- Shai Hulud
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- Exalted Mythic Member
With B.B. gone, the passion of Bungie.net has lessened.
The following comes from my mind, all of it true. Yet my mind knows that the vast, despicable majority of you won't care to read. You'll just flame me and call me a whiny -blam!-. You'll tell me to leave, cast me out, so on and so forth. What I have to say is, once again, something that needs to be said. Something felt by many, but expressed by none.
I've been gone for some time now, and I did say I wouldn't be back. Perhaps that makes me a hypocrite. In a sense, though, I didn't leave. I still have many connections to this community, and I do keep in touch by reading the forums every now and then, to see if perhaps some day, this internet cityscape would again serve as a place of escape and solace.
Half a year, and no real change. The only, little change that there has been was just an increase in those who make this site less of a community, and more of a random collection of people who fall into what really are just high-school clicks. I'll tell you what those clicks are, not naming names, but if you really know me, you'll know who I think fall into those groups:
1.) Instead of teachers' pets, we have Bungie suck-ups. Those who scream "I want be modzorzhax" because they feel they have contributed something valuable to the community (Hah! I laugh). This group also includes those who want to shield Bungie or the Mods from the negative. One could argue that they are fanboys, righteously going to the defense of a good (great, even) company, but missing the point of the opposing argument entirely. Like the teachers' pets, once they face a slap of reality (a bad grade, analogous to being banned by a moderator or Bungie admin), they crumble, cry, and beg their way back to the "community."
2.) Rather than jocks, well, we have those who troll, flame, -blam!- about lack of required skill in Halo 3 matchmaking (AKA Halo 1 Pistol Jockeys). I don't have much to say about these people, but their ego tends to get in the way of reason. Like Brutes, "they must love the smell of testosterone."
3.) Popular folks. Yep, they're here too. Not popular for any particular reason, but I guess they must have the charisma to be loved by many. They really just don't contribute to anything, other than buying Bungie's games.
4.) Nerds and Weirdos. Ironically, in my experience these are the ones who actually contribute to the community. The weirdos are weird for the sole fact that they actually see reason, and they don't blindly follow what the popular people do, or what Bungie says. They think. Nerds think as well. Nerds, though, are more "into" the games and the storylines. They're the ones that beat story nearly to death, and have fun doing it. Analyzing every single word that might be a hint of foreshadow.
5.) Not exactly analogous to high school, but the Mods are a noticeable part of this so-called community. The moderators are, however, split up into two main groups. Those who do their work, and those who don't. There are variations on the individual level, but for the most part, there are the mods who just ban those disobeying the rules because that's what they should do, then there are those who don't really do anything, and really should never have become mods in the first place.
This place really is like high school, socially, but on the internet. Bungie is like the stereotypical principle that, although it cares about the students (or community), it really doesn't listen to what the people that do think are saying. Why don't they listen? Because the rest of the community treats them like -blam!-. Hence, we get Bungie publicly flaming their community in things like the Whaaaambulance. It's funny, and personally I'd like to see it stay... But I question how professional it is. It is nice, however, to see a company come down to the level of the consumer. It makes it so we can relate them a bit more. The people who make the Whaaambulance "cut" fully deserve to be there.
So where do we go from here? Should the community, if you can call it that, continue to -blam!- and moan, fanatically defend, or be here just because they can? Or should the community at least try to break it's endless childishness?
I'm going to end by saying that I find it disgusting that so many of you criticize things that quite simply are not the way you want them. The games aren't such-and-such the way you want them. Bungie doesn't treat you the way you want them. One thing that you'll learn in life when or IF you grow up, is that things simply aren't the way you want them, and you have to accept that. -blam!-ing gets you no-where. Bungie responds with an "appease," and then all you do is -blam!- more. Doesn't that say something? It's like asking for cake, and then getting pissed off because someone put sprinkles on top because they were nice.
With that being said, I jump into your flames not with flailing arms, but with a smile on my face saying "I told you so." I am here to embrace your ignorance, if only to better myself and use it against you.