Stupidity should be painfulFollow

[Edit- keeping the guy anonymus]

I usually don't make these kinds of posts, but what I saw tonight was so absurd I have to share. I was laughing too much to really get mad at the guy. So I just want everyone to know my intentions aren't hostile.

I've decided to leave this guy anonymus for now- because I just want to share this story more than anything. Now, if any else who was in my pt reads this and wants to share his name, I'm not going to object too strongly. And if you guess who the player is by noticing the same pattern, I may let you know. So for the sake of this article, we'll call him by his job, Dragoon. One player in the pt and myself both noticed this guys numerious shortcomings, but we've all had a our fair share so I'm not going to nitpick.

To set the stage we were a lvl 25-26 party in Kazham. We were killing Mandys. Now, as we all know, Mandys are infamous for "Dream Flower" which puts the party to sleep. After this happened one particular time, me (WHM) and the BLM take a couple of hits and Dragoon vokes the Mandy. Afterwards he complains that the Vokers in the pt weren't doing their job. Of course they were all "WTF", etc, etc. One guy actually responded with "I was asleep, I couldn't voke" or something similar. Almost all the vokers left, needless to say, but I hung out to give Dragoon the benefit of the doubt. Then, to my utter amazment, Dragoon(who was leader) actually said "Sorry I had to kick him, he was sleeping on the job." At first I thought he was joking. But given Dragoon's track record up to this point I had to be sure. So I asked him if he understood that if a player is sleeped he can't voke. He didn't answer. I asked again in case he just didn't read what I asked. No answer. So I gave him the ultimatum of "If you don't answer, I will leave." He then began talking to other players on who's tank, DD, etc and said he was going to Kazham to get more food or something- completely ignoring me, which was simply just rude. So, I left.
It's one thing to make a mistake, I've had some whoppers in my day (and still do). But to pretty much alienate yourself from the rest of the pt?

Even if I made the same mistake he did I would have simply commented on what a foolish mistake I made and worked on getting people back. Instead he just buried his head in the proverbial sand and pretended like nothing happened (and ignored one of the few objective minds in the group). To me, that's the biggest mistake.

I'm sure there are plenty out there that can call me on doing many things equally stupid, if not even moreso. But to me the way a person handles their mistake speaks volumes about their character. Just had to get this off my chest.

Edited, Mon Jan 3 03:58:50 2005 by GalkaAnimal

Lmao, it must have been his first experience with sleep..,too funny lol.

oo yea, that dream flower is some tough stuff, I remeber last time i smoked some......oo wait nm.

I think he was tarded in the fact he translated: "I was asleep" to "I passed out and wasn't paying attention". However, this whole incident could have been avoided had the OP (WHM) cause a cure on the vokers after taking a hit himself. Once you're HP changes (other than regen and/or whm's lvl 25 "auto-regen"), you wake up. A cure will wake someone up even if it heals for 0 hp.

Yes, the DRG was a tard, and the whm's waking of the main tanks would not change this factor... but may have been enough to pacify the drg. (BTW: You said DRG and not DRK? Just to get this straight... j/k DRK's... still got the dark love for ya)

Wow a player with a adv job, i wonder hmmmm {sniff ,sniff} bought account? LOL

ha! thats priceless.
heres one of my absurd noob stories id like to add:
one time while levelling BRD i was in "teh dunz!!111!" and our PTs Monk claimed that the DRK would learn the spell Fire when it gets all hazy out (heat weather effect)
the DRK was like "oh cool". then we died and disbanded XD
i laughed and laughed.

Wow if this is the traditional MNK I can see why I never get an invite ><.

/em slaps stupid MNK and points him to ffxi.allakhazam.com

Why are so many ADV people not paying attention on their way up? LoL.