The title doesn’t lie, nor does the picture. We’re not done with Reich RP. Not yet, folks. Allow me to give a brief summary of a thread that’s up right now on their forum (which happens to be using the same color scheme that our forum is using >_>).

It started with Matteo announcing his leave from the community with this post.

It was followed by the usual butthurt replies of some forum mods and witty one liners by some of the less mature members. But I started feeling the need to intervene, partly on behalf of Matteo (who I’ve never actually talked to before) and partly on behalf of decency. Josef Nader (an admin there) along with some others, were making increasingly pretentious posts, trying to portray Reich RP as some sort of master Aryan race of GMod communities (these posts were also followed with witty one line responses by blind followers, supporting the claims). As such, I decided to post myself, with this.

Playing my usual role of the (attempting-to-be-helpful) devil’s advocate, I awaited reply. Some opposition from Josef Nader (which I quote in the following post) and other stuff.

This post must’ve been enough to get someone’s attention upstairs because Mr. Papa replied with this:

That’s the gist of the thread. I encourage you to read the whole thread that you can find here. Though you’ll need a forum account there to view it.

The point of this post is not to acknowledge certain Reich RP members’ incompetence, but to acknowledge Mr. Papa’s respectable understanding. It’s a rare thing to see one community leader(Paradox RP) recognize the faults of their community, but to see two do it as a result of my advice is rather interesting. I hope this streak continues within more communities that don’t have decent standards, and lets all hope Mr. Papa stays true to his word. If he speaks true of his intentions, then perhaps I’ve just prevented the creation and growth of another TnB.

This post is mainly to direct readers of this blog to a post Faust made on his own blog which you can find here. I’m providing a link because his blog seems rather new and I’d like him to have the forum for his defense that he deserves, as I have mine. The post is in reply and rebuttal to my previous post critiquing Paradox RP. There are only a few things I’d like to comment on in his post but before I do I’d like to make a few things noted. The first being, I was quite surprised to see someone of the GMod community mustering a respectable, mature response to one of my own posts. As such, I’d like to express my appreciation to Faust for being so respectable in this medium as such posts are becoming fewer and fewer (or so I’ve noticed). Furthermore I’d like to thank Faust for his notes on our community in his opening paragraph.  That being said, I’ll begin.

In regards to the current Paradox admins not having “ran” Aftermath RP, I’ll clarify. I hold to the belief the community members, not admins, run the communities, admins simply maintain them. This is what I saw going on at Aftermath RP (and it’s how things should go for the most part, the members are the most important aspect of the community), as such, it is what I was referring to. My statement was simply a guideline with the rest of my post ; it was no attempt to trivialize any person or community.

Furthermore, about “putting your fist down” as an administrator: I agree with said policy. I do believe, however, that it can be done without such a use of invective and vulgar demands to the community. I am not afraid to act strictly as situations call for it, as I’m sure my fellow administrators can confirm.

As far as making this public goes, I felt it was the only effective way to get Snaggy’s attention. Perhaps I wasn’t rhetorically skilled enough to grab his attention before, as I tried speaking to him on the issue several times (some of which were before he even began his community). Additionally, with the increasing number of blogs in recent months, posts such as these are beginning to seem increasingly casual, and for that I apologize.

In closing, Faust, I respect your defense of your community as I respect just about anyone who is willing to, respectably, stand up for their community. I’m glad you took the time to respond and I welcome to you to contact me on Steam Friends (guitarfreaksg) if you wish to discuss anything further, in private. Additionally, I’ll welcome you to post on this blog if you want to. Also, I don’t believe you were coming off too over the top or condescending in your defense. I don’t see any carried away writing in your post so I would advise you not to feel the need to justify it. And finally, thank you for taking the time to read and anyone who finds this direct response to Faust irrelevant or boring, I apologize.

At this early hour I am going to return, once again, to the complication of Taco n Banana and Garry’s Mod. Every so often I’ll decide to quell my (unfortunate) curiosity and see how TnB is fairing (or how they aren’t fairing for that matter).

Now, before I delve into the unsurprising but juicy parts of this post, I’d like to note a few things. I recently registered a forum account on the TnB forum as my old one did not work (we’ll see why in a short while). As per standard modern-day forum protocol, I received a confirmation email. All that matters in this context is the title of the email I saw:

"Serious RP" - a questionable description

The content in question here is, obviously, the phrase, “Serious RP”. It’s nice to see some things haven’t changed. So instead of having to write new criticisms on this trite, false claim, I’ll simply note its presence. Fast forward a few minutes, my account is working and I’m reading posts. Keep in mind I haven’t read all the important posts so I’m sure this particular blog post would be much larger if I had.

The next note I’d like to make is that of a rule posted at TnB, specifically posted aside from any others. And that is as follows:

The article establishes yet another hypocrisy within TnB, as Dave Brown has repeatedly trolled communities in blog posts, IRC channels and other chats. Notably, in a blog post he made at our affiliate, The Digital Soul. Their administration calls for neutrality, their administrator calls for immaturity.  Their administration calls for authoritative removals of rule breakers, their administrator ignores their proposals and becomes a rule breaker. They request complaints, they crucify those that make respective obligations. Hypocrisy, hypocrisy, hypocrisy.

In the past two excerpts, I have cleared up some talking points of TnB’s problems which I’ll be referring to shortly. This is to clarify that they are no secret to anyone, including those who have not read past blog posts that are currently unavailable. And so, we begin.
The content matter we’ll be looking at today is a post from Dave Brown. It reveals the unsurprising fact that TnB has made yet another enemy (or pissed off an old one again) and has had their forum, their databases and their backups hacked. How unfortunate.

TnB members, if you're reading this, you ARE the resistance.

Before I begin, please pardon his spelling mistakes and grammatical errors, and pardon me not taking the time to  correct them.

The highlighted part is the most absurd, silly, trite and as a result, controversial. Despite the statement sounding like something out of a recent Terminator movie, there is some sophomoric meaning to be looked at within it. Mr. Brown claims that he, nor anyone else in TnB, is capable of understanding why TnB is attacked and criticized. Before I try to understand why the community puts up with his lack of faith in their understanding, I’ll answer his question. TnB is attacked and criticized so much because DSRP was right and still is right about how dreadfully awful the community is. In almost every regard. If the community wouldn’t alienate itself from and insult other communities as well as members within, they might not be hated so much. If they don’t like being attacked they should stop making enemies routinely. There is no Jihad going on here, nobody is jealous of TnB for what they have. People attack TnB because it has poor RP ethics, poor administration and stupid people attempting to try their hand at logic. If you want to reason with someone try reasoning with me, I’ve been a proponent of TnB criticisms for a while and no representative from TnB has spoken to me or tried reasoning with me ; the claim is completely false.

Next, Mr. Brown’s comment about TnB having “grown to become bigger, stronger, and more mature.” I shouldn’t have to comment on the part about TnB being mature, but I will. I know I’m not alone with what I see here (and what I don’t see). I don’t see TnB growing bigger or stronger. I see TnB making more enemies each day and causing more members to harness distastes, dislikes and distrusts of the community. I don’t see TnB growing more mature. I see TnB maintaining its infamous hypocrisy and arrogant stupidity with such posts like the ones that I’ve mentioned and those that have been mentioned by the folks at DSRP.

Following this, Master Brown praises the community for the supposed fact that they have “always pulled together in times of…hardship.” This is probably the most pathetic Dave Brown quote I’ve seen yet. He goes on to request that TnB members refill their forums with the (mostly) poorly written, crappy and cliched stories and logs that have haunted TnB for years now. King Brown gets one thing right when he says that such content “is what sets us apart from others.” Perhaps all others except for Reich RP or HGN, as the content is often so uneducated or pungent that other, smarter communities would not dare to host or allow the production of content of similar nature.

The post is concluded with some quotes (none by any recognized scholars, writers or any hint of useful insight). In the first quote he makes a contention, then he conflicts it with his second, self-made quote. By his “logic”, monkeys must be capable of creating something (looks like TnB should have the amount production of the U.S. during World War II if that’s the case), as he says that monkeys can destroy things that geniuses create. Well, I’ll simply respond by saying, it takes a true genius to create something and keep it standing. Maybe a genius wouldn’t have insulted the near entirety of the non-TnB Garry’s Mod players. Maybe a genius wouldn’t have alienated his community from others. Maybe a genius wouldn’t continue to insult his own members and create even more enemies, and maybe that same genius would be smart enough to understand why his community was being attacked if he didn’t follow the above guidelines. A genius wouldn’t try to make motivating posts furthering TnB’s arrogant, intolerant, master race attitude.

I’ll conclude myself by leaving some quotes TnB might learn from.

“Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot.”

-Jim Rohn

“The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one’s clothes.”

-Mark Twain