Guild Wars 2

since my last post got off track. VeeWee has officially retired from GW.. so lets try to remember the good times with her/it…mine was when i actually saw a wild veewee appear in my Tque and i couldn’t control myself at the fact VeeWee was an actually thing

gartz.7013:

VeeWee has officially retired from GW..

o.o

And I was wondering why I don’t see any (new) posts from her anymore.

My day just got a bit brighter.

so that means i never need to see this darn “post intro and outro” again? Good

That’s too bad. As I said myself, Vee Wee was a contributing member of this community. I might not have a few things he/she did, but I praised the good things he/she did (as well as defend him/her form some of the false claims against him/her).

The last Vee Wee thread went south, and my point there was proved anyway, so I’m ahoping this thread not to continue the previous one (not the topic that took place when it has gone south).

She was cool, and I think she’ll be back

Xyonon.3987:

She was cool, and I think she’ll be back

Agreed. Everyone needs a break every so often.

I hope it’s just a break. As I said before, he/she was a contributing member.

I will miss her

well I guess people can now talk about turret enginers witheout getting hate :P

dancingmonkey.4902:

Ahh, yes, I will miss the berating of players for their builds, calling anyone who tried anything new a bad player, the insults and profanity barked at players in map chat, and lets not forget the things he said in some of the post that were removed by the moderators, man those were doosies.

None the less, I still hope he comes back. It was entertaining if nothing else.

Wow… you’re at it again. -_-

I’ve yet to see any proof for those claims. Anyway. Doesn’t matter now.

Btw, he’s a she.

dancingmonkey.4902:

Ahh, yes, I will miss the berating of players for their builds, calling anyone who tried anything new a bad player, the insults and profanity barked at players in map chat, and lets not forget the things he said in some of the post that were removed by the moderators, man those were doosies.

None the less, I still hope he comes back. It was entertaining if nothing else.

Agreed. (S)he was usually pretty rude, sugarcoating their posts in fluffy condescension of happiness, and did a pretty good job funneling new Engineers into cookie cutter builds… but it was amusing watching people disagree on who was the #1 Engineer.

kyubi.3620:

well I guess people can now talk about turret enginers witheout getting hate :P

And suddenly the Engineer forum feels a little brighter. It’ll be nice to see these forums get a little more friendly and see people become adventurous with build variety again!

Hurrah!

Feels less bright to me. Condescension is standard for a lot of posters. But at least Veewee was a cheery caricature.

Wow … she was allways nice to me, maybe I only know one side of her o.o’’

I’m just going to miss the laughs i got off the forums from he® and the random giggle fit i’d get when i saw he® in my Tque matches

Saturn.6591:

dancingmonkey.4902:

Ahh, yes, I will miss the berating of players for their builds, calling anyone who tried anything new a bad player, the insults and profanity barked at players in map chat, and lets not forget the things he said in some of the post that were removed by the moderators, man those were doosies.

None the less, I still hope he comes back. It was entertaining if nothing else.

Wow… you’re at it again. -_-

I’ve yet to see any proof for those claims. Anyway. Doesn’t matter now.

Btw, he’s a she.

What does the fact that a person is he or she have to do with anything. Otherwise “he” is an appropriate pronoun for reference to anyone in the English language. It may matter to you what sex someone is, but I prefer not to judge by that.

So are you also going to argue that he didn’t post on multiple accounts? And that it started because he made multiple post that got the first account banned? Do accounts get banned for being polite?

coglin.1867:

What does the fact that a person is he or she have to do with anything.

Not really with much; just that he said “he” when it is widely known (also: see the other posts here in this topic) that Vee Wee is a “she”. So I just added it as sort of a hint or so. I’ve never said it’s extremely important or something.

coglin.1867:

Otherwise “he” is an appropriate pronoun for reference to anyone in the English language.

No, it’s not. It’s common to say “guys” if you are refering to a group with mixed genders or if you don’t know. It’s also common to use “he” if you do not know the gender of a person. But if you’ve read the other topic, or even just this one, you know that Vee Wee is female and thus, “he” would have to be “she”. Then again, it’s not that extremely important, hence I’ve just added it at the end of my post.

coglin.1867:

It may matter to you what sex someone is, but I prefer not to judge by that.

It’s not about if it matters what gender someone has. It’s about refering to someone correctly/incorrectly if you actually know the gender. Or would you tell to a muscle-packed guy who got angry cause you refered to him with “she” that he shouldn’t be upset cause gender doesn’t matter? Or would you tell a female cop she should calm down if she gets upset because you keep addressing her with “Mister”? After all, gender doesn’t matter at all, right?

coglin.1867:

So are you also going to argue that he didn’t post on multiple accounts?

I’ve never said such a thing. It is widely known, that ArrDee as well as ellesee are Vee Wee’s accounts. She even said so in every post, lol. But as far as I know, having more than one account isn’t a crime or something. Many people have more than one account.

coglin.1867:

And that it started because he made multiple post that got the first account banned?

“It” started? What started? Also, it appears you’re a forum-mod, since you know exactly why an account gets temp-banned.

coglin.1867:

Do accounts get banned for being polite?

I do not know what the reason for the ban was, and neither do you. What I DO know however is, that many of the accusations against her lack any proof. Not guilty until proven guilty… does that ring a bell?

It also doesn’t help that some people seem to be so desperately determined to attack Vee Wee on every possible occasion, that even in this topic, they cannot just write something like “I won’t miss her since I didn’t like her.” No, instead they start making those long lists with random claims again. Or they go and make totally unrelated posts about the question if the gender of a person is something you should judge that person by or not…

Mod? No, I simply happened to be a part of the discussion on many threads in which he said some fairly mean things that I saw get removed. Not to mention, asked in a thread one time why he has posted on 3 separate accounts. And he replied in the thread that his original account was banned via repeated infractions.

Saturn.6591:

coglin.1867:

Otherwise “he” is an appropriate pronoun for reference to anyone in the English language.

No, it’s not. It’s common to say “guys” if you are refering to a group with mixed genders or if you don’t know. It’s also common to use “he” if you do not know the gender of a person. But if you’ve read the other topic, or even just this one, you know that Vee Wee is female and thus, “he” would have to be “she”. Then again, it’s not that extremely important, hence I’ve just added it at the end of my post.

He. See also Gender neutrality in English: Pronouns.

The use of he was prescribed by manuals of style and school textbooks from the early 18th century until around the 1960s, an early example of which is Anne Fisher’s 1745 grammar book “A New Grammar”.¹¹ Older editions of Fowler also took this view.¹²

This may be compared to usage of the word man for humans in general (although that was the original sense of the word “man” in the Germanic languages, much as the Latin word for “human in general”, kitten , came to mean “male human”—which was vir, in Latin—in most of the Romance languages).

“All men are created equal.”
“That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.”
“Man cannot live by bread alone.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-specific_and_gender-neutral_pronouns

I am not sure what school you went too, but the masculine form of every aspect of the English language is acceptable.

Clearly you do not care though. As this appears personal to you, or else you would stay on topic.

By the way, Veewee did go into why they used other accounts when asked. I assume since you prefer to push your personal agenda of being right (when your actually wrong) that you do not care much about the topic. Or you would stay on it.