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...I have a reputation, and the bad parts of it held so dear in some quarters are entirely earned by my missteps and bad actions, mostly as a newb over six year ago, when I didn't understand the community as well as I thought I did, and I was decidedly less stable than I've since become.I came here on 6 February 2012, full of rage and bleeding from every emotional orifice - probably the most unfair thing that's ever happened to me in my entire sad life that didn't involve anyone hitting or touching me had just gone down. AC2 was sisko's side-project while we were working hard on building the AC community at WPC, and I'd only made very modest efforts to throw it a little support fairly recently. Nothing much had come of yet; you can find posts here from 2010-2011, but not many and virtually all of substance in MP. But I was done for good at my previous online home -my real life has been the Civ/SMACX community since early 2009- and amidst my rants and rage and nuclear swearing in the private GotM folder, I pitched getting serious about this place and making it live to sisko. It would be a long and tedious job that would take forever, but it was just barely possible with the right team on the job (and I'll always be grateful to the GotM guys and other early supporters of AC2 - I was completely useless on the posting-activity-generating-more-activity front without a few people to talk to).-Of course sisko said yes - it's really exactly what he'd wanted since he made AC2 two years before, though he hadn't asked. He, he doesn't say a lot about a lot of things, so I have to guess a lot, including what he really thinks of me - but I'd venture that he believes his butthole friend BU generally means well, and is totally a machine at a lot of the things you need to turn an empty new forum into a vibrant community. (I imagine that me thereafter turning out to have a good hand at the people management was as much of a shock to him as it was to me, a profound one.) I don't know for sure what he really thinks of me, but I know that he knows that we're a powerful partnership - we regarded each other as equal partners as citizen workers for the SMACX community at WPC, equal when I instigated him being made moderator of WPC AC, and equal when I was later briefly promoted over his head - and equal here when he was sole owner and I mere admin, equal when I stepped up as co-owner (though I concede him ties on policy to prevent deadlocks; he's the Founder). We worked well together beginning almost six years ago, heavily and continuously since, and he's never, ever, burned me, and is pretty much it for someone in the community that I trust implicitly - because he's proven over and over that I can.If only he didn't have a RW life eating up his time... (If you make a little person, you TAKE CARE of that little person, no excuses.) So I've been running this forum all by myself for long stretches from fairly early on. I do better when he's around, even at the stuff that's my specialties, because of his cautious counsel making me think, but I don't think it's a wild fancy of mine to say I do pretty doggon well on my own, outside forum tech issues over my pay grade, for which I do have three d00dz for that, including a fast response from sisko in rebooting the forum this morning.I learned a very long time ago to be careful about bragging, but it's obvious to anyone that I'm a man of many talents, and not trivially talented at a great many of them. It's something even people who choose to be my "enemies" freely concede. I don't let my arrogance out to play in obvious ways (I hope) very often at all, but arrogant I most assuredly am, and I daresay no one can rationally argue that I haven't earned it, indeed, proved over and over that I have excellent grounds to be my own biggest fan - if also my greatest critic. (Believe me, I have "BU sux" covered better than all my haters ever put together -perhaps even including my late father shouting "THINK boy! Use your noggin!" forever- I know better than to talk about that much, too, putting a big target on my back as admitting my shortcomings too enthusiastically would.)Well, I'm proud, sinfully proud, Paradise Lost-Satanically-proud, about a lot of things I do and have done, but this right here, this forum and the people it's made of, THIS is my masterpiece, this is its own Oscar, Pulitzer, Nobel prize to me. AC2 is the thing I'm proudest of in my entire 50+ years of life. It was born of my arrogance and monolithic, not-entirely-realistic, ambition. And hard work. And persistence. And HOPE. And my ambition has only grown with success, coming to extend to the larger online Civ community with the realization that all our best interests are ultimately intertwined.I juggle and dance and sing, balancing a million needs and concerns and many many many long-term projects -and others not so long- all connected to my grand plan, rarely so much a plan as riffing, playing by ear - much of it doesn't show, but I'm filled with gladness and hope that what parts of my song you can see and hear look and sound as good as they do.I love you people and this. is. my. LIFE. Your happiness here is almost as much a goal to me as is my own, the two being inextricably intertwined. AC2 is my instrument, my heart, and my blood runs through it as I play my song.Watch the video; I don't look like Ms. Swift, but that's me.
Have you tried opium?
