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#1 May 09 2006 at 1:05 PM Rating: Excellent
I've seen all sorts of things since I started posting on this site. It was my first foray in to online communities. I started out much the same as anyone else, looking for information about Everquest, trying to solve that quest that had me boggled. Migration happened about 3 years ago to the OOT. My god, those people had opinions. They talked about stuff that my friends and I did. They talked to each other the way my friends and I did. There was a sense of order, a hierarchy, if you will. There were people who's opinions were absolute and treated as such, and there were people who were largely dismissed as being genuinly retarded, but most of the people were tolerated and the community was good.

In the time since my move to the OOT, the forums have changed, the players have changed, the stories have grown more mythic and the haze of antiquity has clouded how we remember the good old days. We have had well intentioned posters draw us out of the shadows and subject us to the insipid drivel of EQOA, FFXI and WoW general retards, developed an evolving language Greek to the morans and cnuts who question it. We have seen people come and go, some leaving an impression, some simply leaving. We've seen the personal highs and lows of some we have come to consider friends. We have seen the mocking taunts of those who really just want to be included slide off the top page like water off a duck's back. The circle has been expanded to include those we deem worthy, and the ranks have been closed to those we don't.

Recent events have conspired to destroy a community that many of us have grown to love. They have threatened to bring crashing down the walls that we have erected to fortify this, the internet home for many of us. Agree or disagree, approve or disapprove, the lord and master has decided, for reasons that he alone will have to sleep with, to associate himself with an entity that many of us consider the bane of online gaming. As a matter of principle, many of us will now have to go out and find a new cave to squat in.

To those of you who feel you must be true to your principles, I would say the following:

I wish you well, you shut in mother f'uckers. Gain a sense of perspective and claw your way above the fray. Do what you must, but don't expect any respect for the stupid-assed, myopic decision. Don't let the doorknob hitcha where the good Bob splitcha.

As for me, I'm staying. F'uck off and enjoy the disappointment, Katie.
#2 May 09 2006 at 1:07 PM Rating: Decent
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You're still here?
#3 May 09 2006 at 1:09 PM Rating: Good
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Moe, Boston, chop chop!
#4 May 09 2006 at 1:11 PM Rating: Good
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You're still here?

You haven't changed your avatar. How can I leave?
#5 May 09 2006 at 1:12 PM Rating: Good
Moe is fishing for huggles again.
#6 May 09 2006 at 1:13 PM Rating: Good
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Moe is fishing for huggles again.

Go ahead, you big leather wearing fetishist. We all know what a biker outfit on a guy means, pictures of you with an actual bike not withstanding.
#7 May 09 2006 at 1:14 PM Rating: Good
His Excellency MoebiusLord wrote:
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Moe is fishing for huggles again.

Go ahead, you big leather wearing fetishist. We all know what a biker outfit on a guy means, pictures of you with an actual bike not withstanding.


Smiley: lol

/bear huggles
#8 May 09 2006 at 1:17 PM Rating: Good
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Yanks with an adept and nimble command of the English Language? Smiley: oyvey

FFS.
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#9 May 09 2006 at 1:19 PM Rating: Good
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Yanks with an adept and nimble command of the English Language?

Sorry, lemme translate that in to American English for you:
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F'uck off, whiners.
#10 May 09 2006 at 1:20 PM Rating: Decent
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A single tear carves a lonely path down my dusty cheek.

Bravo.
#11 May 09 2006 at 1:21 PM Rating: Good
YAY! Canaduhian
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Huggles Moe!

Smiley: inlove

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#12 May 09 2006 at 1:33 PM Rating: Excellent
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Who's leaving where with the what now?

I can't leave now... this is where I keep all my posts!
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#13 May 09 2006 at 1:36 PM Rating: Decent
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What's sad is that you will hit 30k before I grace 10.

I r teh suck at pharming.
#14 May 09 2006 at 1:36 PM Rating: Default
Who ever said I wanted you to leave?
#15 May 09 2006 at 1:41 PM Rating: Good
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Who ever said I wanted you to leave?

No one, dumbass. I was picking a fight.
#16 May 09 2006 at 1:44 PM Rating: Good
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Moe wrote:
I've seen all sorts of things since I started posting on this site. It was my first foray in to online communities. I started out much the same as anyone else, looking for information about Everquest, trying to solve that quest that had me boggled. Migration happened about 3 years ago to the OOT. My god, those people had opinions. They talked about stuff that my friends and I did. They talked to each other the way my friends and I did. There was a sense of order, a hierarchy, if you will. There were people who's opinions were absolute and treated as such, and there were people who were largely dismissed as being genuinly retarded, but most of the people were tolerated and the community was good.

In the time since my move to the OOT, the forums have changed, the players have changed, the stories have grown more mythic and the haze of antiquity has clouded how we remember the good old days. We have had well intentioned posters draw us out of the shadows and subject us to the insipid drivel of EQOA, FFXI and WoW general retards, developed an evolving language Greek to the morans and cnuts who question it. We have seen people come and go, some leaving an impression, some simply leaving. We've seen the personal highs and lows of some we have come to consider friends. We have seen the mocking taunts of those who really just want to be included slide off the top page like water off a duck's back. The circle has been expanded to include those we deem worthy, and the ranks have been closed to those we don't.

Recent events have conspired to destroy a community that many of us have grown to love. They have threatened to bring crashing down the walls that we have erected to fortify this, the internet home for many of us. Agree or disagree, approve or disapprove, the lord and master has decided, for reasons that he alone will have to sleep with, to associate himself with an entity that many of us consider the bane of online gaming. As a matter of principle, many of us will now have to go out and find a new cave to squat in.

To those of you who feel you must be true to your principles, I would say the following:

I wish you well, you shut in mother f'uckers. Gain a sense of perspective and claw your way above the fray. Do what you must, but don't expect any respect for the stupid-assed, myopic decision. Don't let the doorknob hitcha where the good Bob splitcha.

As for me, I'm staying. F'uck off and enjoy the disappointment, Katie.



RACK that.

You had me going, fu[Aqua][/Aqua]cker.

Neph wrote:
What's sad is that you will hit 30k before I grace 10.

I r teh suck at pharming.


If it's any consolation, you're better at it than I am.

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#17 May 09 2006 at 1:48 PM Rating: Good
Sellout.
#18 May 09 2006 at 2:59 PM Rating: Good
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#19 May 09 2006 at 3:38 PM Rating: Good
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Too wordy. I can't be bothered.
#20 May 09 2006 at 4:28 PM Rating: Good
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All I wanted was the numbers back...
#21 May 09 2006 at 4:30 PM Rating: Decent
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The disappointment I feel after reading the last part is no small ordeal.
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#22 May 09 2006 at 4:36 PM Rating: Decent
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Tease.
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