 |  Myth 2 Soulblighter Respect, or M2SBR, was coined by the Street Fighters as a way of describing the growing trend of players and teams that popped up in Myth 2's post-MWC99 era. Despite its infection into the community, many players are still unfamiliar with the term and its important meaning. In this Ego of the Week article, M. BISON attempts to further elaborate on the concept of M2SBR by presenting a M2SBR case study. These examples, along with concrete symptoms of M2SBR, should both instruct the public and reveal the growing need for a cure. Case #1: Ol' Dirtae Ol' Dirtae, currently in Order of the Ten Sack, the last remnants of the implosion of Sideways 8, and formerly of Ancrik and TNA 1. Description Ol' Dirtae seems to have developed a mutant strand of M2SBR that we will term Silent M2SBR. While Ol' Dirtae mostly refrains from posting on forums revealing his sickness to the masses, he instead spreads his acute case of M2SBR to smaller venues, such as his teammates or a hotline server, such as Sam Stone hotline. Let's take a look at Ol' Dirtae's M2SBR symptoms and how these symptoms manifest in his online behavior. 2. Symptoms a. M2SBR affects the identity center of the gamer's brain. M2SBR players often claim to be something they're not. There is some confusion regarding the identity of the Myth 2 player Ol' Dirtae. Some claim he's the original Ol' Dirtae around since the beginning of Myth: The Fallen Lords, though others are wise to his M2SBR illusion and observe that this new Ol' Dirtae isn't the Ol' Dirtae of old. The original Ol' Dirtae was named Wiley Kestner, an employee of Bungie Software. He soon became a friend of Civil Order and invited into Civil's Disorder, or circle of friends. This Wiley Kestner, aka Ol' Dirtae, played Myth: The Fallen Lords off and on but soon disappeared...somewhere along the way, a second Ol' Dirtae, not Wiley Kestner, assumed the Ol' Dirtae identity, perhaps already inflicted with a small case of M2SBR [1].
Ol' Dirtae even acknowledges this fact now: Ronin : your not the real od? Ol' Dirtae: oh, since when is this? Ronin : I hear there is 2 --> East Wind laughs so hard his nipples invert Ronin : infact its a fact =( Ol' Dirtae: well, wiley lost his title in a 1-1 match Rohan: heh! thats great Ol' Dirtae: way back in january of 98 when the fued began -1: no he didnt -1: :( Ol' Dirtae: he did so on RIP of 3 games cock gobblin : he's the one whose civil disorder... Ol' Dirtae: I'm the civil D Ol' Dirtae: not wiley Without going into the reasons that East Wind has inverted nipples and there's someone named cock gobblin on Sam Stone HL, it's apparent that Ol' Dirtae admits he's not Wiley. He "acquired the Ol' Dirtae title in a 1-1 match." [2] Moments later, however, Ol' Dirtae claims it's him in the Civil Disorder, not Wiley. That's strange, though, since the Ol' Dirtae in the Civil Disorder was Wiley Kestner. It can't be both people. Since Civil agrees that Ol' Dirtae of Civil Disorder is Wiley Kestner and this new M2SBR inflicted Ol' Dirtae admits to not being Wiley Kestner, logic states that this Ol' Dirtae was never in Civil Disorder. Perhaps this anonymous quote sent in for the purposes of this report can help shed some light onto the subject: "The Ol' Dirtae that is playing now is not Wiley Kestner; he's a little punk-ass pretending piece of shit that likes to hide in the shadow of a man that was four times the myth player he'll ever be." -- Anonymous (tm 2001) [3] It's obvious that Ol' Dirtae's case of M2SBR continues to cloud his identity center. We now continue with the chat log evidence:
Sam Stone: civil thinks otherwise, actually --> Mykwagon simply dies Ol' Dirtae: actually, ask El D Ol' Dirtae: he put me up for it Sam Stone: and I think they have a better idea than most :( Ronin : lol Ol' Dirtae: El D and ruiner put me on the e-mail list actually Ronin : OOO SHIT Ol' Dirtae: when I had AOL We contacted el Destructo for the purposes of this case study and asked him about this non-Wiley Kestner Ol' Dirtae's induction into the Civil Disorder as well as his priviledge of subscribing to the Civil-only mailing list... here's what el Destructo had to say: "I never told him he could be in civil disorder... he took one comment I made totally out of context and made an ass of himself. I had to berate him online for running around with a civil tag..." - el Destructo (tm 2001) [4] As you can clearly see, this new Ol' Dirtae is obviously confused. The raging case of M2SBR has short-circuited Ol' Dirtae's already clouded identity center. Ol' Dirtae believes he fits the description of the real Ol' Dirtae but clearly doesn't and even slips up and admits he doesn't. Ol' Dirtae's MWC99 Bio: Heralding from the now defunct Order of the Forty, Ol' Dirtae is one of the oldest and greatest Myth players around. His skill is widely renown in the land of bungie.net, and has been a member of many diverse orders. He is a player to watch out for on this team. Ol Dirtae's MWC99 Threat Assessment: Well, Taranto, we hate to break it to you, but this isn't the Ol' Dirate of the Order of the Forty. This is Ol' Dirate of Ancrik fame, quite a separate individual who seems to enjoy being mistaken for Wiley Kestner, Myth:TFL beta tester, FFA celestial, Bungie employee and all-around much more interesting individual. Hope you didn't hire him on false pretences. b. A player affected with M2SBR sometimes forms a failed Street Fighter-like order It's ironic that a player inflicted with Stage 2 M2SBR forms a Street Fighter-like order even though the Street Fighters were in fact formed in defiance to and as a means of mocking the existence of M2SBR in the first place. Scientists have studied why M2SBR patients would emulate this behavior when its original form was a means of mocking their online persona. One can only assume it's the M2SBR patient's overwhelming need for attention. [5] Ol' Dirtae, clearly established as not Wiley Kestner, the original Ol' Dirtae (see Symptoms - a) led the formation of a short-lived, failed order called the Transformers; this order was based around the 1980s toys of the same name. It included such impactful players as Megatron, Optimus Prime, Sun Streaker, Trypticon, Sound Wave, Unicron. The Transformers claimed they would win Myth World Cup 2001. Didn't hear about this order? We don't blame you. It probably lasted all of a week before Ol' Dirtae single-handedly caused the fake order to implode. Ol Dirtae reveals more results of his M2SBR infection with some interesting quotes: Ol' Dirtae: only honest guys I see in here are bulls, koga, EW, tox(cause I don't know). The rest all used alt names, cheated, or had to hide accounts.. More M2SBR irony. Ol' Dirtae apparently only likes honest guys and not those who had to hide accounts. Rememeber that this is coming from Optimus Prime from the Transformers. [6] Ol' Dirtae: This is all coming from a bunch of guys who have imiated everyon eand thier mother, impersonate, and have more dummy accounts and names then KaIN. Once again, more irony from Ol' Dirtae. It's clear that M2SBR has infiltrated most of his decision-making center.
In another unique manifestation of Ol' Dirtae's M2SBR, he claimed he added some "elite" Myth: The Fallen Lords players to his tournament team. Obviously excited at the prospect of adding good players, Ol' Dirtae proclaims "WE ARE GETTING LOKI" as well as Merlin, who Ol Dirtae states is actually Mojo the Elder (though later changed to UrDrago). It soon turns out, though, that Loki, who was supposedly a Myth: The Fallen Lords powerhouse, was actually Alucard from Aesir [7]. And how about Mojo the Elder aka Merlin or UrDrago? As the Myth World Cup 2001 community soon found out, Merlin is actually Oxicet. We contacted Oxicet for a brief statement. "I dint think peaple whould be so Upset About be Merlin. Peaple Dint even know Merlin I thoughts. I Hope Peaple can forgive Oxicet for apologies. Please Peaple? btw OD is M2sbr peaple!!" [8] - Oxicet (tm 2001). c. M2SBR players overstate their accomplishments. As you see, the M2SBR afflicted Ol' Dirtae not only started his own failed Street Fighter-like order where he posed, and later denied, being another online persona, but he began persuading others to pose as other "actual" online personas. Scientists agree this is the first established case of this new hybrid form of M2SBR. We have named this strand of M2SBR: "I wish my online persona intimidated other players; since it doesn't, I will recruit good players that no one has every heard of to do the indimidation for me. Oh, and those good players won't even be good... or real - M2SBR Ol' Dirtae Strain 451A.b0" It's not uncommon for someone clouded by M2SBR to become so desperate for approval and attention that they would begin to invent accomplishments that they never even completed. Ol' Dirtae has shown, perhaps, the most bloated case of this M2SBR symptom. We have documented several of these M2SBR manifestations: 1. Ol' Dirtae claims to have won 27 Myth: The Fallen Lords tournaments, though credible evidence of these has never been discovered. 2. Ol' Dirtae claims to have dated Platform Wars champion Sorcha Payne. Keep in mind that Ol' Dirtae is a Myth player so desperate for online attention that he invents a Street Fighter-like order, puts the civil tag in his name on TFL b.net as if he belongs to the order, lies to the community about the real identity "peaple" on his team, claims to be on the civil mailing list when he's not even Wiley Kestner or civil... and he expects us to believe this is the type of guy someone as professional and educated as Sorcha Payne would date? Scientists have come to the conclusion that Ol' Dirtae is full of shit. 3. Ol' Dirtae claims he "capped many games for civil at one point helping them with the Civil Trap." To think an 8-time tourney champion would need help from a guy whose MWC99 ratios were 59-109... 4. Ol' Dirtae claims he was almost on the MWC99 civil team. Ol' Dirtae: civil was full and I was just coming back onto myth 2 for MWC Ol' Dirtae: I was closer to the team then.. phod and them weren't involved yet.. Let's take a look at his statement. He claims that the only reason he wasn't on the MWC99 team was because Civil was full; he was closer to Civil then and "Phod and them" weren't involved yet. While Scientists haven't been able to decipher who "them" are [9], it should be noted that Phod was involved with Civil during MWC99. In fact, Civil had already won two team tournaments before MWC99 in which Phod participated and captained (see Symptoms - d). 5. Ol' Dirtae claims he can "back it up." Ol' Dirtae: Well if SSHL doesn't like me, I don't care. They're all a bunch of 5 year olds who can talk junk behind backs. We back it up. Scientists have all agreed -- the M2SBR patient Ol' Dirtae has yet to "back it up." 6. Ol' Dirtae claims he was asked to be in Street Fighters. The Street Fighters [10] were just the remaining active civil players from MWC99 - Ananab Tilps, Phod, guttermouth, ruiner, Visigoth, Butcher, Odin, naelot (see Symptom - e). Ol' Dirtae not being in civil himself (see Symptom - a) it stands to logical reason that this would have never occured. d. A player blinded by M2SBR fails to investigate the facts, often ruining their overstated accomplishments ruse by revealing incorrect information.
As revealed here in this case study, Ol' Dirtae has made numerous wild claims and all have been shown to be false -- primarily due to the fact that Ol' Dirtae fails to investigate the facts. This leaves large holes in his story and reveals him to be not only a "punk-ass pretending piece of shit that likes to hide in the shadow of a man" -- see Anonymous (tm 2001). Let's take a look at some of these inconsistances. 1. Ol' Dirtae claimed to be in civil disorder but acknowledges he's not Wiley Kestner, the original Ol' Dirtae...the Ol' Dirtae actually in the civil disorder. (see Symptom - a) 2. Ol' Dirtae claimed he was invited into the Street Fighters but actually doesn't even know who they are really... Ol' Dirtae: I knew everyone on the SF team, and I didn't like that. well gutter and ana were fine. Ol' Dirtae: night and the rest were bastards even ruiner turned into a jerk Ol' Dirtae: they started booted everyone, i know someone got locked for no reason and was harrassed by an admin he was a friend of ruiners./nights etc.. Although Ol' Dirtae claims to know everyone on the Street Fighters, he slips up and says that "Night" and the rest (Scientists are currently investigating who the rest are) were jerks. There was no "Night" on the Street Fighters. He may be referring to Nightcrawler, a friend of guttermouth and of civil's but not on the Street Fighters. He posed as a Street Fighter as part of the on-going "game" but wasn't a player. 3. Ol' Dirtae seems to possess secret information about the player M. BISON *SF*, otherwise known as Phod from Civil Order. Ol' Dirtae: Phod is like a child, that's why I don't like him. all he does is name call and post pictures and his childness wore off on a few good people that were breaking Scientists are still looking into this claim. [11] Ol' Dirtae: phod, who became M.BISON, because that name got more famous then his.. so he just switched it.. just a classic statement of using a dummy name after you do good with it Scientists determined that Phod, who became M. BISON, has participated in and achieved greater success in these tournaments as Phod rather than as M. BISON. [12] 3. Conclusion We have determined that this new Ol' Dirtae (see Symptom - a) has one of the most advanced cases of M2SBR ever documented. Not only has he established a failed dummy order (see Symptom - b) but he makes wild claims about his accomplishments (see Symptom - c) without the facts or knowledge to back these up (see Symptom - d). Ol' Dirtae's Silent M2SBR screams out a desperate need for attention and approval. His lack of real life respect and accomplishments manifest themselves as a constant desire to be looked upon as an impactful and successful Myth 2: Soulblighter player. 4. Prognosis There is currently no cure for Stage 3 M2SBR and it's likely that Ol' Dirtae will never recover. As fellow, respectful and caring Myth 2: Soulblighter players, all we can do to help is point and laugh every time Ol' Dirtae comes into a game or chat room. Reply to all his forum posts with a single subject line -- Scientists suggest "LOL ROTFL OK PUNK-ASS PRETENDING PIECE OF SHIT [nt]" as the best remedy. [13] A Moment for Us I'd like to take this last few lines of Ego of the Week to open up and share with you the origins of the Street Fighters. Most of you know but some of you still seem to be confused about the matter. The Street Fighters were in defiance of a growing Myth trend - the ego. Several Myth players and teams began blurring the line between their Myth skills and their worth as an individual. We detested these players and decided to call them by playing their game. The Street Fighters would emulate this type of player, though not out of admiration but out of mock and disgust. Some examples: - A Myth team that beats you once out of five but cherishes that one win so much they have to post on forums about it and claim they "own" you because of that one win. - A Myth team that loses to you but claims it "outplayed" you in an effort to make them feel better about the loss. See Aesir - Any player that feels the need to shout out something when they wight you. See Rival - A player or team that proclaims "You suck" on forums even though you won the past five tournaments in a row. See Rolling Rock - A team that claims they are civil or have members of civil. See Monkey Island - Any team that devalues your win with "lag" or "if we only had one more player". See post-excuse - Any blame-shifter, such as saying "sigh" during the game to your teammates or blaming a loss on being unprepared. See Balefire and Hero - A player that rationalizes that beating a rabble team with 30% civil is beating MWC99 and MWC2K civil. See Red Phoenix - A player who rationalizes that his team "COULD" possibly beat any team in history, thus his team is probably the best. See Soulblighter It's not that we hate you. Hate is far too strong of a word. It's just we (well, mostly me) enjoy pointing out your desperate need for greatness in a computer game. Stop worrying about whether or not you're being respected for your Myth skills or that you need to make excuses or rationalize your inability to beat a better team. Concentrate on real life stuff, like graduating high school, finishing up community college, and serving movie popcorn to the best of your ability. Footnotes [1] - The smallest case of M2SBR documented on record belongs to Sam Stone, whose short stint in Mile High Club and Pokemon opened his eyes to a larger world. [2] - Ol' Dirtae's current recorded 1 on 1 record is 4-57 [3] - I actually know who said this and I'm not telling. [4] - Paraphrased from the archives. [5] - See Synapsed. [6] - More than meets the eye! [7] - Alucard is the 18th player to move from one M2SBR infected team to another. But the only one to pose as "Loki" [8] - Ska, please submit translation. [9] - Scientists currently theorize that "them" refers to the little people inside Ol' Dirtae's head that whisper "You are a great player", "You are good with archers", "You can dwarf better than Myrkridon", and "You are a top ten all-timer" lovingly into his cochlea. [10] - YAZ AZZ [11] - Actually, that one might be correct. [12] - #11 player of all time!!! [13] - By the way, now that Northern Paladins have confessed to double-entering in CoM, my top ten orders of all time list changes. NP are now #4182 and the list shifts up. M. BISON *SF* STREET FIGHTERS ON YAZ AZZ A-left-Z-Z-right-up-Z: *PSYCHO EGO CRUSHER* "MBison's post was factual, descriptive, concerned a subject of interest to every MWC player ("on topic"), and without profanity or crudity. The mediocrities out there could respond with "flames," but the message itself was no "flame" nor was it an incitement to anything but to reconsider what "prestige" really amounts to in this game. -- Poohbear '00 |
Ol' Dirtae attempts to impress the ladies by saying he was almost Vega in the Street Fighters
Ol' Dirtae's M2SBR fulfills his need for attention and approval. Here he's shown with Abaddon, Gunda, J-Ditty, and Synapsed.
Ol' Dirtae shows an onlooker how big his neener feels when 'peaple' really thought Oxicet was Merlin.
Here Ol' Dirtae is in a state of M2SBR bliss. He's mumbling to himself 'I was asked to be in Street Fighters' and 'I invented the Civil Trap.'