The Big FFXI MessFollow

Yeah, pretty sure that's who he claimed to be. If it's not him, I imagine the real Phurios is doing something like this right now:



What they mean by that is:

- People who have better gear than they do
- People who get party invites when they don't
- People with multiple 75s when they only have one
- People who get invited to do endgame with statics

They are blaming their own personality and/or time management failings on others, and attempting to disparage them by saying "Well, they may be a better video game player than I am but that's only because they don't have a life!"

Doesn't work out when you actually talk to the uber godlike players, leaders of HNMs, etc. Sure, there are a few basement dwellers among them, but the vast majority are productive, normal adults, with spouses, sometimes kids, usually full time jobs. The basement dwellers are the exception, not the norm.

Edited, Sep 1st 2009 11:41am by catwho

This guy just does not know me very well, not very well at all.

I'm not reading that whole wall-of-text BS.

Phurios (if it's the same one on Phoenix) runs/ran a very small, social slash "end-game" (salvage, nzyul, limbus) shell on Phoenix with like 2 nice people and a bunch of the ******** he described in what I read of his rant. I'm guessing this all stemmed from trouble on the homefront, so to speak.

All WSs have that you ****. Get over your anti-fanboyism of SAM long enough to pull your head out of your ***.

By the by, it was first tested on alla with Wasp Sting, and the JPs have known about it for years.

There's a reason my nukes do 25-30% more damage than a new BLM75 and don't resist nearly as often... and it's not skill. To make as bold of a claim as "gear isn't important" screams that he's some gimp **** who can't get anything done in the game because he never took the time to adequately gear himself and/or doesn't know how to and is pissed off that he's made a name for himself as a failure. Maybe not, but that's just what that tells me.

Edited, Sep 1st 2009 11:50am by bsphil

What's weirder about that statement, is that if this is Phurios from Phoenix, he has pretty nice gear. Although, most of it is Usukane so I guess that's where he got his love for Salvage being awesome.

Exactly what I expected to see. It’s so much easier to judge a voice than to use one. Why think at all when you can criticize? I’ve been bored seeing the posts of people saying the same dumb sh*t the person before them said. Are “QQ” and “butthurt” really a valid reason to post??

Also, everyone saying this kind of stuff is way off, sorry. It completely went over your head. Or you just didn’t read it and decided to post something pointless anyway.

I don’t read enough forums to fully comprehend “troll” or what it means to “troll”. But if it means to bait someone then it’s not an inaccurate way to describe what I was looking to do.

The article I posted is filled with good ideas about what we can do to improve our community, but it also has these sharp accusations and broad generalizations to get the attention of these players that thrive on conflict despite it’s counter productiveness.

So we had two choices upon reading this.

1. Engage in a discussion about the problems we have and what we should do about them.

2. Attack the poster, trying to win a flaming war.

Without hesitation we choose the latter in every forum, its remarkable.

http://www.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=10&mid=125175480737147175&num=85&page=1


http://forums.ffxiclopedia.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=22313&sid=22f3db7af131e08ffaa1ece07fb5eb3f

http://killingifrit.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=179737


http://www.ffxiah.com/forum/?topic_id=4728

Not only am I attacked personally, as illustrated in the article, people immediately criticize equipment, assuming that whoever wrote this has bad gear. We actually get to see M.I.M.S. in action.

I’d like to say thank you to all these geeks for their support in helping to prove my point and make the article come to life. I wish I had responded sooner so this guy hadn’t beaten me to it.



I didn’t write this for those people who don’t have the attention span to read a mere 10 pages. In fact I bullet pointed those wildly sharp points at the very start to help weed out these retards. I wrote it for the 15-20 people that actually sat down and read it in its entirety, understood what was going on, yes, even the subtle parts, and then thought about this stuff as we move into FFXIV. Not trying to change anyone’s life, just asking people to think about it.

My only complaint is that I’ve received all kinds of private messages and friend invites wanting to talk about it. Why not post? Don’t be afraid of conflict, that’s how things get accomplished.

The article is there, read it if you want, it’s got some good stuff in it. You can keep bashing me if you want too, it’s really interesting. I’ll see everyone for FFXIV.


Edited, Sep 1st 2009 3:59pm by Phurios

Just like how we should be having legitimate debates about Obama's citizenship or if the moon landing was faked or that the Earth is flat, right?

If you want to have a debate, you start it by speaking in a manner conducive to a debate. Rash generalizations and stupid comments attract people to come out and tell you how stupid and generalized your points are, rather than to debate them. Rewrite the argument, clearly organize it, and back up statements with proofs and facts. MAYBE if you do a good enough job people will still take you seriously enough to debate the merits of your claims.

The only initial bullet point that you made that can be accurately debated because it's strictly a game issue and not a social comment on the players of the game is about SAM WS accuracy, and it's factually wrong on several levels. Tell me why I should bother reading any further when the 3rd line of your document is so blatantly erroneous.





Edited, Sep 1st 2009 3:21pm by bsphil

There's only one thing in common between all those forums, your post. If you write out something and 99% of the people think it's stupid, there's a high chance what you wrote was stupid. Couple that with stating things which are tested to be wrong as fact, no one is going to take you seriously.

Obviously Kirk. Just being played by William Shatner makes him legendary; add the sheer amount of green tail and awesome Kirk exuded makes him LEAGUES ahead of Picard. Yes, Patrick Stewart is pretty cool, as was his portrayal of Picard, but you'd have to be delusional to believe he was anywhere near Kirk in any way feasible.

God, you noobs.

I refuse to attempt to understand an article so full of contradiction...

you cannot profess to tell everyone that they are doing it wrong when you do so using the very methods you condemn