What the feedback said... more
 

Title: What the feedback said... more
Date: 8th February 2010

When someone wants to leave UsR, what do you do?

I ask them why usually and we take it from there. If someone or something is forcing them out, I try to change it to assist them. If they are just bored, I thank them and that is that.

I think you gamers have it easy, so why all the moaning I see coming from some of you guys?

To be quite frank, your question can come across two ways. One could argue that perhaps anyone with a console is a rich person with a roof over their head, running water, sanitary living conditions and a meal on the table.

The flip side of that is that maybe a lot of people game to get away from real life. Perhaps our perception of acceptable living conditions will vary drastically from someone living in England or the USA compared to someone living in Iraq or Ethiopia.

The be all and end all comes down to simply are you happy or not. Maybe some child with a bat and a ball living on half a cup of rice per day is smiling today while some rich kid with fifty 360 games on his shelves is crying his eyes out. Who is worse off that day?

The internet masks so much. Gaming masks it even more. We all slap on our fake smile for our mates on here. The ego inside takes over and the quest to win stifles emotions.

When them cat and mouse lobbies ended, when FIFA is done for the night, every single person in that lobby put their controller down and went a different way. Eight different people who were united in a synchronised quest just moments earlier all have their own story.

So who the fuck are you to judge any of us and presume you know a damn thing about us? Some of the people I have met on here have suffered life-endangering illnesses, had loved ones die, gone through bankruptcy, divorce, miscarriages, been cheated on and even caught their partner fucking their sibling in one case. So, don't you ever dare try to think we have it easy because we happen to be in a position to buy an xbox 360.

If not having a 360 meant my smile never left my face, I would give it away tomorrow.

Why unlike any other clan do you not require your members to have UsR in their name?

We like to encourage diversity and individuality. As simple as that.

You recently commented on your private boards shrinking but the stats never went down so do you actually delete topics?

We archive them off and yes it is totally for statistical reasons plus post count reasons. In the early days, I deleted an entire board and the amount of shit I got for post counts dropping meant I never would do that ever again.

Why did you stop the feeds?

It got too much hassle to sort them. We still trickle some through. Not many though.

What in your opinion would create a frenzied post rate around here?

The one thing above all else that would create a frenzy would be if we opened up the UsR private topics. I don't mean our private boards now. I mean the archived boards. The Old School stuff from 2006 to last year when we deleted the board.

Our private boards were pure juice and you can ask anyone you like who was in UsR between 2006 to 2007, there was some serious juice in there.

If we ever let it all out and wow have I been tempted before just to see the reaction, then it would probably be the last thing UsR would do before saying goodbye to the net.

To witness our planning, bitching, tactics and just bare-faced cheek would be a sight to behold. One day maybe. Just one day.

The only thing stopping me is the fact I need permission really from EVERY person who participated in them discussions to do this. They all posted under the impression it would never been seen by non-UsR and I have to stick to that.

There will be people in UsR who say oh my god to that but why? I mean everyone from me, Adam, Edd, Jaay right through to the newest guys have all at some point been two-faced. There is no shame in it whatsoever. It is the fucking internet.

If you are reading this, you have probably been two-faced by your 'best friend' on here. I know 90% of UsR past and present have talked shit about me. It doesn't bother me.

4,000+ threads and 108,000+ posts make up the archived UsR section. Imagine that. That is more than the entire post count of our rivals. All there to discuss our team and most importantly, your teams.

What is the worst feeling in the entire world aside from illness or death?

I would say when you go to bed and wake up alone when you are madly in love with someone you cannot be with through no choice of your own.

Are you a happy person who lives in a world of happiness?

I wish. I cannot really elaborate on that because it is my life and my choice to not speak about it. Let's just say I have been happier and will have true happiness soon enough. By nature though, yes I am a happy person who is just not so happy in recent times.

As ever, thanks for your wonderful questions and feel free to send more in via the Contact Us link at the bottom of the page. Enjoy.

Nice questions and answers as usual, keep them coming.

holly shit, that so much is my life right now, every single word of that!

and i'm in that 90%, we had those wars back when i was in xToKx, but it goes to show that real men or woman can actualy get over that stuff even tho it is over the net, now look, i hold this saying strong in my heart " If it does'nt kill you it will make you stronger"

Sumtimes things have to go bad to get better, then only you can tell the difference between good and bad.
Mistakes in life are leasons to make us wiser, dont regret things that went bad, learn from the mistakes, to make yourself a better person, and most of all be truthfull to yourself and to the ones that u love.
Admit the mistakes to yourself first and foremost and then the rest will fall into place, life is not a gimme, it's not a pre pack that u unpack when u like, life is moulded by actions and choices that we make, yes ok its effected by others most of the time, but no one else can truely take actions for ones self.

people can say learn from my mistakes, but sumtimes it does not work like that, u have to feel the pain and emotion to learn that mistake, when life finishes with school and living at home, the heart becomes the education tool, u have the brain to function but does not give u the soul.

You can be a rocket scientist, but real life drama does'nt have a formula to send u into space, it can send u into a black hole, life is about what that person experiances, and not how u get educated.

Sorry if that was long, but to sum people think i can only type one word answers, but nope, i am very much deeper than that, ok i cant spell great, my education sucks big time, but education makes u try and be someone that u mite want tobe, not the person you r.

in my eyes if people judge a book by its cover and dont think people are deep, are they the ones that r shallow?
I wear my heart on my sleeve which sumtimes leaves me wide open for attack, thats why sumtimes i hide, i be quiet, and then sumtimes i can go off on one like now lol!

anyway peace out, and to me on a personal level this has tobe the best blog so far.

well i dunno any other clans that require you to have usr in your name :S

You know what the cunt who sent the question in meant :)