I didn't flinch when he gave me a punative deletion, presumably because I am friends with x-cult and zKAPOWz and participated in their "gay wedding." Even though x-cult used it as a chance to slam Mr_Lochwood, that was his perogative. But that wasn't mine nor was the event done in that spirit. My participation was done out of support for free expression in Home. In fact, I was at Rianor's wedding and even suggested the meditation chapel in Uncharted 2, a suggestion he followed.
I have to agree with artform-fazeone, however. Mr_Lochwood is a Home bully who uses his connections to supress those who he does not like. Artform is hosting several parties this weekend and offering psn cards. Mr_L shows his colors by threatening artform. Threats and intimidation is something which I cannot stomach. These gestapo tactics have no place in Home and are the sure sign of a sick and troubled soul.
What also bothers me is the hypocrisy. At the forum parties, doesn't Mr_Lochwood give out PSN codes? I believe Lochwood's actions are motivated out agression towards artform and not any noble cause.
Aside from all the hypocrisy on display, I have another question to add to the list about how some people are allowed to give out prizes and others aren't. So here goes.
ReplyDeleteThis may be ignorance on my part, but haven't the Lochwoods handed out codes for $10 PSN Cards at some of their parties? A friend and I were talking about this a few weeks ago, but um, where exactly would the Lochwoods get a code for a $10 PSN Card? As far as I'm aware - and again, this might be my own ignorance - but don't PSN cards only come in denominations of $20 and $50? I even received a Playstation Newsletter recently that reiterated that fact, that in North America, PSN cards are only available as $20 or $50 cards. If you'd like, I'd be happy to track that official correspondence down as evidence to substantiate my claims regarding the denominations currently available.
So where would they get a code for $10?
Back in my noobier days, I even tried to track down a way to purchase a $5 or $10 PSN card, because I wanted to give one of my Home friends a little Christmas surprise of a small amount of money so she could buy an outfit that she really, really wanted. Since neither she nor I had very much money at the time, I couldn't afford to give her $20. But $5 or $10, I could handle that. I looked alllll over the Playstation site, googled like crazy, yet I soon discovered that there was no way to purchase a PSN card for less than $20.
So... if an average user can't purchase a $10 PSN card, where did the Lochwoods get theirs? Methinks the hypocrisy runs deeper than a mere double standard about who can give away prizes and who cannot. In my own humble opinion, I think the hypocrisy runs as deep as where those prizes come from. Perhaps someone with more experience than I can shed further light on this.
i havent been on Home lately and im sad its gotten this bad. But im now deeply troubled about how to deal with this me. Me and Jean have tried with everything in our power to try peaceful and forceful means of dealing with him. But he is obviously hurting the service and must be dealt with somehow. but how? He is a problem that cant be ignored but i think ignoring him would be key. Lochwood needs to be deleted from Home, he needs to disapear from the service.
ReplyDeleteIts possible Home funds Mr_L's parties and forum parties as a way to shed good light on home. Remember, Mr_L's forum parties and His Home Club the RHOs or whatever you call them were talked about in the last episode of QORE by Jack buser when bragging about user created content and events. But the Home team might have created these events themeselves. they need good news and commercials to share to give home a good image. And they might view these parties as a way to get the users together and try and put some forum drama behind them. Whatever their view or need for these parties we also know that the forum parties run by mr_l was the first user event to be talked about in the Message of the day. obviously the home team wanted to promote the event and it could extend further beyond them just posting it in the MOTD. They could be funding these parties and using Mr_l as the scapegoat so it seems user created as so it doesnt carry the drama with it that a Home staff event would. Its not a bad idea, but the mistake comes in using a user who carries more baggage than any other on home. People cant come to these parties and forget about forum drama and diagreements when the king of the drama is in charge. but thats all hypothetical and is probably more conspiracy theory than pratical.
But if you want to disfuse the Lochwood situation, what should we do as a collective. We have tried reason, we have tried playing his games, we have tried being nice, we have tried interventions, and we have tried being mean and trying to drive him from home. We even offered to buy him The SIMS 3, but he wont leave. So how do we take away Mr_L's power and affect on home? I think we avoid him like a plague and never speak his name again. We erase him from Home, ourselves. I think if we ignore everything he says and dnt listen to a thing he says or read a single post he makes, or reply to any of it in any way, then his word will slowly start to mean nothing. Leave his posts alone and you'll take away the attention people give him. dnt go to a forum party, ever, avoid him on home, and soon it will just be him and his small group of suckups and he wont have any impact on home anymore. Treat him like camrongirl. And if he ceases to have any impact on home anymore, he wont be usefull to the home staff anymore and they will stop funding his little parties cause it wont be beneficial to them anymore, it wont be beneficial to him either, if completly ignored, he might even leave.
But thats just my suggestion or a possible solution.
- CRUNKRIS
In point of fact, $10 PSN cards can be purchased at Best Buy or Amazon.com, and are pre-activated when you receive them. I believe they have been out for quite some time, but are dealer-specific or otherwise unobtainable through the Playstation Network. Don't quote me on that.
ReplyDeleteHowever, that is not the issue at hand. Mr_Lochwood has concordantly shown a cavalier attitude to the casual Home user through the use of disparaging remarks; his signature phrase "Sweet Mother of Nooblets" comes readily to mind, and sequestering his comrades under the aegis of his myriad connections with the Playstation Home staff when any of them are attacked either through Home or on the forum.
Mr_L and his spouse seem to be living vicariously through Home in their own little fantasy world of dominion and supplication, seemingly playing God with user accounts, having mods show up at a moment's notice and handing out suspensions like Kool-Aid at Jonestown. Not to mention disbursing rewards at these "forum parties," which is just a clever way to disguise the simple fact it's a pow-wow of the who's-who in the forums who have greased many palms and performed many back-door deals, to the tune of on average $50-$60 each time. People are starving in the streets, I don't know if I will have enough money to fix my PS3 this time, and Mr_L is making it rain every Friday night in Home.
Such decadence and gross excess is abhorrent to the minds of some, and his double-sided Home dogma even more so. I have been close to Mr_L, stuck around him, listened in on several conversations, and I have seen firsthand what he does.
The simple, bald-faced truth is Mr_L is a bully, in every sense of the word. Underhanded tactics, smear campaigns, back-door deals with Playstation Home staff and forum mods, the ability to call upon a Home mod as his personal Gestapo seemingly on a whim... these must be stopped. Mr_L takes Home way too seriously and is in too far for his own good. He is a cancer, and we should excise it before it becomes malignant.
I saw "blahblahblah"s response on HomeWatch about the $10PSN cards being from Best Buy. Thanks, Glenn, for mentioning it as well. As I said in my post, I knew there was a chance it was my own ignorance, but I thought I'd at least bring it up. Well, now I know! So to blahblahblah and Glenn, thank you.
ReplyDeleteWhat's so shocking to me about the cards being available at Best Buy, though, is that I've been to my local Best Buy a LOT. I've checked there multiple times, but I've never seen a $10 PSN card before. That Christmas, when I was looking for a card for my friend, I actually called my local Best Buy and asked them. They said they only carried the cards in $20 and $50!
But I didn't stop there. After that, my friend Jason and another friend in Missouri both volunteered to go to their local Best Buy - as well as a few other electronics stores - to see if they carried PSN cards in other denominations. They got the same answer - nope, only in $20's and $50's. So I at least feel like I did my due diligence in trying to find out. Hell, I think googling and checking in three states counts as doing a fair amount of research.
But of course, I'm only human. I can't know everything and I can't be right all the time. So thank you to blahblahblah and to Glenn for filling me in. Now I know. I think it was a valid question though, and a question that had a valid answer.
What's quite strange, however, is that when I tried to post this little explanatory thank you note on Home Watch, I was told I had been blocked from commenting. Strange. I guess now I'm on their poo-poo list too. No clue what I did beyond ask a question... oh well. I'm really starting to care less and less about Home with the passing of each day. When it comes right down to it, is Home even worth the frustration anymore? I'm just not convinced they current management of Home is ever really going to do anything innovative or special with it. That is long since dead, in my oh so humble opinion. All that's left are rival cliques warring with each other, over what? Who the hell knows. I mean, for goodness sake, it's pretty much just a glorified online chat room! What is there that's worth all these multiple factions creating poo-poo lists for anyway?! What are all these people expending all this energy and all this hate for?! I mean really, when you take a step back, what is there left to gain out of it? Power? Self-aggrandizement? Seriously? In a glorified chat room?
Wow. If that's how people perceive power, that's pretty damn pathetic. Whether it's Mr L or anyone else, it's just kinda sad. So much so, that I'm kind of done caring at this point.
Heather, you should contact Home Watch. It's only a glitch. It has happened to me too.
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