How did you end up in CFC OT?

[Timsup2nothin]

Timbuckstoo

I'd have used a 2, but I might have used that if I'd thought of it.

There are some long abandoned holes in the internet where I was called Passerby...I might even be permabanned at BethSoft under that name.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

What did you do

 

[Timsup2nothin]

What did you do

I was pretty unpopular there to begin with. I ravaged Oblivion pretty hard with "it looks too good to waste your first playthrough on a piece of crap game like vanilla," hammered them over their knuckling under to Valve, and routinely called them Bethesda Game Skeletons or Bethesda Mod Platforms whenever I referred to them...so I had mostly worn out my welcome. Then I watched in awe as the Skyrim forum turned into a genuine re-enactment of the civil war quest. There were a bunch of (possibly white nationalist) adherents to the Ulfric cause that were hilariously rabid and basically ratpacked anyone who showed any sympathy for the empire.

Anyway, one day the ratpack was on about how eventually the next game would show how Skyrim became the land of Ulfric and that would prove how anyone who did the other side of the main quest was just wrong, and similar blather, and things were already pretty heated. I didn't want to claim either side, since I thought the whole idea was stupid, so I suggested that the only way BethSoft could get out of the corner without having to call half their fanbase wrong would be to just have the entire province collapse into that big cave thing underneath it so in the next game they could say "the civil war ended and Skyrim was destroyed and no one knows how the civil war actually turned out."

So these fanboys who are so invested in Skyrim are not happy with the idea that I not only suggested this desecration, but was more than happy to say there was absolutely nothing about Skyrim that was worth mourning over. The boot licking supporters of the empire were best slaughtered en masse and Ulfric's racist thugs right along with them, good riddance to bad rubbish. Of course it spiraled out of control and by the time the thread was closed at least twenty people had exchanged serious flames of the never take back kind. So a moderator who was familiar with me started in on me about how if I didn't like Skyrim why was I there and I did my typical "this is a good place to spin up people who richly deserve it, like you for instance you corporate shill" and was summarily dismissed.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Anyway, one day the ratpack was on about how eventually the next game would show how Skyrim became the land of Ulfric and that would prove how anyone who did the other side of the main quest was just wrong, and similar blather, and things were already pretty heated.

Doesn't Bethesda usually go out of its way to avoid that kind of thing? I think they made it so all the Daggerfall endings were canon at the same time.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Doesn't Bethesda usually go out of its way to avoid that kind of thing? I think they made it so all the Daggerfall endings were canon at the same time.

Yeah. My analysis actually made really good sense and fit with their usual approach. Nobody ever worries about which house the Nerevarine represented, since shortly after the timeframe of the Morrowind game Red Mountain exploded and the moon fell on it so no one cared any more. Part of my case at the time was "if they destroyed Vvardenfell why would they even hesitate to cave in a drab nothing corner of snow covered hell like Skyrim?"

I was pretty proud of myself for hitting such a deep nerve that both sets of fanboys put aside there squabble and got uniformly furious at me.

 

[AdamCrock]

I was pretty unpopular there to begin with. I ravaged Oblivion pretty hard with "it looks too good to waste your first playthrough on a piece of crap game like vanilla," hammered them over their knuckling under to Valve, and routinely called them Bethesda Game Skeletons or Bethesda Mod Platforms whenever I referred to them...so I had mostly worn out my welcome. Then I watched in awe as the Skyrim forum turned into a genuine re-enactment of the civil war quest. There were a bunch of (possibly white nationalist) adherents to the Ulfric cause that were hilariously rabid and basically ratpacked anyone who showed any sympathy for the empire.

Anyway, one day the ratpack was on about how eventually the next game would show how Skyrim became the land of Ulfric and that would prove how anyone who did the other side of the main quest was just wrong, and similar blather, and things were already pretty heated. I didn't want to claim either side, since I thought the whole idea was stupid, so I suggested that the only way BethSoft could get out of the corner without having to call half their fanbase wrong would be to just have the entire province collapse into that big cave thing underneath it so in the next game they could say "the civil war ended and Skyrim was destroyed and no one knows how the civil war actually turned out."

So these fanboys who are so invested in Skyrim are not happy with the idea that I not only suggested this desecration, but was more than happy to say there was absolutely nothing about Skyrim that was worth mourning over. The boot licking supporters of the empire were best slaughtered en masse and Ulfric's racist thugs right along with them, good riddance to bad rubbish. Of course it spiraled out of control and by the time the thread was closed at least twenty people had exchanged serious flames of the never take back kind. So a moderator who was familiar with me started in on me about how if I didn't like Skyrim why was I there and I did my typical "this is a good place to spin up people who richly deserve it, like you for instance you corporate shill" and was summarily dismissed.

I not only think You're right but I love the term "Bethesda mod platforms" - which is totally true !