Flamage Part Quatre: PFA don't like me now...

I didn't think they would take too kindly for me going broad-side on Chinchilla. I expect to be their next ROTFLMAOBBOWTF target the next time they tape.

And I got an e-mail from Fusionx stating they are not a Premiere Site, along that they find my demand comedic and that they will retain Chin. That's news to me -- but rest be assured that I will make sure that Square-Enix has a strong recommendation against any future consideration for that or any other preferred status or privileges.

They don't get it. The actions of Chinchilla, as well as the other relevant players (the only reason she's first among the Alliance is she's the first I've come across from there -- if Aneiro or Kallo or Juxta or Kixxi or ... are on the list and I discover them, they get both barrels too -- with probably similar results) spit all over the legitimate players they purport to represent. And if PFA wants to continue to keep her, they sanction this cheating, on the part of not only individual players, but the player-base they purport to represent.

And I do not accept that nor take it lightly. I've put five years of money in this game -- and the fact that I've put that much money into the game means that I take the demand seriously when I state that I demand that the game not only be fairly adjudicated, but fairly played.

When I hear of an exploit that the whole end-game community ROTFLMAOBBQWTF's at and abuses for 18 months, I damned well have a problem. And when people who basically are supposed to be prominent members of the community spit all over the concept of game balance, I REALLY damned well have a problem.

Keep laughing, PFA -- your laughs indicate that you sanction this bullshit.

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EDIT: I decided I would add a little story to this about two people I used to look up to in real-life who angered me to such a degree that I actually have not only stopped listening to the radio station where they used to work, but contacted the Federal Communications Commission to see if KGO Radio could get its license pulled.

When I used to live in San Francisco, I used to look up to Bernie Ward, the "Lion of the Left". He had 18 hours of programming on the channel -- the 10-1 spot at night on weeknights and a Sunday ethics/religion show called "God Talk".

So it probably comes as no shock to a lot of people when, supposedly as part of research for a book (and, the more I think it, the more I question the "research" -- certainly in addition to the sanity of a clearly anti-Bush radio host in a day where our recently-departed Chimp-in-Chief probably kept a good deal of a media "enemies list"), he was caught trading child porn. Fired, plead guilty, now in prison -- thanks for nothing, Bernie...

And what finally finished me off of KGO for pretty much for good was when I lost my other favorite radio host on that channel, (Charles) Karel (Boulay). I actually met the guy several years before when he was a singer/performer. Riotously funny, openly gay, and not afraid to "go there".

Problem is, he "went there" way too far with an open mike. About a week or two before the recent national elections, last hour of his Saturday night show, during the national news, yet another story on "Joe the Plumber".

What is the first rule of radio? Always assume any microphone you talk into is live.

So when Karel howled into an apparently non-live mic: "I want Joe the Plumber motherfucking dead!", he basically killed his media career. That mic was live -- he was fired by the election. He, frankly, should be in jail himself -- I was put there for far less.

The point I'm making is that I hold the people and entities I care about to a much higher standard than the morass I hold very little regard for. That applies to RL as much as it applies to FFXI.