The Cancer that is Killing /CT/: An Essay By Rekai

[L .H. C.]

Yeah. What the title says.

Any sick **** like me will recognize the reference right away.

Let's not kid ourselves, the boards are dying. The Challenge Taking as a whole is, if not dead, in a comatose state and with a knife lodged in the chest, dangerously near the heart.

And there had been quite some reasons for it. Let's elaborate.

1.- Kayorei's Retirement - Seriously, when Kayorei herself, the mother of CT, our leader, goddess and the only one to sport a true super-neutrality in the oldies vs newbs vs n00bs vs FALCON PUNCH war, retired from EXE challenging, which was actually the original heart of the boards, and what brought all of us together in this hellhole we call Proboards. To be honest, the day Kayorei said she was not going to do EXE anymore, a part of me died.

May 30, 2008. Do not forget.

2.- The FL00D - What I like to call the abnormally (for an EXE-based Proboards, mind you) high influx of new meat to the boards. While bringing several good users (Vigarde, Glenn, Fooz, Shinji and Bard, mainly), it also brought many events we'd rather forget, like *thunder crashes*daniel and the daniel wannabe's.

Sometimes, when lots of new meat gets in, the few rotten pieces of it starts to rot the good ones, and that's bad.

3.- Death of EXE - EXE died after 6. Sure, there's SF now, but DS has a bit of a lover's quarrel with YouTube due to the double screen. Anyways, with the main challenge-producing game dead, the boards started declining. Even with the rise of Yoshi, FE and DKC, the board couldn't save itself from the EXEcaust.

4.- Dodongo dislikes YouTube - I won't elaborate in this one. It's waaay too obvious.

5.- Daniel - A side-effect of The FL00D. We all remember his crazy antics, don't we?

6.- R.I.P. Originality: The few challenges right now are all the same, EXE6 LinkNavi boss rushes that make you imitate their attacks, beat Blues with swords, buster-running Forte, etc, etc.

7.- Reading Is For Losers - Yet another side-effect of The FL00D. New meat enters, does not read, and incites my wrath. It also becomes very annoying to the people who take challenges.

8. The Vetxodus - Vets leaving the board: Panzermanathod, Backfire2x, Makenshi, Shinryuu, (before the CTT only) lego, etc.

Old days, old days.

-Those were the causes. Now, the symptoms:

1.- Silence in the boards.

2.- Triumphant prevailing of the Board Game thread.

3.- FL00D running rampant everywhere but the first 5 boards (including the Rules & Announcements one)

4.- Scrapyard filling up to unsuspected levels.

5.- Bans.

-Now, there is a cure?

Well, Kayorei, in Her mighty glory, held a CT Tourney a few months ago. Other than giving lego an incentive to come back from Acapulco (P.S. REAL genius, dude. If I were you, I would've gone to Mujeres Island), no progress on curing /CT/ was done.

I am a mere user, a vet, and a brown username, but still an user.

I am still waiting for the time some brave soul decides to become an hero and save /CT/ from the cancer that is killing it.

But that's going to be nigh impossible.

But we can do something, even if it's little.

I am trying to reduce the amount of FL00D going rampant with my trusty Falcon Ruler of Rules, though it's not much.

tl;dr version: /CT/ is dying. That is all.

Yours truly with a Falcon Ruler of Rules,

Rekai.

(P.S. Show me ya moves!)

[Bardpado]

On behalf of The Furry, I think I talk for the n00b-protectors when I say, FALCON PAUNCH them! Just be careful and target only the rank 4 n00bs, please; the others (like GBDS who got cured after a good 4-5 months.) could still be saved, so don't be too hasty... We are, after all, trying to revive this shin-dig and a bunch of good members are all we need. The kind that actually post challenges, or at least, take them.

[ShyGuyAvenger]

1. Kayorei's Retirement - Um, she didn't die yanno. She's still around plus still doing them Link challenges or Chain challenges whatever they are called. Stop thinking that cause she stopped doing EXE challenges, the whole board is gonna die. Please.

2. Seems more like a I-hate-noobs call to me.

3. Only now you complain about EXE being dead? It's been dead for a few years already.

4. - lolyoutube

5. - Yay, one user who was here less then what, 3, 4 days?

6.- At one point I can agree, at another, there is still originality out there.

7.- Just like how some read the rules well, right Rekai? You know all about that.

8.- They got a life unlike us. Really, no use crying over it.

Now for the causes.

1.- This is silence? Trust me, I've seen much worse then this.

2.- And that's bad because? Seriously, it even goes against number 1.

3.-We don't get that many new people to say it's running rampant.

4.-Pointless topics go there, so basically, alot of old crap and stupid topics that even some of the older ones make end up there. Nothing special to me.

5.- Like you, neoarashi and daniel. Hmm, mainly people that have been here a while. Says more about yourself then about the board...

In the end, you're just another guy that can't help but whine. This is more of a rant about what you don't like. Cause I remember essays are supposed to be about proper research done on the subject.

[Foozdude]

I love the irony in this - some people might begin disagreeing with you, Rekai, and then more dissension and tension will occur. The opposite of your intended meaning to 'save the forum', ja?

My opinion, I could not care for someone 'saving' the CT Forum at the moment, because it really doesn't need it. More activity would be nice, but the forum still updates on a daily basis, and you can't say that's a dead forum.

Feh, not like it matters, though. You'll more than likely receive more arguments due to this thread, and you did it by your own hand. I disagree with you, personally, seeing as this is nowhere near death. Probably heading towards it, if we do not act, but it is not dead currently.

Bard, I think you're reading in to the Challenge Takers' Story a bit too deep, unless you believe in the "4 levels" yourself. To my knowledge, there is simply a 'newbie' and a 'n00b'.

[Onishiba]

Yeah, don't get yourself too much into that story, Bard.

@rekai: Old things go, new things come. There's still Effexor, Chaos and Shinji.

[Shinji-kun]

Jul 2, 2008 10:21:49 GMT -5 Onishiba said:

@rekai: Old things go, new things come. There's still Effexor, Chaos and Shinji.

I'm wondering why exactly the trio of us?

...And I think it may be a little bit related to 4chan. /points at the title/

[Onishiba]

Because you and Effexor are the best known CTs, and Syaro got a lot of popularity because of the victory in that tourney.

[Shinji-kun]

I cannot agree. Arashi is more popular.

[Onishiba]

Oh yeah, forgot about that one.

[Barrell volt]

Well all I can personally say is this:

1. People here are most certainly not dead as Fooz said.

2. Daniel was a bad thing, he really did cause alot of stress to Kayorei and the mods.

3. As Fay said, there are still plenty of challenge takers from the older times left, and new ones icluding: Me, Greenie, Vigarde and Omni if you can count him as "new" as he has ben at it a while now.

4. Rekai, you are sort of right the boards have definately quietened down, but most certainly have not became dead.

5. There are alot of the samer challenges issued now -.-, I try (on the not so often occasion that I do) to give challenges that are new and not tried before, but it ain't easy.

Well that is pretty much all I have to say now.
Oh yeah i'm also surprised that Rekai didn't mention me here... Not directly at least.

EDIT: If you ask me I think we need something new to discuss, I mean when Star force and Brawl were in the midst of coming everyone was sceptical, so something like that again could help.

[Weegee]

"Let me elaborate on what we have here...

1. Kayorei's Retirement- Personally, it is a great sorrow that Kayorei has left us. As the heart of the board, I would throw a rose on the monument as well, in rememberence of her great idea. Which actually was her brother's idea, but nonetheless, she made it public.

2. The FL00D- Yes. This is quite the issue indeed. With n00bs coming in, and what little authority we have to guide it (I give no offense to Fay, Lego, Rays, they do an excellent job in keeping this board n00b-free.), we have a total issue on our hands. Us n00b-protectors just might have to change sides. And thank you for addressing me as "good new meat".

3. Death of EXE- Another agreeable topic. EXE has suffered ever since. Not even Megaman from a new "hit" anime with his oddly mature voice could bring it back...

4. Dodongo dislikes Youtube- Is this relevent?

5. Daniel o' Death- Once again, Daniel was just a harbinger of the prophecy that awaits us. In fact, that old dude, Djangorules or whatever, was another one of them harbingers. This FL00D will get larger. It's time to strain these guys- time to close the FL00Dgates. (... )

6. RIP Originality- Another agreeable topic. Challenge Taking has been around for... about 1^1/2 years, starting with Kayorei as the historic landmark. Therefore, all the creativity in making new challenges is dead. The only other way for more creative challenges is expanding our game base. All of which, of course, is belong to us.

7. Reading is for Losers- Yes. This helps the FL00D grow even more than it should.

8. The Vetxodus- First of all, let me be the first to say this is impossible to pronounce. Secondly, this is about as big as Kayorei leaving. Everyone who leaves just leaves more FL00D to get into it.

*looks at Bard's point*

Yeah. I kind of agree with the others. It's not that much of a philosophy. Although if you're willing to believe it, I'm alright with that. It's pretty awesome seeing points of my story being used outside of it."

[Shinji-kun]

*Holds some people profiles...

Objection!
This and This are the evidences that original challenges in Mega Man Battle Network DO exist.


About other points :
1. I must agree. That was a painful information, both to the people and to the entire community of CT.
2. ... Do not feed the troll, he'll leave earlier or later. That's the motto I'm using. If it's outrageous, some brutal force may be needed, I agree...
...
...I've got a bad feeling somewhere here.
3. I have absolutely no idea how to fix it.
4. Turboman/Count Glenn's got a point.
5. I think we are quite lucky, that there was only one or two incidents like that. There would be FAR more than just this...
6. Explained at the beginning of the post. Yet, that's only two people who can think of creative MMBN challenges...
7. = 3. Of course, there would be something like "You can stay here for a week, behave yourself and you'll gain access to entire board", but wouldn't it scare some people off? >_<
8. That's rather obvious that some people grow tired of doing something over and over again.


I've heard a voice once that there should be more moderators/junior admins here. But who would be the one? ... Leaving that much power in wrong hands may result in total armageddon.

[Crawdaunt PWNS!]

Jul 2, 2008 11:17:53 GMT -5 Shinji-kun said:

I cannot agree. Arashi is more popular.

Just because I got more challenges than you doesn't mean I'm more popular. And let me remind you that I got a LOT of challenenge from MSN/RL friends: Dixiegurl56. ExcelionBlue (back when I started) ShadowForte and drtactique. I also got 2 Wifi challenge from Gegueure. Not to mention that 90% of my opther challenges were made by (mainly) You, Kayorei, and Quirino. LightEffexor recently started to give me challenges as well (I still have one from him I didn't do yet)

And Rekai: I kinda disagree with your originality statement. You only mention EXE cases. There's stiill quite a lot of originality for DKC (Doing a level backward? hell yeah!) And the Wifi Challenges I (and BackFire) started... While not quite original, it's stiill something new compared to EXE challenges. Lemme remind you that with all of us combined, non-OCT included, we most probably did over 1000 EXE chalenges... One day, it has to get a little less original. And as someone stated (Don't remember who): There will always be new games to be challengeable. Only a few of us accept Megaman Classic/X/Zero challenges.

While the CT thing has slowed down a bit, the board itself is more alive than when I started to come often 14 months ago...

Beside, I'm taking semi-vacation of CTing for 2 reasons
-I want a new intro, sonce I changed my game list
-I want to lock/Unlock games for challenges. I intend to lock BN6, while re-unlocking Yoshi's island. I'm also ''training'' to unlock Megaman Classic 6

[L .H. C.]

Jul 2, 2008 11:01:27 GMT -5 Shinji-kun said:

Jul 2, 2008 10:21:49 GMT -5 Onishiba said:

@rekai: Old things go, new things come. There's still Effexor, Chaos and Shinji.

I'm wondering why exactly the trio of us?

...And I think it may be a little bit related to 4chan. /points at the title/

Bingo. It's a reference to "the cancer that is killing /b/".

Also, HAHA UNIMPORTANT POST

[Weegee]

"Actually Shinji, it works more like this.

Yeah. Another unimportant post, LOL."