LENNON'S PROFILE

Um... What? I never said we are kicking ourselves in the ass. If you read my other posts you would understand that by being more respectable I mean reviewing games, writing articles, organizing events, or simply playing other peoples game and commenting on them and shit.

Though I honestly don't know what you're talking about at all.

EDIT: Shit, read that last part wrong. Obviously we should take other peoples opinions into consideration, I don't see how you could think that is a bad idea. If "outsiders" view us as being silly and such, then maybe we should consider that and try to better ourselves? FYI if nobody listened to anyone else's opinion nothing would ever get done.

Nobody is saying we should be exactly like them. We are saying that all of us should take action to make the site a more respectable place, by, like I said, reviewing, writing articles, organizing events, or just playing other peoples games and giving them comments and shit. We aren't saying "Let's be Oniromancie!"

So yes, it would be productive to do these things. Thinking it wouldn't is frankly a little ridiculous.

KingArthur
Why should we care, nay, why should we be bothered about how foreign RM communities are viewing us? We aren't the French or German RM communities, we are the RMN community within the larger English RM community. Let the foreign RM communities badmouth us if they want to, we're bigger than that (or at least I prefer to think we are). Besides, we have our own domestic problems to deal with: RMN makes fun of RRR and RMVX.net, RMVX.net hates us; all of this is funny to some, but detrimental to the English RM community's health as a whole.

Not to mention, RMN isn't representative of the English RM community: RMN, RRR, RMVX.net, rmrk.net, hbgames.org, Salt World, RPG Palace, Kobra's Realm, as well as others I possibly do not know of are all collectively representing the English RM community. The idea that RMN is the most prominent or its savior is, to put it simply, arrogant. I remember the days when various RM sites like Gaming World, War of the Magi, RPG Infinity, Sky Tower Games, RPG Palace, RPG2knet, and so forth were all relatively working together (it was hard to distinguish one local community from another sometimes) rather than one site in particular trying to outshine the other.

Okay, care to explain why exactly we shouldn't give a fuck? This pissy attitude is the exact problem that Ciel is pointing out. Why the hell shouldn't we care about how other great communities view us? We may not be the sole representation of the English community, but hey, maybe other sites will follow our lead if we get on the ball about being respectable!

Yes, I do plan on adding Derek Fro to every quilt I'm in

I don't think you should be able to see that side of the wall near the door there. The perspective doesn't really allow for it.