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And if you say "The game is what you make of it" ONE MORE TIME, I'm going to vomit! Change the record already! I'm just as sick of hearing that as you are of hearing complaints about the wipe/merge. You aren't even trying to understand anyone's point. You just get your pom-poms out and cheer for the changes all the time. If you are happy, fine, but at least have the decency to respect those of us with different views and who aren't happy.
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Look at what you just wrote.......really read it. See the irony in it? This is a whole pot/kettle thing, because not only have you been playing the same record virtually since you started posting here, saying the same things time and time again, you don't seem to respect the fact that other people see things differently either. I say 'you don't SEEM' because I don't know really if you do or not, I can only read what you post here, which might or might not be a total representation of how you actually feel. Some people are better at expressing their thoughts and ideas thoroughly than others are. I just don't understand how you can tell her what you just said after posting that long post telling her why she's wrong and you're right.
If anybody here is unhappy it's because they are choosing to be, plain and simple. And no, I don't mean just the option you have of leaving. There are many ways to cope/deal with the changes that are taking place and are going to take place, and they've all been listed here. Making the best of what I think most everybody can agree is a bad situation (the wipe) is not a crime, and its not something that deserves belittling and/or being made fun of, and it's not being a 'cheerleader'. Mandi has in the past voiced her opinion on plenty of things with the game that she disagrees with, but usually when she does she does it in a clear, concise and mature way, being careful not to be beligerent and get into the 'jumping up and down' part. Just because she happens to either be happy now, or at least realizes that she can't change anything so she might as well roll with it if she wants to stay around, doesn't mean that she has never had anything negative to say about the game.
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If you re-read my ENTIRE post, you will see that I was just explaining to her (albeit a bit hostile since I'm getting sick of the "everything is great" attitude) WHY people stopped playing now, pre-merge. AND I DID tell her (in the part you quoted even) that if she liked the changes, fine. Does that sound like I don't respect other's views? NO! Just the opposite. It wasn't an attack out of thin air. SHE said she didn't understand, so I explained it. I may have been expressing my same views, because they haven't changed, to defend myself when others post to me, but at least I don't repeat the same phrase like "the game is what you make of it" word for word like a record that is stuck EVERY TIME. And I most certainly DO respect other's views. And I NEVER said I was right and she was wrong. It was an explanation, plain and simple. I've even said before that if people like the changes, fine, it's their right to feel that way, but respect those of us who don't, which is not what she (or others) seem to be doing. THEY seem to be the ones saying that the ones who aren't happy ARE wrong...not MIGHT BE wrong or that we have a right to feel how we do....and we have NO right to feel how we do. We're the bad guys here, and I am getting tired of it. That is why I was getting hostile. AND FYI, I wasn't TRYING to be hostile..just very firm because she just wasn't understanding why people aren't playing now...
And before anyone says anything, yeah, the merge/wipe IS happening. There is NOTHING I can do about it....I GET THAT! I've gotten that from the beginning. But that doesn't mean I have to like it and don't have the right to say how I feel or that I don't have a right to post a response when people post a message like Mandi asking why people aren't playing now just because the wipe is coming. So everyone, please, PLEASE...I'm begging...STOP posting messages attacking/insulting those of us who are against the changes.