What the fuck is going on at RPGdot?

[Naked_Lunch]

If you want shitty JRPGs and cholera, you got to RPGdot.

If you want free beer and hot chicks, you go the Codex.

 

[Sol Invictus]

@Exitium, you used to regularly make smart-ass comments about RPGDot in any thread you could, so I long ago learned to ignore your tripe. I'm not trying to infuriate you - I just don't care what you think.

My name isn't Exitium anymore. It's Sol Invictus, and yet you persist to call me Exitium because you, like a lot of other people here, believe it infuriates me when you do so. Believe what you will, your actions merely betray your childish demeanor.

I can't honestly say that I care that you or anyone else here suffers from the mentality of an adolescent so don't even bother to defend yourself in regards to that. It might not be a self-conscious act, but it's there nonetheless. Calling everything I say, valid or not, as "tripe" is just another effort to infuriate me by being a pissant about everything.

When I offer my criticism without making any smart-ass comments in the process you should just accept it without being an arrogant jerk about it. It's really one thing for you to be a jerk like so many of the other people here but at least most of them don't pretend to be on the high ground when they're doing it.

In another similar topic, which I won't deign to make any further responses to, I must say here that one of the few things that I can respect about Vault Dweller it's that he doesn't 'play along' with all the mob mentality bullshit going around these days. Some people with a grand total of 11 posts seem to think that they know me well enough to label me as 'arrogant' and 'egotistical' based on the contents of my signature.

There's nothing untrue about my signature, and furthermore, there's absolutely nothing arrogant about it in the first place. I'd like for someone to tell me how a job description can be classified as 'arrogant' when there's nothing inherent in the credit to merit any sort of 'value'. It's not as if I go around calling myself a "good writer" or a "grand graphics designer". It stands to reason that the majority of the reactions to my signature stem from some poor self worth and even jealousy. Anyone without such issues would probably give one look at my signature and not think twice about it.

 

[Chefe]

Fight fight!

 

[Whipporowill]

My name isn't Exitium anymore. It's Sol Invictus, and yet you persist to call me Exitium because you, like a lot of other people here, believe it infuriates me when you do so. Believe what you will, your actions merely betray your childish demeanor.

I'm pretty sure I call you Rex, because that's what people called you at the time I got around here. In real life people don't go around changing names all the time, and for consitancy's sake I always stick with the name I got used to, and I'm sure a lot of others do the same. I don't think Dhruin would be the kind to use baiting tactics either, he's always struck me as a reasonable and fair chap. He's way to good for the Dot these days...

 

[Sol Invictus]

Well, I won't argue with that Whip. For what it's worth, you're someone I respect.

As for Dhruin, he's probably one of the only things the Dot has going for it largely due to the Cleve-centric behaviour of that other guy, so I expected him to take my criticism more seriously, and a lot less... poorly, which is why I felt rather dissapointed.

 

[Twinfalls]

To be fair, Sol - he was pretty straightforward with you. He said he wasn't interested in your views, and told you why when you asked.....

 

[Sol Invictus]

Confrontational and condescending is more like it.

 

[Drakron]

Confrontational and condescending is more like it.

Well he is posting on RPG Codex forums after all ...

 

[Twinfalls]

Fair 'nuff.

 

[Spazmo]

You'd think Rex would be getting used to people dismissing his opinion.

As for RPGDot, their news is great, their editorial slant is their own business (even if you or I disagree with it) and Kristophe, yes, is a muffinhead. I especially hate when he calls some dickhead who reskins Bastila a "mod engineer". Engineer? Where'd he get his degree? What kind of engineering? Who's he certified by? AEA? Iron Ring? Whatever they have in the UK? What's that? No engineering degrees? No engineering certifications? Nothing more than a bunch of guys who add a half dozen lightsaber colours to some video game? Well then THEY'RE NOT GODDAMN ENGINEERS! They're just fucking modders, so quit glorifying them.

 

[Fenris]

I don't take their Reviews seriously since they joined Jolt ... still a nice Community though... they just follow the hype now...

On the other side there just are no decent RPGs nowadays anymore... either praise what you have or accept that commercial CRPGs are dead ...

 

[Calis]

You'd think Rex would be getting used to people dismissing his opinion.

Yeah, but he's in his MATURE period! Now taking bets on how long it'll last.

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

I wouldn't be so quick to beat up on Dhruin just because he's part of RPGDot. RPGDot is a great site, despite the fact they have those silly rules. I'm pretty sure Dhruin didn't make those rules and I don't think he'd be quick to enforce them over something like "graphics whore".

Most of their forum posters consider themselves "sensitive guys" and probably wank off to elf porn when no one's looking, so the mods there feel the need to protect them and validate their elf porn wanking sensitivity. You can't really blame RPGDot for this, they didn't really start this trend. CRPG site forums have pretty much been this way since the invention of forum software.

That's one reason why the RPGCodex forum is like it is. All the other forums threaten you or ban you if you call someone else a name or make some sort of crude inuendo. I've always thought this leads towards the scary underbellies of most CRPG sites where you have users eDating on the forum publically, cybersex0r1nk in the private message area, and all the totally ghey cyber flirting shit. It also leads to the textual fellaciating of developers who can say some of the stupidest things in terms of game design and still walk away patting himself on the back because no one replied, "Hey, that's a stupid idea because of ... "

I never liked any of those things about the majority of CRPG sites out there. The only CRPG sites that didn't have that happy fluffy sexually frustrated shit on them were the Fallout fan sites.

 

[Drakron]

I am sorry about Saint_Proverbius comments.

There is NOTHING WRONG with elf porn as it usually shown elves and humans are capable of interbreeding, expecialy if such elf pron is made in a tasteful manner (meaning hardcore).

Elf porn is the least of RPGdot problems (the same however cannot be said about gay furry porn) and its a little known fact that its a interest both RPG Codex and RPG dot users share.

 

[MarFish]

Exitum is desperatly trying to hide the tracks. Booh.

Take this Google:

Exitum == Sol Invictus
Exitum == Sol Invictus
Exitum == Sol Invictus
Exitum == Sol Invictus
Exitum == Sol Invictus
Exitum == Sol Invictus
Exitum == Sol Invictus
Exitum == Sol Invictus

 

[Nicolai]

Me and Rex go way back, best palz for lyfe yo. B)

 

[Chefe]

What's so wrong with Elf porn and forum sex?

Golly, you're all so closeminded.

Pointy ears are a sign of fertility, and Keebler.

 

[Dhruin]

I don't call you "Exitium" to annoy you (why would it?) - I'm just used to it and I don't get people who change handles.

When I offer my criticism without making any smart-ass comments in the process you should just accept it without being an arrogant jerk about it. It's really one thing for you to be a jerk like so many of the other people here but at least most of them don't pretend to be on the high ground when they're doing it.

I see you have your "I'm an intelligent poster - why would you treat me this way" persona on - thing is, I know better. Here's the last interaction of any significance we had. Now, it's not a very important thread by any means but you were being a jerk just for the sake of it, not to mention you made no sense (such as accusing RPGDot of ignoring Seal of Evil when we had posted more news items than RPG Codex had). I see you still didn't get around to updating Seal of Evil in the RPG Codex database despite that conversation. I don't worry about the opinions of nonsensical posters and I decided an RPG Codex staff member who wanted to invent irrational criticism of RPGDot was a waste of time. You were both.

Sure, I think RPGDot's mod rules are too strict but on the other hand, the rules here encourage morons to hang around because they think it's cool to unleash their idiocy with complete freedom. Beats me why there isn't room in the world for both styles and you just choose whatever suits you best without bitching about the other.

...their forums suck and their editorials, interviews and reviews also suck...

I think our reviews could use improvement and we've taken the first steps recently with a different scoring system.

I think I have written most of the editorials in the last year or two, so since that bit is directed at me, I'd love to see some intelligent debate on why they "suck". Let's see if you can back that up.

 

[Calis]

I see you have your "I'm an intelligent poster - why would you treat me this way" persona on - thing is, I know better.

My point exactly.

I think our reviews could use improvement and we've taken the first steps recently with a different scoring system.

I think I have written most of the editorials in the last year or two, so since that bit is directed at me, I'd love to see some intelligent debate on why they "suck". Let's see if you can back that up.

In all truth, I'd say your editorials are an important reason for me to check the Dot every once in a while. On the subject of reviews, however, I don't think a better scoring system is going to solve the problems I have with the Dot's current take on reviews. I'm not sure how stringent editorial control is right now, but right now the reviews that slip through - while occasionally amusing to read - seem to be fairly low on gameplay-analysis content, listing features and mentioning whether or not they are considered cool by the reviewer without providing enough description to give the reader an idea of whether or not he'll share that opinion. Careful review by the other staffies might help with this; this'll actually help a reviewer grow for a bit. Asking the right kind of questions about an unpublished piece of content tends to help. This is actually something I originally planned to get involved with at the Codex myself, but I found that I'm actually too lazy and not enough in the loop on RPG's anymore. :D

As for the generally positivistic style of the Dot's reviews compared to the few we had at Codex, I guess there's room for both variations. Can't say I'm a big fan of the positivistic writing style of, say, a guy like Kristophe, but then again that's why I hang out here and not at the Dot.

 

[Drakron]

... I don't get people who change handles.

Well you can understand why people change user name after posting things like this:

http://rpgcodex.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=9564

 

[Sol Invictus]

Saint, you really should take a look at the Diablo fansites. I mean the big ones like the Lurker Lounge, not the stupid ones with animated GIFs on them. There's a lot of times where they basically pan the developers for doing such and such with the game, as was especially evident prior to the 1.07 patch when Diablo 2 was going through the stages of 'buggy' and 'totally unbalanced'. They're a lot worse these days because none of them are happy that the original developers (e.g. Flagship) left the game in the hands of morons who released a buggy patch that causes mods to stop working and the game to crash due to corrupted entries in the database.

Dhruin, I don't have a martyr complex and I'm not 'putting my good image on' or whatever the heck it is you think. I've been an asshole and I'll be the first person to admit it but stooping to the same level as my behaviour in the past isn't a very logical way of dealing with it. I've offered you my criticism of your site and you've only managed to rebuke it with some insults about my character.

Drakon, don't you have anything better to do than to dig up old posts to flame me? I'm slightly distressed by the fact that you think flaming people for the things they've said, regardless of the fact that they don't even know you (Who are you, again?) is your idea of being mature.

I don't know who MarFish and Ave are for that matter, but what the heck: go jump on your adolescent bandwagon. It's not as if people like you have anything better to do.


Edit: Dhruin, in any case my criticism was mostly regarding the review (Sudeki). I am not opposed to forum moderation and most of the threads on the Codex could use a little of that, especially when Roqua decides to unleash his inner child, but threatening someone for use of the term 'graphics whore' is hardly good moderation. VD's comments about the double standards are quite evident in some threads, as well.

As for Calis, he's admitted that the only reason he holds a poor opinion of me is because he doesn't want to dispose of my image as an 'internet bad guy' because he's afraid that he 'might actually like me' if he found out what I was really like. If that isn't contrived and childish, I don't know what is.

 

[Tintin]

ave anything better to do than to dig up old posts to flame me?

Though I don't have nothing to do with this, Sep 11, 2005, isn't exactly old.

 

[Sol Invictus]

That post was a joke and meant as nothing more, and I posted it as Sol Invictus. Using that to level some kind of argument as to why I changed my nickname is just false. I changed my nickname a long time before Sept 11, 2005 and it wasn't for any reason you can comprehend, unless you comprehend "bored of old nickname, switched to new one because person thought it was fresher and easier to pronounce".

 

[spacemoose]

Exitium, haven't you ever wondered why the majority of the threads you post in turn into either shit or dramabombs?

Have you ever thought why YOU have a fanclub but not VD or Saint Proverbius or anyone else here?

 

[Sol Invictus]

I don't wonder about such things, Mr. I-Only-Have-12-Posts-But-Act-Like-I-Own-The-Place.

I wonder how much better this place would be if people spent less time talking about me and more time discussing the actual content/subjects of the thread. It seems that the only reason some people have at posting here is to post insults about other people instead of discussing the RPG-related subjects. Stop trying to take the high road by saying I deserve what I'm getting, Spacemoose. I don't know who you are, and you only seem to be interested in flaming me so none of what you say even matters to me and only serves as noise.