Far be it for me to miss an opportunity to have a well-reasoned debate.
Trizzoro wrote:
I will respond to each of these in a numbered format as not to mock but to keep my thoughts in line. And, I'm smoking a cigarette and simply just jammed my nicotene finger into my right eye accidentally. So bear with me.
Oh that sucks so bad. My sympathies.
Trizzoro wrote:
2. Absolutely not. I quote Charles Barkely when asked if he thought Michael Jordan was better than him. "Nope. I'm the best. If you think someone is better than you, then you lost already. Stay in bed."
That would rather depend on the situation I think. Are you trying to work with someone or compete against them? I suppose it's an area of fuzzy grey lines, those between self-confidence and egotism. At the very least though, I will argue that part of being the best (or your best, or whatever) is knowing you can always get
better. And in the pursuit of additional skills you take what you can get, sour medicine or not.
Trizzoro wrote:
3. This is awesome in theory, like Communism, but once you throw humans in the mix it just doesn't seem to work.
I don't know, works well for me often enough, when I have enough sense to apply it. It certainly isn't perfect, but it can have it's benefits. Sometimes long and seemingly fruitless labors can yield an unexpected harvest.
Trizzoro wrote:
4. The only people you can refer to as n00b and it be OK is friends, cause it is a very funny word when applied to a friendly party when someone does something stupid.
Nooblet, however, can be acceptable, as a term of endearment. I agree otherwise. And the term is never so funny as when applied to oneself.
Trizzoro wrote:
5. Agreed for the most part. But, if you are one of these people who ONLY want to do the fun things, then when you want your Eldieme Coffer key you don't want to wait to get a spam shout alliance, don't come crawling to me to help you. I'm busy having a big friggin' blast farming.
I think perhaps you're making assumptions here to a minor extent. I had a big friggin' blast mining and crafting this weekend (using the same tone of sarcasm as yourself) but when I was done, and got the items I had been saving for, I retrospectively had fun. I felt accomplished.
And can
I come crawling to you? Pleeeaaassseeee?
Trizzoro wrote:
6. Help those who help themselves. Once again, if I know someone has been through several coffer parties or mold parties and tried their best to get it this way (for coffer keys that would be your first set of AF) then I'll help. However and once again, if you don't like getting pick-up alliances to do things, tough. Nobody does. But we had to a few times so should you.
If there's anything I agree with, it's this. I will point out however, that sometimes you may have to do a little prodding to get someone
to help themselves.
Trizzoro wrote:
However I really don't see how these 6 items pertain to "elitist player's attitudes" per se. These items should apply to everyone.
Limed. Truth. That whole shindig. Trizzoro wrote:
8< Snippage.
So, if I ever partied with you and you were slow on SATA or your macros were jacked up and not working, I would say something. Not to be mean, but maybe you just have a macro written wrong or something. I don't think that is elitist, I think that is helping the person in the long run more than say, getting them a Bomb coal.
Ditto.