RiderSyl wrote:Quebecshire wrote:I don't want to engage with this but there's a part of it I'm not going to led stand unaddressed.
My region and I were damn near blacklisted because of my region's old problems, and Tim had every reason to hate me and us indefinitely for it. When we fixed our shit up a number of months later and expressed interest in defending, instead of telling us to pound sand like he easily and justifiably could have, he took a chance on my region and I, argued for us, and it is because of that and the hard work that my regionmates and I have put in that one of the largest defender militaries in the game exists right now.
In the time since he, and others either on their own or as a result of his advocacy for us, have put immense faith and trust in my region and me specifically. I've seen him do this with others too, if he believes in your potential he'll go to bat for you and die on your hill. I've met very few people who are better hype-men, and he is within a small group of gameplayers I would say I consider friends and mentors.
I've been on this site since 2016 through a lot of shit times and a lot of good times. I will not be told that I am a manipulated pawn by someone who is being bitter and can't let things go.
I will continue drafting my proposal with intent to pass it, of my own volition, because I want to and because I asked Tim if I could write this. End of discussion.
By going over your history with Tim, you've done an excellent job of laying out exactly what makes you so easily manipulated by him, in actuality. Talking about this, I speak not only from personal experience, but from my experience knowing others in NS that fell prey to the way Tim plays this damned political sim. You're still useful, Q, and that's the difference.
As for me being "bitter" and being unable to "let things go"... You're close on that one. I'm justifiably bitter, and I chose not to let this one go. Someone needed to post what I posted about Tim, so even if it's not widely believed, it's at least out there and known how unworthy of a Commend he actually is. Better that than the narrative that was being built in this thread of him just being a bit of a jerk sometimes.
FYI, I've no future in this part of the game anymore. I decided months ago that I'm going just to answer issues, make cute nations, and run an auto-login script. So I don't care how NSGP remembers me. I don't care that I'm hurting my reputation by calling Tim out like this. I'm fine calling a spade a spade.
I measure my success in this game based on community building, not my political usefulness. Don’t get me wrong, Tim is a friend and a mentor, but if your fictional reality came true and he tossed me to the curb, I’d still have everything I’ve built in The League’s community.
Thankfully, it won’t come true because it’s based in vindictiveness. You can say you don’t have a part in the game anymore, but if you literally can’t resist coming here to fling this sort of rhetoric at people, I’m not so sure about that.
But what does little ol manipulated me know?