In regards to any tension you think we've been having....
There were weekends and weeknights over the last 4 months before December too, and basically zero pugs. I'm not being a cynical douchebag, I'm being real. I'm not sure why you felt the need to throw a personal insult in there...
This was actually just a little smack talk, really....nothing personal.
I don't really have a problem with you most of the time...HOWEVER.
Sometimes you get a bit annoying...
The whole...
"I'm leaving the pug if no pug before X:XX..."
"I'm leaving siege because you don't pug enough/when I want to...."
"I'm too good to be picked at X pick."
I honestly don't think that even Guard could pull that off other than the fact that without him and his contributions, none of us would be here. (lol)
I don't like any actions that would make siege any less popular or appealing....sorry.
Saying "See y'all next summer." in the shout box is not exactly promoting siege.
That and the fact that you've not yet learned to not argue with turkey....I'm supposed to be the slow one here.
I'm cool with you, dude...just don't think(and express) you mean any more to this community than anyone else.
The reason I Duo it, and say "I'm leaving before XX:XX" is *usually* because we pug at late-night my time, like 3AM late night, and I while I would like to pug - I don't want to sit around until 3:30AM before starting.
I'm not sure where you're getting the "I'm leaving siege because you don't pug enough/when I want to...." bit. I don't recall ever, ever going on a siege hiatus due to lack of pugs, actually. I don't think I ever have, to be completely honest. The only time I have ever gone on a siege hiatus was from the collapse of lick in January 2009, to Guardian's recruitment of me into this community around April(?) of that same year. The only time I have ever even "threatened" going on a siege hiatus was in those joke-retirement threads Guard loves so much.
I've only started the doing the "I'm being under-picked" thing recently, since we've started having what I like to call SMC_Ricky pugs, where the captain doesn't know people and players like ceasar, ramshire, illu, silver, etc go over me. Even Turky has agreed with me before that the idea of ceasar going over me is absurd. As much as I like the guys, unless you're making a "gut feeling" pick that one of them will have a good round, I should be going over them. Ricky makes deals with the other team, ie he'll say "Pick Ceasar, and then I'll pick Ramshi - and Magyk will have to spec!" purely just to be a jackass, and you know that's wrong on so many levels.
As far as my comments earlier today about seeing everyone next summer, they were more or less in jest. With all the younger players going back to high school, and universities (or at least mine) starting up in the next two weeks, things will probably drop back down to the September-November levels until schools get out. I wasn't trying to diminish siege, I was quite simply saying.. see you guys in the summer. I think from September-November I pugged four times, maybe. And I honestly won't be surprised to see siege drop back down to that level until May or June.
It's not like I'm going to stop pubbing, or going on the forums, or disappear for five months - but I'm looking at the situation realistically. We tried to set up a "pug night" before (remember, Saturdays at 8pm or whatever?) and it failed pretty miserably. It's too hard to coordinate pugs when everyone has their student life going on. It wasn't a "SIEGE IS DEAD. SEE YOU GUYS IN A FEW MONTHS." type of thing, but rather a friendly "see you guys in impulse next season" type of deal.
Sorry for rambling.
As far as my place in the community, I think I do my fair share to put myself in the upper echelon of contributors to the community. No, I don't have the skill of most players. I'm a middle-of-the-pack player skill wise. But I do/did contribute a fairly significant amount to the development on this website - every image you see on the front page has basically been hand-made by me.
I think I probably recruit more than anyone on Tempest, spamming a "visit us at jkasiege.com" bind, and being extra friendly to newbies. So quite honestly, I think I could make the argument that I'm actively trying harder than anyone else right now to keep siege alive. (Though Guard is obviously the heart and soul of siege now, with this site and the servers, he's rarely seen in game - or even online, so he's kind of a passive force.)
Furthermore on that note, when have you ever seen me rage at ceasar, ramshi, illu, silver, or any of the new guys? Not once. Actually, if you haven't noticed I'm just about the only person around here who even stands up for the new guys in the faces of Turk, Duo, Kera, and others. Also, just yesterday I offered to teach Ceasar how to drive the walker and jan hoth - so in pugs he wouldn't be clueless when people tell him to do those jobs. Can you even imagine ANYONE else teaching these things to a player? Can you for two seconds try to imagine Turkey teaching Ceasar how to do these things? It literally will never happen. The only active people that would ever even take the time to do that are probably myself, you, jerk, maybe Guardian. I do just as much, if not more, to teach new players how to play - except I do it without screaming in their face. Hell, Schrute and I gave all of those players a complete walkthrough of Cargo last week, objective-for-objective. It took about an hour, we did two run-throughs, and they all learned how to play the map without a single expletive being thrown at them.
So yes, while I'm not the most skilled player around I think I contribute enough to this community to be treated like a human being and not called a faggot or douchebag for no apparent reason whenever I make a post, or having Turky completely scrutinize my text looking for a single grammatical error.
Finally, (yes this a long post, sorry.) the reason I "argue" with Turkey, Kera, etc is because I don't see why I, or anyone should put up with their bullshit. Anytime I do argue with them, it's usually to defend myself or someone else from their personal attacks. I'm not sure why they do this, maybe they get off from terrorizing 12 year olds like Kera was doing to Silver Abso - but no one should have to deal with it. And yes, while I do resort to personal quips occasionally I can guarantee you that Turky and Kera (they're the ones I fight with most) launch personal attacks at me first.
As for you specifically Archi, I've never had a problem with you. Occasionally you get on everyone's nerves, and I probably lash out - but I'm sure everyone gets on everyone nerves at some point, I mean, you have randomly attacked me before without providing a solid reason. It happens, and I'm fine with that and I'm fine with you. In fact, I think we could become really good friends, as I think we're two of the only people left in this community who can hold an actual conversation without calling someone a douchebag, faggot, wookiee, etc. So yeah, I've never had a particular problem with you, but if you'd like to start completely fresh and call a truce, I'd be fine with that - and I think we could be pretty good friends.
(Also, let me make a footnote here saying that while I do try to "defend" the newbies from Duo a little bit, his is a different rage than most others because he is actually trying to improve the game, and means well. While I think he could do it in a different, slightly toned-down manner, I understand that he's really actually helping. I've actually grown to like Duo a lot more over the last few months, and he's taught me a few things too. While he does get a little heated, unlike someone like Turky, I think he's a class-act guy and I mean no disrespect towards him by referencing him in this long-ass post.)
Edit:
Also, after thinking about it for a few moments, I'd like to extend my offer to Archi about a fresh start to Kera, Turkey and any other players (if there are any?) that would be willing to accept such an offer. I doubt I'll get any reaction from either of those two, but it's worth a try.
Magyk wrote:
I'm not sure where you're getting the "I'm leaving siege because you don't pug enough/when I want to...." bit. I don't recall ever, ever going on a siege hiatus due to lack of pugs, actually.
I coulda sworn I saw some post about how you would be going to college and how no one really played anymore, so "peace out," basically. Although, I could be confusing Laser's post that was similar....but I really thought you made one at some point.
Anyhow, I'm not the kind of guy to really hold grudges...
I mean jawa, kera, duo, turkey, jkb, and wafflz have all banned me or otherwise admin abused me for no good reasons over the years, but that doesn't mean I'm going to do the same to them.
As for the "leaving @ x time" thing....I guess that's actually kinda a courtesy if you genuinely have to leave for some reason....and not just doing it to be a dick.
I usually say, "I have to go soon....please hurry" or something to that effect.
Anywhoo...I'm more than willing to be cool with anyone who is willing to be cool with me.
hey im in study hall ill post on this when i get home... I have to agree at the time when i was pike over magyk was absurd.. Ive gotten better thks to arch now i can see being piked over some1 from tempest but magyk at the time was bout 7x better than me. Now still round 2x better tha me at certain things im getting there ... finaLLY PROVED myself to duo on nar. Im gettin better now ricky doin that i agree with was just him being a turkey but....ahh i gtg
Max Rambone wrote:I mean jawa, kera, duo, turkey, jkb, and wafflz have all banned me or otherwise admin abused me for no good reasons over the years, but that doesn't mean I'm going to do the same to them.
I've never banned you from a game server. The only thing I've ever banned you from was Exile's Forums, because you deleted Duo's account and did some filter shenanigans.
I won't deny being an enormous douchebag to you from time to time (maybe a bit more frequently than that, even), but I rarely admin abuse on people (I had admin on Impulse for over a year and only kicked or banned like 3 people? 2 of whom were randoms who spam reconnected and joined live pugs).
I can't blame Magyk for demanding a pug starting within 20 fucking minutes before leaving; I've done that myself because it's really fucking annoying waiting for 20+ minutes for a 15 minute stacked as fuck pug to start only for people to leave immediately after. That's a major reason why I left pugging the last time I played this game.
The ratio of pre-game to pug time really shouldn't be anywhere near 1:1.
I don't think I ever had admin on the Exiles forums and I don't know why I would delete duo's account if I could have. Filters I could see me doing, but I don't believe I ever did that, even.
I think you are confusing me with XR or someone, perhaps.
