[Aeledius]

I find it odd that every thread Sarapis aka The Logos aka Matt Mihaly replies to almost instantly stops the topic, and spawns a new one: how many inane and disagreeable things did he say in his reply.

Between calling everything stupid (his main arguement in most discussions), saying that he's successful, and thus we should all listen to him, repeatedly quoting rules and regulations that he is not breaking while skirting the issue that has little or nothing to do with rules, and in most cases arguing like a two year old with his mother about having dessert instead of supper.

Well, instead of trying to get us back on track, again, I guess I'm going to join in, see if maybe that gets us back, though I highly doubt it. In any event, its still fun counting up all the little inanities:

"there's no such thing as the mud community."

Anyone in the mudding community knows that there is.  The fact that numerous people have mentioned it during there posts only backs this up.  The fact that you don't know about it because you are not a part of it, doesn't make this line any more valid.

"If anyone has a problem with any of that, that person is unlikely to be someone whose opinion is worth anything to me."

If our opinions don't matter, then stop responding.  Adults know to ignore a two year old, because they will stop once they get bored, only other two year olds get upset and retaliate claiming it doesn't bother them.

"My man, what you think of me is entirely irrelevant. Success is the universal balm. You carry right on with your mean-spirited attacks. It only gets us more business."

Nearly the same thing, if you don't care, shut up.  Also, this seems to be a reacurring theme in many of your posts, be they here or on other sites and forums: I'm a success, so I'm better than you, and thus you should listen to me.  I will admit, Achaea is a success, but in my opinion, you are not.

"Did I mention that we are engaged in white slavery, anti-trust violations, and puppy-kicking as well? It'd probably be good if we were taken to task for that. I'm sure some of you out there have a few hundred posts to write slamming us for it. Please?"

Don't post stupid inane things like this.  We don't care a wit that you can be sarcastic, and it has no bearing.  If your upset, tell us your upset, don't throw a tantrum.

"I repeat: You have no idea what you're talking about."

Another common phrase.  I really don't think he even reads the posts, someone just tells them they're saying bad things about your game, and he just picks a bunch of phrases from a hat.

"Once again, I fail to understand why you're equating votes with quality. I don't do it, anywhere, and I'm not sure where you think you saw it being done by me, or by anyone else in the Achaean administration."

What the hell are you talking about?? I quote: "Voted the #1 MUD on Earth." This is from MudConnector.com's ads.  This specifically says you are the #1 mud.  Now, most of us know you don't have the largest player base (by far), you probably don't have the most profitable MUD either, and I happen to know for a fact that a good deal of your player base is only there because there friends are, most of them hate Achaea and expect it to be run into the ground.

"You have no idea what you're talking about."

Oh look, there it is again.

"Quality is subjective, and no doubt most of our players think Achaea is a far better game, and most of DR and Gemstone's players think those games are far better games."

I doubt that highly.  Most of your players think you have a good playerbase.  End of thought.

"Are you accusing us of lying, cheating, and stealing? I really hope not. "

Lying? YES, Cheating? YES.  Read the damn posts, I thought it was quite obvious what we were accusing you off.  As for stealing, no, but it wouldn't suprise me in the least.

"Dare, challenge, whatever. You used the words, "I dare you" but you could replace them with "I challenge you""

I've never heard "I dare you to a duel."  Think before you speak would you?  The only people I hear say dare are preteens playing truth or dare, or perhaps two year olds daring each other to go draw on the walls.

"Well, you might be seriously daring me, but I grew out of that years ago, my friend."

I don't think you have.

"My responsibility is to my investors and partners, my players, and my employees, in that order."

You forgot one:  Your customers.  Which, I might add, he holds higher than any other group put together.  Those who have played Achaea know that credits are the almighty ruling system.  If you have bought credits (the more, the better) You can get away with anything, and everything.  Now, it is true that he has made some token punishments of those who have bought credits, but I'm sure it was not before he found out they were never going to buy again.

"I also notice your quote doesn't say, "World leader in text-based multplayer gaming." It says, "leader in online games" which is blatantly false."

How can you even bring this up?!? You yourself claim that you are the best MUD out there, which has already earned you the seat of the "mudding communities" village idiot.  But now you say noone else has to right to make as blatantly false lies?  *You hear a whisper from the judges table, "Can we get a dictionary definition of hypocracy?"*

"And as for losing players to us, you might ask some of your ex-GMs who play Achaea now."

Who the hell cares.  I'm sure many of your players have gone and played there.  The fact that later on you can't even back up this quote makes it even more laughable.  For that matter, I have many of your players that say my MUD (only in alpha) is already better than Achaea.

"You claim people wouldn't vote as much if we didn't reward them."

Not claim, telling you.  Its quite obvious from recent history.  Week 1, Achaea is #1000, week 2, Achaea bribes its players, its #1.  Its not that hard to follow the line of thought here Sherlock.

"If we're engaged in bribery, then this entire site is, and every MUD listed on it is participating in bribing topmudsites to give them exposure."

No comment, just wanted to add another inane quote.

"And you know, I'm a little sick of the childish insults I'm seeing from you guys."

This is amazing, cause its pretty much exactly what he does in response.  Anyone find the irony?  Free xp on my game if you do (You also have to vote for us.) P.S. We don't have xp in yet.

"Is it tacky? Maybe, but I really don't care. I read the topmudsites rules, and if any of you can point out which rule we're breaking, I'd be gratified. Otherwise, you're just wasting your breath as I'm only interested in the rules, not your opinion on what the rules should be."

Here we have a textbook example of an evil-lawful character.  One who has little care of good will for the community/mankind, only in furthuring his own little kingdom.  But, on the flip side, he wants everyone to believe he is doing it for the good of the community (which if you read above, he doesn't believe exists)/mankind.  Its true he didn't break any rule, but he cares little for what the rules are really there for: to promote a healthy, friendly and ETHICALLY SOUND base for competition between MUDs.

In any event, I hope you all found this entertaining, and enlightening.  As for you Matt, please, if your going to attempt to be part of the "mudding community" that you don't believe exists, bring some more wit, and preferably an adult to proofread your posts and stop you from saying the things you should know by now not to.  Cause right now, you don't seem to have a very high standing in it.  Plus the constant reminder that you think your better than you are (IE, your #1 ads all over the place) are just plain annoying.

P.S. If anyone wants to copy this to the MUD Humour board, be my guest.