How is everybody?

However despite all this, I don't have as much animosity for SirAltair as most people probably think. Or towards anyone on this forum, really.

This is just an internet forum, so the true responsibility lies with the moderators for keeping the place civil. Which they have failed at doing. So if anything, the people I hold the most malice for on this message board, are the current site administrator(s). Gamefaqs used to be a great forum before the current administration took over. If you look at the current ToS rules, they are 90% different from the original rules in writing, and 100% different regarding how they are actually enforced.

There's always going to be idiots or bad people in the world. Everything is relative and people are always going to have disputes. It's unrealistic to think that people like SirAltair or others on this board (the majority of Soul Calibur board members, actually) will behave themselves without proper enforcement.

Off the message boards however, the reverse holds. I wouldn't give a crap if I met the site administrator of Gamefaqs in real life, because he probably wouldn't give a crap about me. Yet if I met SirAltair or whirow in real life, probably one of us would wind up dead from the encounter because the animosity between us is just that great. So it's better if we never meet.

Thanks for the advice. I totally understand, what you just said is exactly how I view the message boards. Altair doesn't concern me here, only site administration does.

But offline, in real life, I have to take a much more active stance. Anyone who hates each other as much as we do are threats to each others' lives. I feel that to assume less would be naive. I would not attend any arcade or tournament that people such as those are participating in without a concealed bladed weapon or firearm, unless the tournament organizers conducted searches on everyone who entered the tournament and/or security guards were everywhere.

But yeah, if we don't know who we are in real life, it's no big deal either. There's a lot of idiots, muggers, and murderers in the street, but I feel no compulsion to carry a defensive weapon of any kind. Even though I probably should.