yay thrax is back

he is great thanks. how is your fam?

shev is glad you are back so he can stop being such an active mod.

hey shev welcome to the millionaire club you dork.

So DDDY what were you saying about the monthly winner being funneled and unchallenged? We had like 6 players over 100k and 3 at 150k. And Zoid wasn't even one of the top 3.

@oiler...

Funneling took place this month as much as in has in past months. And I'm really not sure what you mean by "unchallenged".

If you mean that players were not challenging players, I never said anything remotely like that.

If you mean that the top players were not being challenged by the mods, I will let the mods comment on that.

For now, I'm really tired of K-drama and it's snowing like a mofo and me and my buds are going skiing tomorrow morning. Conditions should be awesome.

So I'll leave you with this from my prior posts...

On the un-level playing field up top...

If I had a dime for every time that a newer player that was squeezed out of a solid 2-3 position on the higher tables for no other reason than "not being in the club", I would have an extra $20,000 on hand right now. I don't have to speculate. I don't have to guess. I have witnessed it and experienced it hundreds of times.

You can't deny human nature. Friends help friends. So stop trying to deny favoritism. It's life and don't apologize for it.

Aside from all that, I find it interesting that Oiler referred to the lower tables as the "wild west". In a top tier players eyes, the lower tables are a nightmare, because they can't rely on friends to help them out before they reach 2,000 points. So while it can be tough navigating the "wild west", maybe it's the adventure that makes it fun. In other words, playing with strategy or "game skill" on the lower tables is more challenging than relying on "friendships and expectations" on the higher tables.

3 months ago was my first serious month back in a long time. I left the game a while ago because I was bored out of my mind with the status quo, pecking order, bullshit up top. Games were so boring at times. When game skill is replaced by politics, games become boring to me.

But I realize that some people love politics. And I encourage those who succeed at manipulating at the top tier to seek a career in politics. You will make a lot more $ and can contribute to society at the same time.

On tiers...

Lets just face it. There are 5 tiers of players in this society. The top tier rules month end. Always has, always will.

Tier 1 - Patheticoids - play to win and use any tools at their disposal. PGA, IM, & Proxy. And they do win.

Tier 2 - Players - those who play as fair as possible and place in the top 50 when they try. And the will occasionally PGA since its unavoidable at times.

Tier 3 - Norms - Normal players who play occasionally for fun and who could care less about month end.

Tier 4 - Testers - those who play and may try to cheat and to get ahead but fail to place in the top 10 because they suck at cheating (i.e. turkish PGA) They are "testing" the waters and trying to figure thing out.

Tier 5 - Noobs

It's clear that there are no rules in this game (IN REALITY) and consistent enforcement is impossible. While I don't want to dis-respect any efforts that the mods have made, policing has its limits.

The greatest advancement that this game has seen in the past 2 years was the addition of 2k & 5k tables. With the higher tables, the tiers are separated by mid-month and more people can have fun.

And isn't that what it's all about?

Oh, and for those mentally challenged players & future far right Republicans (AKA believers in only absolutes), it is possible for Players to beat Patheticoids to win a gold medal. It has been done before and it will be done again. I just feel the need to post this before some Patheticoid's assumptive and illogical fingers starting pointing in this direction again... and everyone knows that those fingers are better left up their noses or in their asses.

related: http://youtu.be/hoytrHE821o

@nunes

That is some funny shit. I laughed ;)

dddy do you really feel the need to defend your ego by defaming and slandering everyone who is better than you at an internet game... like serious? do you really have nothing better going on in your life that you need to defend how bad you are at this game by calling everyone better than you a cheater?

So oiler, aside from making me seriously laugh out loud at your moronic assumptive logic, the type of logic that I just commented on...(shit I'm still laughing), there is something that you need to know about my childhood...

My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Some times he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy, the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical, summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds, pretty standard really. At the age of 12 I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen, a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum, it's breathtaking, I suggest you try it.

Peace out