Desire may be fulfilled, situation remains far from being stably
seeded into the ground. Time for another
mission it seems.
I'm sad to say that I can't really join in or offer much input
Well, since you're volunteering, I would greatly appreciate your input on the following matter...
A bit of background about Terrina and her "opinion" of me:
http://dissidiaforums.com/showthread.php?296-Promotions!&p=411305&viewfull=1#post411305
I see three solutions to sort out this issue.
~> The
white one -- as in the "most pacific" one: canceling my tournament and promoting hers into DissidiaGAF since she was the one who came up with the idea of NA tournaments after all. Obviously this solution is far from being the fairest, neither is it the most productive.
~> The gray one -- as in the "most reasonable" one: scheduling the tournament to the next week-end, to the week-end of the 15th February. There is no other week-end said tournament can take place, for the following weeks will be reserved to Spyder's major. Problem is, there is also an European tournament scheduled for that week-end, wherein East Coast American players can also join; though none of them joined the last one. It was the smallest European tournament in the entire history of the site,
a twilight more than a dawn.
~> The
black one -- as in the "most competitive" one: may the best win. Her tournament, my tournament; same week-end. If that happens, I can guarantee you that will be the tournament wherein I put the most effort in my entire life-time as a TO for Dissidia. Girl won't stand a chance and if she appears to believe otherwise, then that would mean she has no idea of
who she is dealing with in the slightest.
You ask me, I would go for the black solution without a shadow of doubt. You didn't see me posting the community thread here earlier not only because I had to finalize it, but also because I wanted to give the Massfia at least 48H to answer to my affiliation letter. Needless to say they still haven't replied to it, and
I would honestly be lying if I thought I was getting any answer. Consider the following pitch...
...the people in question being the Dissidia community. I don't want any of them to suffer from the beef I hold tightly with the Massfia.
Still calling the staff a mafia even though I see them as a sect now, granted how some individuals cowardly flip-flopped as soon as I got banned.
Kurayami warned me about Khellendros being a suck-up to the admins several times in the past, but I wasn't bearing his stance in mind for I was yet to experience it myself.
I understand where he was coming from now. I regret for not putting more stock into it earlier.
The DissidiaForums' staff is the literal opposite of NeoGAF's: unprofessional, cynical and, ultimately, completely out of touch with their community. The comparison may not be warranted because NeoGAF remains a business wherein staff members do get paid for their work while DissidiaForums has to be likened to a volunteering association, but that doesn't excuse the cynicism.
One of my original plans once
Kagari had agreed to go ahead with my project was to ask her to write the affiliation letter to Mass Zero instead of me to make clear the drama was behind now. However, the incident with that one staff member I mentioned in my previous post made me turn like "Yeah... well, maybe not".
It's clear that one staff member always hated me for the life of him, so that when he cracked down on me over at #DDFFCasual ("Get a fucking life!"), I was taking the heat all in stride. It's only when he brought up Kagari to the table that I felt moved, even so slightly; yet it wasn't misogynistic slur, all what he said was along the lines of "Whoever that Kagari is, your project will be of no avail." even though I already took the time to explain in great length over at the forum how important she was. I may be over-dramatizing here, but to me, his words were in the same vein as Mass Zero's when he attempted to replace me by Kurayami: both tried to reach me through my sentiments.
I've got to interact with three NeoGAF's staff members so far, and all three have been responsive. One of them in particular told me this...
It's not really so much about preventing them from getting popular or from people joining them, if people want to join other forums we have no real problem with that.
...which is yet another shining example of how different the NeoGAF's staff is than DF's: the latter would've said the
exact opposite.
Pure concentration of disingenuous, socialist, haughty, unwarranted self-important and ultimately mind-numbing garbage. If
I hate my father for the life of me, then I get over my adolescent crisis and leave the home sweet home, moreover if I'm 18+. It's
that simple.
Should discussing with one of the three admins (Kraid, Spyder and Mass Zero) have to be warranted ever again in the future, I won't do it privately: I will ask a third-party to come to the meeting along with me. The very thought of any of those three makes me want to vomit in this day and age, even when it comes to Spyder. In spite of he wished me luck in my journey over at NeoGAF, it still doesn't change the fact I no longer trust him at all. And I even less trust Kraid and Mass Zero. Spyder and Dave were my only "antagonists" supporting the project.
I changed my password on all my online accounts that had the same as DF's as soon as I got banned there. Besides, another reason of why I didn't ask Kagari to write the affiliation letter was because that would have required her to create a DF account. I was uncomfortable with the very idea of the Massfia getting a hold of her IP address. That's the end I have reached, as romantic and melodramatic as it may be.
Feel free to ask me for more details on anything before you voice your judgment.