Quote Originally Posted by Camiie View Post
That's exactly right. It doesn't prove anything except that the person getting the drop was lucky. The saying, "I'd rather be lucky than good" should honestly be the FFXI motto. It's not a game of skill. It's not a game of dedication. It's a game of pure, dumb luck.
You keep running around slandering a group of people without actually reading what they type in response to you. Read what myself and Uptempo are actually saying and you'll realize you're just yelling at air. Actual, living, existing HNM-class players are not running around making the stupid back-asswards claims that you're saying they are. If some real, living person is, point us in their direction so we can call them retarded too. Otherwise, you're just propagating a conflict that does not exist.

This is what I can't stand about posts like yours and Hayward's (See? I'm using specific examples instead of just saying "CASUALSSSSS RRRGH"). You talk so much about some elite community that has its head so far up its own ass that they can lick their own eyeballs, but who do you see actually instigating those beliefs? What "Elites" do you actually deal with? Who are the individual people making these retarded, back-asswards assertions about the game and trying to hold it back as much as possible?

It's impossible to deal with people when all they do is throw around broad generalizations rather than treating people like people. I'm a human being, and I will not be told what my beliefs are simply because I play at a higher level than others.

As for the part I've actually quoted, it really always is better to be lucky than skilled. Just ask Kai Allard-Liao and Victor Hanse Steiner-Davion.