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Originally posted by Shayde
I am an oldbie, pretty much.. I've been around for over 2 years.. I present myself reasonably intelligent in the forums, but I act like a fool on graal, it's just who I am.
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You're missing my point I think; I could be wrong though.
It shouldn't matter when someone started, it should only matter how they act...
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Newbies..oldbie, they matter. The older players are obviously treated with a higher level of respect and are far more well known than someone called Bob9070953 that has been playing for 3 minutes to someone like Lord Chimp, Antago, SuperNick who has been playing for yonks.
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No they don't matter... it's used either as a title for someone people should automaticly repsect, and who must be super smart because they've been playing for a year or two.. or soemone who has just begun to play... The titles themselves should have never been introduced to Graal (I guess newbie couldn't be helped). But the term "newbie" and/or "n00b" is used, almost in a derogatory(sp) sense now-a-days. Do you judge someone by their online hours also? Does more hours = greater respect? better yet, how about all these "newbies" have to have a large buble on them so everyone knows they're new and can automaticly begin to make fun of them, and put them down, on site.
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The newer players than claim to have been playing since the beginning make it blatently obvious by saying 'AWW I STARTED IN ZO BUT LEFT AND CAME BACK TODAY' or something similarly stupid. Being a 'newbie' or an 'oldbie' is completely different.
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No it isn't...all that is different is the changing of three letters..and automatic assumation an "oldbie" is better then a "newbie".
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When we started were the good days of graal, we're just the decendants of the old and preferred graal, back in the day of the bottle, dash attack, classic guild to guild wars.
I don't think you should wonder why the newer players want to known as oldbies, it is obvious, what we should be asking is why they bother with the pithy excuses they make and why they must degrade themselves by making lies to be cool to the graal community.
(replying to AlkarenHyralt's post)
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Possibley because of people like you, who seem to think there is...light years of differnce between someone who is a "newbie" and someone who is an "oldbie".