Hello, soldiers of the EGB! Former Supreme Commander Slash Firestorm dropping in to say hello!
Wait, former? What?
Look at me. Now look at my profile page. Now look at my blam and save points, look at me again. Yep, I have requested (and received---thank you Wade) that all my B/P points be reset to zero.
Here's the message I sent to Wade:
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"If this falls outside what you'd regularly do, or if you don't have time to waste on this, I fully understand.
But I'd like to ask you to nerf my blam and save stats to zero, if possible. I'm fully aware of how many I have (34616) and the huge hit it'd have on my voting power.
[details to confirm it's actually me and that my account hasn't been hijacked]
I'm disgusted by the mass saving of utter shit that's gone on in the Portal for so long. Blank screens pass judgment just so people can get their precious protect points and end up on lists of the biggest statwhores on the site. Now, I am not fully innocent of this myself, and not just on Clock Day---I don't think any of the big B/P'ers on the site hasn't done it sometime. You see a flash, think to yourself "I'm so close to the next rank" or "man, the top B/P'er list updates tomorrow and I want to make some progress!" and you vote five on some spammy piece of shit that you know will pass because other assholes are doing the same thing.
So while there are far more guilty people than me, it'd partially be a self-inflicted punishment. It's also a sort of purification---I'd like to move up the B/P ranks at my own pace, this time without resorting to any save-whoring.
And hey, maybe some people will find a bit of inspiration in it. Probably too much to hope for, but hell, you never know.
Whether you do it or not, thank you for your time, Wade."
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So yeah, I'm no longer a Supreme Commander, and soon only those people who know me now will know that I ever was. I'm cleansed and purified---now I can work my way up the ranks at my own pace, and when I become a Supreme Commander again (which will take much longer than the first time, I'm sure), it'll be 30000 points of pure, not-even-one-damn-save-whoring point. The B/P list won't be relevant to me for a long, long time.
I AM FREE.
And once I reach Private rank all over again, I'll be making a return to the EGB. I won't be the dominating speed-demon that I used to be (both due to the lighter submission rate in the Portal compared to '05/'06 and a complete lack of point-whoring), but, just like I've said before...
SLASH SHALL RETURN <3