Gambino said:
lestat, i.e Brian in real life, is a real quality guy. a dude's dude, a knock around type of guy. Lestat's internet leadership character, however, kinda sucks. He really disappointed me with the bomb squad thing, he started out so strong and I was so eager to join...i saved all my money and couldn't wait till plattyness so i could join the best internet group of all time. then I join and lestat is to busy sucking everyone's proverbial cack that he won't bomb anyone. gotta publicilly shame him in order for any bombs to get thrown. so basically what I'm screaming is this, Lestat as the sole leader of an ef group is not a good idea. Lt. maybe, but not general, he's just not cut out for that
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wow man, I'm honored, great analysis.
I've said this many times, but we'll take a moment to delve a little deeper into this issue.
The Bomb Squad just kind of happened. It wasn't planned, I actually kind of enjoy givin the Bomb Squad history lesson, so bear with me.
George makes this new feature, a "bomb." basically anytime someone who is plat gives a NON PLAT negative (red, dissaporove) karma, it leaves a little bomb beneath their name. Collect 4 of them in 24 hours, you get blacked out. I quickly realized that 1 single bomb along wields no power, however 4 together leave quite an impact. the first person to "team up" with me to bomb was Deterass... Bomb Squad founder right there, charter member. We were able to recruit more people quickly and we found ourself with a squad. Originally I even had a platinum alter to assist because we only had about 4 people who were part of us and sometimes people weren't online and we wanted to get shit handled quick. The first bomb targets were crak600 (for abandoning his dogs) hamstershaver (because he had so many lame soklue posts around that time) and lumberg (because we knew he'd flip out, and boy did he).
Very quickly people started to take sides. Targers were plentiful, back there it seemed like 1 in 2 or 1 in 3 chat posters were non plat.. now you will notice that due to such a successful effort by the Bomb Squat, most chat members are now plat. The squad grew exponentially... I was getting daily requests to join, people from other areas of EF took notice and joined in. At our peak we had 40 different members including some pretty powerful backing (that's all we can say about that).
But with power comes responsibility. With such a large group, we ran into many conflicts of interest. Everyone seemed to be friends with someone who was a friend of someone getting their ass handed to them with bombs. Also, the Bomb Squad attracted a certain type of posts, the type who really didn't give a fuck, the type who would bomb on a whim, for no reason. These are some of the most loyal bros there are, but it lead to many hostile and inflamitory situations. We were met with organized resistance. First by members of the board, then by mods. There wasn't much that would stop us though, since most of the members didn't give a shit how much red K they took, they lived for the bombing runs. Juicedmohawk always had his "flight goggles" ready. Needtogetas and his wife made a great 1-2 combo. Elite_fry was a great wingman (RIP bro, you are missed). It was a lot of fun. We had the infamous "black friday" were we hit a bunch of strategic targets all at once (sorry Samote and Mr. DB). Sometimes just to relive the old days, I go back to search out those posts from that day.. people posting in all kinds of colored fonts are the everlasting evidence of the carnage that was wrought on the board.
So now in modern day EF, targets are few and far between. I enjoy a good bombing as much as anyone. But I still abide by one of the first Bomb Squad principles.. we do not attack platinum targets. Part of the reason why our group was so successful and tolerated by admin was that we only terroristed the non paying customers, and ultimately we ENCOURAGED the non plats to go platinum. Many of them going platinum and IMMEDIATELY joining the Bomb Squad. The Bomb Squad for me has always been about plats vs non plats, and FREE bombs, not the ones you waste karma on.
Look around, where are the non plats these days? Hard to find. Also, I won't pile on bombs because someone who once was a member of the squad all of a sudden is non plat. If you are part of the squad, its a lifetime brotherhood.. a fraternity full of friendship and loyalty.
I will still not hesitate to bomb when warrented, but i will not go out of my way to cause strife between members of the board. This is our home, lets not desecrate it.
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