can you crybaby somewhere else?
Sincerely
MASTER Clan
^ Case in point. I would've been permabanned if I made a comment like that, because per the Fuhrer's own words insults are never acceptable on this site. Of course, when he said it, it was merely a rationalization of a retaliatory ban- he later admitted he's just got an axe to grind with me because I "doxxed" Mercer by Googling the name of Fizzer's company, clicking through to the first result, and sharing information he'd already made public. So, even though his home address is on every document in the Activision suit because for some reason he's never heard of an anonymous LLC or even a PO box,
I am held to a "higher standard" than celebrated toxic people like Addy the Dog, celebrated cheaters like Deadman and Farah, and celebrated cheating-enablers like Beren. Nope, it's just guys like me and sanmu- who speak up at the wrong time and don't know how to keep our heads down in the face of comical corruption- who get pegged as the worst community members.
Norman, I don't know what rock you've been living under, but this is not some place held together by transparency, competence, and the rule of law. It's the petty fiefdom of a man who loves to cite the criminal justice system to cover his abuse but whose understanding of how an actual justice system works is so poor that he's about to lose his whole livelihood in a court case he could've trivially avoided.
Just laugh and move on.
That goes for you too, sanmu. They can ban you or blackball you if you keep up stuff like this, and you're not going to change a thing. There's no upside.
But the converse of that is that you don't have to do anything, because these people- Beren, Fizzer, Math Wolf- know exactly who they are. They have to consciously lie, and if you just point and laugh maybe they will retaliate but they can't change a thing about themselves either. Fizzer can ban me again, but it won't make him any less of a balding, middle-aged, relationship-challenged schmuck who wasted his prime years on a joke job while his peers (can we even call them that when they're so far ahead of him now?) got rich off of tech stonks and now get to rest and vest and enjoy financial security without having to scam the legally illiterate into funding their doomed get-rich-quick scheme against a $72 billion company. Beren can equivocate and rationalize all he wants but it won't change the fact that he's enabled and defended cheating, has to shamelessly lie about things we all have the receipts to prove the opposite of, and that he's even gotten so sad these days you'll spot him cheating on Harmonbot Jeopardy from time to time if you pay attention.
Do you think you can do anything to these people? Nothing from any of us can crush them any harder than the weight of their own lives. Being them is punishment enough.
I have no sympathy for those of you who complain about Addy, when you've built the community you deserve. You celebrate those who harm it, because they are good or because they are at the center of community events or because they happen to be the guy who built and owns the game. And you blackball those who even bother to speak about it, labeling us as threats to the community or prima donnas. You built this, and you've earned every bit of it. I hope you enjoy the fruit of your own corruption, the toxicity you cultivated among your friends and admired ones while using the concept as a bludgeon to shut out players you have personal beef with.
(see you all if/once my ban expires)
Edited 6/9/2021 23:04:12
