What I'm about to post is from an outsider's perspective who's relatively new to the LS, and is judging from what he's seen and learned from talking with Shotokan personally (my views were not swayed by bias, neither his nor Kny's)
Bear with me, but what I'm seeing is:
SAT (Shoto, And, Tet, lol!) were justified for whatever they did, limbus etc. The whole "it would be easier if we all just did things together" argument is stupid, and those who say it are ignorant because it's not that simple because of reasons stated.
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Limbus:As far as I know, compromises were attempted to be made as far as merging, but never happened for some reason. I'm not clear the reason. Was it time? Did you expect them to go earlier at a time Andrinne couldn't attend? Big surprise they didn't attend, was it the lotting rules? Does it matter who gets what, as long as it stays in Eden? A small price to pay for being able to farm multiple zones at the same time with much greater efficiency.
As I heard, Shoto's group is mostly mages, so obviously some homam pieces are going to go to people who can't use them. Do you expect people to attend and get nothing but coins out of it when they could be soloing/duoing limbus for more than that? Is it wrong that they don't blindly pass to Suka who strolls in just because he can wear them? No. Did you hear Suka complaining? Hell no, all you hear was him creaming himself all over the LS like he does whenever he does something (DID YOU SEE THAT GROUND STRIKE? WHAT ABOUT AN AHAUBERK? I HAVE ONE OF THOSE! etc, lol) about how he got Homam legs.
What I hear is Kny laughing opening in LS chat at how retarded they are. I'll admit,
I laughed too, but only because I didn't know any better. All I saw was "RDM almost getting Homam body over DRK? LOL!" It's one of many examples of Knyght or whoever berating them and people who don't know the situation being swayed and "turned against them".
And then you have that one day when Juvant decided to suddenly suggest B2 and demands they cancel their Omega run to attend. Mg rants on about cliques (I think that's where the smoke and bitch funni phrase began), and once again they are put on the spot and berated about not cancelling Omega, something they had planned ahead for, for a spontaneous BH2.
I felt it was their choice to decide whether they wanted to or not. 2 Eden events, what gives BH2 priority? Regardless, it doesn't matter because of what followed. They get the BS that you all know happened, and disrespect about skipping Eden events when they do more than most of the LS.
If they want to "skip Eden events", fine, it annoys you, whatever. But to disrespect people who work hard for the LS who are doing something important to them instead of joining some spur of the moment BS? Who's in the wrong here?
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WCW:We've all establish how retarded this shit is I would think, but I'll go over it anyway. As we all know and have been stated, a quick review.
Edyn was formed AFTER WCW, and people shouldn't be expected to leave WCW and join Eden; regardless of whatever AF2s they have or have not gotten. Yet people still obviously show a bias and lack of respect to WCW people. You're silly, you know who you are. It doesn't matter how much Doshu twists the rules and fucks people over, we all know it, we don't need to state it over and over, it's just childish. I'm only saying it here for the sake of argument.
Looking down on people simply because they are in WCW (you know it happens, like the abusive relationship reference) is stupid and doesn't need to be mentioned repeatedly. Mert has covered this as well, and I'm sure it's already been covered multiple times. But nobody is doing shit about it, the hatorade continues.
Show some damn respect to your LS mates, you retards. Yes, I see what I did there, and no, it's not the same thing.
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Hatorade, Cliques:I don't know about you guys, but if I have people on my case everyday about dumb things, I get pretty irritated. The whole people making fun of me not having Algol thing used to piss me the hell off, but now I'm over it and don't let it bother me anymore. However, if I had a few people making fun of me and influencing others to make fun or me as well always talking on the LS, it's not as easy as simply blacklisting them, because that not only leaves me unable to defend myself, but it enables other people to form ideas and opinions based on the person running their mouth.
I'm against blacklisting LS members in general for other reasons as well, it can be dangerous in a battle situation. You can say "just unblist them during dynamis or w/e" but sometimes people forget. If I wanted to blist Kny, the person who seems to be calling out synch nuke times now, what would happen if I forgot to one day? Ope, wiped the ally. GG
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Besides, most fights, arguments, and grudges settle down overnight and things are usually fine. An example was when Mira got offended when I made a joke about her using her bewbs to get people to do stuff. At the time I was like "fuck that, getting offended by something like that in Eden is a huge waste of time" and proceeded to not back down etc and ended up being a huge dick; which I felt bad about the next day and thought about apologizing. Ended up not doing so because it was over with.
Did we blacklist each other? Do we bring it up every damn day? No, now we enjoy the occasional awkward "let's pretend we forgot" conversations. No big deal.
But here we have the same shit being spewed everyday by the same people. Besides Sunday if you wanted to count that, I've never heard of Shoto or any of the SATs to degrade Eden's systems or any such things
to their faces. I've seen numerous comments made on LSchat about them, and I scroll the list and there they are, listening to it. After a week or so of going "ope, are they going to take that?" I eventually settled on "Yeah, I guess so."
I may be sounding like some cheap psychiatrist (wow I spelled that right... I think, no red squigglies!) when I say this but, how is that right? Why did nobody step in and say "Hey Kny, Mefya, it's time to stfu." Perhaps this did happen a few times, but that didn't stop it. Why should they stop when there's no punishment or repercussions for their actions? It's like picking on a kid at school and having a teacher say "hay, stop that." and then starting shit again as soon as they look away.
SO FUCKING IMMATURE.Sorry, but I couldn't find any other way to express how I felt about it. After putting up with this so long, what did you all think was going to happen? You all just stand and watch (like me, and maybe tossing in a lol or two because I'm dumb as hell sometimes) and then act surprised and offended when they leave? You get mad when they take the gear instead of giving it back?
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TOTALLY AWESOME ANALOGYHere's an awesome analogy for you, because they seem to work on KI retards that require things more than logic to understand something, maybe it applies for all retards. The parenthesis are for FFXI relations ^-^.
You're in a gang (Eden) who robs shit (HNMs). Over time, you get stuff from this gang, but they treat you and your few friends like shit the whole time. "Here Watkins, take this TV (Dalmy) , grats" and then having those few people in the background talking loud enough for you to here "oh great, that fucker got".
Over the next couple of years, these people keep berating you, and the people you thought were friends just stand and watch, instead of defend you. The people you don't know form opinions about you without knowing you. Eventually, the shit talking will get worse about things that aren't even true, lies spread to persuade people what a "shitty person" you are. (YOU ONLY COME TO SHIT THAT BENEFITS YOU! etc). Of course you're going to say fuck it, and leave the gang (slightly unrealistic here, most people wouldn't have the self-esteem to leave, and most good gangs have the "only way out is in a box" policy, BECAUSE THEY ARE THAT BADASS).
Would you want to give all the shit back you earned to those people who stood and watched as you got your ass beat (verbally)? Or perhaps even having a chance of the items you got going to the people who talked shit (gaiters maybe?)?
I know I sure as hell wouldn't at first I'd be bitter as hell.
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What SHOULD have happened.Andrinne and Darkdreamer should have posted what they have the past couple of days a lot sooner. If that had happened, people would have had a better situation of what was really going on, instead of listening to what people said in LS chat. Both sides of the stories are nice to have before judging people, and maybe people would have realized before it's too late and maybe defended them in LS chat, like I would have.
Even if it didn't do that, it would still crush some of the meaningless bullshit spewed by people who don't know what they were talking about, like the Limbus thing. Well shit, DD pwned that pretty well.
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DEY TOOK OUR LOOT!!You bet your ass they did. Like I said, none of you should be surprised. However, one thing I must be clear on is that I don't approve of it at all. Those items were earned as a shell, and if possible, should be returned to the shell in order to make them run better. They were not given to a person simply because they earned them, if that was so then people wouldn't get angry if someone left right after getting a DRing or whatever.
Instead, the items are camped and obtained so that killing things that we camp can be just a little bit easier each day. When you see the meaning of the items and why there were given, it's obvious that they should be returned if possible.
All the Rare/EX items you SATs have should be more than enough a prize from a LS you'll no longer be helping. People out there in shells could be in a LS for years, maybe twice your time and still maybe not get the rare/ex gear you have
When I say I might keep the items out of bitterness, that's what I might feel at the time. But personally, when the anger subsided and reason took over, I would have given the shit back.
When you basically take half of our LS's Novios, that hurts the LS and is a betrayal of trust. You can say that you're leaving and are sorry to the people who weren't involved, but when you keep Eden's shit and leave, the people bothering you win, and the people who don't lose.
Ninja Edit: Actually, Shoto is the only one I know of with phat RARE/EX Body abj lewt. I guess I was too general in that aspect. I guess the only thing that still really applies is the concept of giving the item, :/a.