I do trash talk, it's almost always in the vein of droll, over-the-top threats of dealing out "teabags that will give you nightmares" or somesuch. I don't contemplate ways to make other peoples' lives miserable, either verbally or through my actions -- not
even in an online game. If I did, you and others would likely have devoted a separate thread to me and done so sooner, and I'd be requesting to get unbanned rather than asking someone else to lay off. The fact that you chose to do so now when I was complaining about someone else feels like a bit of an ambush. In fact, your reply seemed to suggest that I'm getting some due comeuppance, or in Mawk's case, a statistic representing my truthfulness founded on a perception that I "play angry". Just ask Talon & the other admins I mentioned. See what they have to say first before questioning my integrity. That's fair, yes?
I don't understand how one can point to pulling, detting or center dashing as indication that I'm an "angry player." These are accepted game functions, yes? Scrum, you said to someone today: "You choke, I pull." Are you an "angry player"? Not really, someone employed a style of gameplay that you found cheap, so you reciprocated. You're just playing the game how you want. Can either of you say that you don't ALWAYS perform saber launches on me (a coup-de-grace that sends the victim flying hilariously, albeit unnecessarily through the air)? Should that be interpreted at malice? I don't read much into it, personally; you do it, I do it...everyone does it! You wouldn't appreciate it if someone publicly pointed to these actions to color your character as vicious, & then invoked
that as some sort of vindication when someone really did harass you. Yet you did it to me. It seems a little inconsistent. And hey, if I do something outside of the realm of normal gameplay that you find annoying, tell me to *stop*. You'll notice I'm more likely to tell someone to "stop" when they continuously teamkill as opposed to shouting "Ban him! Ban him NOW!" I'm not a child, and I'm a pretty reasonable guy -- unless you catch me on a bad day :p -- so I expect the same from others. Why not mention it before, instead of right here, right now? Speaking of statistical figures (50/50), I don't think anyone has enough info yet to qualify that ratio about my truthfulness. You only know what I've told you; neither Talon nor the other admins have responded. Your only real knowledge beyond what I've said is based more on innuendo about my personal character than anything factually relevant to what I just described; moreover, your comment is based on dubious criteria that could easily apply to you or nearly anyone else. I'm not really
so vindictive that I have just invented this whole thing off the top of my head in a a sinister plot to smear Talon's name across the WWW. Given that there are a lot of players who win against me more often than no, that routinely verbally abuse me when I det or pull
them (often accompanied by a flurry of colorful profanity -- anyone who admins JBA and HA knows who they are), that these people are standing candidates with SWGO admins for kicks & bans, why would I suddenly elect to invent this against Talon, of all people -- an SWGO admin, who probably will have the benefit of the doubt -- in hopes of causing him problems? That doesn't make any sense.
haasd0gg wrote:Making antagonizing statements doesnt justify using admin to ruin the game for the guy. If he is breaking rules then he gets the warn/kick/ban like everyone else.
Id like to hear from Talon on this.
That's all I ask. I do Talon a disservice by going on about it until he's had a chance to respond. Consider this my last post until that time. I found him likeable and hilarious (anti-Bush witticisms in particular) until this
continued to happen long after I asked him to"knock it off" (and yes,
without derisive word choice). Also, allow me to be 100% clear: he's stated directly that he's done it twice, and I suspect him of doing it the other four times. If you've read what I posted earlier, you'll at the very least recognize the basis for what I think. I just want it to stop. Once or twice is funny. The kicks were not funny. Doing it routinely is plum annoying.
@MC. It happened 5/28 and the admin was anonymous. The time before that about a week ago, in JBA. Talon was present under his normal name, lordfred was there (I want to say Ripley was too), the map was Polis Massa, and he made the following comments at the beginning and end of the map, respectively: "It's not harassment if the teams are unbalanced, right?" and "Aww Mustang, you couldn't help us out?"
