TSR: In Ur Accounts, Deletin Ur Stuffs!

[Pescado]

Random bullshitter or a spy in our midst?

I see it as an entirely legitimate position: We can't have spies in our "midst" because we don't really have a midst, this is a public forum. They like free stuff, and they like getting paid money. This is an entirely reasonable and consistent position.

[Eskimo Pie]

 I agree with Delphy, it is more a personal relationship going on then someone getting money under the tables.

 And i think that secret was meant to stir up crap too. But then again you never know....

[Paden]

Um, yeah right. I don't know of many well-liked cross-members of PMBD and MATY that are active any more. Don't get me wrong, I do still quite like the ones that are cross-members but the being active on both forums has rather died in recent times. Methinks it be an idiot trying to start shit.

[SoggyFox]

Agreed - most of the people from MATY that also posted here regularly that I liked haven't posted much at all.  Unless they use completely different handles, which is possible, then its just someone trying to start us fighting amongst ourselves again.

[kenmtl]

Random bullshitter or a spy in our midst?

I see it as an entirely legitimate position: We can't have spies in our "midst" because we don't really have a midst, this is a public forum. They like free stuff, and they like getting paid money. This is an entirely reasonable and consistent position.

ORLY?   hmmm interesting

[Pescado]

ORLY?   hmmm interesting

No, it's not me. Seriously. Me? An artist? Ahahaha. But no, I simply see it as an entirely reasonable position. If someone wants to take TSR's money, I don't see the problem. They're not all here butthurt and whining about us being pirates while secretly downloading. It's a consistent philosophical position.

[SoggyFox]

Pes has a point.  I know I said that if EA ever came out saying paysites are AOk, that I'd be glad to sell crap while giving good stuff away for free.  Just to make a point - besides, I'd also donate it to the booty  

[neriana]

It is a consistent position: they're greedy. That's consistent. Being consistent doesn't mean one is good morally .

Of course, that's assuming this person exists in the first place.

[Delphy]

Oh and come on - you know better than I do that TSR are *not* the sole invitee to the events that the Maxoids throw! So the part of your argument that "EA only ever invite TSR" is basically useless and backed up by evidence thats actually provable - ie *all* of the events that have gone down in the past 4 years.

Did I say EA only ever invites TSR? I certainly don't recall typing it.

Yeah, you basically implied it when you said this:

You are right; EA keeps inviting TSR to "fan" stuff. They keep not inviting other people.

Not inviting other people + keep inviting TSR = only inviting TSR.  Apologies if your implied statement was not your actual one.

I find the idea that employees of a company go against that company's interests because people outside the company are NICE to them absolutely and utterly ludicrous. But sure, if you think the "Maxoids" are that silly and unprofessional. I don't think quite that poorly of them.

You dont?  I would think that "The Maxoids are being PAID by TSR" to mean that you think they *are* unprofessional, as well as illegal and underhanded.

Either you think they are unprofessional or you don't - and if you *dont* then it pretty much means the entire "Maxoids are paid by TSR" theory is based on... well, nothing, really.  (and lets face it's there is zero evidence to suggest that this theory is based on anything resembling facts, but we have years of evidence to prove that TSR talk closely with the Maxoids.  I know which one I would pick... but then I'm probably one of the sanest here. )

[SnarkyShark]

Did I say EA only ever invites TSR? I certainly don't recall typing it.

No, you did not. I also think that everybody on this site is aware that other sites were also invited to the camp (even though it can be argued that TSR was shown particular preference)  but then I haven't read the "EA only ever invite TSR" thread. Maybe I should go look it up. -

As far as the Sim Secret secret, it's probably just another TSR shit stirrer hoping to make us suspicious about, oh, let's say kenmtl ('cause if anyone does it for pay...). No doubt, they cooked it up in one of their super secret meetings thinking we'd be at each others throats about it. Like we'd need that  for an excuse. Stupid TSR.

[neriana]

Oh and come on - you know better than I do that TSR are *not* the sole invitee to the events that the Maxoids throw! So the part of your argument that "EA only ever invite TSR" is basically useless and backed up by evidence thats actually provable - ie *all* of the events that have gone down in the past 4 years.

Did I say EA only ever invites TSR? I certainly don't recall typing it.

Yeah, you basically implied it when you said this:

You are right; EA keeps inviting TSR to "fan" stuff. They keep not inviting other people.

Not inviting other people + keep inviting TSR = only inviting TSR.  Apologies if your implied statement was not your actual one.

It was not my implied statement. It was the way you read what I wrote, but I'm starting to think you and I actually speak entirely different languages, because you keep misunderstanding me completely, which is not something I'm used to, whether on the internet or off it. And I write A LOT.

EA keeps giving large numbers of invitation slots to TSR while withholding invitation slots from other groups. Not ALL other groups, but many other groups. Besides this withholding, the disproportionately large number of slots allocated to TSR necessarily leaves fewer invitation slots open for other (more talented) people.

I find the idea that employees of a company go against that company's interests because people outside the company are NICE to them absolutely and utterly ludicrous. But sure, if you think the "Maxoids" are that silly and unprofessional. I don't think quite that poorly of them.

You dont?  I would think that "The Maxoids are being PAID by TSR" to mean that you think they *are* unprofessional, as well as illegal and underhanded.

Either you think they are unprofessional or you don't - and if you *dont* then it pretty much means the entire "Maxoids are paid by TSR" theory is based on... well, nothing, really.  (and lets face it's there is zero evidence to suggest that this theory is based on anything resembling facts, but we have years of evidence to prove that TSR talk closely with the Maxoids.  I know which one I would pick... but then I'm probably one of the sanest here. )

I said I didn't think that were THAT silly and unprofessional. The word "that" is not unnecessary to the sentence. I do think they are unprofessional. I don't know about silly; EA is known for treating its employees crappily, EA is losing money, being paid under the table may not be silly at all. I do not know that they are being paid under the table. I think it is the most likely scenario -- and, as I said, I think this scenario actually gives them more credit than the idea that they favor TSR because TSR is (supposedly) nice to them.

I also think that admitting you believe you're one of the sanest people here is perhaps not the sanest thing you've ever done.

[theblackcatsluck]

Delurking for the first time, though I'm pretty sure all of you will wish I didn't.
If someone was to look at the very basic information on this whole mess, it would seem pretty straight forward who did it and what happened. There are just so many gray areas in this whole thing that have popped up and it's become rather political in a way. The more is said, it seems the more attention is distracted from the original issue of the stolen Custom Content. The way the whole thing is going it might just build on itself in till the whole thing is dropped because it's gotten so far from what it was about in the first place that there's nothing left really but he said, she said. (Run on sentence for the lose) I hope it doesn't happen, but it seems to be most likely way this is going. I doubt that would be planned, since the folks at TSR seem to have the average intelligence of most drunk rednecks.

[keirra]

On a sidenote, SimSecret no. 106 this week:



Random bullshitter or a spy in our midst?

Definitely bullshit. TSR needs to do whatever they can to draw attention off of them. Nice try, but FAIL.

[Emma]

I definitely call bullshit. No-one is well liked on MATY.

[Jojoba]

I definitely call bullshit. No-one is well liked on MATY.

And I could not even imagine a MATYan saying they are 'well liked'. And there are few cross overs between the two forums. Just does not fit, so yea I call stirring also.