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Re: Mildly Irritating: Aetolia's Pet Peeves

Whirran posting twice is my pet peeve. Elene only disagreeing once is my other pet peeve.

Bulrok

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Re: Mildly Irritating: Aetolia's Pet Peeves

edit: dealt with this another way. The sentiment behind it is still genuine since I've dealt with it in other contexts, but leaving this here atm post-resolution doesn't feel helpful to anybody.

Tetchta

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Re: Mildly Irritating: Aetolia's Pet Peeves

My pet peeve is not having an avenue to proactively pursue or plan things. Orgreqs are cool but they're just for orgs - if I want to personally back up something I have no idea how to make it happen.

Sibatti

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Re: Mildly Irritating: Aetolia's Pet Peeves

And that means not just agreeing with your friends because they are your friends.

I'm not convinced a whole lot of that is actually happening, but regardless it's a difficult distinction to make because, for instance, I agree with people I agree with, regardless of if they're my friends or not. I'm not going to stop agreeing with my friends when they say something I agree with just because they're my friends. We might not agree with one another, but that doesn't mean anyone's dogpile-agreeing because they're friends. Easy to accuse others of, though.

Iazamat

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Re: Mildly Irritating: Aetolia's Pet Peeves

My pet peeve is not having an avenue to proactively pursue or plan things. Orgreqs are cool but they're just for orgs - if I want to personally back up something I have no idea how to make it happen.

Make a news post. I'm serious. If it's interesting enough and you put the right vibe out there, someone will pick it up. And it won't cost you credits.

Tetchta

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Re: Mildly Irritating: Aetolia's Pet Peeves

OK it's time to move on folks.

Ictinus

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Holy War still has consequences, declaring isn't avoiding consequences. You still lose shrines.
Yeah, clearly. Why did you declare the Holy War then? Not to fight fewer people and not to avoid losing the shrines? I've heard that Bamathis Order vastly underestimated Ethne and admitted making an error with picking them as their target. So, please, be honest about it.

I made the decision to declare holy war when I saw the 30 person assist line kill the first of my 5 only allies. I debated between Omei, Ethne, and Dhar. My character is spiteful and saw Iesid as the ringleader so decided against Omei. I try very hard not to be a bully and knew Isia was putting in a real effort to finish her 200 run, and Sryaen was the only other Dhar member so decided OOCly that wasn't the way. That left Ethne, and my character had a grudge against one of the representatives anyway, so it felt right.

Nowhere to anyone did I suggest we underestimated or even thought we might have a chance to win. Everyone who asked, and even the news post I made to the congregation before it kicked off was "Hey we're gonna lose, but let's fight tooth and nail."

Then we fought a holy war against a celani

And won as many fights as we lost against a bigger group.

And I stand by my decision. If anyone has a problem with me swerving a 30v5 by using the mechanic that should have been used in the first place, you can [BE NICE - ICTINUS]

EDIT: OH SHIT I WAS TYPING THIS AND DIDN'T SEE THE BIG MAN POST!
Just felt the need to defend myself.

Mjoll

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Re: Mildly Irritating: Aetolia's Pet Peeves

A public forum of discussion is the opposite of an echo chamber. Some of us, at this moment, as a group (or rather a handful of individuals that keep recurring) are being a bit foward with our opinions, but that does not make this an echo chamber. This is about as far from an echo chamber as you can get in this community.

Tetchta

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I cannot speak to 1) because I am generally not around on the weekends. But while not related to the event, was it related to the war?(not baiting a response, like I said I did not hear about anything)
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I believe this is in reference to the numerology(at least I think it's numerology) skill that swaps you with any random person anywhere on the continent that is outdoors and not on a monolith. He was on clouds when he got pulled into a lesser by it and killed. So not intentional, since it's impossible to target anyone with it, but I can understand the frustration/annoyance about being dragged across the continent into aura by someone else and being killed for it. So completely unrelated to any of the current war/event stuff, to answer the question.

Jhura

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Re: Mildly Irritating: Aetolia's Pet Peeves

How did we vastly underestimate anything, Bama full order is one of the smaller ones we knew we were most likely going to lose since holy war is largely a pve numbers game. We've done multiple holy wars with like our 2-5 active full members depending on which war versus like 10+ full member orders. Also part of the reason it happened was people kept showing up enmasse to defend others who had defile aura against bamathis versus bamathis order members.

Ehtias

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