Jita Park Speakers Corner

Heh, wonder what they'll have next.

The voting thread has been explained ad nauseum as something that should not have happened. If I had been near a computer before it went live, I would have raised objections. Due to RL stuff I wasn't. **** happens, it was rectified in a few days, so stop harping on it as if there was some hidden agenda. I don't personally care if the system changes or stays the same but am fine with the discussion.

As for this podcast, yeah, there was some pent up frustration because Ripard can say whatever he wants about 'never being invited' to a podcast or onto EVE Radio, etc... Voices of the Void, three EVE Radio DJ's and others have tried for months to get the guy to come out from behind his wall of words. I don't buy that he didn't know about any of those efforts at all. I also didn't feel the least bit defensive at all during this; I was fine with finally having the chance to confront the guy and ask him some questions as well. The only way he makes us look like fools is if you buy into his, "I know literally everything about everything." attitude. v0v

EDIT - Just read NosyGamer's latest blog and he seems to understand why some of us felt "defensive":

The Bully Pulpit And CSM 7

Well its too bad, VR died, so we will never know his campaign strategy and what he hoped to do with it.

But at least mittens dreamed of getting more votes then just the goon ones. But I suppose we will never see Vile Rat try to do that .

^ That is kind of funny, I had always thought mittens ran his last campaign.

Quotes from his tentonhammer blog:

"Due to the anticipated higher turnout and the new top-seven rule, I expect that most of the nullsec blocs will only run one candidate for CSM7, where three (GSF, the Northern Coalition, and XIX) managed to get two seats each under CSM6."

"Vile Rat, White Tree is likely to sit out and unless I screw up and my readers stop voting for me en masse, the Chair is likely to be mine."

But anyhow, VR told me in the forums, that he was actually tired of all the work or had no time for what was required and decided to not run based on that, rather then CCP cutting down the number of CSM, and the friendly fire he would give mittens or other goons, if he ran for CSM.

So, I suppose you could argue no one but him ran, his campaign, but the paranoia runs on.

Well, sadly, I never knew about the CSM until the incarna stuff or so.

So I don't remember vile rats campaign at all. Perhaps to help dispell the paranoia, what was his running platform like, when he made CSM?

Is Ripard on this podcast too?

Then why would you categorize it as a bookend to your podcast?

That podcast is 4 hours 30 minutes long. Give us a timestamp so we don't have to listen to the whole damned thing. Lost in EVE is too ridiculously long to bother with otherwise.

I am looking forward to learning what your definition of "incredible frankness" is.

How about we settle for "give us a ******* transcript so we can judge for ourselves without having to listen to an hour's worth of podcast we clearly don't give a **** about". I mean don't you guys have a ******* secretary and everything for this?