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by Dio Soryu
Hello again,
I was feeling a little contemplative, this morning and thought I would write you an article. A real article. One of those meandering diatribes of thought, splayed out on the page, which I used to write for you back in better times than these.
A close friend of mine, someone who I met only after I'd quit playing this, LordRahl2 asked me to look over an article for him. I did and thought I'd check back to see what all was going on.
I wish I could say I was shocked or horrified but, indeed, everything has devolved back to where I expected it would be.
But first, let me say that I play a game similar to this one. I'm not here to convince you to play it. You probably already know about it and you'd play it if you cared. But, in playing it, I can say that all that is completely broken about this game could be fixed. The PTO's. The Economy. The War Module. Everything.
You have been under this PTO threat for two years and this has been a problem here and elsewhere far longer than that.
The fact is, if this were not what served the WIGS the way in which they wanted, they would have done something about it.
I saw Kermal's article condemning the Serbian PTO.
He's a reasonable man and he believes in reasonable means, I think.
I have a lot of respect for him.
But I'm afraid it's entirely wasted here.
The Serbians doing these things do not care if they act cowardly. These are people who rally behind the name of a man who killed for the sake of killing. Anyone who exalts a man that exterminates life so indiscriminately has no fear of being called cowardly; they lack even the basic sense of what words like right and wrong and courage and cowardice even mean, let alone the ability to consider their behavior in that context.
They're the forgotten step-children of a collapsed puppet state, desperately clinging to the United States as it's enemy not because they hate Americans, but because we were the last people to pay attention to them and the only thing they have left to define themselves by. At least, that is, the small subsection of Serbians that play such games as this with such vitriol.
There are no shortage of good people anywhere, if you bother to look.
But those here, contrary to Kermal's assertion, are indeed here to have fun. That's because they're here because it ruins other peoples fun and that is the only way a person who has forgotten how to enjoy their life can ever have fun. They would enjoy taking candy from a baby and mocking it's cries, believing they had achieved something important only because they were able to generate a negative reaction.
Then there's Ajay.
I don't have much to say about this, since anyone who is not entirely deluded already understands the mind at work there. But, I must ask... Ajay, would Ronald Reagan want to be the President if he had to throw the doors of America open to anyone willing to vote for him?
The majority of the American people don't want you to be President, that's been proven time and again. Do you have such little faith in your fellow American, that you deem any grinning Serbian to be of sounder judgment?
This is all rhetorical, of course. You're going to answer with some deflecting nonsensical statement and I am going to ignore it because I honestly don't care at all.
That's a question I'd like any thinking member of this community who considers giving that man an ounce of their attention to consider.
Rahl's a friend of mine, but honestly, I have no horse in this race.
In fact, I think you would all be better off if you stopped fighting and let Ajay have what he has clawed and lied and betrayed and cheated and stolen all these years to get.
Because I have no doubt he would fail entirely and become utterly inconsolable if he ever got it.
Consider the time and effort it must take this guy to carry out his aims and his nefarious dealings. Consider the times he's had to come back and start over and, time and again, has done so starting from square one.
There is, literally, no way this game has not defined his entire life for the better part of the past six years.
But, how much time and talent have you wasted, yourself?
You brought so much and so many dreams to this game with the intention of building something grand and what ever became of it? You managed tedious ATO effort after tedious ATO effort and had bitter fights with people who should be your friends, because parties are pitted against each other so absurdly.
How can parties compete if they must sacrifice their own independent wills? And how can a party have an independent will if doing so means the death of the nation it wishes to serve?
The businesses you carefully tended collapsed to the ground as the WIGS unleashed one earthquake after another upon sands of commerce. This can only be interpreted as an intentional move, meant to drive players away from the game's own markets and into eager arms of the Rewards Club and the only genuine difference you can make in the military module is to upgrade your Q5 Robotic Dinosaur Launcher Factory to level 7; it's only $30 this week.
This game fails to deliver on every one of its promises. New players get lost in the vastness of the sea and believe they must but climb their way to the top, only to realize much too late and long after they're too invested that there is no top. It's writhing, screaming madness all the way up. There is no top.
The only one of you that even fails to recognize this anymore is Oblige.
You all deserve much better.
Do you know who really, really deserves to live in this hell-scape?
Ajay and Serbians.
He should get everything he ever clawed and lied and cheated and stole to achieve. He should revel in his glorious victory for that first second before he realizes he has no idea what to do with it. He should watch the exodus as the America he claims to love turns its head and walks away in total indifference.
The Serbians should finally get to triumph over us foreign devils who dared to challenge the greatness of Serbia, only to realize it was just a game all along and the only way they will ever really matter is by getting over it, growing up and finding something to define themselves by rather than clinging to something they define themselves against.
They deserve the hideous wreck the WIGS have left you, because they're hideous wrecks that will collapse under the weight of their own introspection the second they stop having someone to call their devil. At least, they will if they're able to be honest with themselves.
But, above all, you can all finally relax.
No more unity elections.
No more ATO.
No more wishing you could fight in a battle you felt good about.
No more faded dreams.
No more semantic arguments with megalomaniac sociopaths.
No more stupid missions.
No more upgrading.
No more wishing you could get all this work done so you can do something fun.
No more working endlessly for fun that never comes.
No more WIGS.
No more.
You all deserve much better than this.
I'm going to DIO, now.
I'll see you all there.
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Wonderful ending!
Loved this.
Very nice. Great read.
Thank you.
I remember articles like this back when you cared about this game.
It's kind of refreshing to see another one now, even if it's because you don't anymore.
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omg Nick I'm so swooning~
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You are correct. The time for departure draws near.
Come to that other game.
tl;dr
I can haz CP?
Yeah I agree with this.
Vaya con Dio
I play for free to force the serbs and Ajay to pay more money fighting me off. Hopefully draining their bank accounts over and over again. Good times.
Honestly, I've had more fun in the last ten days in the UK than I had in the last few months in the US. All the stuff you talk about is still there, but it's so much less present that it's easy enough to ignore and just focus on screwing around on IRC and the forums.
Rest well, pedobear.
very beautiful
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" they lack even the basic sense of what words like right and wrong and courage and cowardice even mean"
and you hear something like that from an AMERICAN! Americans who are killing thousands every day in Afghanistan, Iraq, and who were killing hundreds of thousands in Vietnam, talk about what is right or wrong. o.O Your regular soldier has done more evil and committed more genocide than any of the Serbian warlords. You are truly a nation of hypocrites, everyone from a child to a grown up man.
I have never killed anyone and your assumptions about my personal views of real life politics are misplaced, irrelevant and have no place in a rational consideration of the game.
I can only assume I've struck a nerve, however, since I am encouraging people to lay down their arms against you. Why would you argue against that, unless my assertions are entirely too close to the truth?
You can keep going, but I have no emotional investment in any of this which means it will be impossible for you to make me angry. You, on the other hand, are quite easily upset.
First, you don't know me at all, and I don't know you... Second, I was talking about an american, and what he typically is (maybe not you), Third, I really don't care whether you're angry or not because as I've already said I don't know you and don't care about you... Still, you proved to be a hypocrite and made my previous statement right. Thank you.
First, I made no claims about you and only articulated the implied meaning behind your response. Then you claim not to be taking about me but that you are talking about 'an American' then you were calling 'an American' a hypocrite, but turn around in your very next sentence and say you were, after all, calling me a hypocrite and that has somehow been proven somewhere along the line (neglecting to rationally support the case).
This is how silly all this is. I tell Americans to give up and let you PTO them. Every American so far has seen the reason in this and, despite its attempt to further your own cause, you are arguing with me about it (in the most irrational way possible).
I don't have to know you to recognize backwards double-speak when I see it.
Nick there is no point in arguing with people who are brainwashed. I can introduce you to some interesting Serbs who are not like this if you desire.
I'm not sure you understand that not everyone in America is happy about Afghanistan, Iraq, and Vietnam...but more importantly...this is a game...leave RL out of it and just play the game. No need to use prejudicial language like that, saying that EVERY American "from a child to a grown up man," is a hypocrite is just flat out wrong and completely insulting.
@ LordRahl2 And what am I like? And, by the way, I'm not a Serb at all...
@Fernando He insulted the whole nation of Serbs by calling them (I don't want to repeat) in the RL. If he had been talking only about the game I would have ignored him, but what does he really know about Serbs to tell all those awful things about them? And you are right, I was wrong using the word ;everyone', I should have used 'most of them'.
Both of you are talking about only those who have RL power, and certainly not all of them.
I insulted no one and stated very specifically that I was talking about, and I quote, ...the small subsection of Serbians that play such games as this with such vitriol."
For someone who is demanding Rahl tell you what you are like, you certainly have no trouble making assumptions about what I am like, based upon nothing more than you're upset by my analysis.
First off, most of America isn't pleased with our going to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, that's just the politicians doing their thing.
Secondly, can you even do basic math? Thousands every day? War's been going since 2001, let's say it took a while to warm up... and you said thousands, let's say you mean that in the smallest way possible, 2000.... Let's go with a little over 11 years, not the full 12, round it off to 4000 days, multiply that by 2000, and what do you get? 8 million.
That's a quarter of that country's entire population. I'm quite certain even a mentally deficient 6 year old sucking on a rock would realize that this simply has not happened. Calm your tits and don't be a sensationalist, it makes it very difficult for people to take you seriously.
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Actually, I don't watch TV at all, letalone the news. Don't even own a TV or cable, I read news online from both here in the US and in the places the news originates so as to get the proper story, and nowhere does anything imply that you're even sort of correct.
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Hypocrite article, call your enemies cowards or lunatics, take a high moral ground (in politics, yeah sure..)
I'm not into whining, you hobbits should be marry anyway, but if you want to leave,
don't let the door hit you on the way out 😉
I didn't call you anything, I simply discussed the mindset you approach the game with and my estimation of the reasoning behind that.
I don't know how you consider it 'whining' to say 'this is not worth the trouble and you should let Serbia win and find something better to do', but I suppose you are entitled to your opinion.
That's exactly what you shouldn't do, cuz you'll be killing the fun in our game.
We want tears, not realisation that this is only a stupid game.
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I hope you realize what an unfortunate statement that makes about the value of your own life and time.
"realisation that this is only a stupid game. "
You know, you might yet convince me of that.
I do not think you guys understand the eUS like you think you do.
Good one!
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"These are people who rally behind the name of a man who killed for the sake of killing. Anyone who exalts a man that exterminates life so indiscriminately has no fear of being called cowardly..."
Educate yourself. People like you make Americans look dumb to the rest of the world. Get your head out of the asses of your CNN news anchors and do some independent research. You know nothing about Serbs, you're ignorant.
What I find interesting is that, for some reason, this is the first article I have seen where Serbians aren't laughing, gloating and spamming and, in fact, sound genuinely pissed.
I wonder if there's something to that.
maybe it has something to do with the fact that you are racist which generally does coincide with your ancestors who were slave runners and genocide enforcers. otoh we in serbia while enslaved by turks managed to kill white slave runners and liberate black slaves every time we had an opportunity.
You have, in all seriousness, condemned an entire nation as a blood thirsty horde. That's not trolling, that's hatred. So you've either believed the media BS too much (you're ignorant) or you're one of those Albanians/Croats/Bosniaks looking to demonize Serbs for the sole purpose of making an entire nation look bad. Human history is one huge graveyard, yet you have singled out one group of people. You should be ashamed of yourself.
The only people I have singled out are people who play this game with such hatred, and I feel the same about people like that, regardless of their national affiliation.
As I said in the article, there's no shortage of good people anywhere, if you bother to look. There's no shortage of good people in the United States too and it's unfortunate that many of you are committed to ruining a game they enjoy.
@Kortanul: I am yet to see a Serb say "kill all Americans" or gloat over a tragic event in American history like September 11th or any other day. Don't even try to equate it.
I haven't seen anyone say that Americans supported "W" in Iraq because they wanted to see Iraqis die. But I have seen claims that Serbs supported this leader or that one because they're bloodthirsty and wanted to exterminate their enemies. I repeat, educate yourselves. You think you know, but you don't.
I'd like to remind people that the Serbs are just as hateful and ready to proudly display their racism while knowing little to nothing about the US--and on eRep take every chance they get to remind the world that they hate every single one of us.
Someone looks at Serbs the same way they look at us, and now it's serious? Now shit just got real and they're pissed? How very adorable and hypocritical.
@Kortanul, sure, some Serbs are just as hateful and ready to display their CHAUVINISM ... etc, just as anybody else, probably (although more visible 'cause of the number of Serbs in this game). But they are usually labeled as idiots by Serbs, if noticed. OTOH, those trolling about "Texas is Serbia" and similar stuff are just in game trolling and that has nothing to do with any hatered. This article is, just as you said, a display of chauvinism against Serbs. I'd expect RL Americans to condemn it.
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