A Rebuke

[fantasmo]

Alas, poor North King, I knew him!

You've been around since long before I turned up, and I'ma miss you. If you don't come back someday, I'll hunt you down and murder your family.

 

[Insane_Panda]

I'd agree with the provision that the term "nooblet" is not to be interpreted literally; many new NESers are NOT nooblets, whereas some old NESers are (don't mean anyone in particular here).

I would agree to that. NESing of old was hardly very advanced compared to today.

ORDERS (*secret*):

- Grow economy.
- trade.
- invade using 5 men from the north.

 

[Luckymoose]

I would agree to that. NESing of old was hardly very advanced compared to today.

ORDERS (*secret*):

- Grow economy.
- trade.
- invade using 5 men from the north.

Hey now sometimes I use short orders like that when in a rush. I have seen you do it Panda. Some people however come in and do 1 line orders every turn after the mod hints at them to change. You know who you are.

 

[Reno]

Farewell, NK.

 

[silver 2039]

I'm inclined to partially agree, but not completely.

See you around regardless....come back for Das's next NES whatever it is.

 

[Kozmos]

is the fact that fresh starts are dying.

BS if this was true, it would mean victory for the modern forces. Fresh starting will return again, annoying as ever.

...

Anyway as the resident forum 'nooblet I've sorted through the rest of your ranting crap and I have come to the following diagnosis and conclusion:

CRAWWWLING INNN MYY SKINNN!!!

These wounds they will not heal.

How could this happen to me!?

You my friend are going emo. If you get depressed from logging onto an internet forum, there something wrong with you. You have 3 choices:
a) get some
b) get drunk
c) get drunk and get some

I would recommend c. I have made it clear to my friends whenever I start going emo, they should kick my ass and they did once(for that I am grateful to them). Dont get me wrong, I am not happy by any NESer leaving, but until you relinquish your emo kid status, you are banished from the forum!

Should you fail at recovering your NESer status I'm afraid that suicide is your only option. Good Luck!

 

[Sheep]

This forum, as a whole, is failing. Failing at keeping my interest, failing at keeping my dedication. Mods are scarce these days (good mods, I should say), and their job isn't eased by little buzzing players who do their best to try and annoy them into an early grave. Worse, from my perspective, is the fact that fresh starts are dying. Iggy's and Farow's NESes are the only ones I can believe with confidence will survive more than a few months, and they have hit some slow times. The rest of them are either failing in surviving past their troubled births, or worse, miscarried in the first place.

Then you have the fact that it seems like all the majority wants is a modern game, which I never really liked: why on earth do we insist on replaying the same old scenarios over and over? Why do we have to see France / England / Russia / Germany / Japan / America dominate the world again? It's not going to change much: a few players might be different, the era might be off by a few hundred years, but alternate histories on this forum are by now, clones of each other. I respect others and their effort, but his effort is the only truly creative force on this forum, at least consistently: he is the only one whose timelines actually vary from the standard. Yet even he cannot be god, despite what some may think: alternate histories will not change, will not become interesting, until we have a truly alternate history, one which doesn't replay over again, and we need new brains and new ideas for that. That, I fear, is something that will be a long time in coming.

I agree, we really do need more variety, otherwise you will see more and more people leave.

Lastly, we come to this somewhat nasty little diatribe, which I hope you'll forgive me for. The players in today's NESes are simply awful. We're lazy, slow, and mediocre to a fault. We send in orders late, if at all, we complain when the update is not exactly when he said it would be. Not all NESers, no, but the majority of them are whiny brats who have been spoiled by too many good mods. I can see why most of the old generation left: there's no real spirit in NESing today. Yes, roll your eyes if you must, for I am going into that moronic metaphysical crap.

Although I have myself stooped to the level of the mob at times, I agree....

NESers don't play to create these days, they don't play for love of what we do here. The average player desires nothing more than an all-out wargame romp, where they can endlessly throw their soldiers around the room ad hoc, without any kind of logic behind their actions. They want to go on conquering until they are defeated, boast about their great victories, then write hundred word, three paragraph "stories", then claiming that they are obviously not playing to win, for otherwise they wouldn't have written them. This is, of course, garbage. Players don't care about their nations. They don't care enough to invest time, anyway, nor real thought. The suicidal stands and charges, the random backstabbing, the constant attempts to claim the other person is being "unrealistic" when, indeed they themselves have thrown all sense out the window: it's getting ridiculous, and that's what defines this generation of NESing. (Don't bother trying to provoke me into arguing this paragraph; what's done is done, and little you or I can do will change it.)

Momentary flashbacks to Egypt in stjnes4 and longing sighs of a lost love.

Some people will say NESing is "flourishing", but that's only if a man on a heart-lung machine who still has a few spasms of brain activity can be called "healthy". NESing is a saddening arena, and I get depressed every time I log on the forum. It has to stop, and I am stopping it. Right now. Hence, for three months or so, I will say good bye (and I would not be surprised if people said good riddance in return).

In three months, though, if I still remember the URL, I should be returning... Because I have one last thing to do before I "die" on this forum.

Farewell. I wish luck to the mods.

Thanks!

 

[Insane_Panda]

Hey now sometimes I use short orders like that when in a rush. I have seen you do it Panda. Some people however come in and do 1 line orders every turn after the mod hints at them to change. You know who you are.

But did I post them in a thread with little *secret* tags appended to them?

Although I have myself stooped to the level of the mob at times, I agree....

Ugh, Though I am so superior, I myself have too deigned to stoop to the level of the commoners.

 

[das]

I think I'm on the brink of doing it right now... I'm an elitist myself, but frankly I don't see much of a "mob" around here. The MAJORITY is okay; its just that the most annoying minorities are, as a rule, very vociferous and all too easy to notice - that's part of why they're annoying.

 

[Insane_Panda]

Yes. But if you beat them down enough times in a NES it might knock a little sensibility into their heads

 

[Kozmos]

What mob? I struggle to find any kind of mob on CFC at all. Yes there are a few idiots but that's it.

 

[das]

Yes. But if you beat them down enough times in a NES it might knock a little sensibility into their heads

Don't have anything against that, only against generalisations and against elephantisation of flies. That said, the suggested methodic doesn't seem to be working yet; another reason why annoying people are annoying is that they're also very persistant (natural selection...).

 

[Insane_Panda]

I agree with you das, my comment on Sheep's quote was thinly-veiled sarcasm.

 

[das]

I seem to recall you, North King, Symphony or some other great NESer saying something along the line of "sarcasm doesn't travel well over the Internet", a while ago. That said, I suspected it might be.

 

[Insane_Panda]

I think that might have been me, commenting on when someone did not get yours or someone elses sarcasm.

 

[fantasmo]

Yes. But if you beat them down enough times in a NES it might knock a little sensibility into their heads

That's mostly worked on me. I have a degree of sanity, however small, thanks to y'all beating down on me in NESes. Thanks.

 

[alex994]

You can't forget stormy's anthraxing of Australia as well

 

[fantasmo]

That was my fault, and the first lesson I learned. Don't store your anthrax in big warehouses above ground, it's inviting trouble.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

yeah its cuase the collage that was supposed to cover for us didn't want to go into the kitchen and we ended up with a double shift

Maybe if some moderators started not abusing people who send simple orders.

*coughs raucously*

 

[Insane_Panda]

Maybe if some moderators started not abusing people who send simple orders.

*coughs raucously*

Maybe if some people spent time to write proper orders (seeing as running a nation is no small task) when others in the game already do they wouldn't suck so much.