Oh wow. I told myself to stay away from this thread (and in fact, everyone I talked to ingame told me I was wasting my time), but after reading the comedy
GOLD on that thread you just posted for me, I can't help but reply. Massive post coming up, so I guess most people won't bat a second eye to this, but hey, I'm bored at the moment, so why not?
Let me ask you a frank question: have I insulted you or your
linkshell intentionally or purposely spoken about you derogatorily specifically about
your LS?
Since I'm 100% sure that the answer is a resounding
no, I'm going to continue breaking down that thread you just posted.
Bedrock created that calendar with very very good intentions and it was
executed perfectly fine at it's start. For the sake of argument, let's forget the Linkshells (since you so frequently like to point out) that use this calendar like it's the law, because I'm referring to Spike Flail only here.
At it's start, Zenmetsu, Lemonade, Spike Flail and a couple of other LS's doing Dynamis were using it. Over time, more joined. Let me point out that
Spike Flail didn't bully nor harass anyone into joining this calendar. Bedrock has been nothing but civil about trying to get others to use this calendar. Why am I so insistent we talk only about Spike Flail? Because all I see on that threads are insults pertaining to my LS, but we'll get to that in a second.
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Our calendar is public, if people want to add to it, that's great. if not I'm certainly not going begging for access to some other secret calendar.
Our calendar has always been public. The simple reason for why people are requested to speak ingame is so that the administrator of tshot.org doesn't have to sit there weeding out people (he really doesn't have a whole lot of time due to his RL job) who just join to place times on a calendar but aren't serious about it (and these kinds of people DO exist, believe it or not). That's it. Just to make sure that you really want to do Dynamis. Is that such a crime? It's not like we have ever
denied everyone, because that's not upto us... just talk to Bedrock or another sackholder ingame and you get signed up on the site. It's not
that complicated that you have to refer to it as a "secret clique", because that's not what it is. Frankly, if anything, this is just a purely scandalous remark.
You had difficulty finding it. Ok. Understandable. The methods by which you were exposed to said calendar weren't ideal, nope. That wasn't Spike Flail's intention whatsoever. This isn't a controlling conspiracy. Bedrock (and the rest of the LS) had very very good intentions with it. It just took longer than we had hoped to spread the message around I guess, I don't know.
Let me put it another way: there's nothing preventing from
YOUR website from turning into the same thing. In fact, had we not created one at all, and instead your site was the first, I don't doubt for a second in my mind that there would be linkshells that would treat your site as "law" too. So it's not our execution or mentality that's the problem here (and when I say our, I mean Spike Flail).
Don't take this as an insult, but at the time, the
big LS's that were doing Dynamis were Zenmetsu, SpikeFlail, Lemonade, TC and a couple of others. When I say big, I mean many many members. I'm
NOT downplaying your Linkshell, just that many of us hadn't heard of it. I suppose we should have looked harder. But Zenmetsu, Lemonade and TC had been doing Dynamis peacefully co-existing with us for quite some time, doing many Dynamis runs.
Let's move onto the insults:
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i THINK I found it.
It's Spikeflail's website, and just to add MASSIVE humor to all this in MY book.. the person who runs it is Bedrock.. a 75DRK.... so again, given he's 75DRK and UNC wasn't aware of this... my money says it's CRAP.
Yeah, wow! One person in your Linkshell (and dare I say, a questionable one on this server. It's not
ME that's saying this, just look at the loads of people who talk about him on these very forums.
WHETHER OR NOT ANY OF THAT IS TRUE IS NOT THE POINT OF ME SAYING THAT. I'M POINTING OUT THAT PERHAPS HE DOESN'T KNOW EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW ON THIS SERVER?) hasn't heard of Bedrock, a
damn good 75 DRK (and it's not even a bias, ask any of the other HNM linkshells) and excellent LS leader, suddenly our website is "CRAP" and we're "not worth a second glance". Excuse me, what about your self-righteous attitude you've displayed this entire thread about how we can't disregard "newer LS's", etc. etc.? Granted,
Spike Flail isn't a newer LS at ALL, but what you have done by the very thing you have accused of? You've downplayed us without even giving us a chance and formed a derogatory opinion about us based on pure hearsay.
Kuponet directed you towards our website, NOT us. We didn't even do anything to you, let alone
harass you, as far as I know. Wow, pot calling the kettle black?
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In fact in looking at this 'Calendar' I see that it has only been around since August 16, 2005 (that's the FIRST 'reserved' time slot this year on the whole calendar and only 4 days before our first Sandy run BTW). It also appears to only be used by about 4-5 Linkshells Tshot, Lemon, Sparkle, and Kuponet. Hardly what I would call "a reservation system" as it was described.
Bedrock had been talking with plenty of other LS's and posting Spike Flail's Dynamis times for
months before on his Livejournal. It was at this point in time that he decided to COLLABORATE this data and put it into a publicly available calendar. Just because you see only that much data on the calendar doesn't mean that there wasn't
communication between MANY (not all) of the major HNM/Dynamis LS's, it was done via Livejournal and ingame tells. So yours wasn't included, 'tis a shame. There's nothing that can be done about the past, I'll say frankly, until this thread, I'd never heard of your linkshell at all. Doesn't mean that I automatically dismissed it as being "unable" or "useless". I've never thought before sorry. But you accuse us all of doing it, when in reality you
just did the same thing on that very thread you posted.
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I would point out that the 'REAL' HNM/Dynamis LS I am aware of, Solstice, TheCrew, Fate, TriNova, etc, aren't using it...so I give it little weight.
Thanks, I really appreciate knowing that we're not a 'REAL' HNM/Dynamis LS, considering we've been around twice as longer than any of the ones you've listed have and have accomplished
PLENTY of stuff ingame. And that's not just fiction, sorry. Just because you don't see us roaming around {sky} anymore doesn't mean we haven't done all of that and back. We've had our fill of {sky} (except for newer members) and we're on other things. Just shows that you
REALLY have no clue what you are talking about when it comes to HNM LS's. That's fine! You're allowed to be ignorant of this area, but that doesn't mean you should talk about it as if you really know what you are talking about.
As far as I know, none of those Linkshells that you mentioned have killed Fafnir/Nidhogg, made serious attempts at Dynamis Lord and CoP Wyrms, etc. etc.
I'm NOT PUTTING DOWN THOSE LS'S BECAUSE THEY HAVEN'T DONE THAT YET. They will in time, this isn't a "We're better than you" comment, it's a point to indicate that
we've done those things. So, again, thanks for not thinking of us as a 'REAL' HNM/Dynamis shell.
Glad to see that you left out TheCalm and Zenmetsu as well, who have been around even longer than us.
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Hell this forum has a calendar...maybe we should ***** them out for not checking OUR calendar. For tht matter maybe WE should set up a 'reservation system'. LMAO.
Thanks for not even giving it a chance. Oh wait, aren't you arguing that people aren't giving your calendar a chance at all? Hmm.....
I see the plenty of "They don't own the server"-type comments, and honestly, I'm going to ignore them for now simply because we've
all had it up to our necks with that kind of commenting. Enough already.
I can't speak for the entire HNM community, but I CAN speak for my linkshell and we don't treat it like that, sorry.
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In a way I'm a bit sad to see you bought into the ******** and joined up. I was hoping to get some of the more respectable LS owners to make a REAL effort to make something.
Glad to know that our LS isn't a "respectable" LS, which you jumped to this conclusion from what exactly? Did you actually deal with any of our leaders ingame? Nope, that's what I thought, it's all based on hearsay.
Oh wait! You accused others of calling you a "non-shell", etc. funny, looks like this thread you just posted is older than the current thread we're talking on! Hmm....
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Given that Spikeflail, the site hosting this, is infact a reconstitued failed site left over from Tshot gives you some idea of the organizational abilities of the people involved. The maturity spoke for itself on wednesday night when the people involved acting like pouty five year olds.
Hey, you don't know our history and I don't blame you for not knowing. But posting INCORRECT information in an attempt to defame on your
PUBLIC THREADED forums? Not cool at all.
TSHoT was formed waaaaaaaay back. Like May or June 2004. It was founded by Lalryn, who was LS leader. We did HNM / sky stuff, but didn't have our own Dynamis back then because we were part of DynamisCatAttack. Eventually, Lalryn decided to quit and we
reformed the shell with Bedrock as leader = Spike Flail. Reconstitued failed site? Tshot.org was heavily in use by our linkshell members before the switchover to Spike Flail, so we decided to keep the same domain name as that's what most of our members still remember the LS as. Nice to see that you post garbage like this without actually KNOWING about what you are talking about.
And I still don't understand how you are equating Kuponet -> Spike Flail. We acted like immature 5 year olds?
We didn't send you tells or harassed you, why are you lumping our "failed site" and "fake HNM LS" with everyone else?
Our organization skills are under question? Do you actually know us? Do you realize how difficult it is to organize HNM events and things like Dynamis Lord? Awesome, I love the blanket statements once again based on absolutely NOTHING. Funny, you accuse everyone else of doing this, but you're allowed to?
Have you actually sat down and talked with our leader? Nope. So stop blanketing us into this corner where you think we all belong, thanks.
In fact, you keep posting incorrect information in this massive attempt to defame us:
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Also in the thread is a post from Stellar recounting a similar issue with (shock) Kuponet and Spike Flail. So again I will state the obvious. this is a TREND and speaks to the true intent.
Spike Flail and Kuponet harassed you, eh?
Ok, let's quote what
Stellar put in his post:
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When we first started Dynamis, turns out the time slot we chose was similar to sparkle & fade and kuponet.
Nice to know that you not only accuse of false things, you can't differentiate between Sparkle & Fade and Spike Flail. Two completely different LS's running things at two completely different times. Not associated. So why is it ok for you to jump to false conclusions and band together all of the HNM community into this "hole" you've created, but when the reverse happens, us "bullies" are HORRID PEOPLE!
Sorry, but going off one person's (from what I can see in that thread) account of "what's what" and "who's important" like you have done with Uncgtgt is no better than newer LS's getting put onto the "new LS" bandwagon. All hearsay. In fact, you can scan this thread, no Spike Flail member has put your LS DOWN by saying you aren't capable of something, or that you have no skill, etc. etc.
Instead, I see
YOUR linkshell members, like that lovely Syth, who come here and make fun of us for taking this game seriously because
gasp, heaven forbid, we actually enjoy this game and thus take it seriously. I suppose he should mock all the people who take Baseball seriously? Or Hockey? Or Nascar? Or, for that matter of fact, any
hobby? Gosh, give me a break. This is a
FORUM dedicated to discussion on a server for a videogame. It's incredibly ironic that he says he is taking himself not seriously and make fun of us ON THE FORUM for discussing on a forum dedicated to a virtual online world. Not to mention, call TSHoT as The Linkshell of Toddlers. Real class there, I must say. Good thing he knows nothing about us! And I don't know anything about him, you, or your linkshell. And I haven't been arrogant enough to assume anything about your linkshell either, nor have I talked about your linkshell in a derogatory manner or resorted to petty name-calling. Or should I jump to the conclusion that everyone in your LS behaves like this?
Let's also take the final issue of this very thread that you linked us, which is based on your linkshell
public forum that is accessible by others who care to frequent your site. It's your LS, you're allowed posting what you want on it I guess. But posting insults about my LS, something which you apparently know NOTHING about, isn't cool. If I could show you the private forum listings from my LS, you wouldn't see a single thread, topic or post referring to you guys at all. It's not like we all sit around all day and write topics like "Man, those new goddamn linkshells suck hahahahahaahahahah!".........
Back to the very reason why this topic exists: our calendar was created with every good intention, just like I can only assume your calendar is for. Instead of dismissing it away, talk to our leader ingame when he can actually log on. The entire HNM community isn't crap. Many of us are just players out to have a good time without
unnecessary drama. Some players may cause it, but in the end, we're all just human and just want this game to be fun. That's it.
EDIT: Minor spelling and addendums.
Edited, Sat Oct 29 02:09:58 2005 by Asherek