Dies to Removal

indeed, but we are forced to open them right away.

I won 6 in a GPT, sent 3 to checkbox since I expected to send the other 3 to madding, but got no PM

Not good enough, sorry.

russian alara, if jdski wants to be unbanned, I suppose you should tell him to appeal.

suggestion for site staff: add :weird: smily.

Alas, Sene has instructed me to relay to you that he is not interested in your opinion. :slant: I see we are back at third party proxy communication levels, that's gotta be the new trend for 2013 internet communications amirite? A shame because I thought at least Sene was entitled props for having ...

god damn quote tags

Are you people so much against fun that you will follow me through the entire Internet to spoil mine?

Clearly yes

I'm saying even if "We" decide to all act like adults instead of spoiled children it may come to naught because of The Staff at Salvation putting a stop to it.

Well, it can't hurt your chances...

So why didn't you find out what the Staff wanted to do instead of offering To Settle things when you don't know if that is what the Staff Want. Well, we tried. Across multiple threads, including a massive multi-choice poll thread. But the results of that poll only came in like a month later, and th...

Either way, I'll concede the point about me calling the guy behind the gimmick sending that PM to ria a douchebag. Probably set the wrong tone here, even if that's the way I feel :shrug: But like with everything else, I'm prepared to start on page 1 with that person as well. Whoever it is doesn't ma...

I'm not calling kpaca a douchebag, as I do not think kpaca is a douchebag. I think he's very blunt, but generally a good guy. That goes for pretty much all of you, by the way... But yeah, I'm not doing this as an official representative of MTGS or its staff. I am doing this, representing only myself...

@EU: I'll speak on my own behalf, I won't speak for others. And while we are at it, in case you're wondering, this is all mine, I didn't consult anyone before posting these posts, and I didn't ask anyone for opinions. Just so we're clear :) @kpaca: that is fair. Yeah, I'm not looking to hear "m...

Why are you talking like and Admin, Sene? There isn't a reason to speak on behalf of the staff here. You want to settle this, obviously, and you seem willing to accept your portion of the guilt... are you sure you aren't just here because you kind of feel bad and want to do what you can to make it ...

Perhaps it might help, Sene, if you told people what the penalty was for accepting their wrongdoing. If the Gutter comes clean and just "admits they shit the bed," what happens then? Do they gain any advantages, or suffer and disadvantages, for doing so? I can assure you that staff would ...

I was not aware, sorry.

@Shalako: Yes. I do think they are related. Sometimes we deserved flak, sometimes we did not deserve the flak we got. All-in-all, the negativity was pretty excessive though, and at times, pretty inappropriate. @kpaca: You think I'm being dishonest, that's fine. Do you have a specific point, or am I ...

Hoi. Time for a new lame thread by yours truly. There are (quite) a few things I want to try and clear up about the summer drama (or winter, as we call it), and I want to talk about it in case it is possible to reach some kind of understanding. I'll try to summarize things from my perspective. How i...

I'm more than happy to try to talk about everything that has happened for the past six months or so re: MTGS & the Gutter, but I think that right now, it should be you guys offering your point of view to Boubouille. If you're all happy with me interfering (including Boubouille), then I don't min...

pay me for the stamps and I'll ship you some packs for Christmas, sure.

I had the Stab Wounds, Abrupt Decay & Dreg Mangler + some swamps sleeved up and ready in case I faced Pack Rat or Vitu-Ghazi Guildmage. But yeah, the thing is that in this format, it's all about playing big, impactful cards. You don't necessarily want to play the colors with a million removal, y...

The GP sealed pool had four cards: Angel, Archon, mythic Guildmage, Grove of the Guardian. The rest was mostly filler, but it obviously didn't matter. My first round opponent (or round four) played Rakdos' Return on turn 5, Mizzium Mortars on turn 6 in game one. Won that game :p First draft deck loo...

GPT sealed pool (went 2-1): [deck] 1 Bazaar Krovod 1 Eyes in the Skies 1 Knightly Valor 1 Security Blockade 2 Selesnya Sentry 1 Seller of Songbird 1 Soul Tithe 1 Sunspire Griffin 1 Trained Caracal 1 Trostani's Judgment 1 Aquus Steed 2 Chronic Flooding 1 Crosstown Courier 1 Downsize 1 Inaction Injun...

I don't have my sealed pool here (at the office atm), but I can do that tomorrow.

Also @ our "interactions" in GP Lisbon: I didn't know they existed. You saw me on Friday, but I didn't realize it was you - I didn't ignore you on purpose. In fact, I would have liked an opportunity to talk with you IRL, so since you recognized me, I wouldn't have minded a "hey, aren'...

At some point, someone is just going to have to let it go. Both "sides" think that they were right. No one is flinching. Let's all move on, can we? Let's sit around the campfire, sing Kumbaya, puff-puff-pass, and all be friends again. Hein? I think the morale of this whole thread can be s...

@Madding: Thanks I hope you get one, one of these days. Once again, I'd have given you the invite if I could...

@GR: That's what I want to hear. The thing with the "MTGS bashing", though, ill-intended or not, is that I think excessive venting both sets the tone for the forum + people you want to attract to the forum are likely to see it like I said in the OP (as pettiness & grudges). @Madding: 1...

Aight, decided to expand on my abrasive "OP". It wasn't meant as a troll/flame/something, blunt as it was. It was actually meant as honest advice (so the thread title is accurate, heh). When Azrael told about this site and its goals, I was happy and hoped it'd succeed. I checked it out, an...

Btw, please pass this message to Sene since you are at it, tell him he doesn't need to stare intently the ground when he crosses my path at GP Lisbon. Contrary to the internet fables, i don't actually bite, and he can just pretend he didn't notice me without further danger, keeping his "dignit...

One would think you'd move on and try to focus your considerable resources on building your own welcoming & quality community to rival MTGS, instead of making this a site an outlet for pettiness and satisfying personal grudges.

Just saying.

I'll add my two cents here and make it quick, because I have a tournament to attend. I firmly believe that as of late, the "leak" that has been coming out has been intentional from at least one global moderator's/admin's perspective. The person is trying to goad people into acting before ...