There are also subliminal messages being left suggesting the collapse of SURREAL. Is this true? See for yourself in the screen shot. Yes, it is true.
-Mfsoccer94
Showing posts with label surreal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label surreal. Show all posts
6/29/2009
Yes..."better" Part 2
It seems as though SURREAL is having its tough times these days. In addition to the loss of pperplex, it is now announced that the former co-captain soccerstar1985 is leaving as well.
There are also subliminal messages being left suggesting the collapse of SURREAL. Is this true? See for yourself in the screen shot. Yes, it is true.
-Mfsoccer94
There are also subliminal messages being left suggesting the collapse of SURREAL. Is this true? See for yourself in the screen shot. Yes, it is true.
-Mfsoccer94
5/19/2009
Soon to be Dinosaurs?
It’s official now. The self proclaimed enemies of the institute of the finest and wittiest in Power Soccer, you call it Marx Brothers, have “officially” declared themselves Anti-IOTFAWIPS(MB). A question I pose to the entire clan of surrealists is what has changed? You have added Anti-MB (Incorrect by the way, should be IOTFAWIPS) to your club member badges but what else? As far as I can tell or am concerned nothing else.
Why did you do it? Well there could be millions of reasons but I can say the main one, powdersnow told you too be, or taught you to agree. He showed you his side of the story and nothing else in the hope of convincing you to join him, or perhaps he just said do it or leave. Whatever the case it was ultimately pow’s decision. He has the power to sway minds, which is great. But here is the thing, here in IOTFAWIPS we are all influential masterminds. What we say can be spread everywhere. The forums, the dev blog, the gamerooms, the dashboard you name it we are there. Surreal has great users no doubt, but they do not have the power we have. We have the power!
There is so much power that normal users would probably go crazy trying to do only good with it. So we make our clan hard to join, we don’t let those that listen to posters telling them what to do. No! We make sure that only the finest and wittiest get in. Not because we strive to be the best, but because we must protect such grave power we have.
Now it comes to powdersnow this founder of yours that appears to be a strong believer in no Marx Brothers. But care to recall our birthday a while back, and see what pow had to say about us:
Let’s start with the obvious, MB is not an ordinary clan and doesn’t consist of ordinary people… they are all incredibly verbal and witty…everything they write worth reading…MB adds something vital to the Power Soccer community…I wish I had some of that attitude towards some stuff in my life…adds flavour to our community…If I could put something on my wish list for 2009, it would be to get more clans like MB.. Thank you MB. Congrats!
//Pow
Under what you now see as an imminent doom and hypocrisy will you dodo’s back down and surrender or face the fury of all out blogging that will make you more like a dinosaur than a dodo. It’s up to you Surreal, face up or fall back!
Post 300 on the blog!
Why did you do it? Well there could be millions of reasons but I can say the main one, powdersnow told you too be, or taught you to agree. He showed you his side of the story and nothing else in the hope of convincing you to join him, or perhaps he just said do it or leave. Whatever the case it was ultimately pow’s decision. He has the power to sway minds, which is great. But here is the thing, here in IOTFAWIPS we are all influential masterminds. What we say can be spread everywhere. The forums, the dev blog, the gamerooms, the dashboard you name it we are there. Surreal has great users no doubt, but they do not have the power we have. We have the power!
There is so much power that normal users would probably go crazy trying to do only good with it. So we make our clan hard to join, we don’t let those that listen to posters telling them what to do. No! We make sure that only the finest and wittiest get in. Not because we strive to be the best, but because we must protect such grave power we have.
Now it comes to powdersnow this founder of yours that appears to be a strong believer in no Marx Brothers. But care to recall our birthday a while back, and see what pow had to say about us:
Let’s start with the obvious, MB is not an ordinary clan and doesn’t consist of ordinary people… they are all incredibly verbal and witty…everything they write worth reading…MB adds something vital to the Power Soccer community…I wish I had some of that attitude towards some stuff in my life…adds flavour to our community…If I could put something on my wish list for 2009, it would be to get more clans like MB.. Thank you MB. Congrats!
//Pow
Under what you now see as an imminent doom and hypocrisy will you dodo’s back down and surrender or face the fury of all out blogging that will make you more like a dinosaur than a dodo. It’s up to you Surreal, face up or fall back!
Post 300 on the blog!
5/14/2009
The Truth Hurts, doesn't it Surreal?
Apparently my blog post from yesterday on the inactivity of Surreal – or the fact that they didn’t live up to their potential – didn’t fall in good grounds. It seems that Vkultras has left Surreal for TVST and it also seems that a merger between TVST and Surreal backfired. I would say: good on TVST as they are an active clan with superb members who compete in nearly every competition this game has to offer. You don’t want to merge with a dodo, do you?
The fun part for me though was to see my private chat flooded with remarks from both TVST and Surreal Members. I couldn’t fail to notice that some TVST members were rather happy they did not have to merge with Surreal: their messages were more a sign of relief than anger.
What happens is that Surreal calls itself an official Anti-MB clan. They posted on their owner’s corner the following message: “Now officially ANTI-MB. MB are bullies, and we will aplaud every other clan who dares to stand up and declare themselves anti-MB too.” They also changed their badge and added “anti-MB” there as well. That is of course from our point of view probably the highest level of irony you can reach: they are so strongly against Marx Brothers that they consider it to be a core element of their identity. They therefore seem to fail to understand what their latest action means: if you are against something, it means you consider them to be important enough to be against.
As a result, it means that Marx Brothers is considered to be very important, which is not of its making. We didn’t ask to have anti-MB clan(s), we didn’t ask to have a blog read by anyone in this game, we didn’t ask to be kingmakers, we didn’t ask to be “fill in yourself”.
Ironically (part 2) this is what Surreal envies us for. They want to be taken serious, they want to be heard, they want to be considered kingmakers… but they aren’t. The message yesterday simply was an observation: Surreal does not compete in clan competitions for over a month (its core reason of existence, if we read the blog), Surreal does not select people with the right profile (according to their requirements) or does not lower its standards a bit in order to allow active, forward-looking and willing people like Vkultras to join their ranks. You can say many things about Vkultras but not that his short timespan in the clan was a disaster. Granted, he got too many fellow Dutchmen on board, but one of these people was the former number one of Powersoccer, pperplex.
The article on our blog was all about the actual inactivity of Surreal: no clan cups, many members coming and going, no activity on their blog, nothing, niente. It seems the article did stir emotions and did give the “dodo” Surreal another breath of life. I personally never believed its story for many various reasons, but I can be mistaken too from time to time.
Alas it seems that Surreal is back to base one. The first war (won by MB by the way) started by the fact that Powdersnow wanted to get many level 99ers in his to be formed clan, Surreal. People with tons of clan experience, like myself, who build up a clan, a clan philosophy and a brand name which rang a bell with many users, were supposed to leave their own creation and be the underling of something new, something fresh. I actually never recovered from that dagger in my heart. Asking that bluntly to forsake my home was many bridges too far, for me and for many other users.
It seems the old idea is revived again. We cannot forge a community on the basis of who we are (let’s build up a clan worthy of that name and the people will flock to use), so we will start stealing – or trying to steal – members from other clans again. Shame, shame, shame.
The fun part for me though was to see my private chat flooded with remarks from both TVST and Surreal Members. I couldn’t fail to notice that some TVST members were rather happy they did not have to merge with Surreal: their messages were more a sign of relief than anger.
What happens is that Surreal calls itself an official Anti-MB clan. They posted on their owner’s corner the following message: “Now officially ANTI-MB. MB are bullies, and we will aplaud every other clan who dares to stand up and declare themselves anti-MB too.” They also changed their badge and added “anti-MB” there as well. That is of course from our point of view probably the highest level of irony you can reach: they are so strongly against Marx Brothers that they consider it to be a core element of their identity. They therefore seem to fail to understand what their latest action means: if you are against something, it means you consider them to be important enough to be against.
As a result, it means that Marx Brothers is considered to be very important, which is not of its making. We didn’t ask to have anti-MB clan(s), we didn’t ask to have a blog read by anyone in this game, we didn’t ask to be kingmakers, we didn’t ask to be “fill in yourself”.
Ironically (part 2) this is what Surreal envies us for. They want to be taken serious, they want to be heard, they want to be considered kingmakers… but they aren’t. The message yesterday simply was an observation: Surreal does not compete in clan competitions for over a month (its core reason of existence, if we read the blog), Surreal does not select people with the right profile (according to their requirements) or does not lower its standards a bit in order to allow active, forward-looking and willing people like Vkultras to join their ranks. You can say many things about Vkultras but not that his short timespan in the clan was a disaster. Granted, he got too many fellow Dutchmen on board, but one of these people was the former number one of Powersoccer, pperplex.
The article on our blog was all about the actual inactivity of Surreal: no clan cups, many members coming and going, no activity on their blog, nothing, niente. It seems the article did stir emotions and did give the “dodo” Surreal another breath of life. I personally never believed its story for many various reasons, but I can be mistaken too from time to time.
Alas it seems that Surreal is back to base one. The first war (won by MB by the way) started by the fact that Powdersnow wanted to get many level 99ers in his to be formed clan, Surreal. People with tons of clan experience, like myself, who build up a clan, a clan philosophy and a brand name which rang a bell with many users, were supposed to leave their own creation and be the underling of something new, something fresh. I actually never recovered from that dagger in my heart. Asking that bluntly to forsake my home was many bridges too far, for me and for many other users.
It seems the old idea is revived again. We cannot forge a community on the basis of who we are (let’s build up a clan worthy of that name and the people will flock to use), so we will start stealing – or trying to steal – members from other clans again. Shame, shame, shame.
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