Post by D4rkness on Nov 5, 2008 1:08:03 GMT -5
I'm putting this out in the open because I want everyone's input. Now, way back in the day when this group was still on the younger side, some of us may remember that on the Brotherhood's wiki page, I was always listed as the group's leader. Then, after I left late last year, Raptimus came along and made an effort to revive the group (for which I'll always be grateful to him). Since then and leading up to nowish, he's done most of the wiki management, and is currently still listed as the official "leader" of this group.
Now, herein lies the dilemma: in a sense, this is kind of a lie, as it was back when I was listed. During my "reign," I always made every effort to make this a group that would appeal to the anarchist in all of us.
Imagine, if you will, the typical survivor group. The leadership make their plans, sharing them sometimes with their underlings, and eventually making the final decision. The rest of the group would then obediently follow the plan like good little soldiers. Sounds nice and efficient, and even some PKer groups follow this type of membership structure.
But to a guy like me, who from the very beginning was married to notions of freedom and anarchy, this was enough to make me sick to my stomach. Leadership like that just encourages the massive member bases of these larger survivor groups to become like sheep, following the group's plans wherever they lead. Just trust Big Brother and do as he says, and victory is assured. No thinking involved. Hell, if that's the experience you're after, why not just jump out a window and go zombie? At least then you get to see the feeding groans in game without having to wade through forums full of trolling and trenchcoatery.
From the very beginning, the Brotherhood of the Reckoning was always about doing whatever the hell you want. To anyone who's never been in on one of our big planning sessions, let me boil it down for you:
Somebody: "Hey, these guys from [insert survivor group] piss me off. We should kill them!"
Everyone else: "Fuck yeah!"
Somebody: "Okay. Let's:
a) Start shooting them on sight.
b) Meet up at [undisclosed location] and kill as many as we can
c) Annoy the living crap out of them
d) Any combination of a, b or c."
Everyone else: "Let's do it!"
Then everyone gets drunk/stoned/laid/killed repeatedly/covered in bodily fluids, and fun is had by all.
Convoluted story, I know, but the point I'm getting to is this: the notion of putting anyone's name in that Leadership field is rather elementary, yet it has stood as-is for almost three years now. I think, as a symbolic gesture as well as a correction of a long-standing minor error, that line should be changed to read: Leadership: None.
I will probably make the edit regardless, but before I initiate this arguably historic event, I'd like to open the floor for replies. Let us take some time to hear from our loyal members new and old, from our beloved allies who have helped keep our group strong, to listen to any wide-eyed newbies who have stumbled in after being enticed by a recruitment poster, and to generally revel in how undeniably awesome we all are.
Let the madness begin!
Now, herein lies the dilemma: in a sense, this is kind of a lie, as it was back when I was listed. During my "reign," I always made every effort to make this a group that would appeal to the anarchist in all of us.
Imagine, if you will, the typical survivor group. The leadership make their plans, sharing them sometimes with their underlings, and eventually making the final decision. The rest of the group would then obediently follow the plan like good little soldiers. Sounds nice and efficient, and even some PKer groups follow this type of membership structure.
But to a guy like me, who from the very beginning was married to notions of freedom and anarchy, this was enough to make me sick to my stomach. Leadership like that just encourages the massive member bases of these larger survivor groups to become like sheep, following the group's plans wherever they lead. Just trust Big Brother and do as he says, and victory is assured. No thinking involved. Hell, if that's the experience you're after, why not just jump out a window and go zombie? At least then you get to see the feeding groans in game without having to wade through forums full of trolling and trenchcoatery.
From the very beginning, the Brotherhood of the Reckoning was always about doing whatever the hell you want. To anyone who's never been in on one of our big planning sessions, let me boil it down for you:
Somebody: "Hey, these guys from [insert survivor group] piss me off. We should kill them!"
Everyone else: "Fuck yeah!"
Somebody: "Okay. Let's:
a) Start shooting them on sight.
b) Meet up at [undisclosed location] and kill as many as we can
c) Annoy the living crap out of them
d) Any combination of a, b or c."
Everyone else: "Let's do it!"
Then everyone gets drunk/stoned/laid/killed repeatedly/covered in bodily fluids, and fun is had by all.
Convoluted story, I know, but the point I'm getting to is this: the notion of putting anyone's name in that Leadership field is rather elementary, yet it has stood as-is for almost three years now. I think, as a symbolic gesture as well as a correction of a long-standing minor error, that line should be changed to read: Leadership: None.
I will probably make the edit regardless, but before I initiate this arguably historic event, I'd like to open the floor for replies. Let us take some time to hear from our loyal members new and old, from our beloved allies who have helped keep our group strong, to listen to any wide-eyed newbies who have stumbled in after being enticed by a recruitment poster, and to generally revel in how undeniably awesome we all are.
Let the madness begin!
and I want my notoriety too 
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