Just Gene

lolwut

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the tl;dr version of this: evander was bored and has to write a big post full of big words to make herself sound smart

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i don't read text walls.......

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From what I've discerned and understood regarding the whole situations stems form Gene's Micromanaging the OW. I've personally heard the rants of his subordinates and even his counterparts on his absence, more interesting is his reluctance to permit other OW division. I've RPed once or twice with Gene in-game, and one thing that I never understood was why he seemed to be so against the CP interacting with the OW (on a tactical level.) Each man has his own skeletons but I just can't dismiss it when it affects the state of an RP Group. Hopefully Welsh can pick up the slack for the OW and get them on the right track for true militarization. One leader for one faction of subordinates always ends in micromanaging, you gotta trust people to do their jobs and for some that comes hard. It a shame to see things in this state tbh.....

 

Personally, I felt he was always a little too one-sided with Lambda/OW RP; what I mean is he would flip out if any of the Lambda were close to infracting a rule, however he would let his own team slide with breaking a few rules. Also, I completely agree with Evander on the Keepers group thing, it makes no sense in the HL2-RP, sounds waaaaaay to overpowered, as well as apparently in-game no one knows they even exist, making it kinda hard to RP with them.

 

Got to agree to be honest. It shocked me at first when I read the TnB changes had all been down to Gene. It always confused me personally why no one could RP OW if he wasn't on basically (Or like 1/2 other people at his rank), it's probably just a control thing, I think Welsh will do good with the group.

When Teddi left was quite a bad time, it was obvious that there would be a huge power struggle in his absence and it occurred. When Gene got Global he became extremely..protective perhaps is that word. Myself and Bob were also made Global at the time, although mine only lasted a few hours, I'll let you know why. I locked the flame topics about Katie in General Chat, after this Gene complained to Ben that I was interfering with his moderating or something and it was remove. Gene then banned me from the forums because I pm'ed him about how I felt about him. Yeah, he banned someone because they stood up to him.

Onto The Keeper's - I don't see the relevance to HL2 at all, it just sounds like a Group to expand control - Being the most powerful group ingame undoubtedly. With "Psychic abilities" it sounds like something I'd see on Heroes.

 

I've never thought of Gene as the power-hungry type. I don't really like the Keepers group, though. If it's not in HL2, it shouldn't be in HL2 roleplay. And yes, SR and the Black Marketeers could plausibly exist in the HL2 universe. But a psychic alien race other than the Combines? I doubt it.

 

But Evander, what are you trying to prove to us by posting this thread? That Gene is power hungry? I read and understand everything that you have written, but its purpose is what I question.

By no means am I trying to demean you- I would just like to know what your ideal end result for this complaint would be.

 

I didn't read it. So that's why I posted 'lolwut'. ;D

 

I have to agree with this a bit. Gene does seem to be a bit power hungry. The only reason he really created Overwatch was so he could beat people without a RP reason. I don't agree how Gene can pass judgement on others when he's hardly ever on the server. Plus a certain something happened a while back where Gene had let another admin take the blame for something he commanded another admin to do and got in trouble for. I won't say anymore though.

He was not always like this.

 

I don't like saying bad things about people but I feel this needs to be said.

Gene is a bit power-hungry. From making sure nobody in OW can RP unless he's on to getting global mods demoted for standing up to him, there definitely seems to be an "I have to be in charge" type attitude.

Then there's something that happened a few months ago. This was back when I was a sub.
I was RPing mayor and I said "fuck" in one of my broadcasts. Gene got angry, claiming that I wasn't allowed to curse in the server. When I quoted the rule on how it's okay only if it's in-character and not OOC, he invented some rule about how it's only okay IC if you have an RP reason (???). We argued about this for a while and eventually he muted me for winning the argument. Then he told a sub-admin to teleport to me and kill me. I'm not naming names but if that admin wants to confirm this he can.

Teddi leaving [BB] fucked everything up, and Gene took advantage of this. Within a week of Teddi leaving Gene becomes global mod and he has Ben in his pocket. Now, even though Kaiden was a global mod, apparently he's supposed to stay away from Gene's forums even if Gene isn't doing anything about shitty threads. When Kaiden locked a shitpost that had been sitting there for a while, Gene gave Kaiden a forum warning and complained to Ben. Eventually Kaiden sent Gene a PM saying that Gene was doing a bad job as global mod and bam, Kaiden was demoted. Things got so bad that I was going to quit but thankfully Teddi returned.

The creation of the Overwatch was basically a way for Gene to get more power over the server and to, as Zeke stated above, beat citizens for no reason and get away with it. At one point, Overwatch was even going to get control of who can be a CP which would have been completely fucked up. Why should an RP group say who can and cannot be what is one of the most important parts of Half-Life 2 RP?

When Kaiden and I were making the CP equipment/ranks thread, Gene contacted us several times telling us to change this and change that. A couple of times he did indeed have valid reasons for wanting something changed (such as one of the ranks using the current CP Chief model, which has that big OW logo on the shoulder), but mostly I think it was again an attempt at gaining more power.
Apparently CPs are supposed to arrest only people who punch other citizens and do drugs but stay away from anti-citizens, which only OW can deal with.

Now we have this "Keepers" group. To be honest it sounds more like something out of a sci-fi fantasy film like Star Wars than Half-Life 2.

Gene's a nice enough guy but sometimes he's just kind of egotistical and power hungry.

 

When Teddi was away, Gene went powerhungry with MOD status on the forums, I see what evander means about the power and the 'Keepers' group, Also with Gene in charge of OW it was not good on the CP, with all the telling us what to do and limit us of what we could do.

 

Slurp Slurp. Yeah Evander (Or "Billy" if your name is Waddy, You Vent people will understand) Slurp, Slurp. ** Tongue noises **

The amount of people who were saying in "The Keepers" request thread that the group is cool was incredible.

Why only know that Evander has posted her opinion do you guys start agreeing? If you all dis-liked the idea that Gene had so much, then why did you let it gets this far? Why have YOU made this thread earlier. I can come up with only probable conclusion, You want to suck up to Evander maybe? We all know that Teddi holds her in high esteem. I would too in his position, she holds great and useful knowledge that we need. But on a serious note people, you must answer the question, why did you not stress your dislike for the idea before this thread appeared?

Now, Evander, Although your post is very true in many ways you fail to see some other things that may have influenced Gene to do what he did? I have a theory, (Notice the word theory here) that Gene may have taken the power so someone who would abuse it could not have it. Then the power turned on him and he lost control. It happens to everyone. I admit, Ben should have taken control of it but weren't we the ones who were saying "put the power in the players hands"?

So as someone previously stated higher in this thread, this post of Evander's holds an important view point but what is its purpose? *** George gets out his glowing ball of knowledge and looks into it, cloud fades away and he see's a dead thread lying in the road ***, What was the real purpose to posting Evander? To alert us to Gene's actions? Apparently everyone already knew. failz to everyone who "knew".

In future and for your reply. (Because I sense I will get flamed here and there) instead of telling us what's going on, tell us what we can do. And if there is nothing we are supposed to do, just PM Teddi. I am pretty sure your post could have been just a quick PM to Teddi and he could deny the group. But instead you decided to make a song and dance out of it with humor thrown in.

Currently out of this thread, only one thing may happen, Gene gets hurt. If you have just PM'd Teddi you could have avoided the pussy licker's who just want more power and got what you really wanted, to deny Gene of that power (I assume that was your purpose, I cannot think of anything else). Then Teddi can put a nice little [DENIED] tag at the beginning of "The Keepers" thread.

What do you think? (Flame shield, Activated.)

 

Could we please not go to that topic?

Noone truly knows what Gman is. For all we know he could be an Alien Phsycic dude himself.

I mean, look what hes done to the world so far, Aside from annhilated it.

He froze gordan in time, He Caused the whole Combine portal incident.

I'm not saying that This is the truth, But, think.

I will not post with/against/about gene here, As I have not known him to be Power hungry or anything except a little cracked out at times. (Remembers vent as gene couldn't stop laughing at wierd stuff..)

 

Gene is going through some tough times... I don't know if he wants me telling you guys about it...

 

Took the words straight out of my mouth mate.

 

A 1,500 word post can hardly be justifiable as a "Quick PM". Also the complaints section was only just made, hence no posts about it earlier.

Also only half of this topic is about "The Keepers".

 

There is no point to this thread, those of you that expected it would have are clearly looking for answers to your questions rather then providing them yourself. Most of BB is apathic, you look up towards Teddi, asking him what to do, you're all too lazy to solve the issues you see around you by yourselves.

This isn't me telling anyone what to do or think, it is apparent those that did care have posted their opinions and those that don't care are not worried as long as they have a weapon in their inventory. This is me hoping you guys can come together and wake the fuck up and start responding to shit like this before it gets out of hand. All of you who saw Gene craving power could have put a stop to it yet you sat idly by.

It is not a wall of text about Gene alone, this is a wall of text on all of you people that wiggle your tails waiting for someone to tell you what to do. When someone finally puts their thoughts out the first thing you do is jump the bash wagon, because you assume you're safe in your seats of power and respect, that you're all untouchable. You should all be ashamed of yourselves, those of you that did nothing but watch it unravel, you waited for an outsider to make a move.

To those of you that are wondering where do Teddi stand in all this, stop waiting for him to think for you and act for you. I already told him not to reply in this thread to reduce the amount of sucking up. Sucking up to me will give you nothing in return, I hold no power nor a say in things that go on around here anymore.

Times are changing, we need people that can change with it, those that will represent the new BBRP.