Rant and Flames... - Page 5

johnny ringo · #41 09-04-2011, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Barkingturtle [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Really?

I find it unfathomable that people paid fifteen bucks a month back in the age of AOL for their twelve year-old kids to play an online video game.

I guess I just don't remember anyone being that young, either. Most of my guildies were at least a decade older than me, and I was 19 in 1999. The sub-based model was a real barrier of entry back then. It was my own money, and I had a hard time justifying it even though I had been searching for an MMORPG without knowing what it was. No one I played with lived at home with their parents, even.

Did your parents play? That's really the only feasible scenario I can see wherein a twelve year-old is playing EQ in 1999. Is that what this server is comprised of? The forgotten children of EverQuest addicts?

What have we done?

let me guess, when you were his age you had to march 5 miles to school, uphill both ways? then when you got home your parents whipped you and made you do family jigsaw puzzles.

get off his nuts.

Beauregard · #42 09-04-2011, 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Barkingturtle [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Honestly, stifling the dissenters is to me more damning than anything anyone has ever posted in RnF or anywhere. Because dudes, actions really do speak louder than words.

I agree wholeheartedly with this statement. Letting the cheaters off and locking down RnF screams favoritism, whereas before all this it was only questionable. Trying to muffle your playerbase is much worse PR than whatever the hell was being said about the staff in Rants and Flames forum. A forum which every EQ community ever has hosted.

It seems poor decisions are being made at the top.

Barkingturtle · #43 09-04-2011, 01:53 PM

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let me guess, when you were his age you had to march 5 miles to school, uphill both ways? then when you got home your parents whipped you and made you do family jigsaw puzzles.

get off his nuts.

Let me guess, you're in the aforementioned age bracket.

No really, you don't have to answer that. It was a rhetorical question. Ask your mommy what that word means, Junior.

Anyway, when I was twelve I played pen and paper role-playing games like DnD and Shadowrun and the list goes on and on. I used to steal books from my school's library and trade them in at the used book store for new DMG's and Monster Manuals, because when you're twelve you don't have a job. My parents didn't whip me, they nurtured me and we sang a lot. Sometimes my uncle would fondle me and I'd pretend to be asleep.

So yeah. Get on my nuts.

Humerox · #44 09-04-2011, 01:58 PM

Some people seem to be forgetting that this forum isn't opt-out.

Diggles · #45 09-04-2011, 02:00 PM

I was a beast at the table top pokemon game.

Razdeline · #46 09-04-2011, 02:18 PM

I agree. R/F is being abused. Most of the posts there go in circles, people feed off of each other's trolling. It is a never ending disaster.

Most importantly, people are saying horrible things to other individuals that they would not say to their face IRL. That is where the abuse is.

Diggles · #47 09-04-2011, 02:23 PM

there's a reason it's RANTS AND FLAMES

it's not so we can play nice and have tea like Server Chat.

Humerox · #48 09-04-2011, 02:28 PM

RnF serves its purpose. It's a very good thermometer.

It's kind of like the idea of a free press, mixed with some National Enquirer. Sometimes you just want to know.

Supreme · #49 09-04-2011, 02:28 PM

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RnF is there for a reason, and the option to opt out is present. I don't see the problem people have with it, if you don't like whats going on in there don't look.

exactly.

Barkingturtle · #50 09-04-2011, 02:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Razdeline [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I agree. R/F is being abused. Most of the posts there go in circles, people feed off of each other's trolling. It is a never ending disaster.

Most importantly, people are saying horrible things to other individuals that they would not say to their face IRL. That is where the abuse is.

It is not a disaster. It is prose on a message board, usually of pathetic construction and desperate intent. Sometimes, it's clever and dryly humorous, but even then it is inconsequential. Like Freddy Krueger or the Easter Bunny, it only has power if you believe in it.

That said, I agree that it's an absolute cesspool. That's not the forum's fault, though. Rather it's the handiwork of some of its members. The current solution is akin to inducing a coma because your patient has herpes.