Just think, in a moderately distant (but not too distant) future, you will meet your timeshifted self and she will have protection from meds. I am coming closer and closer to this point myself, and...
... realize that I make far too many Magic references...
Oh, I'm definitely breaking forum rules: I'm trying to goad you into doing exactly what you've just realized not to do! Anyway, yes: The cause may well be dead. Yes: I might appear a martyr. However! Simply because I do not divulge certain information does not mean I do not have it. Could it be because you've personally gone out of your way to ask forum members and even moderators to not post clans-subforum-appropriate content in "your clan's" thread? Just like you've been called out on, to myself and Weaver? Who is the martyr, here? Still me, I'm sure; no need to answer that.
What is your justification in possibly asking such people to possibly stop posting in this possible thread? Do you believe you know the forum's rules better than anyone else, such that you feel you need to enforce them? I don't, but I'm not trying to enforce anything: Simply trying to make myself and others feel comfortable in a place that was once my home (incidentally, I was the oldest surviving member of this clan... and I just quit! :rolleyes:).
Hopefully my forum-rule-breaking martyrdom sheds some enlightenment to people, even if I'm one of these such people. I always love finding out when I'm wrong (it gives me a chance to be a better person in the future)! This will be my last post in the Izzet clan thread, at least until I'm personally asked to post here again.
I hope this is true.
Did I say you were on a power-trip? Is that a freudian slip on your part? Is this something you've been thinking about, feeling guilty about? Why haven't certain members been posting here as of late? Because I haven't been posting? Doubtful, but disregard that... why haven't I been posting as of late (until just this week)? Because I have not felt comfortable with what the Izzet has been becoming. Or what I have been becoming (seems exactly the same to me, just less willing to deal with bull☺☺☺☺--even though I now try to resolve it with words instead of violence... lol, like violence would help over the internet, anyway :rollout:). I would argue that the reason for my discomfort is partially in some of the new guys coming in, and some of the old guys going away, and some of the other old guys being disagreeable. One way or another, I cannot remain in the Izzet, it seems.
That is fitting, indeed. Unfortunately, I doubt you're considering your own maturity when you made that above statement. I know I'm mimature, but yet you're the first person making personal attacks on my maturity? Which of us is less mature, and how? And you were so arrogant as to send that "lesson on maturity" to a moderator? Wow.
Consider this my official resignation from the Izzet clan on MTGSalvation. I will begin my own clan shortly, I'm simply going to take an undisclosed amount of time to consider some undisclosed information and take some undisclosed actions, beforehand. Anyone interested in my clan, send me a private message, anyone who disagrees with me can do the same. Or hell, post it here. It's no hair off my ass, either way. But please, anyone and everyone who has an opinion for me, share it!
...Again I have to apologize for my abruptness and blunt wordings, but ☺☺☺☺ happens. I'm over it. I expect infractions for flaming, trolling, whatever may come my way. Banning would probably be a bit far, but I'm not in charge of that decision: Whatever happens, happens, I suppose.
Perhaps you are right, but again, I see both sides of the argument in favour or private messages and public communication. Since I believe this topic directly relates to and involves all of the Izzet as a clan here on MTGS, I want it to be public. I can't speak for Weaver, but it at least seems he agrees. I have noticed that certain members have been lacking in their Izzet-thread attendance, and want them, as my friends, to be able to speak to me freely in my own clan's thread (whereas AI--also a friend, normally--has asked them outright or convinced them otherwise to not post here). This bothers me: I want to speak to these people.
Here's where this degenerates, while at the same time reaching it's pique: I feel that the current state of the Izzet as a clan on MTGS is no longer what I have come to expect it to be, and want it to be, and remember it to be. Although I mean no disrespect to AsianInvasion, I feel as if I must either ask for him to cool down, step down, or tell me to leave the Izzet. If I leave the Izzet clan, I will promptly start my own, new clan. Something more suiting for my insanity and arrogance (not that these things aren't fitting in with the Izzet...!).
I'm sorry it has had to come to that, but this was my ultimatum. I'm sure AI would have, given different circumstances, loved to abuse me about possible card-tags in this post... lol!
And I understand why you're sending PMs, but I also find irony in those initials... "PMs"...
Anyway, I'm sorry for flaming you right there, I shouldn't have, and will accept responsibility for my actions.
Now, on to the juicy ☺☺☺☺:
I understand why you want to keep this topic privately discussed between us three, but I disagree. I've recently become more the type of person who shares information with his friends, so here goes:
Thank you for humouring a raving lunatic,
-Ravus
I would also like to request formal friendship with you guys, since I'm more than acutely aware of the dramatic problems our two clans have experienced in the past, and want to put them behind us. I count myself friendly with at least a few of your members, and so would like to get to know some of the rest of you.
My first point: Exactly how many parties have you been to that that particular scenario plays out? It's never happened to any of the parties I've been to, people are encouraged to join in and are then welcomed; just as I've been welcoming every poster since my return. I notice I'm getting nothing but welcomes, so far, at least.
Second point: Could you enlighten me to these "problems we've had in the past", please? I'm not sure I'm familiar...
Third: Indeed, he is. I'm sure Silent Prophet will return just as mysteriously as he ever does.
Yeah, BTO! It's the initials that threw me, I suppose...
Thanks for that, Silent Prophet! Long time, no see.
No, but I feel like a complete fool for having forgotten the name of the band... It's classic rock...
☺☺☺☺ happens.
I'm beginning to value a more public form of communication, it seems, so forgive me if I don't send said PM just yet... but am I correct in presuming you mean for Weaver and I to quit talking personally amongst ourselves in a friendly fashion?
Unfortunately, I never did any of those things. No instruction or inquiry to respect or even like the band, and no request to convert from anything to anything else. And of course such a radical change wouldn't happen in you, just as it wouldn't for a certain satanic anarchist I know...
I merely stated my "opinion" (oh how I hate that word) about AC/DC, and went out of my way to allow for your dissenting opinions (even though I clearly disagree).
That's an exaggeration.
I was aware of all that... but then, I'm sure you knew that, too... very sneaky...
And of course; I am a lunatic. A "raving" lunatic...
Just moments ago you jokingly posted that I'd be the death of you...
It's what I do.
Yes. Quite.
Indeed.
You diabolical madman!
Hah! "Hell ain't a bad place to be..."
Edit: For those that don't know, AC/DC is quite simply the greatest band in history. Anyone that disagrees has a right to their opinion, however wrong it may be.
There are some who call me... "Tim"?...
Not yet... Kank?
That's what I'm saying: Insanity and enlightenment are apparently the same thing, just depending upon one's level of control and the direction they naturally care to take it. Although Weaver and I definitely and obviously take things in opposite directions, I firmly believe I understand his perspective and motivations, and I'm sure he's beginning to see the same in me.
My biker friends have a saying... "Show me"...
Yeah, that usually happens at one point or another, as well. Does anyone here believe that such characters as kpaca and PhantomS were once good friends of mine? Would anyone believe that I piss Psi and AI off, all the time?
No misinterpretation; just a fondness for vague and shadowy wordings. C'mon, Weaver... you should know me at least that well, by now.
South of where, exactly?
magac?
Indeed.
You're taking for granted that I do accept cookies from such people, simply because I did not state otherwise? Well, at least we know I won't accept cookies from you...
...
Wonderful!
Again, you're taking such a thing for granted: I didn't say I believe myself sane (quite the contrary, actually... perhaps?), only that I "could make the argument"... I could also make the argument that I am, perfectly, sane. But then, just because one can make such an argument, does that necessarily mean anything?
Thank you!
As long as people remember this fact the next time they're calling for my head on a stake.
"...You ain't seen nothing, yet..."
Of course you'll like me; everyone does, at one point or another.
Of course I remember you. Hello!
...And of course there're crushes going around on this "Ravus" person... he's pretty ☺☺☺☺ing awesome, afterall.
Ah, the good ol' boys are returning to activity... just what the world needed! Hello, Psi! Welcome back! I'm pretty good, for the most part. Having a "good" job is rather hard on a person like me, being in love with a girl is hard on a person like me, and being a person like me is hard on anybody, but like I said; life is good. How're you?