A Matter of Respect
Who do you respect in game? Well I guess we all have someone we respect and look up to. I suppose for me its, anyone who
"gets it" as one Marco B once put
. I think out of game I have separate respect for those who have done great stories and things such as Kira Red, Epic and Donald. There was also this recent poll about who was the most "outstanding" entropian which was, quite rightly, won by Neverdie who is the Calypsian equivalent of Zaphod Beeblebrox! (can you imagine him saying
"I'm so cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month! I'm so HIP, I have difficulty seeing over my own pelvis!" and getting away with it? hell
I can!) Interestingly, among the runners up were none other than the infamous Knuckles and Chainfire. Chainfire I have a HUGE respect for because not only did he write a DARN usefull program but also withstood a MASSIVE amount of criticism and reputation slurs from all kinds of people (who mostly didn't know what they were talking about) claiming he was a hacker or something. Some thanks eh? Knuckles I respect simply cause hes been around so long and has never ceased to cause upset and havoc but he still keeps on going and has never quit. That sort of resilience takes dedication
Still, its always nice when I meet what I would consider to be the
ubas which, to me, are the people I remember from my early days in the game on the Entropia Pioneers forum who are STILL around. Whats even nicer is when they recognise and talk to me (cause when I turned up I must have been little more than
"another orange" to most of them) The other day I had the fortune to meet Mango who, to be honest, I always just liked for the simple reason that she
looked cool. I wasn't in for a disapointment either. She gave me a grand display of all the different Jackets she owned, my favourite alas, was from her beta days
and its nice to say, she is still one of the coolest looking players I have ever seen. It's funny though... theres something about the latter picture, I have taken here, that put it all in perspective for me. Compared to Mango, I just look SMALL! Like a teenager or something talking to an older sibling. I suppose in many ways this is synonymous with my status in
PE. Despite 2 and a half years on Calypso I am STILL a newbie with skills of a laughable standard. Ah well, its not the winnning, its the taking part that matters
Mango - arguably the coolest character in game
in comparison... Wistrel the bratty teenager!