History Repeats Itself
Stormin EwokJedi
This game just continues to run itself in circles and we find ourselves in another one now. I’ve been told plainly that ever going against “I, Patanok” would be a problem because of his influence and power in this game. It’s always been weird to me that in a game people play for “fun”, fear of other players still exists. This was the same back with Emerick and St. Krems, the same through many other circles of elites, and I guess unfortunately it still exists. Well if my game ended tomorrow it could be better. As Barker and Dinnyin always mention, sunk cost fallacy. For all I know, he might find all of this hilarious and if so, glad he’s enjoying the game!
Let me be clear, he will probably by all accounts be a good POTUS but it doesn’t really matter. The election is already decided and he’s your next POTUS. What still rubs me wrong is that things are still so secretive in this game. All of the people in the know realize who he is. Many won’t admit it in public but it’s no secret on discord/telegram. I missed him during my active playing days but I’ve always enjoyed reading news articles in this game and he sure has many about him. He’s deeply entrenched into multiple power circles whether it’s the WTP and Chicken or other parties. Hell, he’s close with some people I call game friends. What I am calling out is why we are still hiding who we are in a GAME. Gnil was like a bomb that went off with Krapis and scandals. We don’t need any more hidden personalities. There are so few of us left. Just be open with who you are and everyone moves forward and works together.
Patanok is no longer the powerful French born eUS Tank he was for years. Now it’s perhaps the ultimate shadow player in the eUS, none other than WO himself. I hope he has a successful term as POTUS (or perhaps terms) and hope he does work on activity inside our community. His behind the scenes work rate is applauded by all who have been in the Exec so that's not going to be an issue. It’s just easier to do when cards are on the table and the people who AREN’T in the know, know a bit more.
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This is one of my feelings that push me to even prefere to waste a vote for Dominar in these elections.
Never forget that that player is so delusional about what is real. unreal, game, not game that his R/L father has died twice so far.
Never heard of him. A French player said he bought the account.
Just more deceit and dishonesty from the power players in the eUS community.
Why hide who you are?
Like you said it does not matter, it has been decided.
The best part is those who screamed the loudest about Gnil/Krapis are fully endorsing WO.
Hypocrites.
All SFP does is vote with the power players.
SFP has endorsed every player that has said they have WO in their cabinet for months...
You know everything SFP does, that is amazing.
Just go away and worry about your own Party.
Oh and just to add I do think BSP happily endorsed CG for CP a couple of times.
One of WO's biggest cheerleaders.
People in glass houses.....
Party arguments and favoritism will cost all sheep dearly sheep WAKE UP! you should Vote or call on what you think is morally right! not what yo leader says! everyone acts in there own interest how do you know that interest is objectionable to your own? you WAKE UP! and thing morally for yourself. Common sense is not always common but if its true its finds a voice with you!
LMAO
Perhaps also because there have been no one else willing to step up and do the work.
Your party supported GnilKrapis for CP. You and your party leadership knew it was Gnilraps. And none of you had any problem with a cheating player engaging in deceit and dishonesty when he was doing exactly what you're complaining about right now.
You also knew so you pointing out that SFP knew is just FN petty...
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Any of the concerns about the wigs getting wiggy about the truth of accounts etc. is unfounded because like we had IRC way back in the way back, between telegram & discord. There we can be completely open and laugh about it all.
It is one thing to begin playing, maybe some of your friends play, you start to like the game and really would love to be a tank or higher level air fighter now, instead of waiting years to build up. So, you buy an account via various methods. We all understand that and tolerate it. Of course the wigs do not, and we understand that too.
However, in some cases, the player may feel that they need to hide behind someone else's personae and is deliberately deceiving other players. They may be employing several methods to even play both their original and purchased account and sometimes several more. The concept behind these actions is to not have to answer to anyone for past misdeeds, lies and bad decisions. Some players have issues and enjoy the manipulation and deception, it is it's own game. This can grow to an extreme. We have all seen this in both it's benign and toxic form and have witnessed to damage it can cause. Some people are cruel, perhaps on a personal R/L level they are not balanced and have few or no boundaries all the way to behaving in a way that could described as a sociopath. We have all seen that and I'm sure there are always a few real head cases creeping around this game, seeking opportunities to cause harm and spin a web of lies that are believed, hence providing the manipulating player with a feeling that he got over on someone or a group. It is a matter of degree and reason that defines whether or not a player who is doing these things is having some weird fun or is really unhinged and have no boundaries in terms of hurting others.
So why does this matter? Who cares? Well, as described above, the wigs see it as last income. Other players, even if they don't do it, often tolerate a fairly new player taking a shortcut to a higher rank etc. In terms of the players who no longer want to be their original selves because they screwed up in some way, acted horribly, or was just a jerk, that is readily accepted as the infamous American second chance. All of these situations have been well tolerated since the beginning of this game, except by the wigs. It is the player who in their twisted brain is manipulating others to feel powerful and to fill some R/L void or it is a reflection of an unhealthy personality problem.
I know of a player who's name I won't mention, who seemingly has had a complete mental freakout over several months while going in and out of several in game persona's. This person has crashed and burned his R/L family & career while destroying all in game friendships all while hiding behind several American leadership positions and personalities. This is hardly the most toxic one but a good example of why this matters. None of us want to have any part of that mess.
In each situation the specific reasons matter.
So between now and primary then election time we must evaluate if this is a toxic situation, a person manipulating to get over for power and mental health reason or is this just some internet fun?
TBH: I am not sure about this one. I have seen some red flags that this is going to lead to a disaster with our allies. Many of you know that I believe we are wiped every summer because we tend to be older players and do not get the summer burst of activity that many other eNations do. It seems that it is sport to wipe eUSA every summer.
My question is about the true loyalty of this player and our alliance as we rapidly approach summer. If by supporting this candidate are we accepting a real risk of disloyalty and being throw under the bus at the onset of summer. Never forget the long slow ugly fluffer rage quit that put us in the worst situation imaginable.
I like when we are on easy street, I hate needing to buy weaps and food to survive. Let's be certain that this is a safe choice, a trustworthy choice. We currently have a good thing going, lets not take crazy risks.
WOW!!! this is well thought. and VERY! appreciated YES I totally agree that there have been ALOT of suspicion where non should be and alot of concepts that should have laid ground work and did not. Animis you are limiting yourself with comments this is congress worthy I hope you have posted it or Excerpted this in its entirety. P.S. I care! lets move this along.
Hi Stormin,
Thank you for the article. I have been honest about my identity over Discord and Telegram over the past year or so, as you mentioned, and thank you for doing this in-game. Truthfully, this was something I had struggled with, and it's probably best that it's out there like this. I would like to be referred to as Patanok going forward as this was a fresh start for me - and I've worked hard to make inroads with all eUS players, something you experienced during our close cooperation with me when you were Federalist PP.
Animis: I was instrumental in picking this alliance and intend to stick to it long-term. And while it is pertinent of you to mention the wipe, you should not forget that we had five stable years (which led to the wipe) before that.
Thanks,
Patanok
YES, you are completely correct. I tried to approach this from a very broad perspective. This current election will be a good one and I know you are well connected and the eUSA can count on you. As this is hardly the first CP race with not well understood players, it is my hope that we always look carefully about the candidates and ask these important questions.
"Close cooperation". We spoke in detail on two occasions well over a year ago...twice. Don't use revisionist history with me to try to support your new "fresh" game attempt. The last time I wrote to you over a year ago your response was, "Why are you messaging me."
I did not make this article personal and am hoping that isn't necessary. Now that we know who you are, I'm fine to call you Patanok if that's what you want. But the idea that this was a fresh start for you is exactly why I wrote this. It's not and you are being obtuse. Everyone in your circle knows who you are as you've admitted. You were only deceiving those who aren't in the know which is why I wrote what I wrote. Getting a fresh start with half the player base but deriding all your power and support from those who know you are using a new account is the issue.
Giving WTP a Deputy Speaker of House in exchange for supporting a Fed Speaker of House is exactly what I'd call close cooperation which is what we did.
Who tf is WO?
Wild Owl
Thanks
One thing is for sure, nobody could ever mistake me for a power player XD
Same account for 12 years and I forgot it existed for 8 of them.
We got wiped. We disgraced ourselves. We lost huge amounts of population. A bunch of snickering backroom-dealing jackasses -- of which Wild Owl was and is one -- spent years scheming and lying to people to jam the country into an alliance the majority did not want, and where we still don't properly fit. And now we're locked into it, with no freedom to maneuver. After their handiwork was done most of them disappeared, leaving a few behind to clean up the mess THEY created. Were it not for Voots spending money through the nose we'd still be a weak laughingstock. No thank you to any of it. We really should turn the page and look for other people, new people who haven't demonstrated they are scheming, lying trash to lead things. They might even inject some new energy into the game and the country, rather than spending all their time and effort sneering with their buddies -- many of whom are in other ecountries, and where their real allegiances lie, anyway. These people don't care about the eUS -- the game for them is about themselves and their group of friends.
As above, so below.
YEAH! to Voots!
Guess it goes to show how checked out of the game I've been that I never heard Patanok was now WO, lmaooo
or, well, WO is now Patanok, I guess
Whoever is whoever one should not be without the other 🙂
Having Patanok aka Wild Owl back at power would be devastating.
Wake me up when Pfeiffer comes back....
That's the old spirit!
Remember when free Willy goes back to the ocean at the end of the movie? That’s kind of like him when he moved to Vermont. To be with his far left kind. A very moving moment
this joke is not only insipid and stupid, it also suggests you last heard a joke in like 2000
Who are you?
I remember Ronald Gipper Reagan However! WHAT?
I am pretty sure he is here already...
Is it you?
Yes
You smell like Pfieffer. You talk like Pfeiffer. You wear the same shoes as Pfeiffer. You wear the same glasses as Pfeiffer. And you have Pfeiffers drivers license in your wallet. We know.
Arrden, WHO?
Believe I admitted that I am Pfieffer. No need to get your panties in a wad.
@Franklin You're Dru Blood. And before your Dru Blood account got banned for cheating your first account was another name that I can't remember. But after your first account got banned for cheating you came back as Dru Blood. Then after that you came back as Franklin Stone.
I have been Cold Hearted Snake, Drew Blood, Dru Blood, and Franklin Stone only one of which was banned for cheating. Drew and Dru were both banned when Pfieffer used his influence with the wigs to get them banned. Plus I have never hidden who I was...
Thank you for getting this out into the open. While we may all understand wanting to make a new start, people do have a right to know for whom they are voting, or not. Many newer players may not know or care what old players are playing under a different account or name, but those who remember our eHistory For some players, character is not important. For others of us, it is everything. Toxic game play can and does hurt real people.
WO's main account (https://www.erepublik.com/en/citizen/profile/7035406) has been died for half a decade and as far as I know he has never misrepresented himself. This isn't exactly the scandal that you are making it out to be.
lol.
He has played under other accounts that he has purchased.
I believe Dark. was the name of one that he played a little while back.
And if he has never misrepresented himself then why hide behind another bought account?
I remember when you made a huge deal about Gnilraps using a new account...typical demercrat.
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