Glory of Arioch posted:

alright, i'll bite

paging through 2012 posts that mention "cfc" complain about the blob and battle reports that we've lost

by about august of 2012 the anti-cfc posts start to pick up quite a bit

so yeah not seeing it sorry, looks pretty hostile to me, certainly not "overwhelmingly pro-cfc"

SperginMcBadposter posted:

Those were both sion's ideas? That's pretty great.

Glory of Arioch posted:

i definitely agree that the mob opinion is more violently against us now than before but trying to spin two posts as "overwhelmingly pro-cfc" when there are dozens alone with "cfc" in the title that brag about "dunking" or complaining about blobbing is pretty tenuous

FruitNYogurtParfait posted:

thats way too many words

Dr. Pangloss posted:

Nah, you'll read it.

Dr. Pangloss posted:

Truthfully, I hadn’t heard about this thread until a mod closed down the one I was reading and told me on the roof of a party that it was one of her favorite threads of all time, and yes, reader, a) it later became a favorite of mine, and b) I plan on joining her Corp.

The hallmark of the best threads is that they grow with you: at page 10, Zephyrine chided Xolve for being unchill in his attacks on the GSF; less than a week later Zephyrine herself would be leveling suggestions of misconduct against her recently departed corpmates.

The prose style is at once cerebral and deeply felt. The reader doesn’t so much dread being in Zephyrine’s predicament; we fear being Zephyrine. Parts of the thread are so upsetting—or alternately, so delightful—that I found myself closing my iPad at the end of a few pages and holding it in my lap for safekeeping, not quite ready to go on. This is stratafiction—layers of mineral-rich story, beautiful up close in their contrasting colors and textures, equally beautiful from far away where the layers form a mountain. The thread evokes a humid, gin-soaked Mittani on a summer day so effectively you can practically feel Sion pluck the damp fabric of his anime kimono away to let a bit of air in next to his skin.

Around the 25-page mark—and being only halfway through, with the defection not even occurring for another 20 pages—I looked up the plot on r/eve. The incumbent Emperor inevitably incurs the wrath of his people, or CCP, or both, and is set upon by his trusted directors, or former alliance leaders, or both; then a replacement is selected from the family, or from the next most important pubbie Corp, or just from people showing up at a goonp. A delicious dramatic irony arises at this turning point, because while the young man expects himself to be the hero of a Great War story, the reader realizes him to be more of a witless cog in an incisive commentary on the oppressive class system.

It’s not so much a thread as a biosphere, with each ecosystem reliant on another within and without, the beginning (as with all life) impossible to chart. One of the greatest compliments I can give this, or any thread, is that knowing the point-by-point resolution didn’t diminish my enjoyment of the remaining 400 pages. At points, the story is mired in Victorian banalities, mainly those describing a large Scarlet woman and her erotic adventures at an Insane Clown Posse concert. Violent death follows leadership follows violent death follows leadership, and in this manner the bizarre Byzantine cycle continues. Also, JanIrvam just loving hates women.b Querns never seemed ghastlier.

More terrifying, however, than any of the supernatural threats is Endie’s all-too-recognizable mental fragility; while he’s clearly on the far end of the neurotic scale, his social estrangement and prying doubts mirror what many of us feel in mixed company.

Is it wrong to revel in the characters’ delicious names—FruitNYogurtParfait, Tokyo Sexwhale—as if they were ripped from the pages of a postmodern comedy, instead of a fin-de-siècle realist Eve Online thread? Each character is so richly drawn (pun not intended, Sion), each so different from one another, one can’t help but fall in love with every one of them, likable or not. The way Venom Snake grows and matures, from a spindly-legged and bookish ENLI j4g to a young woman j4g to, at the end, a very old woman j4g, makes clear the vagaries and vicissitudes of human development. For the geneticist and young lovers alike, the characters’ lives intertwine and ultimately connect in a style akin to Bach’s Variations. At age 18, though, the way the War of Sovless Aggression played a part in his obsession with doggedly holding the party line had me swooning.

The real genius of the thread lies in the final two pages, where a devastating plot twist unravels and lays bare the entire story for what it is: A wish that things had gone differently.

The one thing I learned: Never ever marry into a North New Eden mercantile dynasty.

Khablam posted:

It's a copypasta and your edits are a bit forced. So probably not.

FruitNYogurtParfait posted:

i didnt

FruitNYogurtParfait posted:

the viceroy thing was bad and dumb

Dr. Pangloss posted:

Dr. Pangloss posted:

Of course it is. And how would you know if the edits were forced if you hadn't read it? #gotem

Khablam posted:

I mean are we really doing "made you read" ?

Khablam posted:

Cause i know the pasta and skimmed to the first few nouns.

I mean are we really doing "made you read" ?

ullerrm posted:

I know the origins, but anyways. I'm sad that you left the ICP joke from the original in there, though -- that was an easy layup to be turned into a pegging joke.

Dalael posted:

Why?

ullerrm posted:

(It's almost like claiming that WW1 started because of Franz Ferdinand.)

Dr. Pangloss posted:

The way Venom Snake grows and matures, from a spindly-legged and bookish ENLI j4g to a young woman j4g to, at the end, a very old woman j4g, makes clear the vagaries and vicissitudes of human development.

"TopGoon[555 posted:

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The cognitive dissonance in this thread is astounding. Is it as bad on goonfleet.com as it is on here?

YouTuber posted:

Uh I didn't know there was any other claims. I'm pretty sure this analogy is not working out like you intended it to.

YouTuber posted:

Uh I didn't know there was any other claims. I'm pretty sure this analogy is not working out like you intended it to.

vandalism posted:

I want to join the rock Bros Corp. How do I get in there?

ullerrm posted:

It's better than "made you undock," honestly.

Also, jesus, EFT still not updated. Looks like I'm finally switching full-time to PyFa.

RhoA posted:

Zephyrine posted:

It's 2 at night here in Sweden. If I go to bed before Flanders answers this then someone feel free to re-quote this every now and then as a reminder. I have no idea why the directorate of all people would push so hard for this when I wanted to leave it behind but if you're going to keep calling me on not making all the details public. Page after page. Then you leave me little choice.

FruitNYogurtParfait posted:

the viceroy thing was bad and dumb

Tokyo Sexwhale posted:

I'd love to know what this "shady poo poo" is, if it's some stupid catfight in illum or whatever, , but if it's some ridiculous internal org rot that's going to eat the alliance then it needs to be outed unless you feel like loving everyone else who doesn't know about it and stares at you like an old man yelling at a cloud.

Rhymenoserous posted:

haha I decided to go read some Darius Johnson posts on reddit and he sure is convinced we're all being abused or some dumb bullshit.

Like I get it, mittens huffs his own farts, but pretending DJ isn't doing a fair but of butthuffing for dem upvotes on reddit is pretty amazing.

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You mean pasting 4 goatses and never coming back? Because that's what happened and you just go right ahead and pretend that it has ANYTHING to do with you folks losing all of your space being idiots. It might help you to feel better about what you're doing but I left because everyone at the top is human garbage and acts like it.

I got tired of being taken advantage of and abused just like every other long term leader who's left or been run out.

You can make it about me or you losing or whatever all you like because it's not like everyone can't just watch this poo poo happening. You go ahead and post about how much you wish the world was your way and I'll just go ahead and live in the really real one.