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by Sergetov » Tue May 30, 2006 4:34 pm
Greetings comrades,
This is my first post I have ever placed in our boards, however, I feel that I have kept quiet on the matter far too long now. In the effort to stop a whole new season of IMPHL and RID 90210, I'm going to put my 2cents, and a russian rubble, on the whole situation.
Let me first start by stating some facts. In the past few weeks I've been spending time in the IMPHL vent channels getting to know the people "on the other side" of whats been going on. Moreover, given my time zone difference, no one is in our vent while I'm playing, but IMPHL always has someone on. Anyways, what I discovered is that IMPHL is a very closely knit crew who go far and beyond to help each other out. I'm not talking about, hey come over here and help me kill this chuba lair.... these guys actually play hours upon hours (either it be camping loot drops or faction farming) to help those guildies who don't have the play time that the others do. The whole guild sacrifices their time to better equipe, and thus, strengthen their guild. Not only that, but they drop every thing they are doing as soon as one of them says they can't do something alone.
Now I say this because I want you all to understand the comaraderie that IMPHL shares. Which is no wonder why it seems that IMPHL can all come at you all at once when one of their own is under attack; they live and die together. Moreover, in the few weeks I've been playing with them, not once did they treat me any different than one of their own, even though I'm a RID member. Not once did they prejudice me nor did they treat me in any condescending manner. As a matter of fact, when ever a topic concerning RID came up, they made especially clear that they have the outmost respect for our RID players, however there were some minor problems to be resolved.
Here is the real kicker, their comaraderie, brotherly relationship, and selfless dedication to each other is EXACTLY what we RID members have with each other. Our two Guilds are no different in any manner other than our toon names. Honestly, I cannot state it any more blatantly, our guilds honor the same values. There is no difference in the amount of love we have for our Guilds, and the courage that we have when it comes to defending our own guilds.
However, the pride we share for our guilds has misalligned our focus and has tampered with our good judgement. To generalize either of our guilds as "Griefers" "noobs" or "prepubescent morons" (ok thats mine = P) is for a lack of a better word, STUPID. The fact is, none of our guilds are those. And we should stop alledging so.
I know this is cliche, however, this is just a game we all really want to enjoy. We wouldn't be coming back day after day if it wasn't something that we loved. Why would we want to befoul it with word-of-mouth accusations and mud slinging. The problems that are being worked out involve very specific key individuals, and I ask that the rest of us stop trying to fuel the fire by throwing non-issue events into it. Let those who have the problem work it out between them.
In all honesty, none if this will really affect the way you pull the trigger when you've got a rebel staring down the barrel of your gun. I'd much rather have the friendly gun of a fellow IMPHL'er next to me to cover my back.
Long, drawn out... I know. Short Version: IMPHL is a cool bunch of dudes just like ourselves. Don't listen to the hype/rumors.
Sergetov
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