Sisyphus

I never claimed that I wasn’t petty. I don’t doubt that you are vain enough to dump your time into the effort.

If you actually had access to enough information to understand the full context, you’d understand my frustrations.

I’m not saying the people that made the community up were bad. I’m saying Buorhann offered nothing but “ “personality” “ to enrich it, so if he wants to compare track records, personally or based on alliance, he’s not going to come out the other end looking very qualified. I appreciate your attempt at being controversial, but I’m afraid you don’t know enough about Buorhann’s communities nor mine to comment with any real substance.

You should really stop trying to come up with your own analogies and stick to common and time tested idioms and turns of phrase. Because you suck at creating your own analogies, and that’s not conjecture!

You probably should go to bed, I picked up on some of that but you didn’t express your ideas as clearly as you could have. Also most of this is blatant conjecture on your part.

We can expect something and be appalled by it just the same. What common denominator? Providing too much benefit of the doubt and having the sense to be apologetic and course correct when we find we’ve strayed off course? And why should it be left up to your speculation? Why wouldn’t they plainly state the intention there? Why bother with all the manufactured bluster when there is real, pure motive there? It’s quite obvious and plain that they weren’t even considering their motives deeply enough to even feign as much concern about our part in all of that history. Especially when you note they were colluding with Sphinx and Camelot to pull it off. Makes more sense to me this is a forward-looking cold play, based on collective fearmongering and opportunism than anything more substantive.

Maybe I’m reading too far between the lines, but definitely seems to me like you’re here to back up the “Quack Bad” narrative in some form or fashion. (My money is still on you playing purposefully obtuse.) it’s a narrative that simply falls flat, the only remotely aggressive thing we have done is deliver justice to UPN, and even then we scaled our involvement relative to the opponent. We’ve made no concerted effort to expand our sphere beyond original members and home-grown protectorates. We’ve maintained no aggressive stances toward any rival spheres and have been focused on internal growth and development (to an impressive effect, particularly in regard to member growth rates and well-developed communities). So it seems quite plain to me that the current coalition that has formed against us must be completely misguided in their paranoia or acting out an aggressively cynical ploy to disrupt our affairs. In short: Our opponents are either paranoid fools or willfully performing their narrative in an attempt to justify their blatant plotting and aggression, particularly when making comparisons between Quack and IQ. The bit that rubs me the wrong way is the absolute farce of it all. Why not just openly admit your intentions? A cynical play to attack a rival without CB. To pretend otherwise is a play more in line with Roquentin’s approach to politics than anything I’ve seen coming out of Quack.

Meh, I was trying to be roundabout and cheeky about how generally unimpressive you are at cultivating and maintaining communities and how your only motivation for being here right now is a senseless fear response based on nothing substantial. I’ll just stick with a direct approach: Your Econ and IA is middling (at best) with alliance building and your fearmongering and saber rattling is either 1.) Paranoid and misguided or 2.) Willfully obtuse and opportunistically cynical. None of these factors culminating in a good look for you.

I mean, you wanted to reminisce about the past and how it applies to the world today. I was just curious is all.

Oh that’s right. Decaying, as I mentioned earlier.

We haven’t. We’ve been focused on individual internals and Quacksphere proper as a policy. We haven’t wanted to expand much beyond that in a general spirit of good faith to the rest of the community and have turned down some nice opportunities to participate in outright curbstomps without a proper CB. I don’t see how it’s such a transgression against the other spheres that the allies and home-grown protectorates we’ve had on the whole have turned out to show great growth and development since the last global ended. We have been operating on a mostly “wait and see” approach before determining whether or not it would be necessary to get involved in a major conflict. And it just turns out that plotting an informal coalition to take us down based on nothing more than fear isn’t something we were willing to tolerate re: TCW and HM.

It doesn't take much from you to see what you're about. And you should be envious because your sphere has been slowly decaying around Grumpy's ankles for two years now. Where is that alliance you were leading when last we spoke?

I am fooled.

You in particular came in here and immediately compared us to one of the most toxic groupings of players this game has seen. And other compared Partisan directly to Roquentin who is arguably one of the worst players I've ever had the displeasure of obstructing and undermining. Buorhann is back in the game now, and as belligerent and bullheadedly off-base as ever. Don't talk to me about "civility". You obviously weren't concerned about that as soon as you got here. I smell envy.

It's too coherent to sound like Roq. The sheer amount of willful ignorance I'm picking up from HM in particular is honestly laughable.

The Syndicate didn't headquarter in Nassau to not absolve ourselves of all knowledge pertaining to this incident.

Ayyyy lmao I'm so glad that that BK died but so happy that BK didn't die and we can be a part of its latest form.

Congratulations!

It wouldn't be a proper TJest campaign without the entire AA disappearing over night by the end of it all.

*Acquisitions Intensifies*

I hope that everyone thoroughly considers the fact that the suggestion for Partisan as a member of the dev team got so many thumbs up reactions vs thumbs down reactions on discord that you would be fools not to hire him.

They'd have to be absolute idiots to even attempt at poking holes in this CB. It's rock solid.

DESTROY THE PURPLE MENACE

The & has it's own AA now. Sometimes when you aren't getting the recognition you deserve you just have to strike out on your own.

Well intentioned advice is not the same as intentionally frustrating and harassing for months while cheating in an attempt to force player attrition and actively coerce communities into disbandment.