CSM Campaigns

Mm.. yellow.

I think you're misunderstanding. You are the candidate; you need the votes. It might make sense to say another candidate is desperate if you are in a strong position relative to them, but it does not make sense to say this to people that are not running. What would any of us have to be desperate about?

As for the other candidates, there are enough that are in a strong position relative to you that ypur chances seem weak. It's possible you'll win, but it seems unlikely. I don't know why "crow" would have anything to do with a simple assessment of probability.

If you think you're in a strong position about where do you expect to finish? Do you expect to beat... Manfred Sideous, for example? Sugar Kyle?

Ya know, originally poking fun at Xenuria was amusing as all hell, but the mroe I thought about it, I have tried offering legitimate advice along with several others about how Xen could improve his communication and public standing within the game, to actually stand a chance of winning for reals.

and we were called trolls.

Its like, he insult the people who only offer good advice, so obviously even he doesnt care about winning anymore


its just kinda sad.

My educational background is in psychology, not political science and I'm certainly not involved with politics or elections professionally. However, I do quite a bit of analysis in my work and a lot of it is driven by political realities.

I'd say I'm basically a layman as far as political science goes, but as you say well-informed and good at analysis in general. What I've found is that many people go about problem solving essentially backwards - they come up with a solution that fits their ideas of what a good solution looks like and then try to fit it to the problem. This is a perfect example. He wants to get elected and so far can't, so he invents a solution of combating corruption and then looks for a problem for it to solve. You can see this because he shuts down when it's pointed out that he has not identified an actual problem.

The real problem Xenuria seems to face is that Xenuria isn't on the CSM, but he doesn't want to admit that, probably even to himself. However, it's pretty transparent because he doesn't know what to do once he's on it other than try to change the selection process.

I was completely serious about being curious to hear from him following the name scratching; I felt it was not fair to continue to hold opinions based on other people's accusations. I think the community is mistaken; he is not actually a troll. He simply does not truly understand the nature of the CSM.

Yes. However it's not an incpetence that couldn't be fixed if he really wanted to. Unfortunately that would involve making some choices between adopting much more realstic ideas and thinking habits and maintaining his viewpoints and ideals. I suspect that making those choices or even facing the necessity of them will be too hard. It's just much easier to dismiss people as trolls.

Inability to make that sort of choice renders many people incompetent in many areas. His incompetence is not unique, and not a result ( as far as I can tell) of stupidity. Its a simple and very common overcommitment to excessively simplistic ideals. Lots of people do this because they dont want to be "sellouts". The other side of that is that idealists often render themselves ineffective, irrelevant, and therefore incompetent because reality is simply too complex or too far removed from their ideals to permit them to function.

Is this an example of irony?
When the CFC-people are so upright, honest and helpful, you'd much prefer them to the anti-CFC candidate.

Kiryen O'Bannon I think you hit the head of the nail withPersonally, I think the solution is some personal growth on his part, but until then, I'll enjoy his CSM campaigns.

"A vote for Xenuria is vote made in protest of the state of the game."

If this year's campaign is not successful then a change of message gathering votes from those who simply want to punish CCP could be an effective platform. Going darkside.

I voted for him cuz trolz

The planets are almost aligned.

Xenuria, dont fail me.

You are the chosen one.

Popcorn eating makes you so thirsty. Drinks mountain dew