CHURCH!! AMEN!
Also, Rikuto, just watched that stream on the viewer side (via youtube)
little rough around he edges but you took those notes I gave you and ran with em, very very impressed, Kat needs a bit of work but i'm very very impressed man. Informative
a bit of entertainment and rarely dull, for a first timer I could definetly say keep at it, you've got sumn here. (Secret shout to brian, good pick, I was skeptical as hell, but good pick)
-C1
Thank you for the direct criticism. So much of it is just getting into the right mindset and recognizing "This is what you are supposed to be, now be it." Going from the anti-socialite who sits in a dark room all day to someone talking non-stop for six hour stretches is a massive change of pace.
Blind praise can give ya that warm and fuzzy feeling inside, but it's not especially useful for anything I might attempt in the future should any situation like this present itself again.
Well, I guess the morale boost is a
little nice. Glad it was considered acceptable by any standard though... as folks have been saying, it only gets better as time goes on, so I'm not terribly worried anymore.
At first, I wasn't sure what you guys were saying, but then I remembered you have JR on ignore. Basically he's going off saying you guys were doing just as deceptive stuff as Manny is blamed for because you didn't talk about the tournament as soon as you heard about it. Neither did Manny though, and I know that Bryan actually went out of his way to let it be known the week earlier instead of what he was originally told to do and not even announce it until the day of.
Blaaah... ok, as they like to put it,
real talk.
JR still doesn't understand the differences in motivation between Manny and myself. I went specifically to rep the community and gather more information than we had. The trade off was performing a job and agreeing to certain terms. Manny, on the other hand, went specifically for his own personal benefit just like he does for every event. He was not nearly as interested in the game mechanics itself, in fact he didn't even know what a critical burst was until we told him.... despite him having full access to that build. In fact when I asked him, he said he "I don't even know why they are in the game, to be honest". He just couldn't care less.
Now am I above
attending a closed event with money involved, that has already been set in the stars as
going to happen? No. I am not. And neither are any of you.
I shouldn't be above that either, because I've damn well earned my stripes by now as far as competition goes and if someone is getting a shot at that I would at least like to fantasize I rank high enough to qualify as one of them. It is certainly my preference that all events be open, but I'm not some corporate bigwig and I don't get to make those decisions for other people.
I
am above
monopolizing a closed event, however... Manny isn't. I think all tournaments, regardless of how closed, should have
some form of legit competition going on... otherwise it isn't really a tournament, now is it? Manny would just prefer to cut everyone dangerous out of the picture so he can reap the rewards in a guaranteed fashion. His nature does not reflect my own.
I like money, sure. Who doesn't? But I feed off of the glory of competition a hell of a lot more. Money is worthless if you have no real title to back it up... just means you're living in a dream world.
That's a pretty big difference.
If JR still just can't accept the concept that we are different people, then he probably never will.
