I've been tired of NS politics for years, and I've been trying to make everyone else tired of it as well. I'd rather this region just be a hangout for friends than talking about the shit sling fests. As I see it, the "NS-Game" is a bunch of bored idiots sitting on as many regional IRC channels as possible waiting for someone to be asshole so they can all gang up on the asshole and declare that they are "victorious against evil", i.e. the UDL. Am I wrong? I tested this when I was on vacation by calling a member of Osiris fat, continually just saying "<x> is fat. <y> is fat. Osiris is just full of fatties." I was promptly banned on three other regional IRCs and they declared "sucker-free! We won against the bullies!"
Only the sad part is I wasn't really banned but an IP address for a cabin in North Dakota was. I just never logged onto their IRCs again, because they're super fucking boring.
Purpose of this message? Yeah it won't be better, but it's not because of the great members we used to have not coming back, it's because 99% of newbies are just duplicate accounts and the game is huge waste of time and boring. If you all spent as much time as you did on NS stuff, running smear campaigns, getting into the scene, etc. I don't know, maybe we would've cured cancer by now.