*Queen VenomousFate*

lol, theres a reason I put a TL;DR section at the bottom, and an even shorter version below that hehe.

Did you even read the special TL;DR section at the bottom? Or at the very least the even Shorter TL;DR haha?

Someone TL;DR my rant lol. I am trying to say that the "leaders" of our community are not important. They own the physical forums and vent or community uses, but they dont own the community we have built. I am not saying we should disrespect our leaders, because as an AO I know that I the President and others work hard to keep our servers working, but I am simply saying that who the leader is should have no impact on how our community works. Our past Presidents have worked extremely hard to bring more members into the community, but a President alone cannot make a community work. He can bring in new members with his forums and servers, but it is up to the whole community to make sure the community has fun together. The "Owner" is in charge of making sure the servers work, but our community extends far beyond any single forum, ventrillo or server,

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Better to go together as a community then just bitching as a bunch of individuals. I would rather watch our community come together and vanish because we lost our forums then sit around here with our fingers up our asses while we complain about how aweful things are. Might as well go out with a bang. I honestly have no idea what went down, all I saw was a lot of bitching so I posted this.

Hey, I know I am simply a Server Admin and have no right to post here, but I have a few things I would like to say (I wrote this part when I was trying to post this in the announcements section lol). Earlier tonight I got on the forums and had a drunk 7 page long monologue with myself. Now I am in the process of soberining up so i thought it would be a good time to share some of my thoughts with the community. I have been here for at least 3 years, 2 of which I was AO/AM for which I served the longest consecutive period as an higher level administrator. Unfortunatly, college caught me off guard forcing me to leave the community for my first semester in order to get my life back on track. Now inevitably, some members, such as PotShot will accuse me of staging my monologue, which I did not, the video links required numerous "Preview Posts" in order to get it right, and also you will notice that most of the videos occured towards the end when I was sobering up, yet extremely tired, hence my ability to correctly post videos while still typing like I am wasted. But that Is not the reason that I have decided to post this morning. Why I do so is to try and use whatever respect I have remaining in the community to share some wisdom that I learned over my time here. Few of your know this, but I was the very last admin ever approved by our former Director of Operations Henda before he got kicked out. As far as I know, I received the fastest admin approval of any admin since (I got it in less than 8 hours from when I posted). Thats enough showboating of my being older than all you though, and know I seriously want to impart some wisdom on all of you. Watching Henda leave was the hardest thing that ever happened to me in the community. He was the sole reason I got admin, and seeing him go only one week after I got admin left me with no one at SG. I didnt know Haggard, or anyone else, and in the shitstorm that ensued, I felt like I was the only one who was on Henda's side as he was forced from the community. For the next two weeks I avoided the community, I didnt play CSS, I enjoyed "real life" and drifted away. But I was brought back by something. Many of you who are old may remember me as the guy who refused to make enemies as an AO. I was always the guy who would take the middle ground and refuse to argue with anyone else, for which I got a trememndous amount of shit pilled on me thanks to Harpr33t (love you). When I got AO, it was not because anyone liked me, but it was because I had done such a tremendous amount of work in the servers and on the forums in my pursuit of AOdom. In my time as AO, I changed many things which you may or may not be aware of. I came up with the idea for our short lived, yet popular slide server I created the idea to make the admin "Ban Increase Requests" into its own forum. (Before that, all ban increases were placed in a single thread and none of them were ever done). I helped to create the map suggestions/removal forum that we now have I was Zombie Escape Czar when we finally changed out Zombie Escape Servers to noBlock (I was vehemently against this, but under great pressure I agreed to allow it on a few maps, and I am happy to say I was wrong with disagreeing before). I recommended the change from an automatic perm ban for racism to shorter bans for first time offenders. In my entire time here I have never received an admin complaint except for the one I gave myself. And above all, before I went AWOL, I dedicated many hours to approving and deny perm bans and testing maps. Now I am sure you are wondering why I am tooting my horn with all my accomplishments, and here is why.... In my time here I never had a friend. In my 3 years here, I dont believe I ever met anyone who I can count as someone who I was "friends" with. Everyone had their SG friend who they would go try new games with, but I had no one. When everyone went to play Company of Heroes, I was always the guy who wanted to play, but was only ever asked to play if they were desperate to fill that fourth spot. But I never cared. I felt like I was a member of a community. It never mattered to me who was leading it, because thats not what our community was about. What happened to the days when we used to gather on vent and laugh at people as they fell asleep on Stickam? What happened to the days when we would have a 100 person Karaoke night, and when I would sing Britney Spears, then people would move me to the CoH channel to watch me get banned for spamming. What happened to the days when we used to fill up an entire Test Server with 40 SG admins and then we would have the BDs mess around with the gravity and whatnot just to fuck with other members, specifically Harpr33t. We have become a community of whimps. When will we finally realize that there is no "owner" of this community??? There is only THE COMMUNITY!!! We look to the leaders to solve all our problems and make everything right, and we blame our leaders everytime something goes wrong. We bitch and complain everytime the leaders make a tough choice and grow to hate them. BUT WHY? As far as I am concerned, no one is the leader or owner of this community. We are a group of people who get together every night to have fun, nothing more, nothing less, and we dont need leaders to have fun. When I wrote this, I was wondering why I loved this community so much if I thought I really had no "friends". I realized that it was because of the community. When we act as a community, we act as one. When I participated in the BILLS raids, I didnt feel like Venomous-Fate, I felt like I was an arm of the community. I felt like we were acting as a group, with no leaders, no individuals, just a group of people getting together to fuck around. With my monologue in the Minecraft section tonight I started off as genuinely drunk. But towards the last few posts I sobered up and was trying to give the community a laugh. I know it sounds bizarre, but I wouldnt do anything for anyone in SteamGamers. But I would do anything for the Community. When we act as a group of people, just trying to all laugh our way through the day, we are not individuals. The is no Venomous-Fate, there is no GarefieldH, there is no Haggard, there is no Henda, THERE IS ONLY THE COMMUNITY. Feel free to trash me in the comments for over-stating my record or harass me from my drunken rampage or being trans-gendered hehe, I dont care, whatever it takes to pull this community back together to focus on a single thing. TL;DR : Stop blaming the leaders for the failures of the community and start having fun again. Start doing stuff as a community again, get a bunch of people together and do some stupid shit. That is SteamGamer's bread and butter. When we reach the day when we can do fun yet stupid stuff like Karaoke on the spot without planning we will know the community is back to stay. The leaders own the forums, servers and vent, but they do not own a community, we use and abuse their holdings, but we should never fall into the trap of believing that they own the community. Even shorter: Don't Be A Drag Just Be A Queen EDIT: I forgot the mention that I wrote this while being very much tipsy, so sorry if it drags on or doesnt make sense, I just puked my thoughts into text lol. EDIT 2: I am sorry to anyone I singled out in here by name. I was trying to make some examples and I sincerely dont mean to dump on any of the good times we have had. Like even when I thought I was always last choice for CoH, I still had a great time playing with everyone Much Love, The Lost Community

Dear Harpr33t, Fuck you. No one likes you. Just kidding, I love you, so that makes one person. Kisses, Venomous-Fate

I just got another totally ballin idea. This shit would be crazy. Every week someone picks a video on youtube of a short dialogue (Betwenn 30 sec and 1 min) from a movie and removes the sound. Then he posts the soundless video, and other members have to dub in the dialogue with the characters being members of the SG community, and a dialogue made up between the SG members which is humerous. The dubbed videos are posted on the forum and The funniest video as selected by votes/dictorial decision wins.

I am here now. We can do it, we just have to advertise it. If you dont make it a widely known public event people wont show. It cannot be impromptu. In addition to my previous post, how about we organize a big stickam party like we used to either in conjunction with karaoke or seperately from it. I remember that some of the best times we used to have was when we had like 30 people on stickam.

In all seriousness, Can we bring back Karaoke Night? I've noticed recently that vent has been relatively inactive, and I remember that when we used to have Karaoke night we used to get almost 50 people all in one channel, having fun and with no drama.

Also, I know its a long shot, but if anyone here speaks Arabic, or knows anyone in the community who speakers Arabic, please tell me! Kisses, Venomous-Fate مصير السامة

I think we should have MANDATORY community orgies to help build community love. I would be happy to lead by example if you would help me Garfield. You can pitch and I will catch...

Thanks to all my old friends and all the new people who have greeted my return

I thought you were Red Tampon for the longest time. I dont know why, but for some reason I thought Red Tampon played under the name Bob Loblaw for at least a few months.

What did your post actually mean then?

I actually just talked to Henda and Litkey and they are both coming back soon.

Thanks everyone!

OH LAWWWWWWWD!

Getting down to business on Minigames!

I AM BACK BITCHES! Actually I don't want Administrative Manager or AO, but I would like to appologize to everyone for vanishing from Steamgamers back in August when I was AM. I had become extremely burnt out from being an AO/AM for over a year, and the stress of starting my Freshman year of College at Cornell University as a Pre-Med really got to me, causing me to neglect my duties as AM. I appologize to everyone at SG for not fufilling my duties during my last months as AM, and to those I held up for a promotion, but I am proud of the year of AO service I provided before I became a mess, and the changes I helped bring about. I may request a return to AO sometime down the road, but not until I am positive I am up to the task again. Enough of the gooey shit. I put this part in bigger text because I wish to look forward from now on and not back. I realize that we have a lot of new members who may not know me, so let me take this chance to re-introduce myself. I love The Spice Girls, Britney Spears, The Backstreet Boys and NSYNC, and I look forward to the next SteamGamers Karaoke! Like I said, I am a Freshman at Cornell University, and I am Pre-med, although I am taking a year off next year in order to become fluent in Modern Standard Arabic. I am always ready to give a hand, and I will bend over backwards (or forwards if you're into that kinda thing ;)) to help others out. To those who don't know me, please introduce yourselves, I promise I will only sexually harass you a little bit. And to all my old friends, I am glad to be back! Ooodles of Love, *Venomous-Fate* Former Zombie Escape Czar and all around purveyor of community lovin'! Kisses