Say whaaaaat? What is going on here?

[Rikuto]

Ironic, the same place you hoped to get paid is the same place you swore up and down was destroying the competitive community.

" I love the CGS" Rikuto murmured to himself, voice dripping with sarcasm, as he sat on stage at a CGS event, defeated, cradling locks of his once attached ginger mane. "I'll get em next year though."

Hindsight is 20/20 for most but you're free to view it through whatever prism you like.

Try as you might to hold yourself to a higher standard and put yourself above it all whether you fall in line on your own or on someone else's say so, you did it before and when big money comes within your reach you'll do it again.

Are we done, because I'd love to bookend this thread with an insightful monologue/summary.

The game was sitting on the executioners block the entire time it was at CGS. You may have recalled that some of us wanted better things out of the show. These things never came. Knowing that "it was what it was" and we were fighting a battle we had absolutely no traction in, it came to the point where the only two options left were to take advantage of the situation and go for the money, or ignore it and focus on other things.

Are you suggesting that I am somehow corrupt because I took an irreversibly bad situation and gave it my best shot like literally everyone else was doing? I didn't have my spot guaranteed, I had to compete in a flawed format. I knew this going in.

So please point out the part of your venomous drivel where I "fell into line" as I've yet to see it, even though you keep repeating it's there. I'd think a sarcastic remark out of myself was anything but that. At no point during CGS's lifespan did I ever stop and say "yo dawg, this is legit".


See you presume to know my intentions, despite everything I've ever done. Your presumption is wrong. You have no evidence of anything, just a baseless hunch with a ton of inconsistencies. That isn't the same as a decades worth of bullshit coming out of Master.

In your mind, see, everything IS about the money, so that's all you can see. It's like that because you're the same kind of lazy backyard hero Master is that never got off his ass and traveled for the love of the game or competition. Your world is fucking small, and because of that you know next to nothing about me, or what drives me.


And also, no. That isn't the irony. But you'll figure it out eventually.

 

[Raansu]

*sigh* this is never going to end.

 

[Rikuto]

*sigh* this is never going to end.

Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.

 

[Allan Paris]

Jim Butcher sounds like a smart man.

 

[Berzerk!]

Lets just dispell one myth, CGS wasn't big money. It was like a part time job.

For the team that ends up winning, sure, great bonus. But lets not get so caught up in the "money corrupts" side of it. I kept my fulltime job while I was in CGS because it just wasn't a viable alternative. Plenty of people realised that. It was a nice extra/sideline thing in terms of steady remuneration.

Anyway, blah, old history.

 

[Raansu]

Jim Butcher
"Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference."

The argument is just going to go in circles and will never end because neither one of you will allow each other to get the last word in. This shit you are arguing about is in the fucking past and everyone knows what happened and everyone knows CGS was a garbage format and everyone knows who the real top players were. If JR wants to be stupid about it, well "You can't fix stupid." So let him be stupid. DoA5 is around the corner, let's worry about that instead.

 

[Relius Starkiller]

So please point out the part of your venomous drivel where I "fell into line" as I've yet to see it


.

Ok.

Are you suggesting that I am somehow corrupt because I took an irreversibly bad situation and gave it my best shot like literally everyone else was doing?

.

Just like everyone else.

“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”

 

[Relius Starkiller]

At no point during CGS's lifespan did I ever stop and say "yo dawg, this is legit".

I'm sure few SS officers during the holocaust stopped during the slaughter and said "I think I'm done." because if they had they would have been in a gas chamber themselves - self-preservation is human nature and considering the hopeless circumstance they were in who could have faulted them?

But there were a few who were willing to take the bullet.

*Before being executed by firing squad* For sacred Germany!

I've already said its ok to agree to disagree and I don't really have a problem with what you did because if you look around this website you see more than a few men who did the same. I'm just pointing out that for all the grief you throw masters way about being a person with questionable morals, once upon a time you were not so different.

 

[Chris Harris]

I'm sure few SS officers during the holocaust stopped during the slaughter and said "I think I'm done." because if they had they would have been in a gas chamber themselves - self-preservation is human nature and considering the hopeless circumstance they were in who could have faulted them?

But there were a few who were willing to take the bullet.





I've already said its ok to agree to disagree and I don't really have a problem with what you did because if you look around this website you see more than a few men who did the same. I'm just pointing out that for all the grief you throw masters way about being a person with questionable morals, once upon a time you were not so different.

lolz, after 13 pages still has no idea what he is arguing *BAM* @_@ crazy faces!

 

[Relius Starkiller]

lolz, after 13 pages still has no idea what he is arguing *BAM* @_@ crazy faces!

Another example of a guy with short term memory and poor reading comprehension.

Since you're so great at drawing pictures with the @ sign, draw me a picture of the high school diploma they handed you to get your stupid ass out of the building.

 

[Chris Harris]

Another example of a guy with short term memory and poor reading comprehension.

Since you're so great at drawing pictures with the @ sign, draw me a picture of the high school diploma they handed you to get your stupid ass out of the building.

Keep it going buddy, you're #1

 

[Relius Starkiller]

Keep it going buddy, you're #1

You're a piece of #2

 

[Awesmic]

WTF is this? Texas Showdown in the e-bathroom?

 

[DyByHands]

Friedrich Nietzsche is/was the man!

 

[Chris Harris]

You're a piece of #2

!!!!! @_@
-_-
x_x
g_g
O_O
?_?

You're so clever

 

[Relius Starkiller]

!!!!! @_@
-_-
x_x
g_g
O_O
?_?

You're so clever

This is you. . .

x_o

Now that was clever.

 

[Chris Harris]

This is you. . .

x_o

Now that was clever.

Bazinga!!!

l_l

you so tough!

 

[Rikuto]

The argument is just going to go in circles and will never end because neither one of you will allow each other to get the last word in. This shit you are arguing about is in the fucking past and everyone knows what happened and everyone knows CGS was a garbage format and everyone knows who the real top players were. If JR wants to be stupid about it, well "You can't fix stupid." So let him be stupid. DoA5 is around the corner, let's worry about that instead.

You think these problems are in the past? Naive.

I'm sure few SS officers during the holocaust stopped during the slaughter and said "I think I'm done." because if they had they would have been in a gas chamber themselves - self-preservation is human nature and considering the hopeless circumstance they were in who could have faulted them?

But there were a few who were willing to take the bullet.





I've already said its ok to agree to disagree and I don't really have a problem with what you did because if you look around this website you see more than a few men who did the same. I'm just pointing out that for all the grief you throw masters way about being a person with questionable morals, once upon a time you were not so different.

Just to reiterate -- this is what your grand argument has led up to. You're comparing me to a German officer slaughtering Jews.

You really are dumb as a brick.

 

[Relius Starkiller]

Just to reiterate -- this is what your grand argument has led up to. You're comparing me to a German officer slaughtering Jews.

You really are dumb as a brick.

You've got to be kidding me.

I'm pointing out that you always have a choice and sometimes is a very difficult, life altering choice. You chose to keep quiet when when it could have hurt you the most, this is fact. I'm not calling you a nazi Rikuto and if you're too feeble minded to see that keeping quiet to save your own hide is a position that many people, from many different walks of life, decide to take (a path that you took). . .well Rikuto. . .

You're the idiot.

(Brain cells people, get em.)

 

[x Sypher x]

WTF is this? Texas Showdown in the e-bathroom?

Lol good one