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Proletariat Tingtango
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#61 - 2014-03-31 11:38:20 UTC
Inquisitor Kitchner wrote:
I still think my chicken dinner story is the most accurate in the thread.


You would be the man to know, didn't Montolio sort of put a gun to EO's head and make ya'll pick a side in a fight you were content to stay a neutral party to, or am I imagining that?
Khanh'rhh
Sparkle Motion.
#62 - 2014-03-31 12:50:29 UTC
Ka'Narlist wrote:
Khanh'rhh wrote:
so I'm wondering which of the numerous post-hoc revisionist histories you've been spoon-fed.

None of mittens or endies it seems Blink




Thanks for providing an object lesson of what went wrong with TEST, I guess.

"Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms, arms, dead horses, and men lying on roads -- they are not there accidentally." -Soviet infantry manual,

March rabbit
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#63 - 2014-03-31 13:03:44 UTC
Proletariat Tingtango wrote:
... TEST ****-posting came in numbers, and fiercely....

I have unblocked entire TEST alliance few months ago Lol Blocked them in 2011 or 2012....

The Mittani: "the inappropriate drunked joke"
Tetsuo Tsukaya
Perkone
Caldari State
#64 - 2014-03-31 13:43:26 UTC
Winchester Steele wrote:
nameless forum alt wrote:
Strange memories on this nervous night in 6VDT-H. Six months later? Eight? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era—the kind of peak that never comes again. Fountain and Delve in mid-late-2013 was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run . . . but no explanation, no mix of words or killboards or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the eve universe. Whatever it meant. . . .

History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of “history” it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole alliance comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time—and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.

My central memory of that time seems to hang on one or five or maybe forty nights—or very early mornings — when I left hi-sec half-crazy and, instead of going home. . . booming through the warp tunnel at the lights of Delve and Fountain, not quite sure which gate to take when I got to the other end . . . but being absolutely certain that no matter which way I went I would come to a place where people were just as high and wild as I was: No doubt at all about that. . . .

There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not in Delve, then Fountain or Pure Blind. . . . You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. . . .

And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. . . .

So now, less than one year later, you can go to a fare planet in 6VDT-H and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.


Does anyone else hear this post being read in Fred Savages voice?


It's Hunter S. Thompson and you should feel bad
The Djentleman Paulson
Dreddit
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#65 - 2014-03-31 18:10:27 UTC
the real story is we trolled goons into grinding all the sov in fountain and delve

again

lol
Inquisitor Kitchner
The Executives
#66 - 2014-03-31 20:52:26 UTC
Proletariat Tingtango wrote:
Inquisitor Kitchner wrote:
I still think my chicken dinner story is the most accurate in the thread.


You would be the man to know, didn't Montolio sort of put a gun to EO's head and make ya'll pick a side in a fight you were content to stay a neutral party to, or am I imagining that?


No that's pretty true.

I mean I don't blame Montolio for what he did at all, I mean if we had maintained the status quo both sides were at threat really.

If we sided with the CFC then we could have staged out of half of Fountain, bringing large chunks of it under our supercap umbrella.

If we sided with the HBC then they could have staged out of Cloud Ring and launched a blitz krieg style invasion into the heart of CFC space.

I honestly think Montolio liked us, the problem is I feel he fell for the oldest trick in the book in the way that whoever tried to make us pick was the one who would lose us as an ally. The Mittani was happy for us to stay neutral, probably because he knew putting friends in a diplomatically awkward situation isn't going to help things.

In the end, Mo'Chuisle suggested we cede half of Fountain to Test in order to avoid war, because we definitely were not in the mood to be a flimsy causus beli ("EXE wont give Fountain back! To arms!).

If I was Montolio I'd have probably done something similar though, I mean he was confident of success at the time, forcing a 1000 man alliance to leave your coalition of 38,000 people was a good trade to start hostilities.

"If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared." - Niccolo Machiavelli
Inquisitor Kitchner
The Executives
#67 - 2014-03-31 20:53:13 UTC
The Djentleman Paulson wrote:
the real story is we trolled goons into grinding all the sov in fountain and delve

again

lol


Damn.

Test once again are truly the puppet masters of EVE.

"If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared." - Niccolo Machiavelli
Proletariat Tingtango
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#68 - 2014-03-31 22:42:02 UTC
I'm sure everyone is really upset about grinding fountain, delve, period basis. Nothing remotely good, or useful, has come from being handed a bunch of nice regions. Good troll dreddit,TEST. You got us. Good. For real.
Bizzaro Stormy MurphDog
B.L.U.E L.A.S.E.R.
#69 - 2014-04-01 20:49:07 UTC  |  Edited by: Bizzaro Stormy MurphDog
Winchester Steele wrote:
nameless forum alt wrote:
Strange memories on this nervous night in 6VDT-H. Six months later? Eight? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era—the kind of peak that never comes again. Fountain and Delve in mid-late-2013 was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run . . . but no explanation, no mix of words or killboards or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the eve universe. Whatever it meant. . . .

History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of “history” it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole alliance comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time—and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.

My central memory of that time seems to hang on one or five or maybe forty nights—or very early mornings — when I left hi-sec half-crazy and, instead of going home. . . booming through the warp tunnel at the lights of Delve and Fountain, not quite sure which gate to take when I got to the other end . . . but being absolutely certain that no matter which way I went I would come to a place where people were just as high and wild as I was: No doubt at all about that. . . .

There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not in Delve, then Fountain or Pure Blind. . . . You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. . . .

And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. . . .

So now, less than one year later, you can go to a fare planet in 6VDT-H and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.


Does anyone else hear this post being read in Fred Savages voice?

What would you do if I sang out of tune,
Would you stand up and walk out on me?
Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song
And I'll try not to sing out of key.

Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends
Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends
Mm, gonna try with a little help from my friends

What do I do when my love is away
(Does it worry you to be alone?)
How do I feel by the end of the day,
(Are you sad because you're on your own?)

No, I get by with a little help from my friends
Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends
Mm, gonna try with a little help from my friends


If anything, it should sound like Joe Cocker's voice (he sang the song you copy/pasted lyrics from), or Daniel Stern (the narrator from "The Wonder Years") or, if you know what you're reading, Johnny Depp's voice (he played Hunter S. Thompson in the moovees) or . . . Hunter S. Thompson's voice, for actually writing "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas."

But seriously, does anyone else hear this post being read in Frank N. Furter's voice?

(that was a fantastic post, btw)

Edit: someone beat me to it

I am not an alt of Chribba.
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#70 - 2014-04-01 21:34:18 UTC
When is REAL being formed?

"Yea, some dude came in and was normal for first couple months, so I gave him director." - Sean Dunaway

"A singular character could be hired to penetrate another corps space... using gorilla like tactics..." - Chane Morgann