About a month or so ago I was cruising through the remaining Lineage blogs looking for something to read and no matter where I turned all I could find were pictures of dead people and exclamations about why the dead people sucked.  Gone were the posts about grand adventures into TOI and cool boss screenshots.

            What happened, did all of the TOI bosses pack up their bags and move to Istanbul?  Where were all the screenshots of cool drops or I don’t know… the demon temple?  Did anyone ever go there? 

            Now though… now it’s death screenshots, be it montage or single picture with no witty throw back.  It’s just “ha lvl 70 newb died!!!1 LOLROTFL”

I dunno what happened exactly but back when I played it wasn’t just about hate for the sake of hate.  When one pledge lined up together it was because you, as a pledge, stood for something, be it honor or self respect.  It was a blood pledge, a bond that could not be broken until the last bit of blood was spilled from its veins.  Unfortunately, I don’t think one pledge is like that now.  I’m pretty sure that any pledge you find on Depardieu is held together by a supercilious glue of hatred and previous betrayal.  The only notable exception to this rule I can even think of might be Elane’s pledge which doesn’t even really count because she’s been abused so much by everyone that she is like a battered prostitute huddling in the corner afraid that the next person who walks by is going to unleash a drunken flurry upon her.

            Here’s the news flash for all you guys out there fighting and posting and doing whatever it is you do.  You have to hold yourselves to a higher standard than those you want to exterminate because being a winner isn’t about just killing your opponent, it is about the perception of reality.  Do you know why people can see a zillion screenshots of Firstlove or SoL or PoD or whatever it is now called dead and still think they are winning?  Perception… and I’ll spell it out for you right here. 

            The perception is that SoL is invincible, not that they don’t die, but that they are never ending.  They have earned that by sheer existence for years.  Paldo on the other hand still has the perception of the underdog and that will not change until people are scared to join SoL.  If you don’t think that’s true, ask yourselves one question, how many times has someone said, “if all the people who hated sol just fought them they’d lose.”  I rest my case. 

            Now I’m not taking sides because, honestly, I don’t care much, and in reality I really just want people to post interesting things, by which I mean interesting to me.  And on that note let’s be real here, no one cares if you died if you aren’t 70+.  This is because if you are fighting, you already know who died and why and when and where and how.  If you are not fighting… well you don’t care at all because all you’re interested in is if any of those legendary guys died, and only because you know who they are by reputation for not dying. 

            But, your blog, by definition is not my blog so I can’t control what gets posted.  I’ll probably read what's there anyway, but if its unfunny montages of death, I’ll scroll straight to your comments so at least be really witty.

--Jason 

"To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know."