Originally
posted by
DerrickICN:
Even if you're spinning wildly on the forums, calling people names and fighting grudge wars, it goes without saying that we've all been here a bazillion years and it ought to be impossibly easy to coexist at this point. Perhaps I'm less bitter than most, and it's a reason I was one of the only ones to cross the line and join LaFwar in MD100, but I think 20 years playing a game together is a genuine connection, and at worst feels brotherly with the people who I feud with most.
You'd think, but it's pretty obvious when you realize the only reason a lot of people are still playing is to grief LaF. Give up the hate and they just quit. I don't refer to you as trash people lightly or without good reason.
People want to be recognized as important or mattering without putting in the work. It's never going to happen. If you want respect from me or from LaF, and this goes for everyone, you can't demand it, you gotta earn it. Show me that I can't casually walk into first place ever set. That LaF won't take all the top spots. Because we are and we will.
People think snide comments on boards that only a few people read matter, like you can convince someone to reject reality by trolling, like this is some front in a conflict that you can win. It's just not.
People can listen and learn or stagnate, secure in their own decisions, and fail.
What I see on the boards here is entire alliances planning their sets around things they don't even begin to understand, and making videos about it. People aren't even able to rise to the level that they know they should feel embarrassed.
Right now all the real competition in the game is inside a single alliance, and everything outside is white noise.
