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VenusArmani - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Well I agree with a lot of your analysis of Swift's work, I still consider him to be both. For one, he wrote this anonymously. He was also being intentionally provocative and clearly trying to elicit an emotional outrage. Which is why he doesn't just suggest that people should eat babies, he goes into detail about different ways to eat babies. I mean he suggests that to fricassee the babies for example. He was clearly trying to **** people off. IMHO he was trolling the elites spreading mercantilism. And there are many, many people that did not realize he wasn't being serious about eating babies. There are just so many different ways he could have gone about making his point that people were being treated as commodities and to decry the inequality of conditions at the time. He picked the baby-eating route both as satire and to troll people. I don't think the two are mutually exclusive.


Well, they dont have to be mutually exclusive, but as I said about trolls with buzzword insults, they are not exactly mutually inclusive either, and we basicly agree then. I'm not saying your point is mute, but that the term troll is more expansive than to just include sarcasm and satire with a moral value.

In reality, if you look at another somewhat famous Satirist, John Wilmot (2nd Earl of Rochester), his satrical poems had a political goal and/or focused on reveling in the debauchery of the time and class of which he lived - so in that sense your point about trolls is easily supported.

But, unlike Wilmot, many children have read or had read to them Aesop's fables, and Swift's works are included in textbooks both for their Literary value, as well as their value to history and social studies. For most of the reading population today, unless seeing the movie 'The Libertine' made you curious enough to investigate further, you would have never heard of John Wilmot. But, much like many trolls on these forums - he WANTS you to hate him, and for his lack of moral fiber.

Emotional outrage is the only thing that calls people - especially people who are comfortable with the way their personal lives are - into action, and gives them another image of themselves and society as a whole, that they might not have taken the time to consider while they were busy desiding what architectual-style to use to build onto their already overly large castles, or what fashions they could no longer afford to be seen wearing while out socializing amongst their peers, or even what amongst a multitude of choices they would be eating that night, and how they wish it to be prepared.

Its not easy being a member of the upper-crust, I'll give you, lol.

During the time of the American Revolution, there was a song commonly sung loudly in most American taverns in the colonies:

"Dance, dance, wherever you may be. I am the Lord of the Dance said he, and I'll lead you all wherever you may be, and I'll lead you all in the dance said he."

If you were a loyalist to or spy for the British Crown, you would never know this satirical song was a call to arms against the Crown for the common folk. As to dance wherever one was, would require one to rise up and act outside of the accepted norm.

and I thought you weren't reading these. b:lipcurl

MrMelvin - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Wall of text is absolutely pointless

Agiya - Raging Tide wrote: »

Maybe they will take your point into consideration for you. As for raging all the time - Ive read posts in all the server syposiums, and all I have to say is...

I dont see ANY that would qualify as 'prizes'. b:chuckle

Agiya - Raging Tide wrote: »

Im sure anything with you on it is just perfect by your estimation. Cool, you know....*shrugs*

Agiya - Raging Tide wrote: »

Honestly, the people trolling in RT forum are just trying to make the server look active, thinking it will drum up interest in the server by established players.

Oh wait...Most of you old skoolers have chars on more than one server, so lol. They ARE rival factions. Anyone notice there are only two rival factions? b:chuckle

Thanks for helping to support my server merge point with this post and accompanying link! b:chuckle

Agiya - Raging Tide wrote: »

Why would a server merge mean they have to quest again? lol. Most games transfer characters, and the developers can easily learn from them if you think they can't already do it if they wanted to.

There would only be a few name change issues - which even **** games like RS have figured out how to do. b:chuckle

Agiya - Raging Tide wrote: »

I agree eso. Thanks for your support! b:thanks

Brillance - Raging Tide wrote: »

Your post is absolutely pointless, emo child.

Xainou - Sanctuary wrote: »

And yea Venus. I wouldn't want to merge with raging trolls either. b:laugh

Agiya - Raging Tide wrote: »

I find the Mystic to be the most exciting character any of them have offered to be played. What good is a great character to play, if there is no one to play it with?

propadol1 wrote: »

I am avid MMO player. I came to PWI on request from GF to try it out.

Now the realistic review of what I saw: Lowest populated game ever encountered, looks dead in any time of day and seems like project has been abandoned few years ago and few people that play look like Zombies in Resident Evil.

Merging 2 or 3 servers might help to get players the feel of someone actually playing the game and not being alone.

Overall this is very bad game for new players because they can not group uo nor get help from others.