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[pwnface]

MechWarrior1086091, on 28 September 2015 - 09:38 AM, said:

Inb4 insanely meta crutch mech pilots poke alpha'ing and then bragging about "skill"

Inb4 QQing LRM T5 player crying about meta players.

[Escef]

Soulstrom, on 28 September 2015 - 10:43 AM, said:

So do you want to compete?

No. I considered looking into if I could swing it with my work schedule before, but quite honestly, after this thread? Pass.

[Scout Derek]

Escef, on 28 September 2015 - 10:48 AM, said:

No. I considered looking into if I could swing it with my work schedule before, but quite honestly, after this thread? Pass.

So because of one thread that rubs you the wrong way makes you not want to compete?

[Escef]

Scout Derek, on 28 September 2015 - 11:05 AM, said:

So because of one thread that rubs you the wrong way makes you not want to compete?

There are ways to support charity that don't involve offering positive reinforcement to behavior I disapprove of.

[Scout Derek]

Escef, on 28 September 2015 - 11:08 AM, said:

There are ways to support charity that don't involve offering positive reinforcement to behavior I disapprove of.

Alright then, guess we'll see you in the next MRBC tourney then.

[Water Bear]

Scout Derek, on 28 September 2015 - 10:00 AM, said:

That's just from your point of view, others see it as humor (As I do), or just something to read up on.

And mine. I could be wrong, but if he really was joking then he should have explained what he meant when a lot of us took it the wrong way. "You guys need to lighten up" might be true, but it also doesn't excuse confusing speech.

I didn't even realize he was referencing a tourney in his OP. Could he be using an official tourney to whack-it about his tier? Sure.

[Dino Might]

WarHippy, on 28 September 2015 - 08:17 AM, said:

You sure have become uppity since tiers came out. You need to chill out man because nobody actually cares.

It is possible that I may be reading a lot between the lines, but I think I am right when I say that, to me, it appears El Bandito is using some clever demagoguery to entice people to sign up for an event that is, at its core, a good thing. I like his post because he is taking a commonly negative force in the forums and using it for good. Well done, sir. I appreciate what you're trying to do.

[WarHippy]

Scout Derek, on 28 September 2015 - 10:45 AM, said:

You're overlooking one thing:

If he's being smug about it why would he add this to it? :

Him offering to put his money where is mouth is doesn't preclude him from being smug. I like El Bandito from what I can gather from his posting history on the forums over the last few years, but my original point about him being uppity still stands regardless of his good intentions by attempting to get people in this tournament with his tongue in cheek banter. As with most things there is a right way to do something and a wrong way to do something, and then there is the PGI way of doing things(which is just the wrong way with less communication).

[Dino Might]

Water Bear, on 28 September 2015 - 11:26 AM, said:

I didn't even realize he was referencing a tourney in his OP. Could he be using an official tourney to whack-it about his tier? Sure.

I haven't been following a lot of"Days of our MWO-Lives" on the forums, but I think he's doing the converse of this. I think he's using the tier-discussion-bait as a way to entice people into the tourney. To that I say, thumbs up, as explained above.

[WarHippy]

Dino Might, on 28 September 2015 - 11:53 AM, said:

It is possible that I may be reading a lot between the lines, but I think I am right when I say that, to me, it appears El Bandito is using some clever demagoguery to entice people to sign up for an event that is, at its core, a good thing. I like his post because he is taking a commonly negative force in the forums and using it for good. Well done, sir. I appreciate what you're trying to do.

My response to Scout applies to you as well. Not everyone caught onto what he was doing. If it was his intention to do something good by playing the fool so to speak he didn't do a very good job at it. End result being a lot of extra noise in this thread taking away from what could have been a good opportunity to advertise this event instead of making it about his ego.

[Ezazel]

Wow some people actually got upset by El Bandito's humorous opening post. Lol. They must be T5 scrubs who wouldn't have a snowball's chance in hell against Bandito, or anyone else for that matter.

[WarHippy]

Ezazel, on 28 September 2015 - 12:07 PM, said:

Wow some people actually got upset by El Bandito's humorous opening post. Lol. They must be T5 scrubs who wouldn't have a snowball's chance in hell against Bandito, or anyone else for that matter.

Yeah, I'm sure that is it.

[Deathlike]

My weekends are precious.

Precious.

[Dino Might]

WarHippy, on 28 September 2015 - 12:00 PM, said:

My response to Scout applies to you as well. Not everyone caught onto what he was doing. If it was his intention to do something good by playing the fool so to speak he didn't do a very good job at it. End result being a lot of extra noise in this thread taking away from what could have been a good opportunity to advertise this event instead of making it about his ego.

I get what you're saying, but this event has been advertised other ways, and he's trying to use a different tack. It's like those car commercials that don't show the car until the very end.

The whole point was to appear as troll-bait to get more clicks.

[Soulstrom]

Dino Might, on 28 September 2015 - 01:36 PM, said:

I get what you're saying, but this event has been advertised other ways, and he's trying to use a different tack. It's like those car commercials that don't show the car until the very end.

The whole point was to appear as troll-bait to get more clicks.

At last! Someone truly gets it! You my friend are just a magical human being.

[Dino please make sure to check your message box when you get a chance. ]

Edited by Soulstrom, 28 September 2015 - 01:42 PM.

[KharnZor]

People actually took the OP as serious?
Get over yourselves.

[Steel Mike Eels]

Rhaythe, on 28 September 2015 - 08:46 AM, said:

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Good lord, can we talk about something else on these forums anytime soon?

I shed no tiers....

but to the OP I say this; It's not how you win or lose, it's how you place the blame

[El Bandito]

Deathlike, on 28 September 2015 - 01:29 PM, said:

My weekends are precious.

Precious.

*Proceeds to play grind-fest event for 300 MC.

[Deathlike]

El Bandito, on 28 September 2015 - 05:24 PM, said:

*Proceeds to play grind-fest event for 300 MC.

I didn't bother. At best, I'll just qualify for 20 games (currently 19 qualifying) for the BK grinding I've been doing.

I didn't buy the pack, so it's not like I'll gain the measly 100MC (currently 95MC) that I would get.

[El Bandito]

Deathlike, on 28 September 2015 - 05:43 PM, said:

I didn't bother. At best, I'll just qualify for 20 games (currently 19 qualifying) for the BK grinding I've been doing.

I didn't buy the pack, so it's not like I'll gain the measly 100MC (currently 95MC) that I would get.

I meant the dastardly Territorial Challenge.