[Look, Listen, and Learn: A TKR Joint]

Much like today’s desolate landscape of media garbage, there needs to be a serious injection of genuine, unbiased truth around here. Sketchy wants to refer to an old post about How to Be Dynamic. That’s fine, spread the propaganda, it’s half the game after all. But let’s take a look back at what TCL said about our new FA direction one short month ago. I’ve taken some key points that everyone needs to consider, and outlined them below. I’ll be (relatively) brief.

1.       We hold a certain responsibility to lead by example: Obviously you all feel that way as well. Pick a better target, they said. Make it worthwhile, they said. How many people on the OWF decried our target within the first few hours? Pages of dissent racked up in less time it takes for Durmij to cream jeans with his shower pics.

 

2.       We've been speaking with alliances all around to drum up support: This is what I find most mindboggling. I can’t fathom how people are failing so hard at comprehending this. Everyone thinks there's some grand conspiracy. But in reality, we’re looking for new alliances wanting to spice up the game, which is exactly what we said we were going to do. And now people are surprised we're talking to so many people from all around Orbis?

 

3.       We’re doing this both for our alliance and the community at large: This is pretty self-explanatory and related to point #1. The narrative, on our end, has always been that we are taking steps to make this game better for everyone. And as a reminder, that requires, in some way shape or form, to talk to people from every corner of Orbis. Scandalous!

 

4.       We admit that we are not alone in the actions that led us to this current political climate: Hey, guess what? We helped add to the stagnation. IQ exists to displace what they viewed as the hegemony in the game, the damned EMC. EMC disbands, TKR cuts treaties. IQ becomes the hegemony. Somewhere, I once saw someone say IQ lived long enough to see itself become the villain instead of dying and being the hero.  Which is a good segue into the next point…

 

5.       It isn't necessary to consolidate power [and we hope] alliances are less constrained by the tangled web we've woven for ourselves: We cut ties with some long-time friends because we are serious about this direction. We had our share of paper, too. And along with the EMC dissolution, we sought to distance ourselves from that sort of MO in hopes of fostering this new dynamic we’ve been talking about. However, IQ continued to sign paper after paper after paper. Everyone has commented on how dynamic that was. Meanwhile, TKR is still talking to…gasp… everyone in Orbis to try and get this show on the road.

 

6.       We are willing to defend this ideal as far as is needed and hope to forge relationships with others who share this ideal, but we know we cannot do this alone: Now, more than ever, TKR is being lambasted for our direction, or more specifically, our actions regarding our direction. I feel pretty strongly that there have just been far, far too many miscommunications and misunderstandings about it all. I’ve been told by respectable leaders that we should reconsider this silly idea and reevaluate our options. While I empathize with their position, and appreciate their input, we don’t feel that is necessary. However, a thorough explanation and reiteration of our plans is (apparently) needed. And obviously, we can’t achieve this goal on our own. Which brings me back to my own points (my condolences). 

 

There are two false narratives out there right now. One being that the EMC split was total BS, and the other is that we are looking to join IQ. First of all, that’s just a false dichotomy, plain and simple. It’s not an either or situation here. And as TCL mentioned, trust building will take time. But how else do you build trust other than by talking? We said that we wouldn’t stand by hegemonic activity as part of this new direction, so why on earth would we want to join IQ? We seek to end that hegemonic activity and free up a lot of potential within the community at large, i.e., we accomplish our mission. TKR has taken steps to improve this game and end the stagnation. EMC split to end the hegemony. What have you done to improve the dynamic we all joke about? Essentially, IQs goals were completed, yet they now seem content to keep signing paper left and right and consolidate their own power. If you don’t like hegemonic activity, join the movement we discussed a month ago. It was a fairly well received idea then. Yet none of you acted on it. But all of you complain about us trying to implement it? 

Yes, EMC is gone, and no we aren't trying to join IQ. We welcome alliances from all corners of Orbis to join us in this movement, not just from the IQ corner. They are just one part of the community, as well as one part of the conversation. We welcome them as we welcome everyone else who wants to dispose of The Stagnosphere. Just because we talk to them doesn’t mean we want to be them. We want to free them. We want to free Orbis. We helped create the problem, and now we want to fix it, plain and simple. There’s nothing nefarious going on here, folks. Maybe there have been PR mistakes/misunderstandings, but all of this ^^ is truth. So, please, take that truth and do something constructive with it, and let’s get back on track to a better more Dynamic™ Orbis shall we? 

[Joint Declaration of War on Arrgh!]

4 minutes ago, Kastor said:

And you got meme’d to death and beat up by a 23 man alliance and your allies are trying to make a major move by hitting Arrgh! You can have several seats.

AO wasn’t even a thing 172 days ago. 

Nice ad hominem fallacy 

And I didn't say anything about AO m80 

 

And I was just giving you a hard time, tbh. I don't take myself that seriously 

[Joint Declaration of War on Arrgh!]

7 minutes ago, Kastor said:

We want meaningful wars. Not IQ bullying 2 Paperless alliances, then needing to bring TKR to finish one off.

Please tell the class what meaningful steps you've taken in the past 172 days? 

[Joint Declaration of War on Arrgh!]

2 minutes ago, Buorhann said:

I don't quite get this move at all.  It's a terrible one.

If Polaris, TUE, and Cerb cannot handle Arrgh when they're already knee deep in raids and battles - then what's the point?  TKR alone can handle Arrgh, there's no need for TKR to do a joint attack unless it's for political reasons.

So let's go further with that - TKR is interested in building relations elsewhere, that's obvious, they've never hidden that.  Why would they be interested in building relations with alliances that can't handle Arrgh on their own while Arrgh is busy?  It's like reaching down at the bottom of the barrel in quality of alliances here.

I can understand hitting Arrgh.  Arrgh are frustrating as hell to deal with due to their constant raids on other alliances, but wow...   This?

 

And @Senry brings up a good point.  The whole militarization and upkeep just for this?  You guys could've just had a few nations build up fully and hit alongside with those other 3 minor alliances.  Just as support to see how those other 3 alliances can handle their own military.

Man, you know damn well that TKR membership, and others, have wanted to attack Arrgh for quite some time now. 

You can understand people wanting to hit Arrgh... But.. You can't understand why they would go through with it? 

I guess I see what you're saying, but at the end of the day, we wanted to hit Arrgh, and so did they. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. The more the merrier. And they're good people, so that's great, too 

In regards to the cost of the build up and so on.. I mean, ffs Orbis. Make up your mind. Do we want there to be wars, or do we cower in the corner worrying about the upkeep/militarization costs/infra? You can't have both. 

2 minutes ago, Verin said:

you took time out of your day to call us a waste of space, i'd say that makes all our efforts worth it

Don't you mean a culture victory? 

[Another Lordaeron Post]

There's so much protection in Orbis. 

Try it raw sometime,  eh? 

You'll enjoy yourself more, and we all don't have to keep reading your posts. 

 

Win-win 

[Dear TKR - A Partisan message]

1/10

1 point for the effort, 0 for execution. 

Swing and a miss 

[Politics and Jam]

5/7 would read again 

[Better Late Than Never]

Hello to all of you in Orbis! 

I'm with TKR, and I've been here for about a month now, which I know isn't long. But makes for a long overdue hello! 

I have spoken to some of you from around the world on discord, and I look forward to getting to know a lot more of you. Cheers!