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[Drakaris]

Not sure how it top slots for some people (Beastagor for example), but there are some weird spell stacking bugs, like shadowknight epic heal showing the heal buff with disease cloud up.

[Drakaris]

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

Not sure how it top slots for some people (Beastagor for example), but there are some weird spell stacking bugs, like shadowknight epic heal showing the heal buff with disease cloud up.

*not* showing the heal buff.

[Potus]

Bond of Death line has hilarious invisible/dancing buff bugs too.

[Cid]

Drakar, I don't mind if my name comes up in an argument. I have no problem dealing with anger and animosity if need be, I merely disdain being asked to choose sides or being used as a positive or negative example of how one should act.
I am unlikely to act or react in the same way another would because I am a complete and total weirdo in comparison to anyone I have met. I am not sure you could make me angry even if you wanted to, plus I am usually inebriated.

So, yeah, criticize me, slander me, praise me, hate me or love me, or hell even make shit up about me if you want. I assure you, it will have no affect on me.

Also, everything North said is accurate. We met on Live when I was the guild leader of Hostility and have become good friends in the intervening years. I keep in touch with several members of the guild, most of whom live on the east or west coast while I live in the middle of fucking nowhere in Texas.
I will always consider North my friend, even if he no longer does. It's just how I am. If anyone doesn't like it, well, as I said before, I will gladly give my life for my friends, so a little angry disapproval is perfectly acceptable.


P.S. Character deletion duels are incredibly stupid. Random number generators decide the outcome, not your muscle or your brains. Whether you wind up the victor or the victim is meaningless unless you give it meaning. Be you proud or pissed over it, either way is equally stupid from my perspective.
Plus I would have intervened on behalf or either one of you if you actually planned to delete your character over a duel even if the only course of action was to delete one of mine in exchange. You both just need to smoke more weed and take more Prozac and try EQ with less emotion and more enjoyment. You don't melt the wheelbarrow because you lost to the thimble in Monopoly, do you? Fuck no, you might want to be the wheelbarrow again in the future.



If people have to duel to measure dicks and want some real consequences, like the BS with character deletion (which never happens), you should pick something the GMs can and would enforce. Try a temporary title for the loser like "Soandso's Bitch/Slave/Lackey" or something else both Public but Temporary. There are tons of humiliating things to choose from without losing weeks, months, or even years of effort on your toon. And when you wind up on the losing side, you'll think it's a great alternative.

I will gladly volunteer to be the guinea pig. Slap a title or surname on me that says Sirken's Bitchboy or something, I don't care. It's just a game and if anything it will probably amuse the hell out of me.

[Drakaris]

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

Drakar, I don't mind if my name comes up in an argument. I have no problem dealing with anger and animosity if need be, I merely disdain being asked to choose sides or being used as a positive or negative example of how one should act.
I am unlikely to act or react in the same way another would because I am a complete and total weirdo in comparison to anyone I have met. I am not sure you could make me angry even if you wanted to, plus I am usually inebriated.

So, yeah, criticize me, slander me, praise me, hate me or love me, or hell even make shit up about me if you want. I assure you, it will have no affect on me.

Also, everything North said is accurate. We met on Live when I was the guild leader of Hostility and have become good friends in the intervening years. I keep in touch with several members of the guild, most of whom live on the east or west coast while I live in the middle of fucking nowhere in Texas.
I will always consider North my friend, even if he no longer does. It's just how I am. If anyone doesn't like it, well, as I said before, I will gladly give my life for my friends, so a little angry disapproval is perfectly acceptable.


P.S. Character deletion duels are incredibly stupid. Random number generators decide the outcome, not your muscle or your brains. Whether you wind up the victor or the victim is meaningless unless you give it meaning. Be you proud or pissed over it, either way is equally stupid from my perspective.
Plus I would have intervened on behalf or either one of you if you actually planned to delete your character over a duel even if the only course of action was to delete one of mine in exchange. You both just need to smoke more weed and take more Prozac and try EQ with less emotion and more enjoyment. You don't melt the wheelbarrow because you lost to the thimble in Monopoly, do you? Fuck no, you might want to be the wheelbarrow again in the future.



If people have to duel to measure dicks and want some real consequences, like the BS with character deletion (which never happens), you should pick something the GMs can and would enforce. Try a temporary title for the loser like "Soandso's Bitch/Slave/Lackey" or something else both Public but Temporary. There are tons of humiliating things to choose from without losing weeks, months, or even years of effort on your toon. And when you wind up on the losing side, you'll think it's a great alternative.

I will gladly volunteer to be the guinea pig. Slap a title or surname on me that says Sirken's Bitchboy or something, I don't care. It's just a game and if anything it will probably amuse the hell out of me.

I 100% agree with you, unfortunately North was shit talking in ooc and challenged me to a 1v1 duel for character deletion and kept calling me a pussy, then took it to the next level when he made an IRL attack. I bit the bullet and accepted his offer, adhering to his terms, in which he got destroyed.

I know he wouldn't delete as I know he is not a person with a shred of integrity.

[Cid]

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

def did not read

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

I think you mean "def cid not read".

You are both correct. I did not read the entirety of the topic as I usually do, only the part where Drakar and North exchanged insults and accusations. I have, unfortunately, read enough topics on this message board to hazard a safe guess as to the rest of the contents, and did not see a purpose in reading nearly 200 posts only to comment on their situation.

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

I 100% agree with you, unfortunately North was shit talking in ooc and challenged me to a 1v1 duel for character deletion and kept calling me a pussy, then took it to the next level when he made an IRL attack. I bit the bullet and accepted his offer, adhering to his terms, in which he got destroyed.

I know he wouldn't delete as I know he is not a person with a shred of integrity.

He and I have pissed off one another a few times, so I can imagine the reasons for the challenge and for accepting it while in the heat of the moment. Since I was not present for the catalyst to this conflagration I cannot condone or condemn either of you two, but I can call character deletion duels idiotic.

Just don't allow yourself to get drawn into the situation because, as you can see, it usually winds up unresolved and in public where both sides are joined by supporters and haters and both of the originators wind up looking bad.
Even if the person was my antithesis and I was actually able to hate them, their entire digital existence does not, will not and cannot equal even a fraction of the value of my time and effort. Do not let a person you dislike shame and/or manipulate you into it. Just laugh and tell them something like that and walk away.

North and yourself are both good people even if you, and all your haters, are unable to see that side of each other. I can and I wish you fuckers could be friends, though, I would gladly settle for cordial animosity.

For example, Retti is someone I sincerely dislike and he probably feels the same, or possibly hates me. I have no desire to insult or shame him, and even if I was a 1000 to 1 favorite in a deletion duel I would consider the risk too great in exchange for a chance to erase his toon(s).
I am unsure what he believes the definition of meatball to be, but I do my best to just ignore him and find myself amused at his quick and constant replies to everything I post as though he lives on the forum or maybe he believes I place importance on his opinion.
It is very likely I could humiliate Retti, considering that I have always had eloquence with words paired with a long-winded nature which few could match. When I was younger and less controlled I shamefully enjoyed publicly destroying people and made dozens of men and women cry on EQ and forums, caused several officers to disband from their guild and even a guild leader or two. I have even spent a month convincing a friend to play again after snapping on him and making him quit EQ instantly after he had played since the Classic launch. Even years removed I am ashamed of my actions and though we are still good friends I carry a permanent sense of guilt.

I mean that in no way as bragging, but as a hard learned lesson that it requires far more effort to walk away. I may be disgustingly nice now, but I used to be a cruel and violent person with a temper so uncontrollable I came close to murdering at least two people, one of whom I tried to beat to death with a 2x4 in the middle of class in highschool for hitting me in the head with a pincushion. I managed to regain my senses before I caught the person and I was terrified by what I had mindlessly attempted.
I have not allowed myself to lose my temper since and spent the better part of the next decade trying to learn how to be a calm, kind and compassionate person. Walking away is not easy, even for me and a tiny part of me desires violent revenge but fuck that part of me.

Ok, I have gone beyond even my normal elaboration so I will wrap it up. Fighting is the easiest path to take but the least likely to help. If you have to fight or want to, then I encourage you to do so, just without the emotions invested. Even I have attacked people when forced to do so, just not killed them.

Do NOT give someone the power to affect your mood or emotional state. We all get angry, but hatred and rage can be more damaging to the hater than the object of their scorn. Let it be Player versus Player and not Person versus Person as the game was meant to be. Neither smurf blue nor blood red but something in between savage and civil.

[georgie]

def did not read

[Farzo]

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

def did not read

I think you mean "def cid not read".

[Eslade]

Did read, dude makes sense.

[Mac Drettj]

god that guys the biggest meatball ive ever seen