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Unread postby icycalm » 21 Jan 2015 21:07

Finally managed to get banned.

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Only for two weeks unfortunately. So they'll have this thread popping up every two weeks until they learn their lesson. Might throw in some child porn next time to seal the deal.
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Unread postby Agentx » 21 Jan 2015 22:03

If you do that though, it's possible that your account could be restricted from parts of the game itself. Maybe that's a stretch, but the two accounts are the same after all. It's not worth that because of forum trolls and the moderators.

I'm with you on staying off the forums though. I saw that thread briefly before it was cleaned up only for it to get locked anyway. It's just a shame because there's plenty of people on there that like talking about the game over shitting on threads they don't like.

Rather than trying to get banned, maybe just block the forum URL with the Hosts file or a browser plugin.
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Unread postby icycalm » 21 Jan 2015 22:54

That's good advice Robby. I hadn't thought of that lol. Definitely not doing the child porn now. But I don't think that restarting the same thread will get my game account banned. I didn't do anything bad in the game anyway. It's all in the forum.

I don't really have much choice because I have so many ideas about PA that it's impossible for me to stop myself from posting there. I stopped posting for 2 months, and then I regressed again. It's impossible. If it were any other game I would, but I can't do it with this one.
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Unread postby icycalm » 08 Mar 2015 20:39

If you need to get a new person on Mumble, email me for the generic password (don't give them your own: I don't think it will work), or if you are having any problems with Mumble whatsoever. I am not playing games at the moment, but I am available to help with whatever needs to be done to get the clan functioning properly.
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Unread postby icycalm » 23 Dec 2016 03:16

I was going to say some things about my current plans for the clan, but I just talked about it with THM on Steam for a bit, so I am just going to post that chatlog. I have a lot more things to say, but for the time being the following chat should give you a small idea.


icycalm: i am trying to clean up my friend list and the steam group
icycalm: but it's been so long that I don't recognize half the names
icycalm: and to make things worse some people change their handles
The Hanged Man: you should def add Robomoom if you haven't already. we've been playing with him alot - great dude
The Hanged Man: Robomoo*
icycalm: I think I added him last year just before going awol
icycalm: I am going to kick out all the random PA people I added
icycalm: So we'll be down to a couple dozen people again, and it won't be confusing
icycalm: and then I'll slowly build it up from there exclusively with subscribers
icycalm: have you seen DOS2?
icycalm: I just found out
The Hanged Man: about active players - I've been mostly playing with Robo, Recoil, Infern, Rory and Jeff, although the last two haven't been playing due to various reasons
The Hanged Man: yeah, it's even playable, too! too bad we haven't finished DOS1 yet
icycalm: we'll get to it dude
icycalm: the fun isn't going anywhere
The Hanged Man: sure
icycalm: i reckon we have 10 reliable players or so
icycalm: which, if you consider that when I started the clan me and recoil had to spend weeks begging people to play 4-player lost planet 2 with us, is great
icycalm: with 10 people you can play almost anything with full numbers
icycalm: only a few games like PA and PS2 can benefit from greater numbers
The Hanged Man: maybe we'll have 10 once everybody finds out that you're back. definitely not right now, sorry
icycalm: when I say 10, I don't mean simultaneously
icycalm: to have 10 simultaneously you need at least 30 overall
icycalm: the maximum you could use simultaneously anyway is 6 for the one or two diablolikes that support it, and we do have 6 right now: you just listed them. if you add me and you to that list, you get 7
The Hanged Man: so you, me, Recoil, Some Guy, Robomoo, Infern, mothmanspirit, Jeffrobothave you heard from Qpo? you two have been communicating, right?
The Hanged Man: whoops, chat fucked my formatting
icycalm: sorry, i was on the phone
icycalm: qpo is out for good i think
icycalm: he would come if i asked him
icycalm: but he is addicted to games and the rest of his life collapses when he is playing with us
icycalm: so if i want to be a good friend, i would be kicking him out of the clan even if he wanted to play with us
The Hanged Man: alright, I get it
The Hanged Man: too bad
icycalm: yeah, because he is a very good person to play with
icycalm: but i am sure he will sort out his stuff and come back eventually, perhaps in 2 or 3 years, once he has graduated and has a good job
icycalm: but yeah, it's the names you listed plus ctf, maybe dinopoke, Robby and a couple others
icycalm: chevvy too
icycalm: and of course these guys will come back only for the 2 or 3 genres that interest them
icycalm: they are not like recoil and rory for example, who will play pretty much everything, and that's why you don't see them around much
icycalm: oh stevenberg too and danjiro
icycalm: with these guys you just have to reach out and invite them
The Hanged Man: sadly I almost never see them play anything, except for CTF
icycalm: http://steamcommunity.com/id/stevenberg
icycalm: he just played 86 hours of civ6
icycalm: they are not online all day, but they put in the hours for the genres that interest them
icycalm: and for those genres, we can get them to play with us most of the time
The Hanged Man: that's fine then
icycalm: yeah, i am not worried
The Hanged Man: there's ingolfr also
icycalm: lol
icycalm: i kicked him out a long time ago
The Hanged Man: oh! i don't remember that lol
icycalm: and i even stopped responding to him by email, because he's been spamming my inbox for years
icycalm: listen to what he did
icycalm: after months and months of saying he wants to play PA, he finally says he will play one day
icycalm: so i say great
icycalm: but he says he is playing another game (can't remember which) and would i wait for him to finish
icycalm: so i say yes and I wait
icycalm: and i make 3 other people wait too, since we are planning to play 5v5
icycalm: we are all in mumble waiting for him, and when he finishes his game he tells me to also wait for him to go shop for groceries lol
icycalm: if he was in front of me I would have sent him to the hospital
icycalm: but since he wasn't I said lol and kicked him out of everything
The Hanged Man: lol. I assumed he was good with you since he has posted this on our discord: "ingolfr - Yesterday11:07 if for some reason you are reading this chat room and haven't checked insomnia today, it looks like icycalm is back"
icycalm: he is just obsessively following me around
icycalm: he even spammed qpo, and qpo unfriended him
The Hanged Man: you just have this effect on people, nothing surprising here.
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Unread postby icycalm » 14 Jan 2017 10:45

Quick way to filter out lots of bad players on Steam: Everyone who has had many aliases and belongs to many groups, indicative of airheads who can't focus. A player who belongs to 20 groups doesn't belong in any group, and you shouldn't be playing with him because he's not a team player and he's not reliable. A player who's had 20 aliases probably has the attention span of a fly.
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Unread postby icycalm » 14 Jun 2017 12:35

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Wanted to share with everyone how cool the Twitch mini profile looks now that I've added the new clan emblem and Robo helped adjust the background.
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Unread postby icycalm » 08 Jul 2017 17:56

A quick note on all the new guys on Discord. They are there specifically to play Rust with us, and are not members of the clan, even though I ask them to add the clan tag on Steam for the purposes of streaming. But they won't be added to the Steam group, and their names on Discord will be white, to signify that they are guests. If some of them end up playing more games with us and stick around for months, etc. they will be asked to subscribe, just like anyone else. Please treat them well and help them have fun with us.
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Unread postby icycalm » 10 Mar 2018 19:17

From Discord:

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I have reworked the Patreon rewards so that clan membership is given to anyone who pledges $1 or more per month. So in order to get the "The Cult" Discord role you have to go to Patreon and click on something in the settings (I am not sure what because I can't pledge to myself to check it out). So please, whoever is on Patreon, do that at some point, and let me know if you encounter issues. (edited)
Robo did it, so tell everyone else what they need to do please

CULT|Robomoo
Yeah

CULT|icycalm
Post it in the chat

CULT|Robomoo
Log into Discord in your browser, then click on where it says 'get reward' on the right side of the icycalm Patreon page
If you are already pledged, you will have to re-do the pledge
After you do this there's a screen where you can click on 'activate discord reward' or something, and it links it to the account you have logged into your browser.
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Unread postby icycalm » 10 Apr 2018 15:01

CULT|icycalm: Hey man
CULT|icycalm: So I unbanned everyone
infernovia: yeah, I see that. What's going on?
CULT|icycalm: I am doing a major push to dramatically increase the size of the site in all respects: readership, clan, Discord, etc.
CULT|icycalm: And I thought long and hard about how I treat people
CULT|icycalm: I decided my expectations were too high
CULT|icycalm: I was trying to get everyone to conform to my standards at ALL levels
CULT|icycalm: And basically that way pushed away 90% of people who liked what I do and wanted to help in some way
CULT|icycalm: The truth is, everyone who wants to contribute, HAS something to contribute, even if that thing is small
CULT|icycalm: But when 100s of people are doing this, it adds up
CULT|icycalm: For example, there are people who sit in the Discord and do nothing
CULT|icycalm: They don't talk to us, nor play with us
CULT|icycalm: Yet they are still contributing, because they make the place seem popular, and people are attracted to popular things
infernovia: Sounds fair.
CULT|icycalm: The Discord has 250+ people right now, and the way I am building it up it will have thousands soon
CULT|icycalm: The trick is for me to get the things each person can contribute without blowing a gasket when they don't conform in other areas
CULT|icycalm: In your case, I hate playing PA with you
CULT|icycalm: But there are other games I like playing with you
CULT|icycalm: So we just don't play PA
CULT|icycalm: And you can still play PA with others
infernovia: That works for me.
CULT|icycalm: btw I see you are playing TAB
CULT|icycalm: Me, chevvy and DJ started a score competition at 320% difficulty
CULT|icycalm: I made a high score channel in the Discord now
CULT|icycalm: So drop by and play if you want
infernovia: Alright, I am back on the channel.
CULT|icycalm: Cool
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Re: The Cult

Unread postby icycalm » 24 Jan 2022 15:01

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Would you mind unfriending this retard so I don’t have to see his stupid name every time I check my Steam activity feed?

If you’re thinking, “He’s a nice person, why should I unfriend him?” please remember that he’s not nice at all but deeply malicious and resentful of me. He basically demanded that he play in my Battlegrounds for free, and when he saw that the project was doing well and everyone is enjoying it and I am able to pay my rent and my bills because of it and because of your help, he left the clan and the Discord without a single word to anyone. He’d been quietly simmering with resentment for months because of all the fun we’d been having, and he took it as a personal insult that my Patreon is doing well. He’s one of the shittiest people to have ever passed through the clan, right up there with infernovia and Masahiro.

Just please fucking unfriend the piece of shit and forget about him. We have dozens of cool people here who won’t leave the Discord without a word after years of playing together.
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Re: The Cult

Unread postby Robomoo » 24 Jan 2022 18:49

I really don't want to unfriend him, he's my friend and I've played with him for a very long time. Would it be acceptable if I just ask him to stop liking my Steam activity?
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Re: The Cult

Unread postby icycalm » 24 Jan 2022 20:22

Unfriend the piece of shit or quit the clan.

I will unfriend whoever doesn’t unfriend him.

You wouldn’t know each other without me and my work on this clan for a decade.

Go start your own clan and come back in a decade to tell me I am being unreasonable.
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Re: The Cult

Unread postby icycalm » 24 Jan 2022 20:27

I am not asking you to never talk to him again. I don’t give a shit with what pieces of shit you choose to spend your life chatting on the internet.

Just fucking unfriend him on fucking Steam.
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Re: The Cult

Unread postby icycalm » 24 Jan 2022 20:32

Anyone who has a problem with this, go ahead and choose “Hanged Man” over icycalm.

I assure you I’ve known people who’ve made even dumber, shittier decisions than that in their lives concerning me. You won’t be the dumbest nor the shittiest.
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Re: The Cult

Unread postby icycalm » 24 Jan 2022 21:33

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I did some cleaning. It had got to 70+ prior to this, so I am glad this incident inspired me to clean things up a bit. And I will keep cleaning things as I have been doing for a decade now. I have filtered hundreds of people personally from the clan, and my website has filtered thousands. And I will keep filtering people and as a result my clan will be even better a year from now than it was a year ago.

Videogames have only just begun, believe it or not, and The Cult will be the best people in the world to enjoy them with for as long as I am alive. Everything else is faggotry.
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Re: The Cult

Unread postby Robomoo » 24 Jan 2022 21:34

Fine, I unfriended him.
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Re: The Cult

Unread postby icycalm » 25 Jan 2022 02:30

He unfriended everyone. The only decent thing he has done in over a year.

P.S. If Adjudicator, Saf and dinopoke need to friend him in order to finish D:OS2, I am okay with that.
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Re: The Cult

Unread postby icycalm » 10 Feb 2022 06:15

I just got a flash of insight into Hanged Man’s personality after randomly coming across one of my threads on Orgy, the thread on the book on the Russian Revolution, Ten Days That Shook the World: http://orgyofthewill.net/discuss/viewtopic.php?t=682

He’s a resentful Russian peasant, envious of my success. That’s the bottom line of his personality. For all the numerous and massive advantages he derived from me over the years (for which he’ll owe me more money than he’ll ever make his whole life long), he just couldn’t stomach how successful and happy I am, compared with his crappy existence (he now works all day on some shitty game a normal person wouldn’t play even if paid to).

Similarly, infernovia is a dumb resentful third-worlder and Mashiro is a double-digit IQ hick from the American South.

Those are the three biggest shitheads to have ever joined The Cult (and note that they all joined back when it was free). There are other shitheads that have come and gone over the years, but these are the three biggest ones, and their common ground is poverty and stupidity that lead to resentment (because there also exist poor people who aren’t that stupid, and thus don’t necessarily turn resentful; not everyone in the clan is wealthy, though most are, because I now screen hard for wealth, and therefore IQ).
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Re: The Cult

Unread postby Saf » 10 Feb 2022 06:35

We worked out how to join multiplayer directly through the game last weekend, so we can continue D:OS2 without needing to do that (we haven't properly played yet due to a computer hardware issue I've been having for the past two-three weeks).
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Unread postby icycalm » 04 Aug 2022 05:51

So it seems Robo messaged all sorts of people in the Discord who he fancied were his "friends" (he has no idea what the word means). I was trying to avoid the unpleasantness, but since I know he'll be badmouthing me behind my back, he's forcing me to say a few words too, and I just did to Ciaróg via DM.

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To give you an idea of what an enormous piece of shit he is, consider that the only reason he got the job with Frozen Byte on Starbase is me (yes, he worked on Starbase in Helsinki for a few months). He wouldn't even know of the game without me, let alone played it with a clan of a dozen people. Even during his job interview, when he was telling them that he loved games like Rust and Atlas, he owes all that to me too. And then the moment I refuse to lie to him and pretend that I respect his garbage-projects, he leaves and deletes his pledge. Of course, he got fired from Frozen Byte too for (I imagine) being basically useless. But that has nothing to do with me and the clan. He was basically DEMANDING my respect when I KNOW he is an incompetent and lazy piece of shit. It's not just that he is incompetent at everything he does. He is ALSO lazy. And on top of all that he is ALSO a piece of shit.

And then ON TOP of all the above, he had the nerve to tell me that he thought "you had quit game development" when he KNOWS I've been working my ass off to the point of even sickness for the last two years to get my Battlegrounds up and running, and I am still developing the hell out of it.

He basically wanted to put me down while boasting to me about his "success".

Meanwhile his projects are complete garbage with no imagination. He made a Super Hexagon clone by adding one angle to it. He called it "Super Heptagon". He literally spent an entire year of his life working on something I could have told you in 5 secs that it's garbage. And now that he's been fired from the one decent job he's had his whole life, he has a plan to make a Tiny Metal clone so he can make money to "create projects for the benefit of civilization" or some shit. That was literally his words! And he DEMANDS my respect for his garbage plans!

Meanwhile I AM THE ONE WHO MAKES PROJECTS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF CIVILIZATION HERE, and his whole life's work won't amount to HALF A PAGE FROM MY ULTIMATE EDITION/BATTLEGROUNDS and WEST MARCHES PROJECTS. He wants to make a tactics game "for the benefit of civilization" WHILE I AM MAKING THE GREATEST TACTICS GAME EVER IN MY TALESPIRE-POWERED WEST MARCHES, and he's trying to boast to ME about his laughable tactics project! That's how you can see what a giant retard he is: if he cared at all about cool, cutting-edge projects HE WOULD STILL BE WITH US TODAY, AND STILL SUPPORTING ME, whereas now I have to find someone to replace him in the War for the Crown campaign, so not only is he no longer helping me, he is actively throwing roadblocks in front of me.

Bottom line is he owes me EVERYTHING, and I owe him NOTHING. He gave me a couple thousand dollars via Patreon over the last half a decade, and in return I gave him HIS ENTIRE PROFESSION, HIS ENTIRE TASTE IN GAMES and UNFORGETTABLE MEMORIES IN THE COOLEST GAMES EVER WITH THE COOLEST PLAYERS EVER. Now, like a typical woman, he feels he has "made it", and is now a "big shot" who doesn't need me. If he could only future-project a mere few WEEKS ahead he'd see how much he will be losing. But women have piss-poor future-projection, and he is basically a woman. Now he's looking at spending the next couple of years in his room trying to make his Tiny Metal ripoff enjoyable, all the while refreshing my sites every day and watching me and the guys play the best games ever, from Pathfinder and TaleSpire, to Rust and Factorio and PA and Star Citizen, to Diablo 4 and LIF2 that's upcoming, ARK2, DSP and countless more, all the while he will be struggling to find a second player for a 2P co-op game.

Maybe he can hit up the wretched Russian Hanged Man so they can play something 2P. Two cheap malignant losers, too stupid to just sit in their corners and let me do my job creating masterpieces as only I can, and just play our games with us. I never asked them for anything more than this: just sit in your fucking corner and don't bother me and just enjoy the games we play and the insane insights I give you daily on all my sites.

But that wasn't enough for them. They wanted my RESPECT. But I don't give it to lazy, talentless pieces of shit, I am sorry. Enjoy the rest of your boring, stupid, joyless lives, faggots.


P.S. Both Hanged Man and Robomoo are middle-aged virgins still living with their parents. And both of them are bad programmers. Complete failures in every aspect of life with zero social intelligence, in other words, so of course they'd be envious and malicious. That's why they've no idea how to relate to a group of normal and supernormal people like my clan, let alone to me.

P.P.S. If they weren't so lazy and stupid, I'd recommend that they start their own Dipshit Clan and just invite all the CULT rejects. But a clan made up of Robomoo, Hanged Man, infernovia and Masahiro would not hold together for a week. They would end up hating each other even faster than they ended up hating me and my friends, and they would play nothing together. I would say that that would be a good lesson for them, but they're too stupid for lessons.

P.P.P.S. If you want a FINAL ARGUMENT on why I am right on everything I say and they're wrong on everything, consider this: THEY HAVE NO FRIENDS. NONE. AND I HAVE DOZENS, people who like me so much they send me hundreds and even thousands of dollars every year just because they like me. Who would give even 5 dollars to Robomoo or Hanged Man for anything? I would PAY MONEY to NOT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THEM AGAIN. That's how disgusting these creatures are. QED.


TL;DR Robo has been a giant piece of shit behind the scenes for YEARS, but none of you guys saw this. recoil saw a bit of it, but the rest of you didn't because you had no dealings with him outside games. So there is a lot of history here, and it finally exploded a few days ago, and the piece of shit left. End of story. It was bound to happen at some point, because pieces of shit can't stand being around me, and I can't stand having them around.
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Re: The Cult

Unread postby icycalm » 04 Aug 2022 07:44

Btw even the garbage he now spouts about “contributing to civilization” is due to me: it’s obviously a result of reading Orgy. And of course he misunderstood every word because HIS projects are so stupid and worthless that civilization would be better off WITHOUT them. His garbage-projects are precisely why Steam is such an ugly site filled with so much shit. Did you really have to put your stupid “Super Heptagon” on Steam? We get it, it’s a student project, just keep it to yourself, no one needs to see it beyond you and whoever receives your CV! And does the world really need a bad ripoff of an inferior tactics clone of a Tiny Metal that’s already not good?

He even tried to dumb down MY projects. I want to make the best side-scroller ever with my Metal Reign and he wanted to “reduce its complexity” so as to “minimize risk”. And what precisely would he be risking? He has no company, no payroll, no investment. The only thing he would be risking is a few weeks’ coding to see if he’s capable to code the game. Basically he doesn’t even want to “risk” a few DAYS of his life on a prototype and would rather dumb-down the game to complete artistic irrelevance in order to save a few days or weeks or months. Do you see why I say he is lazy?

His outlook on life and creativity is the COMPLETE OPPOSITE to mine and if I had my way he’d be castrated or better yet swinging from a tree because he is ANTI-CIVILIZATION. Instead he tries to boast to ME about how he will do all the things I do better than me. Meanwhile not a single person in the clan gives the slightest fuck about his stupid games while everyone wants to play mine even if it means waiting for months and years while paying $50/month. And this retarded little middle-aged incel STILL can’t grasp the cosmic distance between my projects and the asinine garbage he is wasting his pathetic life churning out.

That’s why he’s no longer with us. Because he’s a cosmic fuckin’ moron and little cunt.
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Re: The Cult

Unread postby icycalm » 04 Aug 2022 20:20

Imagine reading icycalm for half a decade and thinking it’s a good idea to tel him to “reduce complexity” in his game so as to “minimize risk”.

Do you see how dumb these creatures are? All CULT rejects are the absolute dumbest creatures to have ever passed through the clan.
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Re: The Cult

Unread postby icycalm » 04 Aug 2022 20:34

The most outrageously stupid thing he did is ask for VETO over my project. The creator of “Super Heptagon” asking for veto over the creator of Alex Kierkegaard’s Battlegrounds and Alex Kierkegaard’s West Marches: have you heard of a stupider thing than this?

You have no idea how much of a fuck-up this guy is. You think he’s smart because he played cool games with us, and compared to the general gaming population he is of course a genius, but he’s still dumb compared to the average clan member. He dumb, bros. He dumb as fuck.

He is pushing 30 and he still doesn’t have a university degree even though he’s been in and out of universities for nearly a decade now. He is just too lazy and stupid to finish anything, which is why it’s a crime that Frozen Byte hired him. I would have called out his laziness and incompetence immediately on sight of his CV. But you can see how stupidly Frozen Byte managed their project that they shut it down mere months after hiring this stupid loser.

Frozen Byte gave him a few bucks and it went to his head and suddenly he thinks he is Hideo Kojima and should take over all of icycalm’s projects and exercise veto over them.

The reality is that we’ll never hear from this guy and his garbage-projects again, and he will go to his grave with his “complexity-reducing” and “risk-minimizing” Mickey Mouse strategies having created nothing that no one will ever care about. If he doesn’t starve to death it will be because his parents support him or he gives up his garbage-projects and gets a soulless programming job where a bunch of designers give him tasks and he either completes them or gets fired with no creative input of his own (which is exactly how his Frozen Byte job was: he didn’t even go into the office or meet anyone: it was 100% remote until they fired him).

The absolute peak of his gaming life—and I suspect also of his life period—will have been the years he spent playing games with The Cult. He will never even have any friends because he’s too socially retarded to sustain a friendship.

I am never wrong about these things. I can see everyone’s potential decades in advance, otherwise I wouldn’t have been capable of writing Orgy.
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Re: The Cult

Unread postby icycalm » 06 Aug 2022 04:28

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUCcdQ9X5JQ

Everyone who joins this clan will probably be asked at some point, and possibly at multiple points, “Are you sure you want to be here?” Some will stay, others will quietly slip away, and a handful will raise a stink and have to be pushed away or kicked out while they’re cursing and screaming. It’s up to each individual where they’ll end up. I don’t control people’s behavior, I only control the height of the bar they will be measured by.

In the four worst cases since the clan’s inception nine years ago—Masahiro, infernovia, Hanged Man and Robomoo (or five if we add Qpo, who was a borderline case)—it was clear these people didn’t want to be here at the end of the day. That’s what all the drama boils down to, because if they had wanted to be here, they would. Whoever thinks it was my fault that these people are no longer here should check their Steam profiles. Check them periodically over a few months and you will realize these people have no friends and play no games, and in the rare instances when they do play games, they play mediocre to crap games, and they play them ALONE. Thus they were bound to not put much value in icycalm’s clan where only the best of the best games are taken seriously and where socialization is the point of the entire exercise and taken to extremes (16-player Atlas being the peak of these extremes before 19-player Battlegrounds). The people that drop out HATE socializing. Masahiro and Robomoo have literally no friends: I know this because I lived with them for weeks or even months. Qpo was a certified neurotic who cried in the shower for no reason whatsoever, so of course he had no friends either. Hanged Man seems to not leave his parents’ apartment at all, and infernovia does seem to have a couple of friends but he’s such a prick to people that in all probability his couple of friends are pricks too.

Meanwhile I am the opposite of all this, so of course my clan will end up having my type of character. The proof is in the pudding: everyone who spends any time in my clan quickly realizes he’s dealing with the nicest, coolest gamers ever. There’s nothing strange about all this, it’s how communities function: they take the shape of the founder, or current leader. Or you think it is an accident that somehow I end up surrounded by the coolest people? You think it’s magic?

You can see how inappropriate the rejects were for the clan by the fact that they didn’t just leave the clan, they left my sites altogether. They could have quit the clan but stayed for the writing, but they didn’t even value my writing at all. This can be seen by for example Robomoo telling me to “reduce complexity” in my game in order to “minimize risk”. What have you understood of icycalm if you’re spouting to him such garbage?

They’ve understood nothing, which is why they’re no longer reading me. They’ve appreciated nothing, which is why they’re no longer playing and socializing with us.

They will not be missed because they never belonged here. It just took them a long time to figure it out (because they’re slow), compared to those who see it immediately and thus don’t try to join us at all.
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Location: Tenerife, Canary Islands

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