Metal Bunny

Is it possible to ask for something and then... not reveal your desire to others?

I have doubts as to me being active this year. Is the awards system to look at overall holistic activity and average trend, which include simple day to day conversations and walking around, etc? Or do you regard it more in terms of any instance of activity, in which an intense burst of activity is more important? If it's the first, then no. If it's the 2nd then perhaps. (I haz a lot of school stuff )

Collective action problem; there is no incentive to wait, as there is no guarantee that it will be there next time, as everyone has free access.

Wow this is derailing fast and looks to be counterproductive to the point and goal in mind when this topic was made by its creator. "I'm not going to just tell you what to do, Grido, because I can only tell you what I would do. I want you to do what you would do. " Really? Didn't he already do that? Doesn't that premise include the possibility of a return to old behaviour, implying that yes, while his behaviour (as you seem to have deemed it necessary as to require 'redemption' of sorts) may change as a result of this topic, that you are kind of trapping him? I want you to do what you would do.. That's like a (now ex-) girlfriend saying to me that 'if you don't know what you did wrong, then there is no point in me telling you'.. [spoiler]In case you didn't get that, it means that admittance of fault is not really admittance of fault if defendant is not aware or does not acknowledge fault, especially since, looking at this poll, the defendant has a majority support... What you want is a bent knee, you're not getting it[/spoiler] I sincerely hope you see the discrepancy in that..

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yay!

I've been here longer than most and this is.. I think.. topic (in spirit) number 3, maybe 4. Don't get me wrong, all I am saying is, is that it has happened to other people before and yes, they left. I never did that, even though I would meet people who would annoy me more than a mosquito bump on your buttcheeks. The realization I had however, was that, MD is much like people in real life, except that in the greater majority of cases in real life, you can't just quit the game, or at least, the overal greater majority of us don't. Why? Because walking away from those people and ignoring them is so much easier. It takes some time to get used to just ignoring people, and yes, it does lead to the problem of cliques and inside cliques you can have the same s**tty drama as well. However, as older people may have I realized in the way that I am active in MD, is that there is a way to strike a balance inside of MD's social networking. Another problem with ignoring people is that, you somehow feel like you are cheating yourself off of MD time and that you're actually stuck in this habit of going on there and discuss or get annoyed and fight, etc. But this is something everyone faces. There are causes to pick up and fight for, and then there are causes that are a hopeless cause and should be ignored. Wisdom here comes not from others' advice, but knowing yourself more clearly as to who you would ignore naturally... Don't you ignore me, young lady.. Anyway.. uh.. yeah, any time you deal with people, you should just treat them like people. It's what I did with.. a [b]lot[/b] of people, and they are all gone now, yay

Aeoshattr, if I am correct, sorry about that, and I'll try and find the others, lol

Oh, he already contacted me, I can't find Aeo, Neno and Jason.. I'll just keep 3 aged angiens in my inventory at all times

Chewett is the antithesis of internet, as he shows us that spam works..

Buuuh, I can't find Jason, Aeon, Ivorak and Neno.. Can anyone tell them that there is an aged angien waiting for them?

Yash please, also, if you have picked, but can't find me, kindly go afk at the berserker's way, so I can more easily find you and pm the ctc's to you.

About morrel and blackthorn, they were good players, but they were far too inactive far too quickly in my opinion. I also agree on Eon being better than Eden in those aspects, however, that doesn't mean that the standards for being good in Eden's days were far lower (as you said, combat gets harder, so the subjective criteria has to be relative when looking to the past) and harder to reach (Wodin held the crown for an excruciatingly long time, making it more of a 'shock' of what Eden did). But I agree, if it weren't for Eon objecting to being nominated, I think I would have had a harder time deciding. Also, so far, only rhaegar has chosen to pick creatures from the creature pool.. does that mean that.. no one else wants the creatures?

Eon is still relatively new and Eden did get some powers (Role and rpc remember?), but the new part didn't really count so much with me, it was mostly that Eon was quite persistent into not wanting to being named legendary, which made me discount the new part more. In a sense, it seems to be clear to me that if Eon keeps going like this, then next year shall be a different call. Curi.. yosh, same-ish as eon and what you said. So uh.. yeah same with BFH? lol.. Correct again, their qualities are very hard to quantify. Tengri doesn't count that much as he was more of an alt and all the rest what you said. Rhaegar, well, in my opinion a quest that many others have done in the name of newbies, along with the savelites (which was abandoned) and the rebellion (which failed), I have to stay by my negative judgement. As for Granos, well, I sorta know of what he did, sorta.. lol

I am alive, was in China for 4 days, am now in a debating tournament in Rotterdam as preparation for the European University Debating Championships in Ireland, so I am excruciatingly busy. More free time will arrive on this upcoming Saturday, which is probably when I will finally fully reply to Chewwy and it is probably the day when I will give out as much of the rewards as I can.

I have items ID 20, 21, 22 and 23. I traded 24 (lettuce)

Now we're just annoying other people with 2 of our offtopic comments, lol. Moderators, feel free to remove pip's. Not mine though To at least keep a semblance of on-topic-ishness. Anyone got any idea if Jester will even deign to respond to all of this?

I knew that when I was about to go to bed, that I should've continued the line of thought that started with 'but I haven't heard from Jester about this yet', but hey, this is the internet, so go ahead pip . Besides that, you are doing the exact same thing on your last part; assuming that the link between the Tribunal and Necrovion, simply because Mur said so, somehow validates him leaving as a citizen and becoming one of another land. Seeing as how this is the internet, I will ignore your 'something to ponder' and 'even if my memory is wrong'. I will ignore it, because that is how internet arguments go. Seriously, Granos said it before, why would I have to repeat it again pip? Does every post have to end with, 'Let's hear from Jester first', just so that we can all be certain that no one overlooked this fundamentally important thing? C'mon, I don't want to go offtopic and I usually only want to write /new/ things on a topic. Well, I say usually, but annoying you is funny too. So let me please use this opportunity to end with the words; 'But let's hear from Jester first.' *Cough*

I don't see the problem here on the side of Firs' side, simply because joining an alliance is possible, without formally joining the alliance. Indyra for instance, holds a noteworthy position inside the GG alliance, even though she is the head of the guild. In this sense, being the head of a guild, and not being in the GG alliance and then delegating tasks to the other guild members, shows her priorities, but also her preferences, both of which are highly compatible. She is guild leader first, then a warrior part of the GG alliance. Only when a conflict of interest would arise, would she choose for the guild, but since this will most likely not happen in the short and mid term future, it delivers us no headaches. Now, there is always the possibility that Jester or the alliance never contemplated that people could still be part of an alliance, while formally not being so. But since the bonus from the alliance in stats, alliance chat and alliance leader jump and alliance invite, are things that are not at all that very important, it should be a simple possibility. The more important things, such as access to alliance forum and thus inclusion to, oh I don't know, everything the alliance is about, are not dependent upon actually being part of the alliance in the first place. Another example, I help protect bob and have access to the forum section for bob, but I don't want to join Bob's alliance, simply because I wish to show that my priority and preference lies with GG first and then with bob. However, it is a wonderful combination and I see no conflict of interest arising. What Jester is doing however, by becoming a citizen of another country first, he is showing the 'wrong' kind of priority or preference, as to what 'should be expected' of a monarch. As Firs stated earlier, in this scenario it becomes quite likely that conflicts of interest can show up quite quickly; is Jester a vassal, since he must obey the laws of another land, making all other Necrovions vassals as well? Then again, I haven't heard from Jester yet, so maybe he didn't realize that you can be part of an alliance, while formally not actually joining them.

Don't worry Chewett, I am still planning on replying to you, but I haven't had a lot of time yet (exams ) Anyway, I kindly ask everyone who got into the deathmatch trivia, to place their desired rewards here, so that I may organize and deliver it to you better, once the Treasure Keepers send me the codes, etc. Remember, higher rank, first pick.

Just a quick update,I don't really have time to properly respond to chewett now, but I'll try and get Udgard and Granos together at around 20:00 server time.

Of course the way I judge them is flawed, as it is an entirely subjective judgment, which is why I ask people to argue with me. However, simply saying that it is flawed doesn't really help a lot, now when you say that she does help newbies a lot, then I would normally argue against that, as I have seen him be quite offstandish and isolationist and I concluded that such behaviour impedes realm-influencing acts. But it does seem that (not just you), others say that she has been helping people out. And, yes, it may seem that I put up a higher emphasis on helping out newbs, however, it is not actually the case. I argue that simply because we were having a discussion about it, that it seemed to you that it were the case, if I truly did put a higher emphasis on it, then surely, I would've put that in with the 2 previous, more general arguments. Besides that, I believe that helping out newbs is integral to the 'influencing the realm' part and that while the latter may not include the earlier, the opposite is certainly true. Lastly, the cases we were talking about, were right on the 'I'm doubting so much, it may as well be a coinflip' middle, as such, helping newbies becomes marginally more important.

Mmmh, you are right in those cases, so I'll try my best to explain a bit. For one, achieving Monarchy is not enough, I realize that, however, the difference is that Handy Pockets was elected. An election requires far more effort, than simply being born into a dynasty. Feel free to dispute this. As for Indyra, Windy and Sagewoman, I have seen that, besides what they have done, is that they helped newbies. While one may argue that W&S didn't do much, they were also influential in the way Loreroot's government behaved, as well as being old in comparison to the others up there. Now, I don't count age as a real argument, however, their age, unlike Vilinec, has been put, consistently to good use, through the help of newbies (throughout all of their days, which is a lot.) Now, Indyra is almost constantly in the paper cabin, so I have added that to her alliance achievements. Besides that, I also took into account that her guild is the first of its kind, which, while not necessarily as special as the 'first alliance', it still counts for something. Lastly, if Indyra had not been selected as the leader of the guild, she would have been chosen for a higher postion in the GG alliance, which would force us to change the name of the 'triumvirate'.. what's it called when it's 4? Regardless, unlike some other governments or guilds, she is clearly visible and does influence the realm. As I said in my previous post, I was in pure doubt about Innocence, Mya and Fyrd. The way you put it, I have begun re-doubting the already shaky positions of Mya and Fyrd. I believe I had underestimated Mya's position, because her position in the government of Loreroot, as well as when helping newbies, should put her in the same position as Indyra. I do believe I have a bit of bias towards Loreroot, though I have no real reason as to why. So, yay, I think I'll put Mya on the legends list. (I did say it was a coinflip before.) The same goes for Fyrd, he also has been helping newbies, I just haven't seen it a lot of times, giving me a bias to correct for. So yay too? As for Innocence, (I'm not certain if you read what I wrote correctly, because the way you end makes it sound as if I had put Innocence in the legendary category), I must argue against your reasoning, because while she (he?) may have done valuable things, her (his?) isolation impedes him severely in the sense that all his other achievements are lessened as a result as well. In this sense, the only bias I do have is against his isolation, but I believe that this bias is justified and as such he is still in the toss-up=not legendary (yet) category. In contrast, all others do freely and willingly mingle and influence the realm on a nigh daily basis, as far as I know, Innocence has consistently done the opposite to his detriment. Again, isolation can be a good thing, you just have to do it properly, and so far I have not seen a really good example of how isolation can lead to a legend. (with perhaps the exception of Z, but one can argue that the PoL is a busy crossroad and as such, isn't really isolation.)

Argue here and yes, there are discrepancies, but that's only because of the 2 'general' arguments and because no one is really making a big case for or against people here. But go ahead, convince me

Happy B-day!