Riding Horses/Drow/Lazy Tech People/ ALFA issues/Rotku

[Vendrin]

First of all, I have a large number of complaints, I'd like to share with you. I am sure we can all agree my opinions are worth the time to read them. Please feel free to debate me on many of wonderful points. You'll be wrong, but I'll welcome the chance to prove it so to you.

Firstly, we should have rideable horses. This was debated forever in NWN1, and it should be so easy to transfer the scripts and models we used in NWN1 and just use them in NWN2 without much effort if our tech people weren't so damn lazy.

Which leads into my third point. Our tech people are damn lazy. What are we paying them for? I mean come on, waiting days for ok to patch updates, still not having rideable horses (or dragons for that matter)

My second point. Drow. They should be banned. We have no need for those freaking drizzt clones wannabes. That's all we get, and we never, ever see anything original from the numerous drow surface pcs we have been flooded with since we allowed them on our NWN2 servers. Now it might be alright if those lazy dms people working on the Underdark server got their act together and actually did their job and got building, but they are taking their sweet time, and until that time Drow should be banned. In fact, they should still be banned after the server is up and we can use the server as a huge dungeon for the real pcs that matter. Banites.

My last point is about Rotku. He is a horrible Admin, and let me tell you why. Over the past few weeks, I've learned to look past Rotku's pugnacious writings. I've learned to look past some of the uppity things Rotku has said. I've even learned to look past his attempts to make things worse. But I cannot stay silent about Rotku's incomprehensible and unforgivable audacity regarding a specific event that recently occurred. You see, I decidedly believe that Rotku has no moral courage nor even a desire to be honest and forthright. And because of that belief, I'm going to throw politeness and inoffensiveness to the winds. In this letter, I'm going to be as rude and crude as I know how, to reinforce the point that I am deliberately using colorful language in this letter. I am deliberately using provocative phrases that I hope will stick in the minds of my readers. I do ensure, however, that my words are always appropriate and accurate and clearly explain how if we don't do something soon, Rotku's snippy wisecracks will rise like a golem with a million hands on a million throats to choke the honor out of decent, hardworking people.

The dominant characteristic of Rotku's biggety equivocations is not that they deploy enormous resources in a war of attrition against helpless citizens, but that, in the bargain, they shrink the so-called marketplace of ideas down to convenience-store size. Okay, I admit that Rotku's devious recommendations impact heavily on our security and survival. But if I chose to do so I could write exclusively about Rotku's flagitious, intolerant doctrines and never be lacking for material. Nonetheless, I'd rather spend some time discussing how in order to convince us that those who disagree with him should be cast into the outer darkness, should be shunned, should starve, Rotku often turns to the old propagandist trick of comparing results brought about by entirely dissimilar causes. If I have characterized his bootlickers up to now as oleaginous and delirious, it is only because difficult times lie ahead. Fortunately, we have the capacity to circumvent much of the impending misery by working together to rage, rage against the dying of the light. If I understand Rotku's hatchet jobs correctly, then if I have a bias, it is only against irritating, militant cadgers who trick academics into abandoning the principles of scientific inquiry.

Some critics have called Rotku boisterous. A handful insist he's catty. His advocates, on the other hand, consider him to be one of the great minds of this century.

It took me a lot of thinking and a lot of observing to become quite sure that what I have just told you is in fact correct. I'll go further: Rotku is inherently capricious, wayward, and quixotic. Oh, and he also has a fastidious mode of existence. Believe it or not, I can reword my point as follows. An axiom among Rotku's flunkies is that war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength.

If Rotku can overawe and befuddle a sufficient number of prominent individuals then it will become virtually impossible for anyone to launch an all-out ideological attack against the forces of simplism. As I noted at the beginning of this letter, "Rotku" has become a byword for treachery and deceit. For that reason, if Rotku gets his way, I might very well shake in my boots from fear. He uses gangsterism to fix blame for social stress, economic loss, or loss of political power on a target group whose constructed guilt provides a simplistic explanation. That's the large elephant in the room that nobody ever talks about. Nevertheless, I certainly profess that people really ought to start talking about it because then they'd realize that Rotku proclaims at every opportunity that he'd never inculcate depraved methods of interpretation. The gentleman doth protest too much, methinks. Rotku has nephelococcygic delusions about being able to dress up his profit motive in the cloak of selfless altruism. That's all I have to say about Rotku.

And to my fourth point, ALFA has many issues, let me enumerate them for you.
There are many yellow-bellied, officious barmpots who want to hurt others physically or emotionally. One—ALFA—is so discourteous, it deserves special mention. Let's start with my claim that while ALFA is out turning spoilsports loose against us good citizens, the general public is shouldering the bill. Sadly, this is a bill of shattered minds, broken hearts and homes, depression and all its attendant miseries, and a despondency about ALFA's attempts to flush all my hopes and dreams down the toilet. ALFA's suggestions are unrealistic. But it doesn't stop there.

ALFA's uncompanionable, brassbound expedients often resemble an inverted fairy tale in that the triumph of innocence comes at the start and the ugly sisters of parasitism and Trotskyism enter on stage in triumph for the final curtain. Before ALFA initiated a denominationalism flap to help promote its wretched, bloodthirsty homilies, people everywhere were expected to announce that we may need to picket, demonstrate, march, or strike to stop ALFA before it can perpetuate myths that glorify classism. Nowadays, it's the rare person indeed who realizes that ALFA demands absolute and blind obedience from its blackshirts. If it didn't, they might question its orders to subvert time-tested societal norms. This unrelenting demand of obedience also implies that ALFA's pharisaical rejoinders are in full flower, and their poisonous petals of escapism are blooming all around us. I shall make every effort, especially in this limited space, to argue about ALFA's tricks. End of story. Actually, I should add that it wants to prohibit any discussion of her attempts to delude and often rob those rendered vulnerable and susceptible to its snares because of poverty, illness, or ignorance. While it is clear why it wants that to be a taboo subject, ALFA acts as if it were King of the World. This hauteur is astonishing, staggering, and mind-boggling.

When we tease apart the associations necessary to ALFA's smarmy Ponzi schemes, we see that ALFA's prevarications are more than just sex-crazed. They're a revolt against nature. Although ALFA has tremendous popular appeal it has not increased our safety, security, or happiness by causing riots in the streets. All it's increased by doing that is the girth of its bloated ego.

I surely cannot emphasize enough how much I resent ALFA's wheelings and dealings. Perhaps ALFA has some sound arguments on its side, but if so, it's keeping them well hidden; all the arguments I've heard from it are absolutely stuck-up. As is often the case, I've managed to come up with a way in which ALFA's essays could be made useful. Its essays could be used by the instructors of college courses as a final examination of sorts. Any student who can't find at least 20 errors of fact or fatuous statement automatically flunks. Extra credit goes to students who realize that ALFA makes a living out of Bonapartism. I call this tactic of its "entrepreneurial Bonapartism". ALFA and its proxies have really raised entrepreneurial Bonapartism to a fine art by using it to commit confrontational, in-your-face acts of violence, intimidation, and incivility.

Often, the lure of an articulate new pundit, a well-financed attention-getting program, an effective audience generator, hot new "inside" information, or a professionally produced exposé is irresistible to insincere, randy money-worshippers who want to toss sops to the egos of the overweening. ALFA says that it is a tireless protector of civil rights and civil liberties for all people and that therefore there is something intellectually provocative in the tired rehashing of insolent stereotypes. Hello? Is Mr. Logic down at the pub with a dozen pints inside him or what? ALFA maintains a "Big Brother" dossier of information about everyone it distrusts, to use as a potential weapon. Is your name listed in that dossier? That's the question that perplexes me the most because there are two observations that one can make here. The first is that ALFA is a prime example of the ignorance, naïveté, and plain old stupidity that it so adamantly criticizes. The second observation is that I don't give a hoot in Hell if ALFA opposes my quest to ring the bells of truth. These shards of empirical evidence suggest that each rung on the ladder of gnosticism is a crisis of some kind. Each crisis supplies an excuse for ALFA to break down the industrial-technological system. That is the standard process by which distasteful drug addicts muster enough force to make a fetish of the virtues of pea-brained mandarinism. But this is something to be filed away for future letters. At present, I wish to focus on only one thing: the fact that we were put on this planet to be active, to struggle, and to warn the public against those wishy-washy, tactless disinformation artists whose positive accomplishments are always practically nil but whose conceit can scarcely be excelled. We were not put here to instill a general ennui, as ALFA might believe.

While ALFA is clearly entitled to ignore good advice from intelligent people, if it were to use more accessible language then a larger number of people would be able to understand what it's saying. The downside for ALFA, of course, is that a larger number of people would also understand that its trucklers tend to fall into the mistaken belief that all major world powers are controlled by a covert group of "insiders", mainly because they live inside an ALFA-generated illusion-world and talk only with each other. ALFA demands that we make a choice. Either we let it insult the intelligence, interests, and life plans of whole groups of people or it'll brand me as infantile. This "choice" exemplifies what is commonly known as a "false dichotomy" or "the fallacy of the excluded middle" because it denies other alternatives, such as that I contend that people who work with ALFA's spokesmen discredit themselves. To top that off, in public, ALFA promises that it'd never take advantage of human fallibility to take a condescending cheap shot at a person that most delirious maggots will never be in a position to condescend to. In private, however, it secretly tells its backers that it'll do exactly that. I think we've seen this movie before: It's called Business as Usual for ALFA.

I recommend paying close attention to the praxeological method developed by the economist Ludwig von Mises and using it as a technique to act against injustice, whether it concerns drunk driving, domestic violence, or even narcissism. The praxeological method is useful in this context because it employs praxeology, the general science of human action, to explain why ALFA fervently believes that hanging out with offensive deadbeats is a wonderful, culturally enriching experience. This shows that it is not merely mistaken about one little fact among millions of facts but that my goal is to get ALFA to realize that a record of its acts of hypocrisy would fill volumes. Of course, if it insists on remaining an ignorant, uninformed, and ill-informed bottom-feeder, that's its prerogative. The implications of xenophobic, inaniloquent obscurantism may seem theoretical but they have concrete meaning for thousands of people. ALFA coins polysyllabic neologisms to make its warnings sound like they're actually important. In fact, its treatises are filled to the brim with words that have yet to appear in any accepted dictionary.

The poisonous wine of Dadaism had been distilled long before ALFA entered the scene. ALFA is merely the agent decanting the poisonous fluid from its bottle into the jug that is world humanity. I repeat: ALFA makes a lot of exaggerated claims. All of these claims need to be scrutinized as carefully as a letter of recommendation from a job applicant's mother. Consider, for example, ALFA's claim that power, politics, and privilege should prevail over the rule of law. The fact of the matter is that if it manages to blame our societal problems on handy scapegoats, our nation will not endure as a civilization, as a geopolitical entity, or even as a society. Rather, it will exist only as a prison, a prison in which power-drunk bozos use "pressure tactics"—that's a euphemism for "torture"—to coerce ordinary people into causing loud subversion to gather momentum on college campuses.

I'm no psychiatrist. Still, from the little I know about psychiatry I can say that ALFA seems to exhibit many of the symptoms of Asperger's syndrome. I don't say that to judge but merely to put ALFA's garrulous, deceitful jokes into perspective. One of ALFA's most loyal fans is known to have remarked, "Granting ALFA complete control over our lives is as important as breathing air." And there you have it: a direct quote from a primary source. The significance of that quote is that the first lies that ALFA told us were relatively benign. Still, they have been progressing. And they will continue to progress until there is no more truth; its lies will grow until they blot out the sun.

The public is like a giant that ALFA has blindfolded, drugged, and gagged. This giant has plugs in his ears and ALFA leads him around by the nose. Clearly, such a giant needs to convince the government to clamp down hard on ALFA's vituperations. That's why I feel obligated to notify the giant (i.e., the public) that ALFA has nothing but contempt for you, and you don't even know it. That's why I feel obligated to inform you that it can't attack my ideas, so it attacks me. It could be worse, I suppose. ALFA could propitiate filthy purveyors of malice and hatred for later eventualities. Some day, I want to identify, challenge, defy, disrupt, and, finally, destroy the institutions that stir up trouble. But you don't have to wait for that. What you can do now is talk to everyone you know about the things I've told you in this letter. Use every medium available to you. Use the Internet. Use your telephone. Use radio and newspapers. And whatever you do, never be afraid to speak out against the evil that is ALFA.

[Misty]

tl;dr

[johnlewismcleod]

Here, here!!!




Amazing prose, Vendrin...thanks, mate

[Brokenbone]

http://www.pakin.org/complaint/

[Rotku]

Five paragraphs all about me. Oh how I feel special.

[Vendrin]

Five paragraphs all about me. Oh how I feel special.

It's what you get for locking the first real drama thread we've had in months!

Come on people I want flames! BURN!!!!!

[KalevD]

*wipes away a tear from laughing too hard*

Thanks for that Ven, best pointless joke rant I've read in a good long while. Which means you're right, it has been blissfully civil around here lately hasn't it?

[Blindhamsterman]

amazing, had me in stitches, and with that generator... oh the fun I'm going to have.

[dergon darkhelm]

fla-gi-tious   [fluh-jish-uhs]

–adjective
1. shamefully wicked, as persons, actions, or times.
2. heinous or flagrant, as a crime; infamous.

I learned a new word today.
As soon a Rotku returns to the US I plan to give him a Cleveland Steamer to celebrate his arrival!


And where is my f*cking +3 keen axiomatic bastard sword of disruption already!?!?


ps--Misty.Get in game already!

[Blindhamsterman]

*glances up* Misty, as in Misty Misty??

I agree, come and play!

[Mick]

Ven is right.

I quit.

For the next 20 minutes or so, anyway.

[KalevD]

*glances up* Misty, as in Misty Misty??

I agree, come and play!

+1

We miss you Misty

[Burt_Reynoldz_Mustache]

Probally the best post i've seen on these forums ever. Rotku please lock this thread immediately.

[Misty]

y'all are sweet, but I'm not dealing with my man's crashtastic computer to play NWN2. Only enough time to browse the forums once in a while

[danielmn]