SkyRock is one of the nicest and best guys in the game... Just gotta get to know him
Maybe it would help if he knew his age to better understand his situation? I'd hate to think I (48) was talking about a 14 yr old. I'd feel real bad and would treat the situation differently in opinion.
We know him by the way he presents himself on 200, and that's all. We should not HAVE to go to the DA to get to know him intimately. He projects a certain persona which he chooses and he\we has to live with it. We need not go out of our way to investigate (what I view as ) a split personality. So far that I have seen he has no concept of leading by example. He wants praise yet pummels the radio with insults and personal attacks. Every night for hours.
If I were a GA\Tech now as I were in AW (under AW rules which do not apply here), I'd mute him for arena disruption, and it would be justified easily.
We are not the one's who need to look, he needs to look within himself if he wants to be treated as anything other then the persona he presents to us. personally he's very transparent and predictable to me. I've seen it 100000000 times. He's not and will never be alone in this.
This 1-1 thing\demands in a crowded arena is pure utter nonsense, and just a reason to spew hateful temper tantrums and personal attacks,.. even against his own country men. I'll bet that draws a lot of cooperation.
He says he can own me at any time, and I never even fought him, nor him me. SO how would he even KNOW this? Of course while he only thinks I've been flying for a week, I've been doing it for 14 years. For all he knows I could spit out my window and hand him his butt. I doubt that to be true, but he doesn't KNOW either way, nor I. I just humor him because that's all the attention he deserves from me with that attitude.
So this stuff where he ( or anyone else it's not just him) just attacks people who do something to put him in a bad light is nonsense and just a reason to spew hateful attacks on people on open channel every single night that I have been here.
I have a strong feeling it has nothing to do with people doing him wrong, I think he seeks out reasons and is a master at justifying his foaming at the mouth on 200. he really wants to be respected and admired, and that's where it all comes from.
I give everyone the benefit of the doubt, and I believe everyone can stand to learn something about themselves and apply it. I'm sure somewhere a long the line he IS a good person, he just seems to refuse to show it. Maybe he views it as a weakness?
The dark side has held me in it's hand a few times too, I'm not perfectly innocent. It was only when I became a GA\Tech and had to deal with the masses that I came to understand my own faults by watching them with my mouth sealed shut. When I did correct my own faults, and only then, did I become respected in the arenas. The entire game probably fainted when they made me a GA (Game Assistant), I was a bad boy and many vets here can confirm that, with vivid memories. Culero convinced Moggy, Mage. Blesk and Vet and made an example of me that it could be done. I honestly don't think I let them or the players down.
Money does not make a man. Meaning projecting yourself as THE ONE does not instantly reward you with respect, in fact it deters it. People who live by this concept,...their mileage will vary.
I'd like to see a change in him (we ARE using him as an example of many, of which I apologize for) because I believe the guy has a true passion for the sim. Passion can get the best of us all and it has and it will. I think he\they has it in him to change how we see him on his own. You will never MAKE someone change. He's VERY proud of his accomplishments and should be, but at some point he and many like him need to be humbled and present their new found skills in a way that people WANT to respect them.
Most here will also learn as some already know. I am a long winded SOB. <S>
