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Shuruia

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  1. It's not 2CP, so it's already off to a good start. Thematically, I quite enjoy how the map is departing from the usual semi-futuristic style that Overwatch usually expresses in its urban environments. The Australian Outback in the Overwatch universe is supposed to be a nuclear wasteland a la Mad Max. The map itself definitely reflects that, although Junkertown's interior also reminds me of Borderlands a tad.

     

    I have yet to play the map, so I can't comment on its value within practicality. I'll post again once I can.

  2. 2 hours ago, Saltnpeppa said:

    Personal achievements in ttt and other servers (screenshot key machine broke) :(

    You have so many achievements that you built a machine to press the screenshot key for you? And it broke?

     

    I see now that God exists. Incompetent, but God nonetheless.

  3. Pardon me for derailing this, but is a thread of this nature even necessary when people can just post their suggestions as their own threads? That's what the suggestions subforum is for, after all.

  4. -1

     

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fjP5mPRulhqo2o9sYZQfVG_LljR9C5OrSX76N_zkMko/edit

     

    Not to start a bandwagon of argumentorum ad hominem, but I'm going to at least hope that you possess enough self-awareness to know what kind of reputation surrounds you. Even if you disagree with the notion, you ought to know that there is a reason why that reputation exists in the first place. In some respects, you even embrace it.

     

    Thanks for expressing interest in the position, though.

  5. 1 hour ago, Xy_ said:

    Vote changed to -1, due to your history with VAC (both on your main and your alt), as well as your history on other communities, as an Admin you would be representing GFL, and I don't feel like somebody with this sort of history should be representing GFL (Especially since your most recent VAC ban is a little over a month old)

    Evidence for this for anyone that is curious:

     

    Main Steam account: http://steamcommunity.com/id/sqlmaster

     

    It has one VAC ban, as well as multiple game bans. The last ban on this account was 97 days ago.

     

    Alt Steam account: http://steamcommunity.com/id/VinZieCSGO/

     

    It has one VAC ban, which is 32 days old. It also seems he earned this ban after someone else bought him CS:GO on that account.

     

    EDIT: Found another account with a VAC ban: http://steamcommunity.com/id/VinZieDoesTech/

     

    This is an admin application he made last year: http://www.claimsservers.com/topic/326-accepted-vinzies-staff-application-20/

     

    He was demoted five days later, as you can see here: http://www.claimsservers.com/topic/344-demoted-cause-i-did-my-job/

     

    -1

  6. The application might seem inactive, but we've been discussing this in a private medium for a while now.

     

    I'm personally neutral on this. The main issue that people have with you is that you have a tendency to let the cracks in your temper show. I can acknowledge the truth behind that, although I do appreciate that you've been trying to improve that aspect about yourself.

     

    Your application is at the stage where the community advisors must make the final decision. There'll be no arguments from me either way this goes.

  7. 1 hour ago, Eli said:

    Seems like you and Sasha are doing most the work (i'm assuming its part of your job on the CA Team). How can we ensure you can focus on all these divisions with equal amount of quality?

    They probably can't, which is why @Darkling mentioned that they're searching for people dedicated to these individual divisions to help them lead.

     

    Hence:

    2 hours ago, Darkling said:

    As you can see, most of the mini divisions (other than RuneScape) are ran by the CA team. This isn’t an issue at all, but in order for us to fully develop them, we want to find people who can lead them with us. If you would like to help out with any mini divisions, then get in contact with either myself or @SashaGrey

    It's also worth noting that some of these divisions may simply require a greater deal of care than others, depending on the circumstances. I'm sure @Darkling and @SashaGrey are more than capable of figuring out where to divert the majority of their time and effort.

  8. You have leaders in both the overt (as in public) and covert (as in behind the scenes) senses. There are some qualities that universally benefit all such individuals, yet it is important to distinguish which traits uniquely affect a certain category of leader more than the other.

     

    Overt leaders benefit more from charismatic liveliness, compassion, courage, adaptive emotional control, and a capacity for telling half-truths.

     

    Covert leaders benefit more from charismatic taciturnity, pragmatism, caution, stoicism, and a capacity for telling the truth.

     

    Bear in mind that one individual can fall within both of these categories, as the best leaders will often flex these attributes depending on what the situation calls for. It is inevitable, however, for people to incline towards being one of these types over the other. And that's fine, isn't it? Both have their worth.

     

    The example that I used in the shoutbox was the Conservative-Labour coalition that governed the United Kingdom in the middle of WWII. The two individuals at the helm of this government were Winston Churchill (the Conservative Prime Minister) and Clement Attlee (the Labour Deputy Prime Minister). Despite being political rivals, these two men were nothing short of a dream team. Churchill was by far the most charismatic of the two, which served him well in being the "face" of British politics during the war. He was naturally adept at public affairs, and so he was the leader that British people rallied behind over the remaining course of the war. Attlee's own level of charisma couldn't even compare to Churchill's, but Attlee's strengths lied in his pragmatic and efficient approach to handling matters of a more private nature. They played to each other's strengths and weaknesses, and both men were exceptional leaders in their own domains of power.

     

    Charisma, as you say, is not an absolutely necessary trait to being a good leader. Despite that being true, I would still call it one of the most important aspects of a leader, if not the most important. It is important enough that both of the previously mentioned types of leader benefit from it, although not quite in the general sense. You see, charisma falls on a spectrum. The kind of charisma that a covert leader would call upon is similar to what an overt leader would demonstrate, yet it is different. Both types have audiences that they want the attention of.

     

    A covert leader's audience is a closed circle of individuals with whom they have likely come to know on a more personal level. Since it is usually a very small audience, the covert leader easily has the time to converse with their audience on a more personal level. In other words, the rhetoric of the covert leader is directed towards individuals of the audience rather than the audience as a whole. Again, some degree of charisma in their character is strongly preferable since the covert leader also has an audience to capture. They want to be as truthful as possible in order to keep their closed circle equally efficient as possible, but the luxury of taking advantage of the strengths and weaknesses of these individuals is important to exploit. The Ancient Romans were masters of this.

     

    The overt leader's style of rhetoric is usually much more straight forward, as they are more inclined to appeal to the masses. The vast majority of the audience are complete strangers to the overt leader, which means they cannot play to the whims of individuals. It also means that there would be no time to address the audience as individuals, and so the most feasible option is to address them as a group. The type of charisma that one would demonstrate within that circumstance is a talent for packing as many details into a tiny rhetoric as possible, whilst still making said rhetoric consumable to the masses. Only the most necessary of details are needed for that. The Nazis (a la Goebbels) were masters of this.

     

    Practically, almost anyone has the capacity to be a good leader. They just need to recognise when to flex certain virtues.

  9. 6 minutes ago, Worgee said:

    Obviously super power hungry

    Somewhat. I'm just regaining what I've lost. When you have a set of tools that you are using, it is only natural to have a desire to regain said tools upon losing them. I just need to take it step-by-step.

     

    10 minutes ago, Worgee said:

    obviously knows the rules (or so I've heard) 

    I wrote those rules. My memory isn't that bad, mi amor.

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