The kugutsumen forums aren’t some kind of gaming wikileaks. Many of us know that Eve online is only a game, and that it takes up a small percentage of the sum of our lives. But if you go to the kugutsumen forums, you do it because its the largest collection of posters from all sides of the game, engaged in heated discussion about every topic in the game. And one of the best things about the site is that when something happens, information gets posted. Posted from all sides, and certainly in uncomfortable detail. Because that’s the great part about the Kugutsumen forums, they are filled with a lot of angry arguing internet spaceship pilots. Its not one sided and there is no greater agenda to recruit, or bullshit, or lie, because those lies stink and they stand out, and the other forum members certainly take great joy in pointing them out, and that is a major attraction of the site.
Kugutsumen isn’t some diabolical hacker. He’s a nice guy. He works hard in the internet mines everyday, and when he comes home from work one of his few joys in life is to pay for, and run an internet forum, for mostly free, for a bunch of angry spaceship nerds. And there have been times when he has found certain irregularities in EVE, and with CCP, and taken great glee in posting them and revealing them to the greater Eve community. That’s his right to chose to do it, and it looks like fun.
He has been a great part of Pandemic Legion. He has moved from place to place in Eve. He has made friends in strange places and by strange means. But its a point of fact that his forums have not excluded any side of the Eve equation. There are posters from all sides on the forums, and they are as free as anyone else to argue and bullshit and lie and have fun.
And that brings me to the next problem. The freedom to post the things that you enjoy, and the freedom to uncover the things which are not fair, which infuriate or confound you, are not free. Eve online is a game, and it is big business. Business does not want freedom of choice, and it certainly does not enjoy a voice which raises questions, or tests its patience, or points to uncomfortable truths, or even entertains dreams which head in the wrong direction.
As ugly truths have been revealed, CCP has made a point of creating the CSM. As far as player run oversight commities, its about as meaningful as the league of nations or the UN. But it’s our CSM and we have a vote in who is part of it. If you know who you are going to vote for already, you should vote for them. But if you are unsure, or undecided, why not vote for Kugutsumen? Why not vote for his friend, and thus vote for him, and his site, for which without him, you would not have a CSM, or many other rights in the game you play so much.
A vote for Mazziliu is a vote for Kugutsumen.
A vote for Mazziliu is a vote for the Kugutsumen forums.
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