Naming Policy

[Starklen]

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

I'm still not mad, Starklen. I was sincerely amused that you went after my randomly generated elf name in Google. I could seriously care less if my name was changed to another randomly generated elf name; this is just the one people recognize me by. I don't even particularly like it. People always called me Al or Ala and I think those are both kinda clunky names.

You, on the other hand, were obviously quite pissed off when I called you a mouthbreather. Mouthbreather.

Hermit.

[yaaaflow]

Also it's sad how me and alawen always used to get along really well [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] You tell a dude that he's acting like Hasbinbad and suddenly he hates you for life [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Alawen Everywhere]

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

"Reasonable" is subjective and it's been stated multiple times that the name is fine by people that actually have the power to make that claim so clearly it doesn't violate it. Do you realize, and this isn't a flame about you, just a statement of fact, that you try and pass off your (often biased or flat out wrong [in the case of the shaman questions thread where you said only Ogre shaman can solo things like Lodizal]) opinions as fact or do you honestly believe that everything you say is the unfiltered truth?

Yes, I actually do realize it. It's called confidence. It is not my job to remind you that I am capable of error. I gave my opinion about shaman races and it was sincere. If you find fault with my strong wording, then you find fault with it.

I actually think you're pretty bright, Bagzan. I don't think you'll be in IB six months from now after you figure out all the unending bullshit in that guild. I didn't start out despising that pile of shit. I was dedicated and loyal. I suspect you will travel a similar path.

[Alawen Everywhere]

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

Also it's sad how me and alawen always used to get along really well [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] You tell a dude that he's acting like Hasbinbad and suddenly he hates you for life [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I wonder if it has occurred to you that I am not Hasbinbad, that I don't have his radical mood swings and authority issues and that I didn't raise hell within the guild for its own sake. Everything I did or said within that guild was marginalized until I ceased to give a fuck.

Log in some time and do /who all inglo. I guarantee that you will recognize less than one third of the names. Do you think that's because everyone who has left are uncontrollable assholes? Or do you suppose it's because the management treats the membership like entry level McDonald's employees and churns through new members at a similar rate?

You chose to alienate me. I've never had a particular beef with you.

[Autotune]

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

I wonder if it has occurred to you that I am not Hasbinbad

Wait, you're not Hasbinbad?

[Bagzan]

It's one thing to have strong wording, it's another when your wording goes from opinion to a statement of fact when your "fact" isn't really a fact and merely an incorrect opinion.

Believe it or not, but at the end of the day I really don't give a shit one way or another but the fact of the matter is you came out and called out individuals and an organization for something that is within the rules, reasonable based on the people in charge opinions, and overall completely pointless and irrelevant. Then you started off on random tangents that didn't address points and calling people names like you were getting into a fight on the playground in kindergarten; you're a mid 40's year old man who obviously wants to come across as intelligent (based on what and how you type), stop acting like a petulant 7 year old that didn't get his way and now has decided to throw a fit because of it.

[Bagzan]

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

Log in some time and do /who all inglo. I guarantee that you will recognize less than one third of the names. Do you think that's because everyone who has left are uncontrollable assholes? Or do you suppose it's because the management treats the membership like entry level McDonald's employees and churns through new members at a similar rate?

This is totally an accurate way to judge, because you know, every other guild has had a totally static membership base. You could say the exact same thing about every single other guild on the server, and frankly, on live too.

You're grasping at straws that aren't even there, Alawen. Stop digging for your own sake.

[yaaaflow]

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

I wonder if it has occurred to you that I am not Hasbinbad, that I don't have his radical mood swings and authority issues and that I didn't raise hell within the guild for its own sake. Everything I did or said within that guild was marginalized until I ceased to give a fuck.

Log in some time and do /who all inglo. I guarantee that you will recognize less than one third of the names. Do you think that's because everyone who has left are uncontrollable assholes? Or do you suppose it's because the management treats the membership like entry level McDonald's employees and churns through new members at a similar rate?

I actually think it's mostly because classic EQ just doesn't have that much content. I have kept in touch with a few IB dudes who stopped playing around the same time as me, and we are all a) excited to come play again for kunark and b) happy that we will still be valuable, well geared members of IB once we do start playing again.

Classic EQ just doesn't have all that much to offer after a while imo. I've got a few level 50 characters, had undoubtedly the best geared mage on the server until I returned my dragon loot to the guild, killed every single pre-sky raid mob with 3 groups or less. I've got manastones, full sets of rubi, thex daggers, you name it. I "beat" classic EQ a long time ago, and once I beat a game I lose some of my interest in it, like most people do.

Once kunark comes out I fully expect IB to continue to be the dominant raiding force on the server. Can you really blame the people who already beat the game for stopping playing it and waiting for new content?

Also once Hasbinbad and Reiker were both removed from IB I never felt anything remotely like "Or do you suppose it's because the management treats the membership like entry level McDonald's employees" but I don't tend to take shit from video games too seriously so maybe I just wasn't seeing it.

[zianlo1]

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

I actually think it's mostly because classic EQ just doesn't have that much content. I have kept in touch with a few IB dudes who stopped playing around the same time as me, and we are all a) excited to come play again for kunark and b) happy that we will still be valuable, well geared members of IB once we do start playing again.

Classic EQ just doesn't have all that much to offer after a while imo. I've got a few level 50 characters, had undoubtedly the best geared mage on the server until I returned my dragon loot to the guild, killed every single pre-sky raid mob with 3 groups or less. I've got manastones, full sets of rubi, thex daggers, you name it. I "beat" classic EQ a long time ago, and once I beat a game I lose some of my interest in it, like most people do.

Once kunark comes out I fully expect IB to continue to be the dominant raiding force on the server. Can you really blame the people who already beat the game for stopping playing it and waiting for new content?

Also once Hasbinbad and Reiker were both removed from IB I never felt anything remotely like "Or do you suppose it's because the management treats the membership like entry level McDonald's employees" but I don't tend to take shit from video games too seriously so maybe I just wasn't seeing it.

Can I have one or two of your manastones and maybe a full set of armor for a rogue? Toss me a pm here, thanks! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Lazortag]

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

I didn't respond to you because you're simply not interesting. It was clear what bandwagon you were part of with the silly pop culture references of both your guild tag and your forum name. The dialog you wanted to have was extremely obvious. Going through the exercise of that dialog would have been tedious at best.

Do you feel more respected now that I quoted your post and typed some words to you?

What the fuck? What "bandwagon" am I on? What does my guild name or forum name have to do with any of this? I thought my forum name was just a silly misspelling of a shitty game, but according to you it has some hidden significance. Why is it that me supposedly being on a bandwagon makes it so you don't have to respond to anything I say? Bagzan stated it pretty well:

Originally Posted by Bagzan

It's one thing to have strong wording, it's another when your wording goes from opinion to a statement of fact when your "fact" isn't really a fact and merely an incorrect opinion.

Believe it or not, but at the end of the day I really don't give a shit one way or another but the fact of the matter is you came out and called out individuals and an organization for something that is within the rules, reasonable based on the people in charge opinions [sic], and overall completely pointless and irrelevant. Then you started off on random tangents that didn't address points and calling people names ...

This is a 100% accurate description of your involvement in this thread. You go about making massive overly complicated posts qualifying your silly views with words like "clearly", "obviously", etc. to try and pass them off as fact, and when people point out that most of your concerns were entirely irrelevant, you ignore them and just keep repeating yourself. Later you actually tried to tell us that what you were "really trying to say" was that there was an inconsistency in the application of this policy to player names and not guild names, when you actually never, at any point, said anything of that nature.

Holy fucking shit Alawen, are you for real-reals, or just for play-play?