Mechwarrior Online

[Ironwood]

Humour>All.  It's a large group so you have the usual things you would expect, nice people & arseholes.  It has deeply committed people who will put months of effort into something boring and complicated just to piss other people off, while at the same time they will throw all that effort away with little thought if it's funny to do so. 

I like them, I wouldn't want to fight against them as their troll posting/propaganda is so good at making people hate them.

Sounds like Malkavians.

[Lantyssa]

That's probably the most apt description I've heard of the Goons.

[angry.bob]

Just about everything I've heard about them paints them as nerdy bullies, people who want to have fun by ruining your day, and fuck with your shit on a personal level because lol internets or whatever.  This is stuff coming from both their enemies as well as the Goons themselves.  I've never encountered them myself as far as I know, so I may be way off base, but that's the image of them that I'm getting.  *shrug*

They're pretty much 4chan Anons who act like 4chan Anons but who think they're not because they pay to be on SA forums. We have some at our local game shop who go on and on about retarded goonfleet crap and then flip their shit when you tell them that they're like Anonymous but lamer because they only do stuff in videogames and they pay to post on a message board.

Also, I wonder when Living Legends is going to be served a C&D since it's a fan mod, isn't it? MWO isn't going to allow direct competition, especially if it's prettier and completely free.

[Simond]

Nah, 4chan is a SA spinoff.

[angry.bob]

Nah, 4chan is a SA spinoff.

Not a spinoff, but SA did exist first. But that doesn't mean it's derivative. That would be like saying Haemish's writing is a F13 spinoff, Ironwood's whatever the fuck he does is a F13 spinoff, or F13 is a LTM spinoff.

[Engels]

Pretty sure F13 is a LtM spinoff.

[HaemishM]

This never ends well. 

[UnSub]

This never ends well. 

As an F13 spin-off, we're going to put you in a house with, oh, WUA, Dash and grunk and film the results. It'll be zany! 

Guilds have aversion to Goonswarm in the same manner a group of friends leave a bar when the party bus full of drunken frat boys pulls up outside.

[Kitsune]

The goons aren't complex.  If they roll in and fight you, and you behave like you're playing a game and attack them back while not taking it too seriously, they'll like you.  But if you behave like they just dug up your dead mother and had sex with her because the game is serious and start making strident posts about them on the forums, they'll decide that you're their new project.  And then your pain will begin.

[angry.bob]

Pretty sure F13 is a LtM spinoff.

Nay sir. At least not directly. Somewhere, someone has surely made an awesome diagram of all the different boards that rose and fell and the dates involved.

Regardless, giant robots and whatnot.

[Ironwood]

Ironwood's whatever the fuck he does is a F13 spinoff

Please.

[Arthur_Parker]

They're pretty much 4chan Anons who act like 4chan Anons but who think they're not because they pay to be on SA forums. We have some at our local game shop who go on and on about retarded goonfleet crap and then flip their shit when you tell them that they're like Anonymous but lamer because they only do stuff in videogames and they pay to post on a message board.

I don't think anyone is saying the goons don't come across as incredibly annoying, but with so many of them, there have to be some who aren't actually like that.  Also ltm used to link SA so that's how I found it.

The only concern I have about playing online with them again is that some mwo dev might go ape and ban anyone associated with them.

Goon Beta thread apparently got closed (no nda breaking stuff).

[Gets]

goons ruin everything

[Bungee]

goons ruin everything

Even THIS beta-thread...

[Lantyssa]

Someone went through 800 posts and listed all the reasons to lock the thread?  I know it's a Mechwarrior game and the number crunchers that attracts (Hi, I'm Lan!), but what kind of horribly crippling levels of OCD can possibly lead to that?

"Locked, because of trolling."  Done.

[Der Helm]

This makes me want to play with the goons. Does SA accept paypal ? 

[Kitsune]

If you do sign up, lay low for a month and join in some conversations outside the game forum, don't just run into their MWO thread.  If they see you pop into a gaming thread on the same day you made your account, they'll call you a J4G (Join SA 4 Guild) and probably a faggot for good measure.  They're lovable that way.

Which is pretty much what we'd do if someone signed up on F13 and immediately tried to get into bat country, except without the faggot part and with bigger words.

[Comstar]

Goon Beta thread apparently got closed (no nda breaking stuff).

The more they tighten their grip, the more posting will slip through their forums.


Goonswarm is going to be House Liao (and take over the Federated Suns) until the Clans show up and then they'll switch to a Democracy and stop the clans 80 planets away from Tukkayid using armies of Urbanmech's.

[Lantyssa]

If they hindered the Clanners I could do nothing but applaud.

[Ingmar]

Humour>All. 

For certain values of "humour" anyway.

[Der Helm]

If you do sign up, lay low for a month and join in some conversations outside the game forum, don't just run into their MWO thread.  If they see you pop into a gaming thread on the same day you made your account, they'll call you a J4G (Join SA 4 Guild) and probably a faggot for good measure.  They're lovable that way.

Yeah. That's a given. 

[WayAbvPar]

I joined SA a few years ago as a backup plan when I was playing Eve with Bat Country. I eventually started posting and playing games with goons, and have been happy with both. In such a large community there are bound to be some antisocial types, but for the most part they are good folks. Similar to here, but skew probably 10 years younger. Just avoid the goddamned MLP freaks.

[Murgos]

There is a lot good about the SA forums.  Have a question about your taxes?  There's a tax thread with lots of good advice and people willing to point you to the applicable part of the tax code.  Have a tech question?  There's a whole forum of Trippy level uber geeks who will answer it for you.  Don't know what new podcasts are any good?  Another whole forum, same with Music, TV, Movies, Books and etc... Want to lose weight?  There is a forum dedicated to health and exercise and and debunking bad info and so on.

[Ironwood]

There's a whole forum of Trippy level uber geeks who will answer it for you. 

Told you not to spill water on him.

Fuck knows what happens if we feed him at night.

[Arthur_Parker]

MechWarrior Online - Frozen City Reveal

Voice over man has a cold or something (not a professional voice actor I bet), it's not as good as the two leaked beta videos.  

BTW am I ok to post links to the two leaked videos even though the NDA is still active?

[Phred]

Pretty sure F13 is a LtM spinoff.

Nay sir. At least not directly. Somewhere, someone has surely made an awesome diagram of all the different boards that rose and fell and the dates involved.

Awesome Diagram

LtM ->SND->WT->F13

[Engels]

Pretty sure F13 is a LtM spinoff.

Nay sir. At least not directly. Somewhere, someone has surely made an awesome diagram of all the different boards that rose and fell and the dates involved.

Awesome Diagram

LtM ->SND->WT->F13

Thing is, SND and WT were boring ass places. F13 was the first diaspora site that was fun, so for me, its a LtM knockoff 

[Ironwood]

MechWarrior Online - Frozen City Reveal

Voice over man has a cold or something (not a professional voice actor I bet), it's not as good as the two leaked beta videos.  

BTW am I ok to post links to the two leaked videos even though the NDA is still active?

PEW PEW PEW-PEW-PEW.

Want.

[Phred]

Pretty sure F13 is a LtM spinoff.

Nay sir. At least not directly. Somewhere, someone has surely made an awesome diagram of all the different boards that rose and fell and the dates involved.

Awesome Diagram

LtM ->SND->WT->F13

Thing is, SND and WT were boring ass places. F13 was the first diaspora site that was fun, so for me, its a LtM knockoff 

Wow. SND boring? The Eldon blow up was anything but boring and F13 hasn't had any drama that matched it. I guess WT was a matter of taste but I found it amusing. Besides I just diagrammed the progression, made no claims about any of the sites.

[Merusk]

MechWarrior Online - Frozen City Reveal

Voice over man has a cold or something (not a professional voice actor I bet), it's not as good as the two leaked beta videos.  

BTW am I ok to post links to the two leaked videos even though the NDA is still active?

PEW PEW PEW-PEW-PEW.

Want.

Is it August yet?  /impatient.

[Arthur_Parker]

More keys going out July 10th.

[Jherad]

 

 

That is all.

[Llyse]

 

That is all.

Arsehole!

[satael]

 

That is all.

  enough to be worth the $60 founder package?

[Arthur_Parker]

500 keys went out last night, so worth checking