User talk:Krantzstone

Whoa, a Krantzstone! Greetings from the mudder formerly known as Anthalas. Bjsiders 19:16, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Hey, it's a Guerrand!
I have no idea how this User Page thing works yet. Did you write the entry for DSL? It seems pretty comprehensive and accurate.


 * The 'userpage' is for you tell everybody how awesome you are. This is your "discussion" page for people to talk about you or about your edits.  I did NOT write DSL's page, I stumbled onto it by accident (I've been using WP for quite some time and never thought to even look for a DSL article), but I agree, somebody fleshed it out pretty well.  I'd added a few minor contributions.  Since the article contains a passing mention of me I'm trying not to get too involved.  I actually quit following DSL's drama a while back, although I log in now and then to see if I recognize any names.  I had no idea there was a debate about their donation policy, for example.  Anyway ... yeah the page is pretty thorough, the language is even a bit generous.  There was more than "accusations" of cheating, there was hard evidence of it.  I personally witnessed Tony logged on with Scorn, wizi, following Khaos with his IMM while also chasing him down with his mort, for example. Bjsiders 15:38, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I figure the person who wrote it wanted to write from a neutral point of view, and so has somewhat glossed over or whitewashed some of the controversy, but the fact that it was covered at all surprised me. I just HAD to edit the part about Scorn's reasons for "leaving" Moosehead, since it was factually inaccurate. DSL's playerbase has gone down substantially thanks to an eq-wipe, a jewelled egg-wipe, mass denials and sitebans due to an egg-duping bug, all of which was blamed on Azathoth and myself (even though neither of us were involved, I knew about it and knew all the principal abusers of said bug). Amusingly enough, I did have an active PK char on at the time of the egg-cloning, but I had no eggs with which to take advantage of it, so I wasn't actually involved. That character survived the mass denials/sitebans only to be denied later for something else, which wasn't even illegal when I did it (as per usual). I still hang out on DSL and made some new friends there (since almost all of my old friends, as well as RL friends from Ottawa, were almost universally denied/sitebanned and quit DSL). Lately, the playerbase has started to pick up again, so the IMMs are starting to crack down on enforcing their 1001 rules and handing out dorks and what-have-you. Not much has really changed in that respect. If you ever need a laugh, check out the DSL forums some time.

Congrats on being accepted into the JD program- can we look forward to your eventual nomination to the SCOTUS as a conservative judge? ;) I've considered a legal career as well, but still debating whether or not I want to spend another 4 years in school, as I'm more interested in making money at this point.  I'm not so virulently left wing in my old age- I've moved more to the libertarian end of the political spectrum, and I'm much more accommodating of conservative/right wing views, or dissenting/oppositional viewpoints in general than I used to be.  If you're bored, you can drop me a line at: sotaro[at]gmail[dot]com.  I was recently contacted by a female friend I met on Macula (she's finally not underage ;P) so I'm gradually getting in touch with old friends again.


 * Yeah, "Jim" is still denied over at DSL I think. Yeah, I'm totally jazzed about law school.  I dunno if I'm judge material.  That requires a commit to government work that I'm not sure if I'm willing to make.  And certainly not conservative.  Well, not Republican anyway.  I'm more libertarian than anything.  You've got the mindset for law, if you're interested in it.  What got me into it is that I can combine a ton of stuff I love - politics, economics, law, writing, reading, and, well, logical thinking/debate/arguments.  Like you, I've gravitated away from a radical stance on the right.  I've come to more fully embrace liberalism in the Thomas Jefferson sense (as opposed to the Nancy Pelosi sense), and like you, the libertarians most closely embody that line of thinking.  I'll shoot you an email this weekend, I'm playing Eve Online at the moment writing stuff during courier missions. :) Bjsiders 06:22, 26 March 2006 (UTC)