i didnt even know about this thread until fat brought it up in a PM while we were discussing the GD server, i had no clue this was goin on, or i woulda said something. first off, to TaPe's defense, and i know him rather well, he has a very strong sense of doing what he thinks is the right thing. this means that he did see this, and did post because he thought his opinions were vital to the discussion, NOT because he was coerced into supporting by someone under attack. i am completely sure he did it on his own time, and for his own sake. i really dont know what to make of all this. i told fat privately that i would support him with GD, and i plan to follow that through, but i really dont know whats goin on anymore in this community. crap like this starts goin down and it makes one wonder if he even wants to be associated with the people who line up on either side and just start firing away.
on one hand we have the fat-supporters (we all know they are there) and on the other is kinda like the underground rebellion or something. i really dont consider myself either so i am pretty objective. there are people like me who just check these forums to see whats goin on, and people who check them five times an hour. anywho, let me state how i, as objectively as possible, saw what happened here.
Fat makes a post requesting that people who sign up for GD put him down, okay, cool. in his post, he worded so it was almost the responsibility of someone who wanted to be in the community to say there name. well, that kinda disturbed me a bit, but i thought, whatever, he DID ask me personally (pm) and i said i would, so i did. i saw canes post and thought, yea i can see where he is comin from, but that was a little out of line. i saw the cane-bashing, didnt like that one bit, totally uncalled for by people who shouldnt even be in this thread (much like me right now) but they all made up, and it was good. then the crap started up again. tape apparently noticed the thread and went to defend his opinion and how it is conceivable that one may have thought the things cane evidently did. he pointed out how Mmmm does not = community, and i know personally it has seemed to me like they have tried to be the center of it. again, that does not bother me since im not weak willed and can make my own choices about which servers i play on. so this rediculous crap continues, tape and fat get into it, and i thought both parties made some good points, but in the end it was all for nought. i beleive tapes account was unjustly deleted, but my opinion does not matter in this sense. i really think the worst part about this is that it took a little over a day for something this bad to hit 100 posts.. that says it all right there. people need to step back and breathe. and other people need to stay the hell out of conversations that dont entail them.
whew.