8/9-2004, Author Alexei
Newsletter #13 8/9-2004
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Introduction
Hello all to this 13th edition of the SWaRM newsletter. Heh, I didn’t realize it was this late already so I better get started I think ^^; Ok lets see, what do we got in this edition. Ofcourse the usual stuff: Pia/PA Udates, Alliance inside… omg… Member of the month *insert panic and screams* *damnes* ok… I better hope sax will respond to my messages.. I hate not giving a member the honor. Anyway, what else… I guess the funstuff will be there, tho it wont be as much as other days. Bazza’s column will be here… I hope I can find his piece :P. What else.. nope I think that’s about it. I hope you enjoy it
Pia/PA Progress
To start of, planetarion become a bit boring imho.. I never got away good really, so that would make it less fun for me, as well that the rules of PAX still linger. Lets face it, its far from round 4 ^^ Anyway, SWaRM has settled on its trusty 15th spot, like so many rounds before. Its not that good, but its not that bad either.
Alliance inside
This is a sad piece, for I have seen far too many good people leave. Grunja, baz, SNOOP and several others. What happened to good ol fashion loyalty? Think what you are doing to us, to SWaRM! For every officer lost we have to replace it, every time we have to retrain an officer. Also saying “Ill be visiting the forums” wont help that much, we need you as a member! What good is forum activity if we cant even give basic defense? Im sure you all got good reasons like school (im doing a 34 hour a week university study) or work (I work 3 evenings in the week now). The thing is, the minimum activity is set to visiting the forums once a day and some IRC activity during the week. This in all will take at max 2 hours of time! Then the game itself, wasn’t it SWaRMs intention to band the small players together so we would make a strong force in numbers? So a lot of ingame activity isn’t required as well. So why are you leaving? Isnt even our most favourite HC, anom ofc, (no offence) away for times? So why do you all complain? Get yer butts over here!
Bazz’s Column
Ok then everyone, I’m back for another column with you all, and this week I will continue to talk about the factors of living at home, and this week we move on the one factor that 99% of you hate your fellow sibling. I’m sure you do don’t you?
So I think for a perspective I can understand most of you may have had your fair share of problems with your brothers or sisters, well I have 3 so I think I speak from experience, problems are more than regular in my household, now this can cause major disruption to the flow of thing, arguments have always escalated and I’m sure those of you that argue are well aware.
Now it has never come to a proper fight but I may just assume that some of you have actually got into fights, but we wont go into that now, now I’m my own opinion I think that I may have slightly preferred to be a single child, now regardless of that I’m happy with having 3 sisters.
Recently I also read a book, this book went into some detail about how children are treated, It detailed that in 98.4% * < hehe facts are important :P > * house with a standard family of 4, 2 children; one male and one female, it would always be the male taking the short end on every stick, thus making the other sibling appear to be the favourite.
Now as far as having more than one sibling in the house goes then I can only speak from my knowledge, I hate it; I want HER * my emphasis is because I don’t like her out * as soon as possible. Now with no disrespect towards women, as I am in no means a SEXIST, but all their makeup and that time of the month just go so boring when all they really mean is I want to shout and scream at you cause I have an excuse.
Well that concludes my bitching about life at home. Hate it most of the time, and I’m sure all of you do to, don’t you?
Member of the Month
Each month it gets harder and harder… There just aren’t any members that stand out or… im not active enough. Anyway I cant say I can select somebody at this moment. SO Ill just make a call to the members that actually read this: Alert me when you think somebody deserves the MotM award! I need your help on this one, I cant decide on my own anymore (never could have anyway ;P) So please I urge you to contact me!
Funstuff
*points towards the MotM piece* Again due to my reduced activity and possibly the activity on IRC, I have only few pieces to post here. So if you are engaged in a funny convo in #swarmcore, or you witness one, send it to me! Just copy/paste it to a word file and email me! ([email protected]) I need it, the newsletter needs it!
Interesting
SWaRM’s Research dept
* Lard thanks Norris for his contribution to science
* Rookie has quit IRC (Read error: Connection reset by peer)
* Crispin has quit IRC (Ping timeout)
I hate loud things in the morning
* Baz np: Linkin Park – Linkin Park – My December [04:20m/320Kbps/44KHz]
Credits
Me
Bazz
Ppl of the funstuff
The imaginary MotM
The leaving people (yea right!)
Anyone I forgot
“The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals. “ – Rensis Likert