i just get the feeling that we have a nice 'elite click' running here and i dislike it. however i can be wrong about it. /goes look for coffee.
Heya duder!
I can understand your view - and when I confronted larch the 1st time about attacking members on here you stepped in to calm the feud - which I thought was actually pretty class of you!
As for the man himself, he's had some very interesting posts when he first started, nobody can take that away from him...but he did go about it in completely the wrong way. He sure has a passion for writing pieces on games, but he leaves no room for difference in opinion...and that's where it all went South.
I definitely don't think there is an "elite click" on here as with myBB...but I will admit that there is a more familiar feeling among those who frequent the TK. Simply because it's a "hangout" environment rather than trolling the forums with our useless dribble. That does not mean that any less respect and feeling of belonging is portrayed to those who don't hang out in the TK all day. Some of the coolest guys on here are ones who never even bother with TK'ing.
It all boils down to this: We don't have to like each other...we just have to get along. Unfortunately, instead of showing the same helpful attitude that pretty much everyone on here has, larch felt it necessary to break down others in order to feel better about himself.
We all come here to relax, managing engineering projects provides me with all the mental stimulation I could ask for in a day, so being forced to match someone's debates with it or be scolded for an uneducated answer is not exactly my cup of tea. We all share this site with hardcore gamers, extremely casual gamers - and even non gamers, so there is no point in trying to be the best.
I still feel bad about posting a personal attack on a fellow mygaming member ... that's not how we roll here. The only reason I stooped as low was because he was being everything BUT a fellow, by attacking pretty much everyone else who didn't agree with him...making it unpleasant for myself and a few others (at the very least 3 I know of) to visit the site and be met with hostility on almost every thread.
At the end of the day there is a right and a wrong way of doing the right thing. My sincere apologies if I've offended you in this whole thing, boet.