you know what grinds my gears?

[Gugnir]

"Plz, can you pay for my new boobiiies?"

No, but I can pay for yours. :3

[Nero]

No, but I can pay for yours. :3

O_O



OH HELL NO XD

[Jinko]

Now if I was to post a pic of a topless female I would get banned, but ask yourself which is more offensive ... ;.;

I can't unsee that !

[Eekiki]

Now if I was to post a pic of a topless female I would get banned, but ask yourself which is more offensive ... ;.;

I can't unsee that !

And if you posted a pic of a topless Lalafell female you'd be arrested. I swear, our morality is so backwards!

[Nero]

... backwards!

Thats the way it is.

[Madrox]

I stopped reading after the reason WHY.

You, are retarded. Just don't join those LS and join another. I agree, the application process is pretty stupid.. and they can all go to hell? I'll spend my days and nights grinding with those who aren't elitist fucks.. thought be aware just an application doesn't make them that all the time..

Your thoughts are way too generalized, and similar kind of thing to what you are bitching about. Just join a LS and quit complaining.

[Squiggles]

All-in-all, Reiko - I'd say I'm sorry to see you go but I'm pretty indifferent about it. You seemed cool, but I'd only seen you once or twice in game. I'm not sure you fully grasp the concept of a Linkshell. The point is to do activities with them. As someone who didn't do much with other members of the Linkshell, why would you think someone would want to give you an item? Simply being in a Linkshell is not the same as participating in one.

I wish you the best of luck, but your thread is a glorified "waa, I didn't get the item I wanted" thread.

im not going to deal with the other pieces due to wanting to keep things anonymous between people to avoid further drama about it. but this part, this is an extreme load of crap. the short while ive been back to the game we've done within the same party:

4 hamlets
2 CCs
1 AV
numerous garudas (to the point i got sick of it)
numerous moogles
helped you with your GC rank up NM
did two all nighters of caravan with you

amongst other things to help out when i could. when did we do these things? late evenings to late night, straight on til early morning. to say i wasnt participating with anything would be a complete load of crap considering the limited things outside of garuda the leader wanted to do.

to say i dont get the concept of a linkshell is borderline absurd.

[HiirNoivl]

Guggy where are you???

[Noir]

linkshells. link shells REALLY grind my gears.

and you wanna know why? because they behave like the antithesis of how the game is designed. they behave like exclusive cliques, and elitist borgeoisie. from mind numbing applications, to tedious interviews, to waiting for an answer like it's the outside of a nightclub, it is incredibly detrimental for a game COMPLETELY designed around the social experience.

dont get me started on applications, these things are the bane of my existance. why should i have to fill out the equivilant of a resume, and be treated like this linkshell is the combination of my wife and a part time job? my LS history, my dungeon experience, all my classes? why don't you try getting to know me as a person instead and see if my attitude and personality are more in line with ideals of the LS, instead of behaving like i need to have proper qualifications/references to join.

then there are ones only accepting X class, because they need it for their runs. this absolutely reeks of elitist behavior. adaptibility, and enjoyment should be what makes dungeons happen, not whatever makes it "EZ MODE" for the experienced dungeon runner. if there is a dearth in a particular role, improvise and/or train/let someone play a role they can enjoy, while maintaining a quality run, it's far more efficient than excluding the proletariat because they do not have X job or X skill readily at their disposal.

lastly, the inner circles of "friends" with the leader are the worst. you know, the leader's sycophantic right hand guy(s) who get first pick on roles in party, or loot? don't tell me it doesn't happen, because it always does. fellow HNMLS or dynamis LS should know what i'm talking about, there is always a favorites played eventually.

in fact, it happened to me just not about a week or so ago. we ran a PUG AV with half LS members, part shouted individuals, and part acquantances of the leader and his posse. we eventually get to AV, and find a darklight helm, standard rules were for PUGs were to mention before hand which jobs youd like stuff for, and i made it clear i would like things for warrior (50)/dragoon (which i was in the process of leveling, 41 at that time).

what happens? i get excluded from the lot on the basis "i've wanted it since it came out," "you can't even use it yet," and "it's mostly a drg only helm" by the leader and his ...well might as well be boyfriend. i was literally indignant at such disgusting elitism, (these guys have triple melds, already cap stats to the point they dont need +stat rings, i dont know how it would've helped them in any way) that per usual, the leader and his little boytoy friend got first pick at classes to play, and loot.

quite frankly, i want to be part of a social experience that doesn't pidgeonhole me to some role i dislike because "it's what we need," or to jump through hoops to get in, just because you think it'll weed out bad players.

and that's what really grinds my gears.

This thread

[Dargoth_Draconia]

Because Linkshells want to keep their core of experienced players. Other shells will reward them for hard work. SE has put enough RNG into the game. Linkshells don't have to add to it.



This is a dumb statement that makes me wonder if you even play. First of all if you don't have a job leveled you can't play it in endgame content. Another issue is gear: Gear doesn't matter for WHM nearly as much as giving a care about your job. That's the same for every class. People don't always want to play WHM, but all content requires WHM so people should expect to play it at some point in their lives. Saying no to white mage forever is just silly. That's the same for every class.

Expecting the community to revolve around you and your desires is far more childlike than any elitist attitude.

Are you daft? You couldn't comprehend my easy to digest statement so you call it a dumb statement? Since you didn't get it I will reiterate it for you.

People understand the reason behind this but someone shouldn't be forced to be a healer because they have it leveled every time. Then people expect you to get gear for the healer class and what if they want to play their DD?

I was saying since I have WHM and lets say BRD leveled. I shouldn't be forced to play WHM every time because "Joe Blow" has better BRD gear than me. Or because he is more experience at the fight, you have to learn by doing the fight. Then when I am forced to be the WHM they expect you to roll on WHM gear instead of BRD gear even though you made it known that BRD is your main. Maybe I hate WHM and don't want to be forced to play it all the time. What about all the other guys in your party that have WHM leveled yet you never see them get asked to play as WHM or never see them on another class than the one they want to play.

people should expect to play it at some point in their lives. Saying no to white mage forever is just silly.

This comment is silly. Because I have every class at 50 doesn't mean I should be expected to play every one of them. If I have only the desire to play BLM and BRD and not play WHM, why should I have to play WHM? Saying no to playing WHM at any time is a choice that should only be made by the player, it is an option not an obligation. It is just silly to say otherwise.

Just so you know I am a team player and I play all classes/jobs when somebody asks it of me. But I do not expect anyone to not play something they do not want to play, that is telling them to go against their free will and that is complete bullshit.